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How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869) Transcript: Steven: Steve and Jill here. Jill: Hello. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music. Steven: I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago. Jill: But she grew up here. Steven: Oh yeah? Jill: I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though- Steven: Today- Jill: So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know. Steven: Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that. Jill: That's okay. That's why you have me. Steven: Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life? Jill: This is scary. Steven: This is scary. It's a scary amount. Jill: No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned. Steven: Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land? Jill: Yeah. So interesting. Steven: It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant." Jill: They were really getting into it. Steven: And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye. Jill: Yeah. Steven: Because it was a lot. Jill: And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it. Jill: Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly. Steven: Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my- Jill: Side of the sheet. Steven: Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you. Jill: Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk. Steven: Enjoy the weather out here at the lake. Jill: Yeah, I will. Steven: We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month." And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...
How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869) Transcript: Steven: Steve and Jill here. Jill: Hello. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music. Steven: I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago. Jill: But she grew up here. Steven: Oh yeah? Jill: I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though- Steven: Today- Jill: So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know. Steven: Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that. Jill: That's okay. That's why you have me. Steven: Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life? Jill: This is scary. Steven: This is scary. It's a scary amount. Jill: No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned. Steven: Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land? Jill: Yeah. So interesting. Steven: It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant." Jill: They were really getting into it. Steven: And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye. Jill: Yeah. Steven: Because it was a lot. Jill: And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it. Jill: Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly. Steven: Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my- Jill: Side of the sheet. Steven: Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you. Jill: Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk. Steven: Enjoy the weather out here at the lake. Jill: Yeah, I will. Steven: We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month." And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...
How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869) Transcript: Steven: Steve and Jill here. Jill: Hello. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music. Steven: I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago. Jill: But she grew up here. Steven: Oh yeah? Jill: I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though- Steven: Today- Jill: So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know. Steven: Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that. Jill: That's okay. That's why you have me. Steven: Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life? Jill: This is scary. Steven: This is scary. It's a scary amount. Jill: No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned. Steven: Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land? Jill: Yeah. So interesting. Steven: It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant." Jill: They were really getting into it. Steven: And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye. Jill: Yeah. Steven: Because it was a lot. Jill: And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it. Jill: Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly. Steven: Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my- Jill: Side of the sheet. Steven: Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you. Jill: Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk. Steven: Enjoy the weather out here at the lake. Jill: Yeah, I will. Steven: We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month." And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...
The Doctor, Steven, and Dodo arrive on an Ark...in space! The remnants of the human race has joined forces with a race known as the Monoids. Together, they have fled Earth before it is overtaken by the Sun and are heading to the planet Refusis 2 where they hope to re-establish civilization. Unfortunately, Dodo has a cold....and the humans and Monoids of the distant future have no resistance to the virus.... STEVEN: Look, do you think this has happened before? That we've carried an infection from one age to another, or even one planet to another?DOCTOR: Oh, I don't want to think it about it, dear boy. It's too horrifying. Though I must say that we're usually very healthy.STEVEN: It'll spread through the whole ship, become an epidemic.___________STEVEN: And that, unfortunately, tells me only one thing...That the nature of man, even in this day and age, hasn't altered at all. You still fear the unknown, like everyone else before you.______________________________DOCTOR: He's right. A long time ago, your ancestors accepted responsibility for the welfare of these Monoids. They were treated like slaves. So no wonder when they got the chance, they repaid you in kind.REFUSIAN: Unless you learn to live together, there is no future for you on Refusis.DASSUK: We understand.DOCTOR: Yes, you must travel with understanding as well as hope. You know, I once said that to one of your ancestors, a long time ago. Upcoming:Serial #24 The Celestial Toymaker(Episodes: "The Celestial Toyroom," "The Hag of Dolls," "The Dancing Floor," "The Final Test"All missing EXCEPT episode 4, "The Final Test")Monday, October 10thVanquishing Villains #2: The First Doctor vs MegalomaniacsA special look back on all the larger-than-life megalomaniacs of the First Doctor's era.Monday, October 17thSpecial thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: throughthevortexpodcast@gmail.com
On the run from Maverick Chen, the Daleks, and an unexpected old Enemy, Team TARDIS flees with the taranium across time and space...._______STEVEN: You killed Bret! You just shot him down.SARA: He was a traitor. Between the three of you, you had stolen the taranium, the most valuable mineral in the universe. It was needed desperately to spread the peace which was founded in the solar system, to reach the whole galaxy.STEVEN: What was the taranium going to do?SARA: How should I know? I had my orders.STEVEN: Your orders. And even though it meant killing one of your own people, you obeyed them blindly, without question?SARA: One does not question the orders of the Guardian.STEVEN: You didn't stop to think how it came to happen that a space security agent, one of your own people, was a traitor?SARA: No!STEVEN: You didn't give Bret a chance, did you. You couldn't question Chen and you wouldn't question Bret.SARA: Look, what do you want me to say? That I believe your fantastic story?STEVEN: It's true.SARA: It mustn't be.DOCTOR: I'm afraid it is, my dear.STEVEN: But Bret had to be killed.SARA: Shut up! Bret Vyon was my brother.____CHEN: Without me, their plan cannot completely work. Without me, they are but nothing. Nothing! When I am next to the Daleks, only they stand between me and the highest position in the universe. Then will be the time for me to take complete control!... You are a fortunate man, Karlton. You will have a high place in galactic history.KARLTON: The highest, next to you._________CHEN: Three time machines in one infinitesimal speck of space and time. Of course, a coincidence is possible, but hardly likely. You would agree?MONK: Oh, yes, I would agree.CHEN: Then why have you arrived here?MONK: Three, three time-machines? Yes, well, the odd one out belongs to a certain Doctor.DALEK: The enemy ship!MONK: Yes, that's right. The enemy. I have an old score to settle with him, but I'm sure yours is the prior claim.CHEN: He is a friend of yours?MONK: Friend? No, no, an enemy. An enemy to end all enemies! I came here to inflict a terrible vengeance on him. I mean, we're all on the same side here, aren't we.Upcoming:Serial #21: The Dalek's Master Plan, Part III (Episodes 11-12: "The Abandoned Planet" & "The Destruction of Time" ) We will also discuss the serial overall.Both missingMonday, June 20thThe First Doctor and The DaleksA special episode looking back on all the First Doctor Dalek serials and considering how they shaped the show and the Doctor. Monday, June 27thSpecial thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: throughthevortexpodcast@gmail.com
Learn More About House Academy Here Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635) Transcript: Steven:Steve and Jill here. Jill:Hello. Steven:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill:There was a long pause there. I'm Jill DeWit and we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven:Today, Jill and I talk about why we've not missed the housing boom at all. Jill:Personally or all of us? Steven:All of us. Jill:Good. Steven:This all comes from... Jill and I have children between the ages of, let's say 26, 27 and 18, and all of them and all of their friends have all throughout their entire... Let's call it late teens, early twenties have said, "Well, you guys are the generation or two generations before us. And thanks for wrecking everything." Jill:"You guys are the last homeowners," like, "Hold on a moment." Steven:To which I say, "I said the same thing to my parents," to which my parents have said, "That's what I said to my parents." Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you... Oh, please don't forget to subscribe, I should say, on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill:David wrote, "Could someone give me some insight? I'm closing on my first deal. It's a 9.37 acre parcel. And in 20 days, there's not a ton of comps in the immediate area, and I was originally thinking about trying to sell it for around 30 to $40,000. But I've been doing a deep dive on research and looking at active listings. I noticed two neighboring parcels at 1.4 and 1.3 acres sold at 10,000 an acre, but it took four to six months. I'm very tempted to list it for $79,900. Even 70% of 10,000 acre at 65,000 and some change I would be thrilled with. I don't want to get crazy and list"... Oh, "I don't want to get crazy and list too high"- Steven:That was my fault. Jill:"And have to sit and/or not sell. Am I getting too excited with the neighboring properties? I'm licensed. I'm probably going to list it myself. So, if I can get the buyers and save some money... But I'm tempted to consider using a local realtor. The MLS might be different than the local one, and I might assume a local realtor who's any good would have a better handle on the prices." Is that the end of it? Steven:Yeah. Jill:So, do you want to go first? Steven:Congratulations. This is working for you. I'm really, really glad. I mean it, you're going to get through this first deal. It's going to be a lot easier. You're going to look back on it and say, "Wow, I learned a lot and I can't wait for the second one." Just like your first marriage. So... Jill:Why do you do...? Steven:I do it to annoy you. Jill:Just poking me all day long. Does this happen to you? Poke, poke, poke. Steven:It didn't bother you. If you just sailed right through it and didn't listen to anything I said, I'd never do it again. Jill:Because clearly you don't want to get a rise out of me. Steven:Here's a couple technical things, and a lot of people in our group in Discord commented the same way. Price per acre on small properties... We take a one acre property and it's priced at $10,000. So, it sells for 10,000 and apply that to even an adjoining property that's 10 acres or 40 acres... You can't use that same number. [crosstalk 00:03:27] The higher the acreage number... If it's 40 acres versus one acre, the price per acre's going to be lower. It's called the bottle case theory. When you buy a single bottle of Coca-Cola and then look at the case price, it's always cheaper to buy it by the case. It's just a pure economics thing. That's why people who subdivide property for a living make hoards and hoards of money. If you take a 40 acre property and buy it for four grand and, theoretically, divide it into 40 properties and sell it for a thousand dollars each, now you... Jill:Buy four, sold it for 40. Steven:I'm grossly oversimplifying it.
Learn More About House Academy Here Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635) Transcript: Steven:Steve and Jill here. Jill:Hello. Steven:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill:There was a long pause there. I'm Jill DeWit and we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven:Today, Jill and I talk about why we've not missed the housing boom at all. Jill:Personally or all of us? Steven:All of us. Jill:Good. Steven:This all comes from... Jill and I have children between the ages of, let's say 26, 27 and 18, and all of them and all of their friends have all throughout their entire... Let's call it late teens, early twenties have said, "Well, you guys are the generation or two generations before us. And thanks for wrecking everything." Jill:"You guys are the last homeowners," like, "Hold on a moment." Steven:To which I say, "I said the same thing to my parents," to which my parents have said, "That's what I said to my parents." Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you... Oh, please don't forget to subscribe, I should say, on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill:David wrote, "Could someone give me some insight? I'm closing on my first deal. It's a 9.37 acre parcel. And in 20 days, there's not a ton of comps in the immediate area, and I was originally thinking about trying to sell it for around 30 to $40,000. But I've been doing a deep dive on research and looking at active listings. I noticed two neighboring parcels at 1.4 and 1.3 acres sold at 10,000 an acre, but it took four to six months. I'm very tempted to list it for $79,900. Even 70% of 10,000 acre at 65,000 and some change I would be thrilled with. I don't want to get crazy and list"... Oh, "I don't want to get crazy and list too high"- Steven:That was my fault. Jill:"And have to sit and/or not sell. Am I getting too excited with the neighboring properties? I'm licensed. I'm probably going to list it myself. So, if I can get the buyers and save some money... But I'm tempted to consider using a local realtor. The MLS might be different than the local one, and I might assume a local realtor who's any good would have a better handle on the prices." Is that the end of it? Steven:Yeah. Jill:So, do you want to go first? Steven:Congratulations. This is working for you. I'm really, really glad. I mean it, you're going to get through this first deal. It's going to be a lot easier. You're going to look back on it and say, "Wow, I learned a lot and I can't wait for the second one." Just like your first marriage. So... Jill:Why do you do...? Steven:I do it to annoy you. Jill:Just poking me all day long. Does this happen to you? Poke, poke, poke. Steven:It didn't bother you. If you just sailed right through it and didn't listen to anything I said, I'd never do it again. Jill:Because clearly you don't want to get a rise out of me. Steven:Here's a couple technical things, and a lot of people in our group in Discord commented the same way. Price per acre on small properties... We take a one acre property and it's priced at $10,000. So, it sells for 10,000 and apply that to even an adjoining property that's 10 acres or 40 acres... You can't use that same number. [crosstalk 00:03:27] The higher the acreage number... If it's 40 acres versus one acre, the price per acre's going to be lower. It's called the bottle case theory. When you buy a single bottle of Coca-Cola and then look at the case price, it's always cheaper to buy it by the case. It's just a pure economics thing. That's why people who subdivide property for a living make hoards and hoards of money. If you take a 40 acre property and buy it for four grand and, theoretically, divide it into 40 properties and sell it for a thousand dollars each, now you... Jill:Buy four, sold it for 40. Steven:I'm grossly oversimplifying it.
Steven Garza is one of the main subjects in the spectacular documentary, Boys State. He's currently a student at the University of Texas. Boys State | Official Trailer HD | A24 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Kh_T5ZBIM To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: I consider myself of connoisseur of movie trailers. And the trailer for the documentary, Boys State, blew me away. The film is about over a thousand teenage boys from Texas who spend a week of their summer building their own government. TRAILER: My name is Steven Garza and I'm running for governor. Steven Garza is one of 4 main characters in Boys State. Since the movie came out, he's become a kind of folk hero and a symbol for why are politics aren't necessarily doomed. TRAILER: When we show the world what patriots are made of. That when things get tough, we pull ourselves by our bootstraps...one nation under God...members of the constitution of the United States of America!!!!!!!! ZAK: To find out if Steven won his governor's race, you're gonna have to see Boys State. It's on Apple+ and the movie is just as good as the trailer. Its been a few years since the movie was made and now Steven is a sophomore at the University of Texas in Austin. We Zoomed from his dorm room. Theme song ZAK: A lot of are pretty disenchanted with, uh, the electoral process and especially, like, as the political season is in full-gear right now...what does it mean to you to be hopeful right now? STEVEN: I think you have to stay hopeful and you have to stay optimistic about the future of the country, no matter how bleak it is because personally, if I ever lost hope or lost that optimism or idealism about our country, then that's a major defeat mentally and spiritually for me, because it's a huge part of my identity. And you're basically give up on the country...you're giving up hope and you're resigning yourself to the circumstance that the bad guys or the dark will win. ZAK: On those bleak days when it's really hard, what does your self-talk sound like to, you know, remind yourself of the citizen you want to be? STEVEN: It's looking back at the history of the country and realizing, you know, the history of this country I think is...the American people continually fighting for the rights that they're owed. Weather it be the Civil Rights Movement, Woman's Suffrage, Disability Rights, Farmers Movement, LBGT...and just imagining how bleak it must have seemed before for people back then, especially that 600-thousand people had to die in a way for slavery to end in this country. And then for another 100 years after that, they were denied the promises guaranteed ot them in the Constitution and they were beaten and murdered...It's just complete awfulness. They were treated as...not even second-class citizens. And the perseverance that they had to have...people like John Lewis, like Dr. King to get thrown in jail...be, you know, threatened and sometimes these people were murdered for their views. But not wavering and not letting that fear get to them. It's, you know, that's the only way, um, the only way that I think change is ever come to this country is by the people rising up and taking, you know, to the streets and demanding that change come to them. ZAK: If you want to give some advice on civics or citizenship or electoral politics of anything, I'd love to hear it. Give me a call on the hotline at 844-935-BEST. You've been listening to The Best Advice Show. Thank you so much. I'm Zak Rosen. Talk to you soon.
添加笨笨老师微信：benbenkouyu1（点击复制即可），速速加入口语学习群，免费每日纠音打卡，0元学习5天直播口语训练营（仅限100名），领取笨笨口语四步法全集视频文本资料及三大听课好礼！今天我们来看看实用的机场接机情景对话，同时学习下机场的一些英文词汇。接机情景对话Steven: Sorry to interrupt you. but aren't you Mr. Johnson from Canada?抱歉，打扰一下，请问您是加拿大来的Johnson先生吗?Mr. Johnson: Oh, yes I am.我是的。Steven: Yes. My name is Steven from Pacific Hotel. It's a pleasure to meet you. How was your flight?我是太平洋酒店的Steven，很荣幸见到你，你的旅途怎么样？Mr. Johnson: It was great, I had a quite good sleep on the airplane.哦挺好的，我在飞机上睡的很不错。Steven: I am glad to hear that. Shall we go? I've got a car waiting outside to take us to hotel. 听你这么说太好了。我们可以走了吗? 外面已经有辆小车等着接我们回酒店了。Mr. Johnson: Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to meet me here. 太好了，谢谢抽出时间来这里接我。Steven: It is my pleasure sir. We wish you could have a pleasant stay with us.这是我的荣幸，先生。我们希望您能够在我们酒店有一个愉快的入住体验。Mr. Johnson: I really appreciate it. How long it takes to the hotel?我表示真的很感激。到酒店大概要多久？Steven: It takes around half an hour, Mr. Johnson.大概半个小时，Johnson先生。Mr. Johnson: Sounds good.听起来不错。机场词汇大全1机场指示篇satellite 卫星楼 international airport 国际机场 domestic airport 国内机场 FLT No ( flight number ) 航班号 in 入口 exit; out; way out 出口up; upstairs 由此上楼 down; downstairs 由此下楼 customs 海关 2登机及中转篇check-in 登机手续办理 boarding pass (card) 登机牌luggage tag 行李牌 passport control immigration 护照检查处 goods to declare 报关物品 nothing to declare 不需报关 gate; departure gate 登机口 airport terminal 机场候机楼 international terminal 国际候机楼 departure lounge 候机室 departure time 起飞时间 boarding 登机 plane No. 航班号seat No. 座位号scheduled time (SCHED) 预计时间 delayed 延误 transfer passengers 中转旅客transfer correspondence 中转处arriving from 来自…… departure to 前往…… 3降落及公共服务篇transit 过境 international departure 国际航班出港 international passengers 国际航班旅客 landed 已降落arrivals 进站(进港、到达） departures 出站（出港、离开） domestic departure 国内航班出站 luggage claim; baggage claim 行李领取处airline coach service 航空公司汽车服务处 bus; coach service 公共汽车 toilet; W. C.; lavatories; rest room 厕所 money exchange/currency exchange 货币兑换处 rail ticket 出售火车票 hotel reservation 订旅馆 luggage locker 行李暂存箱 4签证篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名sex 性别birthdate 出生日期nationality 国籍passport No. 护照号visa type/class 签证种类expiry date 失效日期(或必须在…日之前入境) control No. 编号for stays of 停留期为……Issue At 签发地Issue Date 签发日期visa type/class 签证种类5出/入境卡篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名year 年 month 月 day 日 passport No. 护照号male 男female 女 occupation 职业 nationality 国籍 date of Birth 出生日期 destination country 目的地国家city where you boarded 登机所在城市 city where visa was issued签证签发地 date issue 签发日期 address while in 前往国家的住址 signature 签名 city and state 城市及国家
Sean discusses the following prompt from Steven:It may be too early to give any analysis on, but how do you think the human and economic impact of Covid-19 will change plans and strategies of the Big Five (plus Netflix) movie studios in terms of streaming and/or continuing to operate as usual? How do you think these economic factors will impact the decision making of “disrupters” like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook in terms of making a library or studio purchase? You've detailed steps Disney has taken in the past to avoid being bought and how they still don't need to necessarily seek a safety net to survive, but do Sony Entertainment and Paramount now find themselves in that situation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听Rachel: So Steven, we've been talking about Costa Rica and how beautiful nature is there and how important it is to preserve it. What do you do in your life to save the environment or to protect the environment?Steven: It's almost daily that I think about this question that you just asked me. For example, in my university, I made this project for promoting Earth Hour which is just turning off the lights for one hour and enjoy a concert or some activity that doesn't require electricity. This Earth Hour is actually produced or created in Australia but we just trying to promote eco-systems, eco-friendly programs to the world.Rachel: That sounds great, so how many people attended the event?Steven: More than two hundred people from the university came in and watch and enjoyed and actually, all of them stayed and we also attracted faculty people which we never thought they would ever come and it's impressive that all these people actually wanted to make a change to the world.Rachel: So that sounds like an amazing project Steven. If other students in universities around the world wanted to organize something like it, what were the steps you went through to organize that event?Steven: Well, this even was mostly already planned by this organization called earth hour of course. However, in order to make the idea to actually work, we went through lots of paperwork. We tried to recruit as many people through advertisement and trying to be as eco-friendly as possible by reducing paper, and also we tried to recruit activities from the university in order to promote people to come in and enjoy this wonderful concert, and of course, we had some marshmallow[棉花软糖], chocolate, cracker which attracted most of the people.Rachel: That sounds wonderful. So you had the barbeque as well as the concert and then candlelight as well. Is that right?Steven: Yeah, I actually had candles which is lighting the concert and of course the barbeque. This was the main attraction for people but also because of this, they learned that by turning off one hour of light they can actually survive. They can actually survive without the internet or turning on the lights and doing their homework
更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听Rachel: So Steven, we've been talking about Costa Rica and how beautiful nature is there and how important it is to preserve it. What do you do in your life to save the environment or to protect the environment?Steven: It's almost daily that I think about this question that you just asked me. For example, in my university, I made this project for promoting Earth Hour which is just turning off the lights for one hour and enjoy a concert or some activity that doesn't require electricity. This Earth Hour is actually produced or created in Australia but we just trying to promote eco-systems, eco-friendly programs to the world.Rachel: That sounds great, so how many people attended the event?Steven: More than two hundred people from the university came in and watch and enjoyed and actually, all of them stayed and we also attracted faculty people which we never thought they would ever come and it's impressive that all these people actually wanted to make a change to the world.Rachel: So that sounds like an amazing project Steven. If other students in universities around the world wanted to organize something like it, what were the steps you went through to organize that event?Steven: Well, this even was mostly already planned by this organization called earth hour of course. However, in order to make the idea to actually work, we went through lots of paperwork. We tried to recruit as many people through advertisement and trying to be as eco-friendly as possible by reducing paper, and also we tried to recruit activities from the university in order to promote people to come in and enjoy this wonderful concert, and of course, we had some marshmallow[棉花软糖], chocolate, cracker which attracted most of the people.Rachel: That sounds wonderful. So you had the barbeque as well as the concert and then candlelight as well. Is that right?Steven: Yeah, I actually had candles which is lighting the concert and of course the barbeque. This was the main attraction for people but also because of this, they learned that by turning off one hour of light they can actually survive. They can actually survive without the internet or turning on the lights and doing their homework
Negotiation Starts with Common Ground (LA 1169) Transcript: Steven: Steve and Jill here. Jill: Hello. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven: Today Jill and I talk about negotiation, and how it starts with a common ground. Steven: I found myself last week talking to a vendor for a pretty expensive machine for offers to owners. We had, what I think, is a pretty diametrical disagreement. It doesn't matter. You always disagree with vendors and stuff. The whole goal for everybody is to try to get it back to center so they get what they want, we get what we want. Where does that start when everybody's going like this and arguing? Jill: I can't wait to hear the whole story. Steven: It starts with some type of common ground. I got the idea from a politician a lot of years ago who was talking about how to be ... Good politicians bring everybody together. They don't make people mad, or alienate people. They try to ... I read and I watched this thing about reaching a common ground first, and then moving forward from there. For instance, we all have kids, and all of us, we don't want them to die via nuclear Holocaust. Yeah, you hate me? Yeah. I'm not a real big fan of yours, but maybe we can make some legislation here where the kids don't die. Jill: That's great, babe. That was my first example too. Shoot! I was just going to toss that one out. Darn. Funny how we think alike. Steven: I honestly did. I was looking forward to ... I mean, I am looking forward to doing this show with Jill, because I hear her doing this all the time. I like to blindside Jill on this show. Jill: Yes, you do. Steven: I hear her say this stuff to these sellers. Every time I walk by her office, sellers or buyers, and she's saying this stuff. What she's doing is bringing them back to a center. "Hey, look. You want to sell it, I want to buy it." Jill: What's going to make you happy? Steven: Yeah. I guess really the thing is just kind of price, right? This is the kind of stuff she says. "If the only issue that you and I have is price, everything else we have, all this worked out, we can figure this out." that's the kind of stuff she says. How can you say no to that? Jill: Thanks. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill: Ivan asks, "Hi. Has anyone dealt with a rollback tax, and are these enforced? Are they addressed at closing, or will I get a large tax bill in the future?" Then it says, "If your land qualified for agriculture appraisal ,and you change its use to a non-agricultural use, you will owe a rollback tax for each of the previous five years once your land received a lower appraisal. The rollback tax is the difference between the taxes you paid on your land's agricultural value and the taxes you would pay if the land had been taxed on its higher market value, plus some percent interest is charged for each year from the date that taxes would have been due." So this was clearly- Steven: End quote. Jill: Right, end quote. The notice that he got. Then here he goes on to say- Steven: Here's the story to this question. Jill: Right. Where did this come from? Well, Ivan says, "I bought 50 acres that are ag exempt, but plan on selling smaller lots that are already plotted, some less than the required ag exemption size line limit, but now worried about this potential tax. Had a real estate agent bring this up, which has killed some of his deals in the past. I didn't believe it at first, but the above tax is directly from the county. Thanks, Ivan." Steven: So let me put this in layman's terms. He's saying rollback tax. I'm sure that's some legitimate term from somewhere. What it means is taxes in arrears. There's huge tax breaks for farms for agricultural property, because everybody benefits when people grow crops. We need to eat.
Negotiation Starts with Common Ground (LA 1147) Transcript: Steven: Steve and Jill here. Jill: Hello. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven: Today Jill and I talk about negotiation, and how it starts with a common ground. Steven: I found myself last week talking to a vendor for a pretty expensive machine for offers to owners. We had, what I think, is a pretty diametrical disagreement. It doesn't matter. You always disagree with vendors and stuff. The whole goal for everybody is to try to get it back to center so they get what they want, we get what we want. Where does that start when everybody's going like this and arguing? Jill: I can't wait to hear the whole story. Steven: It starts with some type of common ground. I got the idea from a politician a lot of years ago who was talking about how to be ... Good politicians bring everybody together. They don't make people mad, or alienate people. They try to ... I read and I watched this thing about reaching a common ground first, and then moving forward from there. For instance, we all have kids, and all of us, we don't want them to die via nuclear Holocaust. Yeah, you hate me? Yeah. I'm not a real big fan of yours, but maybe we can make some legislation here where the kids don't die. Jill: That's great, babe. That was my first example too. Shoot! I was just going to toss that one out. Darn. Funny how we think alike. Steven: I honestly did. I was looking forward to ... I mean, I am looking forward to doing this show with Jill, because I hear her doing this all the time. I like to blindside Jill on this show. Jill: Yes, you do. Steven: I hear her say this stuff to these sellers. Every time I walk by her office, sellers or buyers, and she's saying this stuff. What she's doing is bringing them back to a center. "Hey, look. You want to sell it, I want to buy it." Jill: What's going to make you happy? Steven: Yeah. I guess really the thing is just kind of price, right? This is the kind of stuff she says. "If the only issue that you and I have is price, everything else we have, all this worked out, we can figure this out." that's the kind of stuff she says. How can you say no to that? Jill: Thanks. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill: Ivan asks, "Hi. Has anyone dealt with a rollback tax, and are these enforced? Are they addressed at closing, or will I get a large tax bill in the future?" Then it says, "If your land qualified for agriculture appraisal ,and you change its use to a non-agricultural use, you will owe a rollback tax for each of the previous five years once your land received a lower appraisal. The rollback tax is the difference between the taxes you paid on your land's agricultural value and the taxes you would pay if the land had been taxed on its higher market value, plus some percent interest is charged for each year from the date that taxes would have been due." So this was clearly- Steven: End quote. Jill: Right, end quote. The notice that he got. Then here he goes on to say- Steven: Here's the story to this question. Jill: Right. Where did this come from? Well, Ivan says, "I bought 50 acres that are ag exempt, but plan on selling smaller lots that are already plotted, some less than the required ag exemption size line limit, but now worried about this potential tax. Had a real estate agent bring this up, which has killed some of his deals in the past. I didn't believe it at first, but the above tax is directly from the county. Thanks, Ivan." Steven: So let me put this in layman's terms. He's saying rollback tax. I'm sure that's some legitimate term from somewhere. What it means is taxes in arrears. There's huge tax breaks for farms for agricultural property, because everybody benefits when people grow crops. We need to eat.
How to Get Over the Fear of Buying Property (1070) Transcript: Steven: Steven and Jill here. Jill: Good day. Steven: Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill: And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven: Today, Jill and I talk about how to get over the fear of buying property. Seems like such an interesting, funny, incredibly unnecessary topic, but I know it's- Jill: Oh my gosh, are you serious? Steven: Yeah, to me it does. Jill: To me it's a necessary. Steven: Yeah. Jill: Unnecessary. Just because you have no fear and I have no fear, it doesn't mean- Steven: Any fear of buying real estate at all. Jill: I do not. Steven: Have you ever? Jill: No. Steven: Neither have I. Jill: Hold on a moment. That does not mean that everybody's that way. If it's one thing I have learned. Steven: Well you just cut me off in the middle of the sentence, but that's okay. Jill: I'm sorry. I didn't know you were going there. Steven: You know what we should do that's so, it's going to be annoying to the listener, but really fun for us. Jill: So sorry. Steven: Every single sentence the other person says, just cut them off. Jill: Not nice. Steven: Go ahead, Jill. Jill: No I didn't mean to do that. Steven: It's not a trap, I mean it. Go ahead. Jill: Finish your thing. Steven: No, I can't remember what I was going to say. Jill: Oh, well, sorry. Steven: Look, this show is all about learning how to buy and sell real estate, so it's not really about Jill and I at all. So what comes easy to us might be incredibly difficult for somebody and vice versa. So this topic came up because we have a lot of new staff right now, and I'm learning by watching how they're doing deals and what they're bringing to the table that adds to what Jill and I can bring to the table. You know, there's some concern about ... you know what I think this really shows really about, and then I'll let you take over, because I know you have a lot of notes. It's just insecurity, not about buying real estate, it's just like fear of failure. Jill: Well I was going to say, I really saw it when we were talking about the topics. Not our people, the members. I talked to new members all the time. New and or thinking about jumping in, and this is one of their concerns. Steven: Oh, okay, good. So it is necessary. Jill: It is necessary. And I have a lot more to say when we talk about the show. Steven: Before we get into it, let's take to a topic posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill: Joe wrote, "Hello, my name is Joe. I'm 28 years old, married and no kids. New to this site and learning about land investing. I'm very interested. This is definitely something I want to do. However, I don't really know the best path to take at this point in my life. I have a decent paying job, but I hate it." Poor guy. "I'm just now getting to where I can make a change. I either want to go back to college or go back into the military. Now that I've found this, I'm not sure if I should focus on getting a better career first and then working towards investing in land, or just use the job I have now to save and get started. I don't know really what it takes to get going and I don't know h...
更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听Todd: Hello! Can you introduce yourself, please?Steven: Sure, my name is Steven Patterson and I'm from a small town called Brentwood in Essex which is in England.Todd: OK. Essex. What part of England is that?Steven: That's in the southeast.Todd: Southeast.Steven: Yeah, yeah. It's attached to London, just next to London.Todd: Oh, OK, but you said it's a small town.Steven: It's quite small, well, relatively small. The populations about 50,000.Todd: OK, well what kind of place is your town where you grew up?Steven: Um, it's actually a very nice town. People often move into Brentwood from the surrounding towns, or from the east end of London. Um, it's quite prosperous. Well, you could, in some respects, it's a dormant town. People often travel out from Brentwood into London and they work in the city, but it's a pleasant place to live. It has lots of countryside around it. There's a very large country park. Ah, it's quite a small town but it's, at the high street it's quite small but it's quite a pleasant town to shop in.Todd: Oh, it sounds nice. Well, now if you live in a little town that's near London is it really expensive?Steven: Well, Brentwood is particularly expensive just because it's a desirable place to live and it's proximity to London also makes it, the housing is quite expensive, even a town next to it would have much cheaper housing.Todd: Oh, really, cause when I think of a small British village, you know, I think of really old houses, and nothing's changed, so do you have modern stuff, like do you have a health club and a movie theater and things like that?Steven: Uh, I think the cinema in Brentwood actually closed down, with the advent of out of town shopping centers they always have their multiplex cinemas with six or eight screens and the cinema in Brentwood only had two screens and it couldn't really compete for everyone has cars these days so they can easily travel to big shopping centers, so that closed down, however, yeah, it has a very nice health center and as I said lots of parks to play. There are lots of opportunities to exercise and do various forms of recreation.Todd: Wow, sounds like a nice place to live.
Danny talks to Steven Spohn about growing up as a gamer with a disability, and the work he does at the Ablegamers charity to make games more accessible. (Recorded January 10th) iTunes Page: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/noclip/id1385062988 RSS Feed: http://noclippodcast.libsyn.com/rssGoogle Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/If7gz7uvqebg2qqlicxhay22qny Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XYk92ubrXpvPVk1lin4VB?si=JRAcPnlvQ0-YJWU9XiW9pg Watch our docs: https://youtube.com/noclipvideo Sub our new podcast channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHBlPhuCd1sDOdNANCwjrA Learn About Noclip: https://www.noclip.videoBecome a Patron and get early access to new episodes: https://www.patreon.com/noclip Follow @noclipvideo on Twitter Hosted by @dannyodwyerFunded by 4,913 Patrons. -------------------------------------------------------------- - [Danny] Hello and welcome to Noclip; the podcast about people who play and make video games. I'm your host Danny O'Dwyer and today I'm joined by somebody who kind of has a finger in both of the pies we generally talk about; people who play games and also people who make games. We're gonna talk to him about a lot of different areas of his work and also the ways in which he enjoys playing games as well. He is the COO of AbleGamers, he is a fellow Trending Gamer nominee survivor. I am delighted to be joined by Mr. Steven Spohn. How are you doing my friend? - [Steven]I'm doing well. Can we just talk about pies for the next 15 minutes? - [Danny] I wanted to bring up the pie because I was trying to think about how you fit into the world of video games and, in a way, your work at AbleGamers is involved in both sides of the equation. You help individuals who have trouble accessing video games to get controllers and the means by which to play the games they wanna do, but you're also talking to game studios and hardware manufacturers about they ways in which they can make it so you don't have to do the other thing. - [Steven] Yeah. The truth is when I did the game awards video, one of the things that they captured me saying was that I don't know how I got where I am and I don't know what I'm doing and it was the absolute most truthful thing I had said during the whole piece. I don't know exactly what you would call my job. My job is literally whatever AbleGamers needs and sometimes that's talking to hardware, sometimes that's talking to developers, sometimes that's talking to fundraisers, sometimes that's talking to people with disabilities who need tech support, so I have really become the Jack of all video game trade at the moment. - [Danny] I've got a lot of questions about your work at AbleGamers and we've got some from the Patrons too. We've actually been, like, I feel like we've been working on the AbleGamers documentary, in some respect, either us having conversations or filming stuff like we did last summer, it feels like it's been going on forever and it's something that we eventually will get done. Today I kind of wanna talk a bit more about Steven; about how you came to be in the position you're in because, like you said, in a way I can't imagine anyone else doing your job, but also I couldn't imagine anyone doing your job until you did it. So, let's go all the way back. When did you start playing games or when did you start getting interested in games? - [Steven] I became interested in video games actually thanks to a friend I had made in high school. We were in a vo-tech class and we were doing AutoCAD designing and... - [Danny] Oh, cool. - [Steven] I, for just a brief hot second, I wanted to be an assistant engineer and then I wondered how much work it is and I said, "Nah". - [Danny] What was the name of the class? It sounded like volt-tech class. - [Steven] It was vo-tech. - [Danny] Vo-tech? - [Steven] Yeah, vocational technical school. - [Danny] Oh, okay, okay. - [Steven] Yeah, vo-tech is like the American, "We're not going to real school, we're going to fancy 'you're going to learn actual useful life skills' classes". - [Danny] Awesome. - [Steven] Yeah, like its where your mechanics go and all the people who are gonna do computers and what they do is, or at least in my school, you did your math and your science in the morning and then they shipped you on a bus during lunch to go to the other school. It's kinda cool. - [Danny] Wow, we had something similar in Ireland. It was called Leaving Cert. Applied and it was where all my friends who are tradesmen went. Like electricians and plumbers and then they all ended up moving to Australia anyway because the economy crashed and nobody was building houses. So you were in that class and you were learning AutoCAD. Was that the first piece of software you ever encountered? - [Steven] It was the first time that I had really worked on computers for more than a few minutes. Of course, everybody had Oregon Trail on their MathLab or whatever, but I grew up poor so we didn't own a computer and that was really the only time I got to have hands on a computer from multiple hours at a time. One of my friends there worked at a computer shop and he was telling me how he just got all these parts for computers secondhand because people would turn them in for repairs and then they wouldn't want them, so he would just end up fixing them and taking them home, and I was like, "That's amazing", so he started talking me into getting into video gaming and he told me about this fabulous game where you could go online and you could have a life and you could do amazing things like walking around the town of Britain and you could fight dragons and you could own a house, and I was like, "This is amazing", and so he sort of talked me into this persistent world, he was a Guild Master in his own right. That's how I got sucked in to Ultima Online and from there I just became super interested in the alternative reality that video games present. - [Danny] Was there an element of the escapism that appealed to you? Escapism is something that we all enjoy, but perhaps somebody in your position, maybe, was there an added element of escapism for you? - [Steven] For me it was the timing of where it hit me in life. I had gone into my senior year of high school and I had discovered friends and it sounds corny, cheesy; it's something that I'm probably gonna get up on a stage and give a TED Talk about one day, but it's interesting how our school system kind of segregates people with disabilities away from the main population if you let them. They'll put you in a special classroom and they will put you in a special room to eat lunch and they really keep you almost walled off from everyone else and I was super lucky that I had a friend who talked me into doing that and I made friends. Long story short, I sort of got a huge case of senior-itis and I just didn't want to do the school thing anymore. I wanted to go have a social life because holy crap having friends is awesome! And so I just wanted to go experience that and have fun with it and it was fantastic. The only problem was that I was just at the age where we were transitioning from middle-teens to late-teens so it was a couple of years of doing... - [Danny] Hell. - [Steven] Oh, hell! But also doing video games in your friends garage, to, "Hey, let's go to the club and pick up girls." and its like "Well, the club has a stair to get into it, so I can't do that, oh damn". So I started kind of being walled off by life. Just happenstance of things not being wheelchair accessible and here's my other friend going, "Hey, here's a world where your wheelchair doesn't eff-ing matter". I don't know if I can say swears on this show. - [Danny] Say whatever you want, man. - [Steven] Right, cool, so they were like "Who the fuck cares if you're in a wheelchair. Go play this world where everybody's equal", and I was like "Oh, this is my first experience where everything is a level playing field" and it was amazing, so... Was it escaping or was it choosing to forge a different path in life? I don't think I'll ever really know the answer to that, but consequently, through the butterfly effect, deciding to do that and take that friend's advice led me to where I am right now. - [Danny] You're an incredibly social person. I feel like everyone in the industry has met you and had a conversation with you. I've noticed that you're very good at advocating for people's time, which is something that a lot of people who like having friends and like being social, they sort of don't put themselves out there to, you know, they don't want to be a bother or something like that but I've always found you to be incredibly inviting and sort of proactive in your friendships, which I think is a really important trait, especially the older you get. Video games, in that way I suppose, have sort of provided you with a lot then, in terms of both your social life and your professional life. Is it fair to say that most of that sort of revolves around the world of games? - [Steven] I think it is now. I mean, you hit the nail right on the head. When you're in your thirties, going out and making new friendships is exceedingly difficult and we could literally talk for the rest of the podcast about the difficulties of living the disabled life and having to fit in to the norms of society. But as far as the video games industry has been, to me it's been a very welcoming and inviting place and I am super honest guy, you know, you follow me on twitter, we've been friends for a couple years now. I, to my own detriment, I am way too honest sometimes and I am sure that there are people in the industry who love me and there are people who probably wish I would just stop talking so much and I feel like if you don't have some people that think you talk too much then you're probably not making change and that's what I'm trying to do. I have terminal illnesses, I have a disability for those of you who don't know me. I am aware that there is that shot clock ticking and I don't talk about it a lot but I'm aware it's there probably more than your average person and I'm trying to use all the time I've got to do something with it. - [Danny] It's an interesting dichotomy you bring up there, in that, in many ways, who could say a bad thing about Steven and AbleGamers, you know what I mean? At least, who could say it out loud? But you are kind of creating problems for companies, right? Like you're creating a problem that, by the fact that you're even having the conversation with it was a problem that they thought didn't exist. You're fashioning it for them. Is that the case? Like, is it different now talking to companies than it was when you first started doing this work? - [Steven] The difference really is that I didn't make the problem. I shined a spotlight on a problem that was in the darkness. It was always there and the more technology advances, the less accessible it becomes, just by the very definition of advancing technology. So, we banded together, me and Mark Barlet and Craig Kaufman, and a bunch of amazing people, now AbleGamers, got together and decided that we were going to take this problem head on and we changed a multi-billion dollar industry. I tell you the weirdest thing that I could ever say to another human being because it is entirely factual, you could prove it, in fact, we're doing a documentary talking about it, so it's, you know, it's something that's kind of shock and awe to even try to talk about it, but here we are, years later, where developers went from laughing at us and walking away to now coming to talk to us, so, you know, it's pretty amazing. I am very fortunate in my position that I am able to walk all these different sides of the video game life. - [Danny] When you think about some of the ways in which you guys have changed the industry, the one that comes to mind right away, for me at least, because it's probably the most recent, is the work that you guys did with Microsoft on the, is it the Adaptive Controller, is that what the name is? - [Steven] Yeah, it's called the Adaptive Controller. - [Danny] What other stuff comes to mind for you, over the years? - [Steven] You know, I think some of the biggest were going into Harmonix and getting to talk to Alex. Sitting down in his office and doing the whole Rock Band thing and talking about the various ways that you might wanna play the game. The fastest way I can tell this anecdote is we were sitting in his office and we were talking about how, if someone wants to play the video game, how many buttons would they have to use at minimum? Could you do this if you only had three fingers on on hand? Could you do it if you were one-handed? You know, yes, no, yes, no. So we talked about that for a minute and I just came up with a question to ask; "Why did you come up with three buttons as the minimum to be able to play?" and his answer was, "Well, it's just the number that we thought was the smallest that people would ever wanna do". I said, "Well, what about somebody who only has the ability to push one button?" He said, "Well, we never thought anybody would want to be able to play Rock Band with just one button." I looked him in the face and I said, "I would." And the color just drained out of his face and he just nods his head and goes, "Okay, we'll have to work on that" and that was sort of a great beginning point for, not only my friendship with Alex, but AbleGamers as a company we have worked with Harmonix ever since and they've been really great partners of the business and I've made some good friends over there as well. It's this amazing thing of how, one of my friends put it best, my job title is to go out and be who I am very visibly and let people learn lessons from my experiences and I've been able to thread this needle of using personal experience and second hand experience from the gamers I've met along the way to then translate that into the friendships that I've forged in the industry and then turn that into making changes for other people. So it's this tightrope act of making sure to be friends with everybody because the only way that you really can get people to make change is if they want to. If they don't want to, they're not gonna change. - [Danny] When you think about changing those games, were there games when you were growing up that you were like "Oh man, I'd really love to play that", but then you realized that there were barriers in your way to doing so? - [Steven] Yeah, I can tell you that I wanted to play Dance Dance Revolution and that'd be a great sound bite. Of course I'm in a wheelchair but I've always been a very realistic kind of guy. I am a logic-based person, I have the weird sort or emotional Spock thing going on where I wear my heart on my sleeve and I will fight for anybody if I believe in them, but there has to be logic in my brain, also why this is a thing, and I'm never gonna be on Dancing With The Stars. I'm never gonna be a ninja. It's just not in the cards for me. So I am okay with that and there was no particular game that I wanted to play that made me start advocating for people. It was simply having a disease that was advancing slowly, taking away abilities one by one, made me go, "Oh, shit, I guess I need some technology" and somewhere along the way I discovered that it was a lot more fun to help other people than to help myself. - [Danny] What was it like then for you, trying to gain access to that technology? Presumably you were doing that before AbleGamers existed, so was it a case where your conditions were getting worse and you were effectively looking for solutions as the issues presented themselves? - [Steven] So it's interesting when you're doing a technology upgrade as someone with a disability because it's often a mismatch of just MacGyver-ing your way through technology. To eat potato chips, I used to use hot dog tongs as I couldn't lift up my biceps, but I could rotate my wrist so I would just pick up one chip at a time with a hot dog tong. It's the same thing with video games. I used a little tiny dental hygiene tool that has a little crook on the end of it, has a little rubber tip and I would use that to push W, A, S, D when I couldn't reach it and operate the mouse with the other hand. So I was already using technology, it was just this way... Doing things the low-tech way was beginning to start to fail, so I had to find a little bit more high-tech solutions. - [Danny] And how did you do that? Did you fashion stuff yourself? Were there people out there making custom rigs for people? - [Steven] Well, you know, I started doing it by finding ways to play video games with only the mouse and just getting rid of keyboard entirely. Fortunately, I had found a program called TrackIR which generally allows you to look around in the cockpit of a Microsoft Flight Simulator and when you're looking around, you're also telling the computer to push different directions and I found that you could use this to push keyboard buttons and it was a totally unintended thing that this program was offering. They were trying to use it to help people have a more virtual experience, more immersion, and I ended up using it as a disability tool and now I teach others how to do the same thing. - [Danny] That's incredible. So you sort of hacked it in a way to be quick key-binding stuff. How many buttons could you set up on a TrackIR? How many directional ways are there to use it? - [Steven] So the best way to think about it is to think about a dartboard. - [Danny] Okay. - [Steven] If you think about each position, each little block, being a different key then the laser pointer that is attached to the brim of one of my hats allows the laser pointer to move around based on the way I'm looking. - [Danny] Right. - [Steven] So I can move it to whatever block. The only downside of that technology, of course, is if you're thinking about moving in a straight line. If you gotta get to block number three, you gotta run through block number one through two. - [Danny] Right. - [Steven] So, it sort of becomes this interesting way of lining up the buttons so that they don't do the wrong thing at the wrong time. - [Danny] It sounds like key-binding is something that is one of the most powerful ways of allowing people to use controllers in these interesting ways. You say using a mouse only; I imagine setting up 'run' to be right-click or something like that would maybe fix one sort of problem. We talk about the hardware issue, but also one of the biggest issues in games that has sort of been slowly fixed over the past five, 10 years, well, maybe closer to five, is the ability to re-bind controls, which certainly has never been something that was standard and is a lot more common now. Is that a big issue with accessibility as well? - [Steven] Yeah, re-mapping has gotten a lot better. Now, re-mapping is almost as standard as closed captioning is for TV shows and movies. That's a lot thanks to the groundwork that people have done, demanding it to be a thing. It's not just a disability thing. Everybody loves for you to be able to re-map things so that they're more comfortable, so that your hand isn't stretched out in weird ways that the developers didn't quite think somebody would try to do. So it's good for everybody, it's good design and it allows us to be comfortable playing video games. - [Danny] So what other big games were you a fan of? Or what other games were you a big fan of, rather, back in those days, back in the Ultima Online days? Eventually those doors closed, but you could've got back into that fantasy world. So what other games are your favorites when you look back? - [Steven] Back then Diablo was huge, I loved that game. Star Wars Galaxies actually was the bait that Mark used to get me into AbleGamers. - [Danny] How'd he do that? - [Steven] Okay, so I loved Star Wars Galaxies so much. Star Wars Galaxies was, and maybe is, my favorite game of all time and they had just changed it to the NGE and the NGE made it more into an action simulator game, which took away a lot of the accessibility. - [Danny] Oh, really? - [Steven] Yeah, in SWG, the original vanilla version, you had macros, you had slash commands, you had buttons on the screen that you could click, you could do macro ability to do more than one action at a time. It was a very very friendly game for people with disabilities and they didn't even realize they were designing it that way. They were just trying to make it friendly for everybody. So, it just happened to be accessible and I happened to latch on to it as the most amazing thing since pizza and it was great and they changed it and then, right after that, they were gonna change it again for the combat upgrade and they were gonna make it into this, I don't even know what kind of 'Barbie Ken Dreamhouse' thing they were trying to do with this game, but it was just destroying it from the inside out and then then closed it so I literally told Mark that I would come work for AbleGamers, volunteer my time, and at the time I was just being a writer and trying to help the cause, and I would do it, but only if he would give me the email for Smedley so I could tell him off. - [Danny] And did you? - [Steven] I did, yeah, absolutely. - [Danny] Oh, God. - [Steven] I wonder if he still has that email. - [Danny] Did he respond? - [Steven] No. I was nobody then, so just an angry guy yelling at him, which he had a bunch of those already. - [Danny] How long is the email, do you reckon? Is it like one paragraph or was it like 20 paragraphs? - [Steven] It was like five paragraphs with expletives and doing something between rational explanation of why he should change it back to, you know, "I hope both your eyebrows catch on fire!" It was not my most refined moment but I was just so passionate about it. - [Danny] Yeah, shoot your shot, fair enough. So what have you been playing at the moment? We were playing a bunch of PUBG I remember last year and then you went off and joined the Fortnite gang. You said you could never be a ninja but there you are, every day, playing Fortnite. Are you still playing it? - [Steven] Actually, no. I don't play Fortnite as much as I used to. It is still a fun game for me, but I've actually began to fall away from first-person shooters a little bit. I've been doing the Rocket League thing, I've been really into Kingdom: Two Crowns recently, just playing that 8-bit life. Yeah, it's the third installment of this franchise where you're just a little dude or a queen that's got a kingdom to take care of and there's little greedy things that are trying to take all your money and beat up your people to get it, so there's no fighting involved so, I don't know, I'm one of those gamers that, I used to run a violent game like a Diablo and then I would run The Sims Online. I would just bounce back and forth to satisfy both sides of my brain, so I guess right now I'm just like, "I don't wanna shoot people, I just wanna watch little monsters be murdered." - [Danny] Okay so by that rationale, Rocket League is the violent game? - [Steven] Yeah, well, if you've ever seen me play Rocket League, it depends how many times I get scored on. - [Danny] Oh dude, I swear to God, I have never been as angry and stressed out as when I play Rocket League online. - [Steven] It's like a stress test, they should replace that at the doctor's office. - [Danny] I swear to God, I had to start playing on PS4 because then I couldn't type shit at people. Then I just started doing it on that as well, bringing up the little PlayStation keyboard. In between goals where you've hardly any time to trash talk anyone and you just figure out ways of doing it. - [Steven] What a save, what a save, what a save! - [Danny] Oh, yeah, totally and all that sarcastic stuff for sure, yeah. It's ridiculous. Did you do a 'Top 10' list or anything for 2018? - [Steve] You know, I think I'm one of the three video game industry people that didn't do a 'Top 10' post. - [Danny] You need to get Alex Navarro over at Giant Bomb to email you as well next year. - [Steven] Apparently, yeah. Next year I need to get on the list, I was like, "every one of my friends has a list, what the hell?" Damn. - [Danny] So what was the stuff last year that really caught your eye? Were you playing a lot of those games? Well, playing Rocket League I guess, since 2017. - [Steven]Yeah, it was a good year for video games, man. The one I wish I could have played the most was Spider-Man. Man, that looked like an amazing game. I couldn't personally play it, so it was actually one of the only games that I sat on Twitch and watched friends play from the beginning to the end. It was so good. I loved it so much. - [Danny] Is that because it's a console game and it's just the accessibility issue? - [Steven] It was the way that the accessibility was set up was just a little bit rough for trying to aim and change your weapons. Anything that has a weapon wheel just adds another layer of complication for people who have a limited number of buttons that they can push, so, yeah. Even if you were using a QuadStick on a console, the weapon wheel is just difficult, so, you know. - [Danny] How does the QuadStick interface with the PlayStation? Because obviously Microsoft now has a controller that's like officially doing it. Do you have to hack it to get it to work? - [Steven] Yeah, its just an adaptor. - [Danny] Oh, really, just like off the shelf? You just get it off Amazon or something, or eBay? - [Steven] Well no, it's not off the shelf, but there are adapters out there that let you use PlayStation and Xbox things, vice versa, depending on which console you need to use the most, so we can put a QuadStick on either one. It doesn't really work on a Swtich, unfortunately, looking at you Nintendo. But, yeah, PlayStation and Xbox works just fine. - [Danny] Is it the type of thing that they know about and they're cool with or they know about it and they're just gonna go, "Ah, whatever"? Like what is it that Nintendo are doing that stops people being able to make adapters for that? - [Steven] You know, I'm not really sure what I can say, legally. I can tell you that it's still works on Xbox and PlayStation and it doesn't work on Nintendo. - [Danny] Fair enough. Sorry, you were saying, what other games are you playing? - [Steven] The God of War series was, of course, super amazing. I had a lot of strange indie taste as well, like Tricky Towers was a really good game I found. Just something sort of different. I loved Into the Breach. I think the only one I've lost a lot of time into was Odyssey. Odyssey is just so good; I can't stop playing it. - [Danny] My wife is playing it too. It's the most game I've ever seen. - [Steven] It is ridiculous, it is. I mean there were so many good games that came out last year, but Odyssey is maybe the first one in forever that I've been playing off-stream. There's usually, for me, only two kinds of games that I play; either I play them for work or I play them for stream work. Don't you get it where it's like, I'm sure, just like you, I don't like play just to play very much, so when I do, a game's gotta be great and Odyssey was fantastic. - [Danny] Did you play the Origins? The one that came out the year before? - [Steven] I didn't. You know, Odyssey was actually my first venture into Assassin's Creed world. - [Danny] Oh, cool. It's crazy how people are, I feel like there's two groups of people; there's the people who played so much Origins that they just can't play Odyssey because it's just like, it's just so too much, too quickly and then there's people who didn't play Origins who are loving Odyssey because it's a lot of the same sort of systems and stuff that worked there, but in a much bigger map with so much stuff. It's ridiculous how much stuff is in that game. Like how much of the map have you uncovered? My wife's been playing for months and like a third of the map has been opened up. - [Steven] You know, I probably have got a little over half of it at this point, and it just seems like the game just keeps going and, I gotta say, I'm into it though. It's one of those games where I'm finding I don't mind how much time has been sunk into it. Normally by like hour 50 I'm like, "Alright, come on, we gotta wrap this up", but this one I'm like, "You know, I could probably play this off and on for the next year, I'd be alright with that." - [Danny] What is it about it? Is it the setting or the combat or is it the ticking off the things on the list? There's a lot of 'do these things' and then you do the things and they give you stuff for it and you're like, "Yeah, give me more things to do." Is it that? - [Steven] I think it's a combination of the story and the never-ending tasks. I love the bounty hunting system, oh my goodness. I love how you just randomly get hunted and then you get to kill them and then more people hunt you. It's just awesome. - [Danny] That's rad. What are you playing at the moment? So you're playing that at the moment still, are you? - [Steven] Yeah, I mean whenever I get spare time, that's where I'm sinking my time right now. That was after I beat Far Cry. I don't know if you got a chance to sink your teeth into that but, man, that was a mind trip. - [Danny] Yeah, that was another one, my wife is basically just on the Ubisoft open world ticket at the moment, so that was another one I watched her play a lot in the evenings. Had you played previous Far Cry games? Was that your first foray into that one as well? - [Steven] That was another first note as well. It seemed to be my year to break into story games. I guess now we're looking back at it and I liked it but, this is gonna turn into spoiler-cast if I'm not careful, but, man, the ending in that game. At the end of the day I am a writer who just happens to be doing other things right now and so I love, love, love a good story. So, if it had something that can just grab my attention and make me wanna find out what happens at the end, then I'm in. - [Danny] You're one of the first people we're talking to in 2019, I mean you're one of the first people we're talking to on this podcast, this is the 5th episode. I feel like I haven't been able to stop and take stock of what's coming out this year. Is there anything, I have a list in front of me here but is there anything off the top of your head that you're looking forward to? Because I feel like 2018 actually ended up being a fantastic year but I worry that we ended up going into a slower one, when that happens. But is there anything off the top of your head that's popping out that you're looking forward to in 2019? - [Steven] I don't know, it can't be a slower year than last year. Last year was just boom, boom, boom. I would say, right off the top, and the same thing everyone is gonna say is Anthem. If Anthem is bad then I am going to riot. I'm going to grab a pitchfork and I'm going to the studio and I'm gonna stand there and be like, "You guys fix it." I'm gonna do it in a very non-threatening way. I'm just gonna stand there and it's gonna be a safety pitchfork, there's gonna be little plastic things on top of it. - [Danny]Orange tips. - [Steven] Yeah, orange tips on it. I'm gonna have a peaceful vest on me and just be like, "I just want you to fix the game." - [Danny] Well you say you're a fan of stories, does that mean, are you a fan of Dragon Age and Mass Effect, the other BioWare games? - [Steven] Oh yeah, oh my goodness. Dragon Age: Origins is... So Dragon Age: Origins, I love it so much, so anybody who really is a fan of mine may have picked up my one and only book that I have out there and if you look hard enough at the book, you'll see that one of the main characters is actually nearly directly pulled out of the Origins video game. - [Danny] Oh, careful, this is fucking EA man! - [Steven] I did not steal their IP, but that was like my main inspiration. It was so good. - [Danny] That's awesome. - [Steven] It was like, you know, the character and the everything just was so great to me that I was like, "I have to create my own version of this and plug it in somewhere", and I ended up doing that. - [Danny] That's right, what's the name of the book? Where can you get it? - [Steven] It's a horrible book, you don't wanna go find it. - [Danny] Hey man, I a 33 year old video game fan. I don't read books, I just buy them and put them on my shelf. - [Steven] That's fair. So the book is called The Finder. You can get it on Amazon still. I got it under my pen name, Steven Rome. Honestly, I hired an editor but the editor really kind of let me down so there's grammatical errors and there's an audio book uploaded to it. I really tried pretty hard and it sold actually pretty well. So I've actually got a screenshot. Back in the day, you could put your Amazon book up to be downloaded for 72 hours for free and I put it up to be downloaded for free and it was downloaded as much as Game of Thrones was bought. - [Danny] Oh wow. - [Steven] So I've got picture of my book right beside George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones. - [Danny] That's rad. Yeah I see it here, right here on Amazon. Go pick it up everyone, 13.95 paperback, Amazon Prime, you can have it by the time your next bowel movement comes, that's the way Amazon works now, it's pretty good. - [Steven] Yeah, if you need bad reading material, then... It's so sad too, because it's one of those things. It was a good story in my head and then it's like you can tell there's a certain point in there that I just wanted the book to be done. So I was just like, "You know what, I'm just done with it", and it goes from a very slow-paced book to "Alright, it's done." - [Danny] Steven, I feel like people go their entire lives trying to write their books so do not kill, or kick yourself over the fact that your first novel wasn't exactly what you needed it to be. That's incredible. Are you writing another one? Are you looking to write another one? Are you too busy with AbleGamers stuff? - [Steven] You know, I am super busy, but this is actually AbleGamers' 15th year. So, as I was saying to you privately when I agreed to come talk to you, not only because we're good friends and I wanted to help you launch this thing and if three of my fans will come listen, that'd be great. You know, its one of those things where I'd like to get into the writing and doing some of my own flights of fancy that I've been putting on the back burner for so long because I feel like after 15 years I've put in a little bit of blood and sweat into the cause and now maybe I can do a couple of other things I wanna do before the shot clock quite runs out. - [Danny] Well, I think there'll be a lot of people who would be interested in experiencing whatever you put out there into the universe, so... Let me tell you about this place called Patreon.com and it lets people do their dreams and get funded by the people who want to experience those dreams. - [Steven] Really, I'd never heard of that, Danny! Do you have one of those? - [Danny] Steven, can I ask you some questions from people who pay us money? - [Steven] Nope! I'm out of here, bye everybody. - [Danny] Thank you to Steve for being here. If you wanna get your questions in, go to Patreon.com/Noclip. If you're on the $5 tier you also get this podcast early. You don't get it exclusively. We had some people be like, "Hey, I can't get the podcast" and we had to be like, "No, you literally can't, everything we do is available, except the behind the scenes stuff". But if you're on the $5 tier you get this beautiful podcast early as well as a bunch of other stuff and we put the word out for some questions, we got a bunch of them. I'm gonna ask about two or three of them here. This one's from Matthew Glenn, he said, "What accessibility feature should indies and small teams prioritize when hoping to be more accessible?" Any come to mind? - [Steven] You know, I think the thing about being an indie, and I've had so many great conversations with Rami about this, indies have such a luxury of being flexible. Being an indie developer is super hard, right? It is back breaking work in a mental way. It is blood, sweat, part of your soul going into this game and here I am telling you you have to do even more. To indie developers out there, keep in mind everybody on the accessibility side understands that you didn't need one more thing to worry about, but if you add things like re-mappable keys, you add things like sliders for all of your settings, or allowing people to edit the INI files instead of keeping them hidden or encoded. Allow people to move the game as much as they can, without breaking your game or altering it, ` then let them play it your way and you'll have more sales and you'll have happier customers. It's interesting how some games tackled problems. Let's take, for example, one of my favorite indie games of 2018 called Raft. Raft was a cool little indie game where you basically were on a raft, spoiler! You had to fish junk out of the ocean and build a bigger, better raft that had air conditioning somehow, I don't know. It was a fun game but the settings in it were bare and minimal and when I reached out to say, "Hey, I can't play your game because the mouse sensitivity is very low, you capped it barely above what you'd need to move the mouse across the screen if you got an entire mousepad, not to mention you don't have the ability to re-map, you didn't have stuff like that. And within two days they turned around; they added the ability to map the mouse, the added the ability to uncap the mouse sensitivity. These are all things that don't take developers a lot of time, but if you don't do them, they can lock people out of your games. I happen to be one of the people that gets caught up in those times when you're alienated, so I always recommend, you know, do as much as you can with little effort and things like adding settings and adding re-mapping are often relatively easy, nothing is "easy" in development, but if you do it early in development cycle, it's doable without too much cost. - [Danny] Raymond Harris asked the question, "Have you tried Microsoft's new accessibility controller, if so, what do you like and dislike about it? I mean you guys were involved in the whole R and D aspect of that, is that correct? - [Steven] I was privileged to be one of the people that Microsoft pulled into it first. Me and my co-worker Craig, we were the ones that were asked to come sign some NDAs and check this out on a low key, 'here's a tablet with a drawing on it because our lawyers won't even allow you to look at the real prototypes, so here's what it looks like' kind of thing. Yeah and then from there we brought in AbleGamers and we became an entire organization to help, not just one or two of us, but everybody had a hand in making this thing better, so it was great to get to be a part of that and it's honestly going to go down in my brain as one of the highlights of my career. I had a very small part in personally bringing about a controller that is now available in freaking Walmart. Well, technically the Microsoft Store, whatever. Walmart, Microsoft Store, same difference. I'm definitely not gonna get an angry message from Microsoft PR tomorrow, its fine, right? - [Danny] Matthew Rogers asked the question, "Do you find that people with disabilities often write off video games as a hobby and don't realize that there are organizations like AbleGamers out there?" - [Steven] I do. I think one of the things that my job has become has been fighting against the stigma of being a gamer, let alone having a disability, so, in a lot of ways, 15 years ago when I got into this game and when AbleGamers first started, we were not only fighting for people with disabilities, which, back in the early 2000s and early 90s, was not as welcomed as it is now and neither is being a gamer and both of those had negative connotations on them. If you were a gamer, you're lazy. If you were disabled, you're lazy. We had to fight all these stereotypes and yeah, I think that there are so many companies out there who don't even understand what we do, what I do and my daily operations and what my company does and what even is represented by gamers with disabilities being a part of the world. I don't know that everybody's quite yet aware. I think we're making it so. I think people like Danny are helping us push the narrative into the mainstream that it's not some little niche bunch of people that just wanna play a couple of games, but gamers with disabilities are everywhere. People like Halfcoordinated who are out there on the stage of Games Done Quick, who are out there pushing, me being on award shows pushing. I think we're all doing our parts and I think everybody who is listening can do their part by saying to their friends, to their family whenever the situation comes up, that people with disabilities want to enjoy every hobby, including gaming. I think it's gonna be interesting watching companies get involved more and more as they figure this out. - [Danny] We go back and look at the commercials of the 90s, where the prevalent idea of the teenage boy, the white teenage boy, right? The able-bodied, white teenage boy was the... - [Steven] Straight, able-bodied, white teenage boy. - [Danny] Yeah, lets keep going! Eventually we'll find that gamer. The one that gave birth to us all. Do you find that accessibility and people with disabilities have a place at the table now in a way that they didn't five or 10 years ago, or it is for people like you that are visible, but for most people it's not? - [Steven] Here's the thing. I think that accessibility has come a long way in a lot of ways thanks to the work that has been done at AbleGamers and our allies and our people that care about our narrative, right? There's no question, accessibility is better. Full stop, period, end of sentence. However, to continue the conversation, if you are not somebody that has a high profile, you do not have as good of a chance of things being made accessible quickly. I am extremely privileged, in that if somebody gets a hold of me and says, "I can't play this game because of this feature being in the way", chances are I can get to a developer and say, "Hey, is there something you can do about this?" Sometimes they can do it quickly, sometimes they can't. I've had developers literally, and I will not tell you who, go behind their bosses back and find code and tell me slash commands in engines to get around the accessibility things because the publisher didn't want to deal with the problem and the developer cared enough that they were like, "Just tell them to do this and it'll be fine." Okay, cool, I am super privileged in that I can do that, but there's not a lot of people in my position that can do that and I can't do that for every single person all the time. Everybody at AbleGamers has their people that they can turn to and they can make magic happen sometimes, but there's only so many of us and only so many hours in the day, so you can't do that for everybody. What happens if you're a gamer who can't play a certain game and its because of a feature in a game and there's nothing that can be done until that feature is changed? Well, you can tweet and you can email and you can send a feedback report, but you have to wait your turn, right? So there's definitely a position of privilege there for people like you and me who are in the game industry because we have the right ears. We try to do that honorably. Danny and I try to use our power for good. At least I do, Danny, I don't know... - [Danny] No, no, honestly please don't even say us both in the same sentence because you give me credit that I do not deserve. The work that you've done is literally changing people's lives. Maybe I'm making people smile a little bit, but you're doing some work that is really affecting people in incredibly important ways. - [Steven] I think we all have a different part to play though. I think that everybody who's listening has their part to play. This magnification of positivity that I have turned my "brand" into, if you will, is 100% honesty and compassion. We're all playing a part. I think anybody who's listening to the 75 minutes of this that we've done so far is doing their part by absorbing this information that they might not have known, about the struggles of people with disabilities. They may not have known that these are problems and issues. Now they can watch out for them. Now they can be an advocate. But, to get back to the original question, you do everything that you can and I think that we're in a position that we can make as much change for as many people as we possibly can, but I think that there are minority groups who are very vocal. The LGBT community which, of course, I support and Blacks in Gaming is one of my favorite GDC groups. I support every minority I can because I know my own struggles and while I may not know theirs, I know how difficult mine were and I can imagine and empathize with their struggles and I try to amplify where I can. The problem that I always find, and it breaks my heart, is that I'll see people that I respect so much in the industry, tweeting about how we need to support races, genders and sexualities and then they'll leave out disability and I don't understand why we're still not putting disability on the same level as these other minorities. Because guaranteed every single one of those groups, there's also people with disabilities within that group. So I would like to see when we're all unifying a bit more, to say that my LGBT friends who are disabled need support, my black friends, my latino friends need support. We are all in this together and I think that if we continue to amplify each other, we'll make this battle just a little bit easier. - [Danny] Is that why you make yourself so public? Like, you talked about your brand, right? You don't strike me, I'm not gonna bullshit you, you don't strike me as someone who suffers fools, you've got an incredibly intelligent head on your shoulders and you talk about this like feel-good brand that's really really important. Do you have to be watchful of people who would try to utilize that for their own optics? Like who would try and manipulate or would try and use the feel-good narrative to make their brand look good and then ultimately not really invest in your mission in a way that is substantive? - [Steven] Oh, absolutely. It is a hard and fast rule at my place of work, that no one with a disability is to do work without being compensated in some way. It does not have to financial because sometimes the government frowns upon that kind of thing, so maybe someone who is on government assistance can't take a payment because then that could endanger their insurance, and that we would feel horrible about, so instead maybe they get a copy of the game. Maybe they get a free tablet. Maybe a new webcam, who knows? It's that you don't use people. You utilize their skills, you utilize their experiences, you do not use them. And I think that's something you have to watch out for, and again, just anybody who has followed me so far, or if you plan on following me, Danny knows all too well that I am a lover but I'm also a fighter. If I see an injustice, I will strap on a sword and I'll go to town. I have no problem with picking up the battleax and running into the fight. I am not somebody who thinks the world is rose colored and we can just all love each other because that's the right thing to do. I think sometimes there comes a time where all people must fight. - [Danny] And whenever the battle happens, I'll be, hopefully, standing right beside you, swinging my morning star as well. Steven Spohn, an absolute pleasure to talk to you as ever, my friend. Where can people follow your work? What are you up to? Where can they consume your delicious content? - [Steven]I don't want that advertisement on my phone. My most active place right now is Twitter. I find it's the best place to amplify positive messages to fight some of the darkness; you can find me @StevenSpohn and you can find me on Twitch at the acronym that is my name: SteveInSpawn, like the comic book character, and I stream on twitch five days a week, just trying to showcase that people with disabilities are out there and we're not innocent snow flowers that don't so anything but sit around and watch TV. We're out there playing games, we make dick jokes and we're funny and inappropriate and we're just human beings like everyone else and I'd encourage anyone that has a disability that happens to be listening to the amazing Danny O'Dwyer, that you too should go out and live your life as visibly as you can because that's the only way that we're gonna change the world. - [Danny] Steven, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. We'd love to have you back on if you're up for it again in the future. - [Steven] I'd be more than happy, Danny. Thanks for having me. - [Danny] No problem. Thank you, as well, for listening, everyone out there. We don't know who's up next week, but if you follow @NoClipVideo on the Twitters, you'll get an update over there. I'm @DannyODwyer on Twitter. If you have any feedback or any ideas for guests, you can also hit up our sub-Reddit, r/Noclip, or if you're a patron there is always a Patreon post you can just jump into, or hit us up on the DMs. The podcast is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, the whole sha-bang. Anywhere podcasts are sold, stick 'noclip' in there and hopefully we'll pop up. We also have a new YouTube channel as well. If you type 'noclip podcast' into YouTube, we'll get that short URL soon enough, but until then if you hit that up, you'll be able to watch, slash, I mean 'watch', it's just a static image, pretty much with some gameplay in the background, but it's up there on YouTube. We also have full transcriptions as well. We don't talk about it very often. We do closed captions on all of our videos, but we actually also provide full transcriptions of the docs if you go to our Libsyn page, so that's like noclippodcast.libsyn.com and there's a link in all the descriptions no matter how you're listening to this and you can go check that out as well. Patrons get the show early. $5 if they're on the $5 tier. Thank you to them for making this ad-free and making it possible in the first place. Patreon.com/Noclip if you're interested in that. I hope, wherever you are, this finds you well. I hope you're enjoying some video games and we look forward to talking to you again on the next edition of the Noclip podcast, next week. See you then.
今天我们来看看实用的机场接机情景对话，同时学习下机场的一些英文词汇。接机情景对话Steven: Sorry to interrupt you. but aren't you Mr. Johnson from Canada?抱歉，打扰一下，请问您是加拿大来的Johnson先生吗?Mr. Johnson: Oh, yes I am.我是的。Steven: Yes. My name is Steven from Pacific Hotel. It's a pleasure to meet you. How was your flight?我是太平洋酒店的Steven，很荣幸见到你，你的旅途怎么样？Mr. Johnson: It was great, I had a quite good sleep on the airplane.哦挺好的，我在飞机上睡的很不错。Steven: I am glad to hear that. Shall we go? I've got a car waiting outside to take us to hotel. 听你这么说太好了。我们可以走了吗? 外面已经有辆小车等着接我们回酒店了。Mr. Johnson: Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to meet me here. 太好了，谢谢抽出时间来这里接我。Steven: It is my pleasure sir. We wish you could have a pleasant stay with us.这是我的荣幸，先生。我们希望您能够在我们酒店有一个愉快的入住体验。Mr. Johnson: I really appreciate it. How long it takes to the hotel?我表示真的很感激。到酒店大概要多久？Steven: It takes around half an hour, Mr. Johnson.大概半个小时，Johnson先生。Mr. Johnson: Sounds good.听起来不错。机场词汇大全1机场指示篇satellite 卫星楼 international airport 国际机场 domestic airport 国内机场 FLT No ( flight number ) 航班号 in 入口 exit; out; way out 出口up; upstairs 由此上楼 down; downstairs 由此下楼 customs 海关 2登机及中转篇check-in 登机手续办理 boarding pass (card) 登机牌luggage tag 行李牌 passport control immigration 护照检查处 goods to declare 报关物品 nothing to declare 不需报关 gate; departure gate 登机口 airport terminal 机场候机楼 international terminal 国际候机楼 departure lounge 候机室 departure time 起飞时间 boarding 登机 plane No. 航班号seat No. 座位号scheduled time (SCHED) 预计时间 delayed 延误 transfer passengers 中转旅客transfer correspondence 中转处arriving from 来自…… departure to 前往…… 3降落及公共服务篇transit 过境 international departure 国际航班出港 international passengers 国际航班旅客 landed 已降落arrivals 进站(进港、到达） departures 出站（出港、离开） domestic departure 国内航班出站 luggage claim; baggage claim 行李领取处airline coach service 航空公司汽车服务处 bus; coach service 公共汽车 toilet; W. C.; lavatories; rest room 厕所 money exchange/currency exchange 货币兑换处 rail ticket 出售火车票 hotel reservation 订旅馆 luggage locker 行李暂存箱 4签证篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名sex 性别birthdate 出生日期nationality 国籍passport No. 护照号visa type/class 签证种类expiry date 失效日期(或必须在…日之前入境) control No. 编号for stays of 停留期为……Issue At 签发地Issue Date 签发日期visa type/class 签证种类5出/入境卡篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名year 年 month 月 day 日 passport No. 护照号male 男female 女 occupation 职业 nationality 国籍 date of Birth 出生日期 destination country 目的地国家city where you boarded 登机所在城市 city where visa was issued签证签发地 date issue 签发日期 address while in 前往国家的住址 signature 签名 city and state 城市及国家
今天我们来看看实用的机场接机情景对话，同时学习下机场的一些英文词汇。接机情景对话Steven: Sorry to interrupt you. but aren't you Mr. Johnson from Canada?抱歉，打扰一下，请问您是加拿大来的Johnson先生吗?Mr. Johnson: Oh, yes I am.我是的。Steven: Yes. My name is Steven from Pacific Hotel. It's a pleasure to meet you. How was your flight?我是太平洋酒店的Steven，很荣幸见到你，你的旅途怎么样？Mr. Johnson: It was great, I had a quite good sleep on the airplane.哦挺好的，我在飞机上睡的很不错。Steven: I am glad to hear that. Shall we go? I've got a car waiting outside to take us to hotel. 听你这么说太好了。我们可以走了吗? 外面已经有辆小车等着接我们回酒店了。Mr. Johnson: Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to meet me here. 太好了，谢谢抽出时间来这里接我。Steven: It is my pleasure sir. We wish you could have a pleasant stay with us.这是我的荣幸，先生。我们希望您能够在我们酒店有一个愉快的入住体验。Mr. Johnson: I really appreciate it. How long it takes to the hotel?我表示真的很感激。到酒店大概要多久？Steven: It takes around half an hour, Mr. Johnson.大概半个小时，Johnson先生。Mr. Johnson: Sounds good.听起来不错。机场词汇大全1机场指示篇satellite 卫星楼 international airport 国际机场 domestic airport 国内机场 FLT No ( flight number ) 航班号 in 入口 exit; out; way out 出口up; upstairs 由此上楼 down; downstairs 由此下楼 customs 海关 2登机及中转篇check-in 登机手续办理 boarding pass (card) 登机牌luggage tag 行李牌 passport control immigration 护照检查处 goods to declare 报关物品 nothing to declare 不需报关 gate; departure gate 登机口 airport terminal 机场候机楼 international terminal 国际候机楼 departure lounge 候机室 departure time 起飞时间 boarding 登机 plane No. 航班号seat No. 座位号scheduled time (SCHED) 预计时间 delayed 延误 transfer passengers 中转旅客transfer correspondence 中转处arriving from 来自…… departure to 前往…… 3降落及公共服务篇transit 过境 international departure 国际航班出港 international passengers 国际航班旅客 landed 已降落arrivals 进站(进港、到达） departures 出站（出港、离开） domestic departure 国内航班出站 luggage claim; baggage claim 行李领取处airline coach service 航空公司汽车服务处 bus; coach service 公共汽车 toilet; W. C.; lavatories; rest room 厕所 money exchange/currency exchange 货币兑换处 rail ticket 出售火车票 hotel reservation 订旅馆 luggage locker 行李暂存箱 4签证篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名sex 性别birthdate 出生日期nationality 国籍passport No. 护照号visa type/class 签证种类expiry date 失效日期(或必须在…日之前入境) control No. 编号for stays of 停留期为……Issue At 签发地Issue Date 签发日期visa type/class 签证种类5出/入境卡篇surname/ family name 姓first (given) name 名year 年 month 月 day 日 passport No. 护照号male 男female 女 occupation 职业 nationality 国籍 date of Birth 出生日期 destination country 目的地国家city where you boarded 登机所在城市 city where visa was issued签证签发地 date issue 签发日期 address while in 前往国家的住址 signature 签名 city and state 城市及国家
Russell’s rant about what’s keeping people from success. On this episode Russell rants about the difference between daycare, college and coaching and why to be successful you need coaching. But to be a champion you have to put in the extra work because coaches can only take you so far. Here are some interesting things in this episode: Why you need to listen to your coaches to be successful, otherwise you might as well go to daycare or college. And why putting in extra work after the coaching is what will make you a champion. Listen here to find out why you need to move on from daycare, and college and jump into coaching and then put in even more effort to become a champion. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson and this is an emergency impromptu podcast with angry Steven behind me. So I have to do this right now. The Software Secrets webinar is starting in less than an hour and I should be doing slides, but something just made me angry so I wanted to jump on. And you’re kind of angry too. Steven: It actually kind of pisses me off. It’s a recurring thing. Russell: Alright so, this is a coaching call for everybody, and owe, we’re going to queue the Marketing Secrets intro and then we’ll come back to what we’ve gotta do. Alright welcome back, so now that we’re still angry, hopefully the intro got you pumped, I want to talk to you guys about the difference between coaching, college, and a daycare. This is very important for you to understand because some of you guys for some reason think that we run a daycare here and we don’t. So right here actually, if you’re watching the video version, if you look out the window here, this is our office, Clickfunnels right there, there’s the daycare. So it’s right next store. There’s a little playground right there, you guys can see it. That’s the daycare. Steven: And they cry and they scream and they’re whiny. Russell: So the daycare, it’s really cool. The way it works is you show up there and then someone takes care of you the entire day. Like when you’re hungry, they give you food. When you’re thirsty they give you water. When you poop yourself, they wipe your butt. It’s really, really nice. It’s like what? $50 a month, $100? I don’t know how much it is. But that’s a daycare , that’s how daycare’s work. So that’s one option of how you can get better at life, you can go to a daycare. Option number two, you go to school. Now, the thing about school is it costs a bunch of money. They don’t care about you at all. You show up and then you do your assignments or you don’t, they don’t really care and they give you an A, B, C, D or F. or if you’re in England I also found out they have an E. We don’t E’s in America, but apparently in England there’s E’s. But A, B, C, D, or F and then as long as you get a C, they don’t, C’s good enough and you get a degree. In fact, my motto in college was C’s get degrees. That’s how I passed school. As long as I got a C I could wrestle. So I literally had a 2.1 GPA, I had complete C’s all the way through, except for I got a B in, I think it was something….It was like semester one of year one. So it was a long time ago, I don’t even remember what it was. But I got C’s, I got a degree and yay! I got a degree, whooo. And I leave with a piece of paper that’s completely useless. So we got daycare, we got school and then the third option now, is coaching. So how does coaching work? I’m a wrestler and every single day I show up to wrestling practice, my coach was there. My coach was really good. He knew what he was doing. And I show up and all the other wrestlers would show up and we’d sit and watch the coach and he’d teach us moves and we’re like, “Oh, cool. That’s a good move.” And guess what? Some of the kids would watch the coach and they’d try the move and they didn’t do it right and they just sat there on their butts and did nothing. And then guess what? They sucked at wrestling. And the coach didn’t give them a B, or a C, or an A and it didn’t matter because they were going to put them out on the mat and they were going to get the crap kicked out of them in front of everybody. That was the reality. You don’t get an A, B or C, it’s like okay you’re about to go fight someone. This is your preparation, if you want to just crap it away, congratulations, you did that. And you’re going to get beat up in front of everybody. Then there are people like me, I listen to coaches, I watch, I train, I ask them questions, I keep doing it, I train, I practice. When he would leave my dad would come over, my dad’s out there. When he would leave, then we’d go out to the house eat dinner and my friends would come to my house and we had a wrestling mat on my back porch, we’d wrestle on the back porch and guess what? I became a state champ, I became an all American, I got a college scholarship, because I did more. My dad used to always tell me, “ A coach can take somebody to this level. And a coach has got a whole bunch of people he’s coaching. That entire wrestling room is all there and everyone’s getting there and the coach can get everybody to this level right here. The difference between someone who’s going to be a coach, and someone’s who’s going to be a champion, is after the coach gets you here, it’s that extra effort. That’s what makes you a champion.” So what’s cool about marketing and sales, first off, we’re not a daycare. I’m not going to wipe your butt. I don’t freaking care if you succeed or not. That’s not on top of me. Number two, this is not college, I’m not going to be like “Congratulations, here’s a C you can go get a degree.” Because guess what? You’ve gotta go out there on your webinar or with your pride, and you gotta step out there in front of everybody and you’re getting the crap kicked out of you and if you’re getting a C, you’re going to get destroyed. I’m not giving out C’s. It’s not a college, or university. I actually care about your success. So what we’re going to go is we’re going to have a coaching program, but we run the coaching program just like wrestling. We’re coaching a whole bunch of people the best that we know how. We know what works, but guess what? Everyone sitting in the room is hearing the exact same thing. And the difference between a champion and someone who is average is who’s going to take that extra effort. Who’s going to ask the coach other questions? Who’s going to follow up? Who’s going to practice? Who’s going to get better? Who’s going to do stuff on their own? Who’s going to go home at night, after they eat dinner, for the third practice of the day because they want to be a winner? Those are the people who win and those are the people we coach. So right now you’re in a coaching program. So any of you guys who are in our coaching program, this is specifically towards one person who I’m yelling at, but this is an important lesson for everyone. First off, we’re not a daycare. If you want someone to wipe your butt, it’s like $100 across the street from Clickfunnels. Across, it’s not even the street, it’s like over the fence right there. They will wipe your butt and you’ll feel really good, because you gotta clean butt. Number two, you can go to college. Boise State’s like, I don’t know, 4 or 5 miles down the road. They’ll give you C’s and you’ll feel really good. You can put it on your wall and be like, “I got a degree.” And you’re so awesome, but you’re going to go out in the real world and get the crap kicked out of you. Or number three, you can become a champion. Show up every single day, work your butt off, work hard, and then go out and do the extra effort you need to do to be successful. The last two nights in a row, guess how late I was here at the freaking office working on my slides? 2:00 both nights in a row. “But Russell, you’re super successful, why are you still working hard?” Because champions go the extra effort. I could have gone home. I could’ve not done this. I could’ve just slept. And we got people who are like, “Oh Russell, I worked really hard. I was up til like 8 last night.” Dude, you guys aren’t even there yet. You shouldn’t be going to bed until at least 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning til you freaking get this thing figured out. If you want to be a champion, the coaches can get you to this level. My coaching, Steven’s coaching, what we are doing, we will get you to this level but that’s the level everyone’s at. And guess what? If you’re at that level that everyone’s at you’re not going to be successful. Champions go the extra effort. Champions do a practice afterwards. Champions go home and do another practice. Champions are thinking about it, dreaming about it, working on it, trying to perfect the art so they can become a champion. If you want to be successful in business you’ve got to do that because this is not something where we’re going to give you a C and now you’re going to make money. It doesn’t work that way. You’re going to go out there into the real world, into the marketplace, the marketplace is going to kick the crap out of you if you haven’t been prepared. If you show up and you’re like, “Hey marketplace, I did my first webinar and nobody showed up.” It’s because your stuff’s boring because you just did the baseline and you quit. “I did the webinar, 5 people showed up and nobody bought.” First off, it’s because you did the baseline. If you want to be a champion you have to put in the extra effort from here to here. That is the extra effort you have to be to be a champ. So to recap today. Number one if you want your butt wiped, go sign up for the daycare, it’s really cheap. And they’ll wipe your butt and it’ll feel so good. Number two, if you want to feel good about yourself, feel happy, and like kumbaya and all that crap, go to school, they’ll give you a degree. C’s get degrees, but they will not make you any money. And number three, if you want to be coached, be coachable. Come to the coaching program, listen to what they say and then do it. Don’t complain, “I can’t figure out….” Dude, there’s a thing called Google. There’s an answer to everything, you have to go that extra effort. You have to freaking do it. And you have to do it and you have to do it and you have to do it and you’re going to get beat up a lot during this practice period of time, but guess what? If you do that and get beat up, that’s how when you step out on the real mat against really good people, that’s how you win and we’re creating winners here and that’s what we want. So if you’re wondering, man this stuff doesn’t work for me….actually for those who are watching the video, I’m going to show you this stuff works really good. I’m going to show you, come down the hall. This is how well it works. For those champions, those who take the extra effort there, from here to here, we have them immortalized on our wall. There’s a lot of them. All of these guys here, the Two Comma Club award. All these people, these are the champions. They didn’t just go through the coaching program and stop, “Steven wasn’t as clear on how to do…” They freaking Googled it and they asked other questions. They asked the community, and they worked hard, and they tried, and they tested, and they figured things out, and they were rewarded with a gold platinum record here, with two commas. There’s tons of them, boom. I was showing Instagram last night, if you guys haven’t seen this yet. This month alone, the first guy came in….we filled this wall completely up, and right now if you look at this there’s 15 new one’s that came in. Steven: It’s like 4 or 5 a week. Russell: 15 that came in this month so far, but check this out. I came in last night and look at this, we have a whole other stack. Another 11 more. 11 +15 is 26. So we had 26 people join the Two Comma Club in the last 30 days. So what does that mean for you guys. One millionaire a day’s being made, so if you aren’t hitting it, you’re just stopping right here. You’re not doing that last little bit from there to there that is important to do. So there you go. Steven: You gotta understand that Russell and I don’t hold the key to your success. That’s not at all how this works. It’s funny to watch different people who come in and do different coaching and stuff. It’s always easy to see, that extra little bit, that’s what keeps going. If you’re looking for external things to motivate you, it’s the wrong question already. No one needs to motivate you to do your thing. No one cares about your thing as much as you do. So you gotta be the one who’s all fiery and out there doing the thing, being a pioneer to some extent for your own success with it. Because honestly, you’re the only one who’s going to care enough to do it. So Russell shows the framework, we’ll show how to do it, we’ll help you do things along the way as you get stuck, or whatever it is, but it’s totally up to you. You’re success, everything is gonna be riding on your back. Russell: 100% If you don’t really want success, you just want someone to wipe your butt, go to daycare. If you don’t want success, you just want to feel good and get a degree on the wall, go to freaking college. If you want to make money, change your life, be successful, get a coach. If it’s not me, get someone else. Get a coach, freaking do everything they say, and then stop and do more. That’s it. Champions…..My dad used to tell me this all the time, “Coach only takes you to this level. Champions are made right there.” Alright, it ran over. I gotta get back to slides. Alright you guys, appreciate you all. Thanks so much. I know I’m preaching to the choir for a lot of you guys, but for the other ones, if that stung a little bit, I’m talking to you. So thanks you guys, talk to you soon. Bye.
Russell’s rant about what’s keeping people from success. On this episode Russell rants about the difference between daycare, college and coaching and why to be successful you need coaching. But to be a champion you have to put in the extra work because coaches can only take you so far. Here are some interesting things in this episode: Why you need to listen to your coaches to be successful, otherwise you might as well go to daycare or college. And why putting in extra work after the coaching is what will make you a champion. Listen here to find out why you need to move on from daycare, and college and jump into coaching and then put in even more effort to become a champion. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson and this is an emergency impromptu podcast with angry Steven behind me. So I have to do this right now. The Software Secrets webinar is starting in less than an hour and I should be doing slides, but something just made me angry so I wanted to jump on. And you’re kind of angry too. Steven: It actually kind of pisses me off. It’s a recurring thing. Russell: Alright so, this is a coaching call for everybody, and owe, we’re going to queue the Marketing Secrets intro and then we’ll come back to what we’ve gotta do. Alright welcome back, so now that we’re still angry, hopefully the intro got you pumped, I want to talk to you guys about the difference between coaching, college, and a daycare. This is very important for you to understand because some of you guys for some reason think that we run a daycare here and we don’t. So right here actually, if you’re watching the video version, if you look out the window here, this is our office, Clickfunnels right there, there’s the daycare. So it’s right next store. There’s a little playground right there, you guys can see it. That’s the daycare. Steven: And they cry and they scream and they’re whiny. Russell: So the daycare, it’s really cool. The way it works is you show up there and then someone takes care of you the entire day. Like when you’re hungry, they give you food. When you’re thirsty they give you water. When you poop yourself, they wipe your butt. It’s really, really nice. It’s like what? $50 a month, $100? I don’t know how much it is. But that’s a daycare , that’s how daycare’s work. So that’s one option of how you can get better at life, you can go to a daycare. Option number two, you go to school. Now, the thing about school is it costs a bunch of money. They don’t care about you at all. You show up and then you do your assignments or you don’t, they don’t really care and they give you an A, B, C, D or F. or if you’re in England I also found out they have an E. We don’t E’s in America, but apparently in England there’s E’s. But A, B, C, D, or F and then as long as you get a C, they don’t, C’s good enough and you get a degree. In fact, my motto in college was C’s get degrees. That’s how I passed school. As long as I got a C I could wrestle. So I literally had a 2.1 GPA, I had complete C’s all the way through, except for I got a B in, I think it was something….It was like semester one of year one. So it was a long time ago, I don’t even remember what it was. But I got C’s, I got a degree and yay! I got a degree, whooo. And I leave with a piece of paper that’s completely useless. So we got daycare, we got school and then the third option now, is coaching. So how does coaching work? I’m a wrestler and every single day I show up to wrestling practice, my coach was there. My coach was really good. He knew what he was doing. And I show up and all the other wrestlers would show up and we’d sit and watch the coach and he’d teach us moves and we’re like, “Oh, cool. That’s a good move.” And guess what? Some of the kids would watch the coach and they’d try the move and they didn’t do it right and they just sat there on their butts and did nothing. And then guess what? They sucked at wrestling. And the coach didn’t give them a B, or a C, or an A and it didn’t matter because they were going to put them out on the mat and they were going to get the crap kicked out of them in front of everybody. That was the reality. You don’t get an A, B or C, it’s like okay you’re about to go fight someone. This is your preparation, if you want to just crap it away, congratulations, you did that. And you’re going to get beat up in front of everybody. Then there are people like me, I listen to coaches, I watch, I train, I ask them questions, I keep doing it, I train, I practice. When he would leave my dad would come over, my dad’s out there. When he would leave, then we’d go out to the house eat dinner and my friends would come to my house and we had a wrestling mat on my back porch, we’d wrestle on the back porch and guess what? I became a state champ, I became an all American, I got a college scholarship, because I did more. My dad used to always tell me, “ A coach can take somebody to this level. And a coach has got a whole bunch of people he’s coaching. That entire wrestling room is all there and everyone’s getting there and the coach can get everybody to this level right here. The difference between someone who’s going to be a coach, and someone’s who’s going to be a champion, is after the coach gets you here, it’s that extra effort. That’s what makes you a champion.” So what’s cool about marketing and sales, first off, we’re not a daycare. I’m not going to wipe your butt. I don’t freaking care if you succeed or not. That’s not on top of me. Number two, this is not college, I’m not going to be like “Congratulations, here’s a C you can go get a degree.” Because guess what? You’ve gotta go out there on your webinar or with your pride, and you gotta step out there in front of everybody and you’re getting the crap kicked out of you and if you’re getting a C, you’re going to get destroyed. I’m not giving out C’s. It’s not a college, or university. I actually care about your success. So what we’re going to go is we’re going to have a coaching program, but we run the coaching program just like wrestling. We’re coaching a whole bunch of people the best that we know how. We know what works, but guess what? Everyone sitting in the room is hearing the exact same thing. And the difference between a champion and someone who is average is who’s going to take that extra effort. Who’s going to ask the coach other questions? Who’s going to follow up? Who’s going to practice? Who’s going to get better? Who’s going to do stuff on their own? Who’s going to go home at night, after they eat dinner, for the third practice of the day because they want to be a winner? Those are the people who win and those are the people we coach. So right now you’re in a coaching program. So any of you guys who are in our coaching program, this is specifically towards one person who I’m yelling at, but this is an important lesson for everyone. First off, we’re not a daycare. If you want someone to wipe your butt, it’s like $100 across the street from Clickfunnels. Across, it’s not even the street, it’s like over the fence right there. They will wipe your butt and you’ll feel really good, because you gotta clean butt. Number two, you can go to college. Boise State’s like, I don’t know, 4 or 5 miles down the road. They’ll give you C’s and you’ll feel really good. You can put it on your wall and be like, “I got a degree.” And you’re so awesome, but you’re going to go out in the real world and get the crap kicked out of you. Or number three, you can become a champion. Show up every single day, work your butt off, work hard, and then go out and do the extra effort you need to do to be successful. The last two nights in a row, guess how late I was here at the freaking office working on my slides? 2:00 both nights in a row. “But Russell, you’re super successful, why are you still working hard?” Because champions go the extra effort. I could have gone home. I could’ve not done this. I could’ve just slept. And we got people who are like, “Oh Russell, I worked really hard. I was up til like 8 last night.” Dude, you guys aren’t even there yet. You shouldn’t be going to bed until at least 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning til you freaking get this thing figured out. If you want to be a champion, the coaches can get you to this level. My coaching, Steven’s coaching, what we are doing, we will get you to this level but that’s the level everyone’s at. And guess what? If you’re at that level that everyone’s at you’re not going to be successful. Champions go the extra effort. Champions do a practice afterwards. Champions go home and do another practice. Champions are thinking about it, dreaming about it, working on it, trying to perfect the art so they can become a champion. If you want to be successful in business you’ve got to do that because this is not something where we’re going to give you a C and now you’re going to make money. It doesn’t work that way. You’re going to go out there into the real world, into the marketplace, the marketplace is going to kick the crap out of you if you haven’t been prepared. If you show up and you’re like, “Hey marketplace, I did my first webinar and nobody showed up.” It’s because your stuff’s boring because you just did the baseline and you quit. “I did the webinar, 5 people showed up and nobody bought.” First off, it’s because you did the baseline. If you want to be a champion you have to put in the extra effort from here to here. That is the extra effort you have to be to be a champ. So to recap today. Number one if you want your butt wiped, go sign up for the daycare, it’s really cheap. And they’ll wipe your butt and it’ll feel so good. Number two, if you want to feel good about yourself, feel happy, and like kumbaya and all that crap, go to school, they’ll give you a degree. C’s get degrees, but they will not make you any money. And number three, if you want to be coached, be coachable. Come to the coaching program, listen to what they say and then do it. Don’t complain, “I can’t figure out….” Dude, there’s a thing called Google. There’s an answer to everything, you have to go that extra effort. You have to freaking do it. And you have to do it and you have to do it and you have to do it and you’re going to get beat up a lot during this practice period of time, but guess what? If you do that and get beat up, that’s how when you step out on the real mat against really good people, that’s how you win and we’re creating winners here and that’s what we want. So if you’re wondering, man this stuff doesn’t work for me….actually for those who are watching the video, I’m going to show you this stuff works really good. I’m going to show you, come down the hall. This is how well it works. For those champions, those who take the extra effort there, from here to here, we have them immortalized on our wall. There’s a lot of them. All of these guys here, the Two Comma Club award. All these people, these are the champions. They didn’t just go through the coaching program and stop, “Steven wasn’t as clear on how to do…” They freaking Googled it and they asked other questions. They asked the community, and they worked hard, and they tried, and they tested, and they figured things out, and they were rewarded with a gold platinum record here, with two commas. There’s tons of them, boom. I was showing Instagram last night, if you guys haven’t seen this yet. This month alone, the first guy came in….we filled this wall completely up, and right now if you look at this there’s 15 new one’s that came in. Steven: It’s like 4 or 5 a week. Russell: 15 that came in this month so far, but check this out. I came in last night and look at this, we have a whole other stack. Another 11 more. 11 +15 is 26. So we had 26 people join the Two Comma Club in the last 30 days. So what does that mean for you guys. One millionaire a day’s being made, so if you aren’t hitting it, you’re just stopping right here. You’re not doing that last little bit from there to there that is important to do. So there you go. Steven: You gotta understand that Russell and I don’t hold the key to your success. That’s not at all how this works. It’s funny to watch different people who come in and do different coaching and stuff. It’s always easy to see, that extra little bit, that’s what keeps going. If you’re looking for external things to motivate you, it’s the wrong question already. No one needs to motivate you to do your thing. No one cares about your thing as much as you do. So you gotta be the one who’s all fiery and out there doing the thing, being a pioneer to some extent for your own success with it. Because honestly, you’re the only one who’s going to care enough to do it. So Russell shows the framework, we’ll show how to do it, we’ll help you do things along the way as you get stuck, or whatever it is, but it’s totally up to you. You’re success, everything is gonna be riding on your back. Russell: 100% If you don’t really want success, you just want someone to wipe your butt, go to daycare. If you don’t want success, you just want to feel good and get a degree on the wall, go to freaking college. If you want to make money, change your life, be successful, get a coach. If it’s not me, get someone else. Get a coach, freaking do everything they say, and then stop and do more. That’s it. Champions…..My dad used to tell me this all the time, “Coach only takes you to this level. Champions are made right there.” Alright, it ran over. I gotta get back to slides. Alright you guys, appreciate you all. Thanks so much. I know I’m preaching to the choir for a lot of you guys, but for the other ones, if that stung a little bit, I’m talking to you. So thanks you guys, talk to you soon. Bye.
Download This Awesome Podcast: http://bit.ly/2YiKJg6 It has been ONE YEAR. Steven Pesavento and Dave Beford met exactly one year ago at FLIP HACKING LIVE. They have gone from NO DEALS to making SEVEN FIGURES THIS YEAR. WHAT!?! If they can do it you can too! Dave Beford was active duty military for 11 years. His first foray in to real estate was in 2010 with a rental in Georgia (that still cash flows). After many years of working many other jobs… he finally took the dive… Steven Pesavento grew up watching HGTV in a construction family. His 9-5 jobs have included management consulting and some other job in the tech sector. Like many, Steven had a multitude of LIMITING BELIEFS that kept him from taking the leap… “YOUR END GOAL IS FREEDOM” ON SUPPORT: Dave and Megan have been married for almost 14 years. Megan could see that Dave was unhappy. “She was pushing me towards leaving corporate America… she got her real estate licence and is killing it!” Not only did Megan SUPPORT Dave BUT SHE IS ALSO A CONDUIT OF SUCCESS!!! On LIMITING BELIEFS: Steven had to realize that with the right partnership and mentorship YOU CAN LEARN. He cut himself from all options and pushed. “I saw that other people were doing it.” ON PARTNERSHIPS: “You have to be alined in values… on the mission you are working towards and the goals you are going after. We talked for months before going into business.” ON MENTORSHIP: Dave and Steven met at FLIP HACKING LIVE, a real estate conference held yearly in San Diego, California by House Flipping HQ Mentor Justin Williams. Dave: “The best part and the most powerful part is being around people who are doing more than you. People who force you to raise your game.” Steven: “It's being surrounded by people who are doing what you want to do and at different levels.” People who you can learn from and people who you can teach. Do you want to learn from Dave and Steven? DO ou want to find out first hand how they went from 0 to SEVEN FIGURES in a year? Check out www.7figureflipping.com or www.houseflippingHQ.com to learn more about this awesome group! ACTIONABLE STEP: “Just do it. Stop thinking and do it… DO IT TODAY!” “Call up a for sale by owner. GO see their house and make an offer.” WORDS OF WISDOM: DAVE: “Why live an ordinary life when you can live an extraordinary life STEVEN: “You are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with.” “A big part of growing a business is managing people… People are the MOST IMPORTANT part of this business.” HOW TO FIND DAVE AND STEVEN: www.bfinvest.com Dave@vonfinch.com So grateful to Steven and Dave for sharing their extraordinary lives! And thank you for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
People who read blogs… read blogs, people who watch videos… watch videos, etc… On today’s episode Russell talks about figuring out a new formula for conversation domination on every platform. He also mentions the cool new way he’s doing coaching. Here are some of the awesome things you will hear in this episode: Find out what cool new way Russell is doing coaching with his Inner Circle members. Hear what Russell just realized while trying to build his Dream 100 list by looking at his email list and Facebook list side by side. And see what the simple solution is to dominating the conversation in every platform. So listen below to find out why its important to realize that podcast listeners listen to podcasts. ---Transcript--- Hey this is Russell, welcome to Marketing Secrets. Today’s show is about conversation domination. Hey everyone this is Russell and I hope you guys are doing awesome today. I have a really cool thing I wanted to share with you guys, and if I’m being completely honest, I am completely fried right now. It’s Friday, my wife just left out of town with three of my kids and left me with two. So she was up packing until 3 in the morning, I fell asleep at 1 and at 3 she left, so I woke up to say goodbye to them and the kids. And then at the same time my little 2 year old, Norah woke up and so I brought her down in bed with me, but she went crazy for the next two hours. Screaming, jumping, and kicking. She knew mom wasn’t around, anyway it got kind of hard. Finally at about 5 or 5:30 I put her back to bed and then I came down and fell asleep for 2 hours and woke up and so it was like a 2 or 3 hour night. Then I raced to the office because we had funnel Friday today, but luckily Jim forgot. I was like thank heavens, because it gave me a chance to get stuff done. Then I had what we call Decade in a Day. So those who are in my inner circle, we do this cool thing called Decade in a Day, which is a coaching program part. When the first come into the program they get to be part of Decade in a Day and then every time they renew they get Decade in a Day. What it is, is me taking a decade of my experience and jamming it into one day for them. The way it works, we actually changed it, in the past we used to do it different but I figured out a new format and today was the first day and it’s so cool. If any of you guys are doing coaching programs, this is the way to do it. So we have 100 people in the inner circle at any given time. So what we did is we went and took each of their, basically each person got thirty minutes and instead of me just coaching them one on one, when they get the value and that’s kind of it. What it is we coach them and I use Zoom, which is a new webinar platform that is becoming the coolest thing ever. And then we Zoomed each person in the inner circle Facebook group. So I had person number one, brought them on, to ask questions, then I click record and stream to Facebook and then it streamed the presentation. So for thirty minutes, I had them introduce themselves really quick. And then we talked about business and I coached them for thirty minutes. And while it’s happening its streaming live to the other 99 inner circle members. And everyone in there is giving feedback and dropping recourses and all these amazing things are happening in there. And the call ended, and I ended it and zoom lets you just end Facebook live. I started the next one and pulled the next person in and go. Boom. We do that for thirty minutes. And then it ends. So everyone watches the new one starts and then it’s archived in the inner circle members area, that person’s story for thirty minutes with me coaching them. Everyone else starts dropping feedback and comments. We did that, I think 8 times today. So it was kind of crazy. But it was amazing because it was me coaching and then also 99 other fellow inner circle members all coaching as well, dropping resources, links, ideas, resources. It was amazing. So I’m really excited about the new addition to the inner circle, which is awesome. And Steven who is behind me over here, he just got done with the Two Comma Club coaching, which is the tier before the inner circle, the Two Comma Club coaching and he spent 4 hours doing Q and A today. It’s insane, people. I’ve been doing this now for a long time and our coaching programs have become second to none. It’s exciting. Steven: It’s a lot of fun. Changing the world, you know. It’s a cool feeling seeing people’s lives like, “I got it.” And then they go out and do it and get results and it’s just fun. Russell: So fun. So that’s what we’ve been doing today. I[‘m about to take my kids to Studio C, which is really, really fun. Studio C is, if you haven’t, go to YouTube and search Studio C and you’ll see who they are, it’s amazing. Anyway, we’re taking Aiden, who is one of two kids left at home with me tonight to that. So we’re heading out here in a few minutes. But I was just having a conversation with some of the marketing team here and I wanted to share some of it as Iw as thinking about it Because I thought it was really interesting. So the conversation we had comes back to there was a guy named Howie Schwartz when I first got started who was big online. He had a course called Conversation Domination and it was about getting in Google and as soon as you typed your name into Google all 10 spots would be you, you would dominate the conversation. Anyway, I don’t know what, I haven’t heard from Howie for forever, I don’t know what he’s up to nowadays. Anyway, the concept of conversation domination I thought was awesome. You type in your key word and you’re all 10 spots and all the paid ads are all you. You dominate the conversation, you’re the only person there. So as I’ve been doing this whole new social media thing, which you guys are watching me do, and hopefully learning and following and modeling and funnel hacking. That’s my thoughts, conversation domination. I want when you open up any platform, that I’m dominating the conversation. I’m in your podcast feed. I’m in your YouTube feed. I’m in your blog RSS feed. I want to dominate the conversation on every single platform so everywhere you look, I am the only alternative. I think it’s important. But what’s interesting, this is the, I think I know now why. I will always wonder why nobody else is doing this, outside of Gary Vaynerchuk in our market. In my entrepreneurial business market, there’s people probably in other markets, but in ours the only person is Gary V. I think I finally realized why. Because my business is built off email. So we built a big email list. We’ve had over a million entrepreneurs that have been on that list. Active, probably have a million or so. But what’s interesting is, I assumed okay I’m going to launch in Instagram. I’ll send an email and all the sudden I’ll have a million people on Instagram. Then I’ll go to my blog and push there and I’ll have a million people there. But the reality of what I’ve found is that’s not true. Think about this for yourself. How do you like to consume content? What’s your platform? Because everyone’s got one or two that’s their favorites. Do you like reading blogs? Maybe you’re a blog reader. Or do you like listening to podcast? You’re a podcast person. Or do you like watching video, do you go to YouTube? Or do you check your email? DO you go to Instagram, Facebook? What’s your platform of choice? And I thought that everyone was on every platform but that’s not the case. There’s a small percentage that are, but if we take our Facebook list and we run next to our email list, and look at those side by side, our Facebook and email list, the crossover in the middle is shockingly small. I assumed they were the same people, but they’re not. It’s just fascinating. When you understand that, a big shift that we’re having, I thought we’ll try Facebook ads to build Instagram, and that kind of works, but not really. Because Facebook people are on Facebook because they like Facebook. Instagram people are on Instagram. So the more I started thinking about this, the conversation we just had with our team, we’re like, we have to realize that people that read blogs like to read blogs. People who listen to podcasts like to listen to podcasts. Does that make sense. People that watch YouTube videos like watching YouTube videos. People that are Instagram, are on Instagram. That seems stupid right? Think about that. So what we’re talking about, and I’ve been talking a lot with you guys. Maybe not with you guys, but internally with our team, about the Dream 100. The Dream 100 for us has always been email focused, up until this point. Finding all the people on the list and Dream 100 the crap out of them and get them to promote our products and services. It’s worked, we’ve built a huge company off the back of that. Recently I did an episode a few weeks ago talking about how are you using Dream 100 for SEO? And by the way, we are executing it and it’s working awesome. So listen to that episode and do it. But think about this, if I want people to read my blog I don’t need to go and become really good at Facebook ads to get people to read my blog. You can, there’s crossover, but what’s better, whoever are the people who read blogs, read blogs. So if I want to launch my blog and make it successful, who are the other people that have successful blogs that my people are already reading. My dream clients are already reading. Because people who read blogs, read blogs. So I needed to find those people and Dream 100 them, and pay them or partner with them or whatever to get them to write a blog article about me because blog people like to read blogs. So if I’m reading a blog and I read a blog about someone and I go over to their blog, someone’s blog needs to promote my blog. Someone’s podcast needs to promote my podcast. Somebody’s YouTube channel needs to promote my YouTube channel because people who watch YouTube, watch YouTube. So it’s kind of shift in my thinking. That’s how the Dream 100, as I’m getting more granular with it, it’s fascinating. If you hear me on podcasts, you will know to hear, normally I do podcasts peoplr are like, “Where can I get to know more about you Russell.” And I’m like, “go to Russellbrunson.com, there’s a bunch of stuff there.” But no! If I went on a podcast, be like, “hey, you like listening to podcasts, go to marketingsecrets.com, there’s my podcast, you can subscribe. It’s awesome.” Because podcast people listen to podcasts. If I’m on a blog, I’m going to talk about my blog. If I’m on a YouTube channel I’m going to talk about my YouTube channel. If I’m on a Facebook feed, I’m going to talk about my Facebook feed. Understanding that, that’s number one. And again, there will be a little bit of crossover, but the majority of your blog readers will come from other blogs. Because blog readers read blogs. The majority of YouTube Subscribers will come from other YouTube channels because YouTube people watch YouTube. I never watched YouTube videos until 3 months ago when we launched our YouTube channel. I didn’t care about it, I didn’t watch, I never went there. I didn’t understand, it was so foreign to me. Now I get there and I’m in this world and I’m like, there’s a lot of cool stuff happening here. And people that like YouTube, they’re on YouTube all day long, all the time. People who like Facebook are…. So you start understanding that as you’re doing your Dream 100. You become more granular with your focus and your traffic and all those kind of things. I want you to remember that. You wanna have conversation domination. The key to that is the Dream 100. Going back, Dream 100-ing people and getting people who are bloggers to read your blog. And people who are podcast listeners to listen to your podcast, so on and so forth across all the platforms. That’s awesome. Do you think that’s awesome Steven? Steven: It’s amazing. Russell: For those of you guys who are not watching this on a YouTube, if you’re listening to the podcast, Steven is behind me and he’s screaming excited too. So I hope it makes sense to you guys. I’m dropping gold bombs. Some of you guys will not be prepared for it yet. If you’re not go search fro the Dream 100, I think I’ve done podcasts or videos. I’ve talked a lot about that. So if you’r enot familiar with the Dream 100 yet, go and study it and then come back to this. There will be a point in your business when this concept will be the biggest way for you to scale from wherever you are to the next level. Its huge for us, what we’re focusing on while we’re trying to go from 8 to 9 figures a year. We got a good shot of maybe hitting it this year. It’s going to be a stretch this year. Next year it’s going to be easy. But this year we might make it. We got a couple of things happening that are going to give us the ability to potentially hit that. It’s going to be fun. Anyway, that’s what I wanted to mention to you guys. Hopefully you have enjoyed this podcast, please go to iTunes and rate, give me stars. Even one or two stars if you want, but if you really had a good time give me 5 and tell people what you think. Also, if you have your own podcast please tell your podcast listeners to listen to my podcast, I would really appreciate it. If you have a YouTube channel, please tell your people to listen to my YouTube videos. And if you’re a blogger, please blog about my blog, that would be very amazing. I hope that helps you guys. Appreciate you all. I’m going to go home and play with my son. We’re going to go to Studio C and have a blast. Peace, have a good night. See you all again soon. Bye everybody.
People who read blogs… read blogs, people who watch videos… watch videos, etc… On today’s episode Russell talks about figuring out a new formula for conversation domination on every platform. He also mentions the cool new way he’s doing coaching. Here are some of the awesome things you will hear in this episode: Find out what cool new way Russell is doing coaching with his Inner Circle members. Hear what Russell just realized while trying to build his Dream 100 list by looking at his email list and Facebook list side by side. And see what the simple solution is to dominating the conversation in every platform. So listen below to find out why its important to realize that podcast listeners listen to podcasts. ---Transcript--- Hey this is Russell, welcome to Marketing Secrets. Today’s show is about conversation domination. Hey everyone this is Russell and I hope you guys are doing awesome today. I have a really cool thing I wanted to share with you guys, and if I’m being completely honest, I am completely fried right now. It’s Friday, my wife just left out of town with three of my kids and left me with two. So she was up packing until 3 in the morning, I fell asleep at 1 and at 3 she left, so I woke up to say goodbye to them and the kids. And then at the same time my little 2 year old, Norah woke up and so I brought her down in bed with me, but she went crazy for the next two hours. Screaming, jumping, and kicking. She knew mom wasn’t around, anyway it got kind of hard. Finally at about 5 or 5:30 I put her back to bed and then I came down and fell asleep for 2 hours and woke up and so it was like a 2 or 3 hour night. Then I raced to the office because we had funnel Friday today, but luckily Jim forgot. I was like thank heavens, because it gave me a chance to get stuff done. Then I had what we call Decade in a Day. So those who are in my inner circle, we do this cool thing called Decade in a Day, which is a coaching program part. When the first come into the program they get to be part of Decade in a Day and then every time they renew they get Decade in a Day. What it is, is me taking a decade of my experience and jamming it into one day for them. The way it works, we actually changed it, in the past we used to do it different but I figured out a new format and today was the first day and it’s so cool. If any of you guys are doing coaching programs, this is the way to do it. So we have 100 people in the inner circle at any given time. So what we did is we went and took each of their, basically each person got thirty minutes and instead of me just coaching them one on one, when they get the value and that’s kind of it. What it is we coach them and I use Zoom, which is a new webinar platform that is becoming the coolest thing ever. And then we Zoomed each person in the inner circle Facebook group. So I had person number one, brought them on, to ask questions, then I click record and stream to Facebook and then it streamed the presentation. So for thirty minutes, I had them introduce themselves really quick. And then we talked about business and I coached them for thirty minutes. And while it’s happening its streaming live to the other 99 inner circle members. And everyone in there is giving feedback and dropping recourses and all these amazing things are happening in there. And the call ended, and I ended it and zoom lets you just end Facebook live. I started the next one and pulled the next person in and go. Boom. We do that for thirty minutes. And then it ends. So everyone watches the new one starts and then it’s archived in the inner circle members area, that person’s story for thirty minutes with me coaching them. Everyone else starts dropping feedback and comments. We did that, I think 8 times today. So it was kind of crazy. But it was amazing because it was me coaching and then also 99 other fellow inner circle members all coaching as well, dropping resources, links, ideas, resources. It was amazing. So I’m really excited about the new addition to the inner circle, which is awesome. And Steven who is behind me over here, he just got done with the Two Comma Club coaching, which is the tier before the inner circle, the Two Comma Club coaching and he spent 4 hours doing Q and A today. It’s insane, people. I’ve been doing this now for a long time and our coaching programs have become second to none. It’s exciting. Steven: It’s a lot of fun. Changing the world, you know. It’s a cool feeling seeing people’s lives like, “I got it.” And then they go out and do it and get results and it’s just fun. Russell: So fun. So that’s what we’ve been doing today. I[‘m about to take my kids to Studio C, which is really, really fun. Studio C is, if you haven’t, go to YouTube and search Studio C and you’ll see who they are, it’s amazing. Anyway, we’re taking Aiden, who is one of two kids left at home with me tonight to that. So we’re heading out here in a few minutes. But I was just having a conversation with some of the marketing team here and I wanted to share some of it as Iw as thinking about it Because I thought it was really interesting. So the conversation we had comes back to there was a guy named Howie Schwartz when I first got started who was big online. He had a course called Conversation Domination and it was about getting in Google and as soon as you typed your name into Google all 10 spots would be you, you would dominate the conversation. Anyway, I don’t know what, I haven’t heard from Howie for forever, I don’t know what he’s up to nowadays. Anyway, the concept of conversation domination I thought was awesome. You type in your key word and you’re all 10 spots and all the paid ads are all you. You dominate the conversation, you’re the only person there. So as I’ve been doing this whole new social media thing, which you guys are watching me do, and hopefully learning and following and modeling and funnel hacking. That’s my thoughts, conversation domination. I want when you open up any platform, that I’m dominating the conversation. I’m in your podcast feed. I’m in your YouTube feed. I’m in your blog RSS feed. I want to dominate the conversation on every single platform so everywhere you look, I am the only alternative. I think it’s important. But what’s interesting, this is the, I think I know now why. I will always wonder why nobody else is doing this, outside of Gary Vaynerchuk in our market. In my entrepreneurial business market, there’s people probably in other markets, but in ours the only person is Gary V. I think I finally realized why. Because my business is built off email. So we built a big email list. We’ve had over a million entrepreneurs that have been on that list. Active, probably have a million or so. But what’s interesting is, I assumed okay I’m going to launch in Instagram. I’ll send an email and all the sudden I’ll have a million people on Instagram. Then I’ll go to my blog and push there and I’ll have a million people there. But the reality of what I’ve found is that’s not true. Think about this for yourself. How do you like to consume content? What’s your platform? Because everyone’s got one or two that’s their favorites. Do you like reading blogs? Maybe you’re a blog reader. Or do you like listening to podcast? You’re a podcast person. Or do you like watching video, do you go to YouTube? Or do you check your email? DO you go to Instagram, Facebook? What’s your platform of choice? And I thought that everyone was on every platform but that’s not the case. There’s a small percentage that are, but if we take our Facebook list and we run next to our email list, and look at those side by side, our Facebook and email list, the crossover in the middle is shockingly small. I assumed they were the same people, but they’re not. It’s just fascinating. When you understand that, a big shift that we’re having, I thought we’ll try Facebook ads to build Instagram, and that kind of works, but not really. Because Facebook people are on Facebook because they like Facebook. Instagram people are on Instagram. So the more I started thinking about this, the conversation we just had with our team, we’re like, we have to realize that people that read blogs like to read blogs. People who listen to podcasts like to listen to podcasts. Does that make sense. People that watch YouTube videos like watching YouTube videos. People that are Instagram, are on Instagram. That seems stupid right? Think about that. So what we’re talking about, and I’ve been talking a lot with you guys. Maybe not with you guys, but internally with our team, about the Dream 100. The Dream 100 for us has always been email focused, up until this point. Finding all the people on the list and Dream 100 the crap out of them and get them to promote our products and services. It’s worked, we’ve built a huge company off the back of that. Recently I did an episode a few weeks ago talking about how are you using Dream 100 for SEO? And by the way, we are executing it and it’s working awesome. So listen to that episode and do it. But think about this, if I want people to read my blog I don’t need to go and become really good at Facebook ads to get people to read my blog. You can, there’s crossover, but what’s better, whoever are the people who read blogs, read blogs. So if I want to launch my blog and make it successful, who are the other people that have successful blogs that my people are already reading. My dream clients are already reading. Because people who read blogs, read blogs. So I needed to find those people and Dream 100 them, and pay them or partner with them or whatever to get them to write a blog article about me because blog people like to read blogs. So if I’m reading a blog and I read a blog about someone and I go over to their blog, someone’s blog needs to promote my blog. Someone’s podcast needs to promote my podcast. Somebody’s YouTube channel needs to promote my YouTube channel because people who watch YouTube, watch YouTube. So it’s kind of shift in my thinking. That’s how the Dream 100, as I’m getting more granular with it, it’s fascinating. If you hear me on podcasts, you will know to hear, normally I do podcasts peoplr are like, “Where can I get to know more about you Russell.” And I’m like, “go to Russellbrunson.com, there’s a bunch of stuff there.” But no! If I went on a podcast, be like, “hey, you like listening to podcasts, go to marketingsecrets.com, there’s my podcast, you can subscribe. It’s awesome.” Because podcast people listen to podcasts. If I’m on a blog, I’m going to talk about my blog. If I’m on a YouTube channel I’m going to talk about my YouTube channel. If I’m on a Facebook feed, I’m going to talk about my Facebook feed. Understanding that, that’s number one. And again, there will be a little bit of crossover, but the majority of your blog readers will come from other blogs. Because blog readers read blogs. The majority of YouTube Subscribers will come from other YouTube channels because YouTube people watch YouTube. I never watched YouTube videos until 3 months ago when we launched our YouTube channel. I didn’t care about it, I didn’t watch, I never went there. I didn’t understand, it was so foreign to me. Now I get there and I’m in this world and I’m like, there’s a lot of cool stuff happening here. And people that like YouTube, they’re on YouTube all day long, all the time. People who like Facebook are…. So you start understanding that as you’re doing your Dream 100. You become more granular with your focus and your traffic and all those kind of things. I want you to remember that. You wanna have conversation domination. The key to that is the Dream 100. Going back, Dream 100-ing people and getting people who are bloggers to read your blog. And people who are podcast listeners to listen to your podcast, so on and so forth across all the platforms. That’s awesome. Do you think that’s awesome Steven? Steven: It’s amazing. Russell: For those of you guys who are not watching this on a YouTube, if you’re listening to the podcast, Steven is behind me and he’s screaming excited too. So I hope it makes sense to you guys. I’m dropping gold bombs. Some of you guys will not be prepared for it yet. If you’re not go search fro the Dream 100, I think I’ve done podcasts or videos. I’ve talked a lot about that. So if you’r enot familiar with the Dream 100 yet, go and study it and then come back to this. There will be a point in your business when this concept will be the biggest way for you to scale from wherever you are to the next level. Its huge for us, what we’re focusing on while we’re trying to go from 8 to 9 figures a year. We got a good shot of maybe hitting it this year. It’s going to be a stretch this year. Next year it’s going to be easy. But this year we might make it. We got a couple of things happening that are going to give us the ability to potentially hit that. It’s going to be fun. Anyway, that’s what I wanted to mention to you guys. Hopefully you have enjoyed this podcast, please go to iTunes and rate, give me stars. Even one or two stars if you want, but if you really had a good time give me 5 and tell people what you think. Also, if you have your own podcast please tell your podcast listeners to listen to my podcast, I would really appreciate it. If you have a YouTube channel, please tell your people to listen to my YouTube videos. And if you’re a blogger, please blog about my blog, that would be very amazing. I hope that helps you guys. Appreciate you all. I’m going to go home and play with my son. We’re going to go to Studio C and have a blast. Peace, have a good night. See you all again soon. Bye everybody.
Steve's Arizona GunSlinger Hot Sauce Business Failure Jack Butala: Steve's Arizona GunSlinger Hot Sauce Business Failure. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Jill: This is Jill DeWit for Land Academy. Welcome to our cash flow from Land Show. In this episode, Steven and I talk about 1 of his biggest failures, it hurts that I'm a gunslinger. Steven, I can't wait for our listeners to hear about this story, so they don't make the same mistakes. Steven: It hurts me, it's a bad memory. Jill: So sorry about that. Steven: I'll share it for you. Jill: I hate to put you through this, but hey, before we start the story, let's take a question from a caller. Steven: Dale, from Vancouver asks, "So really, you don't need a real estate license to do this? Can you please explain?" This is an interesting question Jill, you want to take it, or do you want me to? Jill: I want you to take this. Steven: It happens a lot. Jill: It comes up a lot. You figured this out years ago, and I like your explanation. Steven: I'll give the short answer first, and then I'll tell you why. The answer is you can do it with a license or without a license, and in that effect, there's almost no difference at all. Somewhere along the line, probably a lot of years ago, somebody planted this idea in the American public's head that you have to have a real estate license to be an investor, and nothing could be further from the truth. You don't need to have a dealer license for a car dealership to buy a car, it's the same thing, so no. Very, very, very intelligent people make this mistake. It happens weekly to Jill and I, that people are running out getting a real estate license so they can be a real estate investor. The truth of it is, this is my pain, a licensed real estate agent is kind of subject to a different liability situation, or risk situation than an unlicensed person, because theoretically a licensed real estate agent, at least on paper is more experienced and they should know better. In reality we know it's really based on experienced and that's about it, so no, you don't need a license, but here's my recommendation. Real estate is cool, in most places it's pretty inexpensive. Out here it's about 500 bucks for 2, 3 weeks of education. I always recommend going to real estate school. More education is always better in everything, not just not this. Go to school. Hey, maybe you might decide to take the exam at the end and become an agent, and decided that it's for you, but at the very least you're going to spend 3, 4, 500 dollars and get a tremendous amount of value in a real world experience and learn about stuff. Jill: It's true. Steven: Then at the end decide, so no. Jill: Well I did this way too. Steven: Jill and I are not licensed. Jill: We're not licensed, but [crosstalk 00:02:41] Steven: Nobody here is licensed. Jill: As an investor, it's you buying your own assets, you're not representing somebody else to. Steven: Right Jill. Jill: It's different when you're representing somebody else. That's where the difference is, but people somehow they ... For some reason it gets blurred, and I don't know why. Like I'm buying something for myself and my company basically. Steven: Yeah, I think the blurriness comes from ... I agree with you, it's very blurry. The blurriness comes from the fact that there's a huge machine. There's a huge economic, political machine of people that are very, very interested in having as many license reorders as possible. If they're 1 of the top 5 largest special interest groups in Washington. That's what these fees are about, and these mandatory associations. Realtors have to spend a lot of money just to be licensed,
Steve's Arizona GunSlinger Hot Sauce Business Failure Jack Butala: Steve's Arizona GunSlinger Hot Sauce Business Failure. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Jill: This is Jill DeWit for Land Academy. Welcome to our cash flow from Land Show. In this episode, Steven and I talk about 1 of his biggest failures, it hurts that I'm a gunslinger. Steven, I can't wait for our listeners to hear about this story, so they don't make the same mistakes. Steven: It hurts me, it's a bad memory. Jill: So sorry about that. Steven: I'll share it for you. Jill: I hate to put you through this, but hey, before we start the story, let's take a question from a caller. Steven: Dale, from Vancouver asks, "So really, you don't need a real estate license to do this? Can you please explain?" This is an interesting question Jill, you want to take it, or do you want me to? Jill: I want you to take this. Steven: It happens a lot. Jill: It comes up a lot. You figured this out years ago, and I like your explanation. Steven: I'll give the short answer first, and then I'll tell you why. The answer is you can do it with a license or without a license, and in that effect, there's almost no difference at all. Somewhere along the line, probably a lot of years ago, somebody planted this idea in the American public's head that you have to have a real estate license to be an investor, and nothing could be further from the truth. You don't need to have a dealer license for a car dealership to buy a car, it's the same thing, so no. Very, very, very intelligent people make this mistake. It happens weekly to Jill and I, that people are running out getting a real estate license so they can be a real estate investor. The truth of it is, this is my pain, a licensed real estate agent is kind of subject to a different liability situation, or risk situation than an unlicensed person, because theoretically a licensed real estate agent, at least on paper is more experienced and they should know better. In reality we know it's really based on experienced and that's about it, so no, you don't need a license, but here's my recommendation. Real estate is cool, in most places it's pretty inexpensive. Out here it's about 500 bucks for 2, 3 weeks of education. I always recommend going to real estate school. More education is always better in everything, not just not this. Go to school. Hey, maybe you might decide to take the exam at the end and become an agent, and decided that it's for you, but at the very least you're going to spend 3, 4, 500 dollars and get a tremendous amount of value in a real world experience and learn about stuff. Jill: It's true. Steven: Then at the end decide, so no. Jill: Well I did this way too. Steven: Jill and I are not licensed. Jill: We're not licensed, but [crosstalk 00:02:41] Steven: Nobody here is licensed. Jill: As an investor, it's you buying your own assets, you're not representing somebody else to. Steven: Right Jill. Jill: It's different when you're representing somebody else. That's where the difference is, but people somehow they ... For some reason it gets blurred, and I don't know why. Like I'm buying something for myself and my company basically. Steven: Yeah, I think the blurriness comes from ... I agree with you, it's very blurry. The blurriness comes from the fact that there's a huge machine. There's a huge economic, political machine of people that are very, very interested in having as many license reorders as possible. If they're 1 of the top 5 largest special interest groups in Washington. That's what these fees are about, and these mandatory associations. Realtors have to spend a lot of money just to be licensed,
Win When You Buy Not When You Sell Jack Butala: Win When You Buy Not When You Sell. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Steven: Hi, Jack Butala here for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land Show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about that old standby real estate rule, you win when you buy, not when you sell. We talk all about what it means. Jill, I really hope this doesn't end up being one of those [lectury 00:00:20] shows. I would like to have some fun with this, and I'm sure you would too. But before we get into it, let's take a question from a caller. Jill: Okay. Jack from Texas called in and asked, "I sent out a mailer using your data in a neighborhood where my wife wants to buy a house." Steven: Awesome. Jill: I like that. Steven: Yeah, Jack, you got it. Jill: Nice job. Okay, "It worked and we have three to choose from. What should I do with the two that we don't buy? They are great bargains." Steven: Oh, my gosh. Jill: Brilliant. Steven: You know what's going to happen to this guy? He's going to get the hook. Jill: Now he is, when he sees what just happened. That was brilliant. Steven: This is a great ... This is the best question I can remember getting on this show. Jill: I am impressed. Steven: If you have question ... Before we answer this one, if you have a question call 888-735-5045 and leave us your question. If your funny and stuff, we'll have you on the show. What's your answer? I have a lot to say. Jill: Find a buyer. Don't let them go. They're bargains. There's an investor out there. Keep it. Steven: Never, ever let good acquisitions go to waste. The biggest reason, and we see this a lot with our members on successplan.com, they don't have the money or the access to the money. They're just generally new and they're concerned about asking for money. I see this all the time. They just don't buy the property. They don't tell anybody about it. They call the seller back and say, "I'm sorry, I just can't buy it at this time. I've spent my acquisition budget for this month." Please never let a deal go to waste because of money, never, ever, ever. In this guy's case, Jack from Texas, I guess his name is, he did exactly what he should do. He got our data, sent it out ... Used the data not so much to start a real estate company, but he used it to buy a primary residence and it worked. Now he's got these two leftover deals. Hopefully he negotiated and all that. That's what I would do. He's just got to find a seller. Jack, if you're listening to this, call us and we'll get involved in this. Jill: I would just first do a little bit of work, which you could do in not long at all. Find all the top flippers and investors and stuff right in that neighborhood. It won't be hard to figure that out. You can do that on Craig's List in an afternoon. Steven: Uh-huh (affirmative). Then reach out to them and let them know you've got a deal and you want to pass it to them and see what you guys can work out so you get a piece of the action, Jack. You know how we work. We just rip on driving for dollars all the time. Want to hear what I did one time? Jill: Oh, no. Steven: To do exactly what you're saying, to find people that are flippers, I drove around- Jill: Looking for signs and- Steven: No, for dumpsters. Jill: Oh, dumpsters in driveways? Steven: Dumpsters in driveways. Jill: Driving for dollars is looking for dumpsters in driveways. Got it. Steven: I picked up a few good guys. Jill: That's funny. Like construction guys, or investors? Steven: I picked up flippers. Jill: That's great. That's perfect. Is that how you met Dennis? Steven: It's not. I met Dennis at a comedy competition, which I lost. I'm completely joking. No, I met Dennis ... No,
Win When You Buy Not When You Sell Jack Butala: Win When You Buy Not When You Sell. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Steven: Hi, Jack Butala here for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land Show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about that old standby real estate rule, you win when you buy, not when you sell. We talk all about what it means. Jill, I really hope this doesn't end up being one of those [lectury 00:00:20] shows. I would like to have some fun with this, and I'm sure you would too. But before we get into it, let's take a question from a caller. Jill: Okay. Jack from Texas called in and asked, "I sent out a mailer using your data in a neighborhood where my wife wants to buy a house." Steven: Awesome. Jill: I like that. Steven: Yeah, Jack, you got it. Jill: Nice job. Okay, "It worked and we have three to choose from. What should I do with the two that we don't buy? They are great bargains." Steven: Oh, my gosh. Jill: Brilliant. Steven: You know what's going to happen to this guy? He's going to get the hook. Jill: Now he is, when he sees what just happened. That was brilliant. Steven: This is a great ... This is the best question I can remember getting on this show. Jill: I am impressed. Steven: If you have question ... Before we answer this one, if you have a question call 888-735-5045 and leave us your question. If your funny and stuff, we'll have you on the show. What's your answer? I have a lot to say. Jill: Find a buyer. Don't let them go. They're bargains. There's an investor out there. Keep it. Steven: Never, ever let good acquisitions go to waste. The biggest reason, and we see this a lot with our members on successplan.com, they don't have the money or the access to the money. They're just generally new and they're concerned about asking for money. I see this all the time. They just don't buy the property. They don't tell anybody about it. They call the seller back and say, "I'm sorry, I just can't buy it at this time. I've spent my acquisition budget for this month." Please never let a deal go to waste because of money, never, ever, ever. In this guy's case, Jack from Texas, I guess his name is, he did exactly what he should do. He got our data, sent it out ... Used the data not so much to start a real estate company, but he used it to buy a primary residence and it worked. Now he's got these two leftover deals. Hopefully he negotiated and all that. That's what I would do. He's just got to find a seller. Jack, if you're listening to this, call us and we'll get involved in this. Jill: I would just first do a little bit of work, which you could do in not long at all. Find all the top flippers and investors and stuff right in that neighborhood. It won't be hard to figure that out. You can do that on Craig's List in an afternoon. Steven: Uh-huh (affirmative). Then reach out to them and let them know you've got a deal and you want to pass it to them and see what you guys can work out so you get a piece of the action, Jack. You know how we work. We just rip on driving for dollars all the time. Want to hear what I did one time? Jill: Oh, no. Steven: To do exactly what you're saying, to find people that are flippers, I drove around- Jill: Looking for signs and- Steven: No, for dumpsters. Jill: Oh, dumpsters in driveways? Steven: Dumpsters in driveways. Jill: Driving for dollars is looking for dumpsters in driveways. Got it. Steven: I picked up a few good guys. Jill: That's funny. Like construction guys, or investors? Steven: I picked up flippers. Jill: That's great. That's perfect. Is that how you met Dennis? Steven: It's not. I met Dennis at a comedy competition, which I lost. I'm completely joking. No, I met Dennis ... No,
There's a Girl inside Jill Named Stacy (CFFL 0065) Jack Butala: There's a Girl inside Jill Named Stacy. Every single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Steven: Steve Butella here for LandAcademy. Welcome to our Cash Flow from Land Show. In this episode, I talk about Jill and the girl inside of Jill named Stacy. Stacy comes out when Jill is pretty much done with responsibility, and I love Stacy. We all do. What's the show really all about? It's about taking a break. Taking a break from work and from life and really just having a little bit of fun once in a while, which Jill doesn't seem to have problems doing at all. Jill, I know Stacy's not going to be with us today. Maybe that's having for another show. I have to ... Jill DeWit: I got to ... Steven: My question to you is how are you ... How did you get to be so good at turning off work and all this serious stuff in life, and really just ... Like a switch you can flip it off sometimes and just have some fun. Jill DeWit: Okay, I would like to pause, and just iterate that I am not schizophrenic. Because that's what it sounds like. Steven: It does when you think about that. Jill DeWit: It sounds like Jill, Stacy, look out, here she comes. Then I'm going to be around the corner talking to Stacy, and Stacy talks to Jill. No, that's not at all what goes on. Steven: No, this is a complement. Jill DeWit: Thank you. Steven: I hope you see it that way. Jill DeWit: This is a Steve-ism. Steven came up with Stacy. Steven: Yeah. Jill DeWit: All by himself. Steven: A long time ago. Jill DeWit: You did, a long time ... You just, I don't know where it was. We were out somewhere, and it was just one of those times where we're whooping up, having some fun, and you're like "I'm going to call you Stacy." You know? It's so ... Steven: There's a lot ... Here's the thing. There are a lot of people, some of them are women. Some of them that are men. That just are not ... They can't ever let their hair down. Jill DeWit: Oh. Steven: You know, and I ... Neither one of us are like that at all. Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (negative). Steven: We can ... When the Fred Flinstone whistle rings, and the ... It's over. Work's over. The shift bell rings, and it's over. Jill DeWit: Yes. Steven: We ... Jill and I don't suffer from having a lot of, lack of fun. Jill DeWit: It's true. It's very true. You know what ... You know, thank you, Steven. This is a really good topic. I didn't even think about it, but it is ... It's funny, because it's so my thing, the mental side of all this stuff. Not just the financial side of everything that we're doing, but you do need to be able to shut it off. If you don't let your hair down sometime, you will go crazy. I look at it like a diet. If you're on a diet, and you eat ... You know, you're so rigid the whole week. When you have a week moment, you're going to go crazy, and you're going to blow what you just did, because you didn't prepare for it. Slash however. If you're dieting, and you're doing everything great, and you allow yourself one meal and you know it's come, you kind of planned for it. You know. Have that treat, whatever. Then you're going to be better, consistent, and you're going to get back on your diet, and going to be just okay. You got to plan for it. Steven: There's this joke and a saying along the lines of what we're talking about, about Catholic girls, and I'm not going to ...
Decisions That Affect the Rest of Your Life (CFFL 61.2) Jack Butala: Decisions That Affect the Rest of Your Life. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening. Steven: Jack Butala here for Land Academy, welcome to our Cash Flow From Land Show. In this episode Jill and I talk about the decisions we've made in our lives that lead us to where we are and some of the ones that maybe we would have made differently. Jill, I'm not sure there's a more important topic than this that we can talk about today at least. Jill: I agree and what's funny is when I read the title of this I took a different spin on it, so this will be really good. I'll have to quickly adjust and come up with some things. Steven: What did you think it meant? You probably think like most of our listeners. Jill: Do you know what's funny, I took it as not decisions I have made, I was thinking about going forward. Steven: Yeah, okay, that's what I think. Jill: Okay, cool. Steven: It helps to talk about the past and why we're all standing where we are at the moment. Yeah, I think it's all about looking forward. I made up a super short mental list of some of the things that I think are so important because our members at Land Academy and a lot of our customers at LandStay, the regular land company, they all get to us … They all have stories by the time they get to us. We have so many customers at LandStay that they're chucking it all and they're going to buy 40 acres from us and [inaudible 00:01:17] somehow and that's always an interesting story. Jill: That's true. Steven: Our Land Academy members just want … They want to improve the situation that they're in financially and I guess some of them it's a hobby, but most of them they want to make some more money or set up money on the side or whatever. I think these little tiny decisions that you make all through along that path really affects the decision that you make to either buy property or become a member of something like Land Academy. I heard somebody describe recently, I think it was a TED Talk and somebody in the audience asked if you were starting all over what would you do. The person who was giving the TED Talk said I would just focus on the thing that's most important. Sit down and ask yourself what is really, really, really important to me. Is this new sports car important? Should I buy a bigger house, is that important? Or do I want to put a bunch of money in the bank, is that important? Jill: Or people, my family. Steven: Yeah, or is everybody on the same page in my family or can I be a better father, all that stuff. Let's start with you because you're the one sitting next to me. Jill: Oh, great, great. Steven: Let's look forward. It's early 2016, what decisions do you want to make this year? What do you want to leave in and cut out or what's important? Jill: I don't have any, how do I say this, concrete decisions right now that I need to make, so I was thinking … Steven: Oh, that's nice. Jill: Isn't it? I've kind of already picked out the next car, I'm just waiting for it. No, really, I don't have … Oh, shucks, I've already made the decisions. Now have I acted on them? No. Steven: What are the decisions you've made? Jill: Oh, the book. I'm going to take care of my transportation issues, I'm going to work on the book. You and I are … I'm going to complete a book,
How we Provide Ongoing Success Support-SuccessPlant.com Steven: Hey, Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow from Land Show. Jill's with us and almost as always, almost always. Jill: Almost always. Steven: In this episode, Jill and I discuss our creation SuccessPlant.com. It's one of my personal favorite success stories and creations I guess that we've done since we started Land Academy here. It's an online community where our members, and you, and I, and Jill collaborate on anything land and success related. This tool kind of separates us from our competitors, I think. Jill: I love it. Steven: I had this crazy idea, Jill, that we should read some of the super successful stuff, and some of the questions in general that we get in SuccessPlant, and then I'd love to have your take on ... Since we sort of look at stuff in a different way, and I think it's really helpful, your take on the how it's working and what happened, and maybe even tell the story about how we started it. Jill: Should we start there? Steven: Or why we started it ... Jill: Why we started it? Okay. I just love it. This is just ... This is a fun show for me because it's nice to talk about one of our great level tools that we offer are our people, and it's just inspirational. Not to get too far ahead as ... I think why it's named SuccessPlant, which is really your brainchild Steven was [the name of that game. 00:01:13] Steven: That's with the .com was available at that time. Jill: That's why I was laughing. Steven: There's a lot more that went into it than that. Jill: We can see it growing into so many other things. Right now it's really around our niche and our land business, but there's so many things that you and I are working on, and we'll get to that later, but it's all about success. That's it. Talk about ... I go there for inspiration sometimes. It's just kind of like, "Oh wow, look what these people are doing. Look how great this is. Look at this money this person is making." We'll get in to some more of that. To back up, how in my words ... Steven: Let's do this together because I think both our words are appropriate for this little story. Jill: All right, we'll share how SuccessPlant came to be. I was knee deep in a ton of new members coming in to our Land Academy program, and I found myself getting a little bogged down with wonderful questions, and I realized, "Gosh this person had this question, and that one kind of had a similar question gosh wouldn't be great if I could answer it at one time for everyone". So I went to you, Steven, and I said, "Help, can we please come up with some way that I can, we can all kind of communicate together, and answer some questions, one, share great information, gosh let's brag about our successes how well we are all doing". You said, "I have the answer". Steven: I said, "Why don't you take your vacation with your girlfriend in California, and I'll sit here and work". Jill: Yeah, that's exactly what you said. Steven: And that's what we did. Jill: That's what happened. Thank you every much you take great care of me. Steven: The truth is I really actually enjoyed the super quiet time. Jill: Quiet time. Steven: It was almost ... I swear I ... From this time... I could have paid somebody to do this. From the time that I started, sat down, it was like 36 hours later with this little bit of sleep on and off, and a bunch of canned spaghetti all over the floor. We figured ... I got this, the website done, and I think it still shows ...
All the cool stuff you're going to get inside of Clickfunnels because of this month's hack-a-thon. On today's episode Russell talks with a special guest, Steven Esketzis, who is here all the way from Australia for the hack-a-thon. Here are a few fun things you'll here in this episode: What kinds of things are happening with the hack-a-thon. And some cool things that have changed with Clickfunnels. So listen below to find out how Steven feels about the hack-a-thon and the Clickfunnels changes. ---Transcript--- Russell Brunson: Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Steven Esketzis: And this is Steven Esketzis. Russell: And we are here in an exciting Marketing in Your Car. Russell: Hey everyone, so we have been in the middle of a hack-a-thon as you guys know. I've done some podcasts on the way home. I'm here today because one of our newest additions to Click Funnels, we flew him here from Australia and he's been hanging out for his first hack-a-thon. I want to get in his own words what it's been like to be on the inside. Do you want to tell everyone what it's been like? Steven: Yes, it's been pretty crazy. I flew up 32 hours to meet these guys and I don't know what I was getting myself into but I got here in the end I think with four different airplane flights, went through five airports but I got here at midnight. First day was awesome. We're just smashing our work. Russell introduced me to the team. I met Dillon, Winter, Todd, Ryan – absolutely awesome team, finally get to see how Click Funnels has been so successful. It's been awesome to work with everyone, and we've been smashing it. We've been hustling it out till four AM every night and really putting the hard hours in. I think you guys are going to be really pumped to see what's going to come out in the next few weeks. We got some really cool things planned. Russell: Awesome. Talk about day two, what happened because we had a special guest come hang out with us. Steven: Yes, that's right. On day two, we had Mr. Neil Patell join us. I'm sure you guys are familiar with Neil with KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg, and Hello Bar, and I think there are a few other companies he's founded with Quick Sprout and whatnot but oh gosh, I don't know where we're going. Russell: We're off-roading it. Steven: Off-roading in a new car – only Russell would do this. Anyway, Neil came down and he shared some epic, epic takeaways with us from what he's doing in his own companies, how we can grow our company. Yes, he's been killing it on the content marketing side. He just dropped absolutely golden nuggets. Hopefully you guys are going to see the awesome blog posts come and see some of the value that's going to come onto the blog side of things as well. Russell: Yes, it's going to be awesome. Steven joined the team to help us with all the content stuff so we thought we should hire the man Neil Patel to come in and coach us on that so that we could do it right. It was good. I think we were going in a good direction but he helped steer us, “This is the perfect way to do it.” It's been fun to see what you're able to do with this as your baby in the company now, some exciting stuff. The last five minutes before we just jumped in the car, basically Dillon got excited and wanted to launch everything he's been working on for the last year, all in one month. We filmed a video. You guys will probably see it on Facebook or through email or somewhere. We are basically launching pretty much everything, all the rest of the stuff in August. That means first off, there's a brand new UI that's amazing. It looks like a whole new company. It's simpler. It's stripped out, all this kind of stuff. It's awesome, a new homepage, the new site which I spent the whole week building which I think I'm proud of it. Steven: Yes, it's pretty good. Russell: I'm not going to lie. That's kind of cool. Then we've got Backpack is going live so everyone will have the affiliate program inside their accounts here in August. The dream car contest is going live so you can win the Corvette I'm driving in or whatever car you want. Actionetics which I thought was going to be another two months before it's coming out is now happening this month, and we got accounts yesterday. It's nuts. Steven: It's crazy. People are going to be blown away. Russell: Yes, I feel bad for every other auto responder company on planet earth literally. Yes, it's amazing. Imagine editing emails in the Click Funnels email editor. Steven: Oh, I've never seen anything like it. It's actually like – I don't want to swear but it is absolutely amazing. To do something so easily, I personally was telling Russell this earlier, about half an hour ago. I hate emails. I hate making them, I hate sending them but as soon as I logged into this, it was pretty amazing. It felt like I was at home. It felt like I was finally able to just dive deep in and everything was just done for me the way I like it. I think you can't get much better than that. I think you guys are going to have a lot of fun creating emails, the same way that when you first jumped into Click Funnels and you started playing around with funnels, and you were just locked in there for three hours and you didn't come out of your bedroom or you didn't see your kids, or you didn't see your wife and you got yelled at, you would be the same with your email editor. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride. I can't wait to see it come out. Russell: Anyway, you guys are going to love it. We just wanted to give you a quick update because the end of the hack-a-thon is here. It's like two or three or four in the morning, dropping Steven off at the hotel and just wanted to say hey to everybody. He has been listening to Marketing in Your Car since day one, and now he's on officially Marketing in Your Car which is exciting. So I appreciate you guys, thanks for listening. Thank you for being here. Steven: Thank you for listening guys and it's been awesome, thanks Russell. Russell: All right, we'll talk to you guys soon.
Episode 57: Acting Up: Interview with Playwright Steven Stack Lindsay talks with playwright Steven Stack. He's got a fantastic new one act melodrama coming out called She Wrote, Died, Then Wrote Some More. Show Notes Plays by Steven Stack Subscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast On iTunes. On Stitcher. Episode Transcript Lindsay: Welcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Espero que estés bien. Gracias por escucharme. Alright. So today we are acting up with another Theatrefolk playwright interview. Today I am so pleased to talk to Steven Stack. We have one of Steven's plays already in our catalogue, The Bottom of the Lake, and upcoming, the fantastic melodrama mystery, She Wrote, Died, Then Wrote Some More. But more on that in a moment. So first I have to say, hello Steven. Hi. Steven: Hi, Lindsay. Lindsay: How are you? Steven: I'm doing great. I just got back from a carnival, and the family's all asleep now at this point. [Laughs] Lindsay: So basically you've worn them out… Steven: Exactly. Lindsay: …and so you can have a couple of minutes to talk to us. Steven: Absolutely. Lindsay: So first off, where are you right now? Where are you? Steven: I am in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, which is the land of the trolls. Lindsay: Oh, like really? Like what kind of trolls? Steven: Well, they're wooden trolls. They have been carved. I don't know the actual history but there are a lot of them, and there was a recent article that said that we needed more, so now they're recruiting like a bunch of wood carvers and they're all working on giving us more trolls, so it's going to be awesome. Lindsay: So does that happen often, that life is so good in Wisconsin that… Steven: [Laughs] Lindsay: …[laughs] the needing of more trolls is an issue? Steven: I suppose. It was a front page in our Mount Horeb newspaper… Lindsay: [Laughs] Steven: …so it's big time. Lindsay: See, I love that. See, that's the kind of place that I want to live in. [Laughs] Steven: It's pretty festive. It's a highly enjoyable place to live. Lindsay: So that's my next question. So have you always lived in Wisconsin? Steven: Oh no, I am actually from South Carolina, and I was teaching there full-time. I had just started a drummer program for sixth, seventh and eighth grade, and then I auditioned for a play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Lindsay: Yup. Steven: And there I met my stage manager Maggie. Turned out that we were meant to be together, I suppose. We got married, and she was going to get her master's degree at UW-Madison and... Lindsay: And you just followed along and the rest is history. Steven: Oh yeah, I thought it was pretty awesome. I was like, “Okay, I'm all set up here in South Carolina, and let's just leave everything and see how it turns out,” so. Lindsay: [Laughs] Steven: [Laughs] Lindsay: That's okay. Craig and I, my Theatrefolk partner, we met in a play as well, only I was playing Lizzie Borden. Steven: Oh, nice! Lindsay: And he was dad, so at the end of every night, basically ended up with me with a huge meat cleaver over his head. Steven: [Laughs] Lindsay: So, you know, theatre romance is… Steven: It's a beautiful thing. [Laughs] Lindsay: So since you are there, what is it like being a playwright in an area that is sort of nontraditional, I would say, for theatre? Steven: Well, I'm fortunate that there's a studio that I happened to work at in Mount Horeb called Forte Studios, and there's dancing, acting and voice there. So I get to do a lot of my stuff there because I'm the writer for them, and we have a lot of talented kids there, and then we're only about 20 minutes away from Madison… Lindsay: Oh, okay. Steven: …which is huge for the arts. So it works out really nicely. Lindsay: I love that. I love hearing about places that—you know,
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