Hey guys, welcome to this episode of The Passionate View. Today, though, we're doing something a little bit

different. Instead of me doing the questions, I'm going to be in the hot seat and I'm going to be

interviewed by none other than Amanda. She is a superstar. I've known her for a long time. She's

doing awesome stuff with social media and helping other social media influencers grow their reach in business. And so when it came time to interview me, I couldn't think of anybody better than her. So here we go. Thanks for being on the show today, Amanda. Oh, yours. Thank you for having me. It's really exciting. Watch all your videos. So, you know, as a supporter and friend thank you so much so it's really

awesome to be on this side and you being on that side yeah it's a new experience for me so

honored for being the person that you chose yes absolutely let's go right ahead okay so i can have a plan

of how i want to do this okay uh just because i feel like a lot of people who follow the passionate

view follow you may not really know the true use so i'm going to mix a little bit of business with a little bit of personal and we'll kind of just see how it floats. I like it. Okay. Very first question. Okay. What's your favorite color? Favorite color is red. Red, okay. The color of passion, color of excitement. It's an intense color. But even when I was a kid, like, I loved the Red Ranger, the Red Power Ranger. Oh, yes. His name was Jason at that time. I actually told some friends when I was a kid that I was him. And I reported to Zorda. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I had this wild imagination. but definitely red is my favorite color, absolutely.

Okay, cool. Let's see. What did you imagine yourself doing when you grew up, when you grew up and became an adult?

What did you imagine yourself doing as a little kid?

Yeah, it's a good question. So my pops is an engineer.

Okay. Both my parents went to college and got, you know, good jobs and moved up. And I thought that was cool. You know, I wanted to do that. But then I think when I was like maybe in my teens in high school and I've actually known you since high school, so you know this, is I first got into soccer and then I wanted to be a professional soccer player. And then I got into skateboarding And I was like, I want to be professional skateboarder. And then I started going to autograph signings and meeting professional athletes. And I think that's where I got bit by the bug where I realized, oh, I could turn my passion into a paycheck. And that flip switch was kind of weird at first. And I didn't know what to do with it, but I just kept sitting with it. Obviously, I never became a pro skater. Yeah. But the thought of getting paid to play in a certain context never went away from me. And from that moment onward, it became this, like, obsessive journey for me to, like, figure out how can I make money loving what I'm doing? The goal was always to like, how can I wake up, look around in my life and go, whoa, like,

yes, like this is my life.

This is exciting.

Everywhere I look, like opportunity, money, awesome people, connections.

And now, you know, as I grow and grow and grow after a couple years of building the passionate

few, it's little by little starting to be that way. So it's cool to like think that as a kid,

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. I just knew that I wanted to love what I did so much

that it created opportunities. And by chipping away at it, which we'll get into, kind of started

to happen. So I just, all I knew to answer your question simply is that i

wanted to get paid to have fun and that's it that's awesome so is that where the the passionate few came

from that name you know the passionate view it sounds like since you were little you've always wanted

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