Our Funniest & Most Cringe Mistakes as Entrepreneurs (+ How to Recover When Things Go Sideways)

Earn Your Happy

Lori Harder

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Some mistakes feel so big in the moment that you wonder how you’ll ever recover. Trust me, Chris and I have been there more times than we can count. In this episode, we share the behind-the-scenes bloopers that used to feel catastrophic but actually taught us how to lead, laugh at ourselves, and move forward. Chris losing his cool on camera during one of our biggest courses, the nightmare of me mixing up a guest’s name through an entire interview, and even the tech disaster that slipped into our very first podcast episodes. Get ready to laugh, cringe, and learn to reframe your own failures into your biggest teachers. Check out our Sponsors: SKIMS - I finally tried SKIMS and I get all the hype. Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at SKIMS.com and let them know we sent you in the dropdown after checkout. Brevo - the all-in-one marketing and CRM platform designed to help you connect with customers and grow your business. Get started for free today - go to www.brevo.com/happy Blinds.com - Blinds.com makes it easy to get the designer look without the showroom markups. Get an exclusive $50 off when you spend $500 or more with code EARN at checkout. Shopify - Try the ecommerce platform I trust for Glōci, Sign up for your $1/month trial period at Shopify.com/happy Headway - the #1 daily growth app that delivers key insights from the world’s best non fiction books in bite sized 15 minute reads and audio. Save 25% off when you go to makeheadway.com/happy. Airbnb - Start making money by listing your home on Airbnb with an experienced Co-host, find a co-host at airbnb.com/host HIGHLIGHTS The hilarious “Chris fit” that accidentally made it into a paid course. My nightmare interview where I called Natalie Ellis the wrong name. The time Chris thought he was muting coughs, but the recording caught it all. Why embarrassment is part of the process for every entrepreneur. The mantra that keeps us moving. Why your peer group and mentors make or break your comeback rate. RESOURCES Join the Mentor Collective Waitlist HERE! Apply for the VIP Weekend Mastermind HERE! Join the 30 Day Audacity Challenge HERE! Join the most supportive mastermind on the internet HERE! Check out our FREE 90-Day Business Blueprint HERE! Listen to my free SECRET PODCASTS SERIES - Operation: Rekindle This B*tch Get glōci HERE Use code: HAPPY at checkout for 25% off! FOLLOW Follow me: @loriharder Follow Chris: @chriswharder Follow glōci: @getgloci

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Shopify.
0:04.4	Try the e-commerce platform I trust for Glosi.
0:06.3	Sign up for your $1 month trial period at Shopify.com forward slash happy.
0:11.0	Bravo.
0:11.5	Head over to bravo.com forward slash earn and use the code earn to get 50% off starter
0:16.5	and business plans for the first three months of an annual subscription.
0:19.6	Blinds.com.
0:20.7	Blines.com is giving our listeners an exclusive $50 off when you spend $500 or more.
0:25.6	Just use code to earn at checkout, limited time offer.
0:29.1	Rules and restrictions apply.
0:30.7	See blinds.com for details.
0:32.9	Some of our kind of like screw-ups, embarrassments at the time felt huge. Traumatic. Traumatic, you guys. And now we laugh at them, but we want to share them because these happen all the time. Idiot. How did I let this happen? Oh my God. Is it me? Is it my team? Is it being a human? And it really is about your comeback rate like what's next what do I have to focus on
0:55.5	and we're back with another episode of he said she said before we get started we'll let everyone know
1:06.2	we are about to open cart in a couple of weeks from this recording and only going to take 30 new people
1:13.3	into our mentor collective mastermind, which is a very small number. But here's why we only take a
1:17.3	small number. This is the one that's the most supportive mastermind literally on the internet, right?
1:21.8	And so what it means is not only are Lori and I teaching every two weeks, but there's a call
1:26.2	every single week you to learn from.
1:28.4	And we have hired coaches that we pay for out of our money and a lot of them.
1:34.5	And they are expertise coaches.
1:37.0	So there's a sales coach, a marketing coach, life and health coach.
1:41.4	There is a tech coach.
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