December 17th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina 
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StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #9
This podcast will give you some tips on how to kick-start your own business, especially a part-time, home-based business.
Incidentally, I know the iTunes podcast subscription for this podcast isn’t working. You can still subscribe to it, but for some reason it isn’t displaying all the previous shows. I haven’t changed anything with the feed, so I contacted iTunes support (twice) to ask them why the iTunes listing suddenly stopped working and received no response after two weeks. I guess I’m supposed to “think different” if I want to get in touch with an actual human being. If anyone knows how to correct this problem or how to reach a human at iTunes, please let me know. In the meantime you can still subscribe via the regular RSS feed below.
Enjoy the podcast…
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