Recognizing and Rectifying Career Failures

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This chapter revolves around a conversation about the speaker's past career decision and the fear of failure associated with it. The importance of recognizing when a situation is not right and having the courage to make a change is discussed, along with personal stories of pulling the rip cord and walking away from a job that no longer made sense.

Have you had something go wrong at work? Like really wrong? How much of it do you feel was your fault? And are you still trying to move past it?

The Amys and their former co-host Sarah Green Carmichael revisit times they majorly messed up, in hopes that you’ll feel better about your experiences with failure. We’re not talking about honest mistakes with simple solutions; we’re talking about larger problems that were difficult and costly to correct. They share what happened, how they recovered, and what they learned.

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