You know, Gandhi once said that if you don't ask you don't get, so what did I do? I went out and asked Mark Victor Hansen to come back on the show and he graciously accepted. So Mark is an inspirational and motivational speaker. He's a trainer and multiple times, New York Times Bestselling Author. He is best known for the book series Chicken Soup for the Soul that has sold, and Mark will correct me if I'm wrong on this over 500 million copies. And also with me today is Mark's wife, Crystal Dwyer Hansen. She is an international speaker researcher, corporate consultant, author, and entrepreneur, and she believes that all people have unlimited potential for greatness. If they only understand how to access their inner resources. So with that Mark, welcome to the show.

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Thank you. It is true. We have, which makes me according to the Guinness book of records, the world's best selling author 59 times number one, and I've been blessed with 309 bestsellers, the last of which is with my beloved beautiful wife, Crystal. We've just written this book called Ask the Bridge from your Dreams to Your Destiny.

I love it. Great title. Crystal. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Happy to be here with you, Marco.

It's great to have you. Maybe you could take a minute and tell us a little bit about yourself since our audience knows a little bit about Mark, but we don't know who you are.

Okay. So yes, I'm a transformational life coach and clinical hypnotherapist, author, speaker, Mark, and I are blessed to travel around the world motivating and inspiring audiences and just helping people become the best version of themselves.

That's fantastic. Great. Okay. So towards the end, we'll just get some contact information from you guys and where your websites are located, but I'm excited to jump into today's topic. And I told you, Mark, that I have a little bit of a funny story to tell you. So, you know, your most recent book Ask the Bridge from Your Dreams to your Destiny. What a great title. I started reading it, a fantastic book. It reminded me of a book I used to have and I can visualize it in my head. And I remember this from back in 1994, 95. And the book on my shelf was called The Aladdin Factor. How to ask for what you want and get it. What I didn't know until today is that you were the author of that book.

Not only the author, actually the creator, what was happening is it Jack and I, when we went to sell Chicken Soup, nobody wanted it. And I know 144 people ultimately, and we took the rejection, but we brought one of the books I'd written Dare to Win and we had 14 books in the series with Berkeley dare to win all the way to dare. No God. The second of which was Dare to Ask, will they call back when we're number one and number two for 58, we actually said, one month, you've got to have this book. We've got a contract. And I went to Jack and he said, what are you going to do about 50 50. They're going to sue us. Don't do it. So what do you mean, what am I going to do? Because it was a book about asking. I immediately called up 101, what we call today, master askers, and interviewed them and put it together and ended up selling 3.6 million. And that's why our book now stands on the shoulders of that because I think we're good.

But I think as you get older and wiser and deeper and more refined, you get even better. And this book Ask, we've only had it out a month. So far as we're taping audiotaping, gear, podcasting,