Welcome to the CLS experience. I'm your host, Craig Siegel. I'm a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of The Reinvention Formula.

I'm a global, transformational speaker, facilitator, coach, mentor, advisor, investor, eight-time marathoner, and a soul having a human experience.

But most importantly, if you're listening to this podcast, you should know that my mission

is to hit you with a nugget or a download that changes the way you think and charts you

on the course for a huge breakthrough in your life, both professionally and personally.

You'll hear from some of the most dynamic and accomplished guests on the planet and some cute

little solo mini episodes as well.

I will challenge the guests for your benefit.

Let's go deep.

I'm trying to empower you to say, okay, one of the rules of self-reliance is you have to learn how to build your own relationships and have your own network.

So that I don't say, hey, Craig, you know all those relationships and friends you kind of built up? Can I borrow those?

I want to know how to do that. I want to know how to have a network. I want to have my own network. I want to be able to call on my network when I need something.

And so that's a very powerful thing is if I have those cards in my hand, relationships, skills, experience networks,

I feel like that's very valuable and I want to rely on myself to know how to do that.

Building your personal brand is another way you can rely on yourself because no one's

going to promote you like you can promote yourself. Nobody knows your skills and will advocate for you

the way that you can. Another rule is to really bring value to other people. So I, you know,

I really wanted to get to know you a little bit before we started this call because I'm like,

oh, I want to see where I can bring value to Craig.

Like, what does he care about?

What's he interested in?

Where can I be of value in your life now, six weeks from now, six months from now, six years from now?

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