
Robbed, Broke, & Sober: How to Recover from Everything - Robert Gaines
What do you do when your life's work—a recording studio—is robbed clean, just days after you ended your military career to pursue it full-time?
Robert Gaines, author of *Scintilla* and an expert in unconventional business ideas, shares his harrowing "trifecta of disasters." He lost his studio to thieves in the 90s, opened a restaurant right before 9/11, and launched an art gallery just as the 2008 housing crisis hit.
This episode dives into the FailCraft theme of extreme resilience. Robert explains how he went from "Hero to Zero" in 120 days, why he eventually quit drinking to survive, and…
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