All My Biggest Business Failures. All The Embarrassing Details. - Video

I've built businesses for 20 years, sold a company that changed my life, and grown this podcast to over 300 million downloads… but none of that is what this episode is about.

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Most entrepreneurs only show you the wins. Nobody talks about the graveyard. The businesses that quietly died, the launches that bombed, the moments where you genuinely wondered if you'd ever figure any of this out.

Today, I'm sharing three of my biggest failures with real numbers, the embarrassing details, and what each one actually taught me. There's even one where the business was actually working and I still walked away from it having failed.

Here's what went wrong:
•The product launch that got two sales after four months of work
•The podcast that had Gary Vaynerchuk and still flopped
•The clothing business doing 5,000 units a quarter that I shut down

Each one hurt. Each one also led directly to the best thing I ever built. But only because I was willing to sit with the pain long enough to learn something from it.

#Entrepreneurship #EntrepreneurMindset #FailureToSuccess #BusinessLessons #MBAShow

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Timestamps:
00:00 The Graveyard Nobody Talks About
01:20 Failure 1: The DIY Webinar Guide
06:09 Failure 2: The First Podcast That Flopped
12:32 99designs by Vista Sponsor
13:48 Failure 3: The Clothing Business I Gave Away
17:55 The Business Filter I Use for Everything Now
19:54 The Pattern Reveal
21:43 Your Failures Are Not Your Record


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