#2498 - Failure Friday: The Handmade Hustle Hassle
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a handmade jewelry maker who cuts some corners after experiencing an influx of sales. Unfortunately, customers noticed and the efficiency effort backfired.
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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 | The Handmaid Hustle Hasle. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Side Hustle School, your host Chris Gilliboe here, |
| 0:17.0 | episode 2,498, coming up on 2,500 consecutive days of Side Hustle School. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you so much for being out there. |
| 0:26.2 | You are what makes this podcast and this community possible. |
| 0:29.4 | All right, today is Failure Friday, |
| 0:31.8 | a weekly segment where we take a look at something that does not go so well. |
| 0:36.0 | That might be a little bit soft. |
| 0:38.0 | I mean, basically we're looking at something that didn't work at all. |
| 0:40.0 | A mistake, perhaps, a misstep, a disaster sometimes within one's control sometimes |
| 0:45.7 | outside one's control and in either case the question is what do you do next |
| 0:51.1 | okay because life is about all sorts of mishaps and |
| 0:54.8 | things that don't go the way we expect and our expectations meet up with reality |
| 0:59.2 | and we have to decide, okay, how do we in fact proceed? Do we crawl under the bed metaphorically? Do we retreat entirely or do we |
| 1:09.5 | regroup in some fashion and decide to move forward more positively. I think that's what life is all about |
| 1:15.5 | Not just what we create but how we respond to circumstances that come our way |
| 1:20.3 | So I like working on this weekly segment. We talked a few weeks ago about how sometimes it can seem a little discouraging. |
| 1:26.4 | And so I want to be clear that I always want it to be encouraging, which I think is kind of the opposite of discouraging. |
| 1:31.8 | Just hearing how, you know, somebody encounters a struggle and then what do they do as mentioned? |
| 1:36.0 | All right, so without further ado, today's short story features Lucy from South Bend, Indiana. |
| 1:41.0 | She is a handmade jewelry maker selling on Etsy and |
| 1:46.0 | other platforms, I believe, and let's just kind of hear the story from her, what |
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