Amy Mewborn is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, author and business strategist. She has been featured on CBS, KUSI, Fox, Ivillage, Huffington Post and more. She has worked with large organizations such as: Ford, Chuck E. Cheese and Vinturi Wine Aerator. Her bestselling book The Great Escape, The Successful Woman’s Guide To Escaping the 9-5 was released in July 2016.

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• Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
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• Slack – Amy’s small business resource
• Essentialism – Amy’s Top Business Book
• The Great Escape – Amy’s Book
• Amy’s website
• Reach Amy via email
• The Freedom Journal – Set & Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!
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3 Key Points:

1. “Fake it ‘til you make it” is definitely not good advice
2. Have a good team behind you.
3. Safe jobs don’t exist anymore.

Resources Mentioned:

• Audible– Get a FREE Audiobook & 30 day trial if you’re not currently a member!
• Slack – Amy’s small business resource
• Essentialism – Amy’s Top Business Book
• The Great Escape – Amy’s Book
• Amy’s website
• Reach Amy via email
• The Freedom Journal – Set & Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!
• JLD is dropping value bombs everyday! Subscribe at EOFire.com

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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• [00:57] – Amy and her husband live in San Diego
• [01:04] – Amy spent 15 years in finance
• [01:10] – You can make great money working for someone else, but you can’t build true wealth when you’re working for someone else
• [02:20] – One BIG and UNIQUE Value Bomb: It’s all about the money. And the “fake it ‘til you make it” advice is definitely not good
• [04:00] – EOFire.com/income – EOFire’s income reports
• [05:27] – Worst Entrepreneurial Moment: Happened just before the EOFire interview. Amy was launching her membership site and her OBM went to Europe… and her VA accidentally deleted 150 Infusionsoft campaigns!
• [07:19] – Get in touch with people when they buy your product or services
• [09:20] – Amy went from the highest of high’s to the lowest of low’s
• [11:02] – Have a good team behind you that can help when things go wrong
• [12:46] – Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment: Spending money and time without knowing whether customers would buy—do market research first, that is Amy’s Ah-ha
• [17:27] – What is the one thing you are most FIRED up about today? Launching my membership site
• [18:16] – Amy’s program is built for the women who want to start an online business. Check it out here!
• [19:26] – The Lightning Round
  • What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur? – I come from an entire family of employees
  • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – Test your ideas before you put a ton of time into creation
  • What’s a personal habit that contributes to your success? – I now take the time to go to the gym every day to get a workout
  • Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation – Slack
  • If you could recommend one book to our listeners, what would it be and why? – Essentialism – it talks about one of our challenges as entrepreneurs: being busy
• [23:20] – Get in touch with Amy via email
• [23:25] – Get FREEBIES from Amy here!
• [23:43] – Listen to and follow your heart

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