Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent to do what you love.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents

to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development

who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.

In honor of the four-year anniversary of our podcast, over the next several weeks, we will be sharing with you

the most popular interviews from our first 777 shows. We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward

to sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests soon.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Shelly Howard.

Welcome, Shelly.

Thank you very much.

We're delighted to have you on the show.

A few words about Shelly.

Shelly is the owner and president of College Ready.

She's a college grad and is a certified educational planner.

She also has a son who recently graduated from Harvard in the spring of 2016, debt-free. She knows what it takes to compete in the Ivy League schools, as well as finding the best fit for a B student, and believes that each student has a gift or talent and a passion that will set him or her apart from their competition.

So, Shelly, today's topic happens to be the title of your best-selling book,

How to Send Your Student to College Without Losing Your Mind or Your Money,

which came out in April of 2017 and it's the bestseller list very fast.

So set the stage for us and talk about this topic

that's in your sweet spot of expertise. Absolutely. So the book actually came to fruition about five

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