This is a short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Brad Hart speaking with an unnamed guest) focused on how failure motivated later success. The guest recounts recurring public-speaking anxiety (nights of insomnia before events, long recovery to feel comfortable on stage) and several business crises—near insolvency, employee theft, and personal mistakes—that influenced their trajectory toward resilience and eventual success.
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What is the thing that drove you to be successful? And I feel like everybody can relate to failure more than they can relate to success because not everybody's experienced success, but everybody's experienced failure at some point.
Oh, I've had so much failure. I mean, there's so many. So, you know, I've spoken at, like, large events. I used to early on, I couldn't sleep all night. I was sick all night before an event. Like, all night. Like, I didn't sleep a wink, you know, I mean, it took almost a year or two. And I'm a. I have a personality. Like, I have a. You know, I have a mouth. You know, I could talk. Me going, like, on stage and just being terrorized by it happened every single time. Once I got on stage, I was fine, but it took a long time for me to get over that. You know, the experience where, you know. You know, there's a few times where my business almost went under because of, like, you know, various, you know, things that you never would have thought, you know, like, again, like, the people caught stealing and this and that and all these things and maybe some mistakes that I made over the years.