Welcome back to the Jasmine Star Show, a place where we discuss business, marketing, and today failures, which are not only inevitable in business, but I'm going to go on a limb here y'all I'm

gonna say failures are necessary and you know I truly believe this that failures

aren't failures I have stopped calling my failures

and it's had a profound effect on me. I believe that failures are

lessons and yes I know that it sounds like a positive affirming Pinterest quote or a Hallmark card, but I actually really believe it.

So if you're not failing and or you're not learning the lessons you need, you're probably not taking enough action or risks in your business.

So, when we talk about perceived failures my whole life, that is what I called them.

I didn't know them as anything else I should

probably back up a little bit and talk about still as an adult this irrational fear

of standardized tests probably hearkens back to the fact that I was homeschooled and every year in the state of California

you had to be tested in some way shape or form even if you were homeschooled.

So my mom would get together in these testing centers

with other random homeschooling families

to do standardized tests to see where we were.

And let me just tell you, year after year,

I was always behind the curve.

Like, my reading comprehension was very low,

my math was disastrous.

I was just what you might call a special kid and through it all my mom never

blinked an eye she's just like standardized tests don't really matter to me she's

like you're a great kid and you're learning. What a profound

gift my mom gave me. However, as a kid I started lodging in the results of these

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