It’s been quite a season of epic failures! We are closing this chapter by sharing ‘hot takes’ from our Top 10 List of favorite episodes from Season 3. 

This year we had 20 incredible failure conversations with folks in “The 20/20 Perspective Podcast” Facebook Lives and recorded discussions. There were too many juicy failures to choose from! After much deliberation, Dan and Alycia agreed upon their Top 10 favorite discussions and in this episode, they share a quick recap and takeaways from each chat with their guests. Listen in for hot takes from season 3 and decide which episodes you want to go back and listen to from our top 10 or another one of our wonderful episodes. 

Check out our Top 10 list below:

10. "Generational Creativity, a Conversation with Creativity Strategist Rose Gabler" with Rose Gabler

9.  "Wandering the World By Saying Yes" with Dean Kuchel

8.  "IDGAF about IDGAF" with Matt Javit

7.  "Inclusive Leadership with the Gay Leadership Dude" with Dr. Steve Yacovelli 

6.  "Let's Talk About the Elephant In The Room" with James Hayden

5.  "Accepting Failure While Under Fire" with Candice Frost

4.  "Coaching Through Failure" with Coaches Maya Dolgin, James Kawski, and Kate MacAleavey

3.  "Resilience and Failure: A Conversation" with Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal

2.  "Screw You, Breast Cancer, I'm HOT" with Alanna Fincke

1.  "A Change of Heart" with Brian Williams

Get ready for more failures in the new year! 

Where would you be today if you had no regrets? Can you think back at a time when you said “no” to a potential opportunity for no good reason other than you were fearful of what the outcome would be? Embarrassment, failure, looking dumb, someone laughing at you….

The slight chance of a “no” to our proposition or the fear of an unfavorable outcome to a risk is enough to hold us back from living our dreams, succeeding, and achieving our highest potential. 

And this happens everyday.

In this episode, our guest shares ways he reframes failures and as a result he’s created a life of international travel and unbelievable opportunity. One way includes telling strangers “I love you.” (This is not a joke!) By adopting his reframing strategies, we can also open ourselves up to unexpected opportunities, experiences, and outcomes.

Dean Kuchel is an ambassador, entrepreneur and a thought leader in the Digital Nomad space. He is the founder of “Where is Dean,” Community Leader of “Digital Nomads Israel,” the 4th largest Facebook community for digital nomads with 25,000 members, a public speaker, and a mentor. Dean traveled to more than 100 countries, met thousands of amazing friends, and inspired people all across the globe to 'Say YES! Go Explore'.

Dean’s international wanderlust along with his willingness to say “yes” results in every failure that comes across his path as an opportunity. 

In our conversation with Dean, he shares his positive relationship with failure through:

• strategies for reframing failure into opportunities
• key phrases, words, and questions to help initiate conversations and connect quickly with others
• his experiences getting robbed and losing jobs
• practicing extreme vulnerability is what opens you up to alternative perspectives
• how to say “I love you” to a complete stranger. Yes, you will likely get strange looks but read bullet above.

Learn more about Dean:

Website: www.DeanKuchel.com

LinkedIn

Podcast: Nomad Stories

Instagram: Where_Is_Dean

Facebook: Where is Dean

YouTube: Where is Dean

How do you authentically build self-confidence? I’ll tell ya! The process of failing is what builds self-respect and that self-respect is the key to what builds confidence. 

In this episode, our guest emphasizes that you are capable of doing hard things! The only way to fail is if you never take action. Detach yourself from the outcome, set the intention for what you want to achieve, and be open to opportunities outside of what YOU want.

Neo is a financial advisor turned entrepreneur who left his business in financial planning to redefine what business and success means to him. He walks us through how he failed to trust to intuition and take action sooner on multiple occasions in his career journey. Neo shares insights on how he grew to trust himself, embrace failure, and the community he found to support him to success.

Learn more about Neo below:

LinkedIn

Instagram @neoklau

Community group: The Create Community