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Today we'll be talking about from high school to teacher to CEO and then entrepreneur to drop these value bombs.

I have about Kirk Cooper in the EO Fire Studios. Kirk is the CEO and founder of Ecom Automation Gurus and is also the author of Scratch and Claw.

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Kirk, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

What's up everybody? Yeah, I'd say in regards to creating success and a lot of people kind of disagree with.

I came from the school of thought that I couldn't part away from the nine to five, the security blanket, and I think a lot of people tell you that you need to almost break 100% clean and get into what it is you're trying to do and accomplish so that you can give your full attention to what it is you're trying to do.

For me, I held on to that security blanket as a high school teacher and coach and started working kind of the moonlight hours and 10 pm till 2 am till I really created something that I felt comfortable that I could branch off and make it a full time opportunity.

And that's kind of the thing that we will be chatting about here today Fire Nation going from high school teacher to CEO and entrepreneur.

And let's just start off by trying to motivate our listeners Kirk how can Fire Nation finally get motivated to start their own business and finally leave that dreaded 9 to 5.

Absolutely, I think the motivation of just understanding what time freedom means and we think that the average person works.

And that's a way from right out out of college or high school so 20s till on average 65 some even older than that years old and then at that point, you know, you're trying to cram in everything that you want to do for the rest of your life.

There's ample opportunities out there there is a million 457 trillion ways to make money out there. And if you can find a way that makes it work for you or you can get your time freedom back and then of course you have the financial freedom to still do the things you want to do be able to travel the world, enjoy your family, you know, not punch a clock and

you can just have to have somebody else's pocket necessarily you're doing things for yourself. That's all the motivation in my opinion that you need.

In order to go out and be hungry scratch claw and go after your dreams because it's your only life it's your only opportunity and don't let you know your 30s 40s 50s wherever you're at in the game.

You can buy without putting your best foot forward and trying to achieve those dreams now of scratch and claw sounds familiar fire nation that's because in the intro I talked about Kirk's book scratch and claw the path to entrepreneurial greatness so you might be hearing that reference a few times as we chat but I do want to talk.

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