2016-02-22 Empower Hour 22216 – Million Dollar Mission with Mike H

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To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.EmpowerNetwork.com All right, guys. I'm going to go ahead and get started. This is Dave Wood. I'm going to be your host tonight, along with close to million-dollar earner, Mr. Preston Hopps.

What I wanted to do was I wanted to start off by sharing my story. Before I do that, if you're in Empower Network, what you need to do is this. Go ahead to Facebook, go to your team groups, go to your Facebook walls, and just post a link and post this phone number on your Facebook wall as we're talking for the first few minutes. What will happen is as we continue to speak, more and more people are going to pile on the call. You want to make sure that your whole team is on this, because I'm going to be giving you some details on how we're going to help you guys to make a lot of money this week.

I'm going to be giving some exclusive details about a special event that we're going to be holding, an internet event, a little bit more of a web conference. We're going to be holding this Saturday. We're going to call that Get Money Saturday. I'm going to give details on that here on tonight's call. This is urgent, limited-time information, and if your team loses out or if you lose out, you literally could be missing thousands and thousands or some of you even tens of thousands of dollars.

See our income disclosure at EmpowerNetwork.com forward slash income. One thing that I want you to remember, I actually heard this quote. I'm trying to remember where the first place I heard it from. It might have been Aaron Raskin, actually. Somebody asked him, they said, how much money did you make your first month in your business?

What he said was, I don't know, because I'll never finish making it. That is the power of what we do. When I got started in my business, it was 2009. It was before our company existed. I was living in a green 1996 Dodge Caravan, had the paint peeling off, rusted tires.

I used to sleep at different beaches every night of the week. The reason I slept at different beaches is because occasionally, if I stayed at the same place, the cops would find me and write me a ticket. Then I'd have to pay the ticket, or they'd take my van. Then I couldn't go back to that beach for a little while because they'd kind of be looking for me, and they kind of knew that I was in that area. In Hawaii, it's kind of a small area.

I was homeless, I was living in a van, and I was broke. The reason I was broke was because I'd spent my whole adult life in home business, trying to make money from home. I'd never tried to do it on the internet before, but I'd try to do it. When I say try, I mean I gave it my all. I don't know if anybody on this call, I don't know if you have ever worked that hard in your life and accomplished nothing and just continued to work like I did.

It was honestly looking back a little crazy. I look back sometimes at the things that I did with zero results. I wonder, I'm like, where did I find the motivation to continue to do this? Where did I find the motivation to continue to prospect when nobody was getting in? I mean, nobody was getting in.

I remember one time I bought 4,000 home business leads, which I couldn't really afford. I sold some things to be able to buy them, and I called them all, and nobody joined. I didn't sponsor one person from those 4,000 leads. I did get a lot better at prospecting, but I sold literally zero out of 4,000. That was like the worst ratio of all time.

Sometimes when people look at the results I've got today, they say, oh yeah, of course he can do that. He has a big line. It's like, hey dude, I was almost. I got zero out of 4,000. It's like the worst prospecting, I think, ever.

One of the reasons why I'm not a prospect so well today. In any case, 2009 comes, I'm broker than broke. I got nothing. I'm living in a green van. I'm that guy in the van by the river, if you can imagine that.

If you can imagine that Chris Farley movie, the van by the river. I'm like that guy, but I live in that van. I used to actually park by a river in a couple of different towns I used to sleep in. One night, I'd gotten fired from the only job I could get. I got a job at Greenpeace selling environmental subscriptions or something like that.

I was just discouraged at the status of my life. I was like, there's got to be more to life than this. This is a lot. Most of you guys, you've never gone this low before, but some of you have. You know what I'm talking about.

There's got to be more to life than panicking in the middle of the night and getting woke up by police and getting tickets and getting job after menial job after menial job and failing at everything I ever did. There's got to be more than that. Hopefully, there's more. In any case, what happened is, I just hit a low like I'd never hit a low before. That was in 2009.

What happened was, I'd lost my job at Greenpeace. A cop came knocking on my window and wrote me a ticket for the last money that I had in my bank account. I remember I was crying when I got that ticket. I was messed up from it. I was crying.

I was angry. You know what I mean? Who could I really blame? That's the thing. Sometimes, bad stuff happens to you.

Sometimes, you realize that you're the one that is creating it. That was one of those moments where I was crying, not because I felt like a victim. I was crying because I had realized that I wasn't doing a good job creating life like it needs to be created, like I knew I could create it. I changed. I reached down inside myself.

I found something I didn't know that I had. I just started to look for a business. I borrowed money from my mom to get a laptop. This laptop was $150 used off eBay. It was a PC, not a Mac.

It was very difficult to use. I don't even remember how to use PC6. In any case, I got this computer. I started to look for a business to join. I found a business.

I borrowed money again from my mom to join the business. Then, I moved into my mom's house. I'm living in my mom's house with a $150 laptop using a computer that I bought from borrowed money from my mom looking for a business to start. I find one. I'm going to start it from my mom.

This is a great picture of success. If there's one message I could give you guys tonight in addition to all the announcements and stuff, don't discount anybody. You don't want to go out and give people handouts, but anybody can do this. Anybody can do this. If I could do this then, if I could reach down inside myself and find the courage to take massive action, to get all in, to do the things I need to do, there's no excuse that anybody has to not do this because everybody here has more resources than I have at the moment.

There might be actually one somewhere in the world that has less. If you do, you will be the next bigger story because you'll have such a big victory if you just decide to continue and decide to forcibly pave the way towards your vision. Finally, what happens is I find a business. I get started. I go out there and I try to start recruiting doing really dumb stuff for actually a couple of months.

I usually don't tell this part of the story because I was just doing dumb stuff and I don't want anybody to repeat it. I was putting ads on Craigslist, getting resumes and cold calling resumes, trying to sponsor people. It was awful work and it didn't work at all. Well, it worked. I sponsored some people, but I didn't really get anybody to stick.

It was the most grueling dumb work I'd ever done because I was talking to people who wanted jobs and I wasn't selling a job. I was selling a home-based business. I was selling a network marketing opportunity. In any case, I did that. I fumbled around for a couple of months and then one day I actually got a whole bunch of people on to...

It was like 10 people. It took me all day to interview people and get people on to this hangout type thing. I was using conferencing technology then. I got in this hangout and it would be 15 people and I started to do a business opportunity presentation, which is basically all I knew how to do at the time. I couldn't mute people out because the service I was using wouldn't let me because it was for small group conferences and everyone could talk.

This guy just interrupts me and goes, hey, why are you trying to scam us? I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, guys, guys, guys, there's a scam. This guy's all panicked. This guy's all straightened out his hair.

Finally, I figured out how to boot him off the conference. The thing is that what I was doing was legit. It was a legit company, but the thing is I was selling it to people who didn't want it. Then it didn't really matter whether it was lit or dead or not. I could have explained that away, but what happened was everybody was on this call and then they all just started to hang up after that guy.

It was like all day, all my work, and this one negative guy, he had ruined it. I was so mad. It was like all my energy and soul to get these people and that was by one chance of the day to make money. I was so mad at this guy. Then I had to look at that and I asked myself the question.

I was like, why did he say that? The reason is because I'd been interviewing people who had applied for a job and then I invited them to something with like a blind invite and then they showed up and it was a biz op. It was like a bait and switch. I hadn't really considered that's the way that it looked. I thought about it honestly and then I just, you know what I did?

I said, there's got to be a different way of doing this. I do not want to sell people something that they don't want to buy anymore. It's not working. This is not working for me. What happened was I was real frustrated and then I was going to dinner with this group of people that had been building another home business with me a few years before.

I wasn't making a lot of money then, but I was making a few thousand a month in that deal, offline, doing hotel meetings and home meetings and stuff. I was at dinner and there's this gal there that was in my team. At the time, she was my number one leader. We went to this restaurant we used to do these hotel meetings at. We used to have 30 to 100 people at these hotel meetings where we'd show the plan to them.

I don't know if you guys have heard that story before. In any case, I'm sitting here with this girl and she goes off all night about how she's so thankful that she got out of network marketing and out of home business and out of this thing chasing money and she'll never get involved with any of it. She couldn't stop talking about it. The time I was trying to build a business on me, I was trying to build a business a different way. I was like, whoa, she is just not a prospect for what I'm doing.

I will not bring this up. I spent a lot of time trying to prospect friends and family and do things the old way. In any case, she was negative, negative, negative, negative, negative. I've been talking two or three hours of negative. She's not a negative person.

She just was having memories of the pain of inviting people to those hotel meetings and week after week after week after week doing the same presentation. This is what people in the home business industry do. It really is stupid. We don't know it's stupid, so we do it. We don't know that it's not going to work very well.

When we do something that hasn't worked well in North America for like 20 years, except for in very small circles, but people still do it and do it and do it and do it. In any case, I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh gosh, I just wanted to go home to get away from the negativity. I go home. I go to sleep. I get a call at like 4 a.m.

the next day. I pick up the phone. I'm like, it's this same gal. I'm like, hello? She goes, hello.

I'm so excited. I was like, who is this? She goes, it's this person. I don't want to say the name. I was like, what?

What are you talking about? Then she went off about how she's not involved in network marketing. Instead, she got in this company to get three, to get three, to get three, to get three. I was like, okay. I was like, cuckoo.

In any case, she was so convinced the thing she was doing was not the same thing that she used to do. It just made me mad because it's like this person will sit there and they'll tell me. I knew this company that she was telling me about was going to go out of business. I just knew it. I had a feeling about it.

In any case, I made this video. This is a true story about how I started doing what I'm doing now. I made this video about this company. I called it the ex-company scandal, nine reasons why it sucks. It was a really negative video.

I had a dirty shirt. It was on my homeless shirt. It had a stain on it. It was like the effusion hype wagon, nine reasons why it sucks. This company is out of business, so I'll say what I want to say.

In any case, I made this thing. This company was hot. I got attacked and mauled by distributors in that company like nothing you've ever seen. I mean, pages and pages, people threatening me. You know what I mean?

You're saying this Berry Juice energy drink doesn't cure cancer. They're mad. They're angry. They're retaliating. I got scared because these people were threatening me.

You know what I mean? They were saying, you look like you're homeless. I was like, oh yeah, let's be fair. In any case, here's actually what happened from this. What happened from this is I'm sitting there in front of my computer watching these comments pile in like snow falling from the heavens in the North Pole.

I'm looking at this, seeing these video views count upwards like the money in that guy's bank account in that Superman movie when he writes that program, takes one penny every time a transaction, half calculates something or whatever, and then he has a billion dollars. These views and these comments are exploding out of the internet like an out-of-control frenzy machine. I looked at that and I said, there has got to be a way to sell like this. What happens is I'm sitting there and I look on the internet for a way to sell like that. I found a video by this guy named Adam.

I watched it and I saw this dude. He was like, just tell him some story. I saw this video and I said, oh snap, oh snap. I was like, oh, I am going to be rich. In any case, I saw that video and I knew I could get people to watch videos on the internet and buy stuff.

I just knew I could do it. I've never looked back. Since 2009, my first year online, this is in other people's companies, I became the number one recruiter in four separate direct sales companies, all marketing on the internet. I learned to attract people to myself. This is from being homeless without ever making up stories about how much money I had or taking pictures of fake Ferraris or hiring actors or any of the other bullshit you saw.

I always tell the truth. People have come to love me for that because I'll tell people the truth even if it's harmful to myself. I got started. I became the number one recruiter in my company. Won a bonus that December for that.

I won a BMW a couple months after getting started. I became the number one recruiter in that thing I was selling. Then I was doing it for two years. Then I got disconnected ethically with the way people act in the internet space. It wasn't because they're bad people necessarily.

It was just because they act like it, right? It's because it's like they're all after your wallet, but they'll just sell you something and then sell you the next thing and then sell you the next thing and then sell you the next thing. I actually wanted to build a long-term team. I started this company with that desire in October 31, 2011. Since then, we've done close to $200 million in sales.

We're the biggest company of anything remotely close to what we do anywhere out there. Actually, we kind of invented a new category of home business. That's what this is really all about. I want to tell a little bit about that story. I'll share more a little bit later on.

I talked way longer than I thought. Let me tell you what we're doing this Saturday. Then I'm going to turn it over to President Hobbs. This Saturday, I decided we need to get some real grassroots tactical strategies from our leadership into people's hands. We need to get people to understand how Justin Merengi can just turn on a water faucet and sponsor people like he's an out-of-control commission vacuum cleaner, second commission from Space Time Continuum.

People need to know how to do this stuff. People need to know how the leaders are getting up-sells and building teams and keeping people around. We're doing a workshop this Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time. We're going to put details out on the blog here shortly.

Before you get all freaked out about the cost, you can't actually pay your way in. I'm going to actually talk in just a second about how you can get into that workshop. That's going to be tactical nuts and bolts. I want to equip you guys because we're building right now towards our next national event in national Tennessee, the Unleash event. I'm going to show you how to unleash your own inner badass.

This thing is going to help you unleash that by teaching you some tactical strategies. It's going to help you massively increase your results. I want to help you get to a point where you can sponsor a person a day. You can sponsor two people a day. You can sponsor four people a day and lead it into Nashville.

It only takes about two months to really have a breakthrough in this industry. This is what I really want you to understand. It's not two months total. It's two months from the time you're doing it right. Two months from the time you're doing it right, really maybe three tops.

It took me about two and a half. You'll have a breakthrough and you'll never look back if you do things right. You really build with the blinders on like you just have nothing else to do other than build your vision. If you treat it like that, you're going to have massive breakthroughs. I want to go over how to do that with some of the leaders who are doing really cool things and show you how to do what they do with the intention of doing one thing.

Helping you build to the level you want to build for by our next event. If you ain't got tickets to our next event, you're kidding yourself. It's like you've got a gun and you're shooting yourself in the foot. You don't need someone else to do it because you're trying to build a business on the internet without getting around the people that actually know how to teach you to do that and without building relationships with them. You've got to understand something.

This isn't just about technology. It's not just about a sales video. This is a relationship business. Regardless of whether we get people in over a one-on-one, drawing out on a napkin, or whether they join, which is really how they join, by seeing an internet video. If you don't build a relationship with them, they don't stay in.

People get in for the money. They stay in for the vision, the culture, the people. You've got to get tickets to the Nashville event. Let me tell you how you can qualify to attend this Saturday's workshop. We'll have more details coming out about Get Money Saturday, which is coming up this Saturday, last Saturday of the month, and how you can attend.

Again, you cannot pay your way in. I'm going to talk right now about how you can qualify. Then I'm going to hand it over to Mike. He's got some great things to share with you. In case you don't know who Mike is, that's President Hobbs that I've been talking about.

I'm going to hand it over to him in a second, but this is basically what you've got to do. When you get started in Empower Network, here's the first step. We have a Fast Start training that involves a handful of steps. Number one, there's a welcome video to watch. You've got to watch that welcome video.

You've got to go through the Fast Start training. It's eight videos we recorded in a $30 million mansion with a group of people that have done $184 million in sales. It's a good video series. That video series actually explains how we've done that. Everything that we've done can be summarized in those eight steps.

There's some details to it. to be covered in the Saturday, but everything we've done can be summarized in those eight steps. You need to actually watch all eight videos. So, you need to go through the Fast Start training, and then there's a core checklist, okay? And this is for people that say, you know, yeah, I can follow these steps.

I want to commit to this business. Just download it, fill it out, sign it, upload it back to the site. That just lets us know you're committed. That's the first thing. You've got to complete the Fast Start training, upload the form.

Number two, you've got to purchase a ticket to the Nashville event, okay? You've got to purchase a ticket to the Nashville event. So, we're not going to train you this Saturday if you don't got a ticket to the Nashville event. Sorry, okay? We want you to be serious and make a decision about your business.

Actually, on this page, if you're on the page listening to the call, there's probably a ticket to buy a ticket to the Nashville event. You need to buy your ticket and lock in your spot to that event to attend. And the third thing is this. This is for people that are active in the Builders Club. Now, the Builders Club comprises of a handful of products, and we actually were just running a promo for this the other week, testing a new webinar that we've got.

And this webinar, I want to give you guys an idea of how effective it was. We barely had anybody promoting on a Thursday night because we were actually doing a training, and we were running this webinar replay at the same time. This webinar, this automated webinar did, in a couple of hours, $16,000 in sales, right? With barely anybody watching it. It's super effective.

So, we're going to be putting that as a tool into your hands to help you bring people in at a level where you can generate some upfront commissions when you're bringing members in, all right? But, I want to make sure that you upgrade to that level so you can capitalize on it because if you can earn a higher level of commissions and you're positioned right in your business, right, then you're going to be able to more effectively market using strategies that we're going to show you that's better. You've got to be active in the Builders Club, and we're going to run the discount and the promotion that's on that webinar all week till Friday, midnight Eastern time, after which that discount will be taken off the market for you. You won't be able to get it again, right? So, here's what you've got to do.

Number one, join, complete the Fast Start training, okay? Upload the core checklist. That's step one. Join, complete the Fast Start training, upload the core checklist. Number two, you've got to purchase your tickets to the Nashville event coming up, and that's not optional, okay?

Number three, you've got to be active in the Builders Club. You should actually see a link to that promo right there on the side of the page. If you're on the page watching it, go ahead and activate that right now. Now, when you do that, here's what I want you to do, okay, if you're on this webinar. After you have purchased your tickets to the Nashville event and you've activated the Builders Club, make sure you're active in those products.

What I want you to do is to take pictures of the receipts. Go ahead and tag me personally on Facebook. My name is David Wood. I'm really easy to find, all right? Go ahead and just tag me on Facebook with those photos that you have purchased the Builders Club and that you have purchased tickets to the Nashville event, and just tell me on Facebook, hey, I'm going to be there at Get Money Saturday, okay, right, and tag me and I'll go ahead and give you a shout out on Facebook.

So once again, here's what you've got to do. Complete the Fast Start, okay, and you've got to do it this week. There's no waiting anymore, all right? You've got to go through the Fast Start training. You've got to upload the core checklist.

We do check that stuff. Number two, purchase tickets to the Nashville event, and number three, be active in the Builders Club, and we are going to do this workshop. Now, what I'm going to do, I'm going to hand it over to Mike, and then I'm going to come back and talk about the last section of this call, how you can capitalize on this promotion we're doing and make a lot of money this week, okay? And if you listen to me, I will show you how to do that, but you've got to do those steps first. So as Mike's talking, if you're on the page, go ahead and join if you're not in yet and commit to go through the Fast Start training tonight.

If you are in, go ahead and make sure you have purchased tickets to the Nashville event, so go ahead and do that right now. It's right there on the page, and also I want to make sure that you're active in the Builders Club, right, which we're going to have that special on the page, and the price is just going to go up, and it's like a 70% discount or something like that. The price is going to increase. I'll talk about what it is later. Just activate it while Mike's talking.

Now, this is a gentleman I met originally in 2009, right after being homeless, and he's made close to a million dollars in Empower Network. I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to blow his story out of the water myself because he could tell his own story. I'm just going to tell you guys something. From an honesty perspective, this is one of the most honest, genuine people I've ever met in my entire life. He actually, there was a time, I don't know if he still likes this, he wouldn't even read a script in a video because it didn't feel genuine to him, so he wouldn't do it.

I mean, he's honest, he's genuine, and he just is consistent in the work that he puts out there in the marketplace. Because he does that, he's not just got people that buy stuff, he's got people that buy products, and they stick around him for years and years and years and years, and if you listen to what he's about to say, and you stay on for the entire call, and by the way, if you're not promoting this to your team, you're missing out. You'd be promoting this on Facebook as he's talking, say, Mike Hobbs is talking on Facebook. I'm actually going to mute myself out and go rally some people on Facebook to get on this call too. If you listen to what he's going to say, it absolutely, positively will create a change in your life.

So, I want you to listen and pay attention to my good friend, Mr. President Hobbs. President Hobbs, over to you. I love that. It's really funny, he calls me President Hobbs, and it's funny that he calls me that because I just made a Facebook post the other day, or I think it was like a few weeks ago, and actually got a calling.

We call it a calling in our church, where you become, you know, like they started calling me President Hobbs because I was the president of the elders quorum, and I just put it on Facebook. Hey, it's kind of weird being called President, and then all of a sudden, Dave Wood, he took it and he started like writing cool emails, writing funny things about it, so it's funny. So, he's always calling me President now. So, now it's like awkward at church, and now it's also awkward on the Internet, but it's all good. It's all good.

So, anyway, guys, I'm just super excited to be here. You know, I really wanted to come out on this call and just share with you, you know, it is possible. Like, I want you to really understand that building a business on the Internet really is possible, and before I get really into my story, let me just tell you, you know, income disclaimers, anything that I talk about, you know, refer to the income disclaimer in powernetwork.com for such income, for anything that I say from here on forward, so we don't have to talk about that anymore, and then I also have a Hobbs disclaimer, where I have five kids in the background, so if you hear yelling and screaming or fighting or clawing or whatever it may be, I have five kids, and four of them are under the age of five. So, literally, four kids under the age of five, and they're all running around in the background, and they always like to make noise. So, I'm actually just kind of pacing back and forth in my house, and you never know what kid I'm going to run into when we're going through this call.

So, those are the disclaimers. I wanted to get out of the way right here in the beginning, but, guys, I've actually been in the Internet marketing industry since 2007, and, in fact, I was drawn to this industry because I was kind of getting sick of leaving my family. Literally, in 2007, I had just got back from a military deployment in Iraq for a year and a half. So, I was gone for a year and a half. I got back, and, literally, I remember the day I came home, and I went to hug my daughter.

She was like three years old at the time, and she went crying, running to her mom because she didn't recognize me. And I don't know about you. I'm a family guy. You know, I have kids now. They all know me now, obviously, but that was my only kid at the time, and it just felt horrible.

Like, you know, your child doesn't even recognize who you are. Like, what kind of life is that? You know, so, and I had been in the Army for six years at that point, and I really had no other options. We were in debt. We didn't have – we weren't making very much money at Walmart.

So, I literally, because I was working at Walmart when I came home, throwing boxes and trailers, and I did not know what I should do. You know, I was like, man, I have to re-sign for the Army again. So, after that incident of, you know, my daughter and I recognized me, I was forced into re-signing another six-year contract for the Army because I had no idea what I was going to do. Like, literally, no idea, no money, you know, couldn't afford bills, you know, and so I signed up again. I signed up for another six years at that point, and I was like – and I made a decision.

I was like, you know what? I've got six years. I'm going to find something. I'm going to do whatever it takes to be out of the Army as soon as my contract is up. And at the time, I signed up for six years a little bit early, so my contract was up May 15th, 2013.

That's when it was up. So, I was like, okay, so by May 15th, 2013, I'm going to find something. I don't know what it's going to be. I'm going to find something that's going to free my family because freedom, you know, I was fighting for freedom in the Army, but I didn't have freedom myself. And I knew I wanted freedom.

I wanted freedom to be home with my kids. I wanted freedom to, you know, just do the things that I want to do. I didn't want to have to worry about money. You know, it sucks worrying about money. I don't know if anyone is in the situation.

Doesn't it suck? You know, you're literally thinking, oh, man, I can't even afford groceries. Like, I remember there was one time I literally walked into a grocery store, and I was getting food for a party. So, we had this party going on, and I was sent to the store to go get some food. My wife was cooking the meal, and I went to go get some food.

And it was about $50 or something like that, and I swiped my credit card, and it was declined. And I'm like, oh, crap. So, I got my wallet, and I was like, okay. So, I pulled out another card, swiped it, declined. Oh, that one's declined, too, sir.

You know, everyone's like waiting in line, and like, what's wrong with this guy, you know? And it just reminded me back in the day when I was a little kid, and my mom is like in line with food stamps, you know? And I just told myself, I never want to be in this situation, you know, just embarrassed, you know, to be in the store. And I, fast forward, I was embarrassed. I was like, man, this is like deja vu as a kid, you know?

Didn't have any money. And then I was like, okay, so I got to have money in the bank, so I grabbed my debit card. So, I tried two credit cards, and I grabbed my debit card, and it got declined. And I was like, holy cow. Like, what is going on?

So, I literally just said, okay, well, I guess I'll go out to, like, I played it off, you know, like, yeah, I'm going to go out to the car, get some cash, you know? And I never came back, because I didn't have any cash, right? So, I went out, and I was just like driving home and bawling. Like, I was just crying, just like, it was like a drive of shame. I don't know if anyone's ever felt that way.

It's just a drive of shame. Like, where did I, how did I get this way? How did my life become like this? And I knew I needed to change something. I needed to do something.

And so, I was open. I had an open mind. I had an open heart. You know, I prayed. I did whatever I could to find an answer.

And then, you know, one day, I had a friend invite me to a meeting, you know? And that's how it all started. You know, I got invited to a meeting. You know, got started in my first network marketing business. Started, you know, doing home presentations, doing all the stuff that Dave Wood always talks about.

And the crazy thing about that is that's a lot, that's actually more than a lot of people. You know, I know a lot of people like Paul Hutchings who went, you know, like 10 years or something without even making a single dime. So, I was actually pretty proud of that. But I didn't pay my bills, you know? I went backwards, actually.

I actually spent more money than I made. So, bottom line, guys, I got into the industry. I got online in 2008, towards the end of 2008. And one, and I was kind of in a place where I was like, okay, I found this online business. And I don't really have a lot of time to build it.

I actually, and I got this mentor and they started getting me into these online deals where they pay you like 1% per day, you know, or something like that. And it was like this pyramid thing that I didn't know was a pyramid. I was just like, oh, yeah, I just put, you know, if I put 10 grand into this thing, then I'll just make a bunch of money back, right? So, what did I do? Stupid me at the time.

This is definitely a stupid idea. Do not listen to this idea. I went and I had a house that was given to me by my grandpa. So, think about this. My grandpa died and gave me a house, okay?

So, that's like pretty lucky, right? That doesn't happen very often. So, I went and I got an equity line of credit on this house for $70,000, okay? And I had $70,000 credit card, basically. I'm like, I'm going to make this business work.

I have 70 grand. And I put a lot of that in those stupid scammy deals. And the next week, they flopped. Like, I kid you not. Like, if you would have thought that I was at the low point at the low point already, think about that.

I was already broke. And now, I'm like broke and $100,000 plus in debt at that time with all the credit cards in that equity line. And I was just like, holy cow. What am I going to do? And I remember waking up one day and because I prayed and I prayed for an answer and it didn't seem like anything was coming.

And I remember waking up one Sunday and I'm really religious. You know, I got married in the temple, you know, for a church, pretty religious. And I woke up one Sunday and I just like, and I literally just said, F it. Like, literally, I was, you know, just done. And told my wife I'm never going to church again.

Go without me. You know, God doesn't care about me. And it was really hard. I was just so mad. And then the next morning, I wake up and I have Bell's Palsy.

Like, literally the next morning, I had Bell's Palsy, which means I couldn't feel my entire left side of my face. I couldn't smile. It was droopy. My whole face was drooped. You know, and I knew what happened.

You know, the doctor said it was, you know, you can get it by a virus. You can get it by this or by that. I knew what happened. You know, I gave up. And I cursed the person that blesses me.

And then I literally, I took it as God slapping me in the face and giving me a wake-up call. And saying, it's time for you to take responsibility. Time for you to get out of this situation. It's time for you to make a decision and do this business right. Stop doing these scammy little deals.

Stop jumping from thing to thing to thing. And make your business work. And then, a few months later, I get this invitation to go to, I don't know if it was a few months. It might have been a year later. So, I don't remember the time.

But I get this invitation from Dave Wood to go to a live event. To a live event. Where he's like, you know, you're on my personal team here in the system. You know, if you make it to this event, I'll give you a free coaching, one-on-one. And I also had another guy there that was named Mark.

He also was going to that event. And there was a couple other people that were going to that event. And I was like, you know what? I got to get there. These are like two of my biggest mentors online that I've been following.

I've been seeing doing some great things. So, I took a leap of faith, you know. Broke in debt. Maxed out. Depressed.

Faith not working anymore, you know. And I'm like, all right. Let's get to that event. And let's make this business work. This is the first time I actually got to a live event from the internet.

And I got to that event. We sold our car to get there. Actually sold my car to get there because we didn't have any money. Two months behind on my mortgage. Sold my car to get there.

Met David Wood. Met all these other people. And I just saw and I just started believing. I was just like, you know what? I can do this.

The date was like in shorts, a t-shirt, flip-flops. And I was there like in a dress shirt. Like I literally brought a dress shirt and some pants, you know. And I was all like acting all professional. Like, yeah.

I'm this professional dude, you know. And he's there in the shorts and the flip-flops and the t-shirt. And I'm like, how in the world am I failing so bad? These people are like making money and making millions of dollars on the internet, you know, like all these people on stage. And I just, my belief level went through the roof.

I came out of the event with a new vision, a new inspired way of taking action. I started doing the right actions after that. And then here's what happened. I got deployed again on my final deployment, 2011. And on the end of that deployment, I deployment, I got a Skype message about Dave Wood started up this new company, called Empower Network.

And at that moment, I was like, okay, it's time for me to make this decision, it's time for me to get started, it's time for me to win, time for me to win. And I remember that goal I had of retiring the military after six years, well, this was 2011, the end of 2011. I got started, we started hitting the ground running, I recruited like 30 people my first month, I think we made like four or 10 grand or something like crazy like that. And then it kind of died off, you know, just always things always like balance out, you know, but here's the thing, so I recruited my first 30, we made like 10, I think after a couple, four months or so, we were like at 20 grand total. And then here's what happened, I hit my plateau again.

I hit this wall, it's like every business I ever joined, I thought I had this 30 person curse, this curse on me that was like a 30 person curse. And that's what happened, you know, and Empower as well. But then he said, get to Atlanta, and your business will transform. So I went into Atlanta, saw all the people who were having success, they did the commission countdown and literally there was only like 10 people in that room that didn't earn a commission, and I was blown away. Dave Wood got on stage, he talked about recruiting two people a day, two people a day, two people a day, all weekend long.

Before that, I couldn't even recruit 30, and 30 was like my max in the company. And he said, two people a day, two people a day, and I got with Justin Vringi after that, that we did a video together and they're like, what's the formula for 30K a month? All we gotta do is follow the eight core steps, get two people per day, follow the eight core steps, and get to the next event. You know, that's all we gotta do, that's it. You bring two people a day in, follow the eight core steps, and get to the next event.

And so I did it. We started doing that, and coming out of that event, we were in, like for now, if you look at my results now, I have recruited over 1,800 people inside Empower Network. And I don't know if you divide that by the four years I've been in, but it's a lot, it's at least one a day, if not close to two a day, average. Now obviously things are different, like some days I get two, some days I get none, some days I get, sometimes I only get two in a week. But the average out, it's like one to two people a day can average since I've been inside Empower Network.

Now how did I do that? I got to the events. I got to the events. Like those are the two biggest things that ever happened to me. That event with Dave Wood in Dallas, that event in Atlanta within Empower Network, and guess what, the common equation, you get around Dave Wood, and your life changes.

Your life changes, and let me tell you this. I remember May 15th, 2013 coming along, May 15th, 2013 coming along, and my first sergeant's like, hey, time to re-up for another six years. And I looked at him, and I'm like, I'm out. I'm out of here, and I declined. And now that's my freedom day.

May 15th, 2013, just every year we celebrate that day. It's our freedom day. It's the day we won our freedom. I visioned that the six years prior to that when I came home from that deployment. I had that vision, and it happened, and it happened.

We made it happen, and if it wasn't for Empower Network, if it wasn't for this community, if it wasn't for those events that I went to, it wouldn't have happened. I guarantee it. I guarantee if I wouldn't have made it to those events, it wouldn't have happened. If I didn't follow the steps that they told me to do, if I wouldn't have believed that Dave Wood was right when he said bring two people a day, follow the eight core commitments, and get to the events, if I wouldn't have done that, I guarantee I would have failed. I would be still failing.

I guarantee it. So, can we guarantee you'll make money in this business? We can't guarantee anything, but I can guarantee you will fail if you don't make it to events, if you don't follow the eight core steps, if you don't get around people that can lift you up, bring you to the next level. Let me just give you a couple tips, and then I'm gonna bring it back over to Dave. Tip number one is get around the right people, period, every day.

So, I'm talking listening to people, successful. When I was in the military, I literally had downers all around me, people bashing the president, or bashing this, or bashing that, or doing this, or doing that, talking bad about what's happening in the news, what's happening with these school shootings, and these bombs in other countries, and I just felt down all the time. So, I had to listen to people, and I had to get around the right people, getting to events, listening to things every single day, just to get my mind right. So, if you have negative people in your life, you're gonna need to re-evaluate, re-evaluate, re-evaluate the people you hang out with, re-evaluate the people that you're with. Like, when I was a kid, I literally hung out with the wrong people.

Like, when I was in Reno, Nevada, I hung out with the wrong people. I hung out with people who drank, people who smoke, people who, I mean, I'm not judging anybody, but I'm just saying, when I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with those kind of people, and guess what I did? I did it, you know, underage, which is illegal. You know what I mean? So, I did illegal things when I was hanging around with the wrong people.

I actually stole from shopping malls and stuff like that because I was hanging around the wrong people. And then, all of a sudden, I grew up, started hanging around the right people, and now, all of a sudden, you know, things and prosperity and blessings and everything's coming into my life, hanging around the right people. Okay, so that's tip number one. Tip number two, have a daily action plan and stick to it, and that's what I love about the eight core commitments. The eight core commitments are key.

You know, there's four of them that are daily, and some of them, like even new member coaching could be daily, but literally, blog daily, listen to in-circle audio every day, read daily, and market daily. Do those things every single day. We're in an accountability group right now, and it's blowing my mind. It's like, wow, I'm actually getting things done. Like, when I follow the eight core commitments and you committed to stay core, you actually get some things done.

So, here's what I want everyone to do. If you're committed to being core for the, till the next event, at least for the next event, I want you to go to Facebook and just say, I'm committed to go and be in core till the next event. Just say it. I'm committed to being core till the next event. I wanna see how many people, tag everybody in it.

You know, okay, I just wanna see, I just wanna see who's committed in this community. If you're brand new and you're not even in, there's a button on the page, you can get in at seven bucks. Get in. If you don't have your ticket, get your ticket. Get around the right people, okay?

So, I want everyone to commit to do that, all right? And then the last thing, guys, I wanna leave you guys is get to that Saturday training. I had to bring that up because my mentor, Justin Berenjia, is gonna be on that training, guys, and he is sponsoring at least 20 people per day right now, and he did a training, and he shared what he was doing with our personal team, and there was so many people just super excited, and there's already people getting results, I'm already getting more leads following some of the tips that he shared. You know, I actually don't get a lot of leads. Like, my active list right now is 10,000, or 12,000, 12,000 people.

You would think, wow, you almost made a million dollars online, and you have an active list of 12,000? That's nuts. I don't have a big list, okay? But I'm actually starting to become, getting one. My goal is 500 leads a day, and I know that I'm gonna get there with what Justin taught us the other day, literally last week, and he's gonna be teaching how he's doing that this Saturday, along with Michael Martin, who's sponsoring 20 people a day sometimes, and then a lot of other things there, so if you guys want tactical, you want the know-how, you want to actually build this business successfully, so you're gonna be accomplishing all the things by getting this Saturday.

You're gonna be getting to the event, you're gonna need your event ticket, okay? So check. You're gonna be following the eight core steps, because you're gonna understand them, because you're gonna go through that fast start, okay? And you're gonna go, and you're gonna learn how to market daily, like the pros, and be able to sponsor like nobody else has been able to in the company. I don't know anyone who's gotten 20-plus sign-ups a day consistently, the way that Justin and Michael Martin are doing right now, even when the company was brand new.

People got like two a day, five a day. I remember, I think my biggest day was like 18 or something when I was running a lot of traffic, but I'll tell you, I don't know anyone who's been as consistent as Justin and Michael Martin than anyone, so my advice to you guys, get to Nashville, buy your ticket, follow the eight core steps, get on Saturday training so you can learn marketing, and let's make this happen. So all you have to do is you have to upgrade to the Builder Club, there's probably a link somewhere. Do it, I promise you it'll change your life, and Power Network has changed my life. You know, my vision is a free 100 families a year, like I was able to win my freedom, I have my freedom date, you're gonna be able to get your freedom date, I promise you, I believe that you can do this.

I truly believe, and I actually had a mental breakdown one day where I was like, man, do I really believe someone can build this business? Do I really believe that? And then I thought about all the hard times that I went through, all the struggles, all the money issues, all the things that I went through, losing my house that was gifted to me from my grandpa who had it for 20 years, losing everything. And I looked at that, and I was like, yes, you can do this, you can build this business. This is your business, this isn't my business, this isn't David Wood's business, this is your business.

You can build this, I promise you can do it. Follow what Dave Wood's gonna tell you, follow what he says to do, he has changed my life, and I know that he can change yours as well if you're open and if you're willing. So with that, I'll turn it back over to you, Dave. Yeah, a lot of interacting with people on Facebook there. Just real quick, I want to read off some names of some people who bought event tickets tonight.

Just to congratulate, just Sarah. I'm just gonna read off the first name to keep your privacy, but Sarah, congratulations. Darius, congratulations on buying your event ticket. Michelle, congratulations. Nancy, Monica, Samantha bought two tickets, congratulations.

Eric, Nicholas, bought two tickets. Ania, Michael, Carolina, Joe, Lakeisha, Arthur, Cindy, Vivian, congratulations. Derek, and that was just in the last little bit today and yesterday. So we've had a whole bunch of people register. We're actually up to over 900 people already registered for Nashville, and we've still got about two months left.

And so we're on track, this is gonna be the biggest event that we've had in a long time, I'm excited about it. Some of you guys have been to some of our really big events that we've done before, some of the really, really, really, really big ones and the cool ones. And I was talking to him and I was like, what can we do to really help people break through? And then he came up with this idea because we wanted to help you get the training that you need to succeed in your business and help you create the results that you wanna create in your business. And so over the next couple of minutes, here's actually what I wanna do.

I'm gonna repeat a lot what the steps are that you need to complete this week, understanding that a couple things are happening this week. Number one, the ticket prices are increasing. Okay, so you wanna lock in your tickets right now because the ticket prices are actually going up this week. Number two, okay, the offer for the Builder Club is going to disappear Friday at midnight Eastern time. So for all the things I'm gonna say here, you've really got a short time to capitalize.

And it's not just about buying them, it's about positioning yourself right in order to market in the right way, right? And I'm gonna share some concepts with you here, some core concepts, okay? But then I actually, what I wanna do is I wanna share with you on a very big picture how to create an empire and how to do this in a way that's massive. And some of you are really ready for that. You're ready to do something massive, okay?

Some of you are more of a beginner phase, but no matter where you are, you are gonna benefit from that. You can go ahead and click that link and you can buy it there. And then there's another link below that. It's actually a small, but it says click here to get your Unleashed ticket. And if you're one of our Empower Network members, you can also log into your back office, click on Events, and you can register for Nashville there.

And then click the button that says click here to get your Unleashed ticket. Go ahead and click them now and fill out the order form. So let's share with you some concepts that you can use to really create breakthroughs, okay? So this is actually gonna be simple, but at the same time, it's not a matter of whether or not you can do it, it's a matter of whether you do, right? There's a saying, I think the first time I heard this was from Jeff Olson, who owns a pretty big direct sales company.

And he used to be a rep for years and years and years and years. And he said something that I'll always remember. It goes something like this. He said, the things that you need to do to succeed are easy to do, but they're also easy not to do. And that's why not everybody does them.

It's not because they can't do them. It's because it's easy to not do them. It's not any harder to do them, but it's just as easy to not do them, to not take the actions that you need, and that's why most people don't. And I questioned that for a long time. The reason is because I wasn't succeeding.

I didn't have the information that I have today. So I questioned it. I said, this isn't easy. But now I look at my life and I look at the things that I've been able to create. I look at the dreams I've been able to step into.

I've looked at the majestic creations that have come forth because I decided to take action on visions that I've had. And it's amazing. I'm standing here right now. I'm looking out of a home. It's a pretty decent-sized mass because it's like three gigantic floors.

Gigantic for me, anyway, how I grew up. And I'm looking out. I've got a big old Olympic-sized swimming pool, workout area downstairs. Looking out over the city of Eskazoo, Costa Rica. I'm actually gonna step outside here.

And wind's blowing. It's nice tropical weather down here. We've got either a full moon or close to. I can't tell. Looks like a full moon to me.

And when I look out at this city and I look at this place that I live, I used to live in a van. And this place here, I mean, it's like a million-dollar home. Not the biggest home in the world. I could live in a bigger one if I want. In fact, one time, I went ridiculous on myself.

And I lived in a house that was like a castle. And I actually would get tired just walking up the stairs. Like, that's how big this house was. And after a while, I was like, you know, maybe this is like a little too big. Just walking from the first floor to the second floor was a strain on the thighs.

You know what I mean? And unless you're living in that house to exercise, there really wasn't much purpose to it because there's only a couple of people in there. You know what I mean? So this house, though, it's actually really close to the one I live in now. So it's cheap here.

So to rent a 10,000 place a month in California, I mean, it gets you a condo. You know what I mean? I mean, we're talking, this was a mansion. Just huge, right? Just gigantic.

And I would get tired just walking from downstairs to upstairs. That's how big this house was. But I wanted to live there just because I wanted to see what it would be like to live in a massive house like that and to literally have to have, like, maids and servants and people who go around cleaning it and taking care of it because there's no possible way that I could. Now, the truth is, I'm spacey anyway, so I probably wouldn't do it. But just to be able to, like, see what that's like.

It was like living like a movie star, you know? And this house now that I live in is also ridiculous. It's also equally ridiculous, but in a different way. It's just beautiful. And it.

feels good. You know, the thing I like best about living down here is there's like no seasons. It's just nice all year, you know. And I love it. It's like my home.

I've lived here for a long time. I've got kids here now. And it's just a beautiful country. But it's about creation. It's about creating things.

It's about learning to create your vision. It's about learning to step into a different kind of future. It's about learning how to see things that don't exist yet as if they do and walking towards them, right, and creating them along the way. It's about learning how not just to apply what you hear in the secret movie, which is, you know, they tell you to visualize stuff. Ask the universe, right.

That's the secret if you've ever seen that movie. But they miss out all the other parts of the secret that are equally important. How to get your mind right. How to get your heart right. How to clear out your energy.

The tactics that you need to learn, right. The fact that it does require work, that it's not just about visualization. You're not just going to attract a Ferrari by imagining it and have one drive up in your driveway by itself without a driver and, you know, have a deed filled out, you know, that auto-filled itself out with a pen while you were visualizing. You've got to actually work and do things. But if you're willing to learn the strategies and you're willing to learn the work and you're willing to continue and persist in your dreams and your passions and you're willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, as long as it's honest and ethical and fits within your value system, then you absolutely can accomplish everything.

And in fact, I'm convinced today that there is no limit to what the heart and the mind of a man or a woman can achieve because people keep breaking their limitations, don't they? And that's the beautiful thing about running a big company like this is whatever record is set, I see them broken again and again by new people who don't even know what they're doing. Just because they believe that they can do it bigger, better, and faster because they saw someone else do it first. You never know. But what I know is that people continue to shatter the records because the records are just there because nobody's accomplished something faster, bigger, and better yet.

It's not because that's the best you can do. See our income disclosure to EmpowerNetwork.com for cash income. That was not our average. That was our best. And, you know, I remember seeing that and I said, wow, who's this guy?

How did he do that? You know what I mean? $710,000 in three weeks. But I'm going to tell you something. As we grow and as we continue and as we evolve and as we get bigger and bigger and bigger, that will not be the record.

That will not be the record. The biggest month in EmpowerNetwork hasn't existed, hasn't happened yet. The biggest event hasn't happened yet. The biggest vision hasn't even been imagined yet. And that's the beautiful thing about vision.

That's the beautiful thing about the imagination. That's the beautiful thing about human beings. Human beings are not just botches of nerves and cells and matter. There's something unique about them. And I don't know exactly what it is.

But human beings have the ability to do incredible things. It's like they have the ability to exert force on the world around them, to create the world, to co-create the world around them. Human beings are special. And I fundamentally believe that if you're on this call, of course, you are a human being. I hope.

If you're not, you'll have to let me know what you are and can somehow understand this. But I hope you're a human being. And if you're on this call, you have the ability to do great things. You have the ability to do great things. And what I said about EmpowerNetwork, I'm also saying for you.

Your biggest day hasn't happened yet. Your biggest month hasn't happened yet. Your biggest year, it hasn't occurred yet. Your biggest future, your biggest vision, you haven't even imagined it yet. But you need to get back to the drawing board and get back to the visions and get back to the notebook and allow the inspiration from the universe to flow forth as you write and create a new future and speak something new into the world.

The beautiful thing about vision, the beautiful thing about creating things, is that you can literally, from zero, create something in your imagination and then later step into it in the external world over and over and over and over and over again once you learn how to do it and once you learn the keys in order to make things work. But it doesn't start that way, does it? It starts off by, usually, running into something on the internet, running into something offline, joining something in a hotel meeting, something that gives you a little breath of opportunity, something that gives you a little breath of freedom. And you wonder why you're attracted to it, but you don't know the history in your biology. You know, if you're in North America, you come from family lines of people who fought for their freedom.

You come from family lines of people who gave up house and home and gave up brothers and sisters and gave up parents and relatives to travel to an unknown land, to travel to a place that they didn't even understand, they'd never seen pictures of because pictures didn't exist yet. All that existed was paintings and, well, I suppose you could say old pictures, right? Those ones you'd stand in front of a camera for eight minutes just to get enough light into the aperture. And then you'd take a photo and they traveled across the world sometimes losing their life with malaria, with diseases. Why?

Because they were the souls that were called the freedom. They were the people that weren't willing to settle for second best. They were the people that were willing to fight and to give up everything in their lives just to breathe a breath of freedom, right? And then we get into this society today a couple hundred years later and we look out into the world and we look into the system and we look at how people live and it's not free. But the kind of freedom that we want anyways, we're not free.

We're not. But it's not the same kind of bondage. It's not the same kind of obvious slavery that there used to be. It's a kind of bondage and a kind of slavery that you don't even know you're in until you're 35 and just broke. Or you're 60 and you're trying to cash a retirement, right?

And find out that it's 60% of what you couldn't live on before. You don't find out until your boss just chews you out again and again and again and again. And you think you have a stable secure job until one day the company says, sorry, we don't have enough money and they lay you off. You think you're in a stable secure job until the whole economy changes. And the company that you're working for doesn't exist anymore.

And you realize that no success is permanent. The only permanent thing is change. And so if you want to keep making money, you've got to keep changing with the universe around you. Adapting to your existing environment, but also forcing it to adapt. And that's what I believe is better.

Jim Rohn once said, it's not the blowing of the wind that determines the destination. It's the set of the sail. The world will do what it does. The universe will do what it does. Your environment will do what it does.

And that's not going to determine your destination. What's going to determine your destination is not the wind coming at you, but how you respond to the wind and what you're creating, what you're doing. So I choose rather than to succumb to the winds of the world, I choose to create my own economy. I choose to create my own world. I choose to create my own vision.

I choose to inspire entrepreneurs to inspire entrepreneurs to inspire entrepreneurs to inspire entrepreneurs to create new entrepreneurs out of people who just want to dream again. And sometimes they don't even know what an entrepreneur really is. Most people who get in this industry don't. I know that even when I started succeeding finally for the first time I still didn't understand what it really meant to be an entrepreneur. It took me a few years and a lot of failures and a lot of ups and downs and a lot of learnings in order to understand that this is what it means to be an entrepreneur.

This is what it means to fight for a vision. This is what it means to persist through everything that's out there. And you say, Dave, what's this have to do with this week's promo? Well, it has everything to do with it because in times when you're in your business and you want to create a breakthrough and you want to get a result, you never know what it is that's going to get you that result. You never know what it is that's going to get you that breakthrough.

You never know what you're going to hear that's going to change everything for you. You never know what you're going to do that's going to be the thing that you do that changes everything. You just have to keep working, keep believing in your vision, keep clarifying your vision, keep adjusting your behavior when things aren't working the way that you want. And continue to persist and continue to stay focused. And you will start producing results and then you'll start producing more results.

And then they'll come easier and easier and after a while it'll be like breathing. It'll be like you can't even imagine a day when two people don't just join automatically. It'll be like you can't even, you'll be sitting there in front of your computer and some of you I know you've got your credit cards out and you're wondering if you should participate in our promo. You can participate or not. I'm not talking to everyone.

And that's the thing that I really want you to understand. Whenever I'm doing something, some people when they sell things they want to sell it to everyone. They believe that it's for everyone, right? And I fundamentally don't. I believe that there's people on this call that are supposed to be here.

I believe that there's people on this call that are supposed to do this. I believe that there's people on this call that are supposed to take action. I believe that there are people on this call, it's like there's a burning inside. It's like there's a vision that's put there and there's something about this environment that attracts you and you can't figure out quite what is it. Maybe some of you know exactly what it is and maybe the rest of you don't.

But you're sitting here and you know that I'm talking to you and that's who I'm speaking to. I'm not speaking to everyone because there's another person on this call who says you're not speaking to me. And you're right, I'm not. So you can go ahead and hang up or get off the page or stay on the page and hang out because I love you even if I'm not talking to you. And that's the beautiful thing is we do love you.

And we want you to succeed too in whatever you want to do. So maybe I can inspire you if you stick around and if you want to go you're welcome to. But those of you who I'm speaking to, I'm speaking to you. And you're on the page, you're on your phone, you're listening, you're walking, right? Maybe you were surfing around on Facebook until I just mentioned it and now you've decided to stop and to listen and to focus and to say what's this guy on about.

Maybe you've been praying for an answer. Maybe you've been praying and you've been asking and you've been saying please give me an opportunity. But you don't even realize what you have. You don't even realize what you're listening to. You don't realize that where you are is the opportunity.

You don't realize the opportunity is really you. You don't realize what's inside your heart, what you can create, what you can move into the world when you decide to unlock the greatness that's within you. I've seen amazing things when people unlock the greatness inside. And I don't really particularly know how that works. And I don't really particularly know but I've seen a lot of mysterious things.

And this is the mystery. You get two people that start at the same time. They have equal skill sets. They have equal motivation or so it seems. The way it is.

So I don't know who I'm talking to right now. What I know is that I'm talking to somebody on this call and you won't quit no matter what. I know that I'm talking to somebody on this call and you're sitting there and you're like you know what I don't even know what this is really all about but I'm absolutely going to be here this Saturday and I'm going to learn the strategies of the leaders. There's somebody on here doing it right now. Tagging me on Facebook and you don't even really know what it is yet.

There's somebody else on this call that they're making excuses for the things that they know they've needed to do for a long time and the excuses are just firing off in your imagination every time I open my mouth because it's very difficult when you're making excuses to even listen to a guy like me. Because I refuse to allow anything but my own responsibility to be the reason why anything happens because I know that I have the ability to create great things. I know that it's put there inside my heart that there's greatness inside. There's like a seed of greatness inside me. And it's not greatness that's different from your greatness.

It's not greatness that's different from anybody else. Any other man or woman. It's greatness that you have too. And I know that I've tapped into that and I've tapped into the ability that I've got inside to create things. And I've seen myself do it in the past and I know I can do it again bigger.

And I realized something. I realized something. You can do this regardless of what you were making up a minute ago. And you can just decide to cast those excuses aside. Oh I don't have the time.

I don't have the money to do this. Yes you do. Yes you can. You have the time. You have the money.

You have the ability. What you're really saying is you don't believe you can do this. Which what you're really saying is you don't believe you're as good as me. You don't believe you're as good as Mike Hobbs. But I'm here to tell you are.

Mike Hobbs isn't better than you. I'm not better than you. Nobody in the company is better than you. Right. We may have different abilities and that's fine.

Right. We might be good at different things and that's fine. Maybe you're a good public speaker and maybe you're not. That's fine. We've got both that have succeeded here.

Maybe you're an engineer. Maybe you're an accountant. Maybe you're another homeless guy in a van. We've got people just like you that have succeeded. Sometimes people come into this environment and this is really what they want to know.

They want to know. And they don't really consciously know this. But this is really the validation processes that need to go off in their mind regardless of whether they're conscious of them or they're unconscious or not. And so what happens is they get into this environment and they come into Empower and they join. They pull out their credit card.

They decide to buy in the sales video from an email because of a leader that joined because of the process they got initiated to on Facebook because of a blog post they saw. And then they come here into this environment and they just don't know if it works or not. And then they listen to a few calls. They watch the Fast Start training. They meet some leaders.

Maybe they go to an event. And then all of a sudden they believe, yeah, this works. This has worked. It's working for other people. And that's a great breakthrough to have that it's working for other people.

That it does work. Because when you get over the limitations of it, it's one less excuse you can make in your brain. Oh, it doesn't work. Well, yes, it does. I can show you lots of people it's working for.

Whenever somebody comes and they say, hey, Dave, this isn't working, I say, well, then what about that guy over there? What about those ten guys? What about that gal over there? What about that million-dollar mommy over there? What about that mommy on a mission over in Australia, Sarita?

What about Tracy Walker, million-dollar earner? Say, oh, I can't do this. I'm an engineer. Well, what about Lauren's Pam who did this part-time? Right?

So there is no, it doesn't work because lots of people are doing it. You actually cannot make that excuse it does work. And that means, therefore, you can go back to responsibility. It's always a powerful thing when you go away from blame and into responsibility. When you go away from excuses and into reasons why you can't, it's always a powerful thing.

You can say, oh, I can't do it because I'm in the Army. Well, what about Mike Hopps? He was in the Army and finally ended up making so much money he was able to retire and get out of it because he wanted to. Right? He wanted to.

I thank him for serving, serving the country, trying to keep it free even though there's people in America. Right? They won't even put down the remote control to be free while people are dying all over the world. Isn't that a shame? It's not the people who are dying's fault.

It's the lazy people that won't fight for their dreams. And there's lots of other people that are dreamers. Because we've all got that DNA, our family lines. We came from people that were adventurers. You know, they traveled across the world under circumstances that none of us could imagine because we get on a plane and we fly to Europe like it's nothing.

But it wasn't like that back in the day. It was difficult. Disease ridden. Sometimes you'd have to sleep with 30 other people, many of whom had diseases. And they traveled across the world.

Why did they do it? They did it because they had a dream. And then there's a person that's not willing to put down the remote control, not willing to shut off their Facebook and listen to a conference call. Not willing to pull out their credit card and to buy the Builder Club. Not willing to get into a training and learn the things that are going to change their life.

They're not willing to really do the things that they're telling themselves they are willing to do. They're looking for a handout. They're looking for a handout. They're looking for something that doesn't exist in the world. Because although there is free lunches in some places, there's always a cost.

And the reality is you reap what you sow. So if you're looking for a handout, you're looking for gambling, go to Las Vegas and beg in the streets. Because you're not going to find that here. But there's some other people here you're not looking for a handout and you're saying, oh yeah, I don't even watch TV. I actually don't even watch TV.

I don't. I don't. And I'm not doing, I'm not saying that because I'm criticizing people that do watch TV. I don't think whether you watch TV or not has much to do with your success. I think that the amount that you watch it might have to do with your success though.

I just don't watch it because I don't even have one and don't particularly want one and it doesn't really serve me at all. So I don't, I don't watch TV. I have this huge house and I actually have a big TV. It was like four or five thousand dollars and it's unplugged on the floor downstairs in my house. Why?

Because I would rather take TV time and learn something, edify somebody, transform somebody, pursue my vision, pursue my dream. I don't need to watch somebody else fulfilling their dream on the tube because I'm fulfilling mine and it's much better. So I don't need TV. My life is too full of mystery. My life is too full of amazing things, of blessings, of miracles, of surprises, of cool people, of great relationships, of success.

My life is too full of ideas to sit there and watch somebody else's and get very excited about it anymore because their ideas are cool too. It's just I would rather do something different myself. So when you decide to put down the remote control, maybe put down a beer, and you decide to sit there and create a new world, that's where it starts. A decision, a decision, a decision to do something different, to be somebody different, to change your destiny. And then it's the work and then in that work there's special times, there's promotions, right?

There's times when you can get more results with less work and effort. There's times when you can create more with less energy and this week is one of them. And so if you're in Empower Network, here's what you need to do. Number one, make sure to complete those first three things yourself. Go through the fast start training, upload your core checklist.

Two, make sure to buy your tickets to Nashville. Three, make sure that you activated the Builders Club, which you've been around for a while. It just means you own the top producer formula and team building formula products, the Inner Circle and the Kalatu product. That's it. But if you're on the page right now and you see that link, it says click here to activate the Builders Club.

We've made it easier for you and as long as you buy it right now, maybe you can capitalize with us the rest of the week. The key in getting other people to take action is actually taking that action first. How do you get people into a trance? You go into a trance there first, before they do. How do you get people to be in a good mood?

You get in a good mood first and just get around them and your smile, your heart, your love radiates and changes the room. You ever met one of those people? They walk into a room and it's like a cloud follows them. They're like Eeyore. But then you meet somebody else and they smile and radiate, like Bonnie, one of our staff members.

She's smiling all the time. And you just can't get around her without giggling and smiling. You can't help it. You get around somebody with radiant energy and they radiate. Get around somebody like Justin Berengia and your mind just goes into a trance.

Get around somebody like his wife Dee. She's got like that bubbly explosiveness. You know, you get around somebody like Tracy and you just start dreaming of the future differently because she's a dreamer. You get around somebody like Mike and you just calm down for some reason. Why?

Because they're there first. So how do you get people to do things? You get into the state that you want to get them in first. How do you do that? How do you really?

I'm going to tell you, I'm going to teach you guys a sequence. We teach you how to sell as a thought producer formula product here, but you want to know how to really sell? Really easy. First, you've got to love to buy things and experience it. And you might think I'm joking and you might think that's a sales tactic.

It's not. If you don't love the process of being sold and you don't learn to fall in love with it, and I'm not talking about selling things that people don't want to buy. I'm not talking to everybody on this call because I don't want to exert pressure on someone that doesn't want to make a decision themselves. What I'm talking about is I'm talking about learning to love the process of buying that you're leading people through. You sell cars, learning to love buying cars.

Learning to love it rather than stressing out about it like a lot of people do and sitting there and worrying. When you get sold and you want something, what you do is you smile and you get yourself in a good state and you say, I really love buying. You learn to love buying and you learn to love being sold to, which allows you to study it without judgment. See, when you're judging something, you push it away from you, but sometimes what you do is you actually attract more of that judgment back to yourself. Say things like, oh, I'd never say something like that.

It's like, okay, you don't have to. But there is a reason why you are where you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, I would never work that hard. And it's like, really, wouldn't you? And they go off working that hard at a job for somebody else, for somebody else's dream, for a menial wage of 20 bucks an hour or whatever it is.

Say, oh, I'd never do something like, I'd never do something like that. And you're like, well, what do you do for a living? I'm a plumber, you know what I mean? It's like, okay, I would never do that either, so I'm glad the world has us both. I love you because I need plumbers because otherwise none of my toilets or anything would work around here.

If everybody was rich on the internet, what would we do with ourselves? The world has a need for all of these people, right? You learn to love the process, to love the process which will allow you to study it. See, if you don't love selling and you don't love being sold to, you won't let, your brain won't let you study it. You need to be able to hear things like that without judgment and a lot of you can't do that.

I first actually heard that. I always like crediting people. I heard Mark Toverson say that on stage and I thought it was this big scheme he was saying to get people in some weird buying state and I asked him about it later and he said, oh no, I'm absolutely serious. You've got to learn to love to buy and he was an eight-figure earner at the time and I was like, okay, I can take that from an eight-figure earner. You've got to learn to love to buy, learn to love to buy, learn to love to be sold to.

I used to get in front of my computer and I still do this sometimes, it's just I don't have the time anymore and I used to watch a sales video once a day in the morning and I would buy the things that sold me just so I'd get excited and pull out my credit card and I'd buy stuff left and right every day of the week and you'd say, Dave, that's crazy. Well, I've done $184 million in sales now so is it really that crazy? It worked. Why did I do that? To experience the emotions and the process and the pleasure and the joy of pulling out my credit card, punching it into a computer and buying a product that I was gloriously sold by somebody majestic enough to take the time to do a presentation to convince me that I need their products and services, that's why.

So I used to do that every day and I still do it maybe once in a while and I wouldn't buy everything. I'd only buy the things that got me and I'd get excited every time. I remember this one time I read this letter and I couldn't even remember what it was about but my heart was pounding and I wanted to buy it. So what I did was I pulled out my credit card and I bought the things that he was selling and I never went through it. I just went and I read the sales letter again joyously.

Love to be sold to. And then the next thing that you've got to do is you've got to do unto others what was just done unto you. It's like this golden rule. Learn to live the process of being sold to and then go out there and repeat it. It's really simple.

Following that process in the top producer formula and it really is that simple if you just do that. You've learned to sell lots of things. How do you learn to blog in a way that gets people to buy stuff? Read blogs that get people to buy stuff and then do what they do and then tweet things until you've got it right. Don't think that you've got all the answers.

Don't think that you're doing everything that you need to succeed if you're not because there's something that's missing. Otherwise you'd be succeeding, wouldn't you? If you're in a place in your life where you're stuck or maybe you succeeded before and you're having a frustrating time right now, maybe there is something that you need to overcome to get back in the flow and that's okay. I've been there. I've been there.

I've been in places where I've gotten emotionally stuck, spiritually stuck, mentally stuck in processes and then I've overcome them and I imagine there will be future ones that I'll overcome except for the thing is that I've learned my lesson and I won't repeat the same problems of the past. It'll be new and exciting and different problems that I'll get to learn and hopefully some of them I'll even learn through mentors, not by making mistakes myself. That's my favorite way, right? Not making mistakes myself but from mentors, right? So how do you learn to sell things, learn to fall in love with the process?

How do you really get to the next level? You got to find mentors and stick with them long enough in order to model them. You got to find mentors and stick with them long enough in order to model what they know. And don't judge your mentors. Don't judge the people that are loving you.

Don't judge the people that are pouring out their heart and their soul. Don't judge their tactics and strategies and mindsets and things in their life that aren't working. Praise them for the things in their life that are working, right? The things that they've got going on for them, the things that they're really good at. And I've learned that from myself.

I've also learned that from my own mentors and seeing their flaws as human beings but I can still listen to them because I know that they're good at the thing that I'm learning. Now I saw this quote on Facebook the other week and it was from a guy who's actually successful and he said, before you listen to somebody, check everything in their life. And I said, then we're all screwed. Everybody can be a mentor. I suppose Jesus is the only mentor out there or something like that, right?

Not me. Because I've got lots of mistakes but I'm good at certain things. And so what I do with my mentors is I'm selective on what I'm mentored at, what I'm mentored in. And even if they give me other advice, if their life's not working in that area, I just listen to the area it's working in. That's how I actually get mentors.

My Kung Fu teacher, for example, he's there to teach me about Kung Fu. Why? Because he's good at that. Right? You want the relationship mentor?

Go find somebody with a great relationship. And don't judge them on whether they make money or not. Maybe they do and maybe they don't. The two are not connected. You have somebody that's really great at sponsoring, what do you want to learn from them?

You want to learn from them how to be great at sponsoring and leave all your judgments aside and be willing to listen to what they have to say because they know what they're doing. There's a guy that I used to coach with, a really great guy, and a lot of his life wasn't working. Like he was really great at closing on the phone. And I knew his life wasn't working because he'd complain about it from time to time. Some of you all know who I'm talking about, but most of you don't, so it's fine.

And this guy, he'd complain about his life and I'd just be like, hey, let's go back to closing. Because he was so good at it. And I heard this guy close on the phone. It was like listening to an angel lead an orchestra of angels playing music. It was so beautiful to listen to him get people to pull out their credit card and buy.

It was amazing to listen to him do it. Say, but his life wasn't working, but he could do that one day. So I was selective. Learn to be selective in your attention, selective on who you pay attention to. Right?

And you could learn great things from lots of people and have lots of mentors that are good at all the things that you want to learn. So you're here on this call, you're listening intently. You're paying attention to what I have to say. This week is a special time. So what do you do and how do you capitalize on it?

Number one, number one, set an outcome for this week. Because we're doing a promotion, you're going to be able to sell a lot of them over the course of the next five days. A bunch of people have locked in their spots tonight. Tag me on Facebook. Tag your leaders on Facebook.

I want to give you a shout-out on Facebook. As you're buying your event tickets, knowing the price is increasing this week, you've got to lock your tickets to Nashville, go ahead and take a photo of your event ticket in your back office in the members area of the power network and tag us on Facebook. Let us know that you're going to the event. So, number one, do it yourself. And number two, those of you who are building, those of you who are leading teams, what you do, get on with your teams and sell it to them.

Get on with your teams and run a promotion. Run a promotion with your team, right? Take advantage of it. We have a tool that's converting really well to that product right now, so we want to run a promotion to the members base. And also, this Saturday, I really want to teach you some great things.

So, we're going to have promotions running all week that I'm going to be doing with the members in the member base to get people to make more money this week, to get you to earn more commissions this week. So, just follow along and do them with me. Just follow along and create a frenzy with me. Follow along and make videos with me. Follow along and make blog posts with me.

Email your team with me. Email your list with me. Go out there and do what the leaders are doing. Go out there and do what the biggest leaders in Empower Network are doing. Watch them and learn from them and replicate their strategies and just do what they're doing and ask them questions if you get a hold of them and say, how did you do that?

I saw that you just did that. How did you do that? You know, it's very rare that somebody gets me in a one-on-one conversation and says, Dave, you know, I saw you that one time on a stage sell 100,000 DVDs in an hour. How did you do that? It's not too often.

I could explain it, you know, if somebody asked. You know, I could be like, you know, Dave, how did you build that team of 300,000 people? You know, one time I had this guy come over to my house and he said, and he came over here and I met this guy at a church that I go to and so this guy comes over to my house named Isaiah and he approached me in church. He goes, are you Dave Wood? And I said, yeah.

And he says, oh my gosh. And he started freaking out. He's like, dude, calm down. You want to come hang out at my house or something? It's not the place.

And I said, yeah. So I invited him over to my house. And this guy came over here with a notebook and a pen and just asked me questions and I just didn't stop talking until he got tired because he was willing to listen. And too many people, they get around a mentor and they're not willing to listen. So what should you do going to this event here in Nashville?

You should pull out a video and get videos with the leaders and ask them questions, but not just for marketing. Ask them questions to learn things. To learn things. To learn how to do what they do. You know, I see people get around Lawrence Tam and they just go blabber on and on and on and on and on and on and very few people get around them, completely shut their mouth, pull out a video camera, start filming and just start asking them a pre-designed list of specific questions on how he's accomplished such great things.

You want to know how to get big things from this event coming up here in Nashville? Do that. Right? Do that. See, events aren't just for attending and this is the thing that you guys got to understand.

An event can be a source of creating 90 days of marketing materials, 90 days of blog posts and content from different leaders. Get out your camera and literally just in break and late at night and at the party, walk around to people and get videos. People come up to me all the time at events and they want pictures. Don't get pictures. Pull out your cameras and get videos and get marketing materials and if you take a photo in the process, fine.

Get your cameras out and make videos and ask questions and be mentored, not just from me, but from all of the leaders from the Million Dollar Earners, right? Let them help you succeed. You want to know how to use events to create? You go to events to create relationships, create marketing materials and create personal breakthroughs for you and if you don't go and you don't create those breakthroughs, then you're not going to have them, are you? Your income disclosed, right?

What if that's what you would have done had you attended and you say, oh no, I'm going to let my nervousness get to me. I'm going to let the world get to me. I'm going to let the people around me say me and I'm just going to sit there and watch TV all Saturday or I'm going to sit there and I'm not going to do it. I'm going to let this one pass me by. What if you do that?

And it could have been your breakthrough. It could have been your vision. It could have been you speaking on the stage and I can see it. It's like there's somebody here on this conference call right now and I can see you standing on a stage in front of a bigger crowd than you could imagine, but I can imagine it. It's huge.

50,000, 60,000, 70,000 people. There are rooms that fit that many people and we will fill and you will be there. There's somebody else on here you're having a breakthrough and I know you are. I know you are because I can feel it. I know when people start having breakthroughs it's just a weird thing that happens.

You say how? I don't know. Maybe I'm making it all up, but I don't think so. It seems to actually be happening. Here's the thing is I know that there's somebody on here right now and you're sitting there and your heart's pounding and you don't know whether or not you should do it and you're sitting there and you're nervous and I understand why you're nervous because in 2009 I was sitting there just like you are right now and I know you and I'm speaking to you because your heart's pounding and you don't know if you should do it or not and my heart was pounding and I didn't know if I should do it or not in my brain, but my heart told me differently and your heart tells you differently too.

That's why it's pounding, isn't it? And you're sitting there and you're wondering whether or not you should do this, but you already know that you should because you've already made the decision to do it and now you're just fighting the inevitable success that you're going to create when you make the decision to follow through on your commitments that you've made to yourself and your family. See, that's what this is really all about. It's not about Dave Wood. It's not about Empower Network.

It's not about Mike Cobb. It's not about Leadership Council and the Platinums and the Diamonds and things like that in Empower Network. Do you know what this is really all about? It's about you. This company is about you.

It's here to edify you, to uplift you, to speak new words of life into you, to tell you. You know, a long time ago I remember I was so frustrated in this industry and I was on a call with my mentor and it was like this one except for it was one-on-one and I was on a call with my mentor, the guy who got me going in the industry and really kept me in, a guy named Dennis. And I remember crying late at night, being out all day and night working, frustrated, broke, losing jobs left and right because I didn't know how to keep jobs. I didn't have any skills I could trade for money at the time that were worth anything. So I was getting paid exactly what I was worth in the marketplace, which wasn't much at the time.

And I remember crying and Dennis just staying on the phone night after night after night just saying, I believe in you. Keep fighting. You will do great things. If you don't believe in yourself, believe me, because I believe in you. And I know you can do it.

That kept me going for years and years and years and years and years and years and years. Whenever I was frustrated, I would just remember the words that I just spoke to you. And I would say, maybe I don't believe in myself, but he believes in me, therefore, I must be able to do it because he's special. And then all of a sudden, years later, I remember making a decision in 2009, just like you, in front of the computer, that I'm going to do it. And I clicked the button and began to punch my credit card into the screen, locking in my spot for what I needed to buy to succeed in my business.

And it was like there was a load that was lifted off my shoulders and it just felt good. Now, I don't believe that would have been true for everyone. I don't believe I'm speaking to everyone on this call. To some people, I really believe that you're just here for a handout, hoping that I'm going to say, if you just give us money, we're going to multiply it. But you're not going to hear me say that.

You know? Jesus did that with fish. I don't do that with commissions. You've got to go and work. Right?

You're not going to hear a lotto coming from me. You're not going to hear some sort of Ponzi-ish pitch. Just put your money in. We're going to increase it daily. You don't have to do anything.

You hear something like that, it's not real. Okay? I'm going to tell you the truth. And sometimes the truth will irritate you. But it will also set you free.

Because when you listen and you realize that there is a path, you just have to walk down that path. And sometimes it's a lot of work, but it's always worth it. Now you know at least there's a path that's been trodden and paved over. First we hacked the forest years ago. Then we dug up the roots of the trees.

And then we laid down rocks. And then we laid down cement. And now you can ride down this smooth road. But you still have got to turn on the car and go. Some of you, you're listening to this call and you've listened to calls before in Power Network, but you know that this is your time.

You know that this is your time. I had the guy hit me up the other day. He was on a blog post and he said, you know, I've been in Power Network, you know, checking it out for years. And I've been watching what you've been doing lately and I've been watching how you've been serving people and I've been watching how you've been believing in people and how you just keep fighting. And I just decided, it's my time.

I'm proud of that guy. There's somebody on this call, you feel the same. Tell me on Facebook, tag me in the post. Say, Dave, it's my time. Dave, I know that it's my time and tag me.

Right? I know that some of you are sitting here on this page and you've been wondering when it's your time to take action. And now you're sitting there and you're realizing it's always been your time. But now is something special, isn't it? Now is always special.

So what do you do? Take advantage of the promotion. Make videos, blog posts, share them on Facebook, comment on other people's blog posts. Help us create friends. What's the real key to getting people to take action in large numbers?

Social proof from other people taking action. So it builds like a wave. It builds like a wave of people raising their hands. If you imagine... Imagine a sea of people, imagine a sea of people, right?

At the front, they begin raising their hands, saying yes, and then the people behind them and the people behind them and the people behind them, and as it spreads out, it's like ripples in a wave and more and more people are doing it at the same time. As more people do it, other people do it, and other people do it, and other people do it. Social proof gets people to take more action than any other thing, always. So, what do you do when you get a result? You post the result and you talk about it and link to our income disclosure.

What do you do when you buy something? Take a picture of the receipt and mail it to your sponsor so they can post it on Facebook and give you a congratulation. What do you do if you just decide to join Empower Network? Take a picture of Empower Network and say, I just decided to join, right? Make a copy of your receipt, post it on Facebook, tag us all in it, and tell us that you're in.

Right? Make yourself known, declare yourself, but also, when you declare what you've done, when you declare what you've been doing, you're more likely to actually do it. See, some people, they're wanting the blessing, but they're not wanting to go through and follow through with the steps to get the blessing. They're wanting the blessing, but they're not willing to do the work yet. Or they're resisting it because they know they're going to have to do it, but in the process of resisting it, they're also sort of blaming the thing, but all at the same time knowing that it's really them.

They say, ah, yeah, it's me. And, you know, that's a beautiful place to be, a place of responsibility, a place where you know that there's nobody that's determining your destination. It's the actions that you're taking, it's the words that you're speaking, right? It's the things that you're changing in your life. There's an old saying that goes that life and death are in the power of the tongue.

And you've been seeking misery over your life. Why isn't it working? Why isn't it working? Oh, poor me. Woe is me.

Woe is me. And you say, well, maybe it's not working because you're asking yourself all the time to come up with evidence to prove that. And maybe it's time to stop. And maybe it's time, and maybe instead you need to ask a different question. And maybe a different question will lead to different answers.

And a different answer will lead to a different breakthrough. A different breakthrough will lead to a different result. And a different result will lead to a new vision, a new outcome, a new destiny. And maybe you should ask why is it working? And maybe that'll be a little harder to come up with an answer for, but you'll come up with something and then ask it again, and continue to ask, and continue to ask, and continue to ask, and continue to ask how you can make it happen.

One person on this call says, I don't have enough money on my credit card. And another person on this call says, I don't have enough money yet on my credit card. One person is saying, I don't have any time to do this, and therefore I can't. And another person is saying, I don't have any time to do this. And that's why I will do it.

And I will do it because I never want a day to go by again one year from today where I ever say to myself again, I don't have the time. Because you know what? Money can't buy your time back. Right now it's precious. So one man's excuse, one woman's excuse is another man or another woman's reason.

Is that true? Absolutely. Somebody says, my wife doesn't want me to do it, and so they don't. Another person says, my wife doesn't want me to do it because she doesn't trust me. So you know what?

I'm going to prove myself. I'm going to prove to her that I can succeed so she'll trust me with this experience. I'm going to make good decisions so I can feel like a man again. Ouch! But he doesn't make the excuse, he's a man.

She doesn't make the excuse, she's a woman. Same thing with the women on the call. Oh, my husband will say this, my husband will say that. Whatever. You can do what you want to do.

It's like a family. One person's excuse is another person's reason, and therefore no excuse is a good reason. Because other people are just doing the opposite thing with their minds, using the same mental resources one is using to complain, to uplift, to edify, to create instead. To speak words of life and inspiration and blessing over others. To speak words of life and inspiration and blessing over themselves.

To speak words of great futures and creation in front of them. To create new worlds and futures because what do I do? I create a new world inside my mind. I begin speaking about it and then I step into it as I'm creating it. That's what I do.

How do you get your first sale? That's what I do. I imagine it, I speak it, I take action and I create it and step into it. And I continue to do that until it's done. And what's amazing is the power that exists in human beings to create things.

It's like we have power to create things that aren't there. It's like a human being has a power to create with his unconscious mind beautiful worlds that the world hasn't seen yet, but it will because they will be created by human beings. What exists in the mind and the heart of one human being is a dream and a vision. It can happen if they just persist. And I think the worst thing in the world is when someone has a beautiful dream and they don't step into it and they could have had they just learned what I'm teaching you.

You know, a lot of people are on this call and you say, how does this work? How do I do it? My question for you is, what do you really want? When I got started in this business, I wanted to create a residual income that I could drink out of coconuts and I could be at the beach. And I would still work and I realized that my income wouldn't stay there probably forever if I didn't work.

I wasn't fantasizing. But I wanted a manageable income that could grow and compound and I could take long breaks from. Right, I've read that book, The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. I like to read a lot. It's in the eight steps.

Pretty simple steps. One, two, three. I'm actually fine if you pay more, but you might miss this amazing training that we have for you this weekend. You might miss the opportunity to learn the nuts and bolts strategies that you need to succeed. What is this really?

This is a way for you to transform the lives and hearts of other human beings while serving the marketplace in a massive way, teaching them critical skills to build an online business while you can create leverage and have a life and a destiny at the same time. This is actually the creation and the manifestation of a vision that has not been fulfilled yet, but lots of it has been. You say, Dave, how big will it be? Oh, lots bigger. Lots and lots and lots and lots bigger.

See, I always don't know how I'm going to get there. I just know that I'm going to get there. I don't know all the time when. I put dates on it and sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm not right exactly on the date, but I'm always right on what happens and then it tends to expand and get bigger and I'm also right on that. And I'm here with you and you're on this call and you're listening to me and you're paying attention and I'm telling you, we will do things none of us can imagine.

I can see it. Like a room of people that starts at a few thousand and we come back and it's four or five thousand and we come back and it's like walled rooms with a hole in the ceiling. Maybe 50,000, one of those big outdoor football auditoriums and we come back and it's even bigger than that and I could just see us growing and expanding. I can see people all over the world driving in their cars, listening to the inner circle in their car on their way to work, deciding to do new things with their life, deciding to transform things about their life and their future, deciding that they're going to do different things with their business and their life. I can see people just getting started in their business and they've been praying for an answer.

They've been asking the universe for an answer. They've been meditating and kind of projecting their thoughts out there and saying, give me something better and they're sitting there and then all of a sudden they turn on their computer, click on an ad and they see a video from one of our leaders and they pull out their credit card and they decide to buy. I can see these calls growing and getting into 5 and 10 and 15 and 20,000 people as we go around the world. I can see leaders upon leaders upon leaders building other people and building up teams of leaders around them. I can see the internal breakthroughs that people are having inside of their heart where it's like there's a light that enters into their heart when they start to believe and they start to change their vision and all of a sudden they go back to their friends and family, back to work and the people, they don't even recognize them and the reason they don't recognize them is they say, why is this person who once was this guy that I know so radiant?

It's because they've stepped into their better self. They've stepped into their higher self. They've stepped into their vision, their mission, their archetype for who they can be. I can see creating lots of public speakers. We've inspired more people to start various businesses around there than you guys even have any idea about.

I have people hit me up all the time on Facebook and they say, you know Dave, I've never done anything in Empower Network. I get messages like that all the time. I get people walking up to me and saying, I decided to start a business, you know, setting up websites for other people using our products and this is how much money I make. It was like those words radiated inside the bones that were in my body and it was like there was a fire that came inside my bones that moved through my body and for some reason Dave, I don't know why, I just started to believe and I started to make new decisions about myself and because of that, I've changed my life, I've changed my family, I've changed everything all the time. Why?

Because I believe in transformation, all the time I see people change, all the time I see people transform, all the time I see people make decisions they didn't think they could make. Make sure to lock in your event tickets before the price is increasing because the price is increasing this week because if you want to know the key to unlocking a new and a better future, the key to unlocking a new and better future inside your business is not just deciding to go to the event, it's deciding to take people with you. Joe Champ tagged me on Facebook with his ticket purchases the other day, Joe you've got to buy these things before the ticket price increases man. Now we try to warn you from time to time. By the way, congratulations to Leslie for buying your tickets, Diane, Adam, Karanji, Juanita and Christina.

Congratulations on buying your tickets, I will see you at the event. Anybody else buying your tickets right now, pull out your credit card and buy your event tickets. Go ahead and do it right now. Lock in your spot and then tag us on Facebook. Let us know that you've made a decision so we can celebrate you because at Power Network we like to celebrate success.

Every decision is a success in my imagination. The way things work inside my mind and my heart which tends to be a creation that happens in the external world. So what I want you to do is make a new decision. Make a new decision about your life. Maybe some of you are on here and you just need to make a decision and go all in to buy all the products from Power.

Then you've been putting it off but today's your day to make that decision. Perhaps that's you. I don't know. I'm not here to convince anybody to do anything. I'm actually here for another reason.

To uncover who you really are. To uncover the greatness that's inside of you. To uncover the potential. The potential of one of the greatest human beings that's ever walked the earth. One of the greats.

To uncover the potential of a genius. Somebody that's going to create ideas that the world can't imagine. Somebody that's going to create businesses that the world can't know. Because they've never existed. Nothing like it has ever existed.

I'm here to unlock the heart of somebody. That has the ability to have more faith than anyone I've ever met before. That has the ability to believe more. To be more consistent. To take bigger action.

I'm here to unlock the decisions of somebody who's been questioning themselves. But now they're making a new decision and they're making a decision that decision Now they're making a new decision and they're making a decision that decision There's just something that clicked on inside your mind when you made that decision that you just made. There's something that clicked on inside your mind and your heart and as you made that decision, you locked in your spot. As you're locking in your spot right now, as you're pulling in your credit card and just doing it. When you're making that decision, everything in your life will change.

Because, not from the financial commitment, but from the decision that you made inside of what you're going to do and how you're going to do it and who you're going to do it with. And I want to congratulate you for making that decision. Some of you, you've been putting this off for a long time. You've been watching other people blow you by. You got started when Justin Varengia got started.

Or you got started when Tracy Walker got started. Maybe you got started online very soon after I did, like Paul Hutchings. You know, Paul Hutchings got started basically with me online. He was sitting there and he was praying for an opportunity, actually. And then he ran across a guy that I sponsored named Daniel.

He was using my strategies, my videos, he was in my team. Daniel sponsored Paul and then quit. Loved Daniel. Daniel was a great guy. I talked to him a bunch.

He was in college. So, Paul Hutchings comes from the first guy that I sponsored on the internet. That team has done tens of millions of dollars in sales in my organization. That team has Justin Varengia, Mike Hobbs in it. Mike Hobbs comes from the first guy I sponsored online.

Fancy that. Isn't that amazing? What's amazing is what will happen in your future when you start to speak different things into your future. When you start to have a different attitude about your life. When you start to change your heart and what's inside your mind into something that's better and something that's more and something that's bigger and something that's more loving and kind.

When you decide to love people and love your list and love your customers and love the people in your organization, they change. When you start to look at a commission as a representation of a human being making a decision for themselves, making a decision that's right for their family, making a decision to buy something they needed, making a decision to get the training that they needed to break through in their life, to lock in their spot, to have the breakthrough that they needed in their life the week that they were dedicated to have it. When they make the decision and you see the commission and you realize the commission is not a representation of an income but a decision, then the commission therefore can multiply and isn't just a single number. That's the way that you've got to look at commissions. Human beings don't have a commission on their forehead.

Commissions have a human being on their forehead. It's different. Then all of a sudden you can feel good about selling because you're not trying to get money. Now, I know you say, oh, that's the name of the Saturday. Yes, it is.

You say, well, what did you just say then? Don't get too hung up on trying to find contradictions in what I said. You'll probably find my speech riddled with them if you're trying to do that. I would instead look for the golden nuggets in it because I'm not like God or something, you know what I mean? When you start to look at decisions people make, not as something you're going to get but as a result of something you gave them, as a result of a decision that you helped them to make, as a result of a transformation you helped them step into, as a result of a new future that you opened up for them, as a result of a door in the universe that you opened that they could step into, as a result of them deciding to have a little bit more faith in themselves.

When you realize that when you get a commission, what you're actually getting is you're getting somebody with a little bit more faith in themselves. You're getting somebody who believes in something just a little bit bigger. You're getting somebody that really, legitimately can completely transform every aspect of their life, their future, their family, their finances just from that one decision can spring into thousands of decisions. When you realize that one decision isn't just a single decision, when you realize that single decision can transform multitudes and armies and rooms full of people and can stretch into the thousands and tens of thousands into other languages you don't speak, when you realize that a single decision is not a single decision but is a human being with a heart and mind that may have been praying for you, then all of a sudden maybe you'll decide to show up for them and to be consistent with them and to walk with them to help them have that breakthrough. Because maybe that person is a Dave Wood.

Maybe that person is a Paul Hutchins. Maybe that person is a Tracy Walker. Maybe that person is a Justin Berengi, a Dee Berengi. Maybe that person is an Aaron Rash. Maybe that person is another you.

And just because you're there and you love them, because you love them, you've got to learn to love your customers. Say, Dave, what's it have to do with this week? It has everything to do with it. Make a decision. Because I'm going to show you this week how to really do things, right?

Because you can see yourself transform, your culture can transform, your team transform in seven days and then it'll take 90 days of holding it to really break out if you focus. And that is a decision that I'm looking for. And somebody just made it right there. And you've got to realize something that if I'm talking on this thing, I might be talking to a specific person, but maybe I'm talking to you. Because maybe there's somebody on this that can do bigger things than us all.

Maybe there's somebody on this that they could just get started in from nowhere. You don't even know what you're doing, but you're just excited and you don't know why. You could just make a decision and have 100 people at the Nashville event. And I believe that. And we'll show you how through the course of this week.

So market with us. Create social frenzy with us. Post copies of your purchase receipts with us. Tag me in them. Tell us you've made a decision.

Buy your tickets right now before the price increases. You want to lock in your tickets right now. Right now you want to pull out your credit card, click the link, and lock in your tickets. You want to lock in your tickets to Nashville right now because the price is increasing. And also because you want to tell people you made that decision.

Tell me you made that decision so I can congratulate you so we can help you get attention. So you can go out there and recruit and you can also get people to the event. You want to do it right now to capitalize on what we're doing. You can't wait anymore. You've got to do it right now.

This is actually urgent for you to do. It's not urgent because the price is increasing right now. No, it's increasing later in the week. The ticket price is increasing later this week. Ask the people that have just bought it.

of the last couple of weeks too. But right now you need to do it. You literally need to log in right now and buy your event tickets. The reason you need to do it is because if you do it right now, it's going to give you decision momentum to build with us over the course of the week. And you can help people make new decisions.

You can help people make decisions to do what you just did. And through the course of the week, you can build for our Get Money event on Saturday. Our Get Money training event, we're going to show you the tactical how-to of how our top people are getting the results they're getting. It will completely blow your mind how simple it is. But you just got to complete those three steps.

It's that simple. Right now, regardless of whether you've done that, I want you to buy your event ticket. Go ahead and complete all those steps tonight. I want to know who's going to do it tonight. I want to know.

And I would call out the decision and unmute the lines, but I don't have the ability to do that on this line. So here's what I want to know. I put a thing on Facebook and I just said, hey, tell me if you're going to do that tonight. I want you to go on my Facebook wall and say, I'm going to do it tonight. And then after you've completed all three steps, go ahead and take photos of it and upload them on Facebook tonight.

I'll be putting a blog post up that explains the promotion a little bit later tonight. I got to make the video right after tonight's call. Go ahead and like the post, share it, right? You can actually, on the front blog, put your user ID and you can code sales back to you for anything that we make. And I'll post some things on there that will help you get sales.

I'll explain the promotion. I'll put the links in that blog post, right, that you can email out that you can really create some havoc with. Let's create some havoc in the marketplace because there's nothing better than creating friends you should. It's one of the most fun things to do ever. And if you really just decide to move with a big group of people moving, you can get things done bigger, quicker and faster.

And that's one of the reasons why it works so well. It's like a wave metaphor of people raising their hands in a giant sea of people. As it gets out to more and more people, more and more people start doing it and it creates more chaos and more energy and more havoc out there in the marketplace the more that we do it together. So right now, click the link and make a decision and be a part of it. How to be a top producer which is how to sell things and how to get people to make a decision, right?

How do you sell things and get people to make a decision? You buy the top producer formula. How do you build teams that duplicate and grow and how do you create momentum with huge groups of people? I'm talking tens of thousands of people at once. How do you get tens of thousands of people to make decisions using social strategies, right?

We teach you that in the team building form. It's an amazing product. Those are the two most critical things that you need to succeed in your business and we're filling in a third part this weekend. You know how to do those two things which you're going to know by buying those products. Normally those products, they retail at $1,000 and the other one retails at $500 and also the inner circle is $100.

And so if you add all that up it's like $1,700 or something for all that stuff. Don't quote me exactly, right? $1,000 plus $500 plus $100 plus $97 plus an affiliate fee, right? But right now if you see that right now for $997 you're getting literally more than $700 off. But you don't want to wait until the end of the week.

Like a lot of people will wait until the end of the week. I'm telling you if that's you, you just shot yourself in the foot. If you're saying, oh I'm going to do it on Friday. No, you want to do it right now and you want to get in the decision momentum and create the wave of energy with us. You want to pull out your credit card and just say forget it, I'm going to do it, right?

Just pull out your credit card and do it. And the reason is because you get to be part of that decision wave. But those two products teach those keys. And then the other thing that you really need to do is you need the small scale tactical stuff, right? How do you get leads and close things?

How do you get leads from Facebook? How do you generate content that generates leads and things like this? Tactical stuff, right? And the best way to teach that is not to put it in a product. The best way to teach that is to teach it from people that are actually doing it in the marketplace because you can't replicate that through a training product that doesn't change.

There are certain things that don't change and there are certain things that change all the time in the marketplace. The tactical small scale stuff, you need updates all the time. And so this weekend we're actually going to teach that stuff. It's like, hey what's Mike Hobbs doing? What's Justin Berenzia doing?

What's Michael Martin doing? What's Tracy Walker doing right now? I mean all these people are earning huge amounts of money bringing in massive numbers. So how did he do that and who was he talking to and what's his process and how is he making that work, right? That's the kind of thing that you get to learn in this special thing.

I'm going to be honest. I don't know if I'll ever do this get money Saturday thing again. This might be the only one that we ever do and there might not even be any replays ever available. You've got to actually show up and to attend you've got to do all those steps. But you don't want to just do them.

And here's the thing I want you to understand. It's not like you're just getting a discount here when you're getting in that for $9.97. You're not just getting a discount on it, all right? You're actually getting a whole bunch of bonuses. You can actually watch that webinar that we did in that mansion.

We're going to leave all those bonuses active. And invite people to come with us and help us help you make decisions that are going to change your financial future. Build with us, build with us, build with us. Get caught up in the momentum with us. Build into that and I'm going to show you how to springboard this weekend from that to Nashville to show you how to pack that room with a team of 30 or 50 people.

How would you like to go to your first event in Nashville and have 30 or 50 people have your own breakout room in there and have everybody making videos with you. So I'm going to tell you what's going to happen if you do that is your marketing is going to explode. It's a principle called viral sustainability. What happens is when you cross over the threshold in your business is all of a sudden you're not just the one doing all your marketing. All of a sudden all these people are talking about you, right?

You've got people making testimonial videos, people interviewing you and asking you questions. And how do you do that? Well, the way that you create that is you create a momentum wave with us, right? You lock arms in a momentum wave. You notice there's some stink going on in the marketplace about Empower.

We're creating momentum waves right now. People making decisions, making decisions, making decisions and doing great things. If you get caught in that momentum wave and you build the momentum wave, you move into that event with 30 or 40 people. Here's what you do. You have everybody start interviewing you and making videos and making testimonials for each other and they're all making blog posts and posting things on social media.

And all of a sudden you go from doing all your own marketing to lots of other people talking about you and building around you and building around your process and edifying you. And all of a sudden you go from the hunter to the hunted. That's how you cross to that line in your business and how you start getting autopilot sign-ups from places that you don't even understand. It's from viral sustainability. We actually teach you how to do that in the team building formula.

If you don't have that product, you're shooting yourself in the foot. So, all together that's normally $1,700 and the price is going to increase and go back to normal. We're going to take these offers down for existing members. You won't be able to get this anymore. This is literally your last chance.

This might be your last chance forever to capitalize on this movement and get access to these products. But not just that. We were down at Miami and this last event we did, you know, this whole training. A lot of you were there. You know what I mean?

We did it at the Miami mansion. We basically recreated our whole sales process and we have a product that we created from that on how to create sales process. I actually do it live and I recreate a sales process that's going to do at least $100 million in sales. And that product, right, we're going to actually throw in the recording on that section of that product, right, for free for you as long as you take action right now. But you've got to take action because we might just remove that.

You want to go ahead and pull out your credit card and take action right now on that before the price increases and you lose your chance. The thing about making decisions in Power Network is there's no risk for you. There's only a risk in not making decisions because we have a money back guarantee and, you know, we actually, I actually tell people on a personal level, I tell people if you want a refund, don't even buy. But, you know, from a practical level, there's not actually any risk to you because we believe in what we do so much that if you go through that product in the next 14 days and it doesn't transform your business and your life and change your mindset, we're just going to give you 100% of your money back and just say take it. We don't want it.

Because I actually don't want your money if you're not going to have a... I actually want you to have a transformation but you've got to lock in your spot right now and start running with it and start doing those things. And here's the other thing I want you to understand. The real risk in not making a decision, the risk in not making a decision to run with us, to lock arms with us, to do it right now is this. If you don't make a decision and you don't decide to lock in your spot and you don't decide to run with us, what could you really be losing?

Well, what if this week you would have sponsored Paul Hutchings? What if you would have sponsored Dave Wood this week? What if you would have sponsored a Mike Hobbs this week? What if you would have sponsored an Aaron Rashkin or a Tracy Walker this week, right? What if you would have had a Michael Martin join your business this week?

What if you would have had a Desmond Tunes join your business this week, right? Any one of our great leaders. What if you would have had Mike Aldo join your business or Jamie Diaz join your business, right? You never know who's going to join your business and who's going to pull out their credit card if you just decide to take action and start promoting. You could literally lose a business that ends up doing tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and that's the real risk of not taking action.

It's losing your chance. It's losing your spot. It's letting somebody else take the spot that's supposed to be yours because I actually fundamentally believe that. I believe that when a calling is given to somebody by God and they don't take it, God just takes it and he gives it to somebody else. So you know what's going to happen with that person that's going to join is they're going to join with somebody else.

They're going to join with somebody who's taking responsibility in marketing and actually doing the things that they're supposed to do in their business to get the results that they want to get. So this is urgent. Your time is running out and you want to make a decision and take massive action and right now pull out your credit card and make a decision. Congratulations. Go ahead and tag me on Facebook.

Look out for the blog post later tonight. I will see you on the beaches of the world and congratulations for everybody that's made a decision to buy your event ticket tonight. I want to congratulate you. I'm excited. I will see you at the event.

If you haven't done that yet, be sure to get your ticket before the price increases and I will see you this Thursday. We're doing a live public webinar promoting the Center Is event and also we'll be sending out materials all through the week creating a massive frenzy and the best thing you could possibly do for yourself and your family is pull out your credit card and congratulations because you just made a decision to buy Ninja.