Our Funniest & Most Cringe Mistakes as Entrepreneurs (+ How to Recover When Things Go Sideways) with Lori Harder
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Some mistakes feel fatal in the moment, but they're really just practice for your recovery game. In this episode, Lori and I share the stories that once made us nauseous and now make us better. From my on-camera meltdown that slipped into a paid course, Lori calling a dream guest the wrong name for an entire interview, and my early podcast launch full of coughing fits that the audience could hear. Tune in for tips to reset quickly, fix what matters, and keep momentum.
HIGHLIGHTS
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The hilarious "Chris fit" that accidentally made it into a paid course.
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My nightmare interview where Lori called Natalie Ellis the wrong name.
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The time I thought I was muting coughs, but the recording caught it all.
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Why embarrassment is part of the process for every entrepreneur.
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The mantra that keeps us moving.
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Why your peer group and mentors make or break your comeback rate.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes you just have to move forward and you don't have perfect options. And I think in business, this is where people go wrong. They're like, what is my good option and my bad option? I'm going to choose my good option. And that's not how business goes a lot of times. It's, ooh, I kind of have two not very good options, but you have to move forward with the less bad option. Does that make sense? And that's what I had to do to launch my podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | You still survive, but you can't survive if you don't have people to go to that will kick you back |
| 0:29.4 | in the game, that will tell you how to fix it, that say, don't worry, I've done something like |
| 0:33.3 | that before and I survived it. You're going to be okay to. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome everybody to the Chris Harder Show, where we are making you unapologetic about your |
| 0:45.0 | pursuit of success, knowing that when good people like you make good money, they can then |
| 0:49.1 | do great things. My name is Chris Harder and several times per week. I will bring you epic |
| 0:53.8 | guests, solo episodes, and every single tool per week, I will bring you epic guests, |
| 0:54.6 | solo episodes, and every single tool, trick and skill set you need to grow your business, |
| 0:59.2 | grow your money mindset, and to grow your wealth to levels that you have never reached before. |
| 1:03.8 | I've ended up in a unique place in life where I've got the experience, the connections, |
| 1:07.5 | and all of the secrets that it takes to be successful. And I'm lifting the curtain to reveal it all to you in an effort to help put you in a position of abundance so great that you can then be as generous as possible. |
| 1:20.0 | So let's lock arms and let's get started. |
| 1:25.8 | And we're back with another episode of He Said, She Said. |
| 1:28.7 | Before we get started, we'll let everyone know we are about to open cart in a couple of weeks from this recording and only going to take 30 new people into our mentor collective mastermind, which is a very small number. |
| 1:40.2 | But here's why we only take a small number. |
| 1:42.2 | This is the one that's the most supportive mastermind |
| 1:44.5 | literally on the internet, right? And so what it means is not only are Lori and I teaching every two |
| 1:49.0 | weeks, but there's a call every single week you to learn from. And we have hired coaches that we |
| 1:54.8 | pay for out of our money and a lot of them. And they are coaches so there's a sales coach a marketing coach |
| 2:03.3 | a life and health coach there is a tech coach i mean there's everything right so any problem you |
| 2:10.1 | ever have in your business you have a coach to go to and ask unlimited questions of courtesy of us paying for the coach so you |
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