Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.

This is The Fizzle Show, our chance to help freelancers, creatives, and indie entrepreneurs

by sharing the nuts and bolts of building a small business that actually works.

Basically, let's make great stuff and get paid.

Every Friday, we publish another conversation about the art and science of supporting

yourself doing something you care about.

So let's get into this one.

Your hosts are Barrett Brooks, Steph Crowder, Corbett Barr, and me, Chase Reeves.

I'm probably the most important on that list. It's just kind of apparent from looking at me, especially since they're all in the room with me,

and I can just talk and try to make them giggle. I'll keep going here. We run fizzle.com. It's a website

full of training courses to help you run a small business and more importantly

this is where you're going to find a community of entrepreneurs a community of people like you

who understand what it's like to try to build something it's not like your uncle terry

who's just sitting around going yeah how's your blog going your blog is a dumb idea you have bad

ideas i don't know why you try stuff.

Don't, we're not Terry. That's the same place. Fizzle.com, you can try your first five weeks

free on us when you go to fizzle.com slash try five. All right, in this episode, what if you

could start a business today that actually interests you?

Not a lame business, not something your parents would say sounds like a decent idea,

but something that excites only someone like you.

And what if I told you that working on that crazy sort of just-for-you business idea

might lead to more success faster than the more generic sort of this will probably

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