Fail Your Way to Success

On the outside, Jessica Zweig had it all. She’d built an award-winning personal branding agency that worked with such companies as Google and Pinterest. She was the beautiful girl with the yellow branding on her popular social media feeds. And yet inside, she was falling apart.   After a transformative experience in Egypt, she was able to rebuild her life, redefining what success and failure mean to her. Now she helps other women avoid falling apart in their quest to subscribe to the patriarchy and other man-made constructs.   She documents her entire journey and provides tips for others who want to follow in her stead to use in her new book, The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World. [https://www.amazon.com/Light-Work-Reclaim-Feminine-Illuminate/dp/1250332966]   In this episode, we talk about all of this and more—including how to use your calendar settings to get in the right frequency, why women should reconsider traveling during that time of the month and how chasing success is overvalued.

Jonathan Small has been chronicling the failures and successes of people for most of his career. From doing his first interview (with George Carlin) to his sharing dating tips as “Jake” for Glamour magazine to his stint as an editor at Entrepreneur magazine to his experience interviewing hundreds of writers on his Write About Now podcast [https://writeaboutnowmedia.com/], Small has been a fly-on-the-wall for many failure-to-success stories. Now he’s released a book made up of the origin stories of some of the writers he’s interviewed, which I’m proud to say Legacy Launch Pad has published. With insights from as wide a variety of people as Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann to 90s fashion queen Betsey Johnson, Write About Now reveals the failures and successes of a succession of greats. In this interview we talked about the main qualities successful people have in common, our shared experience starting our careers working at parenting magazines and why many companies would be far better off sharing the struggles of the founder, among many other topics. For more info, go to www.failyourway.com [https://failyourway.com/].

Diana Cannon has been through more than your average bear (or human). After growing up in a dysfunctional Mormon home, she raised three kids as a single mom, uncovered deep family secrets and wrote about it all in the Legacy Launch Pad published memoir, Loose Cannons [https://www.amazon.com/Loose-Cannons-Memoir-Mayhem-Mormon/dp/1956955216] (which got her featured in the Daily Mail, Today and the LA Times Book Fair, among other places). Post publication, just when it looked like the drama was done, the sh*t hit the fan again. In this episode, Cannon talks about falling apart, coming together and how bouncing back from failure requires a belief in something that truly matters to you. For more info, go to www.failyourway.com [https://failyourway.com/].

Nicolas Cole has founded more successful writing businesses than perhaps anyone on earth. These include a daily writing program [https://www.ship30for30.com/] that has over 10,000 students, a ghostwriting academy [https://www.premiumghostwritingacademy.com/] that has over 800 students, a SaaS platform [https://typeshare.co/explore] and a paid newsletter [https://writewithai.substack.com/]. He’s also written 10 books, been a World of Warcraft champion, accumulated over a billion views online and been published in a slew of mainstream publications.   While his failures may not be obvious from the outside, they’ve existed. These include holding onto employees that didn’t care about their jobs, building a business only to find himself miserable and thinking of business success as the number of team members you have.   He’s also a guy who radically changed my business life when he said a seemingly simple thing to me one day in 2017.   Listen in as we discuss success, failure, bottoming out, changing, altering your money mindset and so much more. For more info, go to www.failyourway.com [https://failyourway.com/].

There was a time where you couldn’t walk down the street without seeing someone sporting a SpiritualGangster t-shirt. (Please note: that time hasn’t really passed.)  Well, the shirt that epitomized the spiritual seeker who was also cool was the brain child of former lawyer and yoga teacher Ian Lopatin. Despite the fact that the brand he and his wife started by making t-shirts out of their garage mushroomed into a $30 million business, their success was far from a straight line—as Lopatin shares in this episode, there were many failures along the way.  But Spiritual Gangster has never been so much a clothing company as it is an ethos—one that Lopatin embodies. And now he’s helping those who have achieved it all but still find themselves in a place of lack discovering how they can get out of the achievement game and into a life of true fulfillment.  We dove into everything from the glory failure can bring when you embrace it, how being “energy rich” brings you everything and the way failure comes from fear and attachment. And so much more! For more info, go to www.failyourway.com [https://failyourway.com/].