John Lee Dumas

I love chatting with inspiring and successful individuals, learning from them, engaging with them, connecting, networking, doing all those things. And of course, extracting value from them for my audience, Fire Nation over at Entrepreneurs on a Fire.

Love it. So I want to dive in with a few questions out the gate. And, you know, obviously you've grown an amazing podcast, but I also want to talk about growing a tribe and a community and how to create the longevity. Because I think there's a lot of people, as you know, in this industry, they come and go, they have these spurts.

Love it. So I want to dive in with a few questions out the gate. And, you know, obviously you've grown an amazing podcast, but I also want to talk about growing a tribe and a community and how to create the longevity. Because I think there's a lot of people, as you know, in this industry, they come and go, they have these spurts.

Love it. So I want to dive in with a few questions out the gate. And, you know, obviously you've grown an amazing podcast, but I also want to talk about growing a tribe and a community and how to create the longevity. Because I think there's a lot of people, as you know, in this industry, they come and go, they have these spurts.

But one thing I admire about yourself is, you know, I think I've known you for probably 10 or so years, I guess, and you keep growing and you're always on the scene. So do you mind just kicking off with that? Like, how did you really grow the community and the longevity side?

But one thing I admire about yourself is, you know, I think I've known you for probably 10 or so years, I guess, and you keep growing and you're always on the scene. So do you mind just kicking off with that? Like, how did you really grow the community and the longevity side?

But one thing I admire about yourself is, you know, I think I've known you for probably 10 or so years, I guess, and you keep growing and you're always on the scene. So do you mind just kicking off with that? Like, how did you really grow the community and the longevity side?

I always really focus on that quote by Albert Einstein, which is, try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value. People don't care about your success as much as they care about getting value from the interactions they're having with you. Are they leaving

I always really focus on that quote by Albert Einstein, which is, try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value. People don't care about your success as much as they care about getting value from the interactions they're having with you. Are they leaving

I always really focus on that quote by Albert Einstein, which is, try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value. People don't care about your success as much as they care about getting value from the interactions they're having with you. Are they leaving

that podcast, that conversation, or that blog that you might have written, that email, that social media post, are they leaving those interactions better off than when they started that interaction? Are they getting value? Is it worth their time? Are they at least thinking to themselves, you know what? That wasn't a waste of my time, my energy, my bandwidth. So start there.

that podcast, that conversation, or that blog that you might have written, that email, that social media post, are they leaving those interactions better off than when they started that interaction? Are they getting value? Is it worth their time? Are they at least thinking to themselves, you know what? That wasn't a waste of my time, my energy, my bandwidth. So start there.

that podcast, that conversation, or that blog that you might have written, that email, that social media post, are they leaving those interactions better off than when they started that interaction? Are they getting value? Is it worth their time? Are they at least thinking to themselves, you know what? That wasn't a waste of my time, my energy, my bandwidth. So start there.

Like for me, I was chasing success for a long time and I was failing because I was doing just that. I was chasing success and I wasn't focused on providing value to people that I was interacting with.

Like for me, I was chasing success for a long time and I was failing because I was doing just that. I was chasing success and I wasn't focused on providing value to people that I was interacting with.

Like for me, I was chasing success for a long time and I was failing because I was doing just that. I was chasing success and I wasn't focused on providing value to people that I was interacting with.

When I launched Entrepreneurs on Fire, that's exactly what I was doing was just providing value, daily value, literally seven days a week for free to people that wanted to consume that content where I got to interact with with the world's most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs and bring their genius, their knowledge, their value to my audience, again, for free. So that was a critical thing.

When I launched Entrepreneurs on Fire, that's exactly what I was doing was just providing value, daily value, literally seven days a week for free to people that wanted to consume that content where I got to interact with with the world's most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs and bring their genius, their knowledge, their value to my audience, again, for free. So that was a critical thing.

When I launched Entrepreneurs on Fire, that's exactly what I was doing was just providing value, daily value, literally seven days a week for free to people that wanted to consume that content where I got to interact with with the world's most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs and bring their genius, their knowledge, their value to my audience, again, for free. So that was a critical thing.

And that was definitely the reason why Entrepreneurs on Fire took off and why I'm still kicking 12 years later.