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which is just my way of saying thank you for listening to this podcast. And now let's get into today's

episode. You're listening to Podcasting Made Simple. Hey, welcome back everybody, Alex San Felipeo,

your host, and I'm joined by my good friend today, Jay Cron.

Jay Cron, welcome to podcasting Made Simple.

Oh, thanks, man. I'm excited to be here.

Man, I'm thrilled that we're finally doing this. You've spoken to my mastermind multiple times.

You and I've had many conversations over the last couple years. I was trying to remember,

though, man, how did we originally connect? Do you remember this or no?

That's actually a really good question. And I don't know that I do. Did you connect me with Seth or did

Seth connect me with you? I connected you with Seth and a few other people like almost immediately.

But I remember where I was. I just don't remember, but somehow I get a

text from you. You're like, hey. We're going to figure this out. I'm literally going to mine my email or text

to answer this question because if I don't, it will take over my entire day. Well, hopefully it doesn't

end up doing that. But I just remember I got a text from you and you called yourself J. Kron. I was already like, okay, I don't know who Jay Kron is, but anyone who shortens their name like that has got to be pretty cool. It just so

happened when you text me. I was sitting out in my car at the bank, which I have to go to the bank

like twice. I shouldn't even say that. Once a would text me. You're like, someone, so-and-so connected us or something and you got time for a call.

And I was like, yeah, right now, do you? And you're like, yep. And so we got on a call and, man,

I immediately knew that you were the type of guy I respect that. Thank you. And so I immediately

tell him like, this guy's humble. He's teachable. He's just like a real authentic dude. And so I like

that, man. And here's five-year period of time,

the company, I wrote this number down because I don't have it memorized, but the company grew while

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