Bad Margins & Depression: My iHeart Lagos Story (Oluwalanu Agusto)

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She invested her $5,000 life savings into a Lagos souvenir business. The margins were terrible, the business failed, and the depression that followed lasted three months. In this episode of Growth Through Failure, Oluwalanu Agusto shares the unfiltered story of iHeart Lagos, and how that painful failure became the foundation for her success. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:36 The Failure Story 05:53 The Emotional Toll 10:05 Strategies to Overcome 11:09 Who Helped Her 14:22 How Support Contributed to Growth 15:15 Three Key Takeaways 18:02 Rapid Fire Questions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT GROWTH THROUGH FAILURE: Conversations with leaders who turned setbacks into comebacks. Real stories of resilience, reinvention, and growth. New episodes every other Wednesday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3WYkMTO 📧 Newsletter: https://www.tosinataiwo.com/#subscribe 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tosinataiwo/ 🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/tosinataiwo

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