#2414 - Failure Friday: Couples’ Intimacy Coach Fails to Spark Passion
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an “up close and personal” intimacy coach for couples. Alas, her quest to become the Cupid of the digital age fizzled out.
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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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| 0:00.0 | This August, Amazon is delivering live rugby straight to your home with the |
| 0:09.3 | summer nation series. This Saturday, Ireland take on England, kicking off at 5.30 p.m. |
| 0:20.4 | In this week's failure Friday segment, we're going to hear from an up-close and |
| 0:44.3 | personal intimacy coach for couples. Alas, her quest to become the cupid of the |
| 0:49.2 | digital age fizzled out. That's right, it did not work out. This is failure Friday. Welcome |
| 0:54.9 | to failure Friday. Welcome to side hustle school. Side hustle school is the name of the |
| 0:57.8 | podcast, seven days a week, and one day every week, which happens to be on Friday, |
| 1:01.7 | thus the name. We have a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, |
| 1:05.2 | disasters, all those things that don't go so well. So you get to hear about lots of |
| 1:08.9 | successes all the other days. Let's talk about the things that go wrong. And of |
| 1:12.9 | course you get to hear directly from a side hustle who has struggled in some way. The |
| 1:16.4 | story is very, but they often begin with an idea, what they thought would happen, |
| 1:20.2 | and then of course what really happened. And what they learned, which is the most |
| 1:24.3 | important part. Now today's short story features Julia. She's a data analyst from |
| 1:28.6 | Kansas City. For her side hustle, she tried something very different, becoming an |
| 1:32.7 | intimacy coach for couples. Naturally, since this is failure Friday, you |
| 1:37.1 | probably know it didn't work out so well. But let's hear the story from her. |
| 1:46.4 | Hey there, I'm Julia. By day, I live in the monotonous world of data analytics. But |
| 1:55.9 | by night, my mind wanders into the realm of romance and intimacy. Inspired by a |
| 2:00.9 | podcast on successful relationships, I decided to throw my hat into the ring of |
| 2:05.3 | online intimacy coaching. Being a romantic at heart and having read a library's |
| 2:10.1 | worth of self-help books, I thought, why not channel this wisdom into something |
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