#2638 - Failure Friday: Useless Business Coach Fails to Help Side Hustler
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear about the unfortunate experience of hiring a business coach—a decision that led to costly lessons in a side hustler trusting her intuition and recognizing the value of her own business acumen.
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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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| 0:00.0 | So it's David's first week. Welcome David. Actually to kick things off David, maybe you can let us know your thoughts on the productivity portfolio flips around the spending dilip. |
| 0:10.0 | Okay, sorry? Give us your initial POV on the productivity portfolio Moo-Moo-M make much more with a feather this morning? |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, that, yeah, the uh... |
| 0:20.5 | Does industry talk make zero sense to you? |
| 0:22.8 | Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community to help you navigate those awkward moments. |
| 0:27.8 | Making work makes sense? |
| 0:29.1 | LinkedIn knows how. In this week's failure Friday segment we hear about the unfortunate experience of hiring a business coach. |
| 0:44.4 | This isn't always an unfortunate experience to be clear. I know we got some business |
| 0:48.4 | coaches out there listening but you know it's not always the best decision. decision in this case the decision led to some costly lessons |
| 0:56.4 | The lessons include trusting one's intuition and for our listener recognizing the value of her own business acumen. |
| 1:05.0 | Like this listener kind of felt like, hey, actually this might not be the greatest idea, |
| 1:09.0 | like once she starts kind of having some conversations and going through the process. |
| 1:12.7 | But she figures, well, you know, what do I know? |
| 1:14.9 | Somebody else knows better than me. |
| 1:17.3 | And sometimes, like I said, that can be true in some cases, |
| 1:20.4 | but I think it's also really important to pay attention to that feeling that you have. |
| 1:24.4 | So I don't want to preempt it too much. |
| 1:25.6 | You're going to hear this story from her. |
| 1:26.7 | Her name is Rachel. |
| 1:27.8 | And of course, Failure Friday is all about looking at mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 1:32.6 | things that go wrong, and what we can learn from them. |
| 1:35.2 | Key point, what we can learn, |
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