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Hold on to those afterburners, Fire Nation, John Lee Dumas here and I am fired up to bring you our feature guest today, Tommy Powers.

Tommy, are you prepared to ignite?

Absolutely.

Yes, Tommy is known as the Traffic and Conversion Scientist. In layman's terms, that means he is a digital marketing consultant specializing in buying and converting Internet traffic from places such as Google AdWords, Facebook, Bing, online media outlets, etc.

Entrepreneurship has always been Tommy's passion.

Tommy, have given Fire Nation our listeners just a little insight. So take a minute and share a little bit about you personally and then expound upon the biz.

Yeah, man. So I'm just a guy from small town Mississippi, you know, and I always had a dream, man, and you know, got back in a corner when I was, you know, around 2007, man.

I had been dabbling around and, you know, a little bit about me. I had a congestive heart failure, man, in 2007. You know, I was 31 years old and I felt like I'm having options. No one wanted to give me work.

So I turned to the Internet and decided to really take my business serious man and, you know, and I've been doing ever since.

You know, Tommy, what I love about your story specifically is it's a story of one that was backed into a corner. I mean, you were not being given the opportunities that you deserved and you decided to step up to be a man and to take charge of your life and you have done so now for the last six years and have built this empire all around you.

And, you know, that's really what I want. I wish to be taking out of this interview as we go for it is that, you know, sometimes when all the chips are down and your back is against the wall, sometimes that can be a good thing because you have nothing to do but succeed and that human instinct, Tommy for you.

Just kicked in and look where you are now.

Yeah, man, I mean, you know, you got to go, you got to believe in yourself, you know, have faith in yourself.

And sometimes, you know, when all the chips are down, man, and you have no other choice but to produce, you know, based on the fact that, hey, I got to make it happen.

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