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Side Hustle School

#2771 - Failure Friday: Executive Function Coach Experiences Burnout

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a coach who works with families on executive function issues. Business is growing—a bit too fast, it turns out. 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 Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.substack.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

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0:05.0

like your head is full of Raspberry,

0:08.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.0

Money never felt like Monzo.

0:18.0

UK residents, T's and C supply. Please apply. Welcome, segment known as Failure Friday. Failure Friday. What goes wrong? What did not go well?

0:45.8

Mistakes, missteps, disasters, and you get to hear directly from a side

0:49.6

hustler who has struggled to get something off the ground or otherwise encountered a big setback,

0:54.5

let's say. In fact, today is a setback. Today's short story features Steve from Patterson, New Jersey.

1:01.2

Steve is an executive function coach.

1:03.6

He's working with families on executive function issues,

1:06.6

kids who are struggling in different ways.

1:08.9

I was the kind of kid who really would have benefited

1:10.8

from somebody like Steve.

1:12.3

So I'm glad he's doing this

1:13.8

business but his problem which often happens with people who like to help like

1:17.7

people who are helpers they end up helping too much and they kind of burn out

1:22.1

so you have to take care of

1:23.2

yourself so you can then help other people. These are hard lessons to learn

1:26.8

though right because you can say that but then once you're kind of in the trenches

1:30.4

and you're the one scheduling and lots of people need your help you know what do you do

1:34.3

well anyway let's hear the story from Steve let's hear how he was able to resolve it or at least

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