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Failure Friday Episodes

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  1. Ep. 2323 May 12, 2023
    Failure Friday: “Looking back on my picnic misadventures…”
  2. Ep. 2316 May 5, 2023
    Failure Friday: “Puzzlemaster of Cleveland” Fails to Break Even
  3. Ep. 2309 Apr 28, 2023
    Failure Friday: “Ultimate Wrinkle Inducer” MLM Flops
  4. Ep. 2302 Apr 21, 2023
    Failure Friday: Airbnb Is Harder Than It Looks
  5. Ep. 2295 Apr 14, 2023
    Failure Friday: Flip Phone Reselling Fails to Cell Phones
  6. Ep. 2288 Apr 7, 2023
    Failure Friday: “I tried wearing lettuce on my head to get attention…”
  7. Ep. 2281 Mar 31, 2023
    Failure Friday: Minimalism Expert Becomes Disillusioned
  8. Ep. 2274 Mar 24, 2023
    Failure Friday: “My first client was a total nightmare…”
  9. Ep. 2267 Mar 17, 2023
    Failure Friday: The “American Ninja Warrior” Personal Trainer
  10. Ep. 2260 Mar 10, 2023
    Failure Friday: The Influencer Who Quit Instagram
  11. Ep. 2253 Mar 3, 2023
    Failure Friday: ‘Helicopter Parent’ Disrupts Online Tutoring Session
  12. Ep. 2246 Feb 24, 2023
    Failure Friday: “My business was like a coupon, it expired too soon…”
  13. Ep. 2239 Feb 17, 2023
    Failure Friday: “I wasn’t making enough money to cover expenses…”
  14. Ep. 2232 Feb 10, 2023
    Failure Friday: Bunny Breeding Gone Bad
  15. Ep. 2225 Feb 3, 2023
    Failure Friday: “The scavenger hunt turned into a rainstorm…”
  16. Ep. 2218 Jan 27, 2023
    Failure Friday: “I held a sock puppet show while processing transactions…”
  17. Ep. 2211 Jan 20, 2023
    Failure Friday: “The client was shocked by the amount of taxes they owed…”
  18. Ep. 2204 Jan 13, 2023
    Failure Friday: “I had to reel in my losses and start from scratch…”
  19. Ep. 2197 Jan 6, 2023
    Failure Friday: “On the day of the wedding, a huge storm rolled in…”
  20. Ep. 2190 Dec 30, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I think I had some unrealistic expectations…”
  21. Ep. 2183 Dec 23, 2022
    Failure Friday: “The sleigh kept getting bogged down…”
  22. Ep. 2176 Dec 16, 2022
    Failure Friday: “No one wanted my idea, even for free…”
  23. Ep. 2169 Dec 9, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My virtual assistant was a fan of quiet quitting…”
  24. Ep. 2162 Dec 2, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My maple syrup was stolen by a Canadian cartel…”
  25. Ep. 2155 Nov 25, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I never should have borrowed money to invest…”
  26. Ep. 2148 Nov 18, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I invested in a franchise and now I feel stuck…”
  27. Ep. 2141 Nov 11, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I wish I hadn’t told my friends about my hustle…”
  28. Ep. 2134 Nov 4, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My Facebook page with 40,000 fans was hacked…”
  29. Ep. 2127 Oct 28, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Apple rejected my game before it even launched…”
  30. Ep. 2120 Oct 21, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My anniversary sale was an epic fail…”
  31. Ep. 2113 Oct 14, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I got sucked into hosting an MLM party…”
  32. Ep. 2106 Oct 7, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I tried to sell something no one wanted…”
  33. Ep. 2099 Sep 30, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I had tears in my eyes reading the response…”
  34. Ep. 2092 Sep 23, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I had to issue refunds and cancel 50 orders…”
  35. Ep. 2085 Sep 16, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My boss discovered my side hustle by accident…”
  36. Ep. 2078 Sep 9, 2022
    Failure Friday: “It should have been a small mistake…”
  37. Ep. 2071 Sep 2, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I thought I’d set up the website incorrectly…”
  38. Ep. 2064 Aug 26, 2022
    Failure Friday: “This is super embarrassing looking back…”
  39. Ep. 2057 Aug 19, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Then one afternoon I got a call from the police…”
  40. Ep. 2050 Aug 12, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Kickstarter rejected my project right before launch…”
  41. Ep. 2043 Aug 5, 2022
    Failure Friday: “After I was hit by a car, things got worse…”
  42. Ep. 2036 Jul 29, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Despite my best efforts, no one was buying…”
  43. Ep. 2029 Jul 22, 2022
    Failure Friday: “We had no desire to help college students cheat…”
  44. Ep. 2022 Jul 15, 2022
    Failure Friday: “We opened the box and it was a totally different product…”
  45. Ep. 2015 Jul 8, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Amazon permanently banned my seller account…”
  46. Ep. 2008 Jul 1, 2022
    Failure Friday: “The experience of hearing rejection was important…”
  47. Ep. 2001 Jun 24, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Don’t let customers pay after services have been rendered…”
  48. Ep. 1994 Jun 17, 2022
    Failure Friday: “We tried to be everything to everyone…”
  49. Ep. 1987 Jun 10, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I acted like an inexperienced order-taker…”
  50. Ep. 1980 Jun 3, 2022
    Failure Friday: “We locked ourselves in a room for six months to build…”
  51. Ep. 1973 May 27, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Offensive Greeting Cards” Lost in Post
  52. Ep. 1966 May 20, 2022
    Failure Friday: “80% of our customers never returned…”
  53. Ep. 1959 May 13, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Switchasaurus” Card Game Almost Goes Extinct
  54. Ep. 1952 May 6, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I naively thought the influencers would bring sales…”
  55. Ep. 1945 Apr 29, 2022
    Failure Friday: “They just weren’t interested in what we were selling…”
  56. Ep. 1938 Apr 22, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My app kept crashing during the big pitch…”
  57. Ep. 1931 Apr 15, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I walked away at the last minute…”
  58. Ep. 1924 Apr 8, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I’ve never talked openly about what I’m working on…”
  59. Ep. 1917 Apr 1, 2022
    Failure Friday: “They said it was a wonderful opportunity…”
  60. Ep. 1910 Mar 25, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My first customer bought out of pity…”
  61. Ep. 1903 Mar 18, 2022
    Failure Friday: “The reality was not as awesome as the dream…”
  62. Ep. 1896 Mar 11, 2022
    Failure Friday: “If I want to do good work, I can’t sacrifice my wellbeing…”
  63. Ep. 1889 Mar 4, 2022
    Failure Friday: “Something miraculous happened: I started making money…”
  64. Ep. 1882 Feb 25, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I dropped out of Stanford and left my business at the same time…”
  65. Ep. 1875 Feb 18, 2022
    Failure Friday: “I started to realize how little I knew…”
  66. Ep. 1868 Feb 11, 2022
    Failure Friday: “What you didn’t hear was how unfocused I was…”
  67. Ep. 1861 Feb 4, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My Facebook page with 150,000 fans was taken over by hackers…”
  68. Ep. 1854 Jan 28, 2022
    Failure Friday: “If I had done any research, I would have picked a different country…”
  69. Ep. 1847 Jan 21, 2022
    Failure Friday: “If I could do it over again, I’m not sure I would…”
  70. Ep. 1840 Jan 14, 2022
    Failure Friday: “We spent countless hours making videos no one watched…”
  71. Ep. 1833 Jan 7, 2022
    Failure Friday: “My complacency set in over time…”
  72. Ep. 1826 Dec 31, 2021
    Failure Friday: Self-Guided London Food Tours Fail to Excite
  73. Ep. 1819 Dec 24, 2021
    Failure Friday: “I had to take a hard look at my business model…”
  74. Ep. 1812 Dec 17, 2021
    Failure Friday: “We went all-in on applying for a $2 million grant…”
  75. Ep. 1805 Dec 10, 2021
    Failure Friday: “All I had to do was hit the record button…”
  76. Ep. 1798 Dec 3, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Our first trade show was canceled with no refund…”
  77. Ep. 1791 Nov 26, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Perfect SAT Score” Tutor Gets Rejected by 100 Publishers
  78. Ep. 1784 Nov 19, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Weeks after launch, the website was totally dead…”
  79. Ep. 1777 Nov 12, 2021
    Failure Friday: “No one wanted a bat house during the pandemic…”
  80. Ep. 1770 Nov 5, 2021
    Failure Friday: “We hired a designer who said she could do everything…”
  81. Ep. 1763 Oct 29, 2021
    Failure Friday: “We failed to account for the ingredients to success…”
  82. Ep. 1756 Oct 22, 2021
    Failure Friday: Live Theater Rebrand Meets Global Pandemic
  83. Ep. 1749 Oct 15, 2021
    Failure Friday: “I was exhausted and doing the bare minimum for my business…”
  84. Ep. 1742 Oct 8, 2021
    Failure Friday: Supplier Problem Harms Client Relationship
  85. Ep. 1735 Oct 1, 2021
    Failure Friday: Pancake Art in Bangkok Fails to Flip
  86. Ep. 1728 Sep 24, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Everyone in the room said ‘Turn it off!’…”
  87. Ep. 1721 Sep 17, 2021
    Failure Friday: “A bad hire will set you back six months…”
  88. Ep. 1714 Sep 10, 2021
    Failure Friday: Dating Profile Ghostwriter Struggles to Launch App
  89. Ep. 1707 Sep 3, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Hundreds of people were shut out of my webinar…”
  90. Ep. 1700 Aug 27, 2021
    Failure Friday: “I didn’t know my business partner was a convicted felon…”
  91. Ep. 1693 Aug 20, 2021
    Failure Friday: “We made a ton of investment … then we decided to close.”
  92. Ep. 1686 Aug 13, 2021
    Failure Friday: Ice Glass Event Business Melts Down
  93. Ep. 1679 Aug 6, 2021
    Failure Friday: “I realized really quickly that no one was buying…”
  94. Ep. 1672 Jul 30, 2021
    Failure Friday: Weighted Blankets Get Weighed Down in Customs
  95. Ep. 1665 Jul 23, 2021
    Failure Friday: Tea Supply Chain Meets Its Matcha
  96. Ep. 1658 Jul 16, 2021
    Failure Friday: “They refused to listen to my big pitch…”
  97. Ep. 1651 Jul 9, 2021
    Failure Friday: “They promised the boat would be ready… but it wasn’t.”
  98. Ep. 1644 Jul 2, 2021
    Failure Friday: Antiracism Interest Grows, But What Do Clients Want?
  99. Ep. 1637 Jun 25, 2021
    Failure Friday: “It took me way too long to bounce back…”
  100. Ep. 1630 Jun 18, 2021
    Failure Friday: “Pitching to executives felt like an awful first date…”