Sorry for no video last weekend... I have no excuse. Hope you all enjoy this video and enjoy seeing and hearing Junior hollering her heed off x

If you only need a 14 minute video to expose your failures then you are doing great. I don't think the sun has enough lifetime left to allow my failures video to end without us needing torches...

I resold candy at school. My bus stop was near a 7/11, so on the walk home, I would swing by and get a selection of popular candy. I would sell it for twice the cost. When I went to middle school, my younger brother took over and eventually expanded his business into a small store making tons of money. I underestimated the market. He charged double what I did and expanded his inventory until he actually had some product left after a day. I never had more than 10 items. He sold about 200 every day.. he also eventually had my parents purchasing candy at the base exchange in bulk, so it was very inexpensive, and he sold it for four times the cost at a 7/11, so his profit was HUGE. Since no one ever used his candy as a weapon, it never became a problem, and when a teacher asked him about it, he said he was fundraising for his Judo club. My parents thought it was hilarious, but also “encouraged” him to contribute some treats to the judo club kids on a bus ride to a meet to add legitimacy to his fundraising claim. Trust me, 20 “fun size” snickers bars handed out to a bus load of kids did not even put a dent into one hour of sales in a single day. My failure was never recognizing the potential of my own idea, and being a reluctant sales person for a product everyone wanted. Not valuing my own time in shopping for and bringing the candy to the consumers, and risking my own money on things people may not buy.

I paused the video to let my cat in and was baffled to see him curled up inside, fast asleep. 😸

I love your channel. It's always genuine and often unexpected. I also applaud your dark side that you manage to wrestle away from a life of crime. :}

The candy necklace venture is a 5 ⭐️ business hustle.

The strawberry cream buns look good.

Seeing Junior in the new kitchen was a delight! Thanks for sharing some of the failures, they were all interesting ideas in their own right.

You are one hard working and ambitious man! You must make your mother proud! You will find your niche and will go far 😂♥️

I know your mom ends each day with a smile on her face. That would be me if you were my son. ❤

This was very interesting George. Especially enjoyed the candy necklace saga. Junior made me laugh trying to get your attention.

"fellow pensioners" made me guffaw 😂❤ your humor is top notch.

Very wise words. There are no failures just learning experiences. Keep up the good work..

I used to tell my students that "making a mistake is an experience from which we learn".

Prada. Gucci. Mulberry. Peppa Pig 🐷 George, you are so cheeky 😆

Junior is a star. I would love to see more of her.

Thank you, George. More people should flex their failures so people like me can feel a little less like shit.

Was having a bad day so came by to listen to your lovely calm voice. Thank you George ♡

Another life lesson learned from you, George, while I get to chuckle now and then. Oh, to be young and naive. I was in my early 20's when I met a young man working for an international shoe distributor. I mentioned I liked Italian shoes. We were looking at shoes in the mall, and he said, "All these shoes are made in Asia, but we have them labeled according to the wishes of the buyers". I must say those "Italian " shoes looked great and were very expensive. It was a wake up call for me about some people's dishonesty. Until then, I believed anything anyone told me.😂

I came across your channel by accident, and wow, didnt knew you had so much experience. In a good way. You look so young, yet have already done lots in getting to run a business. Love the airbnb you have, but your previous "failured" businesses were also interesting! And indeed, learning from such is very helpful! Cheers!

Ahhh sweet memories of the candy necklaces haha great video as always mate, failure is the best teacher!

Love everything in this video!

Your learning curve brought you to where you are today so well done, George!

You’ll be the next young multi millionaire because you keep trying and don’t give up easily.

Hey there George -- I had a massive (or what *feels* like massive) failure this weekend with my own baking business. This video came at just the right time. Thank you for sharing and being forthcoming with what you describe as your failures. Onward!

The logo for Beard Box is bloody genius!!

Generally, I look at failures as opportunities to learn. This past weekend, I had another opportunity to learn. We had a two day garage sale in which we made a grand total of $70. Factoring in all the time it took to set things up and that it will take to box things up and get rid of the leftovers, I figure I made about five cents per hour. Guess who will not be having a garage sale in the near or distant future!

Thank you for sharing all of your “failures” I think we fail when we don’t try, you most definitely have tried a number of ventures and then moved on to others. I worked in the corporate world for 34 years and then left to start my own business as a holistic nutritionist which meant going back to school to get certified. Having no idea how much working for a company and having a well known logo behind me helped my success in the corporate world, well let’s just say, I have learned a lot over the last 10 years. I’m still learning and I have finally found a couple of great business coaches who are helping me become more successful. I can say that over the last 10 years, I have spent money on things that were not wise, it’s all part of the lesson. The hardest part for me is standing out amongst the sea of other nutritionists and staying authentic to my values.

You are a winner with your sense of humor about life!

You're so hard on yourself. It's not fair to young-George to expect him to know what today-George knows.

Even so called failures are tools/learned experiences that can be built upon~

I wet myself regarding the Candy Necklaces. That was a brilliant idea. Love from Canada

George, you are such a charismatic person! And also talking about your few business failures with such honesty and a subtle humour is something I admire you now even more than before. I love following your channel, always have a bit of everything in your videos. You are doing a fantastic job!❤

The candy business, instant classic! Love it.

Thanks for this! I really enjoy this type of content and your candid way of sharing without hiding failures and over-glorifying your successes. This is a really encouraging video. Thanks!

In the US if that candy necklace fad happened, the school would have banned the necklaces from the school rather than telling the stores to stop selling them. 😅

Love that you can talk about your failures and others can learn from them ( you’re so lucky you always have your cage fighting to fall back on 😂😂😂. Good luck with your successes and more to come.Ann🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This guy is one switched on guy! Love it

That Beard Box logo is epic...

Another Great informative video! I love your sense of humor. So happy to see Junior thriving and looking beyond cute! 😍🥰🥰🥰

George you are such a likable young man

Thanks for sharing your learning experiences. I look forward to your new kitten/cat.

The beard box logo is brilliant

Half way through the video currently and have to say Junior is quite the chatty Cathy! So cute!! 🥰

Candy necklaces, I had no idea they had that capability and check you out for your 1st marketing adventure! Beard Box - great name and idea. Very interesting to hear all your tries and experiences for each. It's pretty amazing how you've started various business adventures, you certainly have been busy. I think it's good to share all your hind sight 20/20 notes. My biggest personal failure wasn't an actual business venture, it was a personal relationship that I should have stayed in.

Nice to see Junior! (and you) Don't worry about the cooking... I can cook my goose with the best of them. Remember... there's a lot of ferment in the beer industry.

Ha! Candy necklace projectile reselling was a Great story! 😸

I'm pressed! You've done a lot, there all learning experiences and look where you are today. Totally worth it, right? Love your contact BTW. Keep up the good work. ❤

I think the beard box one still has potential. Seems like Amazon or Ebay were duds. Etsy might have been a good place - or specialty shops. Keep hustling!

Every failure should become a fertiliser for Success. Keep it up George. Love from Poland.

They might have been fails, but they were brilliant! Fail=first attempt in learning ❤

Ive sewn all my life and now sell a bit of my upcycle jean bags locally. All think Im a great sewist. They don't see the boxes marked UFOs. Unfinished Objects! That I and all sewists blew it or got so frustrated had to stop and put away. I do go through them every so often. Use as fabric in other projects. Like lining my bags or suddenly know how to finish or fix that I couldnt see a few months or even years before!

Love this content. Well done for fessing up

Re: Candy necklaces, you saw a gap in the market and filled it, that’s a true businessman/boy (12 yrs old) 👏

The color on that back wall is fantastic!

Yaaaaaaaaa! Your kitty is back!!

Love your very curious examples. I never ever would have thought of those schemes. I wish I could be there to help with your house remodels. Say hello to Junior for me. Your videos make me smile.

I love the black market candy! You are excellent at analyzing things and figuring out how to do it better.

Thank you for sharing this with us. Sometimes we just think we cannot do enough because other sucessful people make us feel "if it is not easy, it is not worth". Let's keep on trying. 💜

There is also a really good book called, "Failing Forward" by John C Maxwell. It's great for any business person!

Very inspirational, thank you for sharing. I think it's important to share failure in a world where all we see on social media are people's successes... tend to feel bad when we ourselves fail but don't see the many failures that went into each and every successes.

Great video and even better when Junior made an appearance. I have missed her.

Not failures George. Rather they are lessons.

Thank you for sharing, George!

The failure to pick yourself up and try again is the only one to really avoid.

As someone who is about to embark on a journey of finding the next career step and potentially building my own business, this was very insightful! Thanks for sharing!

It truly shows how hard it is to create and be a sucessfull business Ive tried many businesses, learning along the way that even with self discipline, ambition, drive, and hard work does not always pay off

I love that Junior matches you 🥰

I am amazed at all the imaginative ideas you have had & have tried. Unfortunately I don’t have your abilities.

Delightful to see your cat again, after a long absence! Well done!

You just brought back some great memories with them candy necklaces 😂

You are very creative and entrepreneurial.

Junior‘s back!!!❤🐾🐾 Oops, sorry ! My inner cat lady got to the key board, first. 😉 Great video. Entertaining, yet thought provoking. My greatest failure to date is getting a master‘s degree and then doing abso-diddly-nothing with it because… reasons.

Savvy advice from a natural born entrepreneur! Thks for the inspo, George. 🙏🥰💃🏻

Really excellent and enjoyable video episode, George!!! All of your experiences have made you the success you are today. May God bless you 🙏 and your family always in your life journey. ❤

Really enjoy your insights and creativity.😊

I'm impressed with how entrepreneurial you've been!

Loved the video! I often need to remind myself to not be so fearful of failing. I found the video motivational. Thank you! 🙏 🐈

I really enjoyed watching this. You learned the biggest lesson of all, never give up.

Your candy necklace venture reminds me of when I was a kid. I would buy bubble gum cheaply from a particular store and then sell it for a nice profit to my classmates. It was going well. My classmates were happy to have access to gum in school and I had some pocket money....until the school shut it down. Haha!

Hope your doing fine now 😊😊😊

You talking about failures reminded me of the Twitch thing. Is Twitch still a platform? I haven't seen a thing about it. Even Amazon hasn't sent me anything about it. Now I know how you got so good at decorating pastries! Pat Junior for me and tell her how beautiful she has gotten.

I decided to start a business of photography. Make great photographs and don't show them to anyone! That will make no money really fast. 😂😭

Thanks!

Another entertaining video. You are a true entrepreneur, seems you never give up and all your “failures” have been learning experiences. 😎

I think a fault/failure of mine is hesitancy to try new things. I didn't go out for the volleyball team in middle school because I was afraid kids would make fun of me. (I wasn't "popular" enough to play volleyball.) I didn't quit the soccer team in high school even though I was being bullied by teammates because playing soccer was so intrinsic to my identity-- even though I could have used that time elsewhere. I struggle to watch new movies at home on a Friday night because I'm afraid I won't like them. That's an area where I try to challenge myself.

My biggest failure was the Gleam Team, long story!!! It went nowhere late 80's!!! LOL 🤣

Thank you for sharing this very helpful information. It has helped me understand some things. I have an idea for a product. I just do not know how to go about making money with it. This video has helped guide me away from somethings and toward others. Thank you! As for Kitty.....She can interrupt you any time as far as I am concerned. No worries. Thank you for sharing your world. See you in the next one.

OMGOODNESS, George ! 😂 young entrepreneur 👍 👌 Not a failure Lessons learned How not to do and do things ❤😊 God bless and prosper you well, amen 🙏 Well done 👏 ✔️ 👍

We learn and grow from our mistakes and I think we need to extend grace to ourselves that we would freely give to others. You were a child, these lessons are meant to guide us not define us or hold us back.

I never would have taken you for a bad boy with those candy necklaces!😂 I got sucked into signing up to sell a new cosmetic line. I can't remember the name...it was 50 yrs ago! I had to invest in the kit and go door to door. Turned out, some people got rashes from some of the products. Total failure. I learned that I am not good at sales.

You should definitely still do the class on building an Instagram page! I know I would buy it! 😊

Thanks for all this information. Nothing you do in life is a failure only a stumbling block. Stand on your stumbling blocks to see a brighter future. You are young, intelligent, working since age 12, own 2 beautiful homes and still have the luxury to work from home while playing with Junior. I call that success. Waiting for next week construction updates. Have a concern with the Like button. Previously when selected it turned black showing you watched and liked. Now when I select it disappears. I do not know if you are receiving credit for being watched? Is anyone having this problem? Requesting your investigative skills for solutions? Thank you. Watching from USA and this is happening on all my Subscribed channels. Just noticed this week.

Ambition and persistence!

It's only a failure if you don't learn from it. You get out there and try new things, something that most people will never even attempt. That makes you a big success in my book! p.s. Please give Junior a cuddle from me.

My biggest failure is being fat and lazy, love the vids ❤

this is honestly really helpful.

I also have failed business so dont worry. Anyway I am a bit feeling blue because I have just lost one of my kitties, Igor, who had the same color with Junior. he was born in 2022 and had been sick forever. So... no wonder. But I miss him. Stay healthy to you and Junior.

Hey George, you sure started early in your business ventures! At least now you can tell everyone that you have lots of business experience. I guess that as long as you don't give up trying to succeed in which ever endeavor you have a hankering for, you will eventually hit the sweet spot that you are searching for. I look forward to your next YT upload to see what interesting surprises you have in store for your viewers.🎉😅😊

1:44 Wow you black marketed your way to an iPod? Truly iconic behaviour