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Pat Flynn: What's up everybody Pat Flynn here, and welcome to session 429 of the Smart Passive Income Podcast. My name is Pat Flynn here to help you make more money, save more time, and help more people too. We got a success story. Boy do we have a success story to share with you today from Sophie Walker from Australia. She's going to come on in just a moment to share exactly how this all happened, where she got the idea, and what happened from there. It's just really exciting because again, I'm so stoked to share the success stories of my students, because this proves that this can happen.

Pat Flynn: It's so awesome because Sophie is also very active in our Facebook student center for Power-Up Podcasting. She just encourages the newbies in there every once in a while when she reaches these new milestones, especially because she is somebody who started from scratch. From zero, which is really cool. If you are starting from scratch, or you're starting out and you haven't yet found success, I hope this encourages you, because she's going to share some specifics as well in terms of how she did what she did, and what has happened since, and how she's planning to go even bigger and better. Here she is, Sophie Walker from Australian Birth Stories podcast. Hey Sophie, welcome to the SPI podcast. Thanks for being here today.

Sophie Walker: Thanks so much for having me Pat, such an honor.

Pat Flynn: Well, I'm so honored to have you on as somebody who has taken one of my courses and done extremely well with it, I'm just so excited to learn how you did that, what it's done for you, and all that kind of stuff. But before we get into your podcast and what's opened up for you, I would love to understand a little bit more about you and what you did before you started the podcast. What did Sophie do before?

Sophie Walker: Sure. As you can tell from my accent, I live in Australia. I live here in Melbourne, and I've got three little boys. They are six, four and one. Prior to starting the podcast, I've got a background in public health. I used to work at a cancer organization in Australia, and I interviewed women about their cancer experience. I had interviewing experience in that way. But I was working part-time a couple of days a week in between juggling my kids, and listening to podcasts every day on the way to work. I'm not sure how I stumbled onto your podcast, but I became obsessed and was binging on that. A girlfriend of mine we used to do a lot of mail outs and she'd say, "You know what? You should start your own podcast." We joked about it. I thought okay, maybe I will. I was right into birth story, so I recorded my own birth and then I recorded a few friends' births, and then it took off from there.

Pat Flynn: When you say recorded a birth, what does that mean exactly?

Sophie Walker: There's a few different countries around the world where people have podcasts, where they interview a woman about her pregnancy and then her childbirth experience. I thought there's none in Australia doing the Australian healthcare system with different things that we know and can relate to here. I recorded my own experience of childbirth with my second son. My mum listened and my sister listened and I thought it was a bit of fun. I had no idea it would end up being where it's at today. Now it's had over nearly 2.4 million downloads. That's been a wild ride.

Pat Flynn: That's insane. I'm so proud of you. What is it like now to know that every episode you come out with has like tens of thousands of downloads, that you're making this impact around the world now?