#2799 - Failure Friday: Bouncing Back After Two Years of Discouragement
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s “Failure Friday” segment, we hear from an aspiring small business owner who got discouraged when an early side hustle idea didn’t work out and stopped trying for two years—but when he finally tries again, a new idea takes off right away!
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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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
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. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:00.0 | It's taken a few months, but I think I've almost chosen our next car. |
| 0:04.0 | I've weighed up new versus second-hand, assess the depreciation rates, and spoken to eight insurance providers. |
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| 1:09.1 | excited because today's episode 2,799 we have almost reached well Today is |
| 1:13.7 | 2,700 and 99. We have almost reached well 2,800 that comes after this episode. |
| 1:17.3 | So that's tomorrow, but I'm excited that we have made it thus far. |
| 1:20.3 | The penultimate episode before 2,800 and it is bouncing back after two years of |
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