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Hey, everyone, Alex Sanfilippo here.

I'm joined by Amy Porterfield today.

Amy, thank you so much for being on Podcasting Made Simple.

So excited to have you here today.

Alex, I'm so delighted to be here.

Thanks for having me.

For sure.

Listen, we're talking to podcast guests and podcast hosts who have a desire to grow their brand. And I have to say,

you might be the most qualified person on earth to talk about this. Maybe. Wow. No pressure or anything,

but I'm excited about the topic. I love it. I really love this topic. And it's one that like I like to

dive into whenever we get the chance because again, as podcast guests and hosts, we're looking to level up.

And yes, maybe there's other people that are qualified as well, Amy, but like I feel like you've just done the best job. Like, you've done

such a good job. I went to your website, amy porterfield.com, and I was just like blown away by not only

your success, but also your ability to like create a well-rounded, complete brand. It's one of the best I've ever seen online. So again, congrats to you and your team for all that success. Well, thank you so much. It's definitely years in the making. And if you saw,

you know, in the first few years, you probably wouldn't be saying any of that. So I'm really

proud of what we've been able to do. I have a team of 23 full-time employees. And so definitely it's not just me. So I feel really lucky about that. I love that.

That's so cool to hear that you have like the team behind it. You give some credit there as well.

I actually want to talk about your entrepreneurial journey because I believe that this would

be really helpful. I'll kind of dig out some some key points that I kind of hear along the way and

stuff like that. But first off, you left your corporate job working for Tony Robbins, which is like, it's a big girl job.

Like it wasn't like just a part-time thing. It was a big deal. And that was in 2009. And then you

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