How To Become A #1 Bestselling Author With Jenn Foster – Book Publishing, AI, Authority & Marketing Strategies

 

Releasing your own book is one of the best ways to build authority, but it must never be done hastily and without a personal human touch. Bestselling author Jenn Foster sits down with Ava Benesocky and August Biniaz to explore the book publishing process, the different marketing strategies you can try, and what it means for establishing your personal brand. Jenn also discusses how AI is being used in writing books while maintaining an authentic human experience. This is a must-listen for anyone who wants to turn their knowledge and expertise into a powerful marketing tool for their business.

Get in touch with Jenn Foster:

Website: https://eliteonlinepublishing.com | https://authorjennfoster.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennfosterseo

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• Jenn Foster
• Jenn Foster on LinkedIn
• Jenn Foster on Instagram
• Jenn Foster on Facebook
• Otter
• Kindle Direct Publishing
• IngramSpark
• Tools of Titans
• Elite Online Publishing
• From Ordinary to Extraordinary
• Be Recognized: The AI Authority Engine for Experts Who Want to Be Known, Be Profitable, and Be Published
• Oasis
• HubSpot
• Mike Koenigs
• How to Write Your Life Story and Leave a Legacy
• Elite Expert Insider

 

About Jenn Foster

A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, & #1 International Bestselling Author, one of today’s national leading digital marketing specialists, an award-winning web designer, and recipient of the esteemed “Quilly Award”. She is the Founder/Owner of Elite Online Publishing as well as the Founder/CEO of Biz Social Marketing Agency.

Jenn is dedicated to helping business owners boost their revenue, and catapult their visibility to become business influencers. Jenn is a graduate of Utah State University. She owned and operated a chain of successful retail stores. Jenn has been named one of America’s Premier Experts® and is highlighted in the Dan Kennedy Book, Stand Apart.

She was recently named one of “Utah’s Thought Leaders” in the book Innovate Utah by Global Village. Jenn is the co-host of Elite Expert Insider Podcast & Elite Publishing Podcast on iTunes and stitcher radio. Jenn is a single mom, loves spending time with her three children and experiencing the great outdoors.

 

How To Become A #1 Bestselling Author With Jenn Foster – Book Publishing, AI, Authority & Marketing Strategies

Welcome back to the show. How are we going to start the episode, August?

Not many interesting times are happening in the world. The world is going to fall apart. I’m kidding.

It seems like that some days.

With our business and our lives, we have to follow the news much more closely these days. We can see so many different things happening all over the world. Sweaty Prince Andrew got arrested for the Epstein files. They call him sweaty Prince Andrew.

Every day, something new is happening.

 

 

He wasn’t arrested for allegedly sleeping with minors. He was arrested because he was giving Epstein information. It was related to the finance of the UK. He was a finance envoy or something. He was forwarding the emails he was receiving to Epstein for some type of quid pro quo. We’ll get into our episode.

I love being married to August. I get an update on what’s happening in the world every single day. It’s throughout the day because there are new things happening every day. I have my own walking encyclopedia beside me.

We have a great show for you. We’re covering a lot of great topics, such as book publishing, personal branding, and AI. It’s going to be exciting stuff for you. Why don’t you go ahead and introduce our guest, Ava or we can get our guest to introduce herself?

We have Jenn Foster on our show. Before we started, Jenn and I were talking a little bit. We have a lot in common. She lived in Vancouver before. Her husband grew up in Alberta. I’m looking forward to getting to learn a little bit more about her. Welcome to the show, Jenn. It’s great to have you on.

Thanks for having me.

How Jenn Got Into The Book Publishing Business

Jenn, first of all, how did you get into the book publishing business? What exactly do you do?

It’s a great story. I got into the book publishing business because I was doing online marketing or digital marketing. I was doing videos, online marketing websites, and stuff like that. I went to a marketing conference. I’ve been going to this marketing conference for about two or three years. My mentor there talked about book publishing. I started publishing a few books for myself.

The third year I was there, one of my good friends was on stage in a hot seat. She was going through how she has this website where she could sell this villa in the Dominican Republic. It looked amazing. It had a private chef, a pool in the backyard, and all these beautiful things you could have at this resort in the Dominican Republic. I had gotten divorced and it was the first month I wasn’t going to have kids for a whole month. When you have three kids 24/7 then you’re like, “I’m not going to have kids for a month. What am I going to do?”

I thought, “I need to go on vacation to the Dominican Republic, but I need to make money.” I approached her afterwards and asked. We went to lunch and I said, “I’ve written a few books. You’ve written a few books. Let’s have a book-writing retreat at your villa. We’ll charge for it. We’ll make money, and then we can get them the bestseller status.” It’s because we both knew how to do it. We did that. We did a book-writing retreat. It was in 2015. That turned into a full-on publishing company. That’s how it got started.

That is incredible. I love that a month off from kids. I don’t even know what I would do. I would like to conquer the world.

I was like, “I need to make money, but I also need to have fun.” We did a book-writing retreat. I stayed another week and relaxed in the Dominican Republic. I came home and did the fulfillment for the ladies who came down to do their book writing.

I love that you turned your passion into a career. Are you an editor yourself, Jenn?

I am not an editor. What we do is we have editors on our team. There are so many people who have gone to school to be an editor, or they’re good ghostwriters. I would say I’ve always liked writing. I remember some of my writing classes in high school and college. I liked them, but I never thought I was a writer. To be honest, the first three books that I published, I just did what my mentor told me to do. Otter has been big for ten years. We used Otter. We just talked about our books.

One of the first books I wrote, we did this formula that we still use, which is ten by ten by three. You do ten should-ask questions, then ten frequently asked questions, because people ask you the same questions over and over, but they should be asking you different ones. You have these ten questions that you can answer about your business or yourself, and now you have a book. You just talk about it. That’s what I did for one of the first books that I did.

Start writing your book by listing down ten questions people are asking you over and over again. Because people ask you the same questions over and over, but they should be asking you different ones. Share on X

Can you break down for the audience what a publisher is?

A lot of people don’t understand. Depending on the year you were born, you don’t understand what publishing is. Some people think I’m a printer and I print books. I don’t print books. We have printing companies that print books. What we do is we publish books. To publish a book means you have to get the content, the writing, and make sure it’s edited and looks beautiful. We format that into a beautiful design. It’s design work.

We design the interior of the book. We design the front cover of the book. We make it look beautiful. We market the book and publish the book. With print on demand, with services like Kindle Direct Publishing and IngramSpark, you can make your book available to everyone in the world. We can make it a best seller and help the author to brand themselves and make a name for themselves. That’s what we do.

My next question was going to be, what is the difference between self-publishing and professional publishing. If you self-publish, you get to keep the majority of the sales. Using professional publishing, you’re going to reach probably way more people to sell your book.

There’s traditional publishing all the way down to self-publishing. There are a few in the middle. You have boutique publishers. You have hybrid publishers. Some hybrid publishers will take some of your royalties. Traditional publishers are going to be like, “I’m going to give you an advance.” Usually, if you read your contract, that advance has to go towards marketing. You can’t spend that just to live. You’re supposed to be spending that on marketing, PR, and all of that. They keep pretty much all your rights and all your royalties.

I remember Tim Ferriss once saying, for Tools of Titans, that book he did with all his interviews. He said he made $0.30 a book. I was like, “That’s a lot of work for $0.30 a book.” I’m sure he sells a lot of copies because he had to get published and go. If he had self-published that, he would have made all the royalties other than sharing it with Amazon or Barnes and Noble or the retailers. It’s everywhere in between. We help you self-publish because we believe that the author spent all that time writing the book and they should keep their rights and royalties. If it does turn into a movie, they have the rights to that.

You help people self-publish the book.

When you say you’re a publisher, you’re more of a support for the writer.

I would say we do own their distribution because we own their ISBN, but they own their copyright and their royalties. The ISBN is their barcode. It’s the number that identifies the book. We own the distribution of that. If you type in Elite Online Publishing on Amazon, you’ll see a lot of the books that we publish.

There are a few that jump in there that we didn’t publish. I don’t know why it does that. If it shows you’re published by Elite Online Publishing, you look a lot more reputable than if it says self-published when you look at the description of the book. We have our name on it. Traditionally, you’re getting all the rights, royalties, and copyrights in your name.

Major Motivating Factors To Write A Book

Jenn, in your experience with clients, what are the motivating factors to write a book? It has to be their story. People want their story to be heard. A lot of the time, perhaps make an additional stream of income. I would say a lot of people write a book to position themselves coming from a place of authority. What are your thoughts on that?

We work with a lot of business owners who want that name for themselves, or they’re switching careers. They want to speak on stages, and they need that authority. We will publish the occasional fiction or children’s book, but it’s a totally different marketing campaign than someone who is positioning a book to get leads and customers or to use this book as a marketing tool. There’s a way that you can write the book specifically to get on stages or to raise capital or whatever it is that you’re trying to do with your book.

We believe in using that book and writing it for that one person. We did meet an author who wrote a book for one person so they could get a job. They had two people in mind of jobs they wanted. They mailed the book to each of them with a cover letter. They got the job. It was written specifically to get the job and to show their expertise and their value.

On that note, I have a follow-up question here, Ava, if you don’t mind. When it comes to your services and advice you give your clients, how does it work when your client comes to you? You said about raising capital. Let’s say somebody wants to write a book about raising capital, which is a very niche type of industry. Do you go out there and seek potential advisors to assist them? Do they need to come to the table with all the knowledge that’s needed for the book they’re going to be writing? Do you guys assist them in research? How does all that work?

Most authors come up with an idea. Some authors already have a lot of it in their heads. They just need to get it out and write it out. Occasionally, there’ll be authors who do need the research or they need a ghostwriter to help them. We do have book coaches that can help with that. We have a VIP day that helps because there are a few authors who will come to us and say, “I have these three ideas. I don’t know which book to write first.” A VIP day, we extract that. It’s defining who your audience is, getting your avatar, starting to write the book, getting the outline, and diving right in. That’s the ghostwriter. It’s usually me or my business partner.

Do you have different ghostwriters for finance or ghostwriters for personal development?

Each ghostwriter, each writer or editor, has their expertise on books that they’ve worked on, so we can point the author in the right direction.

How Elite Online Publishing Assist Writers

I’m Ava Benesocky. I come to you and I’m like, “Jenn, I’m more focused on the equity side of the business when it comes to my firm. I want to talk about capital raising.” Maybe you can talk to me. I approach you, and I say, “What’s the process of writing a book with a firm like yours?” Maybe we can go through it step-by-step. Take us through that step-by-step process on how you’d onboard me and how you would help me.

If you were going to do the VIP day, or even if you weren’t, we could guide you through writing if you hadn’t written it yet. A lot of times, you’ll have an outline or ideas in your head or stories that you want to write. If you don’t have those, that’s where we go through the ten by ten by three. You come up with the ten frequently asked questions that people ask about your position or about the thing you want to write about, and then the ten should-ask questions. If they only knew this, they would ask me that.

For each one of those questions, you can come up with one to three examples or stories because stories sell. Stories are what we want, whether it’s your story or someone else’s story. You can always use someone else’s story. I always tell a story of one of my mentors who was on an airplane. He saw Richard Dreyfuss up in first class. He knew Richard Dreyfuss had a foundation. He had a foundation, and he had just written this book. They had a layover, and then they had another leg of the journey. He approached him and gave him the book.

He had written in the book, “Check out page 50. I think it will help your foundation.” Richard Dreyfuss was ecstatic. He invited him to come sit with him in first class. They talked the whole way and did business. They helped each other with the foundation. Little things like that, a book can change and get you into doors you never thought of, those opportunities. Those little stories like that in your ten by ten by three can make your book amazing.

How long does it typically take you to publish a book from start to finish to help a client publish a book?

The average is 3 to 4 months. We have had some authors who take longer. Some of them haven’t written anything yet when they come to us. It’s how long to write their manuscript. With all the new AI tools and all the cool stuff out there, Otter is getting better and better. Otter has the AI feature in it, so you can ask questions while it’s recording you. It’s pretty cool.

I remember. I co-authored a book. There were about ten ladies. It’s called From Ordinary to Extraordinary. I remember sitting there with pen to paper for hours and hours and going through my story. I didn’t have ChatGPT at that time or any of that. I was writing it down in the theater room there at Piermont, and going through my story. I’ve been part of this process before without the AI, Otter, and all these amazing things that you can use nowadays. I’m excited to get into that.

Before we go into the AI and everything like that, maybe we can talk about what a publishing house is. I think about only maybe two 2 of 10,000 books offered to a publishing house make it. In reality, if you don’t have a brand behind your name, you’re probably not going to be getting published. Would you agree with that?

For sure. In the traditional publishing house, they’re looking at your social media. They’re looking at your LinkedIn profile, Instagram profile, and Facebook profile. They want to know who your followers are, what type of email list you have, which is a big one like your CRM, or your customer relationship manager. What list do you have? Do you email them regularly? What’s your open rate? They’re looking at all of these things.

Are you well-known? Do people know your name? Do people know your face? They’re looking at all of that. They may look at your manuscript. They haven’t even heard your message or know what your book is about. They’re looking at all of that first. We’ve done marketing for a lot of authors who have worked with Simon and Schuster, Hachette, McGraw Hill, and all those big names.

A lot of them got a small advance, but then they had to use the marketing dollars. They still hadn’t hit number one on Amazon, or they still hadn’t sold as many copies of the book as they wanted to. They come to us so we can help them with their marketing. I would say for publishing houses, if you’re going the traditional route, you need a personal brand. You need to have a following and a fan base.

 

Nobody wants to read a book by someone who doesn’t exist. That’s a huge part of it.

How To Use AI Responsibly In Writing Books

This is a great segue to discuss getting to AI. We did some research prior to the show with AI to answer the next question that we have for you. Are books going to be obsolete? We agreed with AI on the fact that there are going to be stories in people’s experiences and their life experiences that are only in their minds. They have never shared it with anyone. Maybe they’ve shared bits and pieces of it, but not holistically. They haven’t shared their whole life story where books allow someone to write those stories.

When it comes to instructional books in particular, where an author is going out there, collecting, doing research, bringing in their research information, and then putting it into a book. AI might do a better job at that. Maybe it doesn’t have the quirky and fun stories that an author can share about their life experiences.

Aside from that, if it’s purely an instructional book, AI might do a better job. AI somewhat conceded to what we suggested. First off, is that a concern at all in your space, in your business as far as AI and when it comes to book writing or any type of literature? Is there a need for people to go and read books when it comes to the educational side? Do you think there’s still going to be a market for books? Maybe we can start there.

I do think there’s still going to be a market for books, whether it’s audio, eBook, or however they consume it, or it downloads into your brain. I don’t know for sure. We don’t know what’s going to come up in the future. People are still going to want to have that connection. That’s what books do. Even in fiction books, the people who read romance do so because they want to escape just like when you’re watching a movie.

There’s always going to be some form of books, whether for instructional or for entertainment like there’s always going to be movies. It’s just going to be different. We’ve been embracing AI. We have been using it for a long time. We’ve been using Otter forever. There was one before ChatGPT came out called Jasper that we used a lot for our marketing. There are a lot of AI tools out there.

There are a lot of AI tools out there. You just have to know how to use them correctly to enhance your story or improve your business. Share on X

When you know how to use them and know how to use them correctly, it can enhance your story, your book, or your business. It’s when you know how to ask it right. I’ve heard a couple of people saying, “The AI doesn’t like me or it doesn’t give me the answers I want.” I say, “You’ve got to ask it again. You have to reframe how you ask it. You have to ask it to create the prompt for you and then ask the prompt.

There are different ways to use AI. Our book that came out in September 2025, Be Recognized: The AI Authority Engine for Experts Who Want to Be Known, Be Profitable, and Be Published, we say the AI authority engine because we created this book using AI. We used a bunch of different AI. We used Claude, ChatGPT, and a couple of other ones to write it, but we gave it almost 80% information. We gave it a lot of information, uploaded a bunch of documents, created a custom GPT, created a project, all these things, and then gave it our outline. We created the chapters, and then we added stories.

It’s almost like we gave it 80%. It gave us the rest. We edited it, changed it, and added stories. Since we knew how to use the AI tools, it was a lot easier to write the book. We wrote the book in three days on our anniversary. My business partner and I went to Santa Fe to celebrate our ten-year anniversary. We didn’t publish it that fast. We had to edit it. We went through it, refined it, and moved some chapters around.

Different Marketing Strategies To Promote Your Book

It’s unbelievable. I love it. Talk to us about some of the strategies that you guys used to promote your own book. Let’s hear about some of the ways. I know you sent us the Amazon link which we’re going to be sharing. Talk to us about some of the marketing strategies that you guys used. Did you use AI for any of the marketing strategies to help create content for social media posts?

We have. This book talks about all those marketing strategies. The cool thing about AI is that you can create so much content. With a book, you have so much content for years and years, especially if it’s a timeless book. This book probably isn’t timeless because AI is going to change fast, but there is a lot of stuff in it that can still be used and tweaked.

 

 

We did a lot of blog posts and articles that we created with AI. We use one called Oasis, which is a fun one to use. We also did our audiobook. We cloned my business partner’s voice into an audiobook. We also created podcast episodes around each chapter of the book and used AI to do that. That’s on Spotify called Be Recognized. We did a ton of different marketing like that.

Going away from AI to traditional offline marketing. One of the things we tell our authors to do for the book, which we’ve been doing, is to either have the free plus shipping model on your website, where you have the book available for free and you pay for shipping. Tony Robbins does that all the time. The little click funnels and those types of ways work well.

The other marketing tool that’s good for an offline strategy is to come up with your dream 100 list of who you want to work with within your business, and then mail them a book with a letter. We’ve been doing that. We have a third-party person. We give them the books. They print the letter and ship it out to them. It looks very personal and nice. The third-party distributor is distributing. It helps so you’re not sitting there packing envelopes.

Have you experienced a client coming to you who has used AI to do most of the draft? Does that make your life easier or more difficult?

We ask them when they come to us, how much AI they use to write the book because we don’t want to publish a book that’s written solely by AI. There are some out there that I’ve played around with. I did some health books and did an alias name. They’re out there. They’re selling a little bit, but you can tell it’s written solely by AI. You don’t want that. You want that human experience and the stories.

 

 

We’ll ask them how much AI they’ve put into it and make sure that it is edited and isn’t just like, “Here’s what ChatGPT gave me and we’re publishing it.” We don’t want that. It would be a bad book. People would leave bad reviews. I don’t know if you noticed, but ChatGPT will get lazy, even Claude or Gemini. You ask it questions. You keep asking, and then it’ll give you short little answers instead of the big answers that it was giving you at the beginning.

In part of your bio and research we were doing before the show, you also assist clients with personal branding and the marketing side. How does that play into your services as a book publisher? If somebody doesn’t exist anywhere, and they don’t even have a social media handle, do you ask them and advise them to start that process? How do you go about doing that? If they do have some form of social proof of existence, do you then amplify it through your systems? Give us a quick crash course on that.

Before we started the book publishing company, as I said, I was in digital marketing. I’ve been doing web design, social media marketing, content creation, and video marketing since 2007, probably. It’s been a long time. When an author comes to us, and they don’t have a website or even a landing page, then it’s going to be hard to have a call to action in the front of the book that says, “For more information and download my free thing,” if you don’t have somewhere for them to go.

We can help them get set up with a landing page, whether it’s a one-page or two-page, or that opt-in, or that “Put your name and email in to receive this free download or this checklist that goes with the book.” This fiction book we’re doing has a whole album on Spotify, music that goes with the book. We have that QR code in the back. We can help them get set up with a website. You’re going to need social media marketing. A lot of people will say, “I have Instagram,” but then they don’t post on it. They haven’t posted on it for years, or they don’t know what to post.

We’ll come up with that content. We can create it from the book and use AI to help create the posts, the reels, the pictures, and the stories. It’s great if the author is willing to have their face on camera and talk and explain, even during the publishing process, like coming on and saying, “I met with my publisher. We talked about the book title. What do you think of it?” These three are coming on, going live, and getting engagement. You notice on TikTok, Instagram, or even YouTube shorts, the reels that get noticed are the real people, the ones talking, or the ones that are fun or engaging, or show their personality.

The ones who get engagement on social media are real people who are not afraid to show their personality. Share on X

People should focus more on building their brand than on selling the books because people will definitely be like, “I love this person. I want to buy their book now.” That was a great crash course, Jenn. We appreciate that. Do you have any other questions, August?

We’ll get into how people can reach out to you as well shortly here.

I do want to say one more thing real quick on social media. A lot of times, people feel overwhelmed because they’re trying to do everything. What you need to do is think about who your audience is and where they’re hanging out. If they’re only on LinkedIn, then don’t worry about Instagram and Facebook. Only post on LinkedIn. Whatever age they are, you need to be in that space. If your book is made specifically for younger people, use TikTok. With TikTok and Instagram, the reels are similar, so you could upload to both, but you want to think about where your audience is. That’s where you should be posting and putting your time in.

I love that. Here at CPI, I’d say the majority of our audience is on LinkedIn, business professionals. We use a platform called HubSpot. My marketing team can go on there and do one post. Click one button, and it will upload to all the different platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

It’s an evergreen product or content.

 

 

Ten Championship Rounds To Financial Freedom

For people tuning in, there is technology as well and tools that can make it so you’re not so overwhelmed. I remember back in the day when we had to do a post per platform. It’s too much. Jenn, let’s move on to our second segment of the show, the Ten Championship Rounds to Financial Freedom. We’re going to ask you a series of ten questions, whatever comes to the top of mind. Are you ready?

I’m ready.

Let’s get into it. First question, who’s been the most influential person in your life?

In the business world, I would say Mike Koenigs. He’s the mentor I’ve been following with marketing and learning all of the things that he teaches. I’ve followed him and been successful with all the things I’ve done. In my personal life, I would say probably my grandfather, because he was an entrepreneur. He started a chain of gas stations here called Maverik Country Stores, which Flying J bought back in 2013. Before that, he built airplanes. He was a serial entrepreneur. The very first thing he did was rent out roller skates at the dance hall back in the ‘40s or something, with his brother. I love that entrepreneur spirit. My grandfather had that.

I love that. It’s amazing. Next question, Jenn, what is the number one book you would recommend?

I’m going to be biased. I was going to say the book Be Recognized, but I’m going to choose this other one. I recommend this one. It’s one of the first books my business partner and I wrote, How to Write Your Life Story and Leave a Legacy. For people who haven’t ever written anything, this book goes through the questions that you need to write down your story of your life, whether you leave it for your family and your posterity, or you publish a memoir or publish your book. I love this book because it goes through all those questions and can help you write your life story.

The next question, if you had the opportunity to travel back in time, what advice would you give your younger self?

That’s a good one. Go for it and keep pushing forward. Go after your dreams because the rewards are amazing. Don’t stop.

What’s the best investment you’ve ever made?

I would probably say my house. After my divorce, it’s hard with a single income to get a house, but I found this house and bought it through seller financing. If people don’t know what that is, you think and look it up, or tune in to your show. They’ll learn. You guys explain what seller financing is. I have a traditional mortgage, but buying this house has been a good investment because of my three kids and being able to have a place for us that we call home. Not just renting and moving every couple of years.

That’s the greatest investment for multiple generations, particularly the middle class, that has made is buying their primaries. As much as a lot of financial gurus out there talk about not buying and renting. We’re in the rental business. We make money off people living in rental communities, but buying your primary residence is probably the best investment you’ve ever made. There’s nothing better than that outside of that.

I may move and rent it out, but I’ll always own it.

Jenn, what’s the worst investment you’ve ever made? What lessons did you learn from it?

I don’t know if I call it my worst investment because I learned so much that was higher than the money loss. The knowledge gain was more valuable than the monetary loss. I bought a condo for my daughter to live in and to go to school. I wasn’t able to get good financing. I had a high percentage rate for my personal loan that I got with my private money. We tried to switch that and it never switched.

I lost money every month and paid for my daughter to live there. It was all my nieces and everything. It was fun for them to live there for a year, but that condo probably wasn’t a very good investment. I would say that’s the worst, but I did learn. If I’m ever going to do private money again, I need to have the exit strategy within a month.

 

 

Her best and worst investments were both real estate, different strategies, and different types of debt. That’s the importance of having the right debt on your real estate, which we teach all the time.

The next question is, how much would you need in the bank to retire now? What’s your number?

My number is probably $5 million.

It’s very achievable.

If you could have dinner with someone dead or alive, who would it be?

I’d probably say my grandmother. She’s passed away, but I miss her.

From your dad’s side or from your mom’s side?

She’s from my dad’s side.

Grandmothers are very special. We have our one-year-old and two-year-old. The grandmother’s role is special. It’s an important role as well.

They also get on the nerves of the parents because they give the kids stuff that we don’t want them to have.

Let’s just keep it as it is.

I can’t wait until I’m a grandma. I’m excited. Soon, hopefully.

That is so cute.

To teach your kids to say shh, because they don’t want them to tell their parents, but then, “Grandma told me. She gave me this.”

The next question, if you weren’t doing what you’re doing, what would you be doing now?

If I had that retirement money we talked about earlier, I’d be traveling. I love traveling. It’s traveling to Europe, Thailand, or Canada, which I still do now, but I’d do more of it.

What if we changed the question a bit. When you were younger or when you were growing up, was there any profession you wanted to get into that was outside of the profession that you were doing now? Was there something like teaching or music?

For example, I wanted to be a dermatologist. I got into real estate at 22. How about yourself?

I was always a dancer. I danced all through college. I also played the viola. I was in music and orchestra. I would probably focus more on the orchestra and playing the viola. If I weren’t doing this, I could see myself in the symphony in some big city somewhere.

I love the orchestra. That’s wonderful. We learned something very beautiful about Jenn.

 A good question to ask a book publisher.

This is my favorite question. Book smarts or street smarts?

For me, I probably have more book smarts. My parents were in Amway, a network marketing group back in the day. They had the Book of the Month Club. I got all these books that I would read every month during college. I learned a lot from those books. They helped me to become the publisher I am now because of the books that I’ve read and how they’ve changed my life.

The last question, Jenn, if you had $1 million in cash and you had to make one investment now, what would it be?

I’d probably invest it with you guys and buy some big real estate like a commercial property that will give me back high returns.

That’s smart. There you go.

Get In Touch With Jenn

Great answer. I love that. Real estate is obviously a great investment. Jenn, maybe let all the viewers know what’s the best way that they can reach out to you, please.

You can reach me at EliteOnlinePublishing.com. You can find me on Amazon. Type in Jenn Foster and Be Recognized as our book. You can reach out there. We also have a podcast called Elite Expert Insider. Maybe we’ll have you guys on too for that.

Thank you so much for coming on and sharing all your wisdom and knowledge.

Thanks, Jenn.

Thank you.