How to Turn a ‘Screw Up’ Into a ‘Step Up’

What’s more powerful than success? Admitting failure.

Michelle Loucadoux
Forge
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5 min readOct 7, 2021

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There’s some news I need to share. Ugh, I’d rather clean the crusty dried milk out of my toddler’s car seat than do this, but I’m going to make myself tell you.

Okay, okay, I’m beating around the bush. I’m, as my grandma would say, lollygagging. Fine, here it is. I… I…

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Michelle Loucadoux
Forge
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Author, educator, and self-improvement nerd. Co-founder of Danscend. My books: shorturl.at/lrtOV My email: Loucadouxmichelle@gmail.com