#2575 - Failure Friday: Historic Ambitions, Modern Missteps
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we explore a couple's ambitious journey to transform a historic house into a boutique hotel—only to face the harsh realities of renovation costs and a loss of earnest money. How did they get back on their feet?
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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.
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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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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 | Is your bank at home in three markets or 53? |
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| 0:29.1 | Survey 2023. 3. |
| 0:37.0 | Historic ambitions modern at this steps. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to Side Hustle School. |
| 0:43.6 | In this week's Failure Friday segment, |
| 0:45.3 | we explore a couple's ambitious journey |
| 0:47.3 | to transform a historic house into a boutique hotel, |
| 0:50.6 | only to face the reality of renovation costs and a loss of earnest money. |
| 0:55.0 | So how did this happen? How did they get back on their feet? |
| 0:58.0 | What did they learn through the process? |
| 1:00.0 | That's what Failure Friday is all about. |
| 1:02.0 | This is Side Hustle School. Failure Friday, our weekly segment, |
| 1:05.2 | where we look at mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. And just like our |
| 1:09.5 | Throwback Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from Assad-A-Sler. |
| 1:13.1 | In this case, somebody who struggled to get something off the ground, |
| 1:16.0 | and we look at, again, not just what was the disaster of the mistake, |
| 1:20.0 | but what did they learn through the process? |
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