In the first episode of Failure Stories, Mika talks about his favorite failure story -- an F on a calculus midterm -- and picks the brain of Joy Pehlke, a wellness coach at the University of Michigan and another person who has learned from her failures. They compare notes on their academic and athletic failures and realize that sometimes it's hard to know what exactly the failure is. They also talk about the need to be more open and transparent -- especially with students -- about failures.