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The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

459: Unexpected Twists On My Book Publishing Journey – A Behind The Scenes Look | Family First Friday

The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

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Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 β€’ 1.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a new segment of the show called Family First Fridays. Most of you know that for the past 3 years, I’ve been working on a book called The Family First Entrepreneur which is being published by Harper Collins. I’ve been getting a ton of questions about the process of writing a book so in this episode, I’m going to give you a behind the scenes look into everything that I did to get this book published by a traditional publisher and receive a 6 figure advance. What You’ll Learn My reasons for writing a book Self publishing […]

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0:00.0

You're listening to the MyWipeKitter.job podcast, where I teach you how to start a business

0:03.6

or side hustle from the perspective of a father with two kids.

0:07.3

Now, welcome to a new segment of the show, which I'm calling Family First Fridays in

0:11.5

honor of my book, The Family First Entrepreneur.

0:14.1

Now, today's a very special episode, because my book officially comes out next Tuesday,

0:19.6

which is the culmination of three years of work.

0:22.9

And I know that when Tuesday rolls around, it will feel somewhat anti-climatic, but I

0:28.1

did want to record a candid episode to describe all the work that I put in and the thought

0:33.4

process behind everything.

0:35.4

Now, let's start with the why.

0:37.8

Why did I want to write a book in the first place?

0:40.4

Now, contrary to popular belief, writing a book wasn't really going to make me any sort

0:45.8

of life-changing money or any money at all, actually.

0:49.2

It probably won't even have that much effect on my business.

0:51.7

I'm just guessing this.

0:53.1

And if there is a payoff, I knew that I wasn't going to see anything for at least three

0:56.6

years.

0:57.6

So writing a book obviously had zero to do with the money.

1:02.3

Now even though I did get a six-figure advance for writing it, all the money, literally

1:07.3

every penny of it, went back into marketing the book.

1:11.2

Now I had four main reasons for writing it.

1:14.5

So one, for some reason, and I can't even remember how this came about, I've always had writing

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