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28th Oct 2019

Introducing The Good Fail

The Good Fail is a project that was born out of a pervasive feeling in both of us that we were failing to make our voices heard as creators. Now we want to radically recalibrate our ideas and attitudes surrounding failure.

WHAT IS THIS PODCAST ABOUT?

This podcast is about failure and questioning the “one size fits all” perspective of success. We want to change our understanding of what failure means to us and we want you join us.

WHY ARE WE MAKING THIS PODCAST?

Because is feels awful to fail but we spend so much of our lives failing and then failing again to live up to what we think success looks like. We want to build a kind of tool kit of strategies and experiences that we, and you, can use to help us keep going when we are living through failure. Don’t give up!

CAN WE CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE ON FAILURE OR DO WE NEED TO GET BETTER AT SUCCEEDING?

Failure is a process. If we can start to think of success in less black and white terms, that is, if we’re not “succeeding” then we must be “failing”, then we can change our perspective on what it really means to fail. We can feel like it’s not all over just because we failed. 

WHY ARE WE QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT THIS?

We have experienced our fair share of failure and more, and some successes, which we will be talking about openly with you in the hopes of relieving some of the shame that surrounds failure. This might make us not so much academically qualified as curious! We see this podcast as an exploration for us and the listener together. 

CONCLUSION

We hope this gives you a good idea about what we hope this podcast will be. Every episode we’ll be unpacking issues surrounding failure and how we can challenge them. We’ll also be including a regular recommendation section for great books, podcasts, tv shows, apps and more that relate to the Good Fail.

SUPPORT THE SHOW

You can become an official supporter of the show by joining our Good Fail club on Patreon. Visit: www.patreon.com/thegoodfail

FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

If you're not tired of us yet, you can also find us in these social places:

Instagram - @pretty_messy_official

@merlemade_tales

Facebook - @thegoodfailers

@merlemadetales

Pinterest - @merlemadetales

The Web - www.merlemadetales.com

MUSIC FOR THE GOOD FAIL BY:

https://filmmusic.io "Dreamy Flashback" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


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The Good Fail
A guide from creatives on not giving up.
The Good Fail is brought to you by twin sisters Merle and Abra Hunt, Illustrator and writer/actor respectively, as they navigate life as creators and the struggle to keep going in the face of apparent failure.
Together this is their response to the medias onesided image of success. They're learning to embrace their failure and turn it into a positive, bringing you a different perspective on what it looks like to succeed in the creative business and life in general.



Music for The Good Fail by:
https://filmmusic.io
"Dreamy Flashback" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Abra & Merle Hunt

It started with finger painting, progressed to reams and reams of stick figures, scribbles, mother eating ghosts and anatomically incorrect spiders, grew into days spent in our room creating fantastical worlds we would draw and write about in fastidious detail, blossoming exponentially outwards as all encompassing hobby transformed to dedicated passion, when all school work came complete with intricate borders and full page drawings; we found new ways to express our inner world by breathing life into characters on stage and we counted the minutes we had to spend doing sports and maths lessons like they were hours. Later our creative zeal focused into a three year bachelors degree in illustration and a masters in creative writing, with it all finally culminating in a half finished illustrated novel, launching illustrated stationery business Merle Made Tales, collaborating on commissions for wedding and event stationery, getting the first few paid acting jobs and launching this podcast. One way or another, we were always going to be creators.