Write Your Story: The Purpose of Failure

Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

Nashville Podcast Network

Relationships, Self-improvement, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Education, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt derailed by failure in your life?

Perhaps it was the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, a public embarrassment, or a mistake that cost you more than you felt ready to lose.

Or maybe you don’t experience failure much. It’s possible you tiptoe around failure, making sure that you’re never too far out on a limb so as not to fall.

In that case, you might feel blocked or stuck, too insulated to experience failure but too protected to receive real freedom or joy.

In today’s episode I talk about failure: why we avoid it, how we survive it, and how to make meaning of failure in our lives. I normalize it, de-stigmatize it, and invite you to do something that might feel counterintuitive to you; to move toward failure, rather than away.

What might failure be trying to show you in your life right now?

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	Pick up the pieces of your life,
0:07.6	put them back together with the words you write,
0:10.5	all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find.
0:15.1	When you write your story,
0:17.5	you've got the words inside, don't you think it's time
0:20.6	to let them out and write them down,
0:22.9	uncover what it's all about.
0:26.5	And write your, write your story.
0:30.2	Write your, write your story.
0:33.9	Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast.
0:36.3	I'm Ali Fallon.
0:37.2	I'm your host. And on today's
0:38.5	episode, I want to talk about a topic that I have given so much thought to over the course of the
0:43.3	last year of my life, or probably more than a year, probably more like three to five years of my life.
0:49.2	And it's a topic that I feel like gets kind of worn out a little bit. It's talked about a fair bit and can become
0:56.2	almost kind of cliche. But I do want to circle back to it because I have some more things I want to
1:01.1	say about this topic than I feel like I've heard other people say. And so I want to dive into the
1:07.7	topic of failure, which again, I think this is a topic that I have
1:11.9	avoided talking about because it's not really a super fun topic or a fun idea. And it's something
1:18.4	that nobody likes to experience. It's something that every single one of us experiences.
1:23.5	And so I'm like, why not dive in to talking about this topic because you will be hard pressed
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