The Rest Is Failure is a history and leadership podcast about what comes after the triumphs—the mistakes, misjudgments, and decisions that didn’t work.

While history often celebrates winners and turning points, this podcast focuses on leadership failures, bad decisions, and unintended consequences that are usually summarized, softened, or ignored. Each episode examines real historical moments where leaders failed to adapt, misread reality, or doubled down on the wrong choice—and how those failures shaped what followed.

From political and military disasters to organizational collapse and cultural breakdown, the show explores how leaders fail, why smart people make bad decisions, and how power distorts judgment over time. These are not morality tales or hindsight lectures, but story-driven examinations of failure as it actually unfolded.

This isn’t a podcast about success stories or heroic leadership. It’s about what went wrong, why it went wrong, and why failure is often the most influential part of history.

If you’re interested in leadership history, historical failures, decision-making, power dynamics, and the hidden side of how the world was shaped, this podcast is for you.

The Rest Is Failure Because history remembers the victories. But it’s built on the failures.