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Welcome back to another exciting episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. I'm of course your host with the most feel Better, the Podcast Mogul. And today we're joined by an inspiring figure in the world of podcasting and content creation. A true leader who has built a name that is synonymous with dedication, authenticity and impactful storytelling. Our guest is the powerhouse behind the Eric and Allen Show, a top 1.5 globally ranked podcast and that captures the audiences with its real, unfiltered conversations. He isn't just a podcast host. He's the devoted family man, a follower of faith and a skilled content creator who has made waves across majority platforms. From being featured on the Nasdaq and Times Square to sharing his insights on over 200 podcasts including dropping Bombs with Brad Leah.

Our guest has solidified his place as a sought after podcast coach and content expert. So today I am excited to have him on the one, the only, Eric Allen. Eric, thank you so much for being here, man.

Oh, Phil, such an honor to be on your show, dude. I'm excited to get into the conversation with you, man. You have an awesome show and people need to be listening to the show for sure, man.

Well, they also have to be listening to you, but there's a lot more people since you're a top 1.5. I'm on my way up. I'm at a 5% globally, which is still an impressive feat for any podcast to hit for sure. So I'm going to jump straight into it. As a podcaster, how did you become an entrepreneur? Because podcasters aren't known for making money, if anybody knows the tales.

Yeah, I think podcasting is really just the door that opens. Right. So podcasting brings relationships, partnerships, collaborations. Some of my best friends today are people that I've had had on the podcast or I was on their podcast. Right. And so, you know, through podcasting you can set up affiliate links or you can get paid sponsors, or you can create communities where there's other folks that are joining that community that maybe other podcasters or whatever your niche is, right? And maybe it's a free community and then you've got an upgrade to a, A, a larger, you know, monthly spend sort of community. But I think podcasting is all of that. But for me, it's legacy.

Like, I wish that I could go back three and four generations deep and hear my great grandfather's voice and hear his story from him. And I can't do that, but I can certainly do that for future generations down my tribe, right?

Oh, I love that. It is the legacy. I look at podcasting. Yeah, it's a. It can create wealth, but what it really creates is that legacy wealth that you, you're leaving a stamp. Like, yeah, I started this to learn for myself what an entrepreneur is, because who knows what an entrepreneur is, right? I thought it was the, you know, your uncle getting the get rich quick schemes, you know, or a brick and mortar type thing like. No. In the digital created that world for me.

So I'm learning from amazing people like yourself. But also it's now a legacy for my nephew so he can listen to it and figure out and my kids when they come down and then 18 generations down, you know, because who wouldn't love to have like the Rockefellers, you know, but the first Rockefeller, you know, setting up Standard Oil, you know, who would love to hear his ideas, you know, and learn from him. But yeah, I love that this is for your legacy. How long have you been podcasting for?

So I started a podcast in 2017 and I started with a. An MMA podcast called the Top Rated mma. And I was just interviewing MMA fighters and asked them really like, why the heck do you want to get in a cage and get punched in the face?

And Pretty good question to ask.

I had no idea what I was doing. I was in a walk in closet. I had a hundred foot extension that wrapped around the bed in the bedroom into the closet because there's no plugins, like, bad lighting, didn't even look into the camera. Like, you know, I was actually just uploading my video to YouTube and calling that my podcast. And I literally released about a hundred episodes. And someone said, well, how can I listen to on Apple? And I was like, what the hell is that? I didn't know what Apple podcast was. I was just uploading to YouTube. I got a podcast, man.