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Welcome to episode 23 of Webflail. Today’s guest is Jack Redley (normally the host of this podcast).

Jack studied languages at Newcastle university and then went to live in Portugal and worked on a vineyard in lisbon. Then, he moved to Porto and tried to freelance. After completely failing at that, he decided to move back to Newcastle and actually got a job at Newcastle university working in marketing. He freelanced on the side and then worked for 2 agencies before freelancing again.

The 3 failures we talk about are:

1. Niching badly
2. Not having a contract in place
3. Trying too hard to sell

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Welcome to episode 22 of Webflail. Today’s guest is legendary in the Webflow space, Mason Poe, founder of Edgar Allen Studio.

Edgar Allen won 3 awards this year at Webflow Conf including winning agency of the year - an incredible achievement and it’s easy to see why after listening to their dilligent founder in this interivew. As someone that’s been running his agency for almost 10 years, it’s clear that Mason’s experience gives him a unique insight in to Webflow as a platform and community. Mason talks about all sorts of different topics - how a rising tide lifts all the boats within the Webflow community, how anger is a gift, how Edgar Allen is working to be the tip of the spear for the enterprise market and ambitions for 2023.

The 3 failures we talk about are:

1. I failed the third grade. it was a painful time in my life, and I spent most of my time under a desk. (literally sitting under my desk) I struggled through school but in some ways I learned a lot about perseverance. (It kind of made me better at sales)
   
   
2. At my last job there was a time I embraced the idea of 'fail harder'... it was a nice motto but it also feed into this idea of hussle culture. Long story short I in the end did fail harder... and was fired from my last job.
   
   
3. When I was first starting my business I was working from 4:00 AM until 11:00 at night. At one point my daughter asked my wife... "is daddy coming over today"

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📬 See Letter Run: https://letter-run.webflow.io/
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masonpoe/
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For episode 21, my guest is Emily Giordano.

If you haven’t heard of Emily, why not? She is a Webflow legend. Emily is a huge inspiration to me personally - she is The Great Design Lead podcast host (with over 83 episodes) and aggressively researches guests (so I have gone in researching this episode by the way), she is the founder of Podwork.io for podcasters to find guests and for potential guests to find podcasts to be on, and she is an UX designer and Webflower.

The 3 failures we talk about are:

1) Wanting to be a graphic designer and realizing that wasn't what I was most passionate about

2) Having my first big project go poorly at the copywriting and project transfer stage

3) Leaving a job that wasn't right for me without having another job lined up and being scared shitless for about 3 monthsb

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For episode 20, my guest is Hamish Duncan. At 16, he became a professional snowboarder but at 22 he broke his back forcing him to rethink his life. After finding a love of storytelling and brand identity design, Hamish eventually set up Penny Black that transforms digital products that move businesses, people and planet forward.

What I love about this episode is the power of being a generalist. Hamish’ attributes some of his success is to do with knowing a little bit about a lot of things but a real depth of knowledge about business needs. Hamish has let all these different interests - photography, wildlife, snowboarding - inspire his design aesthetic and the clients he attracts.

Don’t be a clone is Hamish’ advice - make sure you don’t squash your general interests because it is what makes you truly distinct!

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Welcome to Episode 19 of Webflail with Maggy Monceaux.

I’m your host, Jack Redley, a failure connoisseur and today, my guest is Maggy Monceaux. Maggy is the web designer and developer behind Easthood studio based in Toronto. She is also the co-founder at NoCode North, an inclusive community of Canadian Webflowers and NoCode enthusiasts on a mission to network, to support, and to learn with our peers.

However, Maggy wasn’t always a Webflower. Coming from a film background, she used to craft props in the film industry. Maggy says, ‘I transferred my love for building things to designing and developing websites.’

1) Failing to find the right niche or focus on the right type of work

2) Failing to say "no" more often and be more selective

3) Failing to figure out my process early on for my design + dev work

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Welcome to Episode 18 of Webflail with Yannick Lorenz (also known as Yaya).

3 years ago, he co-founded the a creative studio called Shadow. Believing it was the way to success and life he wanted, he hired stuff quickly, made up systems and processes as he went along for staff, and said yes to client requests to satisfy their demands. The combination of internal and external pressures almost forced Yaya to close Shadow but he managed to turn it around. 

Now, he works on Crème which launched this year which curates opportunities for the world's top Webflow talent.

The three failures Yaya talks about in this episode are:

1. Failing to spot that he was hiring and growing his agency too fast

2. Failing to prevent debts, loans and too much risk

3. Failing to put in place processes and systems

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Welcome to Episode 17 of Webflail with Jamie Windell.

He is the founder of Khula Design Studio (an official Webflow Partner) based in Canada, though he has a remote team. Jamie is a beast at the operations side of running an agency after experience as an account manager and then a traffic manager.

The three failures Jamie talks about in this episode are:

1) Fear of failure

2. Failing to keep track of your financials

3. Failing to ask for help

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Welcome to episode 16 of Webflail with Marcelo Russo.

Marcelo is the CEO and Creative Technologist of Fri3nds Agency. Marcelo is an Argentinian computer grad that cut his teeth working for different tech companies before starting his own agency. We'll dig in to this during this episode!

Fun fact - Marcelo is a salsa dancer and met his wife dancing salsa.

The three failures Marcelo talks about in this episode are:

1) Failing to create a unique company

2) Failing to trust his gut with clients and hires.

3) Failing to to prevent his past from defining his present worth

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Hello and welcome to episode 15 of Webflail, the podcast dedicated to uncovering the greatest failures behind the greatest Webflowers. Because success often comes after learning from many failures.

I’m your host, Jack Redley, a failure connoisseur and today, my guest is Matt Evans, Webflow Developer & UI Designer for 8020, a global no-code agency. Before this, Matt ran a subscribtion based coffee company and then blagged his way in to a project manager role in advertising. Fascinating story in to Webflow.

The three failures Matt talks about in this episode are:

1) Failing to appreciate that DONE is almost always better than PERFECT.

2) Failing to appoint "admin experts".

3) Failing to make time to speak with other professionals in the Webflow world.

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For Episode 14, my guest is Ben Celinski, a Webflow designer and developer based in Ireland.

A few years ago, Ben was working as a lawyer in Poland and had no IT experience whatsoever. His path to where he is now was paved with many challenges, inspirations and wonderful people helping him move to UX, Webflow and Ireland which we will talk about.

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