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Welcome back to another empowering episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. I'm of course your host with the most feel better. And today we're thrilled to introduce a powerhouse duo who turned their journey from nursing and band teacher to digital trail blazers, providing that no background is a barrier when you have a vision and the right strategies. Today we have Todd and Leah Ray Getz, who are a dynamic mind behind the digital Trailblazer.com a platform that's become a lifeline for coaches, consultants and experts looking to transform their expertise into profitable online courses and coaching programs. Starting without starting without any business prior experience, Todd and Leah use their unique blend of strategic messaging, automated systems and ethical marketing to build a sustainable family first business. Their inspiring story is proof that you can design a thriving digital business without compromising the values and priorities that matter most. So get ready to be inspired and take notes as we welcome the Trailblazers themselves, Todd and Leah Ray Getz. Guys, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having us, Phil. We're excited.

I'm excited to have you guys here because you don't fit the normal mode or mold of entrepreneurs. You have a band teacher, you have others families. I want to know what made you guys decide to shoe off the nine to five and decide to become digital Trailblazers digital entrepreneurs?

Yeah, well, we definitely weren't looking for it. It kind of came upon us like probably a lot of folks may have experienced for us. We had been praying and been married for 10 years praying for children and we had really great at that time consulting jobs where we were traveling and we were living in rural Oklahoma. And finally after 10 years of prayers, our first son was born. And so we brought him home and I was now a single mom from Sunday evenings through Thursday night, Friday morning every week when Todd was traveling. And after praying and waiting for children for so long, it was not what we wanted. And you know, Todd barely saw that, saw us and we were, we were home alone. And it just wasn't what we were looking for.

And at the time we really didn't have. Todd didn't have local job options. We lived in rural Oklahoma. It was like be a farmhand, work at the local gas station or factory or nothing that could get him to the level that he was at in his corporate position. So we started exploring things we kind of fell into kind of accidentally. Like a lot of people. Network marketing was a really good like dip your toes into entrepreneurship because I grew up in definitely job security type home. The opposite of entrepreneurship, just security and a job.

That was what everything was about. And so network marketing was a really good way to they get dip our toes in, kind of get our mindset started wrapping around having a business. From there we kind of sucked at it. So we, we frankly, we really sucked at it. And we were both very good at what we did before this. And so it was really frustrating. We came online and tried to figure out how to do this stuff online. Through that we found affiliate marketing.

That's where things started to really change for us. We learned and for anybody who's not familiar with affiliate marketing, that's where you're selling other people's products. So you learn the sales and the marketing pieces of this. But you don't have to worry about delivery. Someone else is working on delivery. So it's a really good starting point for people who are trying to figure out the online space. That's for us where we took off. We, we got coaches, we got courses and we learned how to, to generate leads, how to run Facebook ads, how to write copy, how to run challenges, how to sell webinars, like all of these really awesome things.