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Side Hustle School

#2475 - Q&A: “Failure Friday feels discouraging…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Our Failure Friday segment is a popular one—but a few listeners have pointed out that it can feel discouraging to hear about ideas that don’t work. Let’s look at this concern in some detail! 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: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Twitter: @chrisguillebeau Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When people switch their dog's foods to the farmer's dog, the effects can seem like

0:11.5

magic.

0:12.5

But there's no magic involved.

0:14.0

It's simply real meat and vegetables with all the nutrients dogs need instead of highly

0:17.8

processed pellets.

0:19.2

No tricks, just smarter, healthier pet food delivered in packs portioned for your dog.

0:23.5

It's amazing what real food can do.

0:25.7

50% off your first order at the farmersdog.com slash no magic 50.

0:41.0

I have a really interesting listener question for you today.

0:43.4

I'm actually excited to work on this episode because it's a question that's come up a couple

0:48.1

of times.

0:49.1

It's something I didn't expect.

0:51.4

When we started the failure Friday segment, I guess it was two years ago, I quickly

0:55.4

became one of our most popular segments just because we were looking at vulnerabilities

1:00.2

and mistakes and things that went wrong, as opposed to all the things that go well in

1:06.4

lots of cytosol case studies, success stories and so on.

1:10.4

But this also kind of produced not really a backlash, but just like something underneath

1:14.8

the surface that a couple of people have asked about.

1:18.1

If you're sharing stories that don't work out, can that also be discouraging?

1:22.6

It's actually meant to be encouraging, which I'll discuss here in my response, but might

1:26.8

it sometimes feel discouraging to have stories of failure?

1:30.8

So as we begin, I want to propose a couple of questions that I think are very helpful

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