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I recently listened to a podcast with Codie Sanchez and Bill Perkins (of Die With Zero) in which Codie recounted a story of
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She seems pretty straightforward with minimal hype. I've seen a handful of her videos and attended one conference call. Useful from an aspirational type perspective and led me to a handful of other resources for acquiring a business. That approach is hardly the darling of the internet or the Tik Tok crowd and I like her stuff, but I'm still pretty far from dropping $10K for her coaching program. It's mostly interesting from the "buying cashflow" crowd that it attracts. Similar to RE.
 
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