Imagine building a very healthy seven-figure business.

I'm talking more like eight figures of total sales over a handful of years and then losing it all.

And on top of that, the job that you had and maintained, the passion that you had in a full-time career, you lose that

within very short order as well. That's a big life reset, isn't it? Well, that's exactly what

happened to today's guest. We're going to bring him on the line here in just a moment. It's the

story of over the course of 20 years, which is a long time to be an internet

based business building warrior. Over 20 years, this guy built an incredible team, an incredible

business, and it was built on some fairly unstable ground, as we'll soon learn, and it was

Amazon-based, as we'll soon learn as well, but he lost it.

So he went from great income to no income to a conversation that he and I had a year ago,

and then we'll bring you all the way up to today and tell you the end of this story,

not to give away too much, but there's a cool ending to this story that I think you're really going to enjoy with

a lot of great lessons along the way and even a song that's been written just for this community

that you can find details of in the show notes. The only link you'll ever need,

silentjim.com. That's Jim with a J. That's me. Silentgim.com. You'll see the link to the

song that Fred wrote for us. That's today's guest, as well as all the other really cool

resources that are mentioned in this episode. So enjoy the journey today with Fred and I going

through some of the invaluable lessons that apply to any of our businesses and some real encouragement for you as you continue your business building journey. Let's get Fred on the line.

So Fred, welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, my friend. How are you?

Hey, man. Thank you. Happy New Year to you. I guess we're recording this early in January, 2020.

That's right. Yeah, New Year kicking off. I think you're my first interview of the year, actually,

now that you mention it. So that's pretty cool for me. Yeah, started out right. I'm doing great. Thank you. Thank you so much

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