#2582 - Failure Friday: The Fitness App Fumble
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we step into the world of a personal trainer turned app developer. Among other things, he learns that technology can't always replicate the energy of physical fitness classes.
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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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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:23.9 | CODieK slash Special Offer. In this week's failure Friday segment we step into the world of a personal trainer turned |
| 0:39.7 | app developer. |
| 0:40.7 | Among other things he learns that technology cannot always replicate the energy of physical fitness classes. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to sidestle school, this is Chris Gillibow. |
| 0:49.0 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success we can learn from the things |
| 0:53.8 | that don't go as we hope so that's what we have this weekly segment a collection of |
| 0:58.2 | short stories about mistakes missteps disasters and of, again, with the goal of being positive and encouraging |
| 1:05.8 | you along the way, but also just being real, right? I want you to understand that some ideas |
| 1:09.7 | work and some don't, and sometimes you do have to adjust as you go. |
| 1:13.0 | Your first idea is not always your best idea or your final idea, let's say. |
| 1:18.0 | So these stories tend to vary a bit, but they often go from idea to, okay, how did this idea meet with reality and then how do we |
| 1:24.6 | change course? |
| 1:25.9 | What do we do? |
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