Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

In your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 41 of the podcast. My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together this week helps you lead like never before.

Hey, I'm so excited to introduce you to our guest this week.

His name is Daniel Decker and Daniel's one of those

interesting guys who's often behind the scenes of some very influential people in

fact some names you've got to know so for example he helped launch Michael Hyatt's platform to the New York Times Best Seller list.

He's worked with all kinds of interesting leaders.

Mark Sandborn, he's worked with Crystal Payne, also known as Money Saving Mom, worked with John Gordon and even people like Seth Godin.

And Daniel has kind of become an expert in platform building. That's really what he does is he gets behind all kinds of people

and he just helps them build their platforms. And we live in a really interesting age where

all of a sudden anybody can have a platform. I mean if you've got a social media account you can you can have a platform I mean if you've got a social media

account you can you can have a platform you can see if people follow you if they

listen to you.

Literally it's not an exaggeration millions of people have blogs I, podcasting is exploding right now. I set up this

podcast just under a year ago for like less than a thousand dollars in just year.

And you can do it on a fraction of that. I mean you could you could be

podcasting tomorrow for a hundred bucks. So I mean getting a platform isn't that

hard and chances are a lot of you who are listening you already have a bit of a

personal platform and a lot of you have already have a bit of a personal platform and a lot of you have like

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