You're listening to Creating a Brand Podcast. I'm your host, Alex Sanfilippo, and I could not be more excited about today's interview. My guest today is the man behind the website, theblindblogger.net. My guest's name is Maxwell Ivy. Yes, that's right. He is the blind blogger.

He is so, so inspirational. He's had a huge role in my life. I actually first met Maxwell at a

conference that he was speaking at. I was sitting in the room and I heard him speak and he spoke in a way

that was just so inspiring and encouraging

and had so much truth and weight behind it. I knew that we had to have him on this podcast.

I feel like I stopped listening a few minutes into his talk because I'm like, how am I going to get

this guy to agree to come to my podcast? What am I going to do? So anyway, I did listen. I paid

attention. It was a great talk. He was talking about the difference between independence and interdependence, and that's what we get into in this episode. But he agreed to

come on the podcast right after he was done speaking. I asked him, and he said he would definitely

do that. I knew from the moment I met this guy that this podcast episode was going to be inspiring

and it's just so powerful. So get ready to laugh. Get ready to cry. Let's hear some of the

wisdom from my good friend Maxwell Ivy.

Max, glad to be with you today.

Alex, I'm really glad to be with you today.

It's amazing that we were able to meet at Podfest and become such good friends.

And now here we are going to have a conversation and hopefully we're going to inspire some

people to go out there and take action and build their own brands.

Absolutely.

That's the idea, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Actually, you know, I never met you before, never heard of you before.

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