You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast success story segment.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short segment of the show, I bring on friends of the podcast to share a motivational,

inspiring, and sometimes even challenging story from their entrepreneurial journey,

along with a

practical takeaway for us to implement. The point is for each of us to be able to learn and

grow from the experiences of others. With that said, please enjoy today's success story episode.

Hey, everybody. This is Michelle Prince, CEO and founder of Performance Publishing Group,

making a difference one story at a time. I'm also a speaker, author, leadership trainer,

and I love helping people to discover their stories and use it in big ways to get their stories

out there to build their platform, build their authority.

I always say you can't spell authority without author, and it's one of the easiest ways to really

leverage and grow your platform. But what I want to share with you today is a story of how I figured out

the power of our story and what it can really do for you to make a difference and

also grow a business. I had no intention of doing so. But let me back up. So when I first

graduated college, I worked for Zig Zigler. It had been a dream of mine since I was 18 years old

and I was finally realizing it when I was 22, and I worked for him at the corporate

office, and I was in sales. It was an amazing experience. I was there for just under four years

when I decided to quit. I was offered a software sales position, and it was around the dot-com boom.

And so I quit to go make more money, climb a corporate ladder and do all

the things that I thought would make me, quote unquote, more, you know, happier. Well, I spent the

next 13 years in software sales and I was successful. I had all the things that I thought would

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