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If you’re a regular listener, you already know some of Matt and Kia’s favorite books, as well as have a long list recommended by all of their guests. In this podcast, listen in to hear their all time top 5 must read books and why. Don’t miss Matt and Kia’s “cliffsnotes” so you know which books you want to read first! And they couldn’t resist mentioning a bunch of other awesome books you’ll want to add to your list as well, including, of course, Profit First by Mike Michalowicz.

Matt:

2. Book Yourself Solid – Michael Port (https://amzn.to/2MG3DNp)
5. Hug Your Customers – Jack Mitchell (https://amzn.to/2Xn64oQ)
8. Purple Cow – Seth Godin (https://amzn.to/2JUxm2I)
11. Customer Mania – Ken Blanchard (https://amzn.to/2WC4QsI)
14. High Performing Habits – Brendon Burchard (https://amzn.to/2JWpu0K)

Kia:

2. The Secrets of World of Mouth Marketing – George Silverman
5. Blue Ocean Strategy – W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne (https://amzn.to/2MBHBeG)
8. Getting Stuff Done – David Allen (https://amzn.to/2If1Fho)
11. StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Tom Rath (https://amzn.to/2MrpQhK)
14. Boundaries – Henry Cloud and John Townsend (https://amzn.to/2MmTx3t)
17. Love Does – Bob Goff (https://amzn.to/2XppnxB)

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[00:00] Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer’s podcast with Matt and Kayak where each week they talk to photographers about what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster.

[00:15] Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. Today’s episode is gonna be kind of fun. As you know, probably from listening to the podcast, Kai and I are big book fans and so we wanted to kind of share our top five books for each, I guess just top five bucks. So kind of do you have your top five bucks? Are you ready?

[00:31] I do. Now I kind of have a top five books in lots of different categories into books. So I tried to make this one my business top five, so yeah.

[00:43] And that’s what I kind of did too. So these will be, what’s interesting is I think there’ll be business books, but there’s so much like kind of this self help in there and just about like getting rid of head trash and stuff like that. So, but I think, yeah, the minor definitely business centered for sure. So

[00:55] yeah. Yeah, I always do books that like has kind of shaped my life because I do have certain authors that I feel like their viewpoint on the world has helped me figure out who I want to be. Like Madeleine L’Engle or Anne McCaffrey, which are not really, people don’t really read those very much, but I felt like for this podcast I want him to be pretty specific and do things that are going to help people straight up in their business. So I’m a cyber fraud.

[01:21] That’s where I’m at too. Cool. So do you want me to start? I’ll start. It doesn’t work. Yeah. Yeah, you do your first one. Okay, so the first book, this one I’m doing first because it was one of the first books that we read that actually launched our business and helped us and it’s actually book yourself solid by Michael Port. Have you read that one yet? No, I haven’t. Okay, so it’s a, it’s a general business book. It kind of talks about like basically he has likes on some philosophies in there like a red rope policy, which is basically like not everybody can do business with...