Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business.

The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way.

This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues,

challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of

the how of business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of the how of business.

This is Henry Lopez with you here today.

And my special guest, Stephen, Christopher.

Stephen, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks so much for having me on, Henry.

I really appreciate it.

We're glad you're here.

Let me give our audience a bit of background on you, and then I'll have you add to it.

Stephen is the founder of Sequis Marketing Technologies Technologies. Sequist is a web marketing firm

designed to help business owners achieve results they never thought possible online. Before starting

Sequis, Stephen started and ran several other award-winning businesses. We'll chat about that.

One of which was a mortgage company,

which he operated from 2004 until 2008. We all know what happened in 2008. So with that crash of

the mortgage industry in 2008, he learned what it's like to go from profitable to over

$100,000 in debt overnight.

And so we'll definitely dive into that challenge.

From failure, though, he learned more about business than any school or program he could ever teach.

Since then, he has become an avid student of personal and business development,

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