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This week on the podcast, we are excited to welcome back my friend and brilliant woman writer, recovering investment banker, Carol Roth.

She's an entrepreneur, a TV pundit, and host, and New York Times bestselling author of the entrepreneur equation.

She has worked in a variety of capacities across several industries, including currently as an outsourced CCO, a director on public and private company boards, and a strategic advisor. She advocates for small business, small government, and big hair.

We had her on to talk about her new book, The War on Small Business.

All right, I am with Carol Roth, everyone, my soul sister, and hair sister.

I was like, whoever made these headphones was definitely not a dude because he's cramping both, you were my big hairstyle.

No, dude, it was definitely not someone with amazing hair, who invented headphones.

It's true, I always think about that. That's just another tool of the patriarchy, something I both believe in.

Repressed, repressed trying to shut down my advocacy for small business, small government, and big hair.

So let's talk, let's get into it because we have a lot to cover.

I'm really excited to have you on again because you have a book out, and it's a book that is close to my heart, The War on Small Business.

How's the book going, Carol?

Well, the book itself is fantastic. The marketing of the book, keeping in theme with the book about the fight of decentralization versus centralized power.

The marketing is very decentralized because the big power structures don't want to talk about the power structures, and they don't want to talk about the book.

Even though I've been a known quantity in media for a long time, everybody says how important it is to support the backbone of the economy, the little guy.

All these things that we've been hearing, the outrage at the government, when push comes to shove, and you're the first person who comes out with a fact-checked wealth source credible book on this topic,

the big media doesn't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole, and I just heard today that apparently I'm now shadow banned on LinkedIn.

So I don't know if that's a coincidence or not, but somebody who I guess was following you, who was trying to find out me and find out the books, sent me a note and said, congratulations on being shadow banned.

I'm LinkedIn. That's like being banned from the frickin debate club.

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