EPIC FAILS: The flops, failures, and f*ck-ups that made us who we are

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox dive into the biggest flops, failures, and f*ck-ups of their lives — the ones that embarrassed them, humbled them, shaped them, and ultimately set them on the path they’re on today.

Rich talks about giving up a near-pro golf trajectory at 15, two divorces by 32, and the gambling addiction that wiped out everything he had — and the gratitude and perspective that came on the other side of it. Rox shares the pain of taking down her first single after it “flopped,” the unopened post, the money chaos, and the shame stories she carried for years before learning to ask for help.

Together they explore how these moments cracked them open, forced accountability, and led to therapy, sobriety, self-awareness, and the life they’re living now.

It’s honest, hilarious, and painfully relatable — a reminder that everyone’s got failures, but it’s what you do with them that turns your life around.

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0:00.0	This is the epic fails episode where we're going to be sharing with you our biggest flops, failures and fups.
0:08.4	What's a fup?
0:09.4	It is an F up.
0:11.1	Ah, okay, yeah.
0:11.9	Yeah, clean way.
0:13.2	See what you've done there.
0:14.3	Yeah.
0:14.7	Our mess ups and how some of the worst moments of both of our lives have made us who we are.
0:20.2	So if you're in the middle
0:21.3	of a fup right now, we hope that this can be a little boost that things won't always be that
0:26.3	way. Welcome to lay bloomers where we are getting our lives together. Do do do do do do to eventually.
0:33.0	Right. What is it? All I remember is fups.
0:38.0	So it's the biggest flops.
0:40.5	Flops, yeah.
0:41.9	Failures.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.0	And F-ups of our lives.
0:46.6	Okay, lovely.
0:47.6	That have made us who we are.
0:48.5	So we're sort of going to look back at some of the moments we thought we were never going to recover from.
0:53.4	Yeah.
0:53.8	And actually show that you can't not only recover from them, learn from them,
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