Light that spark fire nation, JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like the Martek podcast.

Today we'll be chatting with the go-to matchmakers for entrepreneurs to drop these value bombs. I've brought those matchmakers Amber Lee and Sandra Myers into EO Fire Studios.

Amber and Sandra are the co-founders of Select Date Society. Their expertise has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and more. They are the go-to matchmakers for business owners and entrepreneurs.

We'll be hearing their story, how they took it to a million dollar business in their first year, how to find the right partner and so much more when we get back from taking our sponsors.

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Sandra, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

What's up Fire Nation? So excited to be here, John. So this is an interesting one. I think that most people believe that partnerships are like a downfall or a high-risk situation.

And, you know, for us, it's actually our eighth in the whole. So Amber and I have known each other since 2009. One of the reasons why we chose to become business partners is her skill set is phenomenal in her areas.

And mine is really good in my areas. What we get to do as a partnership is really focus on the things we do well all the time, which makes for happy partners.

We appreciate each other, we compliment each other and, you know, for us two are always better than one, but it has to be the right match.

It's got to be the right match. I mean, I can tell you over the past decade, I've interviewed people who have just not been the right match and sure enough shortly afterwards, you hear about it.

And Fire Nation, as I mentioned in the introduction, we're going to be talking about the go-to match makers for entrepreneurs, who they are, what they're doing and why they are having such success.

And as I did also talk about in the introduction, we have Amber Lee on the microphone as well, who is joining us. So I want to switch over to Amber so she can tell us the origin story of the select date society.

So Amber, hello, how are you and taking away?

John, I am so happy to be here. Select date society has a lot of history as Sandra mentioned, her and I met in 2009. We've actually both been matchmakers in the industry since the late 90s.

So we both have decades of experience and we met working together at a big franchise dating service.

And we always knew that we could do it better. So we always kind of played with the idea, what if we did our own matchmaking firm, what would that look like? And we were really talking about it, but it was really just this kind of dream, this kind of idea.

And then in the middle of the pandemic in May of 2020, I had just turned 40. I was driving with my family in the car and I suffered a sudden cardiac arrest out of nowhere. My heart just stopped beating. I had my foot on the gas drove through four lanes of traffic into a brick home.

I don't remember any of this. So it's not as scary for me as it sounds, but I woke up a few days later in a hospital room. And you know what?

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