"The Common Path to Uncommon Success" by John Lee Dumas offers a comprehensive roadmap for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking financial freedom and lifestyle fulfillment. Based on Dumas' extensive podcast interviews, this book provides a 17-step guide to help individuals achieve their business goals.

The book's strengths lie in its practical advice and actionable steps. Dumas draws from his own experiences and those of successful entrepreneurs he's interviewed, providing valuable insights into what it takes to build a thriving business. The emphasis on persistence and hard work as essential ingredients for success is a valuable reminder for anyone on their entrepreneurial journey.

However, the book does have some drawbacks. While the advice is sound, it may not offer a lot of groundbreaking or innovative ideas for experienced entrepreneurs. Some readers may also find the book overly repetitive at times, as it reiterates the importance of certain principles throughout.

Additionally, the book's marketing and promotional tone can be off-putting for those seeking a more objective and unbiased guide to entrepreneurship.

In conclusion, "The Common Path to Uncommon Success" is a practical guide for aspiring entrepreneurs, offering valuable insights and a structured approach to achieving their goals. However, it may not provide as much new or groundbreaking information for those already well-versed in entrepreneurship, and its promotional tone may not resonate with everyone. It's a helpful resource but falls short of a higher rating due to its limitations.

This book offers a ton of practical tips and a step by step guide to getting started on your journey. I enjoyed the success and failure anecdotes as well because they served as inspiration and motivation.

This book had pros and cons for me. But I’ve updated a long review to keep it short and simple. There’s a lot of great information. John Dumas is obviously a viral entrepreneur, and he knows his stuff. He speaks of his avatar listening to his podcast while commuting to work, and yet his tips don’t include how to manage doing all of this do, do, do while working full time. He’s sharing these tips and what he does because that’s his business and he has the time to set aside 8 hours a day to do this certain thing on this certain day, but it’s difficult (although no impossible) to do that with a full-time job while trying to do a business on the side (been there done that). I love how he shares his story, his failures and what he learned and how he grew. That was great. And people who do this exact thing are succeeding left and right, depending on how you label success at this point. He gives great advice, such as learning one thing at a time. You’ll gain valuable insight from the book, but try not to get overwhelmed and give up when it doesn’t seem feasible to you. And also, honestly, some of his tips don't apply to everyone, so it's great how he suggests learning about your avatar. He doesn’t always teach you what to do, but tells you if you want to learn how, you need to take his course. That was annoying, but I suppose it could be too much to really delve deeply into a book. I do appreciate how he shared his fears about starting and continued to put his launch off and his story of building his business. His approach works, and although I’m being a bit critical it was a good book, and definitely worth the four stars. Thank you to Netgalley and the author for allowing me to read and review.

As a longtime listener of the Entrepreneurs on Fire podcast, this book did not disappoint. An enjoyable and inspiring read, The Common Path to Uncommon Success feels like a coaching conversation with JLD himself. He delivers value bomb after value bomb using his own personal stories of how he built the Fire Nation empire.

Although many of his anecdotes relate to podcasting, the concepts and recommendations are 100% applicable to anyone starting (or contemplating) a new venture in life. He walks you through his step-by-step process of creating a business of value, with the ultimate goal of lifestyle and financial freedom. I especially appreciated the transparency in which he recalls specific routines, processes, people, and services that contributed to his success. I'm certain that I'll be referring back this book for years to come.

A very personal approach to the world of podcasting and entrepreneurship.

The Einstein quote: "Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value," is paraphrased from the original, but does underpin the north star that John Lee Dumas follows in his approach to his work and lifestyle choices described in this book.

The principle is simple and nothing new. If you provide the best solution to a real problem for a niche audience, no matter how small, you will find uncommon success and potentially personal fulfilment and self-worth.

How you provide that solution is described through the case study examples provided by the many guests on John Lee Dumas's podcast show, and at great length in his own decision making process in building his podcast business.

I particularly enjoyed Chapter 6 on the value of mastermind groups, but several other areas are subjective and debateable.
Chapter 5, for example, extolls the value of having a personal and business mentor. In 2021, not everyone needs or wants a mentor. Smart people can and do study and observe best practices from several leaders in their fields, without the need for one to one personal advice from one specific individual.

Because this book is from a leader in the podcast field, there is a terrific amount of repetition about this form of media, especially in the opening chapters, but overall this is a very useful addition to any budding entrepreneur's library.

I feel like this is a book about using the internet to make money. It should have been called something like that. I guess it is a common path to make money these days. Uncommon succes? I don’t know if you could sat that...

The Common Path to Uncommon Success gave many good insights and life lessons to apply in life, would recommend everyone to give it a shot.