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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Where Did Rich Dad Poor Dad Come From? Selling One Million Copies of a Book from Sharon’s House (Featuring Sharon Lechter)

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The best-selling co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad and the former CEO of Rich Dad (Sharon Lechter) shares how the concept for the Rich Dad Poor Dad book series was developed.

Transcript

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All right Thrive Nation on today's show. I have the pleasure. We have the pleasure of

0:10.0

interviewing the certified public accountant and entrepreneur that many many

0:14.6

people know she's become a household name her name is Sharon Lecter you see she

0:19.4

is the the CEO behind rich Dad Poor Dad. She's the lady who created the book with Robert Kiasaki.

0:29.5

I'm not sure if the listener is out there if you're aware of this but the whole rich dad

0:33.7

poor dad book series really started as a result of Robert Kiyasaki wanting to

0:38.5

make a board game and Sharon Lecter writing an elaborate sales brochure that mutated or was changed and transformed

0:46.3

into the book known as Rich Dad Poor Dad.

0:49.6

In fact, they sold the first 1 million copies of that book out of her home.

0:55.0

Ladies and gentlemen, in 2009, Sharon Lecter was appointed to the National CPA Financial

1:00.3

Literacy Commission as a national spokesperson.

1:03.0

This right here, folks, is the same council that served both President Bush and President

1:07.8

Obama.

1:09.2

And Sharon today has a team of over 5,000 people around the world who help her with her various assets and entrepreneurial

1:15.6

endeavors.

1:16.6

And in her free time, she was approached by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to take the manuscript to a book that was written in the 1930s called

1:26.4

Outwitting the Devil and to refresh it. So she's worked with the Napoleon Hill

1:30.6

Foundation now to release multiple books including

1:33.7

Think and Grow Rich for women and outwitting the devil. Ladies and

1:38.0

gentlemen, family and friends, Dony, further ado is my pleasure to

1:40.6

introduce to you my friend Miss Sharon Lechter.

1:44.4

Sharon Lechter, how are you doing today?

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