Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 126. I'm creator and host,

Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered

her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today,

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Samantha, hello Samantha. Hi, Don. Samantha,

are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Absolutely.

Well, it sounds like you are and we want to hear everything.

Samantha Riley, or Sam, as she's called by her friends, is the author of the new book,

The Heart of Entrepreneurship and the Creator of the Accelerant Group, where she helps business owners amplify

their message so they can make a bigger impact and charge higher fees. Samantha made her first

million dollars by her mid-20s as a high school dropout selling danceware through her retail

stores. Over the past 20 years, she built several highly successful businesses and worked

with over 100 experts, coaches, consultants, helping them create businesses that allow them to live

the life they envisioned when they first quit their day job. Samantha or Sam, that's a pithy

summary of your career to date, but tell us what, tell our listeners around the world what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited.

I'm so excited at the moment because I'm in the stage of launching two brand new programs.

So one of them is called Shine,

and it's a personal and business transformation retreat,

which I'm holding

in a beautiful, beautiful country of Bali in November, helping entrepreneurs get very clear

on their legacy and on their purpose so that they can align their business with their values

and help them to draw out their authentic message so that they can increase their influence

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