Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love.

Number 554.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world

who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction,

and freedom. On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business

development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners

along their journeys. I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Shelly Howard. Welcome,

Shelly. Thank you very much. We're delighted to have you on the show. A few words about

Shelly. Shelly is the owner and president of College Ready. She's a college grad and is a certified educational planner.

She also has a son who recently graduated from Harvard in the spring of 2016, debt-free.

She knows what it takes to compete in the Ivy League schools as well as finding the best fit for a B student

and believes that each student has a gift or talent and a passion that

will set him or her apart from their competition. So, Shelly, today's topic happens to be the

title of your best-selling book, How to Send Your Student to College without losing your mind

or your money, which came out in April of 2017 and it's the bestseller list very fast.

So set the stage for us and talk about this topic that's in your sweet spot of expertise.

Absolutely.

So the book actually came to fruition about five years after I started it.

And the story goes that when I dropped my son off at Harvard,

he said to me, he wasn't sad. He didn't cry. He just looks at me and he goes, mom, we did it.

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