Comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard performs his laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn’t easily fit into or couldn’t catch a break, teaching us how to get over our fear of failure and start living life about our own terms. This audiobook release of Lose Well concludes with exclusive bonus conversations with Chris Gethard and special guests who are referenced through the entire audiobook: Gregg Gethard, Mike Dolan, Todd Tondera, Danny Tobia, Mark about Lose Well Moran, Frank Piegaro, and Jeremy Redleaf.

Let’s encounter it: we all want a seat at the great table, a great job, and plenty of money. But most of us won’t be able to accomplish that widely accepted, black-or-white, description of winning, making us feel like failures, that we’re destined to a existence of loserdom. That’s the standard wisdom. It is also crap, regarding to comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard, who knows a thing of two about shedding. Failing can be an talent, he argues; in fact, it’s the just just how we’re ever likely to discover who we are, what we should want, and how to live the type of existence we only dreamed about.

Setting fire to vision boards and tossing out the ‘seven basic actions’ to achieving anything, the host of the eponymous Trutv talk show as well as the wildly popular podcast Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People illustrates his personal and professional manifesto with hilarious and ultimately empowering stories about his own set-backs, missteps, and general public failures, through the cancellation of his Comedy Central sitcom after seven episodes to rediscovering his comedic tone of voice and life’s purpose on the public access route.

With his trademark wit and inspiring storytelling-a cross between David Sedaris and Jenny Lawson-Gethard teaches us how exactly to power through our very own hero’s journey, whether we’re a 15-year-old starting a punk band or a 50-year-old mother of three starting an Etsy page. In the process, he shows us how exactly to fail with elegance, laugh along the way down, so that as we dust ourselves off, how to transform unavoidable failures into unlimited opportunities. It could get a little messy, but that’s exactly the point. Because the first rung on the ladder in living on your own terms is definitely learning how exactly to shed well, and more often than not, the revolutionary act of failing allows us to witness firsthand what awaits us on the other hand.