You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast success story segment.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short segment of the show, I bring on friends of the podcast to share a motivational,

inspiring, and sometimes even challenging story from their entrepreneurial journey,

along with a practical

takeaway for us to implement.

The point is for each of us to be able to learn and grow from the experiences of others.

With that said, please enjoy today's success story episode.

Hey there, I'm Ray Hyde Cornell.

I run two companies.

One is Cornell Content Marketing, which is a full-service content marketing agency that specializes

specifically in marketing for subscription-based businesses.

I also run Kyron Consulting, which is an online training, mentoring, and support platform for freelancers and

entrepreneurs.

So one thing that I noticed throughout my journey is that a lot of us have backgrounds that

inform where we're headed, but we have a really difficult time connecting our experience to where we want

to go, especially if our past experience isn't what we would consider positive or helpful or

true to who we are. And I'll tell you from a personal standpoint, what happened to me was, given that I was raised by two police officers, I was sort of naturally entrenched in the world of psychology and understanding human behavior from a very young age.

It was almost like a life necessity, a survival raft that I needed to grasp those skills

early on in life.

And so as I went to college and then later master's program and another's master's program,

I chose the path of psychology and criminology.

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