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It was it was being creative.

So I thought that you couldn't make money via ads.

I thought like sponsorships was only for Tim Ferriss and Jenna Kutcher and John Lee Dumas and for all the other people.

We had to get creative.

And it did push me to get creative because that's how I came up with my social media agency.

were basically the people that would come on my show at the end of my show.

And at the time I was working in corporate, I would take these these interviews in lunch in a phone booth like at Disney.

You know, I would do my interviews at lunch, you know, and the guests that would come on my show, they'd end the interview and be like, well,

You know, how did you become one of the biggest influencers on LinkedIn?

Can you do that for me?

Or how did you grow this podcast?

Like, I see you on the charts.

Can you build me a podcast?

And they were very successful people who had a lot of money who I was talking to.

And for the longest time, I, again, told myself the story that there's no money in this.

This is just a hobby.

And like, I've got my corporate career and just focus on your corporate career and do this to serve people.

And COVID hit and I found myself with so much more time and I decided that I was going to start offering social media services.

I had, do you know who Heather Monahan is?

So she was my first client and she came on my podcast.