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Okay Fire Nation. Let's get started. I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today.

Sean Ellis. Sean, are you prepared to ignite? Yes, I am.

Oh, right. Sean is a CEO of Kuala Rue and founder of GrowthHackers.com.

Prior to Kuala Rue, he held marketing leadership roles with breakout companies including Dropbox, Log Me In, Uproar, Eventrite and Lookout.

Sean, I've given our listeners just a little overview. So take a minute. Tell us about you personally because we want to get to know you.

Then give us no overview of your business.

Living in Southern California and I've been in startups kind of my whole career and was with some great ones as the head of marketing.

And now I've been working on my own businesses for about three, four years, something like that.

And give us a little glimpse in your personal life, Sean.

Personal life, I have two kids, two girls and I coached my younger daughter, Socrates, and I've been doing that for this is my third season.

And happy home married life. And then, but, obviously, as an entrepreneur, it's always a balance of trying to keep the family happy and keep the business rolling.

So I think I do a pretty good job of finding that balance.

Well, that's cool because that's actually a question that I'm going to pose later, Sean, about how you do keep some semblance of a balance.

Because of course, as entrepreneurs, that's all we can ever ask for is some semblance. But before we dive into your journey, Sean, we always start entrepreneur fire off with a success quote with a mantra to really get that motivational ball rolling. So take it away.

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