This podcast is brought to you by AirB&B.

One of my favorite AirB&B's was in Santa Barbara in California.

It was in the most beautiful hillside setting,

which I never would have discovered otherwise. I could walk to the wineries, very important

that, but I could also retreat at the end of the day. It had everything I needed in one neat, gorgeous

package, and I slept so well in that bed. I'd visit a

lovely cafe every morning whilst in Santa Barbara. The selections of tea they had

were great and there's just something so special about having your own home or apartment while you're on holiday. Staying in a neighborhood or residential area that you might not have been able to with a hotel. It really feels as if you're a local and part of the community. Hello and

welcome to How to Fail with me, author and broadcaster Elizabeth Day.

This is the podcast where we flip the traditional

interview format on its head celebrating failure rather than success.

Every episode I ask a very special guest to discuss three failures and how they emerged on the other side to be the person we see today.

Before we begin, I just wanted to remind you about my subscriber series where Jesse and I look at your questions and give our advice.

I always kind of dread going to Hollywood events where specifically there's other people who I really

admire, I always feel like I'm saying the wrong thing, but the thing is, and I find such comfort in this, almost every single person who's also at that event has the same anxiety.

Today we'll be covering how one listener picked himself up

after a self-professed business failure

and reached for the stars with amazing results. How another listener discovered she was gay at the age of 33

and should or can anxiety be overcome. And we'd love to hear from you. Follow the link in the podcast notes to share your

failures or questions. Jesse Tyler Ferguson's family had no connection with the performing arts.

His dad was a microbiologist for the military, his mother an OBGYN nurse. But as a child growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

he was taken to see a production of Alice in Wonderland. And that was that. He joined the Children's Theatre at the age of eight

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