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/)