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Hit It and Quit It with Carson Wagner, Angela Williams, and Dr. Stephanie West · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  Three, two, one, zero.
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  Ignition.
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  Lift off.
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  Ending small business failure.
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  Welcome to the Small Biz Chat podcast with the number one small business expert, Melinda
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  Emerson.
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  Melinda's goal is to end small business failure, and she'll give you the information
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  you need to succeed and live the life you dream of.
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  Now here's your host, the small biz chat lady herself, Melinda Emerson.
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  Have you subscribed to the small biz chat podcast?
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  Well, it's time.
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  Every Wednesday, we offer listeners bite sized actionable tips to start and grow a successful
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  small business.
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  In just twenty minutes or so a week, you can get a ton of insight and resources to propel
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  your business forward.
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  Be sure to subscribe to the Small Bitch Chat podcast today.
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  And right now, what I would like to do is bring back all of my guests.
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  I'm gonna bring back doctor Stephanie West, and I am going to bring back miss Angela Williams,
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  President of Detailed Experts.
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  And we're gonna have a quick little panel that I like to call, Hit It and Quit It.
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  So what we're gonna talk about is I'm gonna ask each of you four questions, the same four
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  questions.
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  You guys only have thirty seconds to answer and you cannot steal somebody else's hands.
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  So somebody stealed your answer, you better think of something else quick, alright?
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  So, Angela, since you have been on ice the longest, we are gonna start with you, ma'am,
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  and then you, Stephanie, and then you, Carson.
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  First question, what is your favorite podcast?
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  Easy question.
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  My favorite podcast is More Details, Please.
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  That's a podcast my husband and I cohost.
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  Listen.
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  I'm all about the shameless plug, so let's go.
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  Alright.
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  Love it.
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  Love it.
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  Alright.
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  Stephanie, what is your favorite podcast?
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  I have to go with my profession.
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  So American Veterinary Medical Association has one called My Veterinary Life.
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  They just had me on that recently, so it's maybe that's a shameless plug too.
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  Listen.
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  I get it.
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  Alright, Carson.
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  What is your favorite podcast?
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  I really like mom means business.
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  Mom means business.
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  Okay.
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  Alright.
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  I haven't heard of that one.
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  I'll have to check it out.
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  Good stuff.
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  Good stuff.
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  Alright, you guys.
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  Here is question two.
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  What is the business app that you use the most?
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  Stephanie, I'm gonna start with you, then Carson, then you, Angela.
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  Not sure if this counts, but I I'm on LinkedIn all the time.
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  I use my LinkedIn app.
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  It absolutely counts.
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  We love LinkedIn.
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  Absolutely.
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  Carson, what about you?
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  What's your most favorite business app?
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  I don't know if it's an app, but it's called Qubinci, And it's a financial reporting
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  software that I'm really loving.
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  Okay.
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  QVinci.
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  Alright.
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  I haven't heard of that.
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  Alright.
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  Angela, what is your favorite business app?
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  Alright.
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  I'll go with today.
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  My favorite business app is Connect Team.
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  It is a way to remotely manage your staff and stay in touch with your people, and it connects
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  all of the operational findings.
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  Oh, interesting.
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  Okay.
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  Connect Team.
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  That's another new one.
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  You guys are throwing some new ones on me today.
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  That doesn't normally happen.
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  All right.
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  Question number three.
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  Now this question, Carson, I'm coming to you first, then you Angela, then you Stephanie.
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  What is your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Favorite old school marketing tip?
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  I would say just getting in front of people, grassroots, being in person in front of people
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  and handing out your business cards and just networking.
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  I think back to the basics can really work sometimes.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Great.
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  All right.
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  Stephanie, I think, Angela, you're next.
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  Yep.
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  I'm next.
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  All right.
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  Something new.
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  Old school marketing show and tell.
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  So you actually show them what you have, and you tell them what it's about, and get their
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  assessment.
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  That is probably my old school marketing.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  All right, Stephanie, what is your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Well, Carson stole my favorite, but so but I I'd say that going to see, making sure that I'm
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  where people are so that if there's an event that's in my profession or with my people, I
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  make sure that I'm there.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Right.
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  Showing up.
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  I think that's important.
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  And I also think because of the pandemic, we've all kind of gotten used to being in the house,
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  being on Zoom people.
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  And I think that getting back out there, going to events, joining chambers, going to luncheons
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  and galas and stuff, we gotta get back into that because at the end of the day, face to
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  face beats any of this social media stuff we're doing, right?
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  100%.
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  Alright.
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  Last question.
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  And I am going to start with you, Angela, then you, Stephanie, then you, Carson.
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  What is the best business book you have ever read?
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  Best business book.
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  Alright.
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  I'm gonna go old school.
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  Stephen Covey's seven habits of highly effective people.
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  Alright.
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  For all of the reasons that you can imagine, but more so than anything is holistic in its
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  approach.
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  Love it.
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  Love it.
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  Stephanie, what about you?
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  For me, the most useful was directly related to, again, my profession, which is a book by
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  Marsha Heineke called Practice Make Perfect, and it's about veterinary practice that really
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  detailed.
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  Okay.
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  Good stuff.
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  Carson, what about you?
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  I would say thinking Grow Rich.
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  Okay.
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  By Napoleon Hill?
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  Yes.
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  Alright.
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  Okay.
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  That's a that's it is a oldie but goodie.
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  Alright.
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  So I'm gonna tell you guys what my favorite book is.
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  And that is 10 x is easier than two x by Dan Sullivan.
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  That is my favorite book.
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  I mean, I have
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  Wait.
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  Is that old school?
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  I mean, I I said my favorite book I've ever read.
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  Okay.
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  I changed mine.
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  But Oh.
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  For this season, for this year, my favorite book has been 10 x is easier than two x by Dan
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  Sullivan, and I love that book.
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  And what I love about it is if you listen to the audio version of it, he drops even more
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  pearls in the audio version because he and his younger co author have these like little
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  conversations in between the chapters and give you even more pearls in the audio.
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  So I have read it and I have listened to the audio twice.
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  That's how good is.
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  Just saying.
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  No, I like that one too.
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  Well, thank you guys so much for being guests on this edition of the Small Bitch Check
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  podcast.
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  Thank you so much to Angela Williams, president of Detail Experts.
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  Thank you so much to Doctor.
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  Stephanie West, the author of the new book, Soap for Success, and Carson Wagner.
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  She is the President and Founder of Lifetime of Love Nannies.
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  Thank you guys so much for being here.
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  And I am just going to leave my audience with one last message and that is this.
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  I am so excited to invite all of you to the Next ACT CEO Summit, which is taking place
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  January.
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  Two of my guests we have heard today, Carissa Wagner and Angela Williams, will be guests
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  speaking at the conference, so you're gonna learn a lot more.
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  If you are a woman who is 45 plus who has been out of work looking for work, Girls, stop
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  looking for a boss.
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  It's time for you to become the CEO, and I can't wait to show you how.
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  So if you want information, you wanna grab your tickets, head over to
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  smallbizladyuniversity.com forward slash next act CEO summit because I wanna help you become
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  the CEO and build wealth that will change your life in ways unimaginable.
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  So with that, I leave you all, and this is always true.
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  You never lose in business.
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  Either you win or you learn.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson, your host.
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  God bless everybody.
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  Thanks for listening to the Small Biz Chat podcast with Melinda Emerson.
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  Subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and join us next Wednesday for
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  more fantastic information and interviews.
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  You can find more sources and small business success strategies by visiting Melinda's
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  website, succeedasyourownboss.com.
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  Thanks again for listening, and we'll see you next week.