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Fearlessly Female Uncensored
A comedic podcast featuring two friends sharing unfiltered stories and hilarious takes on life as modern women.
Fearlessly Female Uncensored
Business Horror Stories: The Hidden Chaos Behind Success
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Ever wondered what nightmare scenarios lurk behind those perfectly curated business Instagram posts? Grab your favorite drink & prepare for a wild ride through the chaotic, messy & downright hilarious reality of entrepreneurship.
Brittany and Meghan pull back the curtain on the parts of business ownership that nobody warns you about. We shared our most outrageous stories from eccentric customer requests to unexpected wildlife encounters.
These stories highlight the bizarre situations entrepreneurs face that no business school prepares you for.
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Welcome back to another episode of Fearlessly Female, where two blondes make a right. We are Brittany and Meghan, the hosts of Fearlessly Female. This podcast was born out of ambition, drive and a lot of wine. We're two powerhouse comedic women having uncensored conversations about topics that affect women.
Meghan:This episode is a tribute to all the brave entrepreneurs out there who have faced everything from difficult clients to wild animals.
Brittany:Especially wild animals. Owning a business sounds so glamorous, right? If you think owning a business is all Instagram posts, think again. Nobody shares a dark side of reality.
Brittany:But don't worry, we won't sugarcoat it.
Meghan:Join us for the ride as we dive headfirst into the crazy side of owning a business that nobody tells you about. Business Horror, horror stories where Halloween is year-round. Warning calm your tits. Offense will not be taken here. Grab your favorite drink, burn your bra and have a good time.
Brittany:Speaking of unexpected twists, Meghan, I'm sure you have quite the fair share of strange Airbnb experiences too.
Meghan:Let me tell you, I have enough to write a book about all my Airbnb adventures.
Brittany:I feel like my Airbnb Adventure, or Tales of an Airbnb Host, would be a great name for this book. Okay, I'm dying to know some of these stories.
Meghan:Well, I do have a working title. It's called Happy Host Horrors. But let's start with beans. Brittany, how many cans of beans do you need for a three-day weekend?
Brittany:I feel like this is a trick question, maybe one.
Meghan:Let's go to pounds, Try 24 pounds. So I walk into my house and it just smells of beans and I'm like what is going on? Kitchen is clean. Look through the whole house. In the back bedroom you can smell the beans. When I first got my Airbnb, I was pretty cheap and so I would just take the trash back to my house versus paying for trash service at that house, and so I went in the back patio and there is a box of cans. There's 12 cans. There are two pounds each, and so there was 24 pounds of beans that they had cooked up.
Brittany:I feel like you're like Oprah you get a can of beans. You get a can of beans, maybe a pound of beans. Everybody gets a pound of beans.
Brittany:I mean, they sound like their weekend was a gas
Meghan:Oh my gosh it's one of my favorite stories now but like they had whatever they cooked which smelled amazing by the way they had put into kitchen garbage bags, and so I'm like toting these leftovers like and when I say leftovers like two things of kitchen garbage bags. However, 24 pounds of beans they didn't eat in my car and I can let you know that I do have trash service for the house now.
Brittany:You have a picture of all these beans.
Meghan:Yes, yeah it will absolutely be on our social media. But being cheap isn't always the right way to go, and I learned that lesson.
Brittany:Oh my gosh, wow. If this was only a sneak peek of what's in store, I can't wait for this book to come out.
Meghan:I have this thing where I text my family and friends this week on Airbnb-ing and I get a variety of responses back, from groans to scared emojis. It seems like every week I'm getting a new chapter. There are good stories too.
Brittany:Oh my gosh, we will have to make sure to announce your book on our socials when it comes out. I hope it's a picture book or at least has like some sort of illustrations.
Meghan:Yeah, I plan on having it be a fun short story book with lots of fun diagrams, tally marks for the number of toenails I've found you get the idea.
Brittany:Okay, maybe we're not going to post this book.
Meghan:Okay, Brittany, I know you have some stories that'll match my chaos.
Brittany:All right, so I'm going about my day, everything's going smoothly, and then my phone rings and it's one of my clients who I never hear from and when I pick up she sounds super frantic, like borderline panic attack status. So I'm trying to calm her down, to understand what actually happened.
Meghan:I mean, I'm already nervous for you.
Brittany:I know right, so I'm thinking you know, maybe something broke, like did her pool turn green? She mentioned that she was hosting her daughter's graduation party, so I get why she was panicking. Anyways, she finally blurted out a raccoon, like okay, she's like a raccoon took a giant shit in my pool.
Meghan:Um what? Also, I love raccoons, so the first listener to get me a raccoon wins a sticker.
Brittany:I mean like thank god we're not like in person or like on a video call, because I mean how do you even respond to that without laughing like I had to put myself on mute. But apparently she watched the whole thing from her like ring camera and me, super, being super green through the business at the time, had to call the supply shop and you know it's a bunch of dudes and I'm like hello, um, a raccoon took a shit, you know, and one of my clients pulls, like how do you handle a situation like that?
Meghan:Did you sign up for, like wildlife rescue and pest control or pool cleaning? Because if it's the former, I want dibs on all the animals you find.
Brittany:Basically I'm the Steve Irwin of pool cleaning now, but thank God cleaning it up wasn't as terrible as it sounded but definitely gave my pool tech extra on his paycheck that week.
Meghan:I sure hope you did. This is like next level customer service. You'd think pool cleaning is pretty straightforward, but then life throws a raccoon at you literally.
Brittany:Yeah, and now I have wildlife removal. It's unofficially part of my job description. Just one more thing you don't read in the business manual. Just one more thing you don't read in the business manual.
Meghan:So true that running a business is just one big adventure, with a lot of unexpected twists.
Brittany:Oh, to say the least, what's your biggest lesson with the Airbnb?
Brittany:Besides paying for the garbage
Meghan:yeah, don't be cheap, you have to have thick skin. Look, this Airbnb is like my kid it's a huge accomplishment. Every spare cent goes into improving it, so I'm incredibly proud of it. With that comes a lot of defensiveness, so you either need to take the feedback and fix it or say well, other people are buying me a house and leave it. The second lesson I would say is organization. I closed on the house on February 28th and my first booking was March 10th. That took an extreme amount of organization, but also just the general inventory of the house and the efficiency of turning it over. It takes planning and organization. How about you, brittany? Lessons learned.
Brittany:I should totally agree Along those lines. Dealing with people is just like a true art form. You know, some people just love to bitch about anything and everything, no matter what you do, and not taking it personally is probably one of the hardest parts of it, especially if you're already like having a bad day and having a shitty day man.
Meghan:I couldn't agree more.
Meghan:People love to complain. It makes them feel like they have power.
Brittany:Yeah, especially if they're not the ones wearing the pants at home, if you know what I mean. Also, I would say probably like outsource, like what you can and what you don't like, because otherwise you're just going to be extremely overwhelmed and you can't do it all. It's just too much.
Meghan:I agree with that. Well, between raccoons, people with unrealistic expectations and beans, beans, beans, we've got quite the roster of horror stories.
Brittany:And you know what? We're probably not the only ones. Running a business is messy, hilarious and occasionally terrifying, but hey, we live to tell the tale.
Meghan:So true To all the business owners out there we see you, we respect you and we're here for your crazy stories. If you've got a business horror story to share, we'd love to hear it. Message us at Fearlessly female_u ncensored and, who knows, we might feature it in our next episode.
Brittany:Thanks for joining us for this little walk down business horror lane. So until next time, keep hustling, keep laughing and don't let anyone fuck up your Friday.
