The Addition by Subtraction Formula



Practicality dictates that everyone's results will vary as we are all unique and different. Basically, it takes hard work to make a substantial income in this business, and some people will make no money at all. The earnings of an Empower Network affiliate will be 100% dependent upon their skills, work effort, commitment, leadership capabilities, and market conditions. Common sense would suggest that in most opportunities, one would find exceptional individuals performing well above average, while others perform under the average. Empower Network does not guarantee any level of income or your success.

To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. Okay, gang, well, welcome, welcome, welcome. My name is Aaron Rashkin. I want to first and foremost welcome our guests and our first-time listeners. This is the Empower Hour for Monday night, August 19th.

I just gave everybody about 60 seconds to kind of get themselves situated and make sure they have a writing. You pencil something to write on each paper or open up some notepads or text edits in their computer. We have a lot of information to cover tonight, and we're super excited that you're here, especially for our first-time guests and listeners. This Empower Hour call has taken place now over the past 21 months. Every single Monday night, these calls have really become a staple in the industry with literally tens of thousands of people per month tuning in to the call.

Here's Aaron. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to hear a little bit about who we are, what we do, and how you can be a part of this thing called Empower Network. And it's really not just a thing.

It's a movement. And the movement started probably several years ago, probably even longer than that, longer ago than that. A gentleman by the name of David Wood, if you're not familiar, he had a vision while walking in the woods one day through Costa Rica. He was in Costa Rica walking through the woods. And he had this vision.

Where he was to create a team of people all around the world in hundreds of different countries that were working from home, all online, part-time, and without having to use the telephone to create an income stream using the Internet and the power of the web to create the lifestyle of their dreams. And he had been a part of several different companies over the years and had always wanted to see other people succeed, which is one of the reasons that I think so many of us get into the business is because we want to show other people how to live a better life. Of course, we have to start with ourselves. The best way to save a drowning person is not to be one of them. So David Wood's vision many years ago was to create a team, an army of people who were making the kind of incomes that they came to this industry for in the first place.

And his vision was so clear that a couple of years ago he invited a good friend of his by the name of Dave Sharp down to visit him in Costa Rica, and they spent days literally masterminding the vision of Empower Network. And their goal was to create the richest team online. Now before I even get into a lot of content here, I just want to say that any time I discuss income, any of our guests discuss income, you always want to make sure to refer back to the company's earnings statement at EmpowerNetwork.com forward slash income dot php, and you'll be able to see the average earnings, and you'll be able to see all of our members there, just so you're aware of exactly what's happening inside of Empower Network right now. So Dave and Dave got together back a couple of years ago. It was probably right around this time in 2011, and they created this vision together.

Now of course they both had incredible ideas. They both had this very powerful compulsion. They wanted to create something that had never been done before. And so they not only created in their minds this vision, which is the vision of Empower Network, but they also created this vision of Empower Network which is the vision of Empower Network. All of our dreams can fit inside of it, but they created this vision that they weren't going to be like any other company.

They weren't going to be just like every other network marketing or affiliate marketing or online marketing company out there. They wanted to give all the money to its affiliates. They wanted to give all the money to the company's affiliates and to give all the money to the company's members so that just like when you make a sale in a traditional business as that traditional business is, you keep 100% of that sale price. Well, that's exactly what Dave and Dave's vision were. They wanted to create the first successful 100% commission company.

Now a lot of people say, well, how could you pay out 100% commission? Well, the point is that when you own your own business, that's what you earn. And the only way for them to have reached their goal, their goal is helping all of us reach ours. The only way for them to reach their goal was to allow us to earn, as much of the profit as possible. And they decided on 100% commission.

Now in the very beginning, there was a lot of pushback. There was a lot of questions. There was a lot of people that didn't understand Dave and Dave's vision. They didn't understand the model. They didn't understand how a company could pay out 100% commission.

And to be quite honest, a lot of us were a little bit confused. How could a company operate on 100% commission? And what it turned out is that we knew, the company knew, Dave and Dave knew. All of us that were a part of the company within its first few weeks and months, we knew that so many people were going to be coming to Empower Network because of this incredible vision and because of this incredible opportunity that the affiliate fees, which at that time weren't even a part of the company yet, we knew that a member, right, when they got on board, they were going to be paying an affiliate fee of $19.95. Now, our basic membership is only $25.

And a lot of people are saying, well, why are we talking about the price of membership? Well, I want to make sure that we're all on the same page here. And so I say that early. I say that up front. I say that before I even deliver a whole lot of value because I want to make sure that I'm talking to the right people.

I want to make sure that we have the right people on the phone here tonight, right? This is not get-rich-quick. This is not lottery mentality. There is a cost of doing business. Obviously, you want to purchase the product first.

You want to become a product of the product. You want to believe in what you're marketing. And you want to believe in the service that's available to you so that you can go out and use the product, see how it works, experience the results you get, the ease and simplicity of making this product line work for you. And then, of course, if you want to share it, it's a $19.95 affiliate fee which goes to the company. Which goes to pay for employees and customer support, and all of the phone lines, and all of the bandwidth, and all of the server space, and everything that's done for you including the sales pages, the marketing videos, all the funnel inside the entire Empower Network platform, all of that is done for you.

And the more creative you are, the more you can integrate some of your own personality into your marketing as we have seen thousands and thousands of our members do. But all of it is done for you in the beginning, so all you have to do is have a burning desire for success. You've obviously got to be a part of the team here, be willing to put forth the effort, and be willing to be coachable and teachable, and allow us to teach, train, and mentor you so that you can learn exactly what it is we're doing, and how you can do it too. So that being said, Dave & Dave's vision, they launched the company out of a hotel room in Orlando, Florida back in October of 2011. We had I believe 30 people, and they shared their vision for this company.

They shared what they saw was possible for Empower Network. And those 30 people over the next 30 days turned into over 10,000 people. It was not anything that had been expected. Dave & Dave had no idea that so many people were going to embrace the message of Empower Network. Just think about the name, Empower Network.

There's no better name for a company. If you think about it, what do we want to do for the people all around us? We want to empower them. We want to inspire them. We want to show them a better way of living their own lives, because that is true fulfillment for most of us.

I know that is for me. I know that is for so many of you, that we want to pay it forward. We want to share the gift that we have, because I'll be honest with you gang, and you can look around you, I'm sure you have already noticed this. Life on earth is always undetermined. We don't know how long, we don't know how long we are going to be here.

And so we want to play at the highest level possible. We want to play in the biggest game possible. And the biggest game possible is about empowering other people. It's about inspiring other people. It's about allowing other people to live the life of their dreams all while unselfishly on the back end, you get to live the life of yours.

And that's what Dave & Dave brought to this industry just not even 2 years ago. And those 30 people took the message, and ran with it. And here we are now a company 21 months later, 21 months later. The company has done now over $60 million in commissions. It's paid out to its affiliates.

I think the company revenue is a little bit higher than that because of ticket sales and events, and so forth, some of the extras that go on that keep the company obviously providing this platform for us. And we have I believe now well over 160,000 paid members, members who have paid to be a part of Empower Network. Now that tells me 1, and 2, and 3 different things. It tells me several different things. Number 1, we obviously have a product that everybody wants, everybody needs, and everybody can afford.

For $25, the amount of value that you get in our viral blogging platform is absolutely incredible. And for those of you that don't know, the viral blogging platform is really the service at our $25 basic membership level. And what Empower Network is, is what's called an authority domain, an authority domain. That means that the search engines favor content that's posted on EmpowerNetwork.com. This is why we are now in one of the most highly trafficked websites, not just in the world, or should I say not just in the United States, but in the world.

I believe we cracked into the top, I don't even know, couple hundred sites, couple hundred most trafficked websites in the United States just a week or 2 ago. I remember seeing that on Alexa.com. Some of you have seen the images that have been floating around the Internet on Facebook, and people's email marketing, and things like that. We've cracked in the top couple hundred most trafficked websites in the United States. And then of course, around the world, we are in the top few hundred there as well.

And because of what's happening right now, inside Empower Network, you are going to see over the course of the next 35, and I say that specifically, 35 days, you know, 35 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days, over the next several months, you are going to see that we are going to rise very, very quickly closer to within the top 100 for both U.S. and worldwide. And it wouldn't shock us, and this is again, a prediction being made by Dave and Dave, that we will be in the top, you know, several dozen most trafficked websites here over the next 6 to 9 months. So very, very exciting time to be a part of Empower Network. Now I want to go back to that 35-day mark.

I talked about 35 days. Well, in 35 days, which is September 23rd here, just next month, we are going to be releasing and launching the next version of Empower Network, and it's called Empower Network Version 2.0. And just about 4 weeks ago here in my hometown of Denver, Colorado, over 6,000 members flew in from around the world to be a part of Empower Network's 5th live event. How many companies do you know that put 6,000 people in a theater in just 5 events? And the funny thing is that we really only started doing our events not quite a year ago.

So for a company that came out of the gates, put in 10,000 people in the first 30 days, then had tremendous challenges. It had server issues. The platform when it was first built was built on a platform of sand. It wasn't built on sturdy concrete. The banks didn't understand the model.

We were attempting to get everybody their own merchant accounts at one time where all of our affiliates can process their own orders in their own merchant accounts, just like if somebody walked into your house and brought their credit card and they swiped it right there at your home office desk. Well, we were attempting to do that. The banks didn't understand it, so they pulled the plug. So there were about 2, 2 1⁄2 months where we couldn't even process orders because nobody had an account. And Dave and Dave, I raise my glass and tip my hat to these guys.

When most other company owners would literally cocktail and run, these guys stood tall in the face of adversity, the biggest challenges they've ever faced in their lives, especially as entrepreneurs and business owners. And because of the strength of their vision, I always say that a good leader leads his follower or her follower. What a great leader. A leader is led by their vision. And Dave and Dave could not stop moving forward.

And as a result, all of us rallied behind them, the thousands of us that had already been a part of the company for a couple of months at that time, we rallied behind them and we made sure that they knew that we were right there for them. And they kept looking for solutions, and they kept looking for solutions, and they made more phone calls, and reached out to more people. And they finally found a way for all of us to get our orders processed on the Internet, through a company that does the online processing, and then pays us all each and every week. So every Friday we get paid into Power Network. And I know those numbers are climbing.

I don't have the exact figures. Again, I'm just an affiliate like you. My wife Sophia and I joined in early November of 2011. And I'm going to get more into my story in just a little bit. But I wanted to share with you a little bit about who Empower Network is.

At least to me, again, my views, my vision, my understanding of Empower Network might be a little bit different than yours, but this is what Empower Network was for me. It was a vehicle where we could take a product line and share with people who are searching for this information all day, every day on the Internet. And if you know anything about business, and you know that when you have a product that fills the need in the marketplace, you have a product that fills the need in the marketplace, as long as it's fairly priced and the product has good value, then people will purchase what you offer. And that's exactly what Empower Network products are all about. We had a huge hole in the marketplace.

We had a huge void, a huge need for what Empower Network products offer. And of course, we've got our viral blogging platform, which is the very first product that our affiliates purchase. Well, not really affiliates, but what our guests purchase. You don't have to be an affiliate of Empower Network. That's the beauty of Empower Network.

We have so many people who buy the viral blogging platform for $25, and they just use it to grow another business. They use it to grow their own companies. They use it to market themselves and paid for their ideas. I want you to think about that for a second. If you're a guest, you haven't joined yet, or maybe you have joined.

Maybe you're already a member. Maybe you own the viral blogging platform. This is an opportunity for you to get paid for your ideas. This is an opportunity for you to get paid for your creativity. This is an opportunity for you to write that book that you've always wanted to write, or write that album, that song that you've always wanted to write, and not just write the book, or write the song, or write the album, but to put it out there on the Internet.

You could have a background in cooking. Maybe you want to write a cookbook. Maybe you're a chef and you want to create a recipe program or a blog that has thousands of recipes on it. No matter what your background is, you can be an athlete logging in your workouts and putting videos of yourself in training. You can be an artist, just a parent.

You could just be a great friend, and you want to blog about friendship, and what it's like to be a listener, and be compassionate, and reaching out to people, and being a connector. No matter what your passion is, no matter what your passion is, it's time for you to get paid for your passion. Now if you're not an entrepreneur, if you don't have any interest in owning your own business, or having an Internet marketing home online where you can post photos of yourself, and videos of yourself and your family. People blog using the viral blogging platform just simply to share their family photos. And they want to be able to upload videos right onto their blog, and they can customize it, and they can do whatever you want with your blog.

It's yours. It's a $25 platform. Here's the beauty of the $25 viral blogging platform. In just 35 days, you are going to literally have the ability to take your smart phone, whether it's an iPhone or an Android, literally hold your phone 3 feet in front of your face, press the record button, leave a message, or do a video that you want to be posted on your blog. Click submit, and that video will get posted right onto your Empower Network viral blog.

And literally, you could have the push button technology, the simplicity of what I just explained in your hands for only $25. Now of course, every company, every entrepreneur, every small business owner, everybody who wants to have something on the Internet will want something this good and this simple. And we've invested well over $3.5 million into developing the technology. And there are so many other bells and whistles that I'm not going to get into. Obviously, you are going to have to wait and see what happens on September 23.

But I can tell you that the army of affiliates, people who are not just members, but who are also actively marketing this company and this product line, are going to have one of the biggest success stories in the history of online marketing, if not the biggest success story to ever hit the Internet airwaves. And I can tell you, this is one hell of an exciting time to be a part of Empower Network. I see thousands and thousands of people that are building a business and creating income streams here marketing Empower Network's products and services. So again, I know that more and more of you just jumped on the line. We've got thousands of people listening in tonight.

I want to welcome you if you just joined us. My name is Aaron Rashkin. I've got a couple of special guests with me on the line. I'm going to go out to in just a few minutes. I want to share my story real quick.

I'm originally from New York. I grew up on Long Island, New York. You might detect my accent once in a while. I've done everything I could to shake it. I left the area when I was 18 years old, went to school in Baltimore.

Maryland. And I grew up in a very, very interesting household. All I can say to sum it up, just to put a real long story short, is that my parents loved me, but they didn't love each other. And that's okay. I'm okay with that.

And I know a lot of you probably relate to this. Your parents love you, but they didn't love each other. Well, that was me when I was a child. And I grew up with a lot of insecurities as a result. And I carry those insecurities with me.

And they turned into a lot of emotional baggage. Now, on the outside, you would never know that I had this tornado ripping right through me because I always was calm, cool, and collected. And I liked my martini shaken and not stirred like James Bond. But I can tell you, I grew up very, very dysfunctional. And I carried a lot of guilt, a lot of shame.

I was really, really good at blaming, shaming, and justifying. And I always had excuses. And I always knew that I was never really quite comfortable with who I was. I was never really quite comfortable with myself. Not because I wasn't a good person.

It was because I didn't believe in who I was. I took a lot of the burden of my parents' divorce on as a little boy. And I took that into every phase of my life. And so as I got older, it started showing up in grade school. It started showing up in relationships with family and friends.

And I got into some things that I'm not real proud of today. But I will tell you this. I had a blade of grass I walked over to get where I am right now because nothing ever happens to you. It happens for you. And everything that's happened is a life lesson for me.

And so I tell you this not to have you feel bad for me, but I want you to know that if you are having some challenges right now, whether they're personal, whether they're financial, maybe they're emotional. Maybe you're physically, maybe you're having some physical challenges. I have had each and every one of those including financial challenges just like so many of you listening on the line. And I'll tell you when you set yourself free personally, your personal freedom always comes before your financial freedom. So I want you to think about this.

This is a very important message from me tonight is that your personal freedom comes before your financial freedom. Now what is personal freedom? What do I mean? Personal freedom is where you set yourself free. It has nothing to do with money.

It has nothing to do with business. It has nothing to do with attraction marketing or social media like Facebook and YouTube or Pinterest. It has nothing to do with blogging or tagging or paid advertising. Personal freedom has to do with allowing yourself to breathe. It has to do with allowing yourself to let go and let God.

And allow yourself to literally be free from all of those thoughts that have kept you stuck and broke and busted and disgusted. Setting yourself free personally means allowing yourself to be imperfect. You are perfectly imperfect just the way you are. In other words, taking the pressure off yourself. Right?

Or pointing the finger at other people. This is a part of setting yourself free personally. And I can tell you, you will never outperform your own self-image. And those are some of the challenges that I had. I had self-image issues.

I didn't think I was good enough. I didn't think I was good enough to be successful. I didn't think I was good enough for love. I didn't think I was good enough for quality friendships. I didn't think I was good enough for good relationships.

Right? So I found a way to sabotage everything in my life. I remember making the varsity team when I was in my sophomore year of high school. They were checking to see which of the junior varsity kids can go up to the varsity team and play football that weekend. And I remember I was in the practice where they had us competing against the varsity players.

I was beating out the varsity team in some of these drills. And I was on top. And then I thought about, oh, wow, what if I actually get through the game and I screw up? Well, sure enough, I sabotaged my own success, and I made sure that I didn't make it to the varsity game that weekend. And so it's things like that are a part of personal hostage.

When you hold yourself hostage, it means that you have not yet set yourself free. And setting yourself free is the most important thing you can do, especially when you are an entrepreneur. Now, I say that one of the most important things that you can do to be successful in your life is to surround yourself with other people who have what you want. Surround yourself with other people who have what you want. That's not why thousands and thousands of people have flocked to Empower Network.

The reason that so many people have come to this company is because the consciousness of an organization starts at the very top. It starts with Dave Wood and Dave Sharp. And that consciousness is of the people. It's of the people, it's by the people, and it's for the people. And the biggest reason that Dave and Dave had this vision of the people is because they are two of the most authentic, right, the most authentic and integrous people I personally have ever met.

And I've met tens of thousands of people over the years in our industry, leaders from all walks of life and different companies. I've personally been in home business now for over 22 years. I was just sharing this story earlier. I haven't had a job since 1995. That was the last time that I ever had a steady job or a steady income outside of my own free enterprise and entrepreneurship.

And I've met them all. I've met tens of thousands of people over the years, but I have yet to meet two people quite like Dave and Dave. They built this company for you and I, again, it's because they wanted our dreams to fit inside their vision. And I can tell you story after story after story after story. There are thousands of stories, success stories inside this company in only 21 months.

I want you to think about this for a second. We've got over 161,000 members, paid members, and tens of thousands of affiliates. As a matter of fact, Empower Network of all the hundreds plus company events that I've personally been to over the years, I have never seen an event where 95% of the room is standing when they've asked, who here has made money? Who here has gotten results? Typically in the industry, you get about 95% of the people sitting down and only 5% of the room is standing because those companies where we have events like this where you have a very small percentage of the people making money, they do things a little bit differently.

First and foremost, they probably pay only between 5% and maybe 25% or 40% commissions at most. And the company has to operate on the other percentage of commissions that the distributors or the reps or the affiliates don't get paid. And here Dave and Dave were generous to pay out 100% of the commissions which means that the company doesn't make money when most of you make your sales. Now some of you are directly tied to Dave and Dave. Perhaps you are guests of theirs that are on this call right now.

Maybe you are members of theirs. And so you are attached to Dave and Dave. So yes, they are affiliates just like you and I. And so they make their money. They make a lion's share of their income by doing exactly what you and I do which is to do the marketing and talk to people.

Now notice I said we do two things. We market and we talk to people. Those are the only two things that make money in this business, marketing and talking to people. Now notice I didn't say talking to people first. I said marketing first.

Now marketing is putting a great message in front of the right person at just the right time. That's what marketing is, is getting the right message in front of the right person at just the right time. Now who is the right person? Well, the right person is the person who knows right now this is the perfect thing and the right time for them to be doing this, starting a small business from home, buying a product that can teach you how to be an entrepreneur, how to run a small business from your desk in your home, your kitchen table. Maybe you have a laptop or perhaps you like to work off of your tablet or your smart phone.

You are literally able to make money using your iPhone. I was in a movie last night and I got there a little bit earlier than I should have. I was in a movie last night and I got there a little bit earlier than I should have, and I wound up sitting for 30 minutes waiting for the movie to start. And so I was on my iPhone doing business, sending out broadcast emails to tens of thousands of people literally from my iPhone and had another multi-thousand dollar night. And that's what anyone can do.

Now notice I didn't say everyone can do this. Notice I didn't say everyone can do this. I said anyone can do this. Anyone who has the desire to be successful, who is willing to put forth the effort, and who is coachable and teachable, and is willing to follow in the footsteps of other people who have come before them. So here's what I want to do.

I want to take a breath. I want to take a sip of water. I might even crack open a peach Snapple, one of my favorite drinks. I want to bring on the line with me real quick one of, not just one of my closest and bestest of friends, but also a member of mine and Sophia's team who has a really powerful story to tell. I can tell you, I know he does this part-time, and he's kind of just fooling around with this for the first I don't even know how many months he's been working with us.

But I want to bring out onto the line real quick my awesome friend and my business partner, Carlos Aponte, Jr. Carlos, you out there, man? Carlos Aponte, Jr.: I sure am. All right. How are you doing tonight, buddy?

Carlos Aponte, Jr.: I am good. I'm fired up, and I'm excited to be here. All right. Yeah. If you can speak up just a little bit more.

That would be great. Well, let me do this. Let me set the stage for you, Carlos. I know that you run a business part-time. You have an awesome, beautiful family.

Your wife, Lissette, and your two kids, who I absolutely adore, Brandon and Tylea. I want you to share with everybody a little bit about where you came from and what's happened to you since you found Empower Network and what's been going on for you and your business, and maybe just take a few minutes and share, catch everybody up to speed with you. Carlos Aponte, Jr.: That sounds good. And by the way, you are just crushing. I'm taking down a lot of notes.

And for those of you listening, make sure you're taking down notes as well. And I know I haven't touched on this in the beginning. Do not leave your fortune to your memory. But let me just go ahead and just take me back about 20 years ago. I've been involved in this home-based business profession for 20 years, or I think 21 years now.

Wow. I'm 38 years old, got involved when I was 17, going on 18. I was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, in my neighborhood. Most people sold drugs, so I ended up doing the same exact things. And I got caught up in the ghetto and in the lifestyle.

And what ended up happening, guys, and one of the beautiful things about this Empower Network community is that you can be real. You can be authentic. You don't need to hide. And I want to make sure I share this story and I be as authentic as possible with each and every one of you. So I grew up in this really bad neighborhood in the Bronx, where they filmed the movie B Street, the break dancing movie and everything else, which you guys have probably seen, those of you who remember that movie from the 80s.

And one time I ended up going to an opportunity meeting. Somebody invited me. You guys remember this for those of you who have been involved in the network marketing profession. They invited me over to an opportunity meeting. They said, Carlos, you don't need to be in the street.

You don't need to be doing those things. There is better opportunities out there. There is more for you, and you could help and inspire a lot of people in your community. And I remember for the very first time when they threw these circles on this big whiteboard. And I saw those circles, and I was just blown away when that happened.

And at that point, I knew the direction of my life, and I never turned back. And I got all in 100%, and I knew my career path. And one thing that I loved so much about the profession of direct selling is that they accepted me with open arms. They accept everybody with open arms. It doesn't matter if you're tall, if you're bald, if you're black, if you're white, if you're gay, if you're straight.

If you've got money, don't got money. It doesn't matter what religion or country you're from. If you have the burning desire to change your life, they accept you with open arms. And that's what they did for us. And we worked the business.

We worked it really hard. And we made some money, but we can never crack that code. And I think that the biggest challenge, the biggest challenge for most people in network marketing, multi-level marketing, or any direct sales business, they do not know how to market. And this is why I love this community here in Power Network, because we bring to the table what other companies are not teaching, what people in the direct selling profession are not teaching. What they don't teach in network marketing, they don't teach you how to market.

And that is the number one reason, I believe, this is my opinion, why people fail in the home-based business community. And I remember when I met that first mentor, Aaron, and they told me, hey Carlos, once you learn how to market, you can make magic happen. And you don't need to kill yourself. You can make magic happen. And guys, the moment I learned how to market, I was able to quadruple my income.

And make sure you guys look at the income disclosures, because we keep it up front with you, and we want you guys to take a look at that, because opportunity is available to everybody, but we don't know what you are going to bring to the table. We don't know your skill set. We don't know your burning desire. So make sure you look at that income disclaimer page on any one of the blogging platforms that we have here in Power Network. So guys, Power Network is the university.

It's the marketing university. It's for people who want to learn how to become successful in their own home-based business by learning how to market. And once I learned how to market, it was game over. The problem when I learned how to market was that it was hard for me to duplicate that. I was able to market.

I was able to generate tons of leads and drive tons of traffic to my pages. And we were able to make money and create stories or share stories with videos and video marketing, but most people couldn't duplicate that. And there was no trainings out there. There was no tools out there the way they are right now, the way we have it here in Empower Network. So guys, I've been playing around with Empower Network.

Like Alan said, I'm definitely taking it serious. I think we just got a check. And that was for today. We haven't worked the business today. And guys, all I do is market every single day.

And like Alan said, we talk to people. We market every single day, and we talk to people. But we market in a way that works for us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because we put the tools out there that people are looking for. And guys, if you're writing this down, write down this story, because this story, I learned it years ago. And it just makes perfect sense.

So here's the story, and then I'm going to turn it right back over to Alan. Really quick, you guys remember the story of the gold rush. During the gold rush, a lot of people went out west. And they went out west trying to mine for gold. And everybody wanted to strike it rich out west, trying to hit the jackpot by striking gold.

A lot of people went out west. Think of it like the gold rush is the home-based business profession. There's tons of companies, tons of products, all of those things. A lot of great companies, a lot of great products. So a lot of people went out west.

A lot of people joined these companies because they're trying to get rich. They're trying to strike it and succeed right away. So during the gold rush, what happened was that there was a few merchants that decided, you know what, instead of trying to strike gold, let's just sell the pits and the shovels to the gold miners. Guys, the most amount of money that was made during the gold rush was by the merchants. Some of you know some of these merchants.

Levi Strauss, people needed denim jeans. They got their start there. People were buying pits and shovels, the hardware store companies, people did the lodging. And that's what Empowered Network is. We have the pits and shovels that people in the home-based business profession need.

They need this blogging platform. They need the marketing education. We are the university, and nobody else brings it better than Empowered Network. If you want to succeed, if you want to learn how to market, this is the place to be. And guys, I'm just excited to be here.

You guys can hear my voice. I'm going to take this thing to a whole other level. I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for allowing me to share. I thank all of you.

Thank Dave. Thank Erin. Both Dave and my whole entire team and everybody who is listening right now. I appreciate all of you. So with that, guys, I'm going to turn it right back over to Aaron.

Aaron, brother, take it away. Yeah, absolutely, Carlos. Tremendous story. $50,000 in Empowered Network. Part-time, just what, three or four hours a week.

And I love what you said. You talked about how you market every day. Really, when you know how to do the right things, you get results. You don't have to spend a lot of time. Carlos, I know you go to the gym.

I go to the gym every day. And I'm only in the gym sometimes for like 30 to 40 minutes, because I can get done in 30 or 40 minutes what people who don't know how to exercise effectively and efficiently need to take two and three hours for. So when I leave the gym, sometimes the front desk girl says, well, that was quick. And I say, well, yeah, that was quick, but it was good. In other words, you don't have to do something for a long time if you know how to do it effectively.

And you're right. We are the company that offers the picks and shovels. Because everybody does need an online home. That's what our viral blogging platform is all about. You can customize it.

You can put your own photos on. You can add videos. You can create your own footers and footers. You don't even have to show that you are a part of Empower Network on your blog, yet because you are blogging on the Empower Network Authority domain name that the search engines absolutely love, you are still going to be able to get your blogs, your blog posts ranked by Google, by using some of the skills that are taught inside the Empower Network product line. So it doesn't matter if you want to sell, let's just say you have a tomato stand on the side of the road, and you want to bring that tomato business to the Internet, boom, this is your in to the World Wide Web.

This is your way to market yourself online. Maybe you are a writer, or you are an author, and you have a great idea for a book. And you have written the book. Maybe you want to do a digital version of the book. Maybe you just want to get your name out there.

It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, or what you want out of an online business, Empower Network can absolutely show you the way to go. And Carlos, you are dead on when you say that this is the Internet gold rush. A lot of people don't realize this, but we are in the information age. We went from the industrial age. Well, we started in the agricultural age, and we went to the industrial age.

Now we are in the information age, and people don't even realize it. People don't even realize that they pay for information all day, every day. It is called Internet connection. Internet connection allows us to access email. Email allows us to access information.

Internet connection allows us to access the World Wide Web. World Wide Web allows us to access information. So people are searching online. I believe there is over 5 million searches per month on say, Google, for make money from home ideas, and opportunities, and ways to add some extra income for the family so people can pay off their bills, get out of debt, take more vacations, have more options, really give themselves more breathing room financially. And with so many people searching for new ways to make money, and so many people searching for new ways to start a business, and become independent, and not have to work at a job, or work for a big corporation, or work for the government, or work for somebody else besides themselves, people are looking, and they are looking for a leader.

And so what Empower Network is teaching people is how to become the leader that other people are looking for. And we use this Empower Network platform, and this community, and this movement. And I started saying earlier that one of the keys to success is to surround yourself with other people who already have what you want. And this is why thousands of leaders like yourself, Carlos, have come to the business, have come to Empower Network, because you not only see this as a huge opportunity for yourself, but for your team as well. And when you surround yourself with people in this community, my friends, that have incredible success, and that have already shown and proven that what we do is working, they say that if your best friends are successful, there is a really good chance that you are going to become number 11.

And Carlos, I appreciate you coming out here, my friend. You are one of a kind, and I just can't tell you how much I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you so much, Alan. Absolutely. Well, let's do this, gang.

I'm going to bring out another guest or two. I know that I have a couple of other business partners and friends, some really close people in my life that are on the line as well. And I want to bring them out to share real quick. First and foremost, I want to go back to I believe the year – gosh, I want to say it was the year 1999 or the year 2000. It might have even been 2001.

I don't remember exactly because those years kind of mushed together for me. I had lots going on in my life. I was figuring who I was out. I was starting to really lose the weight of the world. Even though I wasn't overweight by any means, I was carrying the weight of the world for so many years.

And it was those years between 1999 and 2001 that I started really losing the weight of the world, and I started letting go. And allowing myself to breathe again. I started to really release a lot of the guilt, and a lot of the shame, and a lot of the pain that I carried in my life up until that point. Now I said earlier that you would have never known that I was going through this internally, this tornado ripping right through me because I always kept it all together. I was able to kind of operate cool under pressure.

But I can tell you that deep down, I had these feelings of insecurity. I had these feelings of lack. I felt very, very insecure about who I was and what my mission on earth was. Now I had a lot of confidence, and I shared this from stage in Denver. When you have a lot of confidence, but a very low self-esteem, that is a very, very dangerous combination.

It's almost like a reverse cocktail, and it can backfire on you. And that's what had been happening to me for so many years. And so when I got into home business, and I got into entrepreneurship, I said to myself, I found out the hard way that if it was to be, it was up to me. And I didn't understand personal responsibility. I didn't understand how powerful my words and actions were when it came to other people.

I still had a lot to learn about compassion. I had a lot to learn about a lot of different things. My goodness, I had so many years where I was so closed down to learning. And it was in, I believe, one of those years between 1999 – maybe she can refresh my memory – in 2001, maybe 2002. I'm not exactly sure.

But I was at a company event, and I was in search of this opportunity to become personally and financially free. And see, when I first saw network marketing, just as Carlos talked about, the very first time I saw it myself was back in 1991. I was a college kid, and I went to school and was a part of a startup fraternity. My friends and I started a fraternity because we didn't want to be apart. We didn't want to be a part of some other system on campus.

And so we started our own fraternity, and part of our fraternal obligations was to donate money to different causes, charities, and different philanthropy-type organizations. So we raised money by doing car washes with the sororities. And we did Red Cross money drives. They were at street corners. We would collect change in these little red, or should I say white buckets with the Red Cross on it.

We did walk-a-thons and those types of things. And without having to go have a bake sale, we found out about network marketing through a friend of ours. And that was my first exposure to the industry. And so I had been exposed to network marketing since 1991. And so I have really – I threw my hat in the ring 22 years ago and have been exposed to this industry for a very long time.

And there I was now almost 10 years ago around 2001, still in search of the vehicle for myself. Now of course, I had to first find myself to get myself into the right vehicle. But I can tell you that I was in a vehicle at that time. I was with a company. They had an event down I believe in Orlando, Florida.

And I found myself in an elevator talking to this lady who has become not only one of my business partners for the last handful of years, almost a decade, but we've become amazing friends. She works literally side-by-side with me. In my office working on her business and mine with me. And I want to bring out my great friend Diane Ziddick. Diane, are you out there?

I'm here Aaron. Can you hear me? Yup, loud and clear. How are you doing tonight Bea? I'm doing great, doing great.

Just awesome listening to you and Carlos. Just so inspired by everything that is coming out of your mouth as I'm always listening to you because you're – honestly, you're a great hero. Aaron, I appreciate you. And I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to be on the call tonight. I just wanted to tell a little bit about my background for those of you listening.

I come from a corporate background. I've worked in corporate America professionally for over 15 years, maybe 20 years in human resources. And I got to tell you, as I'm listening to you and I'm getting all pumped up about what we're doing, I wanted to go back in time and talk about some of the pain that I had every day dealing in my corporate environment. And I'm sure a lot of people listening can relate. I really, really hated my job.

And it was sad because I would get up and I would be working. I'd have to be there sometimes 7, 30, 8 o'clock in the morning. And the thing about being in a corporate environment, especially in human resources, is every single day you never know what is going to be thrown at you, difficult situations, people in constant conflict at work, always doing your best, trying to do your best, but knowing that, you know, in corporate America, people will step on you to try to get ahead. And they also throw you under the bus without even a second thought. People that you think are your friends, people that you have relationships with at work.

You know, when something starts going sour, you're the first one that gets thrown under the bus. And the stress of that, I remember talking to this woman, to Sophia about this, on the phone one day. She asked me, hey, you know, how's work going? And I was just so ready to be done. I was just so looking for a way out.

I was at that tipping point where, you know what, just give me one good reason today, and I'm just so done with this crap. And I said to her, you know, I don't even have, you know, five minutes to turn around and exhale. It got to be that bad because, you know, I want to say 10 or 15 years ago, when I was working in the same kind of environment, honestly, it was not, you know, it was not what I wanted to do, but I felt like I could assist people. I felt like I was making somewhat of a difference in that, you know, it was enough. I was kind of doing my thing and feeling like I was making an impact a little bit.

But times have gotten tough, and, you know, they're squeezing blood, trying to squeeze blood from a stone. If you can't bring it, if you can't do it, you know, just 50 miles an hour, you know, then what happens is they'll find someone younger, they'll find someone who's doing it for less money, and they will just, you know, you're not, you're an expert. You're an expendable item to the corporation. And I really felt inside that I was putting on this facade, putting on being someone I wasn't, and I felt like I had this greatness inside of me. And I don't mean to say that to be boastful, but I feel like everyone has greatness inside of them.

And when you go into that kind of environment, you get crushed. Instead of people speaking to the greatness in you, and everybody has it, they crush your spirit. I felt crushed. I know plenty of people that came to me and told me how crushed they felt. And so now in Empower Network, here I am surrounded by people that don't crush me.

They lift me up. They lift up my spirit and make me feel good. They make me feel like, you know, I'm a part of the community. I have something to offer, and I can make a difference. I have on my personal blog, are you an entrepreneur ready to make your mark on the world?

And I've had that on there for about four years. And now that I'm within Empower, I feel the fullness of that statement like I never have, because I understand. I have so many people that get to actually be who they are. And like Carlos was saying, be authentic in the world and bring your gift. Bring it out and be everything that you were born to be.

So I'm just so excited that I could let go and, you know, I had to make the decision. I did. I made the decision to leave that environment. And it was a lot of pain there. I left it behind.

I embraced something that was in front of me. But you've got to go out there and grab it. And doing that has changed my life. I'm so blessed to work with you every day, Aaron, to work with this community. And really, that's what I want to share with everyone.

Well, that's awesome, Diane. I mean, not only are you amazing as a human being, but just an amazing partner to have and to work side by side with me. I feel more blessed sometimes. I think than you do that we have that relationship. But, you know, you said something that really made so much sense.

You know, you talked about how badly you wanted to get out of the position that you were in, working, you know, in corporate America, having a job, working for, you know, a salary. You know, and I always say that if you know exactly how much money you're going to make this week and next week and the following week, and you know exactly how much money you're going to make each and every month, chances are you're probably really broke. And I know that the only way, and I think the best way to really say this is the, you know, in order to explore new oceans, right, in order to explore new oceans, you have to be willing to lose sight of the shore. And that's what entrepreneurship is all about. That's what taking a leap of faith is, right?

Faith is the evidence of things yet unseen, right? So when we know that we have to be willing to lose sight of the shore, when we know that we have a greater purpose in life, when we know that we have a bigger mission to accomplish and a fulfillment, right, a personal self-fulfillment and a self-fulfillment prophecy that we still have yet to achieve, right, when your why is great enough, right? When your why is great enough, right? Maybe your why is to be around your children more. Maybe your why is to be with your spouse.

Maybe your why is to be able to retire and travel the world and have what's called geographical freedom, right? It doesn't matter what your why is. Maybe like you want to just do what I said earlier. You want to pay off some bills. You want to get out of debt.

You want to get some financial breathing room and take some pressure off yourself and be able to take that extra date night every week or maybe take the kids away on that vacation that you've always wanted to take them on, right? I know so many people, Diane, that tell me that they took their kids to Disney World because of being in this business. Literally dozens of people inside Empower Network have already done that. I've heard story after story after story of people that are either going to Disney World in Florida or Disneyland in California, but they're taking their kids to Disney on the money that they earned through Empower Network. They're able to take back total control of their finances.

They're able to take back total control of their finances, their freedom, and their time. And when your why is strong enough and your why is big enough, my friends, the how part takes care of itself. The good news is that we have the how part here for you. And we're not going to tell you to make a list of family and friends. We're not going to have you get on the phone and cold call strangers.

You're not going to have to buy leads of people who don't want, don't need, or can't afford what you're trying to do. You're not going to sell them. You're going to learn how to be an entrepreneur, how to create a brand around you in the Empower Network vehicle, how to leverage the success of Dave and Dave and of some of the top leaders and the earners inside this company sharing their stories. And then by sharing their stories, you can create your own. And there's not another company that I'm aware of in this industry that has this many people.

So, if you're having success in such a short amount of time as we do here inside Empower Network, you come to any one of our live events. As a matter of fact, we have some events coming up here in October. We have our next set of events. We have four regionals taking place around the country. One in Anaheim, California the second weekend of October.

The third weekend of October will be in Dallas, Texas, and inside Washington, D.C. And then the last weekend in October, I believe it's the 23rd, 24th, 25th, we will be in Orlando, Florida. And it is a closed event. It is for members only. So, of course, you have to become a member of Empower Network.

It's $25 to get your membership started. You'll get access to your Fast Start training videos. You'll get access to the viral blogging network. You'll get access to your team. Maybe your team has a team site.

Maybe they have some training for you, how-to videos, some of the private team stuff that you're going to be able to tap into. And then, of course, once you're an affiliate, you get access to all of the affiliate training, all the different opportunities as an affiliate with the live events, the one-on-one conversations and the relationships inside all the different mediums out there like Facebook and Ming and all the different places that our members work together as a team. I've been a part of dozens of companies over the years, and I'll be honest with you. I have never seen a group of leaders that work together, to raise each other up and lift each other up. And when one guy has a $40,000 day like Justin did a few days ago, I think right before the weekend, all the leaders are clapping.

We're excited. We're applauding. You know why we're applauding? Because that just shows us that not only is Empower Network, and I did say $40,000 day, just in case you thought you misheard me, a $40,000 day one of our members had. When he posted that in the Skype group that some of us are a part of, and he posted it on Facebook, I've never seen so many people congratulate a person for doing so well.

In most other companies, you get the five or six leaders that are making 98% of the income. They're crossing their arms and raising their eyebrows saying, God, I've got to make sure that I can do that too. And instead of saying, hey, congratulations. We're so happy for you. We're so proud of you.

We get a lot of pushback sometimes. And from within our own industry as well. And I always say when one person does well, it raises an entire community. It raises an entire company. It raises an entire industry.

Really, Justin raised the bar just like Vic did, just like Tony has, and Tracy has, and Chris Record has. I could sit here and go through name after name after name. I can name all the leaders on my team and just give so much credit and recognition and acknowledge literally thousands and thousands of friends of ours around this community. And I can tell you, each and every one of them that are doing well, we all couldn't be more proud of. I can't tell you how many people get high fives and slaps on the butt.

Just all the greatness that goes on inside of our community. I've never seen anything like this in 22 plus years of being part of the home business industry. But I do want to say that Diane, I appreciate you. Thanks for being out here. I know you've put a lot of time and effort into working with Sophia and myself and supporting our business, and part-time on the side squeezing your business.

And I know that really the vision for you is to be able to build the business of your dreams. And we're here to support that, all thousands of our team working together side by side with you. So thanks for being out here tonight as well. And I think I might have lost Diane. So that being said, gang, I want to cover a couple of really important things.

Then I'm going to bring out one other special guest that I have on the line with me tonight. I'm pretty sure that she's on. And if you will, just text me to make sure that we're definitely on the page here. But I want to talk about something. I talk a lot through at least my emails today.

And I know I saw dozens of people that swipe my emails. And I love that. I've got to tell you, I think it's great because that's on some of the top earners' lists. And when I see my email being sent out just an hour after I send it out to my list, to see that all the leaders are swiping my copy and using some of what I put out in my message and theirs, that just kind of tickles me pink. And I know that thousands of us are on the line here tonight to talk about the one thing that's really, really allowed mine and Sophia's business to explode.

Not just mine and Sophia's business, but all of the top earners and all of the leaders and everybody inside Empower Network who's really making a run right now and doing some incredible things. And I just want to be absolutely clear again, if you just joined the call, again, any incomes mentioned on the call are not typical. They are not average. If you want to see average earnings, you want to go to empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot PHP and go do the research on whatever it is you are looking for. I'm talking about above average people, people who are not sitting on the couch after work and watching reruns of some sitcom that's been syndicated for them to watch each and every night, absorbing in all the advertising on fast food and junk food commercials.

And pretty soon we are going to be coming up on the holidays and you are going to get people that are going to sit there to watch all the advertisements and all the marketing that's done to them over the boot tube, the electronic income reducer. And they are going to get sucked into the energy of the holidays. And they are going to say things like, well, I'll just wait until January to get started making money and lose weight and feel great. See, successful people don't operate like that. Successful people, people that are destined for success, people that are programming themselves and reconditioning themselves to become something they have never been before, we have a different way of looking at life.

We have a different way of looking at situations. Our perspective has a different shadow on it. It actually doesn't have a shadow. It has a ton of light. It has a ton of light.

We always look into the light when it comes to entrepreneurship. That's the only way to succeed. I don't want to use the half glass, half full analogy. But I will say that when you stare into the light, you are avoiding the darkness of the shadows. And when you know what you want, when you know what you want and you are focused on what you want out of your business, you know exactly what your mission is, not just your financial objective and your life's purpose, or your mission here on earth.

But I'm talking about what you want your business to allow you to do. Because it's never about the money. It's never about the money. It's never about the money when you get started, and it's never about the money when you are in the process. The reason I say it's never about the money is because it's never about to get started.

It's $25 to buy a basic membership right now. And if you haven't bought it yet, it's now about that time that you go into the email or you go to the page, wherever you learned about Empower Network, whoever it is that you are interested in working with, it's the person that you have been following and looking at joining Empower Network with, go to their email. Go to their website. Go to their blog. Go to their Facebook wall.

Go wherever you can right now, and click on a Join Now or Register Now button, and get your basic membership. It's as simple as that. Get the membership. It's $25. And I always say, don't let the reason that you are looking to get started be the reason that you don't.

So if you don't have money right now, that's exactly why you want to click the button and join. You don't have enough free time because your job has you working 50 hours a week, that's exactly why you want to press the button and join right now. You don't know how to be successful. You don't know what to do. That's exactly why you click the button and you join right now, because you are going to be somewhere in 6 months.

You are going to be somewhere in 12 months. You are going to be somewhere a year and 2 and 3 years down the road. The question is, are you going to be exactly where you are right now telling the same story that you don't have $25 to join, or that you don't have an extra hour or two per night or per day to invest into something that you want to do for yourself and your family? Are you going to be telling the same story? I'm just not good at the Internet.

I'm just not good at technology. I'm not real techie. Are you going to keep telling that story for the next 3, 6, 9, 12 months, a year, 2, 3 years from now? Or are you ready to do something about it right now? And if you are telling yourself this story that you are not good at something, or that you are not good enough, or that you don't have enough, you don't have the money, let me tell you, that story that you tell yourself right now is the only thing that keeps you from becoming the success that you want to be.

I'll say that again. The story that you tell yourself right now as to why you can't be, do, or have whatever the heck you want in life is the story, right? That story is the only thing that keeps you from having it. So when you change your story by changing your actions, you are going to get different results. So click the Join Now button.

Click the Register Now button. Get yourself in the game. Get access to the Fast Start training videos. Get access to the viral blogging system. Get access to your sponsor, or your enroller, or whoever it is on your team that you are going to be working with, and get yourself in the game.

That's the key to being a success. Now, I want to talk about what you want. See, when you know what you want, 90% of getting it is knowing what you have to give up in order to succeed. Now, let me say that again. 90% of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give up in order to get it.

So let me give you some examples. If you want to lose weight, then you know that you have to stop taking in more calories than you are burning every day. That's a simple formula for losing weight. You want to lose weight? Burn more calories than you ingest.

Every single day. Now, I know there are some exceptions to the rule. Maybe you have a thyroid problem, or maybe you've got some glandular issues. Yes, I said that word, glandular. Maybe you have some rare situation.

But for the most part, if you want to lose weight, look good, feel good, have more energy, take in less calories, eat higher quality concentrations of food, you know that if you want to lose weight, you are going to have to give up eating sugars, and sweets, and ice cream, and a lot of processed foods, and things that have salt and sugar in them. Knowing what you want, 90% of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give up in order to do that. I'll give you a better example. If you want to build muscle, and burn fat, and you want to look lean and mean, you've got to stop eating fast foods and skipping workouts. 90% of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give up.

You've got to give up in order to get it. Now, if you want to be a success, if you want to be a successful business person, you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you want to be a successful Internet marketer, online marketer, affiliate marketer, home business owner, right? You've got to stop spending time with non-trepreneurs. Yup, non-trepreneurs. I said it, non-trepreneurs.

You've got to stop spending time with non-trepreneurs, and you've got to stop doing things that are unproductive for your business. Right? It's called dropping the drama. Let me tell you right now, one of the most successful days of my life was the day that I stopped looking for things to be offended by. When I stopped looking for things to be offended by, my entire life changed.

I started going through life lighthearted and easygoing, right? Instead of taking it easy, I was making it easy. Right? You've got to stop looking for things to be offended by. Quit taking things personally.

You should never take things personal in business because business is not personal. Okay? Learn how to let go and drop the drama. Right? And I know some of you are thinking, what is this guy talking about?

Why are we going down this road? Well, let me tell you. Everything to do with entrepreneurship is based on who you're being. It's all about who you're being. And see, it doesn't matter.

Some of you are getting what I'm saying. Some of you are not getting what I'm saying. For the right person, there's nothing you have to say. Right? For the wrong person, there's nothing I could say.

So I'm only speaking to a handful of you on the call tonight. Now, there are thousands of people, so I'm probably talking to hundreds of you on the call that are getting exactly what I'm saying right now. So again, going back to my original message, 90% of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give up in order to get it. Now, I want you to take some notes here. Maybe do this exercise with me.

Write down three things or type down three things that you can do starting now, not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, not in January after the holidays. What can you start doing right now? In other words, stop doing in order to get closer to your goals. Now, I don't know you personally. I don't know your work ethic.

I don't know your desires. I don't know what your goals are, your objectives, your financial goals and means and so forth. So you have to jot down or write down, type down those three things that you are going to stop doing in order for you to reach your goals. You know what they are. I know you know what they are.

So I want you to take stock in that. That's a really important part of the process. Now, I call this addition. Addition by subtraction. I'll give you an example.

I'm walking around my office house right now and I have all these plants. I don't know how many of you have plants in your house, but it was always a challenge for me to keep a plant alive. These plants have been now alive for two plus years, and they are looking pretty healthy actually. A couple of them I've over watered. I've underlit.

I had to move them around to find the right spot for them, but they are looking really lush and green. They are not carpet. They are lush, not plush, but they are beautiful and green. I'm always keeping my eye on my plants because I love to keep them healthy, and they are just beautiful to have around and just admire. So we were on a vacation a few months ago, and I didn't water them before we left.

I came back after a few days, and one of the plants next to my desk here, it had a bunch of dead leaves on it. So I took the dead leaves off, and I kind of shook it out, and it looked a little bare actually. But you know what? Because I got rid of the dead leaves, and I started taking better care of it right away, within literally 24 hours, the plant sprung back to life. It wasn't wilted anymore.

The leaves were standing upright. They were just beautiful, lush, and green. And we were back in business. And I call that when you release and let go of the dead weight, and you get rid of the things that are uninspiring to you and disempowering to you. When you get rid of those things and you move past them, it's called addition by subtraction.

Write that down, addition by subtraction. It's when you let go of those things that don't serve you and your life purpose anymore, and they are nothing but dead weight. You shake them out, and you start springing back to new life. Now that being said, I want to share real quickly, because I want to make sure that I have my guest on the line, because she is such an important part of not just my life, but a part of mine and Sophia's business. And I'm going to bring out here somebody who, gosh, I guess it was now just a little bit over 5 years ago.

Sophia and I, my background is in personal training. I was a personal trainer for many years. And Sophia was in real estate. And we met back in 2004. I was in $60,000 worth of debt.

She was in $80,000. And so between the two of us as a couple, we were $140,000 in debt, credit card debt. And we had been working in a network marketing business, and we did everything they told us to do. We made our list of family and friends. We hosted home parties.

We did 40 home parties in our last year with that company. And Sophia was pregnant with our second son at the time. He's now just turned 5 years old. So this is literally just a handful of years ago. And after doing 40 home parties and having to clean our living room rug, or should I say our carpet every quarter because of all the dirt and the mud, we had people coming into our home with muddy shoes from the winter and the snow and the slush outside.

And we had literally, we were buying chips and dips and vegetables and fruits. And cheese and crackers every single Friday afternoon for an entire year. We did 40 home parties. And we traveled. We didn't just do them in our home.

We did them in our members' homes. And we did the whole MLM rigamarole. And after that last year when Sophia gave birth to Legend, our son, we took off for some time and we reevaluated what we were doing with ourselves and our lives. And we believe in network marketing. We believe in lifting and raising up other people.

And then on the back end we would obviously get what we were looking for as well. And we love working with people. And we love being a part of teams and growing businesses and working and traveling around the country and around the world and sleeping until we are done, and taking vacations and eating fine food with fine people in fine places. And what happened was we decided to search online. We did like many of you, went to the Internet and went to Google and typed in, make money from home.

And sure enough, we started doing some research on different products and different companies and different programs and opportunities. And we found ourselves after a little bit of research, a little bit of due diligence in a company where we didn't really know anything about the company. We didn't know really a lot about the product. We just did a little bit of research online. We read a couple of sales pages, watched a video, and we bought the products.

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You can go watch our Fast Start videos and get into your viral blogging platform here tonight. You could be literally marketing by the morning. So going back 5 years, we started with this company. And the very first person who we contacted when we joined that company, we called the customer support because we had questions. You don't want to call your sponsor because they are busy.

They are busy being successful. You want to call the customer support if you have some questions. Now sure, you want to talk to your sponsor. You want to develop that working relationship and get to know them and learn a little bit about their story and what they did to get their business started. But for technical stuff, you call the company's customer support line.

And that's exactly what we did. And the voice on the other end of the phone is this lady that I'm going to bring out here right now. And not only was she our first customer support slash business, but she has coached thousands and thousands and thousands of people over the years. And we've developed such a great relationship and a great friendship and an admiration and a mutual respect working with each other for now the past 5 years, somewhat directly, somewhat indirectly. But now we work together very closely.

And I want to bring out onto the line my awesome friend and assistant, Danielle. Danielle, are you out there? Erin, I am here. Can you hear me? Yes.

I can hear you. How are you doing tonight, Danielle? You guys are rocking and rolling tonight. This has been an awesome, awesome call. And thank you for having me out.

You know, you, Erin, and Sophia just mean a tremendous amount to me. It's been just amazing to watch you guys grow and to grow with you guys here over, what is it, the last 5, 6 years now? Yeah. We haven't been online yet for a full 5 years. We started in July of 2008.

So we just had our, you know, 5-year anniversary of joining a program on the Internet. But we're not full-time until January when we were, like, our very first Internet venture went full-time. So we're coming up on 5 years full-time here shortly online. And, you know, it was you on the other end of the phone when I called to ask a few questions. About getting started and what to expect moving forward.

But what I really wanted to have you do is just share a little bit, Danielle. You know, you've been a part of what Sophia and I have been doing now for the past, I don't even know, maybe about 15 or 16 months. And, you know, you've seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue go through, you know, our business almost every quarter it seems like now. And I just wanted you to share your perspective with everybody. There's thousands of people listening live.

There's going to be tens of thousands who listen to this and download this in their Empower Network back offices and on their smartphones here over the next few weeks and so forth. But maybe you can just share a little bit about, you know, for people that are new that are just looking at this for the first time. Maybe they're just kind of a first-time listener, a guest. You know, what do you tell somebody who's brand new? What should they be doing, you know, right now to get their business off the ground?

Right now, I think it's getting started. Yeah. Yeah. Well, definitely, I can say hands down getting started here within the Empower Network and plugging into everything that's happening right now. I can remember I started about seven years ago in this industry.

And I've worked in a lot of different capacities in this industry. And, you know, in starting out, you know, I happened to be a sales manager. Right. I was in one of those magical moments. I was in the right place at the right time and willing to put my head down.

And that's something that you've got to have if you're starting in this industry is that determination and just that self-starter, ready to go, knowing what you're after first and foremost, and then being coachable and trainable and ready to take action. But I can tell each and every one of you on the lines, you know, Erin talked about, you talked about his past in the industry, my past in the industry. You know, this is really the perfect storm, what each and every one of you have your hands on, what each and every one of you are plugged into, are listening to tonight. This is the perfect storm of really that opportunity for a complete paradigm shift for each and every one of you. That opportunity for just a...

Just a PhD-level education in online marketing and that energy of an entire movement behind you. This is it right here, the perfect storm. And so, you know, what I can tell each and every one of you tonight, if you're looking at this, if you've just gotten started, if you're just making the decision now to get started, is to plug in to exactly what is going on. What is going on here with an Empower Network because it is absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, what you're plugged into right now. I've never, never seen anything like it.

I got started in the industry just about seven years ago and it was, you know, definitely one of those magical moments of being in the right place at the right time. My openness to that, just that opportunity, that clearing, and some amazing, amazing, amazing things took place in that time. But I can tell you, it was within a couple of years, I was so feeling a little bit down and out just seeing that there were some people that were making it happen but there wasn't the system in place. There wasn't the opportunity for people to really just completely flip their mindsets upside down and there wasn't the opportunity for just the kind of online marketing education that's required to make some moves in this industry. You know.

All of that. And that requires a company that is, that's really up to speed, that's on par, that is really committed to staying on the cutting edge. And, you know, I've looked around at a lot of different things and I've never seen anything like this. And I know Erin, you and Sophia, as well as Diane and Carlos will agree with this, this is it. Right here.

This is the absolute perfect storm. If you've got that determination, if you've got that vision for a bigger version of yourself, for a bigger version of what's really possible for not only yourself but those closest to you, if you're looking to really create your own lifestyle on purpose, on design, this is it. This is where you've got not only the system, which Erin and everyone else here on the line has touched on, but that opportunity to truly, truly grow yourself because it's just like Erin was saying, you're never going to outperform your own self-worth. It's personal freedom before financial freedom. And that's one of the most powerful things that I see in Empower Network is this isn't just the education for a mindset shift.

You've got the energy of an entire movement. You've got an entire movement behind you that can propel you forward. You'll hear this time and time again as you get into personal growth and personal freedom and personal development, it's all about who you hang around with. And you've got an entire community here that is committed to freedom. And on top of that, like I said, you've got the system and you have got the best online marketing training that's available out there online today.

I completely agree with that. And then on top of that, you've got what's coming in September. And this is something that I truly believe every single thought leader, every single marketer, every single business owner, anybody that wants to have an online presence is going to want to get their hands on. And so I just could not be more proud to work with you and Sophia. And Diane and Carlos and the entire team and to be a part of what Dave and Dave are doing.

Yeah, it's pretty remarkable if you think about it. You know, this is, you know, you talked about the perfect storm. I remember in the movie when the, you know, when the meteorologists were all looking at the different, you know, storm systems that were moving together. And it was like the perfect celestial alignment, right? Or the moon and the tides and just everything was in perfect alignment for that perfect storm.

And, you know, this is exactly where we're at. And we're only 35 days away. Danielle, how exciting is this? We're 35 days away. There are thousands of people that are joining every single week with us.

And what's going to happen is we're the largest army of affiliate marketers in one single company on the Internet in the entire world. We have set records in this industry. And I don't think people even realize this. When I talk about us being at 60 million, I'm being very conservative when I say that. You know, I'm sure we're well over 60 million dollars in commission that we've paid out, but I haven't had the most recent update, so I don't want to like overstep my boundaries.

But I'm just going to say, if you can imagine, right? And Danielle, you know this because we talk about this all the time. In a traditional multi-level marketing or a whole business, or a whole business type company, right? Whether it's a direct sales business, or maybe it's network marketing, or affiliate marketing, whatever the case might be, the companies usually only are able to operate if they keep at least 50% to 60% of the revenue that's being brought in by the field, by the members, right? So a company that pays out, let's just say, we'll be conservative, but let's just say a company pays out on average, 30%, right?

And here we are, we have a 60 million dollar commission pool that's been shared by all the affiliates inside Empower Network for the last 21 months. So let's just say that we were a traditional company, and we made 60 million dollars. That means that we would really have been about a 200 million dollar company over the last 21 months. Now I want everybody to stop and think about this for a second. How many companies can we think of and count on one hand, or at all, that have been able to produce 200 million dollars in revenue, in sales revenue in just 21 months?

Me personally, I don't know of any company in its first 21 months that had the banks saying no, that had servers crashing, that had the industry pushing back and ridiculing everything that we were doing in the beginning, yet the vision that Dave and Dave had was so damn strong that it carried and pulled us right through some of those challenges. Danielle, it's never been done before, and this is why. It's never been done. It's never been done. Let's just be honest.

It's never been done before. I challenge anybody to come out with some statistics on a direct selling company in our industry that in their first 21 months, they were able to create a revenue stream of over 200 million dollars for the company. And then of course, they keep some of that and pay the reps some. But that's the equivalent of what Empower Network is. And my friends, we're 21, maybe 22 months over coming up on our 22nd month.

You are a company that is dominating the industry right now. You have the opportunity to be a part of a company that is truly dominating our industry. Here's the best part. We're 35 days away from launching Empower Network version 2.0. So if you thought 60 million in 21 or 22 months was impressive, you ain't seen nothing yet.

This is like, I think the way Dave and Dave described it, we're like this pimple on a gnat's ass as far as how much we've already accomplished. In other words, what we've done is nothing compared to where we're going as a team, and as a company, and as leaders, and as members, and as affiliates of the most badass team in the land. So Danielle, I just want to thank you for everything that you've done for not just mine and Sophia's business, but our entire team's business, the entire company because like I said earlier, when one person or when one marketer or set of marketers does well, it raises it. It raises an entire community, the company, the industry. And you're just so much a part of everything that we're doing.

And I just can't tell you how much I appreciate and love you as a friend and as a partner in business. Well, you know I love you guys too. And all of those statistics that you just put out there, really what's behind those is all of the countless people and people's lives that are being changed right now by Empower Network. And I know that's what you wake up for in the morning. That's what I wake up for in the morning.

And that's what this entire company is just on a mission for, absolutely. And that's the movement that you guys get in front of this. Erin asked, what can you do as a new member to get started here? Or maybe you haven't gotten started yet. Maybe you haven't made that decision yet.

What can you do right now? Just make the decision to position yourself in front of this tidal wave and plug in to the very simple steps that are put out in front of you. No business is easy, but this is the simplest business that you will come across because you've got all of the components that you require to be successful here, every single one of them. And so the best thing that you can do right now, is position yourself in front of this just massive energy, massive movement. Plug in to the simple steps and be propelled forward.

And get that life of freedom that each and every one of you on the line tonight deserves. Yep, absolutely, absolutely. Get yourself in front of the wave. It's like a tsunami, right? The only way to really catch the tsunami and ride it all the way to shore is to get in front of it, put your head down, pass it.

Put your head down, paddle like hell, and just let that thing take you all the way to the top. And we talked about it before, Danielle, and I'll say it again. While Empower Network is dominating the entire network marketing and home business and Internet marketing space right now with this incredible growth and the launching of Empower Network 2.0, which by the way has three products in it, which is going to be just beyond measure. This is going to shock the entire industry. This is going to turn the industry on its head again, on its ear.

And I can tell you, just when everyone else thought that they had the answers, Empower Network changed the question. That's how far ahead of the field, not only are we right now, but where we're going to be on September 23rd. And while Empower Network dominates inside the industry, everyone listening to my voice right now, whether you're listening to this live or recorded, you have an opportunity to dominate inside Empower Network. I'm going to say that again. While Empower Network dominates the industry, you have a unique opportunity to dominate inside Empower Network.

I'm going to leave it at that. Danielle, thanks for being here. I appreciate you. And I just can't tell you how much I respect your time and just being a part of everything that we're doing here. That being said, gang, here's what I want to do.

I want to share a quick story because we're going to wrap this up and put a bow on it in a few minutes. Gosh, I think back to when I first got started. I remember I graduated from college barely. I still never got the diploma. I don't think I did.

Maybe I did. If I got it, I know it as a very expensive receipt for something. I didn't do anything in the major that I chose because I changed my major so many times. I failed accounting three times. I took an accounting class in college by a guy, a professor whose pie came down to his second button on his shirt and drove around in a 1976 Toyota Corolla.

And here I am, a college kid going to school to learn how to be successful in business and in life, and I'm taking a finance and an accounting class from a guy that probably had less money in his bank account when I was in college than I did. And so I didn't go to class. And then I had a chat with my parents, and sure enough, I registered for accounting again thinking that this was going to be better the second time. And sure enough, I went to class, and I felt the same exact way. Here I am surrounding myself with people that knew less than I did about success.

And I was only in college. Now remember, I did have a low self-esteem, but I had a lot of confidence. And so I failed accounting three times. I don't know how I made it through college, but I did move out of college, and I worked as a personal trainer just like I did when I went to school. And in 1995, right after college, I decided I was going to move to California.

I was going to go out west, and I was going to go find myself, and I was going to go find a way to become who I was meant to be. And right after I moved across country and settled in San Diego, California, my dad, bless his heart, came out to visit me. For what I'm sure was more than just a checkup, he was coming out to make sure that his son was okay. He said he was coming out to do a little holiday visit. It was right around Christmas in December 1995.

I was working at a gym in San Diego just like I did where I went to college 3,000 plus miles away. But I got another job at the gym, and I was an unemployed personal trainer. And I just realized for the last time that I just couldn't keep a job at that point. I just hated going in, you know, in the dark. I would drive to work sometimes at 5 in the morning, make sure I was there by 6 when my first client showed up.

And then I might not have a client until 10 or 11 o'clock. So I ate out of a Coleman cooler in Tupperware, and I was literally hanging around in the gym lobby and in the gym office. And I would take naps on this little cot in the personal training office. And I was working maybe, you know, five or six hours a day at $12.50 an hour. But I was there from 6 a.m.

until sometimes 11 at night. I actually slept in the gym a few times. And I realized right at that time that I just couldn't keep a job. I hated working for other people. And I was sick and tired of being broke, quite honestly.

I didn't have enough money. I was only making enough to cover my bills each month. I know it's cliché, but there was always more months at the end of the month. There was always more months at the end of the month. I could never really do the things that I wanted to do.

And if I didn't go to work or if I didn't have clients, I didn't get paid. So I was really just trading my time for dollars. And the thought of that linear income made me sick. Where I knew how much I was going to make if I had clients, and then if I didn't have clients, I didn't make anything at all. And I was completely confused.

I was frustrated. I was really broke, busted, and disgusted with myself for letting myself get to that space. But I was willing to do something about it. I was willing to do something about it, yet I wasn't sure what to do. I just knew that I had to have my own business.

I knew that I had to be my own boss. And so I started a small business. And I'll never forget, should I say, this conversation that I had with my dad. I was sitting on the hood of his rental car when he came out to visit me. And he was standing right in front of me.

And I was listening to the sounds of the waves break on the beach just a few feet away. I could hear the ocean from this conversation we were sitting on. I was sitting on my dad's rental car. And he said, son, you don't have a job. You don't have any money.

You have nothing coming in. And you have pretty much no credit left. All my cards were pretty much maxed out. He said, what are you going to do? And for a moment, everything stopped for me.

I felt weightless. I was pretty much numb. It was the most surreal moment of my life. And I looked at my dad, and I said, dad, I don't have any money. I don't have a job.

I didn't even have a car at the time. And I have nothing coming in. And no more room on my credit cards. But you know what? I don't give a damn.

I said, I don't need any of that. Because you know what? I have this dream. And I'll never forget the look on my dad's face. He looked at me like I had three eyes.

He said, son, what are you smoking? What are you thinking? I said, dad, have this dream of being free. I don't want a job. I don't want an office.

I don't want to be an employee. I don't want to have a salary or a commute. I just want to be able to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, for however long I want. And I see that I could be successful and have income coming in selling products or marketing products and services that I know everybody wants, needs, and can afford. And I had this vision.

I had this dream. And I took back. I took back all my freedom in that very moment. Because I had been giving it all away. I had been giving away all of my power, and I had nothing left until that moment.

And it was so surreal. I was numb. And I remember how quiet it got for me. It was like listening to the sound of silence, the dynamics and the conversation that my dad and I were having. And you right now, listening to my voice, I can tell you from the depths of my heart and the depths of my DNA that if you're anything like me, or you're like Carlos, or you're like Danielle, or Diane, or any one of the leaders, if you're like Dave and Dave, or Tony, or Tracy, or Vic, or Justin and Dee, or Chris, or Nicole, if you have a little bit of a spark for entrepreneurship, or you have a little bit of a spark for freedom, and you know deep down inside yourself that you're better than who you've been, and that you can have a better life than you've had so far, and you can become somebody completely different that has the ability to do the things that you want with your life, you have come to the right place at just the right time.

I said this to open up the call. You're in the right place at the right time with the right people, but the most important thing is that you're here for the right reasons. And whatever your reason is for being here, we support everything that you want. I've never seen a community where so many people lift each other and raise each other up and support each other in their quest for personal greatness. And like we've said so many times on the call, your personal freedom leads to financial freedom.

And I'll tell you what Empower Network means to me. It is the personal freedom to live the life that you came here for. And I can tell you right now, the first thing that you have to do if you haven't done it yet is get started. Become a member. Click the button and join us.

Forget the 100% commissions right now. The money is a byproduct of who you're going to become by being a part of this community. Thousands of people have transformed already. People's lives have improved. So many people have been able to quit their jobs.

So many relationships have been repaired and restored. Bank accounts are filling back up. People everywhere are starting to take time for themselves and have more options and choices. Kids are getting their moms and dads back. Husbands and wives are reuniting.

People are coming back from work and working on their business so that they don't have to go back to work. Think about what it would be like to make more money in your part-time business from home than you do in your full-time job. And then in a few months or in 6 or 12 months or a year, however long it takes, you have the option to walk away from whatever it was that you were doing before and come home, be with your family, spend time with your friends, travel, take vacations, and live the life of your dreams. That, my friends, is Empower Network. And that is why we come to this call every single week, 9 o'clock Eastern on Monday nights, and why you can bring back next week however many people that you like.

Imagine being able to bring people back to this call each and every week, having people listen to this call each and every week, leveraging the success of other people, the training that is available for you inside this community. It doesn't get any better, my friends. So again, if you haven't joined yet, now is your chance. I believe we are coming up on midnight here in about an hour and change. You want to get in before midnight Eastern time.

You want to take that opportunity to click the button, become a part of the community, get your basic membership, get your affiliate filled out, and put yourself on the fast track to success. That's who we are, that's what we do, and that's how you can do it with us. I told you I was going to tell you those things right when we started here, not even two hours ago. So that being said, I want to thank you all for your time and your attention tonight. It means more to me than you realize.

You give me an opportunity to create for you and about you. And I will say this, it's just like space on your phone or your computer. If you want to install new programming, you've got to uninstall old programming first. And that's what we are going to show you how to do. Drop the drama, get rid of all the old stuff that doesn't serve you anymore.

We are going to change the tapes. We are going to change the CDs. We are going to change the videos. And then once you have made a new clearing, the opportunity is there for you. And it's the start of a whole new life.

Take the opportunity. The time is now. Thank you all for joining. Thank you all for being here. I love each and every one of you.

I want to thank my team. I want to thank my hype. I want to thank my assistants and my friends and all my business partners from around the world. This is Aaron Rashkin signing off. Have a great evening, everyone.

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