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Hello, hello and welcome to this week's episode. Now, Amy Porterfield hardly needs an introduction.

She was one of the first online entrepreneurs I followed when I started out and has been in this

industry for over 14 years. She's the host of the brilliant podcast online marketing made

easy and really excited to chat with her today. Okay, so Amy, thank you for being here with me today and for having a chat about your new book. Well, thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this. Yeah, it's going to be fun. I've got so many questions to ask you because you were one of the first people that when I came online five years ago, five and a half years ago, you were on the first

people I followed. Do you know, all of your, it wasn't really the podcast then. You were doing

lives and things like that then that I was following. And that's what got me started. And obviously,

from then to now, it's been six years and we've, as a company, made 12 million in those times. Oh my gosh. Congrats. Thank you. But we wouldn't have done that unless we came across people like you who showed what's possible. And I think it's so important that we show what's possible. So I'm excited for this book that you have out because that shows even more people what's possible. Now, my book comes out, I think, two weeks before your book.

So we've been doing the same thing. Thank you. And I mean, I found the process difficult.

So tell us, first of all, why you decided to write the book now, because you've been in business

a while. Why was this the right time? You know, I've been thinking about

writing a book for years and years and years, but I just didn't feel ready. And then about a year

and a half, two years ago, I decided this is the book that I wish I had. Like I started working with

my students in new ways and thought, this is the stuff I would

want to tell someone who's just starting out, just getting going as an entrepreneur, all the

mistakes I made, all the different strategies that I tried that worked or that didn't work. And also

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