Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and brands

to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. I'm really thrilled to have a digital trailblazer herself

on the show today.

Leah Ray Gats.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

You and your husband have been really are digital trailblazers.

I mean, I think that you've been in this space longer than a lot of people who are now calling themselves experts.

And it looks like you've always been an entrepreneur when I look at some of your profiles on social and everything.

So I wanted to learn more about that journey did you always

know you're going to be an entrepreneur or have your own business and digital what

brought you into that world yeah so it's actually I should have always wanted to be an entrepreneur.

I absolutely did not because I grew up in borderline lower middle class space, right,

where everything was about security.

And I didn't have anyone in my world that was an entrepreneur that was successful,

that anything.

So it was all about, oh, you you can work hard you can do things you're

sharp go get a good job right and so everything was pushed towards that and I went to

school and I got I got my four year and I was a nurse and honestly I should have gone to med school but again I didn't have

anyone in my sphere who was there.

So my mom was a nurse that was relatable, she was an LPN, I went to an RN, you know, a step-ups made sense.

But I had really some mindset issues, I think, growing up.

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