Mistakes That Made Me

Mistakes That Made Me is the podcast that asks extraordinary business owners to share their biggest business mistake – so you know what NOT to do on your road to success.

Join Eman Ismail as she chats to some of the smartest minds in business about how to push through failure and accept it as an important and necessary part of building a business.

Because it turns out: your biggest business mistake often leads to your biggest lesson and then your biggest blessing.

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Episodes

Going and Growing Too Slow with Belinda Weaver

Have you ever had a brilliant business idea, then watched someone else take that idea and run with it because you took too long to make it happen? My guest is Belinda Weaver, the owner of Copywrite Matters and a copy coach in the copywriting industry. Belinda created the concept for a membership community that would scale her business…and then...she sat on it (mostly because she was juggling two young kids). While she waited for the perfect time to launch, other copywriters jumped on the same id...

Aug 16, 2022•56 min

The $12,000 Mistake with Vivian Kaye

How do you lose $12,000 in one day and still come out winning? My guest is Vivian Kaye – the CEO of KinkyCurlyYaki – a business and empowerment expert, a keynote speaker, and a TV and podcast personality who lost $12,000 on a photo shoot that went wrong. This mistake forced Vivian to think more deeply about her instincts and how those instincts have helped her business thrive. Find the transcript of this episode on my site, emancopyco.com/podcast . Links from this episode: Join Like a Boss , my ...

Aug 09, 2022•49 min

Welcome to Mistakes That Made Me

Introducing Mistakes That Made Me, the podcast that asks extraordinary business owners to share their biggest business mistakes so you know what not to do on your road to success. Hosted by Eman Ismail, this podcast dives into painful, humiliating, make your bank account cry, kind of mistakes made by business owners who are some of the most clever, experienced, wealthiest and savvy people we know. But we don't just share mistakes on this podcast, we celebrate them. Because a lot of the time, our...

Jul 22, 2022•4 min

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