Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing yourself and your business.

Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bafini.

Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host, Brian Bafini.

And today we have a topic and a person that I'm very, very passionate about bringing to you.

His passion is similar to mine. It's about making the American dream possible. In fact,

he wrote a great book. I highly recommend his book. It's called Experience in the American Dream.

And it's how to invest your time, energy, and money to create an extraordinary life.

And it's really practical, full of how-toos, how to get your head and your heart around money.

I'm so excited to have them here.

I can't believe we hadn't met before.

But Mark Mattson, welcome to the show.

It seems like it was inevitable.

We were going to be talking one day.

Brian, it's great to be with you and I'm really excited about today. Yeah, brothers from different

mothers is how people have described who've gone through your program and said, you have to meet

this man. And then I've had several people send me your book. That's usually a good sign when a number

of trusted sources I have to say, oh, you love this guy. You've got to read

his book. And I have loved this book. And the more I've delved into your world, I'm like,

hang on a second. And the only guest I've had to date who has more children than me, which I feel

fantastic about. Mark has eight kids, making my family of six kids feel small and insignificant, which is fantastic. I don't get that very often. So we have eight kids making my family of six kids feel small and insignificant, which is fantastic. I don't

get that very often. We have eight kids and we're not even Catholic, so go figure. Yeah, that's great.

Before that you'd be dive here into the book, I wanted you to share a little context of why this is

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