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I love this podcast. It's so inspiring. Thanks for sharing all that you're learning.

Thank you Pat for sharing all your hard earned knowledge with us! You are awesome!!

Pat is completely on-point with the content he shares and the relatable, simple way he conveys it! His guests are amazing and his approach is overall excellent. Thanks, Pat, for doing what you do!

Love the content you create and what you have been able to accomplish!

All the information Pat and his guests provide on the podcast is so inspirational, motivating and useful. Thank you for all the value!

Such a heartwarming podcast with Kelsey Bladwin, owner of Paper and Oats. Her personal journey is one of overcoming challenges by setting her own course of action. Kelsey is an inspiration for all and when times get difficult for Entrepreneurs, this is the perfect podcast to listen to. Shows the power of determination and validates the truth that we in fact control our destiny. Sad story with her background but also so uplifting as Kelsey built her business and in doing so has created a life for her and her daughter. POWERFUL!!

I don't listen to many business podcasts, but when I do, it has to be Pat Flynn. This podcast has incredible actionable advice with knowledgeable guests and interesting topics. Pat is a seamless and genuine host with an ability to show his expertise while still being friendly and relatable.

Your podcast with Selena Soo was great. I've been a student of hers for about a year. The questions you asked were fantastic and learned even more insights. I particularly liked how you gave three different scenarios as to where a person may be in their business and had her walk through a strategy for each of them.

Where do I start? First off, Pat is a humble, down to earth, nice guy. I met Pat a few years back, and he was no different in person as he sounds on the show. To me, that's a big deal. The guy obviously knows business, how to make money, how create passive income and how to interview incredible guests. But what is the thing that impressed me most? How much of a family man he is. He builds his work day around his wife and kids. Like any entrepreneur, Pat admits it can take his mind away at times. But he seems to be so grounded and that's so refeshing to hear in this day and age. I loved that he said recently that his perfect day was with his family fishing on a remote lake with sandwiches and a beer. Proves that you don't need a ton of passive income to have a happy, grateful successful life! Awesome podcast, awesome guy.

The best place to go for excellent useful content you will want to hear if you have an online business

I just started listening to this podcast and have gotten some great ideas from the few podcasts I've heard so far. The only problem I have with the podcast is it supports 99design. Fun? Spend days or a week creating free work and giving away your ideas to someone in the hopes of work is fun? I did this a few times, in the beginning as an illustrator, before I realized what a mistake this is. Artists, need I say never give your work away for free? Your time is valuable. Clients looking for cheap work, realize you are asking an actual human being to spend hours, perhaps days of their life trying to realize your idea. Would you give this much of your own time when the odds are 20 to 1 of simply getting paid? Probably not. So why would you ask someone else to do that? No getting around the fact that 99design is a total rip off. And just because it exists doesn't mean it's right.

Smart passive income is my first real podcast that I listened too and I have loved it from the beginning. On a three day road trip from Brisbane Australia to Melbourne I could not stop listening to all the great interviews and advice Pat Flynn gave. His real life stories and experiences and those of is great and sometimes world famous like Tim Ferris is motivating and instructive. I am now a dedicated listener. Finally his book Will it Fly is a great and helpful read on how to validate your entrepreneurial ideas.

Practical, concise, and relatable.

I've followed Pat for a while--listening to his podcasts, reading his newsletters, and I even used his podcast tutorials to launch my own podcast. He's not like some of the slick online entrepreneur "bros"; he's humble, authentic, knowledgeable and always looking for better ways to do things. Even the people who work with him are helpful and human. Pat's a trusted source for ideas and inspiration.

I found Pat's podcast couple of months ago. I love how Pat can talk to his guests in a very sincere way. I listen to both his old and the latest episodes, couple times a day while either driving, cooking or exercising. It is really inspirational, motivational and gives me lot of insights on how to start an online business.

This review is overdue because I've been listening to Smart Passive Income for nearly a year now. I love Pat's quirkiness and his comfort in his own skin. He doesn't pretend to have it all figured out, and that transparency makes it easy to relate to him, both as an entrepreneur and as a human being. Pat invites a broad spectrum of guests onto the show, and he always does a good show of putting them front and center. They talk a lot more than he does, which I find refreshing. This isn't a cult of personality podcast. This is a normal guy creating opportunities for other people to share their successes and failures (and have fun in the process). I always learn something new, something that I can put into practice immediately, and I look forward to sharing my own story on SPI one day soon. My problem is that I'm always stopping in the middle of my runs to type out notes and to-dos on my phone. So stop, Pat. Except don't stop. Subscribe to this podcast. Your life and your business will be better for it.

Pat is someone I trust. He puts it all out there, the good and the bad. He tries, fails, adjusts, tries, pivots, tries and succeeds over and over again. He is honest and real. If you're ready to try a new life where you are the boss, he's shown many ways to get started. I couldn't recomend this enough.

Love your podcast. Thank you for helping people share their knowledge and skills on the podcast. It's super informative and has many useful tricks and tips to help develop my own business.

Great podcast, varied guest list, so there's always a different view on common problems. Quite agreeable voice too, and the length of the episode is perfect.

Love listening to Pat. I always learn something, and I feel like I know him (of course I don't). He seems so authentic and real, not like the other gurus that I listen to that are unapproachable. Pat mixes his nice guy next door personality with the "you can do it too" advice that I love. Thanks Pat.

Pat Flynn's podcast has guided me through beginning and growing my online business. He is so knowledgeable, open and fun. Each episode gets right into things and provides hands-on action steps, resource recommendations, and great interviews with a wide variety of top-notch professionals. I often end up listening to topics I would not have thought would be helpful and wind up inspired once again to keep on keeping on. No matter what episode it is, Pat delivers again and again to help small business owners make their way in the online world. You won't ever be wasting your time with this one!

I found this quite late and took my chances to submit a question. Unlike other similar podcasts, he actually responds! I got my question featured and he even sent a free shirt. -Will Chou

I started listening to Smart Passive Income a few months ago after I met Pat through another podcaster at a marketing conference. I had heard of him before but never heard his podcast. What struck me right away was how genuine he was. He was gracious enough to spend some time with me and share his wisdom and advice. While at the event he was giving away signed copies of his book "Will it Fly". As I started reading the book I subsribed to his podcast an started listening to every episode I could find time for. I was amazed! You'd expect that someone with a podcast called Smart Passive Income, who also posts his monthly income on his website, would be on their bragging about the things he's got and how easy it is to make a lot of money if you just have a certain mindset or certain level of knowledge. And that all I'd have to do to get all their secrets to success would be to buy an expensive $2000 product or something. But not with Pat. He offers so much friggin free advice that I feel guilty NOT paying for it. And frankly, the advice he does give for FREE, could easily be sold to his audience for thousdands. But what makes it even better than the advice he shares is the way in which he shares it. He goes into such detail about how to start a podcast, for instance, or how to write an e-Book, that by the end of listening, or watching his video tutorials, I felt like I just spent a day with him in a Mastermind Group or something. He has a way of breaking down large, complex, business challenges so that by the time he's done teaching, I don't feel overwhlemed or less confident that I can do it excecute. As a matter of fact, I feel empowerd and excited--and not because he is all rah rah and motivational, because he's not. But simply because I genuinely learn something I can use immediately. One more thing that I will say, is that when he doesn't have a guest and he's just talking into the Mic to his audience, I think are some of his best episodes. The more I can hear him speak the happier I am. I highly recommed his podcast. Subscribe now!

Pat Flynn is amazingly generous with his knowledge and expertise. I love listening to him and am so glad he constantly brings us new content. I've used his advise and programs in my business and they've directly attributed to my success. Keep it coming, Pat. I'm a huge supporter and fan.