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Happy Thursday morning, everybody, welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast where we help you grow a

better, more profitable location independent business to help me in the process. I've got the

boss man. My co-hostess with the

mostest. Welcome back to the podcast, sir. Thank you for the end show. We are back from DCBKK.

You know what the most disappointing part of it is? I didn't see a single elephant. Just a total

bummer. Damn shame. Must be going in the wrong places.

DCBKK is an annual event.

This was our 12th anniversary edition.

There are tremendous amount of inspiring entrepreneurs in the room, and we're going to do a bit of an event recap and share with you some of our top lessons learned.

So let's dig into it.

First, some overview, Ian. This year's event featured over 330

entrepreneurs, listeners just like you, 100 plus seven-figure entrepreneurs, 55 DC Black members,

11 volunteers, 10 team members, both full-time and and part time, 14 session hosts on everything from

AI to operations to hiring to exits and all manner of business topics.

Already 130 members, this isn't an updated number, but 130 members have their tickets for

next year already, which is amazing.

And also just all kinds of really cool meetups.

Like there was 54 unofficial meetups.

So forget about all the official meetups.

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