The Only Two Reasons Businesses Fail (And How to Avoid Both)
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If you're in the messy middle of building something big and you're exhausted, doubting yourself, or wondering if it's ever going to click, this episode is for you. I'm giving you a real-time behind-the-scenes milestone from my company Frello: we just demoed a fully working product to our investors after a nearly three-year journey filled with pivots, pressure, setbacks, and more "this might not work" moments than I can count. I'm breaking down the two reasons businesses actually fail, the mindset that kept me in the game when most people would have quit, and why your dream is supposed to feel like this sometimes. If you've been close to giving up, let this be the reminder: there is always a way forward.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Renewed grit to stay in the game when you feel like quitting.
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A simple lens to diagnose what's really threatening your business.
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Confidence to pivot without making it mean you "failed".
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Perspective that turns setbacks into fuel instead of stop signs.
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A founder's roadmap for surviving the long, messy middle.
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| 0:00.0 | If you have a great big dream, you have to understand this is what your path is probably going to look like too. |
| 0:04.7 | It's going to be different things that come up, right? |
| 0:07.2 | Hopefully you're not going to run out of money and have a stroke and have the CFPB say, hey, you can't do that, that idea that you just finish building. But you're going to have different versions of your thing. and you're going to want to give up and you're going to have fatigue and you're going to be tired |
| 0:17.8 | and you're going to have concerns, you're going to worry about running out of money. |
| 0:20.3 | You're going to have all of those problems. |
| 0:22.0 | But if you just watch out |
| 0:23.8 | for those two things, then you too will have a finished product that you take to market and you will |
| 0:29.2 | realize all of your dreams and be able to see them come true. Welcome everybody to the Chris |
| 0:37.2 | Harder Show, where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success, knowing that when good people like you make good money, they can then do great things. |
| 0:45.8 | My name is Chris Harder and several times per week. |
| 0:48.1 | I will bring you epic guests, solo episodes, and every single tool, trick, and skill set you need to grow your business, grow your |
| 0:54.7 | money mindset, and to grow your wealth to levels that you have never reached before. |
| 0:58.9 | I've ended up in a unique place in life where I've got the experience, the connections, |
| 1:02.8 | and all of the secrets that it takes to be successful. |
| 1:05.6 | And I'm lifting the curtain to reveal it all to you in an effort to help put you in a position |
| 1:10.6 | of abundance |
| 1:11.0 | so great that you can then be as generous as possible. So let's lock arms and let's get |
| 1:17.6 | started. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Chris Harder Show where today I am grateful that |
| 1:25.7 | Frelow, the two-sided marketplace for |
| 1:29.8 | private and hard money bridge loans, is finally done being built. It's actually done being |
| 1:36.3 | built at the end of last year, but we hit a significant milestone. And that's what this |
| 1:43.4 | episode is about. Really, this is an episode about |
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