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To bring you our featured guest today, Michael Stelzner, Michael, are you prepared to ignite?

I am ready to ignite. Yes. Michael is the founder of Social Media Examiner, author of the books

launch and writing white papers in the man behind large events such as social media marketing world

and social media success on it. He's also the host of the social media marketing podcast and

founder of the social media marketing society. Michael, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from

that intro and give me just a little glimpse of your personal life. Well, let's see. I also

am the host of the morning social media marketing talk show and a million other things that I

probably forgotten. In my personal life, I'm a dad. I've got three daughters and

you know, I'm an entrepreneur at heart. Michael, one thing that I really look at when I see you is

like, this is a person that from afar first was a mentor to me. And then when I moved to San Diego,

you were very gracious and generous and we've had multiple lunches together up near your office

in Poway. And I've just really enjoyed like number one seeing you in your business and how you

progress and taking on different challenges throughout the years. And also you taking time to kind

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