Over the years, after talking with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, artists and creatives, almost every success story we’ve heard has been filled with stories of failure. Unfortunately, in our view the media rarely covers these parts of the story – instead we often read summaries that make it seem like success happened “overnight.” However, what we’ve learned in our conversations with so many successful folks is that failure is core ingredient in the recipe for future success. Below, we’ve shared some fascinating stories of failure from folks who have ultimately found great success.

TreVon Golden

November of 2022 I lost my hard drive that had basically 3 businesses on it (everyone that I recorded music for including myself, my Hood Colors platform, & videography business footage) of the last 4 years to a non-recoverable hard drive failure. 2 weeks later I awake to all my social media accounts for those businesses deleted due to 1 too many facebook flags on my ad account that connected to all 3 instagrams for promotion purposes. I went through the recovery process, sent in my ID etc. Nothing worked. Read more>>

Brandy Lawson

Letting “Should” Trample Plans & Mental Space Read more>>

Ryan Munro

Well, this one is simple. Back in 2018, I travelled to Glasgow, which was around an hour and a half away from my house, to take part in a pop-up shop that was held by another brand. Read more>>

Tulika Garg Bhatia

Failure to look at the opportunity life was presenting me with. Read more>>

Jill Reed

Fail-learn. I like to think of failure as fail-learn. That’s a pretty trendy thing to say (ala Sara Blakely) but the difference is, I accept that failure triggers for me a cascade of die-hard habitual self-doubt and deprecation. From grad school onward, imposter syndrome and regular negative self-talk dominated my psyche. When I fail, it hurts and it can become a crushing downward spiral. Read more>>