#2309 - Failure Friday: “Ultimate Wrinkle Inducer” MLM Flops
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an office manager who gets sucked into a makeup MLM and lives to tell the tale.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:32.3 | If you heard about the ultimate wrinkle inducer, well this is not an ad, this is actually |
| 0:45.6 | an introduction to today's episode. |
| 0:47.7 | Today's episode featuring a failure Friday story. |
| 0:51.3 | One of our favorite segments that we do here every week on Side Usal School. |
| 0:54.6 | Here Friday is all about how we can learn as much from failure if not more than we can |
| 0:59.3 | from success. |
| 1:00.3 | A collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 1:05.1 | So today, the ultimate wrinkle inducer MLM. |
| 1:08.9 | It's actually a makeup multi-level marketing company. |
| 1:12.6 | This story features Melinda who is calling in from an undisclosed location. |
| 1:16.7 | Dun, dun, dun. |
| 1:17.7 | Actually, it's not really undisclosed. |
| 1:19.2 | I just don't know what it is. |
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