As a small business owner, it’s important to recognize the importance of failure and why it can be a positive thing. It can be easy to become discouraged when things don’t go as planned, but learning from our mistakes and continuing to strive for success is key to achieving success as an animal based business owner. Failing can help us to identify what works and what doesn’t, allowing us to make necessary changes to ensure the best outcome. In some cases, it can even open us up to new opportunities that we hadn’t previously considered. Additionally, failure can help to foster resilience, giving us the strength to persist even when things don’t go as planned. We can also use it as an opportunity to evaluate our processes and make improvements to increase efficiency. While failure can be difficult, it is an essential part of the learning process and an invaluable tool in the pursuit of success. Embracing it and using it to our advantage is the key to success for any animal based business owner.

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Jaz:

Welcome to The Business Animal podcast. Saddle up for a

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gallop to the top of the animal industry, where you'll learn how

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to tame your wild business beast, with tips, techniques,

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and tools that will take overwhelm to obedience school.

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And have you wagging your tail with joy. And now your hosts,

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Kim Beer, and Cara Taylor Swift.

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Hey there business animals. It's Kim with

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Be More Business

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and Cara with Fast Horse photography. Hey,

Cara Taylor Swift:

Kim. Good morning.

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Good morning, Cara. How are you today?

Cara Taylor Swift:

I'm okay, I had to take my earrings off

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before we got on the call today cuz I keep forgetting I can't

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wear earrings when I have my headphones on. So I have a

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meeting after this. And I'm all like you probably can't tell

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because you can only see like my messy hair. But I'm actually

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dressed up today. And I had earrings on and I forgot I can't

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wear earrings with my headphones. So did you know

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that? Do you have that issue?

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I do. I don't wear earrings with my headphones

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either. But I am not dressed up for anything. today. I'm in my

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chevrolet Motor Company t shirt and a pair of lazy jeans. I have

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no plans, but meetings for the rest of the day. And none of

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them are extremely formal. So

Cara Taylor Swift:

Oh, no, no nice. I have a fun meeting. It's

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my annual I shoot for a local nonprofit every year just as a

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way to give back to the equine community. And we're doing a

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calendar this year. So we're working on outlining the shots

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that we would hope to have for each month so that we can kind

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of plan out that shoot. So I'm kind of excited. I haven't been

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there all year. So I'm excited to see all the updates. It

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should be a fun meeting. But I did have to get dressed up for

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it.

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That does sound like right. I would love that. I

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don't have to get dressed up until Wednesday, then I've got a

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lot of stuff in Kansas City and classes I have to teach and all

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kinds of stuff going on. So Wednesday I will have to look

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presentable. But today, it's Chevrolet motors t shirt and

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bare feet. So we're all good, nice. So today's topic has

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nothing to do with any of that. Because I'm going to tell you

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even in my chevrolet t shirt, I do not feel like a failure. And

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that's what we're talking about today. Actually, we're talking

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about why failure is a good thing, right?

Cara Taylor Swift:

Yeah, I think I don't know if this is actually

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a quote, but maybe I just made it up. But I like to think about

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it as like failures. I've known a few.

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Oh, my goodness, and I am not going to sing

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because that would definitely lose us listeners. Singing is

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not my strong suit at all. But it is true. We've all had a lot

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of failures. I was actually talking to somebody the other

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day about my business and about business failures and that kind

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of thing. And I was rattling off my list of failures that I have

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had in my life financially. I have been to bankruptcy court.

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Oh, God, you

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were key you keep a tally? Yeah, well, I

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think we were talking about think we're having

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a discussion around resilience, which is actually in our big

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three here. But they failures, I've known a few I have been to

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bankruptcy court, I have stood in front of a federal judge and

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told him I would never own a small business, it was not a lie

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at the time, it turned out to be a lie moving forward, obviously.

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And I recovered from that that's been well over 30 years ago. So

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there was that at one point with this ranch, I did get

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foreclosure papers, because I missed a large loan payment that

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I couldn't make at the time. And I had to scramble to figure out

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how to do that. That was right, shortly after my mother's death.

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And I wasn't quite to the point where I had the cash flow to

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support a large piece of acreage and my business and my bills and

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everything else. But I came out the other side of that, okay.

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And I can see how people would look at those things, those two

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events and say those are failures, right? I mean, the

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rather big public failures, actually, particularly the

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bankruptcy was a huge failure. In the scheme of things. For a

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lot of people bankruptcy can be extremely devastating. But I

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think here's the key to why that wasn't a failure that kept me

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from being an entrepreneur, again. It was in how I

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eventually held that failure. I will tell you when I was

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standing in front of that federal judge that day and said

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I wouldn't own another business. I really did mean it because I

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felt like the business was to blame for it. But I learned

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pretty quick after that after I got a little perspective, and I

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mean, not very long. Within a couple of weeks or months, I had

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a much better perspective about what went wrong and how I could

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do it better the next time. And I didn't hold on to that failure

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as being repeatable. It was not a factor in me starting the

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business that I currently have right now. I didn't hold on to

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it as oh my god, I went bankrupt one time I'm gonna go bankrupt

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again. So I think a good Rate deal of it is how you hold it.

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Well, it

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can be crippling. For some people, I

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would think you know what you experienced, it can be crippling

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if you don't take the time to do the work or you don't come from

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a place of failure. You know, it's not a terrible thing we can

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go forward from here, I could see that being crippling. And

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for some people, that could mean NEVER starting again, never

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trying, never realizing dreams that you have. So I think that's

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why this topic is so important, because failure is something

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that if you are an entrepreneur, you will experience at some

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point, it's inevitable. So if you don't come at it from that

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perspective, I think that it can prevent you from ever realizing

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your dreams because you, you don't have the ability to just

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keep going.

Kimberly Beer:

Yeah. There's a quote that says, Fear of failure

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kills more businesses than finances ever Well, then money

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ever will. And I do. I do truly believe that, that there's a lot

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of people that are very afraid to fail in entrepreneurship.

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You're very right. If you go into entrepreneurship, there's

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failure attached to it. I'm sorry, it just is part of the

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package. But I also think we could extrapolate that to life.

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I mean, I don't think that there's a human being walking

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around on the planet that hasn't experienced failure at some

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point. And I think that the biggest thing that I want to see

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people attached to is that failure is not always a bad

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thing. I think that we like to attach to it as something

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horrid, right. But it's not always a bad thing, even

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something as bad as going through a bankruptcy. That

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bankruptcy that I went through. It taught me how to manage cash

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flow, eventually. I mean, it wasn't immediate. But when I

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started another business, I got help. I did it much better. I

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understood cash flow, I understood how things should

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function in a business. And here's another thing it did. It

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taught me that that failure was not the end of the world. You

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know, what if I ended up in bankruptcy court again, I could

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go through that it didn't kill me. And I guess we're back to

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that, to that cliche of if it What doesn't kill you makes you

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stronger. It did make me stronger. It made me a better

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business person. And it gave me the skills to help other

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business people overcome that. And I think that's so important

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to understand that failure means you're trying failure means you

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took the risk failure means you took a chance. And maybe you

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didn't hit the mark this time, but you learned something

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that'll get you closer to the next time.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Well, I like what you said, because I had

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that point in here, that idea of like, what's the worst thing

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that can happen if you fail? And you just said to yourself, you

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know, well, I know now, what that looks like, you know, and I

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think for some people listening and sometimes for myself, too, I

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think about like how I have a little bit, I wouldn't say I'm a

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perfectionist, but I feel a strong sense of responsibility

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towards the people that I work with, towards my family towards

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everyone around me, you know, that I'm interacting with as a

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business person, but there are like, internal struggles that

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come with that. So it's like, what's the worst thing that can

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happen is an activity that I have to do sometimes, where I'll

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be saying to myself, Okay, if I give this a go, what's invested

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in this, what's the worst thing that can happen? And sometimes

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that piece around like the perfectionism and needing things

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to go well, and needing to be responsible to other people is

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sometimes the hardest part for me even harder than losing

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money, or harder than losing a job or harder than making a

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mistake on a purchase of some kind. You know, it's the other

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side of things that internal partners have in my head, but

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that internal part and that perfectionism side can sometimes

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be just as agonizing.

Kimberly Beer:

Well, that's has a lot to do with your

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temperament. Cara, you are an SJ, which is in the Keirsey

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Bates, temperament, your word, your currency in life, the way

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you walk through life is the word responsibility. That is

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your key word in life is responsibility. Sure, and yeah,

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I can see where that would hold a lot. And if you judge yourself

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is not being responsible, that is a failure, or that you would

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consider that a failure. My hope is that you don't keep an

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attachment to that very long that you say, Okay, I need to

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get closer next time. That's I think the bigger thing right

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with this that we're trying to get people to understand and

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from two people who've been in business for quite a while, is

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if it doesn't work out, don't go Oh, dammit. I'm gonna quit. Go.

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Okay, that didn't work. So now I know that didn't work. I can try

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the next thing. And that's part of how do you hold it? How do

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you carry around Only a failure, if you carry around a failure is

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oh, I'm a failure, and I'm never going to get it right, you're

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never going to get it right. But if you carry it around as

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dammit, well, that didn't work. Let me try that, again, you can

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get a lot farther with that attitude.

Cara Taylor Swift:

And that rolls is right into our big

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three. Number one, which is no one find success without

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failure, just like we said, when we opened, if you are a business

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owner, you will absolutely experience failure. At some

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point, if you're not experiencing failures at some

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point, then you're probably not stretching, you're probably not

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growing, you're probably not trying out new things. And you

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need to be looking at that.

Kimberly Beer:

Absolutely. Because entrepreneurship is a

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lot about risk. Entrepreneurs are the risk takers in life. And

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nothing gets furthered when you play it safe. Entrepreneurship

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really is about getting out there putting yourself out

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there, it is about being open to failure. And I think that's

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another thing too, when you're afraid of failure, you're not

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open to all of the possibilities, because you shut

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off a tremendous amount of the possibility moving forward, you

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shut it down, before we can ever really allow itself to evolve

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into what it needs to be because you look at it and go, I'm

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afraid I'm gonna fail over here at this, because it feels risky.

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I think in life entrepreneurs, people who are drawn to owning

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their own business, they have a higher tolerance for saying, I'm

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going to try it anyway. Even though it looks a little risky,

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I'm going to roll the dice, and I'm going to be okay, if it does

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fail. And I find for myself, there are things that I look at

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in my business that I want to try maybe different concepts or

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ideas. And you know, I'm never short on any of those. And what

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I'll do is I'll weigh the risk, right? What is the risk if I do

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this? And I do ask the question, what's going to happen if I

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fail, and I do work through that ahead of time, and then I make a

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calculated decision to say, Okay, I'm going to try it

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anyway. And then when if it does fail, I'm going to be okay with

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that. I'm like, Okay, well, at least I rolled the dice, I

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dried. And then here I am back at square one. Or I find that

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and this is what I find more often than not, I just when I do

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take those risks, I end up with a much bigger reward than if I

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would have been afraid of the failure and not taking the

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chance.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Absolutely. And I like one of the things I'm

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Kim in this section here that no one finds success without

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failure, one of the things that when we were kind of prepping

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for this show that we were talking about is that you know,

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success is not, it's not a straight road, it's not an

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uphill continuous climb. It's not, you know, on the graph of

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life, you're not in a constant upward trajectory, it's much

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more full of hills and valleys, right, you're on your way up,

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you take a dip, you're on your way up, you take a dip, and the

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idea is that you're at least always moving forward, you're

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always moving up, but you might have some dips in the road

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there. And that's not a bad thing. Sometimes those dips in

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the road, those little valleys that we get pulled back down

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into are the things that are going to help realign us,

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recenter us and pull us back into the things that are really

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important in our business and really important to the goals in

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our life. Right?

Kimberly Beer:

Absolutely. And you know, what's beautiful about

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that metaphor is if you think about it as a metaphor that life

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has its hills and valleys, hills give you VISTAs right where you

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can see out over a large area, and it feels fantastic to be up

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there. But where we really feed our souls where we would get

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nourishment, where we would always come back to and get

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greater understanding is in the valleys, because that's where

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the green grass grows. I mean, that metaphor is beautiful,

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because it isn't just a straight road up. There are hills and

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valleys in life. And both of them have their strong points.

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That's why I say failure is not a bad thing. Failure is just

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simply another step on the way to success. It's the value walk

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through to feed yourself and really understand it. So when

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you get up there to the VISTA again, you can decide where you

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want to go next and what you want to experience.

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And I think that moves us right into

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resilience, which is our number to grow your resilience. And

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really what that is, is it's the ability to bounce back and keep

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going after a failure or after a setback. And one of the things I

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think about here is, you know, failure can feel horrible. It

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can feel so terrible and I mean someone I don't know about you

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can but I can take it so personally and I can really get

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down about it for a little while and kind of wallow and it's okay

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to do that. But we have to have the resilience to move forward

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to move past the setback and to not okay, that's it. I failed.

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I'm closing my door. for good, I'm going back and getting a job

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somewhere. And going back to the brick and mortar nine to five, I

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mean, we have to have some resilience in order to keep

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growing and to keep going. What are your thoughts on that?

Kimberly Beer:

Oh, definitely, resilience is a big part of it's

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one of my Sustainable Entrepreneurship practices, it's

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one of the biggest ones is working towards resilience. And

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I always imagine resilience as a rubber band, right. So if you

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stretch the first time you stretch a rubber band, it's

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stiff and it hard, it's hard. And it's, it's a struggle to do

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so. But if you keep stretching it, you have more elasticity.

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And when you work, your resilience as a muscle in your

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body, it becomes easier for you to be able to be resilient, and

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for you to bounce back faster after a failure. So the first

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failures hit you the hardest, that bankruptcy that I had, I

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was in my mid 20s. When that happened to me, that was a hard

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bounce back because it was the really the first time life had

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stepped me on my ass. I mean, that was the hard part.

Cara Taylor Swift:

I always love that you so openly share about

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your bankruptcy because I think that there are so many people

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out there that would be terrified to share about a

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failure like that in their business. And the thing is, is

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that we have to also find safe ways to share about our failures

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in order to process them in order to work through them, and

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to get feedback and learn from them. And that's the thing is

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that a lot of times people are only putting out their highlight

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reels. I mean, we're on social media, we're reading blog posts,

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we're reading success stories, all of the promising the

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exciting stuff, all of the winds are out there. But it's not very

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often, when people are sharing their every day life those every

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day behind the scene moments that really aren't glamorous,

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they're probably full of lots of mistakes. And it's probably just

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kind of that more boring side of life. So we can kind of get

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sucked into that. What do you think about that cam, after

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sharing what you shared,

Kimberly Beer:

I think it's very true. And I think that it also

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gives us the impression that nobody bid us fails. So if we're

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only seeing all of the things that other people are doing

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successfully, then it's really easy to think, Well, I'm just a

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total failure. I see that in my clients. Because the whole

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reason for having social media really is to always show the

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positive side of things, you know, and people do that quite

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frequently. And then I have clients that come to me for

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business consulting, or working on their business plan. And

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they're like, this is so hard for me, I'm defective, I just

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watch everybody else do it. And it's so easy. And I'm like, No,

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it is not easy. Yeah, you're not defective. There is you're not

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failing, you're you're you're not even close to failing. It's

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just this is hard. And the problem is, is what you see of

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everyone else is all of the good things. And unfortunately,

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there's a lot of downsides in life. And in business as well.

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And I think it's embracing those, the shadow moments as

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well as the sunlight as photographers were really aware

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that the sun may be the thing that or the light is the thing

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that illuminates the subject, but the shadows are what give an

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image depth. And the same is true with our life. Such a good

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point, the light illuminates us, you know, in those moments, but

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it's our shadows that give us depth. And your failures are

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part of that shadow.

Cara Taylor Swift:

I'm gonna interrupt you for a second

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because I just read this book, and it was an audiobook and I

Cara Taylor Swift:

was needing something lighthearted. And when I started

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reading the book the whole time, the book was like, one happy

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thing after another. And I kept thinking, Okay, this is where

Cara Taylor Swift:

the grandfather's gonna die. Or this is where the car accidents

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going to happen. Because I was constantly looking for the

Cara Taylor Swift:

moments of controversy in the book. The book never had. Yeah,

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it was the strangest thing. And it was the boring book I've ever

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read in my life. Because it was literally just one person's like

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experience in life, but they didn't share any of the like

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downsides. It was all just like, happy, happy, happy, happy,

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happy, happy. And the little things that came up were very

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trivial. And I remember like afterwards I was thinking about

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and I was like, your story, what you share. It is, like you said

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the shadows, the moments that are of controversy. Those things

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are what makes all the other things so much better. And I was

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just like reading the book, and I was like, I've never read a

Cara Taylor Swift:

book like this in my life and it's the boringest thing I've

Cara Taylor Swift:

ever read.

Kimberly Beer:

Yeah, but that made

Cara Taylor Swift:

me think about that the shadows.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Absolutely. I love that analogy.

Kimberly Beer:

Yes. And in any good story. You need a conflict.

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I learned that that's like first weekend. A creative writing

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school, you must have conflict. A good story. So that's that's

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that's like the number one thing they teach you. But yes, in real

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life to give our lives depths, we do experience the hills and

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valleys like we talked about earlier. And I think that leads

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us really well into number three, which is embrace failure,

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welcome it kind of shift your perspective, from it being

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failure to being a not right now, that wasn't the right idea.

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Let me try that. Again. I have a neighbor who is a horse trainer,

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and he works primarily with teenagers. And so we all know

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teenagers are high drama when things don't happen quite the

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way that they would like for them to. And he has a 15 minute

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rule. So if you go in the show pen with your western pleasure

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horse, and you totally fail, your horse does something

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stupid, or you do something that causes the horse to do something

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that's not exactly perfect, and you come out or you lose, then

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you get 15 minutes, and you can't be mad at the horse. But

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you can be mad at yourself, you can be mad at everybody else,

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you can go cus go to the grooming stalls have your 15

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minutes, but after that 15 minutes, let it go. And whatever

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it is absorb the lesson and move on with your life. So I think

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that that's a great practice with teenagers and adults. So,

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and with ourselves to just say, alright, basically I effed up

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and own it, and then move on from it. And then also, when you

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move on from it, look back at just a moment before you

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completely move on and say what did I learn from this? Get

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curious about what was that moment, teaching you. And I can

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guarantee you, when you look back at failures that have

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changed your life, they always change your life for the better.

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I think that when you embrace it, you really do get to the

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point that you make the changes you needed to make. And if you

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don't make those changes, you're setting yourself up for another

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lesson. Not a failure. But another lesson.

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I agree with that. And I think you can take

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that failure and try not to take it so personally separate it

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from yourself and actually look at it and say to yourself, Okay,

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so what worked? What didn't work? What would I do

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differently? If I had the chance? Looking back this

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failure? What didn't I plan for that? I should have? You know,

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was there something there? I should have planned better for

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was I following my procedures that I've set in place? Are was

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I stepping outside of my boundaries? Were there places

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where I was where my boundaries were down? I think it's okay to

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take that failure, pull it from yourself and take a look at it

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and say ask yourself these questions because that is how

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you're gonna break down and learn from it. I saw this quote

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recently, and it was like, this isn't a one shot only world just

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do better next time. And I love that because it absolutely is

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the truth. Like we're constantly we're not walking through this

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world. And we get one tried everything, you know, we get to

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try over and over and over again. And we can do better next

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time.

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Absolutely. And Maya Angelou, I believe is the

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quote that says when you know better you do better. And I know

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that is around knowledge. But it's also around failure,

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because you learn from every single time that you try

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something and it doesn't work out, you know better and so you

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do better. That is a beautiful sentiment in a way to, to think

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about that. And actually, I think a very nice closing for

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this episode.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Excellent. Okay. So, you know, we hope that

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you guys have enjoyed this episode, just to recap the Big

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Three on failure and why it's a good thing, why it's a good

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thing is that first of all, as entrepreneurs and just people in

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general are, we're never going to find success without failure.

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It's part of the journey, spend some time growing your

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resilience. And just remind yourself it can feel really

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terrible when it's happening. But how do we move past this?

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How do we bounce back? And how do we keep going after the

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setback? And then the third is just try to embrace the failure,

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welcome it and flip your perspective. So we hope you guys

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have enjoyed this episode today. Please let us know you can find

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you guys are having a good one today.

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