Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an

aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to

write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you

who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder

of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of self-publishing.com.

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Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me here today is, you know, maybe one of the few people that has way cooler shirts than me.

His name is Michael Bungay Stanner.

He's the author of six books, which between them have sold more

than a million copies. He's best known for the book called The Coaching Habit, the best-selling

coaching book of the century and already recognizes as a classic. He's got a bunch of other

different books. I think last year he launched a book called The Advice Trap. He's got a book coming out soon

that is called How to Begin, which helps people to be more ambitious for themselves and for the

world. So Michael is like, I mean, definitely top 1% of self-published authors. I mean,

you know, we've got Hal Elrod who comes on the show all the time and is a good friend and huge promoter of self-published authors. I mean, you know, we've got Hal Elrod who comes on the show

all the time and is a good friend and huge promoter of self-publishing school. And, and,

but I think there's only a handful of folks who have sold over a million copies of a self-published

book and he's one of them. So I'm excited for that reason. I think we've got a lot to learn there. But then also, I love this book.

So the coaching habit was a life-changing book for me.

For those of you know me well,

know that I kind of went on this year of leadership

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