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Hit It or Quit It with Brooke Daniels, Melanie Greenough, & Scott J. Miller · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  3, 2, 1, 0, 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 1 small business spurt, Melinda 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 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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  Hi, everybody.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson, the small biz lady.
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  America's number one small business expert, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to another
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  episode of the small biz chat podcast.
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  Well, listen.
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  I wanna bring all of you guys back really quick for our panel.
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  We just want to bring everybody back.
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  We call it our hit it or quit it panel.
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  And you guys, this is how it works.
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  So all three of my guests come back.
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  I ask each of you the same question, and you only have 30 seconds to answer.
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  And you cannot repeat somebody else's answer.
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  So Brooke, we haven't heard from you in a while.
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  So the first question is coming to you, then Melanie, then you, Scott.
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  And then we'll reverse it.
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  Alright.
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  So the first question is, what is your favorite podcast?
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  Melanie, what is your favorite pie?
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  Oh, not mailing.
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  Excuse me, Brooke.
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  What is your favorite pie cat?
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  Oh, I really enjoy bigger pockets.
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  It's a real estate investing podcast, if you've never heard about it, but it's fantastic for
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  all types of real estate investing.
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  It's a secret passion.
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  So if you wanna get started with fix and flip, short term housing, tackling, tax liens,
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  doesn't matter what it is.
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  Bigger pockets has it all.
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  It's fantastic.
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  Love it.
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  Love it.
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  Melody, what's your favorite podcast?
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  Probably Gabby Bernstein because she tackles business, branding, and spirituality.
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  I've I've met Gabby.
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  She's a nice lady.
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  Yeah.
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  Alright, Scott.
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  What is your favorite podcast?
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  You know, there's one out there called own leadership with Scott Miller.
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  The guy isn't an odd kitty.
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  And Scott might get off.
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  I love everything that Seth Godin does.
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  I love his podcast interviews.
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  I love his blog post.
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  I love everything.
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  If you're not if you aren't following Seth Goden, go to sethgoden.com.
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  The guy has a level of insight around entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing,
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  remarkable go to seth godin.com.
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  His resources are enormously abundant.
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  He's he's amazing.
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  He always has been.
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  Alright.
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  Next question.
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  Melanie, I'm coming to you first.
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  Then Scott, then you Brooke.
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Don't even get me started.
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  Okay.
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  I'm gonna give you trello.
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  Trello.
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  Trello.
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  Trello is a project management app that allows you to enlist or cards, so pictures, organize
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  information, moving around how you need assigned teammates to all the things.
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  I love it.
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  Awesome.
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  Awesome.
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  Alright.
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  Scott, what's your favorite business at?
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  Because I am not, I love calm.
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  This app is so awesome in the evening time.
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  It allows me to kind of decompress the more present for my wife, Yeah.
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  I'm not a calm person.
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  I I no one has ever invited me to give the Eulogy at a funeral.
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  Evacuated burning building.
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  Yes.
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  But not a eulogy.
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  So I think calm brings the level of, of, peace and harmony to my evenings that my family
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  desperately needs from me.
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  You asked.
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  Alright, Brooke.
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  I think I'm gonna go with Zapier.
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  Which is like a super simple back end process automation tool, but it's amazing because it
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  helps you eliminate all of these small, little, tiny things that you do manually to integrate.
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  Someone signs up, and I've gotta send that information to my CRM and gotta get to my
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  newsletter list, and it's gotta go here and rather than, do that Zapier allows you to
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  automate.
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  And so it saved me a ton of time using Zapier.
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  I'm a big zapier fan too.
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  Alright.
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  Last question, guys.
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  I'm gonna ask each of you what is your favorite business book Scott, I'm gonna start with you
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  this time, then Brooke, then Melanie your 3rd.
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  Well, I I'm gonna repeat it because I said it during my my portion.
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  I think it's multiplier Liz Wiseman has done a masterful job of identifying what she calls our
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  9 accidental diminishing tendencies.
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  And that once you realize whether you are the optimist or the pay setter or the always on or
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  the idea person, you can minimize those diminishing instances and create more
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  multiplying moments.
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  I'm an evangelist for Liz Wiseman's book multipliers.
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  Alright.
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  Alright.
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  Melanie, what's your favorite business book?
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  Oh, come on.
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  That's so hard because I'm an avid reader.
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  I probably read 10 books a month.
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  Gosh.
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  I'm gonna go with either a linchpin or it's not about the coffee.
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  It's not about the coffee was written by the CEO of Starbucks and it tells the story of, you
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  know, you can sell coffee or you can sell an experience and connecting with people
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  emotionally is how you're gonna build a brand that lasts.
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  And he's very honest in his book.
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  He's very, you know, candid.
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  Which is cool because he talks about the growth and the pullbacks that Starbucks has had.
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  That was a game changer for me, but Lynch Pan and, I mean, there's a 100 other books that I
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  would Say read.
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  Just read.
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  Just read all of us.
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  Linchpin is a good book too.
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  Alright, Brooke.
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  What's your favorite business book?
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  So many, but I think I'm gonna share.
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  There's so many, right, that we could dive into, but profit first by Mike gonna
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  mispronounce his name.
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  Macauwitauwitauwitauwitau.
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  Good.
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  So good.
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  Everyone, thank you.
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  Just Mike Drop.
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  Right?
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  My job, which I had a chance to meet Mike.
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  He was fantastic when I was filming my course.
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  We were filming at his office.
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  And I was like, Have you read that book profit first?
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  And she's like, his office is right here in this building.
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  And so he came up.
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  We got a chance to beat y, autograph a book.
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  It was fantastic, but The book starts off with Mike sharing how he's had this incredible exit
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  as a business owner, sold us business, long story short, he makes some different investment
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  thinks about using the money in different ways and ends up, I think right around Valentine's
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  Day with no cash left and his daughter brings him her piggy bank.
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  And it's like, here you go, dad.
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  We can use my bit.
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  Just this really humbling moment and how he rethought business owner up and everyone's
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  nodding here and what it means to profit first.
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  And just a really impactful book, I think, every small business owner or aspiring
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  entrepreneur should read it.
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  So Brooke, I went to college with Mike Mccalliewicz in Virginia.
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  I've I've known him a very, very, very, very long time.
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  I have the first edition of profit for us with the blue cover.
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  So, yes, my
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  I had interviewed him, and he is as gracious and real, and he just described the right class
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  act.
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  He is really, really, really a wonderful person, and he is really smart.
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  Like, he's always on the neck thing.
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  Like, everybody else is over here, and he's over here.
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  One of my other favorite books by Mike, is pumpkin plan, which is another really really,
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  really good book by him.
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  But my favorite business book is Disrupt You by Jay Samit because he says in order to disrupt
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  the world, first thing you gotta do is disrobe yourself.
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  And I love that book, and I buy it and give it to a lot of young people because I'd be like,
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  you know, they all wanna change the world.
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  I'm like, uh-huh.
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  Okay.
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  Start with this.
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  Well, listen, you guys have been so gracious and awesome tonight.
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  I can't thank you guys enough for coming on the small biz chat podcast.
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  Thank you, Brooke Daniels.
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  If you guys want more information about how she helps small businesses go to the Brooke Daniels
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  dotcom.
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  Thank you to business coach Melody Greena.
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  If you wanna learn how to build new revenue streams, she is the right one to call go to
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  she's creating an empire.com, and special thanks to leadership expert and best selling
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  author, Scott Jeffrey Miller, Everyone go out and grab his brand new book, Master Mentors
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  volume 2.
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  I promise you it's a good one.
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  And if you're interested in learning about what kind of boss you might be.
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  Head over to boss quiz.com.
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  It's not a quiz.
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  It's actually gonna give you a twelve page business assessment about what is gonna be the
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  right type of business for you.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson, the small business lady, and I'm so glad that you spent time with me on
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  the small bitch chat podcast.
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  And I will leave you with this.
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  You never lose in business.
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  Either you win or you learn.
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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 pod cast wherever you listen to podcasts and join us next Wednesday for more
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  fantastic information and interviews.
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  You can find more sources and small business success by visiting Melinda's website succeed
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  as your own boss dot com.
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  Thanks again for listening, and we'll see you next week.