The Failure Factor
Where entrepreneurs get real about their stories and turn failures into lessons for success.
Hosted by Megan Bruneau, The Failure Factor explores the journey of business owners, entrepreneurs and thought leaders who have faced significant challenges, persevered through adversity, and emerged triumphant providing listeners with insights to navigate their own entrepreneurial paths
There's a myth out there that failure is career-ending and that success is achieved without any bumps in the road. In reality, it's surviving rock bottom what gives entrepreneurs the experience, confidence and edge that ultimately causes them to thrive.
Packed with actionable insights, vulnerability, and inspiration, each episode aims to help you navigate your own challenges and grow stronger through adversity.
- Update frequency
- every 33 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Joe Cross On How To Cultivate Luck
Joe Cross is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, filmmaker, and wellness advocate. He's the founder of the socially conscious health and wellness company, Reboot With Joe, as well as the founder of…
Terri Cole, Celebrity Psychotherapist on How To Stop Dating People Who Are Bad For Us & Changing Careers After 30
Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, transformation coach, and a relationship expert. A psychotherapist to the stars, she was the featured therapist on A&E’s Monster In-Laws, The Lisa Oz Show, h…
Meet The Woman Who Revolutionized The Way We Date--Twice
Whitney Wolfe is a serial entrepreneur who, by the time she was 25, had already founded 3 companies. The first, a non-profit inspired by the BP oil spill; the second, Tinder, the app that normalized …
Deepak Chopra Once Emptied The Contents Of His Briefcase On His Boss’s Head
Deepak Chopra MD, FACP is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, he is the founder of The Ch…
Daybreaker And Thinx Cofounder On The Challenges Of Being A Woman In The Boardroom
Radha Agrawal is a serial entrepreneur, advocate, feminist, visionary, and community-building expert. Most recently, Radha is the cofounder of sober early morning dance-party Daybreaker, and cofounde…
CEO of Bleacher Report on Founding With Friends & Big Egos
Dave Finocchio launched Bleacher Report in 2008 with three friends from middle school. Self-described 'sports nuts,' the Notre Dame alumni saw an opportunity in filling the 'white space' in the sport…
Courtney Nichols Gould: "I Used To Lead From Fear"
Courtney Nichols Gould is the CoFounder/CEO of SmartyPants Vitamins, a company she launched with her cofounder and husband, Gordon, just over 5 years ago to bring more health to more people every day…
How Failure Helped Me "Thrive": Gunnar Lovelace of Thrive Market
Gunnar Lovelace is the founder and co-CEO of Thrive Market, the fastest growing health-food e-commerce company in history. In this episode, Gunnar tells the story of a previous "failure," after which…
Danielle Duboise & Whitney Tingle: Making Your Mess into Your Mission
Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle are the co-founders of Sakara Life, an organic meal delivery service and wellness lifestyle brand. Danielle and Whitney went from making meals in their SoHo kitche…
Founder and CEO of mindbodygreen on Wall Street to REAL "Wellth"
Jason Wachob is the Founder and CEO of mindbodygreen and the author of “WELLTH: How I Learned to Build a Life, Not a Resume”. He has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, G…