We introduce ourselves and the podcast.

SUPPORT THE SHOW

You can become an official supporter of the show by joining our Good Fail club on Patreon. Visit: www.patreon.com/thegoodfail

FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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Facebook - @thegoodfailers

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The Web - www.merlemadetales.com

MUSIC FOR THE GOOD FAIL BY:

https://filmmusic.io "Dreamy Flashback" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

The Good Fail is a project that was born out of a pervasive feeling in both of us that we were failing to make our voices heard as creators. Now we want to radically recalibrate our ideas and attitudes surrounding failure.

WHAT IS THIS PODCAST ABOUT?

This podcast is about failure and questioning the “one size fits all” perspective of success. We want to change our understanding of what failure means to us and we want you join us.

WHY ARE WE MAKING THIS PODCAST?

Because is feels awful to fail but we spend so much of our lives failing and then failing again to live up to what we think success looks like. We want to build a kind of tool kit of strategies and experiences that we, and you, can use to help us keep going when we are living through failure. Don’t give up!

CAN WE CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE ON FAILURE OR DO WE NEED TO GET BETTER AT SUCCEEDING?

Failure is a process. If we can start to think of success in less black and white terms, that is, if we’re not “succeeding” then we must be “failing”, then we can change our perspective on what it really means to fail. We can feel like it’s not all over just because we failed. 

WHY ARE WE QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT THIS?

We have experienced our fair share of failure and more, and some successes, which we will be talking about openly with you in the hopes of relieving some of the shame that surrounds failure. This might make us not so much academically qualified as curious! We see this podcast as an exploration for us and the listener together. 

CONCLUSION

We hope this gives you a good idea about what we hope this podcast will be. Every episode we’ll be unpacking issues surrounding failure and how we can challenge them. We’ll also be including a regular recommendation section for great books, podcasts, tv shows, apps and more that relate to the Good Fail.

SUPPORT THE SHOW

You can become an official supporter of the show by joining our Good Fail club on Patreon. Visit: www.patreon.com/thegoodfail

FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

If you're not tired of us yet, you can also find us in these social places:

Instagram - @pretty_messy_official

@merlemade_tales

Facebook - @thegoodfailers

@merlemadetales

Pinterest - @merlemadetales

The Web - www.merlemadetales.com

MUSIC FOR THE GOOD FAIL BY:

https://filmmusic.io "Dreamy Flashback" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

To begin episode two we introduce a regular segment to the show that celebrates the moments in our week when we’ve triumphed and when we’ve failed. 

HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT FAILING? 

Starting to dig into the main topic of the show we discuss our current assumptions on success and failure, using the official definition from our tattered and frankly falling to pieces edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as a launch pad into thoughts and musings about attaining fame, when a “favourable outcome” can refer to successfully putting a clothes wash on and how failure can be comforting because we know what to expect.

SO HOW DO WE SUCCEED AT FAILING?

It’s difficult but we feel it’s about changing our perspective. Something we discuss which has helped us recently is our introduction to Carl Jung’s interpretation of alchemy and in particular that part at the very beginning of the process known as NIGREDO. 

DO WE HAVE ANY PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR THAT? 

Discussing our own tactics for how to stay motivated when we’d rather just kick it all in and be miserable and if it’s important to feel grateful for all the little things, we introduce our final segment of the show: 

WHAT DO WE RECOMMEND? 

Each week we finish by recommending something we think is brilliant that is doing the good fail. Today we bring you: 

Super Soul Conversations

A totally awesome podcast by Oprah Winfrey 

And

The Makers Yearbook

A superb business planner created by a lovely woman called Nicola. 

SUPPORT THE SHOW

You can become an official supporter of the show by joining our Good Fail club on Patreon. Visit: www.patreon.com/thegoodfail

FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

If you're not tired of us yet, you can also find us in these social places:

Instagram - @pretty_messy_official

@merlemade_tales

Facebook - @thegoodfailers

@merlemadetales

Pinterest - @merlemadetales

The Web - www.merlemadetales.com

MUSIC FOR THE GOOD FAIL BY:

https://filmmusic.io "Dreamy Flashback" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)