If I Don't Have a Relevant College Degree for My Industry, Does it Matter? How Does that Affect My Impact?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's question comes from Richard, who has a question about the importance of having a relevant college degree for the type of industry blog you run. Should he have a Bachelor Degree in Sport Science to run a successful lifestyle and fitness blog? Will his audience care about his background in education? If he don't have a relevant degree but does have the relevant knowledge and experience, how can he make sure that shines? Richard's website is at http://www.aflexibleyou.com/. Do you have a question about how your background and how that affects your value in your industry? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.com.
0:10.9	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 805 of AskPath.
0:14.9	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.6	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.3	We have a great question today from Richard, but before we get to that, I do want to thank
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0:59.8	Hello, Pat. My name is Richard. This is the second question I've posted. If for some reason
1:06.4	you answer the first one before this one, feel free to give away my t-shirt. That said, I am a starting-up
1:17.0	entrepreneur with a site of FlexibleU.com. It's about flexibility and personal maintenance and
1:23.7	physical fitness. My question for you is, I, my education is not specifically in the fitness
1:31.9	industry. I have a, I have a bachelor's in anthropology and several other subjects. I triple
1:38.9	majored. And then I have a master's in education and then an advanced master's in education as well.
1:49.7	But I'm working in the fitness industry.
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