Welcome to your brand amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

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I'm so excited to welcome you back for another episode of your brand Amplified.

I'm your host, Anika Jackson, and I teed this up a little bit last week's episode.

We are going to hear from Mike Kapuzi of bite-sized books. Mike,

thank you so much for joining us today. Monica, thank you very much and I appreciate this opportunity.

Absolutely. I was really excited when we started talking about you coming on as a guest because being an author is something I think a lot of people see a lot of value in to add to their business right to be able to say your published author but there is a nuance and a difference in how to do that and you have some very specific ways that you help get results you've written best selling books yourself so first before we get into that I'd love for you to start on how did you decide to do this as your livelihood?

So it goes back to, I think I was like five years old.

I love that.

We have a couple hours, right?

Yeah.

I joke because my grandmother my mom's mom was a voracious reader and she

instilled that love of books into me at a very young age. I mean I was reading like novels at you know in

elementary school and I used to have travel a couple hours to go visit her and she had this big

library and I just loved it I just love books. I've always had a love of books and love of reading. I've always encouraged my daughters when they were younger to read. just I just love books and you know like a lot of people I

had the dream at some point to write a book but like a lot of people at the time I didn't know how I wasn't sure if I was smart enough.

There was I witty enough, whatever it was, right?

All this head trash.

You know, that's, that was on me. And you know, that's that was on me and you know wrote to publish the first one very quickly a little difference there I didn't write it actually it was a compilation book but then realize hey this is not that big of a deal.

And that was in 2007, and since then, I think we're up to, I'm up to 14 or 15 books.

And it's just, I just love helping people people just like all my family except myself I was an engineering major for college rest of my family are all teachers.

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