Your customers are telling you what they want.

People are telling you what the demands are.

They're telling you what they need.

And it's just up to you to listen.

And that's when you can find the truth of what your path might be,

when you just listen and then you process and then you follow.

I'm Jody Cook and you're listening to The Future.

What is up, everybody?

Jody reminded me that it's been almost a year or maybe a little over a year since we last spoke.

I enjoyed our conversation so much that I invited her back.

Welcome back, Jody.

Hey, thank you so much for having me back. Of course. Now, since then, you've written at least two articles about some things that we've done and created some really incredible AI prompts,

and I think it's really helpful and useful if people actually just do it. Can you tell us a little

story about how the Forbes article thing came about? So it was because I met the editor at an event at a Forbes 30 under 30 event.

And she said that she was launching a contributor thing.

And I got her email address and followed her up, and followed her up, and followed her up, and followed her up.

And so she let me be a contributor, but I was at that event because I'd made the Forbes 30 and

the 30 list and I had made that list because I'd written a series of children's books or

co-written a series of children's books around giving six to nine year olds entrepreneurial role models so that when they got to the right

age where they were deciding about their career, they could choose self-employment as a potential

career in their future rather than just get a job like everyone else was doing.

I want to talk to you about children's books in a second, but in case people who didn't catch

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