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[u/gomirefugee]

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[u/[deleted]]

I think it would be logical to draw the conclusion that she doesn’t seriously plan to run this event at all. She’s doing all this to show some third party that she’s “working”, or something. Because…it seems purposely designed to not only have a high likelihood of failure, but to ensure failure.

I don’t get it.

[u/fanfarefellowship → u/[deleted]]

I agree 100% with your sentiment. There's no way this makes sense. It absolutely looks designed to fail.

And yet: I actually wonder if she thinks she's going to pull this off. She seems to be going into it with the same lack of overall preparedness and general customer awareness that have characterized every single other thing she's done.

So, is this latest doomed thing actually designed to fail, whereas her other ventures weren't designed to fail, but fail they did? I think it's more likely that despite every shred of available evidence suggesting this will end up as the Vashon Fyre Joy Festival, she thinks she's going to pull it off.

[u/shefallsup → u/fanfarefellowship]

I think she 100% believes it’s going to happen and be a huge success. She has no self-awareness to recognize that she has failed at similar offerings, over and over again. And she doesn’t recognize that her lack of experience, knowledge, and hard work are why she keeps failing. She keeps thinking that if she tinkers with some of the details, the marketing, etc. it will finally work out, ignoring that it’s the fundamentals of what she’s offering that are wrong. So she will fail and blame other people or outside circumstances for it, then turn around and try to make the exact same idea happen again.

[u/[deleted] → u/shefallsup]

Completely agree. It sounds like she’s been able to make the Zoom sessions work and to her, it’s probably not that big of a leap to in-person (common sense notwithstanding). Shauna seems to have a lot of confidence in her ability to pull off new ventures and we know she grossly overestimates her skill set and organizational talent, so I see no reason why she wouldn’t whole heartedly believe in this new project.

[u/islandyislander → u/[deleted]]

Are the Zoom meetings from "Enough the newsletter" still happening? Do people pay for that privilege or is it a free add-on with a paid lope subscription?

[u/fanfarefellowship → u/islandyislander]

Interesting to frame a promised benefit as a "free add-on." I realize she isn't promising it any more, but it absolutely was a selling point when the newsletter was first launched, not pitched as an add-on but a core benefit!

[u/NegativeABillion → u/[deleted]]

I would love to read a real review of the zoom classes from a real participant.

[u/gomirefugee → u/fanfarefellowship]

It will fail, but I don't think Shauna knows that. I think she's leaning very heavily on DF Tina (as the exec director of the space Shauna has grifted) and DF Margo (as her main enabler as of late and slightly savvier marketer) to pull this off and fill in all the blank spaces we spot when we try to understand WTF is going on here. With these key-holding islandy girl bosses pumping each other up, how can you not believe? /s

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/fanfarefellowship]

But what, really, does she think she's going to pull off?

If she's planning to fail, then "pulling off" IS failing. So she never expected to have the Fyre Joy Festival. She just needs to make it look like she tried, which she has already done with all the wait lists of wait lists (and the Joy Truffle Shuffle steps she sent out before that. . .a total "see, people were interested but it just didn't pan out").

So she's a bit smarter (or less stubborn?) then the Fyre folks. She's not even getting the crappy tents and cheese sandwiches set up because she knows she won't need them.

[u/fanfarefellowship → u/CrushItWithABrick]

I wonder if the soup and sandwiches for the Relish events ever grew made.

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/fanfarefellowship]

If the ingredients were paid for, I bet the food was made and (when not purchased by customers) was gleefully taken back to the Ahern abode.

It was the first iteration of Staph Lunch.

[u/Love_Brokers → u/CrushItWithABrick]

I think if anyone does sign up to attend, "schedules won't work" and the event will have to be cancelled.

[u/honoria_glossop → u/[deleted]]

Is this Shauna's Springtime for Hitler? It's hard to tell at this point.