My Favorite Mistake — 369: Dr. Jen Moran on the Practice Everyone Said Not to Buy
Her attorney and accountant told her not to buy the dental practice, then quit when she did. The appraisal came in at about 5% of the asking price. Dr. Jen …
My Favorite Mistake — 368: Eric Dingler on Hiding Bad News Until He Had a Fix
Eric Dingler and his wife met every week to review the numbers in their business. When they moved to Costa Rica, they paused that meeting for what was supposed to …
My Favorite Mistake — 367: Leading People Who Know More Than You
Stephanie Mitchell came back from vacation and got called into the C-suite. They wanted her to run the hospital laboratory temporarily. She was an ICU nurse who had moved into …
My Favorite Mistake — 366: Why Good Work Doesn’t Speak for Itself
Dr. Jonathan Thorp spent a career building systems, methods, and models that made work more functional. His mistake was assuming that creating the value was where the work stopped. Promoting …
My Favorite Mistake — 365: She Opened an Office Her Firm Couldn’t Afford
Susan von Seggern handed the finances to her business partner and stopped looking at them. Then she decided their Los Angeles PR agency should open a New York office — …
My Favorite Mistake — 364: Why a Pilot Stayed Silent in the Cockpit: Steve Montague
Steve Montague had been flying for the airline about two years when he decided to let his captain be wrong. He was paired with a captain who shut him down …
My Favorite Mistake — 363: What a Magician Learned About Recovering From Mistakes with Michael Chaleff
Michael Chaleff took a year between the Navy and law school and spent it working as a restaurant magician — walking up to strangers who had been drinking, interrupting conversations …
My Favorite Mistake — 362: Why the Cheapest Supplier Is Rarely the Cheapest, with Carl Pradelli, CEO of Nature City
Carl Pradelli was 18 months into building a co-branded skincare line with the Home Shopping Network when the first production run came back wrong. Ingredients specified at five percent had …
My Favorite Mistake — 361: Nurse Tiffany Auvil on Caregiving, Denials, and a Misdiagnosis
Tiffany Auvil spent more than twenty years inside the U.S. healthcare system, starting as a volunteer firefighter and eventually serving as System Director of Outpatient Clinics for a three-hospital health …
My Favorite Mistake — 360: Why ESPN’s Founder Was Pushed Out of the Network He Built, with Historian Mike Soltys
Bill Rasmussen got fired by the Hartford Whalers, then chased an idea almost nobody believed in: sports television around the clock. He burned through his own money, his credit cards, …