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Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the last. Today I'm really excited to have James Altature on the show. James the self-empowerment blogger and author of 16 books including the Amazon Bessower, Choose Yourself.

He's also host of the James Altature Show. The New York Times called him, quote, perhaps the world's least likely success guru.

Thanks so much for channeling me today, James.

Which, by the way, the writer wrote to me on that and he said, I didn't want to use the word guru,

I know you didn't want to get that word

guru uses somebody in the marketing department or whatever.

That's right, because later in that article you do say like I don't want to be viewed as a guru.

But it's almost like that's what people have viewed you as whether or not you wanted to be viewed as that as such. Why how do you think that happened?

I don't know because all I talk about is messing up. I know and then I talk about what I did to get out of the hole.

So let's say I was broke, bankrupt, and divorced, which has happened more than once.

And then I write about how I get out of this and kind of succeed again, let's say,

build another business starting from scratch or whatever,

people then can say, well, maybe I can do that too.

And maybe they can, maybe they can. I kind of give the very exact specific details of what I do over and over again in all these articles and books and so on.

And I always say advice is autobiography.

So I never give advice and I specifically say that,

but I just say my autobiography

and people could do with it what they want.

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