Hey everybody and welcome back to the Ground Up show. My name's Matt Diavella. I'm your host. Special episode today, number 100.

Hey, Matt. My name is Brandi Wollings. Charles here from Kenya. Hi, Matt. My name is Michelle. Hi, Matt. I'm Annalise from Mexico City. I'm Alessandro from Venice, Italy. This is Palantus from Sweden. It's Ben from Australia.

Ha ha, bonjour, Matt. My name's Lambert. I'm reporting this from Paris, France.

I have learned so many things from your podcast, so congratulations on 100 episodes.

Congratulations on reaching 100 episodes. So I just wanted to say thanks and you've inspired me to consider a life.

I haven't previously thought possible, but will make me much happier along the way.

With the way you've approached the show, it's been a wonderful example of how things can evolve and change,

and that everything doesn't always have to be laid out for you.

Sometimes you just need to start.

I'm glad I reached out to you guys and had you send in your thoughts on the show things that you've learned questions that you have for me i thought i was

only going to get like 12 of them i ended up actually getting over 200. And as you heard, people from all over the

world, from Paris to Germany, to South America, everywhere in between. Pretty amazing, to be

honest. It's not something that I was prepared for, to be honest. Now, obviously, things on the podcast have grown pretty steadily.

But the last time I did one of these where I asked for people to send in audios,

it was really only, it was like maybe a dozen, and it was a struggle.

So I've just been getting so many of these.

I'm going to get to as many of these as I can. I think I've got,

I don't know how many here, probably like 15 that I'll get to. Like I said, there's some questions,

there's some people that have things that they've learned, some lessons that they want to

share from 35 years of being an independent entrepreneur. So I think there's going to be a lot of really cool

stuff that we go into. A lot of young kids too messaging in 16 year olds asking about what I wanted

to be when I was that age. So here's the thing. I was actually going to, you know, drink some

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