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Welcome to another episode of Build Your Network with Travis Chappell. The guest today is Kate Erikson. Kate is a creator, engager and implementer over at EOFire, a 7-day a week podcast that interviews today’s most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs. She’s also the host of Kate’s Take, the EOFire Audio Blog and author of The Fire Path: a beginner’s guide to growing your online business. Kate is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their business and life through developing systems and processes that can help their businesses scale and grow.

Here’s what Kate and Travis discuss in this episode:

• Kate’s journey from corporate America to entrepreneur and the help she got from her partner, John Lee Dumas
• The value of speaking with confidence and speaking as if your goal has already happened
• How Kate and JLD get amazing things accomplished and still have time to relax and have a life
• The importance of prioritizing the things that are most important and evaluating where you can spend your time most effectively
• The least glamorous part of running an online business and how Kate uses systems, software and contracted professionals to help combat that
• The reason Kate believes who you know is more important that what you know
• The pivotal moment in Kate’s life that happened thanks to a connection JLD had with Lewis Howes, and where she thinks she’d be if it hadn’t happened
• The power of taking responsibility and getting accountable for your actions, and why Kate sees a lot of ‘all talk no action’ people fail
• Kate’s advice to people who are willing to take the first step
• The ways Kate tries to add more value than she receives and her experience of being on the receiving end of self-centered networking
• Where Kate goes to cultivate relationships online and offline and the value of reaching out to somebody via email
• The mentorship of John Lee Dumas that has strengthened both their business and relationship
• Kate’s tips for connecting with others in Facebook groups
• Why the best networkers Kate knows are ones who bring people together and provide opportunities for others
• What Kate would do to rebuild her networks in a new place
• The reason cleaning the kitchen is part of Kate’s morning routine

Links and recommended resources:

• Essentialism by Greg McEwan
• John Corcoran
• Catherine Hepburn
• Lewis Howes
• NPR’s How I Built This
• I’ve Got A Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas

Where you can find Kate Erickson:

Find Kate over at EOFire.com, that’s where all the magic happens!

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