So Money, episode 23, Melinda Emerson.

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Welcome to So Money.

Good day to all of you. Welcome back. This is so money. I'm your host

Farnoosh Tarabi. You are gonna love love today's guest. Melinda

Emerson, she is America's number one small business expert.

She has been a thriving entrepreneur for nearly 15 years and is an internationally known keynote speaker.

She's also the author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 months.

Melinda's online small business advice is widely read, reaching more than 3 million entrepreneurs

every single week. Belinda is also the publisher of her resource blog. It's called

Succeed as your Own Boss.com.

It is syndicated by the Huffington Post,

and Melinda is a regular contributor to essence magazine

and the lead instructor for the Black Enterprise Small Business University.

A few takeaways from this interview, there were many, but if I had to choose three to kind of tease you into this podcast.

One, what you have to do to become a brand in demand, and it's different than what it was just a couple of years ago.

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