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Entrepreneurs, near and far, John Lee Doom is here, and I am fired up to bring you our featured guest today, Darren Hardy.

Darren, are you prepared to ignite?

Let's light it up, John Lee.

Darren is the visionary force behind Success Magazine as the publisher and founding editor. Success switches over 3 million readers every month, and Darren is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of

What has been called the modern day thinking grow rich, the compound effect.

So Darren, take a minute. Fill in some blanks to that intro and give us a little glimpse into your personal life.

Yeah, I guess talking about talking to entrepreneurs, John, I started out just like every entrepreneur started out.

I started out afraid, nervous without a clue what to do or what to expect as an entrepreneur.

I mean, I had no prior experience, no training, and really no guidance.

Thus, I mostly did it wrong. Got lots of skin needs, lots of bloody noses, lots of bruises on my pride and ego.

But really, that's also how I figured out how to do it right.

I mean, my life for the last several decades has been a living laboratory of trial, air, failure, and some successes mixed in there.

And it's also the reason why I wrote the book The Entrepreneur Rollo Coaster, why now is the time to join the ride to try to help save would be entrepreneurs and veteran entrepreneurs, lots of unnecessary headache, heartache and wallet ache and to significantly accelerate their success by helping them do it right the first time and avoid many of the mistakes and pot holes that I found myself in through my own personal journey.

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