I got Steve Jobbed from my own incorporation. My own lawyer called me to say you have to hand in your computer, your blackberry, etc.

And I thought I have $150,000 in debt because I co-sign this loan. I had no income. I had no

savings. I had personal debt on my credit cards and all I had was my BlackBerry which legally I

apparently wasn't even entitled to. So I thought I know what I can do. I can help women

specifically entrepreneurs specifically can help women specifically

entrepreneurs specifically help start their businesses online and I

called a friend and said I'm gonna do this I think we're just gonna call

in fire starter sessions and I hung out my shingle and then I had 60 people on my mailing list and that was enough light for one client and you know what I had after one client I had a testimonial and then on it went.

Hey friends, I want to welcome you back to the Light Watkins show if this is your first time here.

I interview ordinary people just like you and me who have taken extraordinary leaps of faith

often in the direction of their path, their purpose, or their mission, and in doing so they have been able to positively impact the lives of many others who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or who have directly benefited from their work. So today I'm in

conversation with one of the wisest humans that I've ever met. Her name is

Danielle Laport. She is a true luminary who has lived a lot of life and we talk about a lot of that in our interview. She was a teenage runaway who skipped college, but she ended up working at a

think tank in Washington, D.C. with some very smart people. And that was just one of a series of jobs that she had

including bartending working in a restaurant

she worked at the body shop for a while

she eventually started her own PR company

after working as a publicist

for a lot of personal development people.

And then she had a startup, which she was eventually

fired from her own startup. and that led her to fly around the country helping

other female entrepreneurs start their businesses and then that experience dovetailed into her first book which was called the Fire

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