Ep 19: How Rejection Led Me To Be A Side Hustle Pro
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A rejection from Google was the best thing that ever happened to me. Two years ago I was an MBA intern at Google. I didn’t get the offer. Dejected, I refused to talk about it, unsure of how to unpack the experience. On today’s episode I’m sharing why that experience, along with other “rejections” were really blessings that positively fueled my side hustle mission. Here are just a few nuggets from this episode:
- Google’s ‘No’ led me to my ultimate purpose: inspiring people to live unboxed and without apologies
- Failure is an event, not a personality trait
- Failure taught me to stop waiting to be chosen and instead choose myself
- Everyone should start a side hustle, even if you don’t want to be a full-time entrepreneur
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:07.6 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews. |
| 0:14.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Nikala back again with another solo episode episode and today's episode is all about how |
| 0:25.5 | rejection led me to be a side hustle pro and how what was seemingly negative experiences has actually been a blessing in my life and why I feel like we |
| 0:37.8 | should all invest time in ourselves and create a side hustle because it can be so so very empowering. |
| 0:45.0 | So I touched a little bit on my own experiences leading up to starting this |
| 0:49.8 | podcast in the first intro episode but it was very short and brief because I was just, you know, intro in myself and letting you guys get to know me, but I want to go a little bit more in depth into that story today because it in so many ways has defined me |
| 1:06.8 | over the past two years and it has led me to be a greater version of myself. |
| 1:14.4 | And what's oftentimes viewed as negative and failure |
| 1:19.7 | can actually really be a positive. |
| 1:21.4 | It can really be your best asset. I touched on that a little bit with my |
| 1:26.2 | last guest Emily de la Cruz and I want to touch on it even more because it can't be |
| 1:32.2 | stated enough. |
| 1:33.4 | You guys, like I spent almost a year and change in my life being ashamed of something |
| 1:38.4 | that I'm going to talk about proudly tonight because that's how much of a benefit it has been to my life and it's also been my greatest asset because again it's made me greater. So let me jump right into it. So for those of you who don't know, I received my MBA |
| 1:55.7 | from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Go Bloop. |
| 1:59.4 | And I graduated in 2015. So in the summer of 2014 between my first and second years I interned. |
| 2:08.4 | I had my MBA internship and I interned at Google out in Mountain View. |
| 2:12.8 | I worked in the ad sales division and my role for the summer I was with the team and I jumped |
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