Welcome to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. Join the podcast mogul Phil Better as he interviews successful entrepreneurs that make their living in the digital world. Now let's join your host, Phil Better, and your special guest today on Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. Welcome back to another inspiring episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. I'm, of course, your host with the most Phil Better, the podcast mogul. And today, we have a guest who's a true master at the art of branding with decades of experience that have impacted both global companies and individual entrepreneurs alike. Our guest is known as the voice of impact driven branding with an impressive close to five decades career in defining and launching brands. He has now dedicated his expertise to serving Art Central entrepreneurs and professionals.

At his company, Rich Brands, he helps individuals elevate their unique gifts, ensuring that their brands are built on a foundation of clarity, longevity and divine purpose. His deep, deep commitment to listening and truly understanding the essence of people he works with sets our guests apart. He's not only just about creating a brand, he's about helping individuals make the most significant impact on the world with the gifts that they have been given. His approach is straight straightforward, trustworthy, and rooted in profound experience. Today, he's gonna he guides mentors and others through the seven steps of impact driven branding, helping them gain the clarity they need to make lasting impacts and become the brand they aspire to be. Whether you're looking to find your brand, write a book, or simply make a bigger impact, the wisdom that he shares is invaluable. So get ready to take your brand to the next level and make a lasting impact with this episode of Investing Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast with our guest, Rich Kozak. Rich, thank you so much for being here.

I don't know if my intro was as good as the video that you showed me before we started, but it hyped me up to another level, brother.

I am so glad to be here, and you're listening to this right now, and you

think, oh, no. This is one of

those things about branding. It's not. It's about you. If you're a solopreneur, if you're a one person, if you own a company, if you have a desire to make impacts on other people's lives through the work or the gift or the products or the service or the whatever you do, and you just don't know really what branding is and how to take yourself to another level, and you want you want straight talk, you can trust and deep experience your you can count, you are in the right place. Feel better. Thanks for having me. Oh, Rich, I am I I am excited. Like, I'm just, like, blown away.

The two videos you showed me were, like, hyping me up. And then before we even started recording, you were giving me gold, and I had to stop you. Because I was like, Rich, you're

you're giving away the the house before we even started talking about what the numbers are. So I'm gonna start this really quickly because I wanna know why did you become an entrepreneur? I know watching your video, I kind of figured it out myself, but my audience didn't get a chance to watch those videos. So why, Rich, did you decide to leave the corporate world and all that big money to become an entrepreneur, which without the security that, corporations bring?

Well, okay. So there are two times in my life that I just chose to be an entrepreneur. One, I was 13, and the other, I was 50. Okay? So let's take them one at a time. At 30 beginning. I told my dad, dad, I I I wanna make money. And he goes, you're 13. That's Pennsylvania.

You'd have to get a work permit. You have to wait till you're 16. You can't hey. Paint my house. I'll tell you what. If you learn how to paint my house, I can talk to other professors. He was a professor at Penn State. And and maybe they'll have you paint your house too because he knew I was kinda, like, you know, kinda mover shaker kinda guy.

But so he goes, I'll buy all this stuff. So he helped he just go down to the paint store and ask a lot of questions because there was no Internet we're talking about. You know? Yeah.

And it was it was a little bit before the Internet