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.

Rocio Ventura

Six years ago, we experienced financial troubles resulting from unexpected life events. We went from a two-income family to one income family. Our monthly expenses required two incomes. Shortly after, we could not afford monthly payments due to an unplanned pregnancy and job loss. We maxed out our savings, incurred debts, and got behind on bills. Read more>>

Claudia Valenzuela

In brutal honesty, my experience as an artist has felt like a constant battle through failure after failure. Every artist probably feels the same, though I believe it’s the failure that allows you as an artist to define your own being as “the artist”. Or rather- you become so fed up with what the world tries to define “the artist” as, including your own perceived fraudulence; Read more>>

Tayuania Lee

2021 everything was going great and then i got hit with vertigo, if you don’t know its when your equilibrium is off so it makes you dizzy, can make you extremely sick and unable to operate no driving or anything it’s miserable ! So at that time i had signed a lease to my new salon because i do have 2 businesses mink lee which is my brow business and then lee K’mor which is my luxury clothing brand. Read more>>