Lights that spark fire nation, a JLD here and welcomed episode 1799 of EO Fire,

right chat with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week and if you're ready to

master productivity discipline and focus in 100 days visit themasteryjournal.com.

Now let's chat with today's featured guest Charlie Hone. Charlie are you prepared

to ignite? Yes I am. Yes. Charlie's the host of the author our podcast and the head of

author marketing for book in a box. Charlie take a minute fill in some gaps from

that in show and give us a little glimpse of your personal life. Yeah so I live in

Austin, Texas with my wife. We just had our baby girl last month so that's

exciting. My main focus right now is helping authors and thought leaders

with spreading their ideas and their books and actually John I just released

my latest book on Kickstarter called Play for Living and thanks to your help

your crowdfunding podcasts we ended up raising about 35,000 well that's awesome

well I love the platform of Kickstarter I've used it to launch both the freedom

and the mastery journal it's a great way for you to to do more than just

quote unquote sell a book you can really sell an experience and it's a great

opportunity and I kind of want to talk more about that in a little bit Charlie

but first and foremost what would you consider specifically your area of

expertise using free work to get paid to do work that you love. Sure an

example of a time that either you've done that or somebody that you've known

has done that he been like wow that's a great use of this example. I've landed

numerous dream jobs this way I was able to work with Tim Ferris for a number of

years as his director of special projects in my early 20s I was fortunate enough

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