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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forward slash free training. Hey, Chandler Bolt here, welcome back to the podcast. We've got a super

special episode for you this week. Many of you know we have a yearly event. It's called Author

Vantage Live. It's the event. If you want to grow your business using a book, this year was

incredible. Gosh, we had some amazing speakers and amazing sessions at the event. And so I wanted to

give you a sneak peek into the event and share one of the sessions, one of my favorite sessions.

This is with the guy named John Gordon. So I'll give John an intro here in just a second,

and you'll kind of get to hear why he's so special to me and just think just a really, really sharp

person and somebody you're going to learn a lot from.

But whether you miss the event, this is a great chance to see a sneak peek and maybe mark it on

your calendar and grab a ticket for next year or you were at the event and you want to relive it

and have a double dose of inspiration.

I think you're going to love this episode.

So without further ado, let's dive into the content from author Vanished Live with Mr. John Gordon.

I've been so inspired by his books.

I've been so inspired by his speaking.

I'll never forget my mom and dad went to this conference, gosh, probably five,

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