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Welcome back to another electrifying and, personally for me, very, very top level, episode of Invest in Yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. I am, of course, your host Phil Betta, the podcast mogul. And today's guest is a true powerhouse in the world of AI and SaaS, combining digital marketing expertise with cutting edge technology to revolutionize content creation. He is a two times seven figure entrepreneur, dynamic public speaker, and the CEO of Syllabi, an AI driven startup that is helping content creators streamline their process by creating, scheduling, and publishing videos in minutes. He's also the host of business talk and social media sensation with over 4,000, that's right, 4,000 TikTok videos to his name. He's tripled his own business revenue while also skyrocketing the success of his clients, amassing millions of followers across all his platforms. Today, he he he'd say he's here to share that that strategies that have fueled his rise and to empower you to take your content creation game to the next level. He's also one of the top 10 guests that I've always wanted to interview because I've been following him for the last year.

And I'm just blowing as much warm air towards him, so I'll be more happy to share with us. But I wanna welcome the amazing Austin Armstrong to the podcast. Austin, thank you so much for being here.

Phil, it's an honor to be here, man. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share. I'm excited to nerd out with you over the next thirty, forty five minutes. It's gonna be fun.

Oh, it definitely will because I am a nerd of the AI and marketing, and you combine them both, so it's even better. So, Austin, we're gonna just start with the first question. As always, I'd like to ask, why did you become an entrepreneur? What made you decide to say, screw the nine to fivers. I wanna go on my own unbeaten path.

Yeah. So I've always been entrepreneurial, When I I think about you know, there's different paths that entrepreneurs take. I mean, I, the the real answer is I got fired from my job, and I was, you know, faced with that decision of, do I bet on myself, or do I try and find another job? And this was in the middle of the pandemic, but or, really, beginning of the pandemic. It was June of twenty twenty. I was fired from my full time job, and I had started my marketing agency at that point. It was very much a side hustle. And then, yeah, I was I was let go. I had two months of, revenue, to support myself.

I don't have kids, which is makes decisions a little bit easier, because I could you know, I'm relatively young. I I could've failed. But, yeah, ultimately, I decided to bet on myself, go all in, and it's the greatest decision that I ever could have made. I've now, I I've become pretty much a serial entrepreneur. I'm on my second, official business, but I have, other, smaller side hustle companies, as well. And I I've got my hands in, in a million different things, and and I, I I I'm so happy being an entrepreneur. It's like, why did I, you know, wait so long to actually jump in? I was, 28, I believe, when I started my first, like, official company, like, LLC, you know, the get your EIN, the whole whole nine yards there. And, like, why why did I wait so long to do this thing? But, yeah, that's I I don't think I'll ever, be an employee, in a traditional sense, ever again.

I I I'm I'm open to other opportunities in the future because who knows where it'll take you, but, like, I love being in control of my own destiny.