Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. Welcome back to your brand Amplified.

We're taking a little departure from our last few episodes

which really focused a lot on business consulting, quantum leaps, but it kind of also fits with that. It's a great end cap, I think, to this series of podcasts, it's so interesting how that happens, because my guest today is Dave Combs. a

series of podcast that's so interesting how that happens,

because my guest today is Dave Combs.

He is a prolific songwriter who has built a business

with virtually no advertising and done so much to move people with his

music and also has a best-selling book. Dave, welcome to the show. Thank you, Anika.

It's a pleasure to be here on this beautiful

spring day in North Carolina and I'm sure you're in what California? I'm in

California, yes. We've got the whole country covered then. Exactly, we do.

I was really excited to interview you.

I poked around a lot at some of your stuff and I really want to hear how you got your start because I know you didn't you were doing some other stuff before you got to music. I don't want to give too much away because I want you to tell our audience.

Well, I'm like a lot of, I've listened to some of your other episodes and I could identify

with a lot of them, especially those entrepreneurs who are, I think one of the gentlemen, Harris, I believe is his last name called it a multi entrepreneur.

Yes.

And it's really that kind of described to me I thought well he and I could probably just bounce off of each other all day long here.

But, you know, all my life, I have had tons of interest.

I just, I'm an inquisitive kid, you know, I'm the kid that when he got a toy when nobody was looking I took it apart

put back together just to see how it worked. So it's one of those things so

I grew up in the Tennessee, up in the mountains of East Tennessee.

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