Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 215. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Once a week, I interview a well-known expert in the fields of personal development, education, career, life planning, and other specialties who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners.

And I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert today, Bill Seagraves. Welcome, Bill.

Well, thank you, Don. I'm happy to be on the show. I look forward to our discussion today.

Thank you very much. William R. Seagraves, Bill, president and founder of Catchfire

Funding of Parker, Colorado, is the author of the Penguin Random House book, Be Your Best Boss,

Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur, released in February, early February.

Himself a serial entrepreneur, Bill has been dubbed the mid-career entrepreneur expert,

and has helped more than 1,500 aspiring small business owners in mid-career on the best route

to successful entrepreneurship.

Bill's new book shares information about wealth building with funding and financing strategies

and the best practices for building a

business.

Well, Bill, today's topic is really the, is based completely on your book.

And the headline of our topic today is really that, how to reinvent yourself from

employee to entrepreneurs.

So take the stage for just a minute and set the table for listeners

about how you approach this and how you help people figure these things out.

Sure. Well, my story in a condensed forum goes back about 20 years. I was a corporate refugee

and I took the opportunity to redirect the path of my career by stepping

away from that engineering project management job and went into business for myself.

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