Ep. 34- Let's discuss Donny Osmond’s 10-year period of failure, Failure Fatigue, and Fate Vs. Effort

In Episode 34 of Idea Diary - Today, I talk about more failure fatigue, and going from success, to rock bottom, back up to success.

I'm working on an idea on how to study "failure" with you guys. I came up with an idea of studying a moment when a successful person actually did go through a tough time to get to where they are today.

Okay, super random, but let's take a look at Donny Osmond.

Donny Osmond was on television and a teen idol sensation from 1963-1979. He was 5 years old when he started working, and 22 when his last television episode aired, the Donny & Marie show. That's a fantastic amount of time to live inside the good feeling of being successful.

However, from 1980-1989 he had absolutely NOTHING going on. That's 10 years of feeling like CRAP! He tried to get jobs so that he could get back to performing, but no one wanted him. He didn't receive any of the money he made during his youth, and he had to start all over. People even told him his name was "poison," and the only way he was going to successful again was to change his name, and just be a totally different person. He obviously didn't do that.

Eventually, he recorded an album in England (where a label thought they could make money off a new Donny Osmond album), and recorded a song named, "Solider of Love."

A Donny Osmond fan happened to send the cassette single British import of "Soldier of Love" to a New York City radio station. The program director at the time liked the song. She wanted to play it on the station but was afraid to say it was a "Donny Osmond Song."

The radio station program director created a new way to promote a song at the radio station. She played the song as a new song by a "mystery artist." At the end of several weeks, the song was the most requested song at the station, and she brought Donny into the studio to reveal who the singer was.

Donny got signed by Capital Records and he was back working again.

So, what do you guys think.... Was it fate for Donny to live with 10 years of “no,” or should he have worked harder?????

Check out this Donny Interview on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d8m_eT2Q94

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Thank you so much for listening today!

"Idea Diary" is a business lifestyle podcast about creative entrepreneurship. "Idea Diary" focuses on building creative businesses, and chronicles how Valerie Aiello uses multiple skills to create products, illustrations, film, music, and businesses.

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Valerie Aiello is a multi-hyphenate brand expert from Austin, Texas.

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