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Danny Iny

Danny Iny is a business and online-education author focused on audience building, course creation, and helping experts turn expertise into sustainable companies. He founded Mirasee and wrote books including Leveraged Learning, Teach Your Gift, and Online Courses; he is also described by Mirasee as a six-time best-selling author. ((https://mirasee.com/about-us/danny-iny/))

Biography & Author's Journey

Danny Iny’s career combines early entrepreneurship with later formal business training. Mirasee’s published biography says he left high school at 15 to start his first business and later completed an MBA at Queen’s University School of Business. Before building the company that became Mirasee, he had already founded a software venture focused on teaching children to read. That earlier startup imploded in 2008 and left him with more than $250,000 in personal debt, a setback he would later frame less as a final defeat than as a plot twist in a longer story. ((https://mirasee.com/blog/podcasts/teams-pick-always-evolving-danny-iny/?utm_source=openai))

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Making it is not a permanent state
-Your Definition of Making It Is Always Evolving
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For me, what matters is the contribution, feeling like I’m making a difference to someone. And growth for myself
-Your Definition of Making It Is Always Evolving
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I lead well, because I lead like a teacher
-Leading with Intention
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I mean, we’re not that far off from A.I. just doing that job for you
-A.I. and the Future of Coaching
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One season is planting, where you are investing in things that will become powerful and meaningful later on
-Planting or Harvesting?
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failure isn’t the end of the story—it’s a plot twist
-About Danny Iny
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The real constraint has always been transformation
-How AI Solves the Biggest Problem in Online Learning
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The tutor was inside the assignment
-How AI Solves the Biggest Problem in Online Learning
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The era of selling information is over
-How AI Is Changing Online Courses
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The machine isn’t broken. We’re just using it for the wrong thing
-How to Use AI Without Losing Your Genius

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Community Voices

"Leveraged Learning by Danny Iny articulates a new paradigm for education"

Forbes

"Danny Iny is the founder and CEO of Mirasee and is an expert in the creation and marketing of online courses"

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"Danny Iny is a best-selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich"

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"Danny Iny is a superhero, plain and simple"

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"Danny Iny runs the Firepole Marketing blog and wrote Engagement From Scratch, which catapulted him to fame as the Freddy Krueger of Blogging"

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