Hello there. Keith Carpenter here, and welcome to the Mean Business podcast. I am so excited to kick off this podcast. It's definitely been something that I've been thinking about doing for quite some time, and I'm excited to get going. So in this first inaugural episode, I want to go over a few things with you. Number one, I'm going to keep all these podcasts to about 10 to 15 minutes at the most. I'm going to share one main lesson, one main idea in each episode, and so over time, my goal with this podcast is just simply to bring value to your life as a listener of this podcast.

So in this first episode, I'm going to share with you the five main categories of information that I'm able to speak intelligently on. I will not talk about something I don't know, or haven't had first world experience with. So you can rely on me to bring you the truth always, and only my experience with the things that I discuss. If I don't have experience with something, I will bring on an expert and we can interview them and have some fun and learn things that we don't know. Now, before I get into the five categories of information that I'm going to be sharing with you here, I want to share a statistic with you. I love statistics. I saw this recently, and I think it's so important to share this with you because it helps put things in perspective. Okay. Dive into the podcast now.