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Welcome back to another captivating episode of Invest In Yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. I am, of course, your host with most Phil Better. And today, we have a guest whose resilience, innovation, and dedication to helping others truly sets them apart in the world of our digital entrepreneurship. Our guest today is a digital entrepreneur since the age of 16, another OG in the world, starting the online gaming space with friends. Our guests journey sees them flipping websites, selling advertising space, and running live events. His impressive career includes building market automation campaigns for billion dollar brands and developing platforms and mobile ads, mobile apps, sorry. In 2020, he faced a life altering challenge when he broke his neck playing rugby, you know, one of the safer sports that, The UK citizens decide to play. He also coupled with losing 50% of his business due to COVID, which we all know is a great time for entrepreneurship.

He was forced to redesign his business approach, raising from the rising from those challenges. Our guest focused on leveraging and using his extensive skills and expertise to help others achieve their goal. He's of course the author of the best selling book, Finally, Finally Find Friend Freedom, changing all the words, you know, it's finally find freedom in the self help space, and he specializes in helping female coaches and course creators overcome their technical headaches to save them time and earn more. Today, he's gonna share his remarkable journey, his insights on leveraging technology for business, success, and practical advice for entrepreneurs navigating their own challenges, whether you're looking to streamline your business operations or find inspiration and find it in the face of adversity. This episode is gonna be packed with valuable insights and lessons and, of course, motivation. So please put your hands together for a fellow Philip, mister Philip Ryan. Philip, thank you so much for being here. Thank you.

It's great to be here and what an introduction.

Oh, I try. I try. I always think of myself, I never could be a rap star because, well, I'm pigmently challenged, but I always love to hype people because they always got the crowd going. So that's how I look at it. This is my own stage. I'm the hype guy. You're the rap star or the celebrity, the star, whatever you want it called. So I gotta hype you up to make sure you're coming in at eleven so that the audience gets all the wisdom.

Some of us were just born at eleven.

No. I'm sorry. Well, that's Phil Ferning. We always start at eleven. Of course. Fire. Right? This is gonna be a very braggadocious episode if you're called Philip because we're just gonna be loving the Phils here. But Phil Is

that sorry. Is that Phil's or is that feels?

It's a bit of both because Phil makes us feel better. Hey. There we go. Philip, I wanna know why did you start becoming an entrepreneur at the age of 16 instead of, you know, chasing chasing, skirts as the old boomers used to say?

Great question. It really comes down to passion. So I started in the online space at 16. I managed to get a dial up modem and a cable running across, you know, hallway from office into bedroom and all those things and hoping that nobody would phone and that it would disconnect. And, you know, if you were around in those days, you'll know what I'm talking about. And, you know, playing with friends online. So it was online gaming. It was it was that passion to say, oh, this is something new and exciting.

Let's explore it. Let's see what I can do. So it started with playing with friends at school, but that then became writing for some of the news portals and getting involved in the community and saying, okay, what else can I do? Started running my own live events and tournaments. And then, ah, well, somebody's selling something. Okay. Maybe I can buy that. Bought a couple of websites. Started building the audience around them.

Started flipping them. Started selling advertising to other people. It's like, oh, this is interesting. Let's see if I can do more. So it wasn't sort of a a formal entry to entrepreneurship. It wasn't really a conscious decision. It was more about following that passion of, oh, this is this is interesting. You know, before that point, if we think 16 in The UK, I'm not sure if it's the same in The US, it was heading towards GCSEs.