Cover of the book Faceplant: FREE Yourself From Failure's Funk, by Melisa Buie, Keeley Hurley and Noël Kreidler

By Melisa Buie, PhD

The Faceplant Files

A fun, no-BS monthly newsletter about the messy, beautiful journey of life, leadership and growth.

Portrait of Melisa Buie, PhD, author of The Faceplant Files

Who it's for

Is this you?

  1. You have hit a failure and cannot shake the funk.

    You want to stop letting the fear of failure decide what you try next.

  2. You lead people and see failure treated as fault.

    You want your team to treat it as data, learn from it, and get better.

  1. You are tired of the “fail fast” slogans.

    You want a practical process for learning from what actually went wrong.

  2. You want to try new things without the dread.

    The best solutions come from people who feel safe enough to experiment, fail, and try again.

Faceplant: FREE Yourself From Failure's Funk book cover

About the newsletter

Background

The Faceplant Files grows out of the book Faceplant: FREE Yourself From Failure’s Funk, a framework for building resilience by reframing setbacks as learning opportunities, written by people who have had plenty of setbacks of their own.

The book’s FREE model gives you four steps to turn failure into real learning.

  • Focus
  • Reflect
  • Explore
  • Engage

Written by Melisa Buie, Keeley Hurley, and Noël Kreidler.
Two-Time Book Award Finalist.

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