The Beauty of Failure: Why We Need to Talk About It More

We love to celebrate wins. Social media is filled with highlight reels—launches that sell out, courses that thrive, retreats that are fully booked. But what about the offers that don’t land? The retreats that get canceled? The courses that have to be reworked because no one signed up?

Lately, I’ve seen more people posting honestly about their “failures”—the things that didn’t go as planned. And you know what? It’s refreshing. It’s relatable. And in a strange way, it’s inspiring.

Failure allows us to see what’s real. It strips away the illusion of perfection and reminds us that we are all just figuring it out. It teaches resilience, adaptability, and the art of pivoting. When we acknowledge failure, we take away its power to shame us. Instead, we let it shape us into better creators, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

My soul guide recently gave me a challenge: create massive offers, ones that might get a no, so I can experience rejection. At first, that sounded terrifying. I haven’t had a lot of rejection in my life, and because of that, I’ve built up this fear of it. But the truth is, avoiding failure is the real failure.

Failure is a great teacher because it forces growth. It teaches us what works and what doesn’t. It builds resilience. It strips away ego and replaces it with wisdom. Every “no” brings us closer to the right “yes.”

So, let’s talk about our failures more. Not as a badge of shame, but as proof that we are in the arena, trying, learning, and evolving. After all, success isn’t built on avoiding failure—it’s built on pushing through it.