January 2025
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272 pages
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English
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CHAPTER 6Left, Right, and Center: Pivots, Resilience, and Connect the Dots via Storytelling
When Pinky got fired from her television job in 2018, it hurt.1 She'd worked there for two years. She'd never been fired before, and her ego was bruised. While initially painful, Pinky says that it “was the best thing that could have happened to me, because it made me go all in on my business.”2 This wasn't the first time she tapped into her resilience. Riffing off the title of her 2023 book, I Hope You Fail,3 Pinky explains about her journey that “If you know anything about me, you know I've experienced a lot of ‘failures’ in my life. “I've gotten a business that I lost. My car got repoed. I got kicked out of my apartment. My father served 22 years in prison. So by society's standards, I'm supposed to be a statistic.” She continued playfully, “I've been an expert in the field of failure, I went to the Harvard's of failure. […] Failing is not failing at all. It's about finding the aspirations and the losses and about rising above it. […] Everything in life is modifiable.”4 So what is the business Pinky went all in on? A vegan restaurant empire. On the same day Pinky got fired from her day job, Snoop Dogg ate at her restaurant5 which had been her side hustle. The restaurant5 serves vegan burgers, fries, and hotdogs, among other fare.6 Talk about a roller coaster of a day for Pinky!
Pinky Cole is the founder and CEO of Slutty Vegan. Yes, you read that correctly. A pretty spicy name for ...
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