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In the second hour, Todd continues to hammer down on these investigations as well as the lack of leadership from Lamont and company. Then Todd and Anthony move onto summer songs, and open up the floor to callers and everyone chimes in with music and songs that remind them of summer as a kid. Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The man, the myth, the legend Todd Helme joins me on this episode and share some detail history. We also discuss the rights and wrongs of Rupes mods. Then Todd gives the lowdown on his favorites and why? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/detailsolutionspodcast/support

Todd kicks off the rant hour speaking on a movie he saw over the weekend, focused on a music festival in Harlem 50 years ago. Then Todd dives into the rant hour, including rants on Biden, Lamont, July 4th messages, and more! Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd kicks off rant hour speaking with Anthony and debating his takes on the School Lunch Program, before diving into the rants. Then Todd plays the daily rants, with comments regarding Biden, Jolly Ned, and more. Finally in the second half of the show Todd is joined by Len Suzio for his latest takes. Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the second hour Todd opens with a monologue on Joe Biden, as he continues to whisper during speeches regarding the stimulus money and the good they are doing for the “underserved” communities. Then Todd speaks on the hypocrisy seen in Critical Race Theory and the way democrats are now approaching equity, specifically Todd responds to an Op Ed from the Courant on the issue. Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd starts the rant hour with some live calls, including an interesting call from a police officer in the Hartford area to give her perspective on defunding the police and the reality of the policies pushed since the social changes we've seen since 2020. Then Todd speaks with callers, then he is joined by friend of the show Bob Stefanowski to speak on the state of unemployment and the spending crisis seen in CT. Todd then plays the rants late as the 5 PM hour was busier than usual. Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd starts the third hour speaking on a side topic idea he had, today asking listeners their favorite Paul McCartney song from the Beatles era, Wings, or solo. Then Todd plays a clip from Al Gore, giving advice to Donald Trump, Todd then reacts and fields callers reacting to the comments  Tune in weekdays 2-6 PM EST on WTIC Newstalk 1080 ;or on the new Audacy app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Sunday's Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd pushed and prodded and attempted to shame Rep. Dan Crenshaw over the allegedly sorry state of the GOP. Then Todd turned around and granted a very receptive audience to Trump-trashing Republican Adam Kinzinger. And he claims that it's "lazy" to cry liberal bias?

In this episode of the NERDWatch podcast the gang talk about the big Marvel Phase 4 news and what to expect. Then Todd reviews the last two episodes of Amazon Prime's Invincible series and how it has produced a hybrid the NERDWatch calls "Koralien". Finally, the fellas talk about the He-Man movie casting issue and the latest comic book releases. 

BIBLE UNDERSTANDING: PLUS, OTHERS INCLUDING THE "CIRCLE OF LOVE" by J. Harvey Hames After reading this book, Harvey will guarantee you will want to read the Bible MORE or for the FIRST time. Thank you for buying this book. Sincerely…Harvey. J. Harvey Hames has written the book "Bible Understanding", plus "Circle of Love". Harvey was born in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, September 30th. Harvey’s father (Riley) left home when Harvey was just two months old. Leaving his mother (Evelyn) with three small children. Harvey's sister (Katherine) is three years older, and brother (RT) is eight years older. His mother refused to accept any assistance from the government. His mother (Evelyn) worked three different jobs while his grandmother (Minnie Mae Ledford) help raise Harvey, his sister (Katherine) and brother (RT). When Harvey was five years old, his family started attending Riverside Church of God in Atlanta. His mother (Evelyn) met and married Jim who attended the church. The three children plus his mother and new father (Jim) moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. Everything was great for a while, then Jim Harvey's new stepfather became an alcoholic. Then from "out of the blue", Harvey's real father (Riley) showed up in West Palm Beach, Florida and kidnaps Harvey, now six, and his sister (Katherine) from their school. He takes them back to Atlanta where he is now remarried to Janie. Harvey's mother allowed Harvey and his sister to stay in Atlanta for six months before Harvey's mother came and kidnapped them back. Harvey is now seven years old when his mother showed up while Harvey and is sister were walking home from school. Harvey said, "Thank God", now we can live with mom. Now all of them start driving to Stockton, California. In the car was Jim (Harvey’s stepfather), his mother (Evelyn), and Harvey’s brother RT. Only now RT (Harvey's brother) had just turned 16 years old and he had married Helen who lived in West Palm Beach, Florida. They ran "out of money" in Mississippi. His mother (Evelyn) and Jim (Harvey's stepfather) had to work for three months so they could drive on to Stockton, CA. After getting to Stockton, they started attending a church there. Now seven years old, Harvey gave his life to the Lord Jesus Christ. However, because of his stepfather's work, and his mother wanting to stay on the move so Harvey's father (Riley) could not kidnap her children again. Harvey went to twelve different schools up to the eighth grade. Then he and his family settled back in Atlanta. They started attending Riverside Church of God where Harvey met his future wife. After moving to Louisville, KY and working for his wife's father in his church full time, to become an ordain minister. Harvey and his wife sang in a trio group. Her father would preach, and they would sing on TV every week, and radio seven days a week. Then after seven years they had a wonderful son, called Todd Lynn Hames. After ten years, Harvey and his wife got a divorce. She moved to Nashville, TN with their young son, Todd, to work for a gospel singing agency. They represented many of the singing groups. Harvey stayed in Louisville and started working in real estate. After about a year the company made him manager of their main office of approximately fifty real estate agents. Todd would go to Louisville to see Harvey many weekends. Then Todd got married and Harvey would see Todd two or three times a year. After, several years of living the single life, Harvey started dating a wonderful lady named Melaine. He told her he was going to move to Florida and retire. Her first words were, "I am going with you". Finding a condo in Delray Beach, FL, they settled into the Florida living. Four months later she went to the doctor and was told she had breast cancer. All the doctors gave her six months to live. However, with God's grace, doctors and chemo treatments she lived for seven years. On January 2, 2020 Melaine went to be with the Lord in Heaven. That is shortly after Harvey had written and had published "Bible Understanding", plus "Circle of Love". You can find it on Amazon or IUniverse and bookstores. Harvey just finished another Book called "Jesus (God? Man? or Myth?)". It should be on Amazon or Readersmagnet and bookstores in a few months. http://www.harveyhames.com/ https://www.amazon.com/BIBLE-UNDERSTANDING-others-including-Circle/dp/1532089244/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1617565834&refinements=p_27%3AHarvey+J.+Hames&s=books&sr=1-2 www.ReadersMagnet.com http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/jhhamesrm.mp3

Todd Starnes is joined by actress and producer Roma Downey to discuss her new film "Resurrection" (premiering on Discovery+). Author Dr. Michael Youssef shares the details of his new book “Hope for This Present Crisis: The Seven-Step Path to Restoring a World Gone Mad," and discusses "woke politics" making their way into the Church. Then Todd talks to Kelly Tshibaka, a Conservative who is running for Congress in Alaska against Lisa Murkowski in 2022! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We listen to Chuck Schumer, the Clintons and other Democrats talk - several years ago, but really not so many - about how illegal immigration must be stopped - and Todd plays some contradictory statements Jolly Ned made at yesterday's press conference. Then Todd, and callers, react. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jodey Arrington continues the coversation about the crisis at the Border and the pork-filled stimulus bill. Then Todd talks with Patti Garibay, Founder and Executive Director of American Heritage Girls, about the Girl Scouts organization and why today, their 'birthday', may not be cause for celebration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this snippet from our 2/10 episode, we start off with a valuable lesson about buying when a stock is trading near its all-time high. Then Todd goes in depth about how he starts a position in a high-flying stock. We round out the discussion with a Q&A about stop losses. Want to see the charts? Watch this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fO_dvEEdeF8?t=1182 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/limelight-alpha/support

Wisconsin Representative Glenn Grothman visits the Todd Starnes show to make his case for his move to remove non-citizens from government assistance programs. Then Todd talks to Dion Cini, a man who was attacked in New York City for his Trump flag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Staver from Liberty Counsel calls in to discuss the Supreme Court’s latest actions to preserve religious liberty, this time in California. Then Todd continues the discussion about the COVID vaccine with our callers! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the NERDWatch join the gang as they welcome comic book artist and Star Wars fanatic James Silvani. The NERDS discuss the latest episode of the Mandalorian and it's juicy reveals. Then Todd and James tell you what comics you need to read. Finally, the boys reveal what movies and games they've been enjoying this past week.

California GOP committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon joins Todd Starnes to discuss the four Congressional seats that just flipped in California.Then Todd and Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council talk about the Supreme Court ruling on NYC’s restrictions of religious gatherings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton discusses election fraud, the vulnerabilities of our system and more. Then Todd is joined by Martha Zoeller from WDUN to talk about the Georgia recounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Word Of Warning: Adult content and explicit language in this episode Atomic Mass Games released the new hotness, The Criminal Syndicate on Friday! We also were surprised by an official Banned and Restricted list revealed in tandem with the Syndicate. We sit down with Chris, Todd, Sugi, Kenny, and Menion to unpack everything that was released into the wild. Our team discusses how the banned list affects the meta and some of the more impactful shifts in affiliation list building. Then Todd and his crew discuss some of the fun and exciting tech they are discovering as they grind out games at TAG. We also have NEW articles and Twitch streams you should check out below. Our castmate Sooner5 took Guardians of the Galaxy to a 5-1 record in TTS League Season 3 and we talk to him about how he accomplished this feat! "Taking Guardians To The Top" We stream Sooner5's week 6 game on Twitch. Check out how he pilots GOTG for the win! Sooner5 vs Hellcannon Todd pilots Bomb Squad versus Mr. Fantastic's Criminal Syndicate on Twitch! Check out TURN ZER0 Gaming: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/turnzer0gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/fgZ2A9W Articles: https://totalaccessgames.com/blogs/turn-zer0-gaming

A Word Of Warning: Adult content and explicit language in this episodeAtomic Mass Games released the new hotness, The Criminal Syndicate on Friday! We also were surprised by an official Banned and Restricted list revealed in tandem with the Syndicate. We sit down with Chris, Todd, Sugi, Kenny, and Menion to unpack everything that was released into the wild. Our team discusses how the banned list affects the meta and some of the more impactful shifts in affiliation list building. Then Todd and his crew discuss some of the fun and exciting tech they are discovering as they grind out games at TAG. We also have NEW articles and Twitch streams you should check out below.Our castmate Sooner5 took Guardians of the Galaxy to a 5-1 record in TTS League Season 3 and we talk to him about how he accomplished this feat! "Taking Guardians To The Top"We stream Sooner5's week 6 game on Twitch. Check out how he pilots GOTG for the win! Sooner5 vs HellcannonTodd pilots Bomb Squad versus Mr. Fantastic's Criminal Syndicate on Twitch! Check out TURN ZER0 Gaming:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/turnzer0gamingDiscord: https://discord.gg/fgZ2A9W Articles: https://totalaccessgames.com/blogs/turn-zer0-gaming

Pastor Brian Gibson calls in to tell us all about the upcoming Church Prepared event ( https://churchprepared.com/ ) and to continue our discussion of religious liberty. Then Todd talks politics with Monica Crowley! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest cohost Todd Martin from the VIP podcast "The Fix with Todd Martin." They open with some conversation about the latest in New Japan including a curious pick many are making for the G1 Climax winner, then move on to a review of AEW Dynamite, NXT on USA, and a comparison of the two shows this week. Then Todd reviews the return of ROH with first-run content on TV with their Pure Title. From there, reviews of top happenings on Smackdown and Raw, plus coverage of last weekend's UFC and Bellator events, plus a preview of this weekend's fights. And finally, an in-depth review of Al Snow's biography that came out last year full of wild and funny behind the scenes stories about his decades in pro wrestling.

Show kicks off with a quick update on the "Todd, the soccer coach" sitaution, which turned into a flag football story from my past. We quickly transition (17:45) to #foodchat, starting with a new Cheetos product and ending...who knows where. We 'dive' into a conversation (28:30) about the Hoffman family and their pool tales...of which there are many. Since it's playoffs...we feel obligated (56:00) to have some NBA chat. Then Todd drops a bomb (65:00) on us...baby! Sponsors: Big League Chew, StarCrunch, Snap'd, IG & Twitter: the_bro_pod, littleBquotes E-mail the show!: thebropodnetwork@gmail.com Buy Merch!!: thebropod.threadless.com Our Website: www.bropodnetwork.com #weatherchat #soccer #flagfootball #CroftPark #buttandhook #foodchat #Snap'd #pooltime #swimming #peeinginthepool #waterslide #kidmoisture #NBAPlayoffs #laidoff #stayingintouch #glover #podcasts #bropod #bropodnetwork

My first mentor that helped me to finally have success online was Mark Joyner. This is a four part series where I had a chance to be interviewed by Mark about how I’ve grown a company since I met him all those years ago. Here are a couple of the questions Mark asked Russell on this episode: What are the 3 biggest blunders you made along the way? What are the 3 most strategic and pivotal decisions since founding ClickFunnels? So listen in to find out what Russell had to say! ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, I want to welcome you back to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. And we've got something really fun in store for you over the next four episodes. So, when I first started this game back in the day, I struggled throughout almost two years trying to figure out how to play, and what to do, and how to get traffic, and how to sell stuff. And the person... I think everyone who figures out this game, there's a mentor you bump into. And I am so honored and grateful that so many people have... that I was the person for them. They read the book, or whatever, and the light bulbs clicked for them. But I'm also very aware that I'm not everyone's guru. I'm not the person... And I'm so grateful for all the other teachers out there who are teaching things who give other people the ah-ha’s. I always tell people our goal at ClickFunnels is not to get people to use ClickFunnels. Our goal at ClickFunnels is to help entrepreneurs to grow their companies. And so, I don't care if it's me that clicks with, or if you click with somebody else. I don't care as long as you get that aha moment. And so, for me, for whatever reason, the person that gave me aha moment was my first real mentor, and his name is Mark Joyner. And kind of putting this into a timeline, back when I got started in this business, he was just ending. He had built a huge internet marketing company, and he got tired of being in the market, so he sold off all his assets, and he did this thing called the Farewell Launch where he sold this Farewell Package for a thousand bucks, and it was the first course I'd ever bought, and I went through it like the most intense, crazy student of all the time. And I learned it, I mastered it, and I implemented it, and that was... man, 15, 16 years ago now. And he was the one that gave me the shifts that helped me understand... helped all the things light up and make sense so I could be successful. And so, I'm grateful for Mark. He's been a mentor; he's been a friend, and someone I have a ton of respect for. And it's funny, because in the middle of all the chaos over the last couple months, he messaged me, he was like, "Hey, I'm launching this new podcast called the Mark Joyner Show, do you want to come on and be one of my guests?" And I, honestly, didn't have the time because there was so many things happening, but I was like, "You know what, for Mark... For you, Mark, I would do anything." And so, we set up a time, it was late at night, we jumped on, and because it was after hours and my kids were already in bed, we were able just to go and talk, and we talked for a couple of hours, and it was really, really cool. And so, if you follow Mark, you probably saw that interview. And if not, I asked for his permission to allow me to play it here on the podcast over the next couple episodes. And so, I'm excited for you guys to hear it. I think you will get a lot of value out of it. We talked a lot about different topics and different things. Talked about things I learned from him, things that I discovered since then. Anyway, hopefully, you guys enjoy this conversation. We broke it up over four episodes. So, this is the first of four episodes. So, I hope you enjoy it. We'll play the theme song, and when we come back, we will jump right into the interview with Mark Joyner. Mark Joyner: All right, everybody. We are live. This is Mark Joyner. Welcome to episode number two of the Mark Joyner Show. And man, I am so happy to have this guest on today. And it was very hard getting this young man. I call him young man now, to me, he's always a young man. I knew him when he was like this college kid. I know, right? And now he's turned into this enormous, behemoth giant that cannot be unseen on the internet. You can't turn on the internet without seeing Russell Brunson's face. I don't know if Russell even needs an introduction, but I'm going to give you guys a very, very brief one just in case. So I'll tell you a little bit of the backstory here. So Russell and I met when he was trying to make money to pay off his college debt. And I'll tell you what, man, he had to convince his wife to spend a thousand dollars on a program that he couldn't afford that I was offering. And that started his online career, and I'm very grateful. He credits me as his first mentor, but I'm at a point now where I'm learning from him. And I want to tell you guys, if you are a teacher of any kind that the best blessing you could possibly have is a student that surpasses you. If you have any kind of humility or if you understand what life is really all about, that is one of the ultimate things that can happen because what that means is you did your job well, partly, and it also means that you got an opportunity to learn something from someone. And if you've got a guy who not only surpassed you in certain ways, but is also humble and generous and wholesome the way Russell is, you are doubly and triply blessed. And that is what we have seen with Russell since his genesis in the online marketing community, when was it? Probably 1991, '92. Russell Brunson: I don't even remember anymore. Well, when was the farewell package? That's right when I got started. Mark: About '91. Yeah. So, right as I was leaving, you were entering in. Russell: I was jumping in. Mark: You were jumping in. And Russell, I tell you what, I knew from the start Russell had ... he had some stuff that a lot of people didn't have. First of all, he was an all state wrestler. Now, a lot of you guys don't know this, but Johnny Hendricks, the first guy to really give GSP an ass whooping in UFC fought Russell Brunson in an all state wrestling tournament. Now, Russell didn't win that, but from what I hear, Russell should've won it. I see him gritting his teeth a little bit. Russell: I'm good. My hands are sweating, let’s call him up right now. I lost by one point to him. And to this day I regret that because it'd been so cool if I actually won that match. Mark: I know, right? Well, fighting the guy and coming that close, and I mean, even though you should have won, that's bragging rights in itself. This is the guy who was the first guy to give GSP a real ass whooping: Johnny Hendricks, okay? Russell fought that dude, and wrestling is the single most challenging athletic program in school at all. So what that means is you come into the game with some mental toughest. Now, I saw Russell's curiosity, his humility, the mental toughness he had. I saw all of that in him early on. And I knew something amazing was going to happen. I had no idea the heights he would reach. Now, ClickFunnels is on the way to becoming a billion dollar company. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. And we've only got a certain amount of time because Russell is on a very, very tight time schedule. So what I'm going to do here is after I give Russell a quick chance to say hello, I'm going to rapid fire a bunch of questions at Russell. We'll see how much time we have for a little bit of Q&A after that. If you guys have questions, post them inside there. I've got a list of questions that other people have asked, but I'm going to shotgun blast Russell with a whole bunch of rapid fire questions first. But before all that, Russell, thank you so much for coming on, man. I really appreciate it. Russell: No worries, man. I am so grateful for you. It was funny, we were cleaning up something the other day, and I don't know if you remember this, but my wife and I had just gotten married and bought your farewell package. And it was a year later because you kind of disappeared for a year, and then you came back. And you did this phone call with me. And at the time, I had this tape recorder. And I recorded all my phone calls. And I remember I did this call with you. I got done. I wrote on the tape, the cassette tape, I wrote a hundred million dollar call with Mark Joyner. And I need to find a tape player, so I could actually listen to what we said way back in the day. But I saw it recently and it's on again. And so it's really cool because I just remember you taking the time back then when I was a nobody, just trying to figure out my way. And just you were always so gracious with your time with me. And man, I listened for so much time. I'd plug in the farewell package in my head, and I'd hear you talking over and over again of just different concepts and things that were just blowing my mind. And so many things that, to this day, I still use that all came initially from you. So I'm just grateful for you and you allowing me to hang out with you again, man. I love this. This is so much fun for me. Mark: Well, I'm humbled and honored, man. And I would love to hear that tape, actually because I'm curious to know what was said. Russell: I've got to find it. Mark: We're going to have to find maybe one of the five cassette decks that exist in the universe now. They're all in the trash heap of history. All right. Well, dude, I have tons of rapid fire questions I just want to throw at you. And this is not going to be easy. I apologize in advance because these are going to be tough questions. I don't know how quickly we're going to be able to get through these, but I've got some really powerful ones that I think are going to deliver the most value. And you mentioned something there, you said, I took the time to spend with you. I always like to be as generous as I can with my time. And I know you do, too, but as your life progresses, you got to be more and more strategic and more and more careful about that. Now that we have this platform where we can get this information out to a lot of people. I want to deliver that as absolutely maximal value as we possibly can to the listeners of this call. So I have some very strategically designed questions. Before I jump into those, anything else you'd like to say? Russell: I'm just excited to be hanging out with you and excited to be sharing. I think when I started ... I mean, what are we, 15, 16 years ago when this whole thing started, I didn't know it was even possible, but I believed, and I believed you. I watched you as Mark's student. I can figure this out. And hopefully, if anyone's watching tonight, everyone's going to be at different levels. Some people are just getting started, some have existing businesses, but I think a big piece of it is just believing that it's actually possible for you because I just believed you right out of the gate. I'm like, "Okay, I trust Mark. I believe him. I'm just going to do it." And now, 15 years later, here we are. And I think for so many people, the techniques or tactics aren't hard, it's just the belief in themselves is the hardest thing. So if I give you guys anything, like I tell people all the time, my job at ClickFunnels is to be the cheerleader, to get people to believe in themselves. And so as you listen to these things, there's going to be a lot of stuff that comes up for most people like, "Oh, that'll work because he's Mark," or, "because he's Russell," or whatever. It's like, "C'mon, if you'd have seen me 15 years ago, I was a little punk kid who was just begging Mark to get on the call. On the forums, geeking out." And it's just time and belief and putting in the work, so. Anyway, hopefully that is a good lens people can go through this because I'm sure some things we'll talk about may seem impossible, but I tell you what, I did not think what we've been through with ClickFunnels was possible and here we are. So you never know. Mark: Well, first off, I think it's about 19 years actually, because if it was 2001, it's 2020 now, so. And I remember having a conversation with you early on. You were saying, "How did you want to become a guru?" And one of the things that I told you was you just decide that you're the guru, okay? But if the gurudom is a matter of perception. Now, there are a lot of people who misunderstand that and they say, "Hey, I want to be a brain surgeon. So I'm just going to chuck up a shingle on a door that says, I'm a brain surgeon." It's like, "No. That means you internally have faith in yourself, but that doesn't mean you act like you're something that you're not because somebody who is a real teacher, a real guru, somebody who's really mastered anything, understands that the learning's never end," right? And once you get to that point where you think you've got it all figured out, I guarantee you stagnation is the very, very next phase. So I'm going to dive right into these questions, man. And I'm going to start out with probably ... I'm going to start out on a slightly negative one, and then we're going to get into more positive ones. Russell: All right. Mark: Okay? And we'll start with ... so just rapid fire, if you could think, off the top of your head, the three biggest blunders you have made along the way. And I got about seven of these rapid fire questions like this I want to go through. So I'm putting you under time pressure. Biggest blunders, what would they be? Russell: From the beginning of time or just since ClickFunnels' time? Or how far back are we talking? Mark: Well, you know what, up to you. Up to you because all of these lessons are relevant. The lessons that you learned early in life mattered to you later on in ClickFunnels as well. And I mean, you can say ClickFunnels, earlier on in your life, whatever you think is appropriate. Russell: Okay. All right. So the three biggest blunders: I would say the first one ... I think most entrepreneurs have this initially because I think most of us get started because we want to make money. That's the thing. And so for the first couple of years of me being in this business, a lot of it was chasing like, where's the money at? It's over here. It's over here. And I get cheap money, and I don't know, you probably don't remember this, but one of the big, profound things you told me, because this is the same time that Google AdSense was becoming this thing. I had friends that were throwing up these crappy little AdSense sites where you just click on them like crazy. And people were making crazy money doing that. And I was like trying to figure those out, and something, I don't know if you said it verbally to me or since I was listening to you so often, but you kept talking about like focus on the fundamentals, build the list, build the list, build the list. And I was like, "But everyone's making money over here, clicking on ads on garbage sites." And you just kept drilling my head, like focus on the list, focus on the list, focus on the list. And so eventually, I started focusing on that thing. And then what was interesting is that led to the list of people, and then it started listing to what do the people want? It was less about what I wanted to create or what I wanted to ... how I wanted to make money. But it was more like, "These people are on my list. What do they actually want? How can I serve them? What are the things I needed to create? Who I need to become? What are those things?" And so I think the biggest blunder was chasing money or chasing the shiny object. And the resolution of that was really starting to understand that business is just people. And it's like, "How do we serve these people?" I talk all the time, I feel like business is a calling. I believe it's from God. Some believe from whatever, but it's a calling. You're called to serve a group of people. And you look at it from that lens. Okay. How do I serve this group? What do I need to do? And when you do that and you shift to that, that's when money starts coming. So that'd be the first blunder. I think that took me two or three years to figure through. Another one, I think is I spent a lot of time, for a while ... there's the strategy of business and the tactics, and I can get on the tactics so much. So I was doing tactical things that would get me a little pops of money or pops of cash or things like that, or a little bit of traffic or whatever it was. But it wasn't until I started stepping back and started trying to think more strategically, which is a hard thing for a lot of us entrepreneurs, because it's not as fast. It's like it's slower. But when you strategically put things together and connecting things, that's when the big stuff starts coming. In fact, I don't know if you remember this, this is another funny thing on the journey. It was a podcast interview I did with you probably seven, eight years ago. I think I asked you a question specifically about that. And you said the biggest problem you have right now, Russell, is you're focusing too much on the tactics. And I was like, "What is he talking about?" I didn't even know. And then I stepped back, and I think at first I may be a little offended or like, "What are you talking about? I'm doing really good." And then I really internalized that like, "Okay, what does that mean? What's the difference between strategy and tactics and let me understand that." And then it's like, "Okay, let me look at these ... instead of looking at it from this tactical lens up close, how do I step back and look at it at a bigger point?" And that's where ClickFunnels was born from was us stepping back. And part of it was it happened because we had some hard times in the business, whereas we had to re-figure things out. And we didn't have time to like ... you're out of money to goof around, and it's like, "We've got to make the right move. Let's think about this before we just jump." That's probably number two. And then number three is ... I think this, it's just a lot of my lens right now is I didn't understand the advertising laws for a long time. And I think now we have in house legal attorneys, and we've got everything we write goes through ... everything I publish literally has to go through an attorney first to make sure I'm saying ... I wish I would've understood that from the very beginning because there's so many things that us as a marketplace are doing that are illegal that we don't even know. We think that like, "Oh, because we've got this person's success story, I can tell that success story." And it's like, "Even if that thing is true, you can't just tell that story." There's advertising laws that dictate that. And I think in the last two years is where I've really started to understand that and respect that. And first, as marketers, we hate all the rules and the regulations, then you start respecting it, and then it actually makes you a better marketer, a better business person. And I think you can serve people better when you start understanding those things. And so I think that's something I'm going to be talking a lot more to our community as a whole about just because I'm starting to understand it so much better. And there's some people that are having success, but they're doing it, saying things that they shouldn't be in and they can't be saying. So those are probably the biggest ... anyway, three big blunders for me. Mark: Well, I'd tell you what, man, if this were any other guest, I would be commenting back and forth. And I have a lot to say about everything that you just said, could not agree more with all those things you said, but because we have such limited time and because you are such an extraordinary phenomenon right now, I'm going to use this time instead to shut up and extract more information out of you because there are so many good lessons that we can get from you. Next three I have are ... now this is going to be very interesting. So this is one I'm probably the most curious about. The three most significant/ pivotal strategic moves or decisions that you have made since the inception of ClickFunnels. Russell: Oh man, these are good. Okay. The first one is definitely easy. The first one ... so my business partner is Todd Dickerson. He's my co-founder. And he's the brains that the built ClickFunnels. I always tell people on the dancing monkey on stage talking about it. He's the guy who got his hands dirty because I can't code. In fact, the joke is he was building ... he was like, "If I can make something so simple that Russell can use it, the rest of the world is going to love this thing." And so initially, Todd worked for me for a long time, and we did projects together. And he lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and he'd fly to Boise about once or twice a year, and we'd sit down and brainstorm ideas. And I remember the time he came out, and we talked about building ClickFunnels, and I was like, "I've tried to build something like this before." I think it wasn't a unique idea. I think everybody had tried to build it at one point like, "Let's build software that makes this whole funnel thing easy." Everyone had that idea. It wasn't unique. Then Todd was like, "We should build it." I'm like, "Okay, I've tried it before. It didn't work. Everyone's tried it." But he's like, "No, I think I can do it." And so we sat down for a week in front of a whiteboard and mapped out what the dream would be, the vision, if we could have all these things. And I remember after the week was done, I was driving back to the airport. And as we got to where I was going to drop him off, he kind of stopped for a second and said, "Hey, if we're going to do this project together or this project, I don't want to do it as your employee. I want to be your partner." And I remember that, that was the moment where it's just like, "But I'm the entrepreneur, I'm the one that's ..." The ego was just there. And I had all this fear and all this anxiety. All these things that were just like, "Ah." And as I was sitting there, I literally, in that moment, made the second best decision in my life outside of marrying my wife. And it was like I said, "Let's do it." And I said yes. And that little shift from "I'm the guy" to "let's do this together" meant everything. And he went home and built ClickFunnels. And he has been, to this day, the most amazing business partner anyone could have ever dreamt of. And so I think that's the big thing is the strategy of getting out of your own ego and being okay with building a team and realizing you don't have to be the person. I was talking about some funnel hacking live, I think one of the big things that entrepreneurs do is we're going on this journey and we get stuck. And we're like, "How do I do the thing?" We get into this procrastination mode of trying to learn how to do things. And the question should be asking ourselves is who. Who already knows how to do this thing. And then we started assembling our dream team. And if you look at any good movie series, right, the Avengers you've got Nick Fury comes in, assembles the dream team, they go and take out Thanos. You got Justice League. Every good movie, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Eleven, this person comes in, build the dream team, and they go attack this thing. And I think most entrepreneurs have so much ego and pride that they don't do that. And, man, looking back it was like that was the first time I said, "Okay, I'm going to have a partner." And we brought in other partners. And now, one of the biggest reasons why I've been able to grow is because I have this amazing team of people around me who have equity in the company. They're up tonight working just like I am because they care and they love it. And they're vested in it. And I think that was probably ... man, if I would've said no to that, nothing would happen. It would've been a complete different landscape. Mark: Right. Todd wouldn't have been vested into the whole program the way he is now. But now, he's super motivated because he knows that every bit of effort he puts into it, he's going to get an outsized return way beyond what he would've received had he just been an employee. Okay. Beautiful. All right. What's the number two then? Russell: Number two. So the strategic planning ... I'm trying to think how to explain it right. When we first launched ClickFunnels, I had an idea. I remember we created the way I thought we were going to sell it. It was a funnel. I think I actually sent you a video about this, but we had a funnel at night, and I launched it. We launched it. I was like in my mind, I'm like, "We'll have 10,000 customers the first month." And we launched it. And it was a bomb. The funnel didn't convert. A couple affiliates promoted it and it didn't convert, so they all stopped. It was just like, "We've spent a year of our life creating this thing." It was just like, "Er." Mark: I remember this. Russell: And you've watched me before this because I didn't know what I was going to do for a long time. We were launching a new offer every quarter for six or seven years because I didn't know what ... I was just doing thing after thing. And so that was the pattern just because I didn't know how to run a business or all these things. And this was going to be the thing we thought, and we launch it and nothing happened. And then it was like, "I need to launch something else." And I was like, "I can't because we put so much time into this." And I remember Todd said something to me. He's like, "We have to focus on this for a year just to prove to everybody that this is actually a real thing." And that meant we had to just ... all in. And so we had this point where it's like, "Can we shift to another offer real quick and make money to keep us all afloat, or we can just burn the bridges." And so we had a supplement company we got rid of. We shut down all these side projects. We just turned them all off. And it was like revenue's like, "Er. Flying to the bottom, but we have to focus. We have to focus. And we launched four or five or six different versions of the funnel. None of them worked. And it wasn't until I got asked to speak at an event. And they wanted me to do presentation to sell ClickFunnels, and I was like, "I've been trying to sell ClickFunnels, nobody's buying it." And the promoter was like, "Well, you need to make a thousand dollar version of it." I'm like, "I have a free trial. I can't get people to take the free trial." And so he basically he's like, "You're on the sales page. You have to speak." And so two days before we met, I was trying to think of what's the messaging? How am I going to sell this? And I created the first version of the webinar to sell ClickFunnels, went to Savannah. I stood on stage, and I delivered this presentation. And it was like I had figured out ... I didn't realize until I did the presentation, but I got the messaging right. And as soon as I did that, it was crazy because I think 30, 40% of room who ran in the back and bought. And I was like, "Oh my gosh, we got the messaging right." I remember going to dinner that night with Todd and a couple of the partners at the time. And I was like, "You guys, just so you know, that was it." They're like, "What do you mean?" I'm like, "That's the message. Did you see how people ran to ... I've never had people run to the back. We got the messaging right. It's game over." And what normally would happen in my prior life is like, "Cool. We made a bunch of money." I would've went to the next offer. And I was like, "Okay, I'm going to do that webinar at least once a week, every week for a year." And I ended up doing it a lot more than that. I mean, I was doing it two or three times a day sometimes. But we got back home. I was calling everybody I knew. We were buying ads. Everything's this webinar. And I did that webinar every single day. And the webinar happen ... I do webinars, get the sales date, look at the questions, and we go back through, read them, and then we tweak the webinars, do it again, tweak webinars, do it again, tweak it, do it again. I think I did that webinar live, I think it'd be like, 70 or 80 times the first year live. People are like, "Why didn't you automate it?" And I'm like, "No, no, no. This is my baby." I'm not automated. I need to perfect this message. I need to understand every concern, every problem, everything. And we focused on that. And that hardcore focus on mastering the messaging of it was huge. I think some people try something, and they step back and it's like that's why things don't scale because you have a good message, but ... it's funny because I always tell people, if you can get 10% of the people to buy your webinar, it's a million dollar a year business. A little lower than that, you're a six figure business. But if you go from 10% to 15%, which seems like a small incremental change, and that's the difference between a million dollar a year business and a hundred million dollar business, 5% increase in conversion. And so because I did that presentation 70 whatever times in a row, we mastered it. And so we had the messaging right. And so that was the first part. And second part was the funnel structure. This is where I made a video for you. But because the first time we tried to launch ClickFunnels was just like sign up for the trial because it was hard, I couldn't afford to pay ads for the trial. I couldn't go negative in the hole, affiliates wouldn't promote. It was just ... it was hard. Then we had the thousand dollar webinar, they got a year worth of ClickFunnels. We promoted that, and we made a bunch of cash, but it was like there was no cash flow. So it was kind of like I was back in a launch model, which we didn't like that either. And the winning combination we figured out was we have some registered for the webinar, on the thank you page you say, "Hey, the webinar's going to be in a day or two, go get a free ClickFunnels account and try it out just so that when you come to the webinar, it will make sense." And so people go get a free trial. And the webinar happened, which would train the people that already had a trial, and hopefully they would retain longer. But a percentage of those people would buy the thousand dollar version. And so that combination was like ... that's when it was like, "It's on like Donkey Kong." And we started going crazy. And after 12 months, we ended up having 10,000 members that joined, 2,500 that paid the thousand dollar cash. And the other 7,500 were people who had stuck from the thank you page, and that was your number one. And then it was just ... it gives us a bit where we could spend money to acquire customers because the thousand dollar thing, but it was building up this recurring income at the same time. And it just took it from the ground into lift off. So mastering the message and mastering the funnel was probably the second big strategic thing. Mark: You know what I really love about that is how you're training people to see what the monthly cost would be when they sign up for the trial. And then when you give them that big offer at the end, stacked with all those other things, it becomes so irresistible because you are training the mind to perceive it a particular way. And then boom, it's a huge pattern interrupt with the way you do it. Now, I would love to see what your latest and greatest version of the webinar is. I've seen a couple versions of it, but I want to know, and I think I asked you this before, I was like, "Man, show me what the ultimate version of it was," because you're automating it now, right? Russell: Yeah. Mark: Oh dude. See. And yeah, anybody watching this, if you don't go find out the automated version of that, and by the way, I'm going to give you guys a banner that you guys can look at. I think a place where you can see this is go to this URL here. This is the basic ClickFunnels website. If you sign up for the two week trial there, you will probably be shuttled in to watch the webinar. Russell: You'll start seeing the actual webinar. They'll show up. Mark: One way or another, they're going to get you to watch that damn webinar. If you guys go to simpleology.com/clickfunnelsfree, start the two week free trial. If for nothing else, just to see how Russell structures this, you need to do it. Now, disclosure, my company uses ClickFunnels now. I've been involved in three other companies before Russell started ClickFunnels that were trying to build the automated WYSIWYG funnel building. None of them did the job very well. We use ClickFunnels now because what they built is so damn good. I'm like, it doesn't make any sense. And by the way, there is a classic thing ... and I'm going to say this very quick before I shut up and get back into questions for Russell, but there's a very classic business lesson a lot of people don't understand, and there is a conundrum between build or buy. And the build or buy conundrum is this: if you take your own internal resources and you build something, you got to understand that that's energy, that's time, that's assets that you could be committing to growth, right? If you can take a little bit of money and buy a solution that's already pre-made, often, even though it's expensive, it makes way more sense because I can guarantee you the time, energy and money that it would take you to build your own ClickFunnels version would be astronomically higher than what it would cost for a ClickFunnels subscription. So when you have the choice between build or buy, you almost always buy, unless there's nothing out there in the marketplace that gets the job done well. And by the way, I've tried all of these other funnel builders. A lot of them claim to be better. Well, I'll tell you two more things about this, okay? Russell's is better, okay? And two, the culture of the company has proven to be stable over a long, long period of time. I see a lot of companies coming out now with like, "Oh, we're trying to be better than ClickFunnels." And I'm like, "Yeah, this is coming from the same dudes that started 20 other companies that lasted six months and disappeared." Russell: At least know for lifetime access for 27 bucks. And I'm like, "Right." With how much I spend on customer support alone. It's like, there's no way you can survive. Mark: Yeah. There's no way you're going to compete with Russell. I mean, good luck to all those guys. Competition is fair and everything, but you think you're going to compete with this dude? Sorry. I wouldn't compete with you in this marketplace. No way, man. You've got such a huge foothold.

Nick, Todd and Chase got together to discuss what this upcoming Nationals season is going to look like as we inch closer and closer to Opening Day 2.0. The guys talk about what the plan is at 3rd base and whether that final starting pitching spot will even matter in this shortened season.Then Todd was able to have a 1-on-1 conversation with Max Scherzer about his preparations for the upcoming season. Mad Max has plenty to say about this new agreement that was reached in order to restart the season as well as what kind of physical shape he has kept himself in.

Ryan Tucker starts off this hour to discuss how going back to church in Nevada has become immensely difficult. Then Todd continues the show by taking calls from listeners.

Recorded - 4/26/20Hosted by Terry Plucknett, Todd Plucknett, & Zach SaltzOn this episode of the Almost Sideways Movie Podcast, we rejoice that there was actually some real sports to discuss before we review a hit new Netflix movie.  We then examine two different aspects of performances from the last decade: lead acting winners at the Oscars and ensemble casts.  Then Todd and Zach have to dig deep for a crazy round of Oscars Trivia.  Here are the highlights:NFL Draft Recap (0:00)What We've Been Watching (8:45)Review: Extraction (2020) (18:43)Mt. Rushmore: Lead Actor Winners of the 2010's (32:00)Mt. Rushmore: Lead Actress Winners of the 2010's (45:30)Power Rankings: Best Ensembles of the 2010's (57:00)Trivia Review: Blue Valentine (2010) (1:36:50)Trivia Review: The Terminator (1984) (1:40:20)Trivia Review: The House That Jack Built (2018) (1:42:05)Trivia Review: Stranger by the Lake (2014) (1:47:30)Trivia: 2010's Acting Oscar Nominations (1:49:10)Quote of the Day (2:05:05)Follow all the movies we watch as part of the quarantine-induced AlmostSideways Online Film Fest at almostsideways.com/asoff.Subscribe on iTunes!If you can't subscribe on iTunes, listen here.Find AlmostSideways everywhere!Websitealmostsideways.comFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/AlmostSidewayscom-130953353614569/AlmostSideways Twitter: @almostsidewaysTerry's Twitter: @almostsideterryZach's Twitter: @pro_zach36Adam's Twitter: @adamsidewaysiTuneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almostsideways-podcast/id1270959022

We replay the Best of Todd, his two Ned parodies, and we play a new MikeMix of Ned & Josh playing Presser Ping Pong as they throw questions to each other. Then Todd says Ned won't open the government until enough cash has been squeezed out of Washington to pay big chunks of Debt that were cause not by the New Coronavirus, but instead, by the Old Union Virus. Plus, Ned responds to the death of a CT State Worker, age 32, by joking to Anderson Cooper on national TV that "I think my iPhone was broken up just hearing that story." Huh?

We were going to do an April Fool's episode again (like last year) but we decided there is too much fake stuff out there and decided to go with what little movie news there is this week and reviews of Ford v Ferrari and the new(er) version of Pet Sematary. Then Todd added some Director and Critical Acclaim April Fool's Movies just for fun.  Well, the segment is fun.  The movies... not so much. www.cinemasavants.com

Host Mark Teresi talks to the Director of Divine Worship, Todd Williamson. Todd briefly talks about the current directives from the local Catholic Church in response to the spread of Covid-19. Then Todd and Mark switch gears and spend time talking about the season of Lent.

Tim, Todd, & Chase start with an update on Adam Eaton's hamstring & who has the inside track on the 5th starter role. Then Todd sits down with Patrick Corbin (12:15), one of the heroes from Game 7 in Houston.The guys debate where he fits in terms of October MVP's before Todd's chat with former Nats GM Jim Bowden (26:55), who has a strong take on the Astros & lays out why he feels the playoffs should expand.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest cohost Todd Martin from the PWTorch VIP Podcast "The Fix with Todd Martin." They begin by discussing the latest episodes of WWE Smackdown and WWE Monday Night Raw including the Goldberg-Roman Reigns situation and why its doomed, the start of the John Cena-Fiend feud, and the Randy Orton-Beth Phoenix segment. Then they preview WWE Elimination Chamber. Then Todd's review of NXT on USA and AEW Dynamite with a closing discussion about the ratings for NXT and AEW so far and what might change the current viewership levels of the two shows. In a bonus segment at the end, the first half of Todd's review of the new "extreme memoire" by New Jack of SMW and ECW fame along with details on our VIP sale to hear the full episode of the VIP-exclusive "Fix" podcast with Todd & Wade including the full New Japan book review and the Fix Mailbag.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the PPV Preview and Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest cohost Todd Martin from "The Fix with Todd Martin" weekly VIP podcast. Todd and Wade first react to the drop in AEW viewership to close the year while NXT holds its ground and takes over in the young demos AEW had dominated. What is AEW doing wrong and what aren't they doing enough of that they have the resources and talent to accomplish? How concerned should AEW be, and what is and isn't "fixable" as they enter 2020 perhaps slightly humbled? Then Todd reviews AEW Dynamite, NXT on USA, last week's Smackdown leading into TLC, this week's Raw including the continuation of the new Seth Rollins heel run, ROH's Final Battle PPV, the NWA Into the Fire PPV, the latest UFC PPV, and more UFC and some Bellator events.

Todd and Jules open the show discussing the unending wildfires plaguing Southern California lately. Then they get into Todd cheating on Jules with Rich and Zack in a Jules-less Pod over the weekend. Then Todd complains about the trend of not showing replays, the World Series, the Bears and Eagles, and upcoming college football games.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest cohost Todd Martin from the weekly VIP podcast "The Fix with Todd Martin (hosted by Wade Keller)." In this episode they begin with an in-depth reaction to the Jon Moxley (f/k/a Dean Ambrose) interview on Chris Jericho's podcast that dropped on Wednesday this week. Todd explains why this week has made him as optimistic about the future of the wrestling industry as he's been in nearly 20 years. Then Todd reviews the New Japan Super Junior tournament so far with a rave review of one standout star in particular along with lots of other praise. The next topic is Monday Night Raw and WWE Smackdown including trying to make sense of the Electric Chair segment with Sami Zayn saying "AEW" and whether it was a smart play, plus a review of the "squash the beef" line during the Memorial Day Tent Party with the Usos. They close with a preview of the NXT Takeover: Bridgeport line-up.

Bob, Chase, & Tim catch you up after the Nats had a successful holiday weekend vs. Miami. Then Todd chats with the red-hot Juan Soto (11:48), and finally Braves beat reporter Kevin McAlpin gets everyone up to speed on Atlanta, who the Nats play for the first time this season.

In this episode of the #NERDWatch podcast join the gang as they discuss the new comic books of the week and the abysmal #Sonic The Hedgehog trailer. Then the crew discuss the latest #Spiderman Far From Home trailer. Then Todd tells you why Tom Holland should get out of playing the Webslinger while the gettin' is good. Finally, A-ron gives us the latest in "Hard Media" and the passing of a couple of cinema legends.

Nats had a nightmare travel experience to Milwaukee and a look at the latest regarding the 5 games below Nationals. Then Todd, Chase, and Tim then give their favorite memories of "Major League", which came out 30 years ago (35:01).

On this episode, Dan talks with Todd Reed about the details of catching spring time bass. Now that all the ice is gone we can get the boat back on the water and start locating these hungry fish. Todd shares with us what baits he is using in a variety of scenarios including rivers, lakes, and farm ponds. Then Todd gives us an in-depth look as to what the fish are doing this time of year given a variety of water temperatures, and how those temps affect if the fish are biting or not. This time of year it's all about location, you may have to put in a little extra effort if needing the fish and throwing a variety of baits, but once you find the right combination the fishing could be very good.

On this episode, Dan talks with Todd Reed about the details of catching spring time bass. Now that all the ice is gone we can get the boat back on the water and start locating these hungry fish. Todd shares with us what baits he is using in a variety of scenarios including rivers, lakes, and farm ponds. Then Todd gives us an in-depth look as to what the fish are doing this time of year given a variety of water temperatures, and how those temps affect if the fish are biting or not. This time of year it's all about location, you may have to put in a little extra effort if needing the fish and throwing a variety of baits, but once you find the right combination the fishing could be very good.

In this episode of #NERDWatch podcast the gang invites back #NightDarlingCosplay as she gives her impressions of this year's Amazing Hawaii Comic Con. Also joining the festivities, Aaron Nakahara, the genius artist behind the card game, "Fields Of Eleria". Then Todd tells the group what fun he had at the Con including spending time with his bestie, the artist behind the "Exillion" comic book, DJ Keawekane. All this and more only on the NERDWatch podcast.

Zion has a blow out. The NBA has another bad all star game, and slam dunk contest, The boys make suggestions on how to redo the whole weekend. Then Todd,....well its Todd. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/honkytalk/support

The Tim's look at what the Dodgers signing A.J. Pollock means for the chances of Bryce Harper going out West. Also, is there a chance the Nats would choose Machado instead?Then Todd chats with Nationals closer Sean Doolittle for everything under the sun ranging from pitching mechanics to Star Wars deep dives (22:14).

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest cohost Todd Martin from the PWTorch VIP Podcast "The Fix with Todd Martin." They discuss Raw including Todd trying to talk Wade into being more on board and at peace with Daniel Bryan's anti-consumerism/pro-environment heel character, the strength of the Ronda Rousey-Natalya match, Vince McMahon's discomfiting on-air performances, Andrade Cien Almas's lack of push, Mustafa Ali's considerable push and whether it's worth the investment, and much more. Then Todd's thoughts on the latest NXT TV show including the crowd reaction to Aleister Black lately. And then the Jon Jones-UFC 232 USADA mess, how it has affected Todd's own travels, and whom he thinks is most to blame for all of this. He also makes his picks for the fights on Saturday night's card in Las Vegas... I mean, Los Angeles. 

TGIF fellow fine scale freaks!!  This week on episode 47 of The Bench Time Podcast, Brett shares his techniques for painting structures with a sea sponge to give an aging, peeling paint, weathered effect.  Then Todd and Brett discuss how they scenic out a structure once it is placed on the layout and how to focus on just that small area of concentration to create a scene.  It is one thing to just build the structure and add details directly to it, but it is an entirely different and at times more or equally fun to create the scene separate from the building in its immediate area to tell a story about the structure.  It’s definition of purpose.  That structure isn’t done unitl you fill in the region around it!We also take questions from our listening patrons about modeling issues they have.  So get to work on that bench this weekend, fill that coffee cup up (or crack a cold one) and listen to our latest episode as you do your thing!  And have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving from Todd and Brett Wiley of HO Scale Customs and the Bench Time Podcast!  Where Brett get's his sponges: Natural Sea Sponges for ArtistsJoin our Patreon Group Here

Todd Palmer is a renowned thought leader/CEO, executive coach and author who is committed to Improving Lives. As a successful entrepreneur and business owner, he works with both individuals and companies to support corporate growth, foster business start-ups and guide leaders in the areas of talent management, workforce planning and organizational development. As the CEO of a 6-time INC 5000 company, Todd knows the struggles that businesses face around the areas of people, cash, strategy & execution. Through his firm Extraordinary Advisors, Todd is able to guide leaders into programs of sustained profitability. During our interview we discuss: - Todd talks about how and why he niched his recruiting business and why it was so instrumental in his growth. - Then Todd talks about why he throttled back on revenue growth and started focusing on margin growth. - Then we discusses the #1 strategy that his team uses to generate new customers.  - Todd then dissects the 4 pillars that allowed him to hit the Inc. 5,000 six times. - We discuss why he decided to fire his entire staff and how he changed the entire culture to turned the company around. - Todd shares the #1 thing he would do different to get further faster, if he had to start all over today. - Todd shares his favorite growth tool/software. - We talk about one of Todd's favorite books and why he recommends everyone read it. Todd's websites: www.extraordinaryadvisors.com www.distaffing.com

Imagine you're a time traveler whose time machine has functioned somewhere in Earth's past — after humans have evolved but before they've, say, invented language or agriculture or any of the other pillars civilization was built upon. How might you try to kickstart that process with all these hominids you keep meeting? And how would you avoid rebuilding civilization with all of the flaws of our current world? That question is the basis of Ryan North's new book How to Invent Everything, a hugely enjoyable book that really does come close to achieving what's promised in the title. (You'll even learn how to invent a computer using a river!) North is probably best known to this point as the writer of comics like Adventure Time and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, as well as the creator and writer of Dinosaur Comics, a webcomic that has run since 2003 using the exact same clip art (of dinosaurs, of course) in all six panels for 15 years. Todd and North talk about the foundations of society, what you learn writing a comic whose art doesn't change from day to day, and why the best meals are sometimes those you can never have again. Then: Todd is joined by astronauts Mae Jemison and Leland Melvin to talk about leaving behind Earth's orbit — and how we just might find humanity's future on our next-door neighbor Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a long episode, but it is so worth it if you are married, thinking about getting married, or know someone who is married (that should cover just about everyone).  Todd discusses four chapters from his doctoral dissertation on divorce.  First, he discusses the context and the meaning of Matthew 5:31-32.  Next, Todd discusses the way the Church has understood divorce during different ages.  Then Todd surveys the different approaches to divorce today in believing churches.  Finally, Todd describes his own pastoral approach to divorce.  That really sets it apart from the other contemporary approaches.  The subject matter is heavy, but we think you will appreciate it.  Please let us know either way!   Show Notes:   Give us a 5-star rating on iTunes!  (Click “View in iTunes” and “Ratings and Reviews”)   A Rethinking of the Traditional Divorce Exception Understanding of Matthew 5:31-32 and its Implications for Pastoral Counseling by Todd Bordow   Matthew 5:31-32 Deuteronomy 24:1-4 Deuteronomy 21:10-14 Malachi 2:16 1 Corinthians 10 Deuteronomy 8:3 Matthew 5:20 Matthew 5:21-42 1 Corinthians 7 Hebrews   Connect with us on: Facebook Twitter YouTube Spotify iHeartRadio Feedburner  Stitcher Libsyn iTunes Gab Minds Steemit  

There’s a reason TV critics and reporters call FX Networks president and CEO John Landgraf the “mayor of television” — and it’s not just because that’s kind of a funny title to give to somebody. Of all the executives in the TV game right now, Landgraf has a reputation as the most thoughtful about the past, present, and future of television, and his semiannual addresses to TV journalists have coined the term “Peak TV” and first raised the issue of Netflix not measuring its viewership. In this week’s episode, Landgraf joins Todd to talk about where TV is now and where it’s headed, as part of our series of conversations with the most important and insightful executives in the TV industry. He’ll also discuss which show on another network he most enjoys and what he worries the medium is losing from switching over to the binge model. Then: Todd is joined by actor Jonathan Pryce (of Game of Thrones fame) to discuss his new movie The Wife and a long, storied career, filled with notable firsts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the "Thursday Flagship" with guest cohost Todd Martin from "The Fix with Todd Martin & Wade Keller" (a weekly PWTorch VIP exclusive podcast). They discuss in-depth the Jay Lethal ROH Title win and why Todd is against the move. They compare Lethal being defined a certain way early in his career and how Bret Hart's journey to WWF main events in the 1990s is similar and different. Then Todd previews the New Japan event Saturday night in San Francisco at the Cow Palace which airs live on AXS, reviews the first post-Takeover episode of NXT TV, and then reacts to top segments on Raw and Smackdown this week including Roman Reigns-Bobby Lashley, Team Hell No, Jeff Hardy vs. Miz, Pancakes-Sanity, and Braun Strowman-Kevin Owens.

Majority of the show the guys discuss how there is no perfect boat. They weigh in on what their thoughts are on this long standing topic. Then Todd and Vance each share a story from guiding.

On this episode of the Railroad Roll-By Podcast, we discuss why railroads sometimes exchange locomotives with other railroads. Then Todd announces the newest item on his model railroad wishlist. In conclusion, we then talk about the recent birthdays celebrated by both Amtrak and Utah Transit Authority’s Frontrunner, and reflect back on our personal experiences with the commuter service from its beginning days. That’s all in episode 6 of the Railroad Roll-By Podcast!

On this episode of the Railroad Roll-By Podcast, we discuss why railroads sometimes exchange locomotives with other railroads. Then Todd announces the newest item on his model railroad wishlist. In conclusion, we then talk about the recent birthdays celebrated by both Amtrak and Utah Transit Authority’s Frontrunner, and reflect back on our personal experiences with the commuter service from its beginning days. That’s all in episode 6 of the Railroad Roll-By Podcast!

GUEST: Todd Armstrong. Greg is back after a day off and recovering from a paintball experience over the weekend. He was betrayed by a friend, harassed by 12 year-olds and may have a concussion...but it was awesome! Then Todd joins us to discuss his new show Jury Duty at Helium Comedy Club, what it's like being a new Dad and the Undertow Comedy Festival in Lincoln City!

Cousins Todd, Jaimz, and Cody talk to Special Guest Kaci-Jo and she sings for us! Then Todd ruins it by rapping!

In this episode of the #NERDWatch podcast, join the crew as they have seen "It" and are ready to give their take. Could #It be one of the best pictures of the year? Then Todd regales the podcast with his adventures at Rose City Comic Con in Portland. Finally, the NERDS have some hot Star Wars talk and a review of the premiere of Fox's newest sci-fi dramedy, #TheOrville. All this recorded live at Maui Comics & Collectibles and shown live on Facebook every Tuesday at 8:30 P.M.HST. Download the podcast on #Stitcher, #iTunes, and #Audioboom. Please visit our #Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/thenerdwatch and help us grow the NERD culture community.

If you’re not as successful yet as you’d like to be… I know why. This episode I went off on a 96 minute rant that’ll get you back on track. On today’s special road trip edition of the podcast Russell talks about some exciting events coming up, some personal development rules he follows, and why it’s okay for people to outgrow Clickfunnels. Here are some of the cool things to look forward to in this episode: The viral video by the Harmon Brothers and the kind of party that is planned for it. Why Russell thinks studying, learning and geeking out on the marketing of your product is the key to success. Why it’s okay to be greedy in the initial stages of your business. How building and growing a business is similar to making, being pregnant with, and birthing a baby. What the 3 steps toward personal development that Russell follows are. Why you need to be willing to take risks. What some Clickfunnels clients are doing that they shouldn’t and why Russell is a little pissed off about it. And much, much more. So listen here to hear this extra long, extra informative and extra exciting episode of Marketing Secrets. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to a special edition, a road trip version, edition, whatever you want to call it of Marketing Secrets podcast. I feel like we’re going old school, for our long time friends and followers, this is like a Marketing In Your Car.  But I’ve got a long drive ahead and I want to welcome you guys to the podcast. Alright, alright everybody. I just started a super long road trip heading to Burley, Idaho. It is my wife’s grandma’s 100th birthday. So we’re heading down to the big birthday party. Isn’t that crazy, 100 years old! It’s really, really fun. My wife and kids actually left a day and a half ago. I had to get some stuff done, so now I’m heading down for the big party. So basically I have a two hour road trip and was heading out the door, super excited and I’m totally unprepared. I forgot my camera to record podcasts, I forgot my little ear buds, I forgot my sunglasses. Oh well, what can you do? I forgot my battery charger for my phone, oh well I’m still excited. So I’m heading down and I’ve got some time to talk to you guys. So I wanted to share some cool things. First off, one thing we’re working on is, as you’ve probably heard, we’re about to launch our viral video with the Harmon Brothers. They’re the guys that did Squatty Potty and Poopourri and all the other awesome things. What’s funny, everyone asks me, “Oh I want to hire them too, their stuff is awesome. How much does it cost?” and I think people think the quote is going to be like 10 or 15 grand or something, but it’s actually half a million dollars to hire them to do a 3 minute video for you. It’s not cheap. So we paid a lot of money to get this video created and then I was like man, most people do a video and then they launch it and it kind of just, you hope it goes well and sometimes it does, but I’m like, if we’re going to launch it, I want as much oompf behind it as humanly possible. So I was like, we need to do a launch party. So that was kind of the first thought, but how do we do a launch party? I’ve never done one before but it’s gotta be just kind of like a regular party. Well maybe we should get some cool speakers, some cool influencers and affiliates out here, so who would be cool to have? Oh Gary Vaynerchuk would be cool. He’s not speaking at Funnel Hacking Live, but he’d be a really cool fit for this event. So we called him up, he said yes. We had to pay him about 100 grand to get him to come to Boise to speak. But we’re like where in Boise is actually cool enough to host an event like this? There’s not a lot of cool hotels. So the Boise State football stadium, the big Skybox there, is kind of cool and hold 3 or 400 people. So we’re like, cool we’ll do this. We rent the Skybox, but who are we going to invite. We need to make this really, really cool. I think it was Alex Charfen told me this, it might not have been him, but I think it was. Basically said that entrepreneurs like to create events out of everything to make it memorable for them and for everybody else. So I was like, we need to make a big event. So anyway, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. We can invite our affiliates, that’ll be kind of fun, we’ll invite a bunch of them. But who else can we invite that can share this video? We can invite people that aren’t necessarily our affiliates, just other influencers that if they share the video it would dramatically boost it. So okay, let’s do that. So we set up this event, I was going to speak, Harmon Brothers were going to speak, Gary was going to speak, then we start reaching out to influencers and they’re like, “We don’t really care about people speaking. We want a party.” And we’re like, it’s going to be kind of a fun party. We’re all fun people. They’re like, “No we need a real party.” So we’re like, how do we throw a real party? So we started just kind of brainstorming and what came out of the brainstorm was what if we rented out the actual football stadium and tried to play bubble soccer, that’d be kind of fun. What if instead of playing bubble soccer, what if we tried to play the biggest game of bubble soccer ever? What if we had the Guinness Book of World Records come and…. Anyway, that was kind of the initial crazy thought and then Dave was like, “I’m going to figure out how to make this work.” So Dave spent the next two weeks on the phone getting the Guinness Book of World Records, and then getting Boise State to let us come, and all the licensing fees and it’s been this insane project. So we got all that done. We don’t have any influencers who have kind of, we’re in this thing with a lot of money. We have no influencers actually coming. So then I was like, okay, I have to go old school. Practice what I preach. So the last two days I’ve sat in this car and recorded almost 200 videos, personalized videos for all these influencers, which was a lot of work. We made a page, 200 pages for 200 different influencers and now Monday, we’re in the process of contacting all of them and inviting them to this huge party. Anyway, it’s been crazy and none of them may come, but hopefully they will. But regardless it’ll be a fun party. We’re going to set a world record, we’re going to launch a viral video and that’s one of the many things we’re doing. We also have 12 events in the next 43 days happening in Boise. One of them just got done so it’s actually down to 11. Monday we have a design-a-thon where we’ve got 30 designers coming out and we’re busting out a whole bunch of new templates for the Marketplace that’s launching during the new onboarding, everything’s going live in Clickfunnels when the viral videos hits and about a billion other things. It’s crazy. The next 45 days will probably be the most stressful, crazy days of my life. But if we can pull it off, it’s going to be nuts. I keep saying that, I did the same thing with the book launch. I think there’s something about me, I think something’s wrong, the wiring in my head where I always think that after this life will get normal again. But then I just keep stacking things on. I think part of it is just momentum, it’s hard to get momentum for a lot of people. But when you have momentum you don’t want to slow down, you want to keep riding the wave. So I feel like I’m 14 minutes into my 15 minutes of fame and I’m enjoying the ride and I don’t want to slow down, so I’m like, we just keep rolling stuff out. We’re launching a new book, the Funnel Hacker Cookbook, this month. It’s crazy. If you guys could see what’s actually happening behind the scenes, I don’t think you’d actually believe it. Funnel Hacker TV, we started filming that because we wanted to show people, but that’s still just a glimpse, it doesn’t come close to everything that’s actually happening. It’s nuts. Alright, so for you guys I wanted to share, because I’ve been thinking a lot about this last night as I was working super late. I was like, why am I here? It’s been two nights that I’ve been here until like 2:30 in the morning and I’m loving it. Outside of hanging out with my kids, there’s nothing else I would rather do than that. And I’m like, how do I get people to where they’re this passionate about what they do and their business and what they’re selling? I did a podcast a little while ago talking about the number one trait I found between entrepreneurs who are successful and those who aren’t and the biggest trait is that the ones who are super successful, they’re the ones who are extremely passionate, not just about their product but about the marketing of their product.  They start geeking out on the marketing. That’s the key. Those who obsess with the marketing are the ones who have the most success, which is why for me it’s been a big deal, that’s why I wrote the Dotcom Secrets book and the Expert Secrets book, and why I do the events. All the stuff I do is because my goal is to get you guys, I want to make marketing and sales fun. If this is something that you guys, if I could make this the entertainment. To study and learn and geek out on the marketing, then that’s been my mission on this earth. Because when I was learning this stuff, it was exciting for me but honestly it was kind of boring. The people teaching and talking about marketing, yawn, they were boring and I had to wade through a lot of boring crap and now I’m trying to make it exciting. I’m trying to bring my raw passion to you guys and I hope I’m doing my job. I’m doing my best. Because if you get pumped up and fired up about the marketing of your thing, then that’s how you get the ability to make money, free yourself, and give you the ability to not just make the money but impact more people and serve more people and that’s the goal. So I’m thinking, outside of me just everyday trying to get you guys pumped and excited and fired up about how much fun the marketing of your thing can be, I was thinking about this last night, how do I just take that part of my brain out and shove it into your brain so you’re fired up. I started thinking about it and I think the key for someone to be truly passionate about the marketing and the selling of their thing, they first have to be truly passionate about their thing. Because you think about that, I talked a little bit about this in the Expert Secrets book, initially you don’t wake up, well I did, but I think most people don’t, maybe that was my gift of whatever. But most people don’t wake up excited, “I’m going to learn how to do marketing!” It’s not the thing that pumps people up. But there’s something else that happens, there’s something that you got excited about in your life. It could a book you read, it could be audio, could be video, could be just a weird thing, I don’t know. Whatever it is that your thing is. Everyone has their thing, your thing is something. So your thing that got you pumped up, whatever that was, I want you to think about that because that’s the key that unlocks everything. First you get excited about that thing because it’s exciting to you. You go through this time of growth. You start studying it and you learn and geek out and start growing and growing and growing and growing and at first it’s honestly kind of a selfish thing. There’s nothing wrong with that. What’s the dude from Wallstreet say? Greed is good. Initially it is, I think. Not long term, but short term greed is good. Greed is what gets you to unbalance your life in a way initially, not long term but initially. Initially you have unbalance your life to focus on a thing to have greatness come. When I met my beautiful wife and I wanted to fall in love with her, for me to be successful in that I had to be greedy. I had to shift all my time and all the other stuff I was doing and other people and other things. I had to unbalance my life to focus everything on that relationship so that we could fall in love and get married. The same thing happened with business. The same thing happened with wrestling. When I started wrestling, I had to be greedy about that thing. I had to get so unbalanced in every other thing in my life and just focus on that thing, because that’s what it takes to be great at anything, right. That raw passion. So first, the greed of that thing, of you desiring that thing is what initially starts. Some of you guys it was weight loss, some of you guys it was Biohacking, some of you guys it was finance, some of you guys it was history. It doesn’t matter, whatever it is that you geek out about. So the greed of the excitement that you feel initially for that thing is what makes it so you can completely unbalance your life and absorb and go into that thing. That’s the first key because to be an expert, to be able to share your message, all those things we talk about and to actually care about the marketing about your thing, you’ve got to be ridiculously passionate about the thing first. Otherwise you’re not going to wade into this territory, you’re going to go through all the pain of being an entrepreneur and getting that thing out into the world. Because I know a lot of us paint this beautiful picture of entrepreneurship and it is eventually, but initially it’s not. Initially it sucks. Initially you have to go through so much. It’s like giving birth. My wife has given birth to 5 kids, 4 times, one time was twins. Giving birth is not pleasurable. The initial thought of it, that creates the baby. That’s pleasurable just like your business, the thought of it is exciting. You’re romantic about the thing you’re going to create. Sorry, my jeep is super loud when I go into overdrive. Anyway, that’s pleasurable, we all enjoy that. I enjoyed what it took to get my wife pregnant, that’s awesome I enjoyed what it took to create the seed of Clickfunnels and the business, right. That part’s fun, and then after the romantic side happens, for pregnancy there’s nine months of pain for the woman. My wife, I watched her go through this 4 times. She gained weight, she felt horrible, she felt sick, she was throwing up. Business is the same way, after you go through the romantic part, now it’s painful. You have to work hard and you can’t sleep and you have to deprive yourself of friends and family and life and all the pleasures in life to birth this thing that you have. And most people give up during the birthing process, because it sucks. With a baby you got no option, the baby’s coming whether you want it to or not, but the birthing of a business and to be an entrepreneur, it’s so painful most people don’t make it through it. They always say that 1 out of 100 businesses succeed, but the reality, 1 out of a million businesses never even get to fruition because the idea is planted, but the birthing of the thing never happens because it’s so painful. So if you’re not obsessively, insanely passionate about your thing, I’ve got to break it to you, it’s going to be hard to birth it. Those hard times come and it sucks. So I think that not only do you have to become passionate about the market, because I’m trying to make that part fun, so the birthing process is actually fun. Maybe I’m the equivalent of the hypno-birthing class. My wife and I did hypno-birthing for the last kid, which was actually really cool. We did classes and they tried to make it really, really fun. So maybe I’m the hypno-birthing coach. Trying to make the process of birth fun for you even though you know it’s still going to suck. But maybe you can have a good time along the way, you should, it is really fun. But I was like, if you’re going to go through that birth process, you have to be so excited about the baby, that’s the key. My wife and I were so excited about the twins, we were so excited for the other kids and that’s why she was willing to endure that pain because we were so passionate and excited about the kids. So for you, it starts with before you can be an entrepreneur, before you can birth this thing, you have to be insanely passionate about your thing. And there are people who will tell you otherwise. “No, it’s math…blah blah.” I don’t know, I think you can make money without passion, but you can’t leave a legacy, you can’t do what’s really important without it. So my next phase of this, we got a long road trip, you guys. I hope you don’t mind. But the next phase of this is how you become passionate about this thing? You’re like, Russell I see you. You’re jumping around, excited, screaming every single day, but I wake up in the morning and I’m tired. I wake up in the morning and I don’t always feel that passion. And I get that. I want to share some stuff, this is maybe personal development, according to Russell. I don’t teach personal development, I probably never will, but I have my thoughts on it, I have my feelings. So I do a lot of it myself. So I’m going to give you, during our road trip together, some of my thoughts and the personal development stuff that I had to go through and we have to go through and hopefully some of these things will help. So number one, the first thing is all of you guys, you’ve got to quit being so bleh. That’s the official term for it, bleh. My daughter, she puts on this little monster mask, it’s so cute and then she’ll go “bleh.” That’s what most of you guys are doing. If I ask you what you’re working on, you’re like, “Bleh.” You’ve got to be excited, if you’ve listened to the podcast, probably three hundred episodes ago I did one talking about being awesome. People always ask you, “How are you doing?” and everyone goes, “I’m alright. I’m doing okay.” First off, if you’re doing okay, it means your life sucks. You need to stop it. “I’m doing okay.” My kids, I told them, when somebody asks you how you’re doing, you never say I’m doing okay. I’m doing good. Good is the enemy to great. If you’re doing good, that’s not a good thing. If you’re going to change the world you can’t be like, “I’m doing good. It’s alright.” Notice this, everyone will ask how you’re doing and you’ll always say doing good. First thing to change, you are no longer doing good. You are doing awesome, all the time. My kids, if you ask them, “How you doing?” “Awesome.” If you ask me, “How you doing?” “Awesome.” You need to reprogram your brain from “I’m doing alright.” To being awesome. When people ask you that from now on, this is rule number one, you have to say you’re doing awesome. It may seem like a dumb thing, but you will see how it changes people around you. “How you doing?” “I’m doing awesome.” They’re like, “Really. Huh, nobody ever says that.” If you say you’re doing good, bleh. You just did that, bleh. You pulled an Ellie, a monster Ellie. Ellie’s my daughter that does that, bleh. So no more bleh’s. You’re doing awesome. And if you don’t feel awesome, guess what the first step to feeling awesome is? Saying that you’re feeling awesome. Okay, that’s number one. Number two, stay in control. If you ever go to a Tony Robbins event, which you should, if you don’t you’re insane. I’m not allowed to say yet, but he may be hanging out with us at our next Funnel Hacking Live event. But regardless, you should go to at least UPW. You get to walk on fire and hopefully have a chance to go to Date with Destiny as well. If you really want to have a shift in your life, Tony is the person that will take you and shift you. That’s why I don’t teach personal development because Tony is the best in the world and I couldn’t do better, even remotely close, so I’m not even going to try. If I felt like I could I probably would go and try to serve that market, but Tony’s the best, so I’m not going to. So I leave it to Tony and also Brendon Burchard, Brendon’s the man. Tony and Brendon, those dudes will shift yourself, personal development wise, so go and study them. Tony especially, because walking on fire is insanely cool. But one of the main things you learn in Date with Destiny is a thing called state control. So state is the thing that you are in as you are doing something. Sometimes you’re in a happy state, and a bleh state. Most of us we live our lives in a bleh state. You have to learn how to change your state like this. The coolest thing I learned from Tony is that I actually control the state I’m in. I don’t think most people understand that. You control the state you’re in. You can change it, you can be depressed or be happy, you can change it that fast. When I learned that and became aware of it, it was insanely cool. I would have a long horrible day at the office. I’d be beat up and tired, worn out, come home and as most people do, I could walk through the door and be like, bleh. Be a bleh dad. But I was like, no. I don’t want to be a bleh dad. So I walk in tired, beat up, angry sometimes, frustrated, all the crap you go through sometimes during the day, I get to the door and I say, I could either walk in and be a bleh dad, or I can change my state. What am I going to do? I’m going to freaking change my state. So I do what Tony Robbins talks about, there’s three things he calls the triad. I make these three shifts in my life, my physiology, my focus, my meaning, I shift those things and boom, that fast I walk in and guess what? I’m not a bleh dad, I’m a freaking awesome dad. I have fun with my kids, I play with my kids, and they’re going to remember that. When I walk in the office, some days I haven’t slept for more than an hour. I walk into the office and guess what I feel like? I feel like I want to die sometimes, I’m so tired. I walk in and could be like, bleh. But guess what happens if I walk in at state, guess what happens to all the people around me? They will match my state, because I’m the leader. If I walk in like bleh, they will all become bleh. This is the official term by the way, it’s bleh. So if I walk in bleh, they’re all going to be bleh. If I walk in at a freaking ten, they are all going to rise to my level, to my state. State control is huge. You can control your own state, but the other cool thing is that you can control the state of the people that are around you. People always come to our office and they’re like, “Is it always like this?” the answer is yes. Why is it like this? It’s because I’m freaking setting the pace when I walk in during the day. I walk in knowing that the pace that I set, everyone’s going to match me at that pace. If I come in bleh, they’re going to be bleh. I work with other companies, and partners and friends and people and what’s interesting, we will work with employees of a business owner and whatever the state of the business owner is, and you know that by seeing their videos and all their stuff, the entire company matches that state. It’s insane. So if I want to dominate the world, I gotta learn to change my state. So understanding state control is huge and so much more simple than you think. Tony Robbins talked about, go to UPW. There’s three things, he calls it a triad, there’s three things that are involved in state control. I’ll kind of go through these, I’ll probably just slaughter them, so go study Tony. Worst case, go to YouTube and type in “Tony Robbins State Control” or something, I’m sure you can get some videos of him teaching it as well. But the triad, there’s three things you gotta change. The first thing is your physiology. You’re body, this amazing gift that God has given us functions and drives everything. Have you ever notice that depressed people look depressed? Bleh. Sad people what do they do? They look sad. They’re body matches and mirrors how they feel. So a lot of times you think, “I’m sad, that’s why my body’s like this. My shoulders are drooping because I’m bleh.” Sometimes, because your body’s drooping, that’s why you’re sad. Just changing your physiology, changing your state, how you hold your body, will actually change how you feel. It’s insane. He talked about a group of people who were clinically depressed, not just I’m depressed, I’m sad, clinically depressed. They were in a clinic, they were in rehab because they had such bad depression. They took this group of like 50 clinically depressed people and took them off all their depression medication, which all medication really does is change your state. Changes our physiology, honestly we’ll talk about that in a minute, but it takes them off all their meds and makes them stand in front of a mirror for thirty minutes a day, with their shoulders back, smiling. Even if it’s a fake smile, or angry, makes them smile for thirty minutes. Guess what happened? Just by changing their physiology and forcing themselves to smile for 30 days, every one of the people who had clinical depression were healed. They were miraculously saved from their depression. Now there are times when, I have friends and family members that deal with depression, so I’m not short changing that, but I promise you that by shifting your physiology you can shift everything. It’s huge. I’ve seen people who are depressed shift their state, shift their body and they get un-depressed. It’s crazy. So if I want to be in a happy mood, if I want to be in a good state for my kids, my wife, my whatever. If I’m going to a meeting or whatever, the state, how I hold my body has a ton to do, 50% of how I enter a room has to do with the outcome of what’s going to happen. That’s not scientifically proven, that’s just what I’m guestimating based on what happens. That’s a big thing. So figure that out. How do you control your body? Look at what depressed people look like and if you hold your body in a way that depressed people hold their body, you’re going to be depressed. If you hold your body the way sad people hold it, you’re going to be sad. If you hold it in a way of the happy people, you’re going to be happy. Look right here right now, do I look happy? The reason why I’m doing this, if you watch Funnel Hacker TV, “Why is Russell so excited?” Because when I’m in an excited mood, I feel better, I get more done. I get people around me to raise to my level of vibration and they get excited as well. There’s this weird thing, and this is scriptural, for those that are the church going folk, and those who aren’t it doesn’t even matter. Light cleaveth to light and dark cleaveth to darkness. One of my coaches, Tara Williams talks about this all the time, vibes, vibrations. People like, “He’s got a good vibe, she’s got a good vibe.” Sense the vibration. And if you think of this like tuning forks. Let’s say you have a tuning fork here and you want to, if you hit two tuning forks next to each other, they will eventually match their vibrations. There’s a high pitched one, a low pitched one, they will meet in the middle because vibrations match. Light cleaveth to light, dark to dark. The same thing happens with you. If you come in and you’re a tuning fork and your vibration’s high, people are going to suck you down to their level and you’ll be depressed. Or you’re going to come in and freaking just blow your mind with the level of energy and vibration and everybody will rise to you. You have to understand that. They’re either going to suck you down, or you’re going to rise up. That’s one part of state control, is understanding that your body has so much to do with it. Now that you understand that, how else can you control your body? This is why us nerdy, entrepreneur, biohacking people talk about the importance of our body. Alex Charfen at the Pirates Cove mastermind said that “for any of you entrepreneurs that aren’t treating your body like a professional athlete, you’re insane. You’re doing things that professional athletes aren’t. You’re trying to accomplish things that they can’t even fathom. If you’re not taking care of your body, you’re insane.” It’s true, what you put into your body effects your physiology. When I eat crap, guess how I feel? Crap. People always ask me why I take so many supplements. Because different supplements I take effect my physiology. I have rules with my supplements. Most of you all know, I’m a Mormon, therefore I don’t do a lot of things. I don’t do alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, any other crazy stuff, I don’t do a lot of these, but there’s some supplements that I do take because they affect my physiology. I do take some caffeine, because caffeine affects you physiology. You take it, it increases your energy. Your physiology changes, it helps me get into state faster. There’s other supplements I take, I could go days on supplements, but there’s things I take because they affect my physiology. There’s things I don’t eat because they affect my physiology. If you look at how I eat, I usually don’t eat breakfast. The reason why is breakfast typically makes me feel sluggish and tired, my physiology goes down. I usually eat one huge meal a day. When I’m at the office Melanie makes me this huge salad, it’s got high fats, tons of vegetables, I eat it and there’s almost no carbs outside of the carbs inside of vegetables because carbs make me feel sluggish and tired. I don’t want to feel tired. So I just eat the vegetables meats and fats because that keeps my energy, my physiology good. When I’m at home, if I’m going to eat junk, typically I eat it at the end of the night, when I’m about to go to bed, because at that point I don’t care about my physiology, I’m going to fall asleep. But I don’t eat at dinner, I usually won’t eat all the other nice stuff. I’ll go and pick the veggies, the meat off, whatever my wife makes and I’ll eat that because I know that if I eat the rice and the carbs, stuff like that, guess what happens? My physiology drains and I’m going to be a worse dad for my kids. I know how it works. So if I want to stay in peak state for my kids, I have to stay in, I gotta keep my physiology going, so I’m very careful of what I eat. Sometimes, I’m not as good as a lot of my biohacking buddies, sometimes I just screw up, and if my physiology…this is probably the bad thing. This is the negative of personal development. But if I eat something and feel like crap, I’m like, “Well, I feel like crap. I’m going to feel like crap no matter what, I might as well make my taste buds feel good.” So then I go all out and if I have a bad day, I have a really bad day. Because I’m physiologically jacked anyway, let’s have some fun. Anyway, there you go. Alright, that’s number one. Number two side of the pillar of Tony’s triad is shifting what you focus on. Have you noticed that depressed people focus on depressing things? Have you noticed that happy people focus on happy things? But Russell, there’s so much sad things happening in the world. I know there is, but guess what I don’t focus on? The sad things that are happening in the world. Guess what I don’t watch? The freaking news. Want to know why? Because the news focuses on depressing things. I don’t want to be depressed. I don’t listen to depressing things. I try to focus on people and things that get me pumped up. I listen to podcasts of people that inspire me, that get me excited. I read things that get me excited. I focus on stuff that gets me excited. In business, crappy stuff happens every single day and I tell you what, when you go from a million dollar company to a 10 to 100, the level of crappy crap that comes up everyday exponentially increases. They say, someone told me the other day that every three months an entrepreneur’s focus with decisions could either make or break them. That’s true when you’re running a million dollar business. When you’re running a hundred million dollar a year business that happens a lot more often. I would say probably every three hours. I’m not kidding. There’s a lot of crap that hits me in the face every single day and if I focus on the negative, I would be in a state of depression right now. I have to look at it and I’m like, “Oh, that sucks. Alright, this is the answer.” And I turn my back and run from it. I do not focus on it for more than 5 seconds, otherwise I will lose my state. What are you focusing on? A lot of you guys get overwhelmed and get stressed. Do you not think I get overwhelmed? I have 12 events happening in the next 47 days. We’re doing the biggest launch in the history of the freaking internet. We’re re-doing the complete onboarding process, I just wrote a new book in the last 30 days. It’s not a tiny book, it’s a freaking cookbook, it’s a 500 page cookbook. We’re doing a design-a-thon in two days. If you knew how much stress I have on my plate.  I don’t know, I’m pretty sure most people would crack under the pressure. I’m shocked that I haven’t yet, but the reason why is because I keep moving on. Dan Gable, the greatest wrestler in the history of wrestling. Well maybe not the greatest anymore, but he is the legend. He is the Michael Jordan of wrestling. So Dan Gable, someone asked him one time, because he went through all of college never losing a match. His very last match he lost, he got so pissed off that he went and started training for the Olympics and he actually became an Olympic champion and not a single person scored on him. And what’s crazy is while he was training for the Olympics, it’s so crazy. The Russians actually said, they came out publically and said, “We are going to train an athlete with the only goal to beat Dan Gable from the Americans.” And Dan Gable was like, “No, I’m the greatest wrestler who’s ever lived, no one’s going to beat me.” So what did Dan do? He would work 7 hours a day, working out 7 hours a day preparing for the Olympics, then he’d go to bed at night. Then as he’d go to bed at night, he laid there in bed saying, “The dude in Russia who is trying to beat me is awake and training right now. And that pisses me off and freaks me out.” So what did Dan Gable do? He woke up at midnight and he’d go running. Because he knew that his opponent was competing, was training and it stressed him out knowing that his opponent was awake while he was sleeping. He did not like that so he got up and kept working out. Is that obsessive? Heck yes. Did he crack under pressure? No, he went to the Olympics and won. Not a single person scored a point on him. That’s Dan Gable. Now someone asked Dan Gable, I heard this in an interview one time, they said, “Dan don’t…” and afterwards Dan went on to become the head wrestling coach of Iowa Hawkeyes and won more NCAA championships in a row than anyone in any sport, I believe. Anyway, insane. And someone asked Dan Gable, “Don’t you believe in pressure?” and Dan’s like, “Yeah, I believe in pressure, it’s everywhere. The difference is that most people sit underneath the pressure and they sit on it. I believe in it, I just don’t put myself underneath it. I step aside and I focus on what I need to get done.” And most of us, it’s that same way. I don’t know about you guys, sometimes I have so much stress and so much pressure, I’m about to crack. Then half of that is just in our heads. So I’ll sit down with a pad of paper, especially at night when I can’t sleep, I sit with a pad of paper and write down what I’m stressing on. I write all those things down, when you write it down it’s like, oh that’s actually not as bad as I thought. And then you can fall asleep, get yourself out of the pressure. Sometimes we’re focusing on all pressure and stress and all this stuff and that’s why we don’t succeed. Don’t do that. Write it all down, prioritize it and be like I can’t control what I can’t control. I’m going to move forward out of the pressure. Go. And sometimes I don’t get crap done. I’m sure that all the stuff I have to get done between now and our viral video launch, most of it is not going to get done.  A lot of it will, most of it will. But sometimes you can’t affect it, so you do whatever you can and as you get closer and closer to deadlines all of the non essentials fall away and then you get the essentials and that’s how the game’s played. Alright, this is fun, we’ve been going 32 minutes you guys. I hope you’ve been having fun. I don’t know where I left off. Physiology, shift your physiology. Number two, what you’re focusing on and then number three, what’s the meaning. I think number three is meaning. If not I’ve been teaching this wrong, or thinking about it wrong. Number three is the meaning we’re attaching to things. A lot of times something bad happens to us and we attach these weird meanings to it. And we, it’s really cool, we have this unique ability as humans to attach meanings to things, right. And usually what happens is subconscious; we don’t know that we’re doing something right. If someone punches you in the face, subconsciously our body attaches a meaning to that. So this person is mad at me, we attach the meaning, I need to fight….sorry, let me step back. Someone punches us, right. Our meaning maker attaches this meaning to the thing. That person is mad at us, we must fight them back. So I go and try to fight someone. Or someone punches us and maybe the meaning is this person is going to kill me, that’s the meaning we attach so then we run away. There’s all sorts of things. Every single day, something is happening and we’re attaching these meanings to it and these meanings direct where we’re going with our thoughts and actions and everything else. But as soon as you’re aware of this, you can actually change the meanings that are coming to you. I actually don’t know if this is part of the triad, it may not be. I can’t remember now. Go YouTube Tony Robbins. Regardless, I want to talk about meaning, because meaning is a big thing. When you’re aware of this it’s kind of cool because now it gives you the ability to kind of shift meanings. So when somebody, we’ve had some morons, and they are morons, this week that have been attacking Clickfunnels and at first I got so mad I want to kill them and fly to their house and beat them, because that’s the wrestler in me. My body attaches a meaning to what they’re doing. But then what’s cool is Tony taught me this technique where you stop and say, okay, what if that’s not the meaning they’re attaching, what if it’s actually this meaning? You shift the meaning that maybe they’re attaching and if you shift the meaning associated with an experience, it’ll change your perspective, which changes everything. So we gotta become good at consciously picking the meaning we’re attaching to things. If someone screws us over we can attach a meaning saying “That person is a horrible person trying to screw me over.” But if you attach that meaning, be careful. Because as soon as you attach that meaning to something, guess what happens? Now the situation you enter, the state you enter is going to be based on that meaning and it can get really bloody and get really bad and things can turn really bad, which is going to increase all these other pressure, noise and other bad stuff. But if you come in and say, “Look, that person is a total douche bag,” I don’t know if I can say that on TV. I apologize if I can’t. Anyway, that person is a horrible person, but maybe their having a bad day today. Maybe they’re struggling, maybe financially, whatever. You attach a different meaning to the situation, then you come and you’re like, man that person screwed me over, but this is probably why he did it. Or why she did. If you attach that meaning it gives you a different set of tools to deal with the situation. So what happens now in my life, if something happens and instantly a meaning is attached by my brain and what I’ve found is that most of the times that the instant meaning that’s attached, is going to leave me in a really negative path. It’s weird how it works. So too often I run down that negative meaning and bad things happen. So I try to consciously stop and try to take the exact opposite. I remember Tony at Date with Destiny he does this thing, he says, “Find an experience in your life that pissed you off.” For me it was something with my wife, and my wife was at the event then, sitting separate, so she was sitting four rows ahead of me and there was an experience and they said to write down the experience, so I wrote it down. They said, “Write down all the meanings you attached to that experience.” I was like, “My wife is mad at me, she doesn’t love me.” I wrote down all these different meanings that I had attached to that situation. And then Tony said, “Write a big line down the side of the paper and next to each of the meanings you attached to that situation, I want you to write the exact opposite of that thing.” So I was like, “My wife is mean to me, but on the other side, she actually loves me. My wife is super selfish, no she is actually so giving that she struggles.” So I wrote the exact opposite of each of the meanings that I had attached to the situation. But what’s crazy is after handwriting out probably three or four of the things, I started crying. I started crying because I realized, I love my wife and I know her, and I realized the true meaning of what happened in that situation, was actually the exact opposite of the meaning I had attached to it. I instantly realized that I was in the wrong and she wasn’t. I broke down crying because I was like, “Oh my gosh. Where else in my life is this happening? Where I’m attaching these meanings subconsciously to a thing and I’m actually wrong?” I realized that day that I have to take control of my meaning maker, the meaning I’m attaching to every single situation. So something happens now and instantly I get the negative meaning, it just happens that’s in our brains wiring for some stupid reason. I stop and I’m like, what’s the opposite of that, what’s something that if I could attach a different meaning would make me look at this person through a different angle, a different lens, a different light? I shift the meaning and it shifts everything. It shifts how I feel about the person. It shifts how I approach them, it shifts the response. It changes everything. I wish I could say I am perfect with this, I am not. If you’ve ever been on the back end of a backlash from me for stuff, I apologize. Because I’m, I can be a prick sometimes. I didn’t realize this until the other day. We have a contractor, he was killing himself for us, and I imagine it’s got to be a pain in the butt working with me sometimes. Because I’m vocal, I’m on TV, I’m on Instagram, I’m ranty and ravy and talking about everything. And without thinking I kind of shared publicly my thoughts and part of it’s because I’m a media personality. If I came out like bleh all the time nobody would listen. So I’m usually on the extremes, I’m extremely happy or extremely upset because that’s what’s interesting. So I feel bad because I published stuff that was negative towards that person. And the other day it was kind of brought to my attention, “Wow, Russell this person is really working his butt off for you and you’re saying these things.” And I had this moment again where I kind of broke down and I was like I’m a bad person sometimes. And the meaning I was attaching to all these situations was like, they’re lazy, they don’t care, they’re not working hard enough, or whatever. I’m attaching all these meanings and I had this fun little moment where I had this exercise where I was like, okay, if I switch the meaning, what’s actually happening? And I was like, oh man, I’m a jerk. I realized it again, so I reached out personally and apologized and I don’t know if it’ll make it better or not, but I was wrong. I’ve had other situations this week where again there’s this person who’s honestly, it’s always the people you help the most. It’s someone I helped a lot, to have a lot of success, I bent over backwards for them and now they’re publically attacking me and us. It’s just….it’s funny, the meaning, even now, the meaning I want to attach to it wants to come in there. I’m like, no stop. Get out of my brain. Because I know, I know the reason why this person is being a douche bag. I’m going to use that word, I apologize. I know the true meaning. It’s not the one that makes me feel better about myself, which sucks because that one makes me feel so much better about myself. But it’s the truth. So I’ve tried to attach that meaning to it, even though every time I think about the situation, my blood’s boiling just thinking about it again. But I gotta go back to the meaning that I attached on purpose. So the more you guys are aware of this the more you can affect. That’s a big part. There’s number two in personal development. So where have we gone this far? So far we’ve talked about not being bleh. We talked about shifting your state in the circumstance. We talked about shifting the meaning you’re attaching to things. Alright so here’s a couple of things. Yes, we’ve been going for 40 minutes, but I still got another hour and a half drive, so we’re going to keep on talking. It’s like on Wedding Singer, which is one of my favorite movies of all time, do you remember when he’s all depressed after his girlfriend gets married on him and he’s hosting the wedding party and he’s telling all these jokes? And the one guy’s like, “Hey wedding singer, you’re the worst wedding singer I’ve ever heard.” And he looks at him and he’s like, “Well I have the microphone so you will listen to every word I have to say.” One of my favorite lines ever. That’s how I feel right now. I have the microphone so you will listen to every word I have to say. I guess you can turn me off, hopefully you won’t. Hopefully you can hear me. This is car is so loud when we’re driving. I hope this is coming through because I think there’s some good stuff in here for people. Alright, next thing. We talked about being not bleh, we talked about getting in state, we talked about meaning, these are pieces to help you function better as a human being. I always tell people how much of an impact Tony Robbins had on me. It’s because he made me aware of these things and there’s so many more. I wish we could go to UPW. Go walk on fire. I think you can get a ticket for $500 to a thousand bucks. If you are broke and don’t have the money, go get a credit card and finance it. If you’re broke, you’re going to become more broke. Who freaking cares? At this point, what’s the worst that could happen? You’re going to go bankrupt? Dude, you’re broke, it doesn’t matter. It always blows my mind when people are like, “I don’t have any money, I can’t invest.” Then you have nothing to lose. Go take out a loan. Go take out five loans, who cares? Worst case scenario is you lose it all. If you have nothing, then you have nothing. I taught the cub scouts, the 12 year olds, I did an entrepreneurship merit badge and one of the guys asked, “how old do you think these kids should start?” I was like, “They should start now. I got a dozen friends who are teenagers who are making insane amounts of money.” The guy who asked said, “Just so all you kids know, you have nothing. If you lose it all you didn’t lose anything, so who cares?” Anyway, it always makes me laugh because people are like, “you can risk a lot because you have money to risk.” I’m like, “Dude, it’s way easier to risk when you’re broke.” Worst case scenario you lose everything, but everything is like rent on an apartment, but that’s not that big of a deal, you guys. When you’ve got 150 employees whose lives depend on you, I promise you it is a lot scarier to risk at that point. Nevertheless, I digress. Where was I going? I don’t even remember. Hopefully there was something in there of value. Okay, what I want to talk about here is you gotta risk. You’re creating this thing, you’re giving birth, you’re going into this thing…..Oh I remember what I was talking about. I was talking about investing in UPW and talking about being broke. Yeah, go to UPW, go to Date with Destiny. Invest in these events because it’ll transform you, it’ll help you to become super aware of yourself and other people. That’s what Tony gave me that was so important to me. Most of us live life on autopilot and we’re just going through the day bumping into things and things are happening and you’re just not aware of how we work. When you’re aware of how you work, it’s like now you can affect things, change things, tweak things. I can change my approach, I can change other people’s approach. For me it’s been huge to understand me and people better. So yeah, go to those things it’s worth it. There you go. I have a friend down in Australia, his name’s Mal Every, I don’t know why this just popped in my head but he says, “I don’t have a problem with you if you’re broke, but I do have a problem if you stay broke. There’s too many opportunities in this world. If you stay broke, it’s because you’re not trying.” You’re literally not trying. Anyway, I don’t know why I said that, but it popped in my head therefore it must have been important. Alright, the next thing I want to talk about. If you want to be successful in life the next piece outside of not being bleh, and figuring out state control and attaching meaning to the right things, the next thing is you have to stop dabbling.  Stop freaking dabbling. School has screwed up all of us. School has taught us how to dabble. You sign up for college, you take 20 credits, 20 cool things that you want to learn about. What they do is they spoon feed you and force you to dabble over a semester. So they give you a little bit of information in math, you spend 50 minutes. Then you go to the next class, here’s a little bit of science, a little bit of history. So you dabble in a whole bunch of little crap and you try to remain and retain all this stuff and then you go back the next day and you dabble a whole bunch and you dabble and you dabble and you dabble for like 15 years of our life. Let there be no mistake. You will never be hyper successful if you are dabbling. Dabbling is the opposite of what you need to do if you want to be successful. If you want to be successful in something, you have to go deep, you have to immerse, you have to be obsessed with that thing. I guarantee you the people I’m competing against right now in our business, the reason why we are kicking the crap out of all of them is because they are dabblers. I promise you, there’s not one of my competitors that spent as much time in the last 48 hours, in the last week, in the last 5 weeks studying marketing and business and growth and personal development as much as I have. And for most of them, we’re already way past them, so why in the world, why are they not…..? I don’t know. But they’re dabbling and that’s why I’m able to pass them. When you start immersing and you go deep, a couple of really cool things happen. First off, you will start seeing connections that you cannot see when you dabble. I sucked in school because I could never see the connections. I spent an hour in history, an hour in math, then an hour in debate, then an hour in logic, I’m trying to figure out how to make the connections. Unless you go deep in something, you can’t do it. The reason why I’ve written two books is not, yes I like writing books, yes I like sharing it. When I write a book, I have to go in such deep immersion that I start seeing these connections that you don’t, you can’t see when you dabble. When I started writing the Expert Secrets book, I was doing a whole bunch of things. Some things consciously, some things subconsciously and as I started focusing on this book and trying to make a really, really good book, it forced me to read and study and geek out and immerse myself in a whole bunch of different things and through that process, I was not dabbling, I was immersing. I don’t know if it’s God, if it’s your brain, but when you immerse yourself, I feel like the reward for that, all these connections that you don’t normally see, all the sudden start being open to you. Howard Berg told me, he’s the world’s fastest reader. He said when he goes to do a topic, most people read a book and they form their opinion based one book they read. He’ll read 30-40 books to get a really clear view of the reality of the situation. This is what 30 authors have said and you get a very clear view of it. And that’s how I feel about immersion. When you immerse yourself and you go and listen, study, read, you really geek out and become obsessed in your thing. I don’t know if it’s your brain, God or the universe, whatever you want to attribute it to, I know who I want to attribute it to. But he opens up pathways, he opens up connections for you and lets you see a whole picture and that’s your reward for immersion. So that’s the next step in this you guys, you have to stop dabbling. So first off, the first phase in this comes back to you being greedy. The first phase is figure out this thing you want to be obsessed with. Maybe it’s not the marketing yet, and that’s okay. Because phase one is about being greedy and mastering it for yourself and becoming who you need to be to serve the world that you’re trying to serve. So go and now is the time to become unbalanced. In the bible, well if you listen to this song, I think it was…who was it? A time for every season, there’s a time under heaven for everything. A time and a season for everything, right. This is your season to immerse in your craft and become the best in the freaking world in your craft. Again, there’s a time and a season, this is the time and season right now for you to do that, for you to immerse yourself. So that’s phase number one and that’s going to give you the ability to become who you need to be. And you’re going to become completely unbalanced. Your work life, your social life, your family life is going to become unbalanced during that period of time, but you’re going to be able to immerse yourself, you’re not going to dabble. You’re going to unbalance and become awesome at your thing. And then there will be a transition phase where you’re going through and becoming so passionate about it, where there will be this weird time where all the sudden, I don’t know what it is, you can’t get filled up anymore. For me, I was doing all this marketing for all of our businesses and companies. We were doing the Neuropathy product, the weight loss, the dating, all these different businesses and we’re doing it and there came a point where I stopped getting fulfilled by just doing the business and I didn’t know what it was. I started going through this slump. I didn’t feel the momentum, didn’t feel the progress. I was like, ugh. I didn’t feel it and that transition is because eventually you can’t keep growing in that immersion. Because eventually you’ll see the connections, you’ll see everything, you’ll be going through this immersion and then you will…. I don’t know how to say it, not that you’ll become perfect ever, but you’ll become more perfected in that thing. Where it’s hard to squeeze a lot more oranges to get any juice out of it, to really fill you up. And that’s what I talk about in the Expert Secrets book, that’s where you transition from this growth, to the only way you can keep growing is transition into contribution. And this is where entrepreneurship is born. This is where you realize the only way for me to actually keep sharing this and to keep having that juice is to start contributing and giving back and sharing with other people. And what you find is insane. As soon as you take this path and this gift, this thing you’ve been geeking out on and immersing yourself on and become obsessed with, you start sharing it, that juice starts flowing again. It’s like the next wave and it’s so fulfilling. That’s why I’m doing an hour long podcast instead of focusing on the road and listening. That’s why for me right now, I started listening to, when I start doing personal development and growth and start learning and studying, as I do that I start shaking because this is good. I’m getting juice, but if I could share this with other people I’d be getting ten times what I’m getting now. That’s why I publish so much, that’s why I share so much. It’s because that contribution will fill you up more than the growth will eventually. But first you gotta fill up. Again, you gotta become unbalanced so you can become who you need to be. But after you’ve hit that point, and you’ll know it because you can’t get the same thing out of it, until you start contributing. And that’s logically where you start shifting to contribution. That’s when you start becoming obsessed with the marketing. That’s when you start geeking out there. That’s the key you guys, that’s what it’s like. At that point, you don’t care about the money. This is what I talked about a few podcasts ago. The people who struggle are the people trying to make money. When you’ve been geeking out on a thing and have filled yourself up and now you’re shifting to contribution, you do not care about money. I could not care less about money at this point in my life. It’s fun, it keeps track, it’s how we know that we’re doing well. It’s such not a driving force, you can ask…..I do not have logins to my bank accounts. I have no idea what’s in there. My accountant, I’m always like “Hey can I buy this?” and he’s like, “Yeah.” And I’m like, “Okay, cool. I have no idea.” My wife, I don’t have access to my bank accounts, personal, business, anything. I do not know what’s in there. I don’t want to know. It means zero to me at this point in my life. The only thing that means anything to me now is contribution. That’s what fires me up. That’s the state you gotta enter business and entrepreneurship in. Those are the people who are successful. The come in like, “This thing that I have, this gift, this thing. I’m so passionate about it, I have to figure out how to share it with other people.” Then guess what’s going to happen? Then it’s going to be easy to become obsessed with the marketing because the marketing is the means for you to get your message out, for you to get your product and your service out. All the sudden it becomes exciting. I think that’s why I struggled in school so much. I would learn and read a book and it didn’t matter to me. If you’re going into marketing and you’re struggling, this marketing, I’m learning this stuff. I learned about squeeze pages, traffic and conversion but you don’t care. It’s because it’s like school. I study a thing and I write a paper but I don’t care about this paper, there’s no point to it. If you’re struggling studying the marketing it’s because there’s no point to it. But as soon as you find your thing and you obsess with it and you’ve grown and filled yourself up and shift to contribution, now when you start studying it, the marketing becomes alive. It lights up and becomes alive again. I remember, I always thought I was dumb. I hated reading, I hated studying, I hated school, I hated all those things and honestly, I thought I was a dumb kid. I started my business and started selling these little things, it was crazy because I was selling some stuff and I was not doing that well. I remember it was pre-podcasts, but everyone used to do tele-seminars back when I got started. I would download all these tele-seminars and I would listen to them. Guys like Arman Morin, Alex Mandossian, those are the guys I listened to. Marlon Sanders, these are the guys I listened to initially. And I would listen to them on my headphones. I would burn these tele-seminars onto cd’s and put the cd’s in and listen to them while I was on my wrestling trips and I would learn stuff. They would say stuff and I’m like, “That’s so cool. I’m going to go try that.” And I’d try it and the craziest thing would happen, I would try something. I was making a little bit of money and then I’d try something and make more money. I was like, are you kidding me, that freaking worked. I gotta try something else. I listened to another tele-seminar and I would try it and are you kidding me, that freaking worked! And then another one and I was like, that guy wrote a book. I’d read his book and I’m like, I’m going to try it. And then guess what happened? I’d make more money.  My thing would go out to more people and I’m like, “Oh my gosh.” And all the sudden reading became alive for me, studying became alive for me, marketing became alive for me. I remember copywriting I was like, one of my first websites I set up and I didn’t have a sales letter and someone’s telling me about this copywriting thing and I was like, are you kidding me? That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. I’m not going to write words, I don’t want to learn that. I remember just being angry because I didn’t want to learn copy. It sounded so boring and stupid. Anyway, I tried to hire a copywriter, and the copywriter, it was actually Michael Thornton was the first copywriter I tried to hire and his quote for me at the time was 8 or 10 grand or something and I was like, “Whoa! I haven’t made that much money in my entire life combined at this point.” So then I tried to read a book on copy and again, it was horrible. I read it and I was like this sucks. I had to write my very first little sales letter. So I wrote it and then it was crazy because it made money. So then I started listening to some copywriters and the guys like, I remember it was Michael Thornton actually, I was listening to this presentation he gave at this big seminar and he was like, “We tested this thing and it turns out that a red headline out converted a blue one.” So I changed my headline to red and sure enough it out converted. I was like, what the crap? Okay, what else does this guy got? I remember he tested a brown background, it did better in this thing. So I’m going to do a brown background. So I did a brown background and sure enough it out converted. I’m like are you kidding me? Then he said to try a new headline, his headline swipe file had all his headlines. So I tried four or five headlines and one of them dramatically beat the other one. I was like, what? I changed the headline and I doubled my income. Normal humans, if they want to double their income, guess what they gotta do? A doctor would have to go back to like 16 more years in medical school to specialize and double their income, work another 15 years and then maybe they would. I changed 13 words on a headline and all the sudden guess what? Copywriting became alive for me. It got exciting and all the sudden I want to read every freaking copywriting book I can find, because I’d read through and most of it was garbage or rehashing stuff but I’d read one sentence that was like, “Oh, you should end each line with a dot, dot, dot. Because it keeps the readers mind open and doesn’t close out the thought and they’re more likely to keep reading.” I was like, what? So now to every single email and every single thing I’ve ever written, I add a dot, dot, dot, you’ve probably noticed that before. Guess what happened? Everything increased. And I started going to marketing seminars. I’d go to a five day seminar and listen for five days and every single speaker who is talking, I knew everything. I’ve done that, knew that, heard that, rehash, rehash and then one speaker on  day 6 would say one thing where he’s like, “Oh yeah, this one time I added an exit pop where I gave a discount and 20% of the people took the exit pop.” I was like, wait, what? So I go back to my thing and add an exit pop and my income would increase by like $100,000 a month. From that one little thing. I remember I was like, I sat through 5 days of crap and got that one thing and it was so huge for me that it made the whole thing worth while. Or I would be at an event, got nothing and I’d go out to eat with everybody and I’m the Mormon dude, everyone goes to the bar and I’m like, I don’t want to go to the bar, I don’t want people to think I’m drinking. So I’d go to the bar, and I’m not joking, I’d order milk because I didn’t want people to think…..if I ordered a sprite people might think I’m drinking and I

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It is episode 106, I messed up in the episode itself and titling the file. We start talking about Jerry/Vin Gerard/Stan Malibu’s latest scam to try and get Joe and Todd to leave their houses. Then Todd gets deep into the world of comic book original art. Names are named! The post After Dark 106: Dirtier that the Coal Business appeared first on Longbox Heroes.

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May 16, 2015 Todd Sadow joins the show to discuss Epic Rides. He shares information about the recent Whiskey Off Road in Prescott, Arizona that was April 24-26, and he gets listeners up-to-date on the status and future of Epic Rides, including a mini-announcement about some big future growth. Then Todd gives listeners a full rundown about the upcoming Grand Junction Off Road in Grand Junction, Colorado on May 29-31. He also gives listeners $10 of registration! Listen in to find out how to save. If you have any ideas for future guests or episodes, please contact us at info@mountainbikeradio.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------ RELATED SHOW LINKS: Intro music: Dearly Departed by Shakey Graves - Provided by Epic Rides The Grand Junction Off-Road - May 29-31, Grand Junction, Colorado Grand Junction Off-Road Facebook Grand Junction Off-Road Registration (Use code "MBR" at checkout for $10 off) Epic Rides Website Epic Rides Facebook Epic Rides Twitter Epic Rides on Vimeo Grand Junction Art and Music Festival Downtown Grand Junction Become a Mountain Bike Radio Member