Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business.

And now, here are your hosts.

Welcome to this episode of The How Up Business.

This is Henry Lopez, and my guest today is Steve Sims.

Steve, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited, very excited to have Steve with us today.

Steve is an entrepreneur, a speaker, a consultant, a podcaster, and an author, his new book, which I just finished reading, great book. It's called Blue Fishing, The Art of Making

Things Happen. And we're going to chat about a lot of the great takeaways in that book.

I think as a small business owner, it's a must read. As far as Steve goes, a little bit more about

his background as he explains it, quote, I was a tenement kid, a bricklayer son born to build walls, and now I knock them down.

If I can do it, anyone can, you can, end quote.

I love that quote because I think it says it all in one sentence.

Steve is the founder of the internationally renowned company Bluefish, and he's best known for making

once-in-a-lifetime events happen for the rich and famous.

With his signature playbook and approach, Steve has been able to make his client's wildest dreams

come true, from a wedding at the Vatican to being serenated by Andrea Bichelli, to powerful business introductions to moguls like

Elon Musk's and many others.

Steve currently lives in the L.A. area, L.A. California, that is, with his family.

And so in this episode, Steve's going to share some stories and insights from his incredible

journey to where he is today. It's a tremendous

story of how he got to where he is and where he came from. Very inspirational. And then we're

going to dive into some insights from the book on making things happen. And a lot of these things,

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