Aug. 27, 2024

TOP 10 Lessons Learned From The First 100 Episodes with Chuck Anderson

TOP 10 Lessons Learned From The First 100 Episodes with Chuck Anderson

In this landmark 100th episode, the Chuck Anderson celebrates by counting down our top 10 favorite interviews while highlighting insights on transforming a job into a scalable business, harnessing the power of public speaking, and cultivating mental resilience for entrepreneurial success.

#10. Dr. Barnsley Brown: Talked about investing in transformational leadership and experiencing rapid business growth after investing in personal growth.

#9. Jim Padilla: Discussed the challenges of selling on founder magic and emphasized the importance of creating a sales playbook to replicate oneself and build a sustainable business model.

#8. Susie Carder: Discussed the importance of building a business that can run without the owner and highlighted the need for systems and structure.

#7. Majeed Mogharreban: Shared a success story framework for public speaking, citing an example of a health coach making $50,000 in 10 minutes through a powerful speech.

#6. Gary Rogers: Emphasized the importance of making eye contact with the camera while speaking on a webcam and how it revolutionizes business by creating a connection with the audience.

#5. Iman Aghay: Discussed his journey of learning new skills like writing and public speaking and applying them to achieve business success.

#4. Michael Tucker: Shared his experience learning digital marketing and how he scaled a new event using collaborations and partnerships, yielding $750,000 in sales.

#3. Jerry Teplitz: Conducted a study on brain reeducation using movement to change behavior, showing a significant decrease in negativity from 52% to 6% after a month.

#2. Rich Schefren: A significant figure in internet marketing and business coaching, mentoring well-known individuals in the industry.

#1. James Malinchak: Pioneered online business coaching and emphasized the importance of relationship-building over networking and the value of collaboration with a servant's heart.

These guests provided valuable insights into various aspects of business, including leadership, sales, digital marketing, personal development, and collaboration.

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Chuck Anderson,

Affiliate Management Expert + Investor + Mentor

http://AffiliateManagementExpert.com/

Transcript
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Hello there, and welcome back to the Creative Collaboration Show. My name is



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Chuck Anderson, and you have arrived at a very



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special time. Today is our 1



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hundredth episode of the creative collaboration



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show. And, over the last 100 episodes, I have



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had the privilege of interviewing some amazing



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guests who've had so many great



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tips and strategies to share that can



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help you on whatever business track you're



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on, whether you're just starting out in business or if you're



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growing your business or scaling your business or trying to overcome



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certain challenges in your business. We have had



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so many guests great guests on this show. And so what



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we did is we went back and we had a look at these



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episodes and, picked out a a few of our favorites,



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that, were either the bet most popular with



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our audience, or with our community, and



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we've put together a top 10. So I'm gonna be doing a



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top 10 countdown of our best,



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interviews, over the last 100 episodes. Now the first



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one I wanna introduce you with in the number 10 spot is doctor



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Barnsley Brown, and here, her and I are talking



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about becoming resilient, in your



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business. Check it out. That question, actually, I



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decided I had 3 amazing people that I really revered.



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Every single one of them was just a dynamo. And 2 of them



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were my neighbors, Chuck, so they stayed on my butt. They wouldn't let me



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off the hook. And they enrolled me in



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transformational leadership trainings that were held here,



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actually, local, that people came from all over the world. They were held right here



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in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Can you imagine? So I didn't



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need to travel. There there was no excuse, and I was



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recently, separated, and



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I needed a change in my life. I was a single



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mom. I needed a change in my life. I needed support. I knew I



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needed support, and I did not want to stay in the



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rain sobbing about what had happened. You know what I mean?



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Soggy and sobbing. That that's no fun.



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Joy is where it's at, you all. So I enrolled in



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transformational leadership. I remember putting that



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5,000 it was just under $5,000, Chuck. I put that thing on my



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credit card. I just said, okay. I'm putting it on my credit card. I don't



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know how this is gonna happen. And do you know within 3 weeks, that credit



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card was paid off with all the extra business that had come



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my way? Amazing. Yeah. Magical.



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The secret the breakthrough for people is that



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you haven't gotten where you wanted to go doing what



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you're doing now. Alright? And I didn't. And



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it is absolutely imperative that you invest



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in yourself, your personal growth as we were talking about right before



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this, Chuck. You gotta invest in yourself because to the extent that you grow



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yourself, you will be able to grow your business.



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Otherwise, anything that happens, you'll be knocked off, your



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center. So you've got to have you really have to have an



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incredible center and incredible perseverance. Stick



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to it, miss, dogged, like, be like a chihuahua that



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grabs onto your heel and won't let go. That's what you gotta be in



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business. Yeah. You know? Relentless,



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really. Relentless. That's the best word right there. Relentless.



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Next up in the number 9 spot, I have a good friend of mine, Jim



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Padilla, talking about selling on founder magic



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and the importance of having a sales playbook so you can



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duplicate yourself in your business. Whereas when you



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are when you're in a place where you're trying to make a decision every day,



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you have to have a actual conscious decision. Do I make sales today, or do



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I serve my clients today? Right? You're starting to become the bottleneck and



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the fork in the road at the same time. And so people you're you're trying



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to go, okay. I need to make more sales, but then now you're behind on



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trying to fulfill with everybody. Or you're so busy fulfilling that you can't make any



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more sales because they're all dependent upon you. And that's that's a



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challenge. Raise your hand if you've been there. Right? We we we all know that



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that's a that's a challenging thing. We call this selling on founder magic.



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And that's when you're selling on founder magic, here's the problem. It's



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fantastic because people get to access you, and they know you. The



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problem is it's not sustainable. It's not



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replicatable. It's not, it's not something that



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ultimately is profitable because usually you're undervaluing your own time and what can



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be put on somebody else. And it's easier for me to do it than it



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is for me to train somebody to do it, or it's easier for me to



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do it than it is to run someone. And the the biggest part of the



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problem that the reason why it's so hard for you to get somebody else do



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it is because you haven't largely documented your



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entire process. You don't have a sales playbook. Right? You



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don't have you don't have a way to capture all of the things that are



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in your head or in your history to be able to put in front of



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a salesperson who can then replicate what you're doing. You



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know, Tony Roma's, used to be a big favorite restaurant



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of of mine, and I used to love this chicken and ribs combo that they



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had and with shrimp. It was a it was ribs and shrimp combo with with



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with rice, with all my favorite things. And they took it off the



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menu for some reason. I guess I was the only person buying it, but, if



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they took it off the menu, and then Cindy and I were out of town,



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and we've we found a Tony Roma's and I was we went in. I said,



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hey. Look. Is there any way that you could put this plate



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together for me? I know it's not on the menu anymore. And the server was



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like, oh, yeah. Man, I couldn't I don't know why they took it off the



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menu. I used to sell a lot of those. I know we got the ingredients



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in the back. Let me get the the cook to make it for you. She



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knew all the off menu items, So she knew what was what, and she knew



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that they can make it happen. And so I got my



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plate. But if she had been a brand new server and didn't know anything about



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that, she could have very easily just said, well, we don't have it on the



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menu anymore, and so you can't have it. Or I don't wanna go out



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of my way to you know, the chef's kinda grumpy today, but who knows? It



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could have been a whole lot of variables around why this wouldn't work.



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And when you are the founder, you know all the off menu



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items. You know where everything is. You know what things you've sold in the



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past. You know what is in the kitchen because you did the order, and you



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know what's all there. So you know what? And we could probably make that because



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I just did a order of those the other day. Right? When you're bringing a



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salesperson on and if you don't have a process in a way to capture all



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of that, they have no way of knowing any of those things. And so you



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have to expect that they're gonna deliver less than you because they don't have all



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of the history that is in there. But you can you can deliver this



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stuff in a process and what's something we call a sales playbook. And that



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gives the your salespeople the ability, everything



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that they need to deliver a sale.



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Alright. Now continuing on in the number 8 spot is



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doctor Susie Carter, and she has some great



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insights on your business and whether you actually have



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a job or a real business that can scale into



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something significant. And I was at a seminar, and he said,



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how many of you, are off work right now? And we raised our hand.



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How many of you are nervous that you're off work right now? We raised our



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hand. He said, how many of you, are gonna have to work twice as hard



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tomorrow when you get back in because you took the day off and we raised



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our hand. He said, how many of you are afraid to go on vacation? Right?



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Because you don't know will the business do what the business needs to do if



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you're gone. We all raise our hand. He said, congratulations. You own a



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job not a business. And that was the biggest epiphany for



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me to go, how do I back in the day, it was a



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salon and spa. How do I have this business not rely on



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these 724? My ego was invested, and a lot



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of entrepreneurs, our ego is it can't run without me, like, you can't run



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without me. I'm so special. And the reality



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is you want to build it so that it can run without you. And so



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that was a huge pivot for me to go, I want to be able to



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go on vacation. And how vacation works for most of us and even



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me back then is you would work really hard right before you go on vacation,



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go on vacation, sleep most of the time because you're so exhausted from working so



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hard because you're going on vacation. Come back from vacation and then work



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around the clock to make up for what you didn't do while you were



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on vacation. And so it's not really a vacation. I just got back



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from a month off on vacation



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of just enjoying my home, enjoying my family, enjoying projects,



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and not having to worry about my business because my team is managing my business.



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The business still ran. We still have money come in. We still have receivables come



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in. So anything's possible when you have a plan and a strategy.



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And systems, if you look at our life, everywhere you



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look at systems, how we drive, there's a system. If you ever go to



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Europe, there's a different system that's hard. If you're an



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American and then you're going in Europe, right? So how



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you cook, there's a system. And how you get up in the morning



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and do you shower first, do you brush your teeth first, do you get coffee



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first, do you take meditation time first, do you work out first, what's



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your system that you do every morning? And so when you look at



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it, systems allow us to get twice as much done in half the amount of



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time. And most entrepreneurs were winging it. Right?



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We're firefighting. And we are firefighting because you don't have a structure



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in place to go if this there's a breakdown, what happens? There's a



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breakdown, what's happened? Now please hear that I don't have a perfect business. We have



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breakdowns in our business because the bigger you play, the bigger the breakdown.



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And so there's always breakdowns inside of our business. The difference is we're aware



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of our dysfunction, we know how to handle a breakdown and there's not make



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wrong inside of a breakdown. If we're not having breakdown in our



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business, Chuck, we're not playing big enough.



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Next up at number 7, I have Majid Magaraban,



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talking about how you can really sell anything



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through public speaking. Check this out.



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A health coach comes to me and says, Majid, I have the



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speaking engagement coming up. I have no idea what I was supposed to say. There's



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gonna be a lot of my ideal clients there. I'm super nervous. Can you help



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me? And I said, don't worry. I know exactly what to do.



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We built a powerful 10 minute speech with stories and



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jokes, and it was entertaining. And this health coach went on



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stage, delivered their talk, nailed it, had them



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laughing, had them crying, standing ovation, but more importantly, got the



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audience to take action and sign up for her $5,000



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coaching program. She got 10 new clients from



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one speech, she made $50,000 in 10 minutes.



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She said to me, Man, Majid, I never thought it was possible to make



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$50,000 in a month, let alone in 10 minutes. And it's



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all thanks to the work we did for that speech. So that's the success



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story framework. And so we're starting to put these



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success stories into the speech. Now there's another



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story called the cautionary tale. And the cautionary tale is just like the



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success story framework. Ideal client comes to you, describes the



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problem. But in this case, they don't work with you for whatever



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reason. Or maybe you never met them, but you're still describing the person



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with that problem. So that way the the audience hears themselves in the story and



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they go, oh, this is just like my problem, what happens next? It's a



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cautionary tale because bad things happen next. Let's take the



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same example. Health coach has a speech coming up. She's got 10 minutes,



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she's got an audience full of ideal clients, but she spends the whole 10



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minutes talking about her own health journey and it didn't really



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resonate with the audience. She makes a pitch, nobody buys



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and she feels really embarrassed and she feels like she



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totally bombed the speech. That's a cautionary



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tale, right? And that speech just cost her $50,000 because she didn't have the



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right speech, even though she had great intentions. So we have



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cautionary tales and we have success stories and we can juxtapose the 2 throughout



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a speech and then imply to the audience, so which one do you wanna be?



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Do you wanna be like the success story, or do you wanna be like the



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cautionary tale?



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Next up, it number 6 is my good friend,



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Gary Rogers, who knows more about looking good on



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camera than anyone else on the Internet. And, here, he's



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gonna be talking about how you can look good on camera and make money using



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nothing but a webcam. Well, everybody's got a PhD



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at watching television. You you know



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instantly if some somebody's doing the right thing



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or the wrong thing. When the pandemic



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started, news anchors would talk to people. They



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couldn't send out camera crews. They had to talk pea



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to people on their computers. And Nora O'Donnell



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or Lester Holtz, the news anchor would talk to



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them, and they were talking to their audience, looking into



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their cameras, but the people that they were interviewing



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on their laptops were looking down at the laptop.



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And right now, anybody that's viewing this,



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I've lost connection with everybody. I'm not looking



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at them. I've gotta look into that camera if they wanna feel



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like I'm talking to them. And people



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just have to learn, it's a it's a



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simple mistake that 99% of



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everybody I talk to makes every single day of my life.



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If you're on a laptop, which most people use,



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your tendency is to wanna look at the person you're talking to.



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And in order to do that, you gotta look down. And as soon



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as you do that, you've lost connection with the people you're talking to.



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When I started my coaching online, I



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knew from my production experience that I had to look straight



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into the camera if I wanted people to feel connected with me.



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It drove me crazy. I spent the 1st 3 years



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looking straight into that camera, and I couldn't see the



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people that I was talking to. And I wanna see



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the people. You were just going like that, and I wanna see



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that. Now I've got a big smile. I I can see



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everything that you're doing. I learned a trick a



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lot of years ago, and now I teach all of my



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students how they can actually see the people that they're



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talking to, not down on the computer screen, but



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actually see them as they're talking to them



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and have the people they're talking to feel like they're talking



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directly to them. It revolutionized my business



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when I found out how to do that, and now I teach it to literally



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everybody. And everybody that does it, it changes their



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business for the rest of their lives if they're using a webcam.



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Okay. I'm halfway through my countdown now. Hopefully, you've enjoyed



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the clip so far, and now we're gonna get to our



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final 5. Now before I do that, I just wanna



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remind you that, not only are these, very powerful



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guests, but these are people that, we tend to collaborate



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with. And, and so one of the things that



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I commonly do with our podcast guests is,



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collaborate, do some collaborative projects. Sometimes we invest in a



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business. Sometimes we even create a whole new business. And



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one of the ways that I do that is through my podcast guests.



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So take a look at these, guests, the ones you just heard from and



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the ones you are just about to hear from. They are great



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people to collaborate. But, also, if you,



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feel like you have something to offer our



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audience, our community, or even would like to collaborate with



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me, then please reach out, and, let's get you booked



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in as a guest on this show, and let's figure out what



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we can do together. I would like to help you grow your business,



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and together, everybody wins. Okay. Enough of



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that. Back to the show. Here at number



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5 is my good friend, Iman Aghai,



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talking about the power of learning any skill and



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applying that to get some great business results.



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You're gonna love his story. Oh, I always say



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like, usually, when people want to introduce me on the stage, they say, Iman, how



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do we introduce you? And I said, just say Iman, our guy is a nice



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guy. That's all enough. No. But



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the reality is that I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I'm a very curious



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person around, like, learning new things. And so



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that's why, like, when you were looking at that, you're like, oh, you're an author,



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you're a speaker, you're this, you're that. It's just because I'm curious to



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learn, like, all different things. So I remember,



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that many years ago, I wanted to become a best selling author. And



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as clearly, it's obvious that English is not my first



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language. And so I was like, well, how can I write a book? Right? I



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was in a place that, like, I can't write a book. I can't do this.



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I can't do that. Right? And I'm like, well, then how can you? Right?



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So then, I started kind of putting together my first



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book, and it was, for example, the first one that I did



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actually was a a mixture of, like, short



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stories of everybody, and I just wrote one chapter. Right? But then that taught



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me how to how to publish a book and how



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to, you know, make it a best selling book. And so, like, the first book



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that I ever published, it was, consolidation of,



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like, 10 stories of other people, including one story



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of mine, but taught me a lot about, like, book writing and publishing. And



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then, after that, I wrote and published my own



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book, which became, like, the most sold book on Amazon



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on online course creation. But I always



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wanted to become public speaker, and I was like, well, you know,



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how can I actually do this? So I ended up getting, like, a lot of



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classes on, you know, being able to understand



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in English with my accent and, you know, took I took 2



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years of classes on how to be funny. Like, literally



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paid a guy for 2 years, to, go



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through humorous classes and other things to, just be



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able to make people laugh in English because every time I speak in



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Farsi, everybody laughs. And then, the moment that I would start



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speaking English, then nobody would laugh. And I'm like, damn it. Like, I can't screw



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it. Right? So, like, spent, like, 2 years, like, learning how to



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be, how to bring humor, to my English



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and, you know, and everything else. Like, you you were talking about the



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mergers and acquisitions, and I was thinking, well, you know what? About 4 years



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ago, I knew nothing about mergers and acquisitions. I knew nothing about investing



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in companies. And then I was like, you know what? I



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I really learned about I really should learn about this because I I



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like like, this is something that, like, it's like, I I should really



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know. Right? So, then I started, like,



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looking at where I can learn it and, found an investment



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club where, where, a



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kind of, like, was a investment pool that I really was, like, investing a little



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bit money into it, but all of us were investing in different companies. And



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just a few years later, 160 investments and,



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you know, 10 exits later. And then just I



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think the biggest thing is that I'm a curious person, and I love entrepreneurship,



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and I love, supporting and helping people



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with with building businesses that



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that's along with our life purpose. I always look at entrepreneurship for



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myself as a playground to feed my curiosity



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and thirst for learning.



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Next up in the number 4 spot is Michael Tucker, and



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I was blown away by Michael's story



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of how he took a brand new event



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and a brand new idea, collaborated and



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partnered with somebody, and now has scaled that to beyond



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$40,000,000 in sales. Check this



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story out because this is something that anyone can learn how



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to do. You know, I was kinda learning the digital marketing as I was



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going. Right? A lot of you entrepreneurs and business owners here listening today, you



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probably jumped into something and was learning as you were going, and that



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was me. So I was watching YouTube videos, attending conferences,



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watching webinars, and the common theme that kept coming



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up, Chuck, was virtual events and



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webinars. Like, everybody and this was, like, you know, 4 or 5 years ago. So



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everybody was using webinars, and these were big things. Russell Brunson was



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talking about using webinars, and so we set out to do our first



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virtual event. I remember taking it took weeks to build this



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out. I I got all the emails, the funnels,



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the, you know, the text messages ready, the products



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ready, everything. It took me weeks. We did our first webinar



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to our own organic audience, and it flopped. I remember



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sitting there at my kitchen table hitting refresh,



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refresh, refresh on ClickFunnels. If you're a digital marketer, you'll know what that is.



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And I was hitting refresh, and no sales were coming in. But,



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eventually, what actually led us to our biggest epiphany and our



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biggest breakthrough was using collaborations



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and partnerships with our virtual events. And so, you know, we ended



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up resetting. We got some coaching, some mentorship, and we ended up



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making $750,000 over the course of



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10 months from that loss for I shouldn't say loss from that,



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failure we had at the very beginning. 10 months later, we ended up generating over



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$750,000 all through partnerships



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and virtual events. So that's why I love this, Chuck, is because I've



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experienced it. That's my favorite collaboration story right



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there is when I can you know, this was, like, my first



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client. I didn't even have an agency. Right? We I mean, we are bartering services.



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And so it was really cool to see how he went from having no



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audience, no list



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to thousands of people on his list of utilizing other



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people's audience and making 100 of 1,000 of dollars. It



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was total night and day from day 1



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to 10 months later. So I get pumped up, man.



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It's crazy.



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You know, mental resilience plays such a huge



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part in our journey as entrepreneurs, as business



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owners, and even if you're a salesperson. I mean, as as business



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owners, we have to sell all the time. And, of course, there's



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techniques and then there's the things that we believe. And this



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next guest, Jerry Teplitz, is



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a master at helping you to work out



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things in your brain so you can get a much better result. In fact, if



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you go back and check out the full episode, you'll see



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me doing a live exercise with



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Jerry that right after that episode,



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created a huge spike in my business results. Check this



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out. Well, I and I realized very, quickly



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that if I went into a VP of sales and I



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said to them, hi. I'd like to come in and do this seminar.



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It's called switched on selling, and we're not gonna teach



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a single technique of selling the entire day. It is a



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brain reeducation program using very simple body



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movement exercises called brain gyms.



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After he threw me out the door or she threw would throw me out the



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door, I realized I needed to get proof



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that this worked. And so what I did is a



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research study with 695 salespeople.



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We gave them a pre seminar questionnaire when they walked in first thing in the



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morning. End of the day, we gave it to them again, but then I



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collected the forms back from them. I got them back to them a month later



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because I wanted to get over seminar high, a placebo effect.



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Because you know how you go to seminar, you get really excited,



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and 3 days later, you're back doing what you did before. So it didn't



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stick. So I wanted to see if this really worked because I was



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not gonna continue doing it if it was just kind of



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a placebo effect on folks. I wanted something that we're gonna



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be changing them. So, with the study



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let me give you an example of one of the statements we asked, when



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they walked in first thing in the morning filling out the form. I am comfortable



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asking for the order and closing the sale. Pretty



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important part of the process, Chuck. Agreed? Very



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important. You have to ask. So how many people would you



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say responded negatively to that?



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Well, I'll just base it on the work that I've done. Most people are very



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uncomfortable. The they might force themselves to do it, but but



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most people are uncomfortable asking for the order.



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52% responded negatively to



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that statement. Okay. Well, over half. End of the



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seminar day. Again, remember, we're not teaching techniques of



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selling. It's this brain reeducation using movement.



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Only 8% were still negative.



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Now you would normally expect the



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numbers to start going up again



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instead at the month later. And we didn't get all the forms back.



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We compared the ones we got back with the ones that we didn't, and they



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were comparable. So it wasn't that we had this unique group of folks who



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responded versus those who did not. And



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this is the interesting part. Only



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6% were still on the negative side



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from 52 down to 51 down



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to 6%.



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Moving on now to number 2, I had the privilege



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of interviewing one of the



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OGs of Internet marketing. Rich Sheffrin,



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was responsible not only for



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inspiring millions of people to get



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online with their businesses, but was the business coach to some



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of the biggest minds and biggest gurus that you see



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in the Internet marketing space. And, many of the people that



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you are learning from today, were coached and



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trained by Rich. And so lean in and listen to what he



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has to say. It's pretty cool. And so that's when



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I decided I would start coaching on my own. And



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as I kinda decided to coach, I became



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really the first business coach online, because everyone else was kinda



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teaching marketing. And,



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kind of, acquired quite a slew of



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people that are now extremely well known that were in



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those that were in my early coaching programs. People like Russell



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Brunson and Todd Brown and Mike Filsain and Ryan



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Levesque and, you know, pretty much most of the big names



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online today, Ryan Dice, etcetera,



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were in those original coaching programs. And for about 2



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years, I was kind of a behind the scenes coach to a lot of people



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that became big names, but most people didn't know who I



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was. I also started working with a company



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called Agora Publishing around that time.



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And I had this big project that I was doing with



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Agora, in about 3 months, and I had



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just finished my coaching program. So I had, like, nothing to



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do, for 3 months. And



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I didn't like the idea of there being nothing to do, so I



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ended up writing a report with the hope of getting,



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like, a dozen clients that I could work with for 3 months,



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and the report was what mistakes I saw people



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making and how I help people make money and build



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businesses. And so I put it on my blog,



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and it ended up going viral. And so that was called the



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Internet Business Manifesto. And, really, you know, there was 31



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pages long, and it's been downloaded millions of times at



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this point. And it changed my life. Like, there



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was my life before that document, and there was my life after that



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document, and they are very different lives.



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And so, immediately, I built a company off of



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that. You know, it brought back, like, $3,500,000 within the



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first 4 weeks or something like that, over 7 and a



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half 1000000 within the 1st year and well over 10,000,000 by



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year 2. And I wrote a series of



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6 more free reports like that one over the next



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18 months, and my business grew from each one of those three reports



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because each report that I wrote was tied to some program



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or service or coaching that I was planning on doing. And then



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after I did it, it would become a product or program that we just



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sold in perpetuity. And,



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that was an amazing 18 months. I worked insanely



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hard. I, really proud of those reports.



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Some of them predicted attention would become the scarcest commodity online.



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Another report talked about attention going to this new thing, social



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media, and what were the implications. So a lot of the things I predicted and



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wrote about turned out to be true.



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And finally, in the number one spot, I had the privilege



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of interviewing James Melenchuk. And some of you



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might know him from the hit series, The Secret Millionaire.



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He's also a mentor and a guide to anyone who wants to get



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paid as a public speaker. But here



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is James and I talking about the power of



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networking, how to do it effectively, and the power of



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leveraging deep relationships in your



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business. You gotta check this out and put this into practice.



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So I say stop networking because that's pest working and start



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relationship working. You know, the way I look at folks,



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Chuck, is, you know, my you think about this, your



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family and your friends, the people who are closest to you, that you love and



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care about, you don't like think about networking with



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them. You think about serving them and helping them and making



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their life better. Right? So wouldn't that be something if we went around and looked



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at every business contact, if we looked at every person we meet at the



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grocery store or at the club, the tennis club, or



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whatever as a family member and a friend, you would stop



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networking immediately. And you would say, and I need to,



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like, invest in this relationship. I need to spend time with this person, talk



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to them, help them, get to know them. We don't look at that when we're



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thinking of networking. So I always say stop networking. That equals pest



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working. You're a pest, and people are trying to swat your way. Right? And



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start relationship working. That that is



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incredible. I love the way you put all of that. And, you know, networking



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really is the that short term thinking. It's like, I need something



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today. I need a client today. I need a business today. Whereas the



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relationship, that's an investment in the future. You don't know when you're gonna be able



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to cash in on that or ever. That was the first big



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collaboration thing that that really impacted. However,



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I'm so grateful for the first person, the one that I used to work with,



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who he and that person had a falling out because



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had that person not brought the second person to my



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home, that second person and I today would not be friends.



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Right? Because you don't burn bridges. They happen to have a falling out, but I



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ended up meeting this person through him. So amazing how



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sometimes collaboration works for you when you least



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expect it or you you're not even trying to make it work. I



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love that. Treat them like family members. You're not even trying to make it work.



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And, again, we're not trying to get something from somebody.



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We're trying to give something to someone. And with that



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without that expectation of they must give us something back. Yeah.



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I think that that really talks about having the



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faith that you will, you'll attract into your life what you need. You



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put enough good out in the world. You help people with a servant's heart,



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not try to, like, do it for ulterior motives. Would we like something to



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come back? Yeah. That's natural. But if it doesn't, man, you can



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put your head down on the pillow at night knowing that in your heart, you



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did something good for somebody else. That's just a great way to live.



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So there you have it. There is our top 10 countdown



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from our first 100 episodes of



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the creative collaboration show. Again, if you'd like to be a guest on



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this show, please reach out to me, and let's connect and figure



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out how to tell your story. And in the meantime, if you're looking to



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grow your business and to get get



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more collaborations and more joint venture partners and more



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affiliates who promote you and really to create



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partnerships with the kind of people that you just heard from on this show,



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but out of so many that we work with. I want to



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invite you to a free workshop that I do every single month. It's



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called the get affiliates workshop, where you're gonna learn how to



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get affiliates and joint venture partners and



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ambassadors to help you to fill your programs,



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to send you more clients, and to promote your



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events, whatever it is that you're promoting. And so you'll find



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the link to that just beneath this video and in the show



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notes of this episode. In fact,



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you'll find the links to all of our guests,



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right there in the show notes. So come and join me for that workshop.



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That would be a time well spent as well. If you'd like to be on



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a guest of the show, please reach out. And in the meantime,



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keep listening. Keep listening. We have some more



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great guests coming up. Our next, about



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20, 30 episodes are already planned, and we have some



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amazing, amazing people here for you. So in the



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meantime, remember, the only way to fail is to



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quit, and so keep moving forward in the pursuit



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of your big dream, your business idea, your world



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changing idea, and you might be just one partnership or



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collaboration away from that big breakthrough you are



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looking for. And, in the meantime, we will see



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you on the next one. This has been the Creative Collaboration Show with Chuck Anderson.



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We'll see you soon, everybody. Join us for the next episode. Thank you.