2016-02-29 Empower Hour 22916 – LEAP Into Your Future with Dave W & Justin V

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To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.EmpowerNetwork.com All right, folks, this is Dave Wood. I'm talking to you from my home up in the mountains in Eskizu, Costa Rica, and I want a quick confirmation that you guys can hear me, so if one of my employees is on the line, if you could shoot me a quick text message, or if somebody could send me a quick message on Facebook, I'll go ahead and get started. I've got some exciting stuff to share with you tonight, some cool developments, and I want to make sure you can hear me, which I believe that you can, so I will wait one minute. I believe. All right, sweet.

Thank you, Mike Hobbs. I appreciate you. So, guys, I'm really excited about tonight, and I'm always excited to get in front of teams and to share vision with you guys and to really inspire you. My hope that when I get on a call or I get on a webinar or hangout and you're listening is that the words that I speak will help you to change, and by change, I don't mean change you from who you are or change you into something different. I mean to help you change and do the things that you want to do in your life, to create the things that you want to create in your life, and to step into the vision that you want to step into in your life, and that's really what my life has become about over the last near seven years now, six and a half years since I've been on the Internet.

I got started on the Internet in 2009, and a little about me, if you've never heard my story, I imagine there's at least one or two of you on. I got started in 2009 because I was broke. I didn't have any money. I didn't have any resources. I didn't have any lists.

I had never built a business on the Internet before. In fact, I'd failed in home business for seven years, building traditionally, doing home meetings, home parties. I know some of you have never done anything like that, but there's a lot of you who are on the call who have done things like that and failed and failed and failed. Some of you may have even done them and succeeded. For me, I failed, and it was a miserable, awful failure because it was failure with lots of work.

I never had a work ethic problem, and so I failed for seven years in 2009. I got started on the Internet because I'd hit a low point in my life, and the low point was this. I was 28 years old. I was homeless and living in a van. I had a job that I'd got at Greenpeace, selling – it was essentially subscriptions to Greenpeace, and you were paying money every month to support Greenpeace and lobbying in Congress to lower pollution or whatever they're doing.

I got fired. I got fired because I was late, so I was living in a van, homeless, got fired from a job that was kind of one of those jobs that you get if you can't get anything else. I realized something. I realized that I was a grown man who couldn't support his family, and I was 28 and had nothing. I didn't want to be 38 and have nothing, and I realized that if I kept doing what I'd done for the last seven years since I was 21, that I was going to be seven years later exactly where I was then, and actually now today it's seven years later.

I went through seven years of failure, and now I've gone through seven years of success. It was because I changed. It was because something inside me changed in 2009, and so you ask, what was that? What did you change, or what changed inside of you, and what made you different that time, and here's what it was. It was one night I was in my van sleeping, parked by the river – no, I'm joking.

It was actually parked near Honolulu Beach on the island of Oahu. I had like 45 bucks left in my checking account, and I needed to eat, and a cop woke me up, and it was like 2 in the morning. I was married at the time, and my wife was sleeping there in the van with me. The cop woke us up and wrote me a ticket for the last $45 I had in my bank account, and I didn't know what to do. I don't know if you've ever been in a situation like that where you're at a low, and you don't know what to do.

You don't know what you can do, but everything that you ever tried to do up until that point hasn't really worked. Well, at that point, something in me just snapped, you know what I mean, and I made a new decision about my life, a new decision about my future, and the decision I made is that my time is now. I'm not going to wait two to five years anymore. I'm not going to wait for being in the right place at the right time anymore. I'm not going to wait until things are right anymore, until I have the secret strategy, until everything works like magic.

I'm just going to do it right now. I'm going to succeed now, and I don't know how I'm going to do it. I don't know where I'm going to do it. I don't know what company I'm going to do it with, but I'm going to make this happen. And this is a common thing with people, and I see it all the time on Facebook posts, emails, in people's marketing, and things that people send me on Facebook that I kind of ignore or hit spam, where people kind of think that the way that you make it is by being in the right place at the right time, and very few people actually acknowledge that the way that you make it is by you being right.

And when you realize that, that your success is not dependent on something outside yourself, that your success is dependent on what you do, then what you're going to do, rather than blame or congratulate somebody else for helping you succeed, what you're going to do is you're going to take responsibility. It means taking responsibility for creating the things that you're creating in your life, for creating the positive things you're creating in life, or the negative things, whatever it is. And if you're on this call and if you're hearing the sound of my voice, here's what I want to tell you. If you're looking at yourself and you're being honest, and it's hard, if you're being honest with yourself and you feel like your heart is broken when you look at yourself, if you're being honest with yourself and it hurts you to look at that and to say and acknowledge I'm getting paid for the value that I'm exerting in the marketplace, and that's not much right now. If that's you and you're hearing me, I want to tell you something, that there's hope for you.

There's hope for you. You can change. It has nothing to do with how valuable you are as a human being. It has to do with what you do and what you know and the energy you're exerting in the marketplace. And you can change all of those things.

That's the beautiful thing about taking responsibility is when you take responsibility for where you're at in your life, you now have the power to change, whereas if you blame at all in any way, it's the economy, it's the president, it's the laws, it's the people around me, it's my upline who ran to another deal. If you're blaming your spouse, your parents, your kids, oh, I can't do it because I have kids and they're running around the house, oh, I can't do it because my husband, my wife left me, I can't do it because I failed for all these years, if you're blaming the past or the people around you, then what you don't have the power to do is to take responsibility and to completely alter the course of your destiny to become something more, to become something greater, to step into a new kind of vision. But if you do take responsibility and you say, you know what, I don't really like where my life is right now and I don't really like to say this is because of me, although I don't really necessarily like that, I'm choosing now to change it. And it gives you power. It gives you more power, not less.

And that is beautiful. It's beautiful to see people that step into their power and realize you do have the power to change things. You do have the power to create new worlds around you. You do have the power to speak new things into existence. You do have the power to change your actions, to change your words, to change your thoughts, to change the things that are going inside your mind, to change the things that are coming out of your mouth, to change your marketing, to change where you're placing ads, to change your strategy.

You have the power to change. And that's the beautiful thing. You know, you talk to people from time to time and although it's pretty consistent that somebody's past behavior is going to be the strongest determinant of what they do in the future, usually on a large scale, all the time, all the time, all the time I see people break those patterns and change. And so I don't care if you've been broke your whole adult life. I don't care if you've had success before and you've lost it.

I don't care if you're at the peak of your success right now. You can be better. You can be more. You can achieve more. You can step into a bigger vision.

And that, my friends, is what tonight is really all about. And I want to congratulate you for taking the time to listen, for taking the time to do something wonderful on a Monday night, to do something wonderful, to celebrate something different. And that's the thing that I really want to say about you if you're on this call. You being here means something different about you. People do all kinds of things on Monday night.

Normally they go to bed tired, frustrated, complaining about the day in North America, not thankful really for what their life is like because they got to get up and they got to go to work tomorrow. But you're here and you're educating yourself. You're learning something new. You're learning how to be a different you, to step into a new vision. You're learning by listening to somebody who's learned how to create different worlds through the power of his actions and words.

That's what you're listening to. You're here to grow. You're here to learn. You're here to build yourself up into a new kind of a man or a woman that can do great things in their lives. So I was living in this van.

I made a new decision. And I actually moved into my parents' house and borrowed money to start a business on the Internet. I bought a laptop off eBay. It was $150 and I didn't have $150 in my name. I had to borrow it from my mom.

That's how broke I was. Now a lot of people, they'd be too proud. They'd be too prideful. They would say, you know, I can't do something like that. I can't borrow money and, you know, I'm a grown man and I won't do it.

I won't get resourceful and do whatever I've got to do to come up with resources. And you know what? I understand that. And I understand you. And I understand, I understand you.

But the reality is, the reality is, is that you've got to realize something. That if you're not willing to do whatever it takes, you're not going to do the right thing that you need to do to empower your business to succeed to the next level. You've got to be willing to do whatever it takes. And I don't mean stuff that's dishonest, unethical, or illegal. I mean that if you really want to succeed and you really want to change your life, you've got to be willing to reach down inside yourself and to do things that may be uncomfortable.

And that uncomfortable might be changing your title. Some people are so caught up in status that they're not willing to lower their status to build a greater status in the future. Some people are so caught up in being the president or being the judge or being the top of their corporation that they're not willing to look at themselves in the mirror and to say, I hate this. I don't want this. I want something new and different.

Some people are so caught up looking the part of success that they just go and they buy cars and they buy houses and they buy things that they can't afford on payment plans that they can't afford, putting themselves into a state where they can't manage their life, where they can't manage their future. But you're here because you want to learn to do something different. You're here because you want to acknowledge where you are. You're here because you want to change things as you're stepping into a new and different and more powerful future. That's why you're here tonight.

And so I want to congratulate you. I want to congratulate you for educating yourself. So I get started 2009 and I start working and I find a business online. And I just started to work differently with a different kind of intention, a different kind of outcome. I was sick of a two to five year plan.

I was sick of taking forever. I'd been in a two to five year plan in 2002 and then it didn't work in two to five years. Two to five years later I was in a different company and the two to five year plan didn't work. Two to five years later I was in a different company and the two to five year plan and still I was broke. And when you wake up and you're 28, 38, 48, 58 years old and you're broke, there's not something wrong with the economy.

There's not something wrong with your boss. There's not something wrong with your upline. There's something wrong with you. And it's not because you can't, it's because you're not doing the things that you need to do to succeed. And all you've got to do is acknowledge it which gives you the power to change it.

And if you change it, the world around you seems to change too. So that's what I did. I started to work differently. And when I started to work, I started to have different outcomes and different intentions. And I've been talking about this a lot the last couple of weeks because I realized something that people are still doing the kind of things that I used to do.

And people in Empower Network and people I teach, they don't do things like wander around in shopping malls and home parties and cold call friends and relatives. And that's not necessarily what they're doing. But they're still having the same kind of attitude that I used to have when I was failing. When they're new and when they're starting and before they step into big success, and this is what they do. They're always projecting their success out into their future.

They're always projecting the time when they're going to make a decision to do it off into the future. They're always projecting the time when they're going to really get started off into the future into some distant land, some decision, some learning that they're going to get when everything's just right, when they know exactly how to do it, when everything's just right in the marketplace, that's when they're going to do it. Or I'm going to start sending emails out when my list is a little bit bigger. Or I'm going to start doing team hangouts when my team has more than two people in it. Or I'm going to start marketing as soon as I understand everything in all of the products.

Or I'm going to start closing people and I'm going to start calling people, you know, as soon as I've got the lines just right and I've memorized them all and I can model exactly the way that you do it. But they don't realize something, that the reason I can say those lines like that isn't because I'm reading a script. The reason I can say those lines like that is because I said them wrong so many times, because I said them incorrectly, because I had the wrong attitude when I was recruiting for so long, because I was willing to just take action even when I didn't know what to do. Even in the face of obscurity, when I didn't know where to put one foot and where to put the other foot to walk in a straight line, I did not know what to do. I did not know what to do and that's why I was in the spot that I was in.

But I acted anyway and I took action anyways and by doing that I developed a skill. And so, if you're on this call and that's you, the time to take action is not in the future. The time to take action is not in five years, in ten years, when you've been through every product, when you've been to six events, when you've bought a Tony Robbins course and then you've bought a course from Tom Hopkins and then you went and you've studied Jim Rohn and then you've went to 14 high-ticket seminars, the time to take action, friends, is now. It's right now, tonight. It's deciding that now is the time of your breakthrough, that today is the time that you're going to take action.

Today is the day that you're going to change. Today is the day that you're going to succeed. It's deciding to stop putting it off, to stop saying I'm going to succeed in two to five years. Here's the five-year plan. That means the never plan, just so you know.

Hey, look, see our income disclosure in powernetwork.com forward slash income for everything that I say. But tonight, I'm going to tell you the truth. Look, this is not gambling and this is not a lottery. This is not a game of chance. If you're going to get in this business and you're going to treat it like you're going to get in, make an investment and get a return on your investment, you're in the wrong business.

You need to move to Las Vegas, go around and beg on street corners and then take all the money that you're begging and collecting from people who are donating to your cause and walk in casinos and continue to gamble it away because you're going to get better odds doing something like that. If you want to talk about odds and you want to talk about gambling and you want to talk about betting on your future, go buy tickets to things like the Super Bowl, invest in lotteries, invest in random things that you run into on the internet. Buy a Ponzi scheme if you want. But you're not going to succeed like that in a business. If you want a real business that's going to produce real results, you've got to learn what to do and you've got to take massive action.

You've got to stop blaming your upline, the company, the marketplace, your friends and your relatives, the things that you were told as a child. You've got to stop blaming the lack of resources that you have in your life and accept them and get resourceful to come up with the resources you need in order to get your business started right. You've got to stop blaming your spouse. You've got to stop blaming your children. You've got to stop blaming your lack of education.

You've got to stop blaming the last five years of failure. You've got to stop blaming and take responsibility. And the second you do that, you're going to step into a new kind of power. So I decided in 2009, I said this is my time, period. I will not go to sleep until I produce.

I would wake up every day, I remember, and I would just work until I passed out with the intention of sponsoring people and bringing new people into my business. And that was my only intention I had all through the day. And that's how I broke through. One day at a time, waking up one day and forcing all of my energy out there in the marketplace, writing as many articles as I could. Sometimes people, they get in and they say, what's the minimum of the actions that I need to take?

What's the action? What's the action that I need to take? What kind of actions do I need to take in my business? Right? And to just take the actions that you need to take and to just do as much as you can.

People don't come in, they don't ask, hey, what's the maximum that I could possibly do? They always ask, what's the minimum? It's like an employee who gets a job and they wonder what's the minimum number of hours they can work to the most pay. What do you do with an employee like that if you find one? You let them go.

Because that's not how good team members act. Good team members want to say, how can I contribute? How can I give more? How can I do more? And what you should be asking when you get started is, what's the actions that are going to produce results in my business?

And how can I take the most actions that I could possibly take in order to produce the results? You get into a company and you don't ask, what's the minimum I could join at? Right? People do that all the time. They say, oh, I'm just going to try it out and if it works, I'm going to get up to the next level.

Right? People come in, they get on a trial in a power network or they get in a company and they buy one product. They buy it in the lowest possible package. And you know what they do? They say, I'm going to upgrade if it works.

And you know what they're really doing? They're really gambling. They're saying, oh, I'm going to put my money in and see if it multiplies. Right? Well, we're not Jesus.

We're not just going to take your money that you put into a power and multiply it because we're not an investment company and we're not a Ponzi scheme. You actually have to sell products here. Right? And so if you're going to try it and you're going to dip your toe in the water and you're going to check it out, you might as well look and get started. You might as well just quit and, like I said, move to Las Vegas and beg on street corners because it's going to be better odds for you.

Right? Because we do things differently here and we do things for different reasons. So tonight I want to teach you some things about vision. And I want to project us all into the future and to paint out new ways of doing things for everybody on this call. I want to tell you where we're going.

I want to tell you how you can step into new you. But it starts with realizing that you are where you are in your life not for any other reason but what you're doing. And if you realize that and you say, okay, I can accept that, now we can change. And if you say, no, no, I'm here because of this person, I'm here because of that person, I'm here because my husband did this, because my wife did that, I'm here because, no, you're not in the right place. Because you're not ready for this.

You're not ready to do what it really takes. You're not ready to step into who you really need to be. You're not ready yet. And that's okay because you could be ready in the future but you're not ready right now. See, I don't want to work with people who are in a state like that.

And I might not be talking to you and that's okay if I am talking to you because it's not an insult. I personally don't want to spend time with you. with people that don't take responsibility for the way their business is, the life is. They want to take responsibility for the amount of money that they're making. Why?

Because I can't help them get results. And I would rather be honest with you and then help you if that makes sense. And if you want to be helped, if you want to change, and if you want to work, and if you want to create something that's going to stay around for a long time, I would love to help you do that. But by help you, I don't mean giving you a handout. By help you, I don't mean giving you money to join.

By helping you, I don't mean doing everything for you. By helping you, what I really mean is that I will do this with you and I will lead in the front. Because a leader leads in the front with an example, not from behind with a stick. That's what my friend Aaron Rashkin said on his Facebook wall the other week and I liked it. And it's true.

I will lead from the front and I will show you what to do. And what's proof of that? Now, that's not owning the company. That's as an affiliate just like you. In other words, doing the things that I tell you to do and leading by the example that I'm setting, my affiliate position has generated over $6.5 million since 2011.

And I can show you how to do what I've done. Can't promise you'll do it and I can't promise that you'll be willing to work as hard as I'm willing to work, but I can show you how to do what I've done. So, today's the day that you make a new decision. Today's the day you change, but you've got to draw a line in the sand and you've got to say my time is now. You can't get in and say I'm going to join a small attack if you've got to get in and say, you know what, I'm getting in to the top.

I'm getting in all in Empower Network. You can't say I'm going to get in, but I'm not willing to follow the steps. You've got to get in and get an event ticket. You can't say, oh, I'm going to get in Empower Network, but I'm not willing to do what you teach. You should teach me the secret because I'm going to turn you away and I'm going to say, you know what, this isn't for you.

See, sometimes people will do anything to get you to pull out your credit card. Sometimes people will do anything to get you to buy, but the reality is that I'm not here to do that. See, I realized something. I realized that I am not talking to everybody who's on this call. I'm not talking to everyone.

I'm not talking to people that are lazy. I'm not talking to people who want a handout. I'm not talking to people who are just going to try it out, and I'm not talking to people who want to get in a Ponzi scheme and want to be scammed or want to get in a scam. There's both people out there. I'm not talking to people that are here and they're going to fold their arms and cross their legs and roll their eyes at everything that I say because I'd actually wonder why you were on the call if you were doing that.

Why are you listening? I'm not actually talking to you. Who I'm talking to on this call are the people with a burning desire. Who I'm talking to on this call are the people who are hungry to change. Who I'm talking to on this call are the people who are ready to take action.

I'm talking to the people on the call that are sick and tired of being sick and tired in their business. I'm talking to the people on the call who are sitting there, standing up, and you feel like I'm talking to you. I'm talking to the people on here who, when I'm speaking, there's something about the words that I'm saying and you can't quite put your finger on it, but you know that I'm speaking to you and you know that you're supposed to be doing this. And you can't really explain how you know and that's the weird thing about knowing something like this. You just know that you're supposed to be listening to this call and you know that it's time for you.

I'm talking to the people because I know there's somebody on this call who tonight is going to have a dream light up on the inside. There's somebody on the call tonight that's been in for a long time but they've never really made a decision to do this. And tonight, you're going to make a decision to do this. I'm talking to the people on the call tonight because you believe that no matter what happened in the past, no matter what failure you've had, no matter what struggles you've been through, you believe that you were born a greatness. I'm talking to the people on this call right now where you don't have anything except for a burning desire and a willingness to do whatever it takes.

I'm talking to the people on this call who aren't going to make excuses and say, oh, I don't have money. I'm talking to the people on the call who even though you don't have money yet, you will find a way to get in and to get to the top. That's who I'm speaking to, the people who are going to make real decisions. So if that's you and you're listening to me and you're ready, then I want you to pay attention for the rest of the time that I'm talking. So how do you create faith?

It's really simple actually. First thing that you've got to have is you've got to have a humble heart. You've got to have a willingness inside to do whatever it takes to succeed. That's the first thing that you've got to have. You can't come into this with an ego.

You can't come onto this page if you're sitting on this page and say, oh, I'm going to only do it if I like the things that I have to do. You can't come into this and say, oh, I'm going to succeed at this and I don't need to listen to those young bucks because I'm a doctor and I make a lot of money as a doctor. You can't come onto this and say, oh, I succeeded offline building and home meetings years ago and so I'm going to come into this and get to the top and I'm not going to listen to anything anybody has to say. You can't come into this with an ego because this is something different. That would be like me going into a mixed martial arts school if I was a dancer and saying, all right, I'll take you guys on and going and attacking one of the black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Unbelievably stupid, right? When you think about this in that context, it's stupid to have an ego. I might not be a doctor and I don't know how to do brain surgery. I didn't graduate from college, but I've made six and a half million dollars doing this as an affiliate over the last four years. So here I know what to do.

So I want you to listen. So number one, you got to be humble and you can't have an ego about what you're doing. No ego allowed. If I get on the phone with somebody in my personal team and I'm connecting with one of my new members who's getting started doing a new member coaching and I ask somebody, I say, if I tell you what to do as long as it's honest, ethical and legal and it's within your ability to do, will you do what I teach? And if they answer no to that question, I'll actually tell them to go get a refund and to quit.

Now most of the time when I do that, what happens is they actually stay in and they'll upgrade their products because I was honest with them. But I'm not going to sit there and pretend and give you mamsy-pamsy things to do and say just to get your money. I'd rather you quit if it's not for you. But if somebody says yes, and I say are you serious about that? If I tell you exactly what to do, are you going to do it no matter how difficult it is as long as it's within your ability and I give you resources to be able to do it, they're going to say yes.

And if I say are you sure about that? And they say yes and I say, so if I tell you where to be and when to show up and exactly what actions to take, will you do it? And they say yes, I'll do it. As long as they are willing to follow through on their end, I will go to the ends of the earth with that person because I know I've got somebody who's hungry. So first thing you've got to be is you've got to be humble and ready to receive.

You've got to be humble and willing to learn. You've got to be humble and realize that this is a different business, that this is a different trade. You've got to be humble and realize that you don't know it all. That's the first thing. The second thing is this.

You've got to be willing to work. And I don't mean like this crappy, lazy crap that you see people doing all over the world in rich countries. The least possible for the highest possible pay. That's not work. I'm talking about you've got to be willing to get your hands dirty with work.

You've got to be willing to scrape your knees and to bruise your elbows and to do whatever it takes. You've got to be willing to take a camera out and make videos and to sit on the internet and make blog posts and to actually listen to trainings and go and implement them. The place asks, okay? You've got to be willing to work. You've got to be willing to work doing the things that we tell you to do.

Sometimes people come in and they want to work, but they'll do the exact opposite of what they're told to do. They won't even ask what to do. They won't ask advice on it. I want to give everybody here some advice in your business. I'm not here to control you and I'm not here to tell you, you can't do this or you can't do that.

That's not why I'm here and that's not my role. That's not my job. So here's what I'm here to do. I'm here to guide you if you want it. So is your upline, so is your sponsor, whoever brought you into a power network.

The next person up who has made a lot of money in power network and knows what they're doing. Knows what they're doing. Somebody like Justin Berenjia, Lawrence Tam, Tracy Walker, Aaron Raskin, Alex Nanna, Michael Martin. There's a whole bunch I could list. There's a whole bunch I could list off.

Up and coming people that we've got that are just breaking through. They know what they're doing. And some of the stuff that you want to try when you're coming into a business like this, I'm going to tell you something. Everybody wants a mentor, but so few people are willing to listen to them, it's unbelievable. Right?

If you would just ask about some of the stuff that you're trying and say, I'm thinking about trying this, we'll tell you if it works or not because I'm telling you something. You're not going to come into this environment and try very many things that nobody's tried before. You just won't do it. I actually have never seen somebody come into a power network and try something new. They might do a strategy with a little bit of a different personality, but they're not trying a new marketing strategy.

It just doesn't happen. Everything that you can think of doing has been tried by somebody else. And some of it works and some of it just doesn't. Some of it won't return for the money that you put out and some of it just doesn't. So, I'm not saying that to brag, but I'm not saying that to brag about the kind of advertising that you want to do, not in a business like this.

And so, sometimes people come in and they just will walk up to me at an event and they'll say, hey David, I'm so excited, I'm going to do this thing. And in that whole conversation, you never hear a question. So, they just walked up to somebody who is listening to them, right? Who's made like a hundred times the money they've ever made in this industry. And I'm not saying that to brag, but I'm not saying that because they can't do it.

They don't know what they're going to do. And it's so unbelievably stupid, but they never ask, because they don't want advice on it. They want me to pat them on the back and say, go for it. And so, they go and they waste their money doing something dumb because they never ask and say, hey, is this a good idea? And if they asked me, I would say, you know what you really need to do?

And they'd say, what? And I'd say, you need to follow the eight core commitments and go through the training that's up to the team building formula in the builder club, go through the training there on advertising and get results there first, and then we'll play around later. Because when you come in, you can't just throw money at anything. You've got to be focused in what you do, right? But people come up and I see people do it to Lawrence, Tim, Aaron, Raskin, Tracy.

I see people do it to all of the leaders in Empower Network and they never ask questions and they never listen, right? So, you got to be willing to be humble and you've got to be willing to work and to take correction. That's part of humility, isn't it? Part of humility is being willing to change the things that you're doing if they're not working the way that you want them to work. Humility, taking action, right, and correction.

Be willing to receive feedback from people, even if you're at the very top. Be willing to listen and to change things based on the ideas of the people around you. Be willing to change your marketing a little bit based on somebody's advice who knows how to do it a little bit better than you. Be willing to actually continue to grow even if you're the highest income level you could possibly be because when you stop growing, here's what happens. Your income will stop growing and people will stop listening to you.

I've done it before. Built a business so big so fast that I just kind of got in a lazy mode and I stopped growing. Why did I do that? And you gotta screw up a few times first. If you guys don't wanna hear this stuff, you don't have to be on the call, but this isn't true, right?

You gotta be willing to receive correction and receive advice from smart people who know how to do things that you don't know how to do. And if you realize that there's people everywhere who can help you, who can guide you along the way, and you're willing to listen to them and follow instruction, and you're willing to do whatever it takes to succeed in your business, then that is the kind of person I wanna work with. Someone who receives correction. There's a good old saying that says, a wise man has many counselors, many advisors, many mentors. You wanna listen to people that know how to do things that you don't know how to do.

And listen and take notes and take action and apply. But listen with a humble heart, with a quiet mind. Listen. Listen and pay attention to what they say. What's the next thing you gotta do?

Don't quit. Don't change your mind. Don't get hot dealitis. Don't jump from thing to thing to thing to thing based on really charismatic personalities. Don't change.

Just stay on course. Stay on course towards your dreams. It's a really fascinating thing when you really start to succeed and when you really start to change things around you. A lot of people will get to a high level and then you know what happens to them. What happens to them is, they stop working, they stop listening.

They stop doing the things that got them where they're at. And then their income goes down. And when their income goes down, there's two kinds of people that emerge from that. There's people that realize that they're not doing enough. There's people that realize it's gone down because they stopped.

And then they get humble again. They change, they start to work and their income goes up again. And then there's people that blame the company, blame the leader, blame the marketplace, blame the government, blame their spouse, blame their email list, blame Facebook. And then what they do is they go and they start something new all over again. And then they end up doing that every six to 18 months until they either die or change.

I know a guy when I got involved on the internet years ago. And I saw this guy join and build five deals I think to the top in a year and a half. And then he would just continuously either get kicked out of the company or he would just quit and join something new. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And now it's 2016 and he's just continuing to do it again and again and again and again.

And never, ever, ever, ever is it because he doesn't know how to hold an organization together. Never is it because he quit. It's always the company, the company owner, the comp plan, the product's not mass marketed enough, right? Or some new exciting opportunity comes along the way and he's just doing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And guess what?

That is not living the dream. That's living a nightmare. So when something happens and your income drops a little bit if it happens to you sometime in the future and it will if you make it big. Hey look, if you get started in Empower right now it's a great time to start. Your income can grow with the growth of the company, right?

Because your business will grow in promotional spurts with the effort and energy that you're putting in and it takes 90 days to see the results of the work that you're putting in today. And then they get a little lazy the next month and their income jumps to 20 from the work that they did the month before. But then the month after that their income drops back down to 10 because they kinda got lazy but it's not an immediate thing, it takes 90 days to show up. And so then they kinda get lazy and their income will drop again and then they'll get to work really hard again but it'll take a month or two for that to kick into gear. And then they get discouraged.

So the habit that you've gotta unlearn is you've gotta get out of that cycle by learning how to just produce consistently and to be consistent in the actions that you take in your business. And after a while what you can do is you can learn how to set up systems to compress the number of hours that you're putting into your business. So you can go from like 10 hours a day to eight to six to four to two to one to 30 minutes doing the same amount of work. But you need to stay persistent and consistent with that amount of work in production and if you do that your income will never go down like that. You won't have the ups and downs that other people have.

I don't. But you will be like that if you don't realize it takes 90 days for some of the results that you're putting in now to show up. Why 90 days? Because that's the cycle our business grows in. So if you're on this call, I don't know if this is the first time you've ever heard a call like this.

If you're in Empower Network and you realize all the promotions that we've got going on right now and all the excitement we've got going in our community. But if you're on this call I want you to listen because listening will avoid you tons of struggle, tons of pain and tons of failure in your life. So I want you to pay attention. Hold on, I'm gonna check something. Somebody sent me a message.

Let's see if this guy can get on here. Oh, hey, what's up? Hey, David. It's Justin. I just wanna let you know I'm here whenever you wanna pull me out.

Yeah, absolutely. So I want you guys to listen to Justin and there's a couple of reasons why, all right? And I'm gonna turn it over to him for a handful of minutes and we're gonna go back and forth. We've got some cool stuff for you tonight. Who knows when we'll end, all right?

So if you guys are on Empower Network, post Justin Marengi's on the call and post the number on Facebook and listen. You're talking to a guy and I believe actually today is his biggest sign-up day ever, right? On a leap year, leaping into the future. And earlier today, I think you'd signed up what, over 30 people today? Yeah, it looks like 33 thus far.

So it's 33 sign-ups today. Congratulations, by the way, on the best day. It will be your best day. It's just your best day so far. The cool thing about Justin is not just the volume of sales he's producing, but it's the consistency at which he produces them.

He'll sponsor right now 10, 20, 30 people a day, every day. What's happening is his business is in a state of momentum. The reason it's in a state of momentum is his business right now, just so everybody knows, it's at a higher level of momentum. Most people on here, it's not possible for you to experience quite yet, but you can in the future. His business has momentum, but the momentum is just starting to build.

He decided to really turn on the water faucet and up his game about a month ago. He just got it up to 10 sign-ups a day, 15, and now he's 20, and then 30 sign-ups a day. He's just continuing to ramp it up and ramp it up and ramp it up. Here's what's going to happen in his business. I'm telling everybody on the call so you can pay attention and listen to it.

What's going to happen is if he just continues on the pattern that he's on, the work that he's doing now is going to start to compound in about two months more. You're actually going to see it coming right out of the Nashville event where the number of people that he's bringing in, they're going to come into the event, right, because he's getting people and he's promoting the event like a smart builder does. Now everybody here, you can see our income disclosure. You're just listening to somebody who knows what he's doing. He also just today, you should congratulate him, give him a shout-out on Facebook.

Today he just crossed the $1.7 million mark in his business, so he's over nearly two. Justin, I just want to turn it over to you. I know that we've got the promotion running right now, and if you could just share just some things that you're doing in your business, both with mindset and things that you've taught, how people can access those things, and also what you're doing on a daily basis to produce those results. I'm going to mute myself out for a couple of minutes, but I'm listening here in the background, so if you need me, just call me back on and I'll be back out to share some more things with you here in a little bit. Sounds good, Dave.

Before I get started, I just want to make sure the mic I'm talking into is the one picking up and it's not my computer mic, so I'm just going to blow into it just to make sure, and you let me know if you hear the distortion from the blow. Did you hear that? Yep. Perfect. Cool.

I'm using the good mic. I just want to make sure. Welcome, everybody, to tonight's Empower Hour. It's an honor to be here, Dave. I just finished putting my daughter to sleep, so I'm going to keep my energy level a little lower than normal, so not to awake her, because if I awake her, I have to hop off the call.

I just wanted to share a little more into my life and some of the dreams that this company has allowed me to make possible, thanks to Dave Wood and Power Network and just the whole corporate staff and just all the greatness of the community. I know I just turned 33. It's kind of funny with this 33 sign-ups today, and I am 33, and it's like, hmm, synchronicity, just weird like that. Let me actually get out of Facebook so I don't get distractions, and I encourage you to do the same thing, because I'm usually always logged into Facebook, and there's all these weird notification noises, and I just refreshed my email, and another sale just came in. It's kind of like clockwork.

It actually is. It's actually quite exciting, but yeah, so I turned 33 on February 11th, which was earlier this month. That's why February has always been my favorite month, not just because it's Black History Month, but also because I was born on the 11th, and my daughter was born on February 11th, so I tried extra hard this month to outperform myself the previous month. An interesting fact, Dave, I think for the last eight or nine months straight, my income has been going up month to month in Power Network, literally for eight or nine months straight, because for me, I just want to outperform what I did last month. That's always my goal.

I'm not comparing myself to other people, but I do look at what I produced last month, and I want to become a better version. I want to grow internally. I want to grow using the law of attraction. I want to be able to achieve things I've never achieved before, because for me, it keeps life interesting, and without that, life is really boring, and I could get depressed if I'm not challenging myself, just because I don't know. I can't really explain it, but that's just how I am.

This is very useful, actually, in your business. Whatever you achieve, let's say you just got started this month, and let's say you signed up two people. What's a great goal for next month? Sign up five people. Just outdo yourself, and continue to do that.

You know what I mean? Because if you do that, and that's how easy this business truly is. I remember when I first got started, I was generating like 10 leads a day, and then I'm like, how can I get to 20? Then I'm like, how can I get to 30? Then eventually, how can I get to 100?

It's just like, become a better version of you. Outperform yourself, right? It keeps things very, I think, exciting and exhilarating, but nonetheless, back to my daughter, I just put her to sleep. She just turned two years old this month, which was awesome, because I remember being at Celebration Station, actually twice this month, for my niece's birthday, and also for my daughter's birthday, Kuan Yin, and even when I was out all day without checking the computer until I got home in the evening, the birthday parties were from like, what, 11 to five, or something like that, by the time I got on the computer, it was like 7 p.m. Just coming home and seeing like 20 new signups while I was out celebrating life with my family, that's what's possible here, to build a business and have a life at the same time.

So check this out. My wife turns 30, and wish her a happy birthday on March 2nd. You don't have to wish her the happy birthday yet in advance, like some people are doing already on Facebook. There's still three days. Actually, two days.

Wow. Tomorrow's the first. Can't believe it. And I asked my wife, I'm like, what do you want to do for your birthday? And she's like, I'd love to go to Medellin, Colombia.

We used to live there, FYI, back in 2012 for six months, and it's her favorite city in the entire world, out of every place we've ever been to. For me, it's like, I dig Bali a lot, and Thailand, for some odd reason. It's like I'm connected to the Eastern cultures in Asia. I don't know why. But nonetheless, I'm like, baby, let's do it.

And this was like a week notice, like about a week ago. I'm like, what do you want to do for your birthday? She's like, let's go to Medellin. And so we booked four tickets. We got a plane ticket, obviously, for me and my wife, a plane ticket for Kuan Yin.

She's two, so now we get the privilege of putting her on her own seat, which is actually very exciting. And we also got a ticket for our dear friend, a guy who does videography work for us, Kyle, who's awesome. We're all going to be flying down to Columbia, linking up with some friends. We rented out like a five-bedroom penthouse suite overlooking the entire city. And it's kind of crazy, because something like that in the United States would be outrageous, like $10,000 for the two weeks.

You know what I mean? Recently, for Generation Hero and Power Network, rented out a $17 million mansion. Fortunately, we're in Medellin. So less than three grand total. We rented out the sweetest crib that we can find in the city.

And we're just going to be going there and celebrating life. You know what I mean? Because that's possible when you do the hard work. And I'm going to stress the fact that we put in hard work over the past five years building this business. We got started November 8th of 2011.

And since then, we've been pretty consistent with signing up a new member every day, one to two members every day for about five years. And I believe that's where we're at. That's why we have a duplicating team. That's why we've developed a lot of leadership. We just stay focused on the path.

And we've never been distracted by other opportunities. Now I've seen a lot of people come and go. And I heard Dave just mentioning this. I've seen a lot of people come and go over the past five years. I've seen leaders make a lot of money, slam their list, three months later, join a new deal, slam their list, and then join a new deal, and join a new deal.

And I look at their results today, and they're still doing the same thing, joining a new opportunity every few months, slamming their list, and et cetera, et cetera. And it's like, all of a sudden, if you look on the leaderboards, I think we're like number, and I'm going to close my hip chat because all my cool friends in leadership are chatting, saying they hear me clearly, but I hear all these notification noises, so let me get out of that. And it's like, I believe we have the results we have now because we never got distracted, and we just stay focused for the long haul. Because when we join an opportunity, I'll quit when I die. Seriously.

Like the previous three network marketing companies I was with, I didn't quit. The company quit and went out of business or stopped paying me. And so I was forced to find a new home. But when I find a home, I plant my flag because I realize I make a decision one time. Decision is to decide.

Make a decision one time on what you want. I will never change my mind because I know what I want, and I made that decision one time. And for me, it was back in 2011 on November 8th. I made a decision. I was going to build this company for the long haul, and that I would never quit on my team.

Because if I quit, yeah, it's easy to quit as a leader. I'll be honest with you if you don't care about your team. But I could never fathom quitting because I could never quit on somebody I brought into the business and then say, yeah, I'm no longer promoting this. It's not hot anymore. You know what I mean?

After I asked people to upgrade and invest into themselves and their education, I'm not just going to go on and do another thing. I consider my team my family. And Dave has the same mindset in the same way, and I think that's why we connect so well. But nonetheless, I want to hear something kind of funny and crazy but true at the same time. All righty then.

My main motivation for succeeding back in 2011 was I thought the end of the world was coming. Like I'm one of those weirdos who is like looking up prophecies online and not necessarily that the world would end, but I thought there was going to be a lot of destruction and stuff like that. And just hear me out. So I'm like December 2012, I may not be here no more. You know what I mean?

I'm like my wife may not be here no more, so we need to do something about it. You can't stay in the country, right? But anyways, so my motivation for succeeding in Empower Network early on was so that I did not die. And like I can laugh about it looking back, but it's true. And I'm going to share something that may just transform your life.

When you believe something, you act in accordance to the belief. I believed if I didn't earn the money I wanted to earn, I wouldn't be able to move to Colombia and we would all drown and we would die in December of 2012. So I had a motivation to succeed. It was life or death. And I know that sounds crazy and I am weird, I admit it.

And Dave will be the first to tell you that. And the sad part is it's true. Why did I choose that belief? Well, number one, I knew it would serve me and push me, right? Because I understood the power of belief.

And I later and I unconsciously understood it. I don't even know how back then. But when I first got to my first event in June of 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia, I realized that belief is the biggest determining factor to your success. Because as soon as I shift my belief in what I was doing, I started having massive success. So going back to the days of the end of the world, I'm like, yo, I need to go to a higher elevation.

Medellín in Colombia, FYI, is like South America. And there's a higher elevation there. Like Bogota has like a really high elevation. I don't remember exactly, but like ten thousand feet above sea level. And like Medellín was like it's called the city of eternal spring.

So I'm like, I don't want to freeze in Bogota. I hate the cold. So I'll go there and hopefully we'll we'll be safe enough. And their elevation, I don't remember exactly. It's not as high as like Bogota, but it was like five thousand square feet or five thousand feet above like the sea level or something like that.

But anyways, I made it a motivation. I got there with my wife. We got to thirty thousand dollars a month. And what did we do? Lo and behold, we moved to Medellín.

And this is before the end of the world, you know, allegedly was going to happen. And we basically was living our dream. We're renting out this beautiful apartment for two thousand dollars a month and you can get a really nice place in Medellín for two grand a month. And we invited for the end of the world party. We you know, we're like let's like make some lemonade out of these lemons.

Right. If there is an end of the world, let's at least be surrounded by like people we love. Right. So we invited some of our closest friends out there. And one of those people was David Wood.

And Dave came. He just flew down to Medellín for a few days and we celebrated. And it was cool. It was like we were shooting a video, like literally on December 20th or whatever the day was, 2012, like when the time came. And we're like looking at each other like the end of the world's not here.

So, you know, we're still here. That means we can continue making money and, you know, empowering people and changing people's lives in Empower Network. So it's just kind of funny now, like four years later, going back to Medellín to celebrate, you know, a huge victory for us in our lives and celebrate my wife's 30th birthday, which you only get to live once. And as my wife says, she's going to live it up and enjoy. But it's crazy to think that.

Right. So check this out. This is a takeaway. And I get this often because we're sponsoring a lot of people. We're working with a lot of people on a regular basis.

If you believe in what you're doing, your actions will automatically take place in accordance to your belief. So back in the day, end of the world, if I don't produce, I'm going to die and I don't want to die. I love my family too much and I love my team and they deserve me. Right. End of story.

And I believed in that. And because I believed in that, I took the necessary actions. Right. To succeed so that I wouldn't die. Maybe I'm speaking metaphorically here in your business.

And check this out. When a person gets started and they don't believe in themselves, they will not invest into the business. It's not because they don't believe in the business opportunity or the mentor. Even if you were homeless on the street, if you had the belief in what you were doing, you would figure out a way. And I'll give you an analogy.

If I was to tell you, here's the winning Powerball ticket. I think everyone can relate to that, right? Because everyone probably buys lottery tickets. Not me. I hate lottery.

I despise it because I realize my odds are greater of getting hit by or struck by lightning twice in the same day than actually hitting the Powerball. So I don't waste my money. Right. But check this out. If I told you this, right, and you knew I wasn't bullshitting you and I was telling you the truth and I said, hey, here's the winning Powerball ticket.

I don't need it. I'm already rich, right? I don't want the government money or whatever the heck, you know? And I'm like, all I ask of you to demonstrate belief is that you come up with $5,000 within the next 24 hours, that is. I know it's a challenge.

It's not going to be easy. I know you're broke. You don't have any money. But I know the power of belief and I know the power of manifestation, law of attraction. I know what every human being is capable of because God made us all equally, right?

I truly believe that. So if I was to give you this winning Powerball ticket worth, I don't know what, you know, it's worth, but let's just say it was $100 million. I'll give you the ticket and you can go claim it and you'll be the new Powerball winner. I honestly believe, Dave, a hundred out of a hundred people I'd give that offer to would figure out how to come up with $5,000. If they had to borrow it from their parents, if they had to beg for it, if they had to get creative and sell stuff like their car to come up, you know, or cash in their 401k or call the back of their credit card company and say, I just need an extension on my credit.

They would figure out a way. And all I need from you is 5 billion. And let's say Trump was only worth a billion or that's all he had access to. Right. Do you think it would stop him from coming up with the extra 4 billion so he can make the investment of a lifetime?

Heck no. Right. Why? What's where's all the stemming from the power of belief. When you believe in what you're doing, you stop questioning how, and you start thinking of all the ways you can create that result.

So instead of like focusing on, well, I'm broke. I failed in the past. I got burnt by, you know, a pyramid scheme. My wife doesn't trust me because I've lost the money in the past. Every time I earn money, it's like I have the worst luck.

It's like a black cloud is following me. And instead of giving your sponsor all the reasons on why you can't succeed, because it's truthful. If you say you can't, you believe you can't, there's no way you can. You're not going to get lucky here. This is not a lottery.

However, if you just switch your perception instead of how empty the cup is to how full it is and all the reasons why you need to succeed. Right. And I get this too much. I get emails every day, at least like 30 of them, of people telling me why they can't come up with $7 to get started because they're so poor. And then they give me the story of how bad their is.

And then I just respond back. That's all the motivation I would personally need to do whatever it takes to succeed. You know what I mean? You just described to me the most shittiest life a human being can have. And if you don't see the reason why you need to do something different and to start to succeed, right.

You're never going to. change your situation. And sometimes it bothers me in my heart that people don't see that. But I realize the bigger picture of what we do here in Empower Network is to help people believe, right? What do we do for a living?

We get people dreaming again, believing in their dreams that anything is possible, believing they can create the resources they need to succeed at the levels they want to succeed. And for every time you give me a reason why you can't, I have 10 reasons on why you can, right? Because it's all a matter of perception. It's all a matter of belief. I remember speaking on stage for the first time in my life in Austin, Texas at our event.

I don't remember if that was the end of 2012, Dave, or if that was 2013, but I stood on stage with a breakthrough and I got so emotional. Number one, I cursed and number two, I had tears rolling down my eyes and I shared something profound, right? It changed my life. It still changes my life day to day, pondering it because it's so deep and it's so true. And I said that number one determining factor to your success is belief.

The number one determining factor to your success is belief, right? So if you don't have the results you want in your life right now, all you need to do is create belief in what you're doing and belief in you. And what's the quickest shortcut to creating belief in what we do? Number one, investing into your education, right? Because education is the only difference between you and I.

I know some information you don't know, right? And number two, getting your ticket to the next event, meeting us in Nashville, right? Or as I say, Cashville. Because there's something magical that happens when you're surrounded in a room filled with thousands of people who are all dreaming and starting to believe again. There's something magical happens when you're listening, you know, to the speakers on stage, like people like Tracy Walker, people like Lawrence Tam, Alex Zuberow, Michael Martin, David Wood.

Something magical happens when you realize they're human beings no greater than you. They just decide different beliefs that are going to serve them in their life, right? Beliefs that are going to help them take them closer to their goals, their dreams and their aspirations. And Dee, do you want to say a couple words? No?

Maybe she will hear in a second. But check this out. We're going to Medellin tomorrow. Our driver's picking us up at 6 a.m. and I haven't packed yet.

So I may pull in all nighter because like I was with my daughter all day and she is a handful and we actually just put her to sleep right before the bed. My wife's like, you're kidding me. Your daughter is a handful? And I'm like, yes. I don't know how like Mike Hobbs does it with five kids or like Paul Hutchins, you know, because I'm like one kid is like I'm drained.

You know, we've had a daughter for two years and I've developed a lot of parenting skills but I still am drained at the end of the night and I need to usually go to bed by the time she goes to bed because if I don't, I don't know how to do it, right? But nonetheless, just another thing I wanted to point out for all the parents out there, building this business in my opinion is ten times easier than being a parent. Check this out. Building this business is a hundred times easier than giving birth to a child. Maybe some motivation for you women out there.

I watch my wife whom I love, the love of my life, give birth to my daughter at a holistic birthing center with no medication, with no shots, with no IVs, 100% naturally. You know what she did? She pushed and she breathed and we prepared it with doing some hypno-birthing sessions with William Wood, Dave Wood's brother who's a master NLP teacher, a practitioner. And we're like, we're just going to do it naturally because we believed it was best for the baby. Our personal belief is we don't believe in forced vaccinations and weird things they do at the hospital where they cut the umbilical cord early before the blood finished pumping and things of this nature.

So we're just like, my wife was like, I want to do what's best for my baby, even if I have to die to do it. Right. Because she believed in that. Right. And guess what?

She gave birth naturally without going to the fricking birthing center. Now it wasn't easy. And there was a few times where she's like, Justin, just I think we should go to the hospital. You know what I mean? Because she was fricking given birth, but I witnessed it.

Right. I cut the umbilical cord of my daughter when the blood was fully finished transferring, you know, to the baby. And I will tell you this, ladies, it's a hundred times easier to build this business than it is to give birth. So if you have given birth, you can do anything. And you know exactly what I'm talking about because there's some powerful feeling.

I felt it radiating from Dee after she gave birth and had the baby in her hands. You know what I mean? There's something powerful about that. It's a gift, you know, that God blessed us with. So I just want to pass that down that building this business is only as difficult as you make it.

If you actually have an open mind and you start believing in all the reasons you need to succeed and you stop sabotaging your success by focusing on your lack, lack consciousness and fear based consciousness, this business is actually easy. Right. And I can say that because it's a matter of perspective. And I actually truly believe it. Why do I believe that building the business is easy and simple?

It serves me. And guess what? Because I believe that for so long. Guess what it is today? My business is easy and simple.

I think we're up to thirty four signups today and I did not have to pick up the phone and call a single one of them. I did pick up the phone and call two people today. I won't bullshit you, but they were new members who got started and followed directions and completed the four get started steps. And one of them is upgrading all in today. How cool is that?

And the other one is upgrading to the inner circle and purchasing her ticket to Nashville. Right. Because I choose to only pick up the phone with those on my team who follow directions. Right. And not everyone follows directions.

You know what I mean? But that's the beauty of this business is being able to build a business and have a life at the same time. The reason I stopped calling prospects. Well, number one, once you start generating over 100 leads a day, you'll have no desire to pick up the phone and convince somebody on why to join you. It's just the truth.

And I think right now we're generating over 500 leads a day. So I can care less picking up the phone and trying to convince somebody. If someone emails or replies to my email, Dave, and they're like, I just want to know you're real and I need to talk to a real human being before I spend one dollar to join at the trial level or the seven dollars. Results not typical CR income disclosure. If you want to work with me, here's the three steps you need to do.

Number one, get started. It's 100 percent risk free. So you have no risk and it's only seven dollars. If you can't figure out a way to come up with seven dollars, this business is not for you. Go get a job.

Just being blunt, being real. Right. And then number two, after you get started, complete your four getting started steps as soon as possible. The quicker you do it, the faster you can make money. And step number three is I will be notified as soon as you actually complete the four getting started steps in your back office.

Right. I'll be notified and I will have my assistant, Michelle, reach out to you to schedule a one on one coaching session between you and I will actually, you know, show you exactly what you need to do to hit your goal. So you're crystal clear. You know what I mean? So if people are actually willing to follow directions, I'm willing to bend over backwards and do whatever I have to do to help my team.

And the truth be told, I would still earn a lot of money without doing new member coachings. But I do it because I really care about my team and I really want them to succeed. You know what I mean? Because I already realized a certain percentage of people are going to upgrade regardless. I never had the chance to even reach out to them because the system and the processes here actually work.

Right. How cool is that? But I do also understand at the same time by doing new member orientation calls as we teach you here in the system and as Dave Wood lays out for you, you can increase your income 200, 300 fold. You know what I mean? You can double or triple your results and all that sort of stuff.

So why not do it? You know what I mean? And I encourage everyone to do it. But check this out. So we get started in 2011.

We were living in a 300 square foot studio apartment and prior to Empower Network, the company I was with stopped paying me. I was with them for over a year. I put my all into it the same way I do here. And for a company owner to stop paying their affiliates. Right.

There's something wrong with that picture. You know what I mean? Because people work hard. They're human beings. So it really hurt me.

And something I respect about Dave and Empower Network, they never stopped paying a single affiliate even when they were douchebags and started shitting on the company because they're just straight up assholes. Dave continued to pay them not because they deserved it. Not because they should continue to get paid. But Dave has integrity. He refuses to take away something you built here.

And I never met another company owner like that. Right. Go back. Rewind to the company before when I was living in China back in 2010 teaching English overseas. You know what I mean?

$14,400 for the year. Right. Total shift. But we're in China. I was in this company, this vitamin deal.

And this is around the time I met Paul Hutchins. He actually signed up through a YouTube video. He joined me in my deal. And I knew about who he was because a week later he's sponsoring people left and right. And I'm like, wow, who is this?

As I'm teaching English, he's signing up all these people. Right. And that was Paul Hutchins. And that company cut our pay as well. We were with them for over two years.

Right. And when I did that, I said, we can finally move back to Costa Rica because we have a stable income that's protected. That's not going to go anywhere. And then the company owner would have the nerve to say this income you can pass on to your children's children. Right.

All this bullshit I was buying into the hype. Long story short, I moved from China after living there for 13 months in a hellhole. Right. Moved back to Costa Rica only to discover they cut our income by two thirds. They changed the comp plan instead of getting three dollars per bottle for everyone on auto ship.

And it took me forever to build this company. Right. They reduced our pay to a dollar after the owner personally promised us that income for the rest of our life. So four years in network marketing to be totally shitted upon by company after company because of owners with lack of integrity. Right.

They quit on us and I just could never understand it. So it got to the point when we joined Empower, I was jaded. You know what I mean? My wife was jaded. She told me not to do this bullshit anymore.

Go get a job, you know, or do pursue something else. Go back into real estate or do something where I get a job. I told you I would get a job because I could care less about how much money. That is the truth because my wife loves me and she's amazing. Right.

But to be here now five years later and to still be here and to never get our pay taken away because something happens in the company and shit happens with the company. But what is Dave do? He man's up and he figures out a way to make it continue. I don't think most people realize that like 95 percent of online opportunities go under within like the first two years and all network marketing companies the same thing. People are looking for like a new deal so they can be at the top.

Right. But unfortunately, that new deal is not going to be around much longer because there's not a lot of companies that can withstand. You know what I mean? The tough times and stuff like that because their leadership is weak. Ultimately, I'm just so grateful to be here and to be like out.

The company never quit on us. Right. We're still here. We're still building. We're still going strong.

There's something special about that. So if you're thinking, if I join, is the company going to be around tomorrow? Well, if we're here for five years and we withstand all those tribulations, you know, from the past and Dave can get into that another time, we're not going anywhere and we're not going to quit on you. You know what I mean? That's why I need to decide to make a decision, which is to decide right now to build this.

Now, it's OK. I respect your free will. If this is not for you and it don't resonate with you, make a decision to quit right now and don't go any further. Don't waste your sponsor's time. Don't waste your time.

But if you want to build this and you believe in freedom, right, you believe in a better way and you're willing to do whatever it takes. You're willing to shift your belief. You're willing to listen to your mentors. You're willing to follow the core commitments. You're willing to read daily.

You're willing to listen to an inner circle audio daily. You're willing to show up at every event. You're willing to invest into every product as if, you know what I mean, as if the business cost you a million dollars is how you have to treat it. Now, people get started here for seven dollars or one hundred dollars a month or whatever it is. And because it's so cheap, they don't treat the business serious.

But what if now what if because the power of belief is life changing and you already know this from my testimony, what if. You paid a million dollars for this business, would you be whining, would you be focusing on lack consciousness and everything you don't have, would you be focused on your problems? Hell, no. You'd be like all you'd be focused on is your ROI. Like how fast can I return my damn investment?

I just invested a million dollars into this thing. I'm going to do whatever it takes to succeed. Right. What if you bought a franchise? You know what I mean?

And it cost a million dollars. Are you going to focus on like, oh, I hate working here. I hate my employees. They suck. They don't know how to do this.

I hate the fact I have to pay for this frickin place, you know, pay the rent in the shopping center. I hate the fact I have to pay the corporation from, you know, whether it's McDonald's or Subway or whatever you're renting. And you focus on all the negatives and things you don't like. Guess what would happen? You'd be out of business within 30 days.

Guaranteed. Right. But this business, you don't have any of the bullshit attached with the franchise. You can be in profit the same day you get started. You hear me?

You can be in profit the same day you get started. If you actually believe in what you're doing here and you actually invest into yourself and you purchase the education you actually need to succeed and stop bullshitting yourself and be like, I hate this. And when people say this, right, because it's failure, right? It's a failure recipe. And people say, yeah, I'll invest into the products once I start making some money.

It's like, OK, do you have an education on how to make money now? No, just show me what to do and I'll do it. And it's like, what are you, stupid? You know what I mean? If you don't have the skill set, you need to invest into your skill set so you can actually produce.

Right. You're not just magically going to get lucky here. It's not going to happen. You're going to have to do some work. And if you don't know what you're doing, which is 90 percent of the people who join, you need to get educated on what you need to do to start getting results.

And if you're unwilling to invest into yourself, stop being an entrepreneur. Quit. You know what I mean? Some people just like the word entrepreneur. It's like glamorous.

It's like, yeah, I'm an entrepreneur. I have a home based business. Well, if you're an entrepreneur and you're not investing into yourself, quit. What are you doing here? Who are you bullshitting besides yourself?

Right. Here's a quote I heard from Joshua Elder. It really struck my heart. Shout out to Josh. I love this.

He says and he does like coaching with people. He sells like high ticket, like coaching ten thousand, twenty thousand dollars. And he says this. You're worth what you invest into yourself. And I'll say it again.

You are worth what you invest into yourself. Say it one more time. I don't think everyone heard me. You are worth what you invest into yourself. So what are you worth if you invest nothing into your business?

Nothing. Right. And the marketplace will pay you in accordance to what you're worth, your value to the marketplace. Right. The reason we're earning over fifty thousand dollars a month is because the value we bring to the marketplace, because we have education on how to bring value to the marketplace.

That's it. Right. And everything that I do, you can actually do, too, if you're willing to invest the same way I was willing to invest into myself. What were some of my investments? And hold on.

Whoa. Excuse me. One of my investments was I have never missed an event in five years. We have events every 90 days. I invest every time because I need it as much as the new member needs it, because I will be honest, I'm a human being.

And after about two months from the time of an event, negative thoughts start creeping into my unconscious mind, even with following the eight core commitments, because I'm not Jesus. I'm not Gandhi. I'm not Mother Teresa or Princess Di. I'm just a hippie Jedi. Right.

I'm a human being. So if I don't go to the event, I don't have the same level of belief over the next 90 days. Right. And I'm telling you, this is a million dollar earner. If I don't go to the event, I can't perform at the levels I perform because my belief won't be where it needs to be.

Here's some of the things that start to creep in after 60 days from the time of the event. I start to see a lot of team members come and go and I start to question myself. I start to question what I'm doing. Right. Am I serving the greatest amount of people?

Right. Why is it that I'm bringing in all these people and more than half of them quit and they never even log into their back office? Right. Self-doubt starts to come in because I'm a human being. And I think every leader can like, you know, say what I'm saying is the truth because they probably feel the same thing.

But because I go to the event, it raises my belief in what I'm doing so much. It reminds me of my purpose and what I'm doing and why I'm so passionate and seeing so many people have breakthroughs. You know what I mean? It just reminds me of my mission in life and why I'm here on this earth. And I'm telling you, if I did not go to the events every 90 days, I would not be number one income earner on every leaderboard right now.

And I wouldn't be on the leaderboard for the most signups and I wouldn't have the faith that I have in what I do and I wouldn't be able to speak belief at the level I speak it with the confidence level that I speak it if I wasn't committed to my business because I'm a human being. And just like me, you're a human being, right? So it's really important you actually follow your eight core commitments and get to every event because if you stop going, right, you will fail. And I can say this with confidence because I've seen a lot of people come and go and I don't know one single successful leader who skips the events, none, zero. And here's another thing.

A lot of people are thinking the same thing with like investing into the products later when they have the money. People say, well, once I start making money, I'll come meet you at the next event. Bullshit, you never will come to an event because you'll never make money because you have the wrong mindset, you have lack of belief in what you're doing and you're uncoachable and you're unwilling to follow the eight core commitments. Prove me wrong, I just have never seen it. We've personally sponsored over 3,000 people and nobody proved me wrong.

Nobody has success without following the eight core commitments, none, nobody, right? And check this out. This was actually in Austin. This is like the highlight of my events in Austin. I brought up David Gaddici and I might start talking with a country slang accent because he's from Alabama and he's deaf, meaning he can't hear.

He has a Copler implant and he can hear a little bit now but he can barely hear, right? Deaf, legally deaf, can't hear. I brought him up on stage, I asked him to share his story and I said, dude, and we call him the cowboy Jedi, right? He rocks the cowboy hat and I'm like, dude, what's your best day here in Empower Network, right? And he can read lips, which helps him understand and he signs as well and all that good stuff and he says on stage, my best day here, $1,000.

And the crowd went bananas, right? And I gotta share one more story because it gets better. Oli Cantos, shout out to Oli Cantos, sponsored by Jen Hua, dear buddy of mine. Oli is blind. Something remarkable about Oli is he has three blind children that he adopted.

I don't know another human being on the planet like him, right? But because his belief is so strong in what he's doing and picture this, he can't read email, he can't see, you know what I mean? He can't do the things we can do. He's limited on what he can do, right? And check this out.

Oli has had $3,000 days here. He's blind, can't see. But something that Oli and David Gaddici have in common, belief, still attending events with a blind stick, believing what he's doing, you know what I mean? Because belief is the biggest determining factor to your success, that's it, period. There's nothing more important.

And that's why it's so vital you purchase your ticket and have blind faith, even if you don't have the money for the plane tickets or know how you're going to get there. Know how David Gaddici got to the events? A train ticket, which literally was like a 24-hour ride. But he believed in himself so much because he had belief in what he was doing. He was willing to do whatever it takes.

So I share these stories because I don't give a shit what bullshit excuse you're telling yourself over and over, it's bullshit. Stop believing it, stop buying into it. I don't buy into your excuses because I don't buy into my own. I think it's a bunch of bullshit, right? It's just a matter of shifting your belief and your thinking because you can achieve anything with the right level of thinking and the right level of belief.

And I want to share a quote. And this sums up what I'm saying pretty well. And it's by Abraham Hicks, one of my favorite teachers of the law of attraction. And she says, you don't have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change by softening your attention to the things that are going wrong and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of the direction of what you got.

Your vibration will shift. Your point of attraction will shift and you will get different results. And I'm just gonna stop there and pass it to Dave. I gotta blow my nose. But if you want me to pop back on, I will, man.

I have so much. Yeah, yeah, hang out and we'll go back and forth here in a little bit after you blow your nose, but mute yourself out. You know, the thing I want everybody here to really listen to when Justin's speaking is just the passion that he's got. And it really is a beautiful thing to listen to somebody who really believes in what they're doing and is doing it because they believe in it and is here because they wanna be here and because they believe in the vision and they believe in the cause that we stand for. That's totally different than somebody who just wants to come in and make money.

I realize a lot of people on this call who got it in power, you came here just to make money. But after that, what happens is something changes and it changes when you realize that there's a real vision here to change people, right? To change people, to create experiences where somebody can have a breakthrough like Justin has. You know, and everybody on here, so you know, I mean, Justin's been a friend of mine for years. When he cries or he gets passionate like that, he's just, it's just coming from the core of who he is.

And it's because he just believes and he loves his team. And that to me is the mark of a great leader. It's not how well they can, or how much they can produce and what they can create like as far as immediate results. That stuff comes too, right? But the hallmark of a real leader is somebody that loves their team and is there to serve them, right?

And after they win, after they get to the top, after they sponsor thousands of people, after they make a million dollars, they're there for their team to help them win. And so a couple things here that I wanna just mention for everybody on the call. Justin did training last week and a bunch of people were on it. We did a training, we called it Get Money Saturday. And that was a Saturday from five to 10 p.m.

Eastern time. Of course, the reason we called it Get Money Saturday was because the purpose of that day was to show you the tactics of how to get money, how to make money on the internet, see our income disclosure. And so what Justin did on that hangout this Saturday, it was for people who have the Builder Club only, okay? And the Builder Club and Empower, if you're not in or if you're on the page and you're just new to Empower, or if you don't have the Builder Club yet, the Builder Club is a combination of a few different products. You've gotta be in, you've gotta have an active membership to the Inner Circle, which is a personal development audio library.

And you've also gotta have a product called the Top Producer Formula, which shows you how to be a producer in whatever business you're in. And also a product called the Team Builder Formula. And you gotta have a ticket to the next event. The reason why we call that the Builder Club is because those are the people that are actually building a business. It's very difficult to build an Empower Network business to a very high level if you're not in the Builder Club.

The reason is because you're not positioned right and also you don't have the information that you need to really build a big business. And for me, I actually don't spend a lot of personal time or attention with people that don't go to events. I just don't do it. And so for people that have an event ticket and for people that are up to the Builder Club, last week we did a promotion and we had about, I think six or somewhere between six and 700 people show up live for five hours on Saturday. And what we taught them was, we actually showed them some stuff about mindset, goal setting, right?

And spent some time focusing everybody's energy. But then what we did was we showed them and broke down the tactics that Justin Berengia is personally using to sponsor 20 people a day. And he actually spent, I wasn't expecting him to do this. I'm gonna be honest with everybody on this call, okay? I was not expecting him to go into the level of detail he went into because the amount of information he just gave for free, it was ridiculous.

It was worth more than the whole cost of the Builder Club, which normally that product altogether, those products retail to be in the Builder Club for right around $1,700, okay? And so what we decided to do on that Saturday hangout was because that information was so valuable, we made a recording of it. And this is, I mean, this is extremely detailed, step-by-step instructions of how he's making his Facebook advertising, who he's targeting, how he's making the bridge videos, how he's putting those whole processes together, how he's generating leads for just ridiculously, ridiculously low prices and signing up people on autopilot, whether he's slamming or not. And he broke down the whole structure of how he does that. And so what we told people on, and if you weren't on Get Money Saturday, you didn't qualify, that's maybe the only reason you didn't know this, but we told people on Get Money Saturdays, as long as you get up to the Builder Club by tonight at midnight Eastern time, what we're gonna do is a couple of things.

Number one, there's a discount, and you see it on the page, there's actually a link where you can actually get up to the Builder Club for, I believe it's like a $400 discount. And so the price on the page, I think, is $1,295 or $1,297 or something like that. That's like $400 lower than the normal price. And so we're giving you a leap of discount until midnight Eastern time tonight. And if you get that, and also buy an event ticket for the next event, to me that says you're core, and that says that you wanna succeed.

There's one more step you need to follow in order to get access to that information, and I think you should do it tonight, but if you don't have time to finish it tonight, you can still get the bonus. But other steps that you need to follow is if you're new to Empower, you haven't done it yet, you need to go through the Fast Start training, and actually when you're done, there's a form you need to fill out and upload to the site, and that just basically says you understand what we do as a community, you understand our process, you understand our products, you understand what we do, and you understand what the commitments are of being an Empower Network member. So once again, you get the Builder Club, it's $400 up, the price is increasing tonight. You need to get your event ticket today too. And just so everybody here knows on this call, the event ticket price is increasing this week, okay?

And if you don't get your ticket now, you're gonna lose that discount. You wanna get your ticket and you wanna get access to the Builder Club and just buy it, because if you don't, you're gonna end up paying full price. And I would rather, personally, if you just got it and you just got access to the information, that's why we decided to lower the price till the end of day on, you know, on Leap Day or whatever they call it, is we wanted to give you a discount until midnight Eastern time tonight, and this is only until midnight time Eastern time tonight, and then that price is just going away and you're gonna have to pay full price after that. So I want everybody here to get up to the Builder Club and get a ticket to Nashville, and then go, and if you haven't done it yet, finish the Fast Start training, upload the form, do all that stuff. And this is the basic steps of really getting involved in Empower Network and really getting started in the right way.

And I promise you, this is my, just from me to you here on the call, that webinar where Justin Berenji covers the structure of how he does his Facebook advertising alone, that is worth the whole price of that. Think about it like this, it's like, what is the value of learning how somebody's sponsoring 20 people, 30 people every single day, right? It's completely ridiculous. That there alone is worth the full price of the Builder Club, and so we're putting it back to full price after midnight tonight, but you need to get it now in order to get that bonus. And here's what I would do if I were you.

I want you to listen to this, right? Number one, just buy it. Click the thing, pull out your credit card, and buy it, okay? Everybody here could come up with $1,297 within an hour, just by getting creative. Just click the button, buy it, okay?

Lock in the Builder's Club. That'll make sure you're in Empower Network too. If you're not in, you can join at that level as well. You can also go back to the email, join in the trial, but I would encourage you to just actually get in the Builder's Club and get that product, and then go in, and we're gonna email, we'll send out that access to that bonus, okay? So you can see that page, all right?

And you can actually see the structure and all the detail behind how Justin is doing what he's doing. And I was totally blown away. Like, we had other training that we were planning on doing on that Get Money Saturday, and I actually just kind of private messaged everybody when Justin was talking, and I just said, hey guys, let's just let him talk, and just, we're gonna hang out here in the background because this level of detail and this value is just unbelievable. So he continued on for about two, two and a half hours of the whole detail of how he's generating 500 to 1,000 leads a day, and truthfully, we should charge like a separate course or something. So everybody here, realize that's going away tonight.

Tell your team, get them back to this page, send emails out to your group, and just say, hey, you guys need to get to Builder Club before midnight time tonight before the price increases. Post a message on Facebook, and just say the price is increasing tonight. And then also for, there's, this is for Power Network members, okay, is we're doing something special for those of you who are gonna get all in by tonight too, because I know a lot of the community, you're ready to take it to the next level, and we've been having people getting all in, literally all through the day, and just blocking in their access to all the products in their business. Now regardless of whether you do this or not, it's fine. You need to get up to the Builder Club, and you need to take it to the next event, okay?

For those of you who were on Get Money Saturday, or you know what I'm talking about, what we did is we offered a $500 discount that's expiring at midnight Eastern time tonight. Again, it's a leap year thing, and we're putting together some bonuses for the people that take action before midnight, and we mentioned that on that Saturday webinar, so I'm not gonna repeat those right now. I just wanna let you know they're available, and I'll probably send out an email after this call, and just let all of you know all the details. Those of you who are getting all in tonight, I would do it now. We sent out links earlier in the day to people who are active in the Builder's Club, and I would just make sure that you upgrade and lock in your all-in discount, because we're gonna be doing some coaching, some training a little bit later in the next week or so with the people that get all in before midnight Eastern time tonight, and again, I'm not gonna repeat that because we talked about it on the Saturday thing.

But everybody here on this call, on the page, if you're on the page right now, if you're on the phone, you can actually click on the link and go to the page, and you can see this, pause it, because you're obviously listening on the phone, and I just want you to go to that page. There's a button that says lock in your event ticket. I want you to get your event ticket now. I want you to make sure you're on the Builder's Club when you buy those two things. I want you to just take photos of your receipt.

Tag me, tag Justin on Facebook. Let us know that you've done it, because we wanna give you a shout out. We wanna congratulate you, and just remember the clock is ticking, and the price is gonna increase, and I don't know if we're gonna ever give that information that we gave away again, because I almost wanted, one part of me, it truthfully wanted to reach through the computer and shake Justin a little bit. They don't show him so much, because then we have nothing to offer later. But another part of me just said, you know what, we wanna give people just a huge amount of value, and so that's what he did, and it just is amazing.

So Justin, if you could tell people just a little bit about what you shared on that hangout, and how that stuff has transformed your life and your business from a tactical perspective, and really what you gave them, I would just like your perspective on that, because you sponsored ridiculous amounts of people in power, and I'd like to hear it from you. Sure, man, and I was just in my email refreshing, and I don't know, like five or six more people joined since we started the call, and I think we're up to 37 sign-ups today, and I remember talking with you, Dave, and saying, I'm gonna sign up 40 people, just you watch, in a day, and I think tonight's gonna be that night, and it's just amazing how you can speak the biggest goal, even if it doesn't seem realistic, even if it seems far-fetcher in the future, but you can speak it into existence as soon as you believe in the words you're speaking. You know what I mean? That's just the power of belief. So on that training, I just shared my blueprint.

I gave, I have PPC courses and stuff where I condense 16 to 20 hours worth of information that I teach on workshops into about a two to two and a half hour training. I don't know how I got so much out in such a short period of time, but I'm just like, I'm gonna do my best to cover every angle. So I walk people through basically the pre-stuff you need to know, number one, before placing an ad on Facebook, because if you just start placing ads on platforms like Facebook and Google, and if you're not familiar with their terms and conditions and you don't know what you're doing, it's very easy to get your account suspended. I remember my first account like four years ago, my fan page that is, it got shut down quick because I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I wasn't educated, so I made it a point to share with you the things to avoid so you don't get your account suspended, which is super, super important.

Then I showed people how to actually set up a fan page, because a lot of people don't even know. It's like, how do you even do advertising on Facebook? You have to create a fan page. And there's a certain way of creating it and crafting it to where you can do it in an attractive way that attracts other people to it. So I was sure to do that.

I covered the funnel process for sending traffic through the ad. After they click the ad, what's next? They click on your ad, they click on a link. I showed people where to go, how to go to set up a custom lead capture page that speaks your target audience's language, so you actually have a good opt-in, which means lower costs when you're advertising and more leads. I showed people my actual bridge video I'm using now, which is generating, the funnel I'm using now, which is generating hundreds of leads.

I just checked my infusions off. Not my best lead day today, but over 400 leads. My best lead day may be like 800 leads or something like that. But it's crazy to think 400 leads and 37 sales, not too shabby, not too shabby at all, because the process works. I've been in the trenches advertising for a long time, even before in Power Network.

I've wasted money on everything. I've bought every get-rich-quick by buying clicks. I'm like, they give you this business, and it's like, all you need to do is get traffic, and you're gonna be rich. I've spent money buying traffic to be rich. Most things are too good to be true.

It is true when it comes to traffic. I was sick and tired of wasting money on paid advertising, so I made a decision one time, about four or five years ago, to master Facebook. I just made a decision. I said, I'm sick and tired of wasting money on solo ads. From me, maybe I don't have the skill, but I've never had success with solo ads.

I've bought clicks. I've done stupid stuff like traffic exchanges, like Mike Hobbs has done, where I just sit there clicking on things, hoping people would click. I've tried everything, right? I'm just like, you know what? What if I can cut out the middleman, and get traffic directly from the source, and not be dependent upon any traffic broker, not be dependent upon anyone, right?

I just started thinking. I'm like, well, if I develop that skill set, I can be successful for the rest of my life, and I don't have to, again, be dependent upon anyone, because true empowerment is not being dependent upon anyone. True empowerment is taking responsibility in your own hands. So I'm like, hmm, I'm going to master this. I don't care how long it takes, right?

I don't care what I got to do. I don't care if it's like 10 years from now I finally figure it out. 10 years from now I'll be rich. You know what I mean? I'm willing to overcome the struggle, the humiliation and bullshit right now to persevere, to do what I got to do, to develop the skill to win.

Most people are unwilling to develop the skill, right? But here's the thing. I've been in the trenches. I've now invested over a quarter million dollars into Facebook PBC. So I know what to do to help you shortcut your success.

And that's what the training was really all about. I actually walked people through the hypnotic story structure I'm using where people are sharing my ad on Facebook left and right. Here's the thing. Most people are placing ads and they're trying to make sales. And most people don't give a shit about buying your product.

You don't have a relationship. You don't have rapport with them. So I developed a skill that I learned from Jabril, a dear homie of mine, I consider a brother, on how to craft hypnotic stories, like a long story, maybe 1,500 words, to inspire people to take action. And the results, like I have a new ad I placed. Maybe I wrote it.

I wrote it on my birthday on February 11th with D. You know, my mom was here as, you know, a babysitter to watch Kuan Yin for a little bit. We walked out to the pier. We live on the water here in Clearwater. And we just overlooked the water.

And I said, baby, we need to write a story that's going to outperform any other story we've ever done because it's going to inspire more people than we've ever inspired. Four days later, that ad got like 300 shares. And now, like, it's like two or three weeks later and it's like over 1,000 shares. Now, when you can get people sharing your ad, your paid advertising, you're onto something. Now, what would make somebody share something that's an ad?

Because normally, people, I would never share an ad. If someone's like, buy my product or my opportunity, am I going to share it with my friends and family on Facebook? No, unless I, like, bought it and it was so good I got life-changing results, then maybe. But why are people going out of their way to share my ad content? Because the value is so good, right?

And that's what I taught people to do is how to inspire people through copy to get them to share your ad and this is why we're able to generate leads for oftentimes as low as $0.50. Typically, it's between $0.50 and $1.00. And we can scale it as big as we want to scale it, you know what I mean? And so, we actually walk people through, like, my actual story. I probably shouldn't have done it, but I just said, you know what?

Everyone on that training day invested into themselves because they believe in themselves, right? They believe in what they're doing. They're willing to take the necessary action to invest into themselves. So, I just felt compelled to really not hold back and just show you everything as if you were a personally sponsored team member even though I'm teaching the entire community, right? So, I showed people my actual ad, my highest performing ad right now.

I read it to them and I showed them where to find it to read it, like, in their own time. I actually showed them how to place the ad, how to, like, find the interest, you know, so that it's targeted in the right niche audience for your group. Because another important factor is speaking your audience's language. The reason my ads are resonating with my audience is I know exactly who I'm targeting because you have the power to target exactly who you want to speak to, right? And then my funnel is very congruent with that same messaging.

And when you can get congruent, you could do phenomenal things. And some people may be thinking, the power network's been around for five years, it's saturated. Bullshit. I'm signing up more people now than I ever have in the past. Why?

I'm tapping into markets that were never tapped into before. You get that? I'm not just, like, targeting make money from home. That's cool. I do it sometimes.

It's fun. You know what I'm doing? I'm targeting people who are into spirituality like myself, right? People who believe in the law of attraction. People who have read the secret and it changed their life.

You know what I mean? And there's so many niche markets. If you're a baby boomer, you should be targeting other baby boomers. This is the kind of stuff I taught because unconsciously you're going to have more rapport with your audience. They're going to trust a person similar to them, right?

So, for example, you know, Jaime and Lloyda. Shout out to them. And I'm like, what's your goal? They attended one of our events. I'm like, what's your goal?

And they're like, we want to get to Silver Boss Maker this month. And there was only a week left in the month. They were at approximately $2,000. And I'm like, dude, you still got a whole freaking week. You can do $10,000.

And he just looked at me, his head cocked a little, kind of like a dog, you know, and they're just like, hmm? And then he's like, he got it. He got what I was doing to him. I was just transferring belief into him, just like Dave does to us, you know, at the event. You got like seven days left.

And even though it seemed unrealistic, he went with it. And he's like, you know what? And lo and behold, and this is like a true story, the last day of the month at the project or the Generation Hero event in Miami where we rented out that like crazy, ridiculous mansion, you know what I mean? They hit it. Even though it seemed unrealistic and they've never done it before, just because they actually believed it.

And then they took the necessary actions required once they created a true belief inside their core. So, crazy thing. Like this month, I was like curious how they are, like how they're doing. And even though it's like totally unrealistic, you know, because they're nowhere near it. He's like, because he understands the bigger picture that whatever you set your mind to and truly believe you can create, and he's running with it.

And that's why they're succeeding like left and right now. And he's like, I'm going to hit platinum. And I'm like, dude, you still got... And we were on the phone and, you know, I just like to see how he's doing and we're friends. And I'm like, I'm going to let you go then, dude.

I'm like, you have 12 hours left. And I'm like, I know you're going to do it because I know you and I know the power of belief and I believe in you. And guess what? I follow up with him a little later and he's like, I got two more people all in, I'm working on my third. And I'm like, holy shit, dude, this stuff really, really works.

But that's the power when you believe in what you're doing and combine that with actually having the skill set and know-how of how to actually place ads. You know what I mean? It's a life changer. You have belief and education on how to do it. You have everything you need to go write your own success story.

You know what I mean? It was very unrealistic when we were living in a 300 square foot studio apartment in Costa Rica barely able to afford our rent. Very unrealistic, right? But it don't matter where you're from. It don't matter your background.

All that matters is the decision you make tonight and the belief that you create within your core, right? Because your actions will follow your belief all the time. That's just the way it is. I am telling you this. If you get access to that training I did, you can begin generating 30 leads a day within seven days easy, not even difficult if you actually follow what I teach you.

My life transformed in Empower Network in 2012 once I started generating 30 leads a day consistently because 30 leads a day is approximately a sale a day. It could be more. It could be less. There could be days where you generate 30 leads and get zero sales. Then you generate 30 leads the next day and you get two.

That's just kind of how it works. I know that because right now I'm averaging like today I may get 40 sales but that's not normal. I'm averaging like 20 sales a day. On the days I get 10 sales, the following day I get 30 and it just averages out. That's just the way that it is.

But if you can focus, because all you need to do in this business is perfect that one skill set of generating leads, right? Traffic. The system sifts and sorts. It upsells. It does everything.

We sell for you. You know what I mean? You don't have to do anything but generate some traffic and develop the skill set in generating traffic. And once you do that, you will start to sponsor people consistently and bring new people into your business every day. And 30 leads a day is the formula that will change any entrepreneur's life, especially in what we do with home business and building a business on the internet.

And what I shared with you is my formula to how I'm averaging 500 leads a day. So do you think you can do a small percentage of what I am doing? Absolutely. I wouldn't even question that, right? Why am I succeeding at bigger and bigger levels?

Not that I have to. We save a lot, right? Because we had to learn the hard way when we were in real estate. So now you're giving them too much. Because they think we're sitting here spending all types of money, you know, we make all this money, we're spending it, that's why we got to hop from opportunity to opportunity because we're chasing a dollar.

So you're just giving them way too much. Now you're really digging in too deep. Okay. Digging in too deep. Yeah.

Because that's the concept that nobody teaches. He understands all the different types of personalities so he posts the numbers and shares it just plainly as they are. But then when you hear that we only spent $5,000, hmm, it makes you kind of think. One, that's a truly profitable business model and then two, it really puts things in a perspective about what you truly need, what your reason why is and why you're working so hard in the first place. Yeah, right on.

Good point, baby. And just to provide clarity, when I say $5,000, like our living expenses, it's typically way less than five grand because we bought a three-story townhome here in Clearwater. You know, we go get pedicures every week and things like this. We pay my mom as a babysitter to help out so she don't have to go back to a job she hates. You know what I mean?

So it's a lesson I had to learn the hard way. See, a lot of people are going to teach you and you start making a lot of money to spend it and to go show off and show people how great you are, go buy a car you can't afford, go buy a house you can't afford. And I had to learn the hard way when I went 500 grand in debt, you know what I mean? I dropped out of college. It was just because I was at the right place at the right time and it was very difficult to not make a lot of money in that real estate industry back then.

But I started making money and I started buying up property left and right. All that property went upside down because I didn't understand their cycles in the real estate market. Like, you know, there's growth, there's stabilization, there's decline and revitalization, right? I just thought it was going to continue going up and up and up. And I was able to use stated income.

Like back in the day, you didn't even have to prove how much money you made. You just go to the bank, like get your loan or the mortgage broker, and it was stated income because you had good credit. As long as you had good credit, you can just tell them how much money you made and they didn't look into it. And so I was allowed to buy four homes I shouldn't have bought at a very young age, but I ended up $500,000 in debt because I didn't save for a rainy day. So I learned a valuable lesson I just wanted to pass on to you.

When you start making a lot of money, reinvest into advertising as we teach you. You know, Mike Hobbs will be the first to share with you. Don't just reinvest 20% of like what you make in the business, but 20% of all your income, including your job, because this is a real business and without advertising your business doesn't exist, right? To do that, right? And to actually save money.

Don't try to impress people. I know it's very difficult if you've never had money your whole life and you start making a lot of money, you will blow a lot of it, just like I did. But I'm here to say you don't have to, right? There's nobody to impress. You know what I mean?

You just do what you got to do and do things the right way so you can save for a rainy day and you can be in business for the long haul. You know what I mean? But Dave, I got to blow my nose again. I don't know why I'm getting so emotional. It's like I'm on my period or something.

It's totally weird. I'm going to take a break, blow my nose. If you want me to come back, I'll pop on back, man. Hey, you know, go take care of that period, Justin. That was funny.

I think weird things are funny. So anyway, I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. So in any case, guys, I mean, I just really wanted to bring him out and share some vision with all of you about what's possible for you.

Because it really is a beautiful thing when you unlock the things that you can create in your life and business. And that's what we want to teach you how to do. That's what our goal is to teach you how to do. Okay? So this is why everybody's here.

All right? I want to focus you here for a minute. I know we call this Empower Hour. It's been more like Empower Hours tonight. But we want to extra empower you since it's an extra day in the year, if that makes sense.

So we've got right now, from now until the Nashville event, to really build together. And those of you who are in, you've built with us. Those of you who are not in, you need to get in and build with us. Just click on the Builder Club link and just get in before the price increases at midnight. You want to buy it right now and also buy another hand ticket.

Literally right now, buy it. Pull out your credit card, click the button, fill in the order form, and complete the purchase through the Builder Club before the price goes up. Those of you who are in Empower already, you've been around for a while, get all in tonight. Lock it in tonight. Okay?

We sent out a link earlier today that allows you to do that. Get our highest price product for a discounted price. It's expiring at midnight. We're giving you some bonuses tonight. Actually something, I talked about this a little bit this weekend.

When I got started in my business online, I actually had my brother make me a hypnosis audio to help me focus my mind or leaps. Now, some of you might think that's ludicrous, but it was just something I did because I wanted to focus all of my resources and attention on one thing. If you're new in this business, it's really easy to build, but you've got to know what to do. And what you've got to do is you've got to focus on getting leads and then getting people to see our sales presentation. That's all you need to focus on if you're new.

You need to get in, get to the Builder Club at least, get all in the second you can, okay, which hopefully is tonight. Well, it's still discounted because you get $500 off that too tonight. And if you're in, you've got a link to that. You can go in, you can click that link, but you need to click that link and take advantage of it. And then you actually, there's a form you need to fill out and upload back to the site.

You need to do it tonight before midnight Eastern time to lock in that bonus. So everybody here, I want you to do that, okay, who's planning on it. Just complete that tonight, right? But you get in, you get up to the top package, okay, you get in, you get at the Builder's Club, get an event ticket, and I want you to take photos of the receipts, tag us both on Facebook, and let us know that you've made that purchase because we want to know if you're actually going to go through that training, all right? And then here's what we've got to do together.

We've got to build towards the next event using the live internet events we've got between now and Nashville, all right? And this is just a lesson in building and a lesson in momentum is how do you build your business? What you do is you build from event to event, right? So the purpose of this call is to promote what into the next live event, right? And also into the next call and also to the next things we're doing together.

That's what you do in events. The purpose of an event, even more to sell, even more than to sell, the purpose of an event is actually to promote the next event and to make the next event bigger. Does that make sense to everybody on the call? So that's actually what we're doing right now and what we're working together to create is momentum to the next event. So we've got this month, we're almost in March, I want to set some goals with you guys in March tonight.

So number one thing is, you know, it's the last day of February, today's your day to lock in your discounts, to get up to the Builders Club. Guys, there's like an hour left or something like that, I believe. There's about one hour, one minute left to lock in those discounts tonight. So pull out your credit card if you need to call your bank or whatever, call your bank and make sure you lock in the discount to the Builders Club tonight, okay? And now, what are we going to do?

Well, we're going to build towards the next Get Money Saturday while applying the things we learned at this last one, okay? And as long as you get into the Builders Club tonight, you can get access to that information. We'll send you out a link. As long as you get in the Builders Club, get an event ticket, complete the Fast Start training, that's all you got to do, okay? The Fast Start training, anybody can do it in Empower Network, it's right in the back office, you just got to watch the welcome video, watch the Fast Start training, fill in the core checklist, upload it back to the site, okay?

And get access to Builders Club, get event tickets, all you got to do. That's going to make it so you're in the Builders Club, okay? And when you're in the Builders Club, we do these events called Get Money Saturday, which is where we get together once a month, okay, and we do two things. Number one thing is we train you what the top people in Empower Network are doing to get leads and to get signups. Number two, we train your team, okay, because you can do one of two things.

You can either let us train your team or you can try to do it. And I would encourage you actually to not do it. I would encourage you to get together with your team and to keep each other accountable, okay? So let us as a company and as a big team train your team together. That's what I actually encourage you to do.

So March 26th, coming up later on this month, we have another Get Money Saturday. So I want you to get the information in this last one because we're never going to repeat it. We actually probably are going to take that down. You need to actually go through that and start applying it between now and this next Get Money Saturday. That's going to be March 26th coming up this month.

And what you want to do is you don't want to just get in the Builders Club to get access to that event coming up. You want to get in the Builders Club, like literally right now, pull out your credit card, click the button, get in the Builders Club, get your event ticket, take pictures of it, tag us on Facebook, let us know so we can celebrate you for making the right decision, okay? And then what you want to do between now and March 26th is using the information that we gave you on that training that you're going to get access to, I want to help you sponsor as many people as possible between now and March 26th. It's actually urgent because we got a lot of momentum now in the organization. You need to put the blinders on, stop looking at things, and you just need to focus and build towards this next Get Money Saturday.

March 26th, 5 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time. In order to attend that, you've got to do the same three things. What are they? Number one, you've got to get in, go to the Fast Start training, complete the core checklist.

Number two, you've got to get to the Builders Club. If you don't take advantage of this discount, the price is going to increase, and you're going to lose that discount and have to pay full price. So I'd encourage you to do it right now because there's only an hour left. Number three thing you need to do, say you need to get an event ticket to Nashville. So again, go to the Fast Start training, you need to get in the Builders Club.

Three, you need to get an event ticket for Nashville. The event ticket this week is actually increasing in price too because the event's packing out. We've got people buying tickets, and buying tickets, and buying tickets, and buying tickets. We actually have limited capacity. And I don't know how many tickets we can sell before my event planner, Bonnie, is going to call me and say, hey, the fire marshal is going to get us in trouble if we sell any more tickets.

So you need to lock in those tickets before the price increases and that's why I'm encouraging you to do it tonight because if you do it by tonight, we're also going to give you those bonuses. But you need to lock it in right now. Okay? And those of you who are doing it tonight, go ahead and get all in tonight because this is a focused time. We've got lots of momentum and you want to build while there's lots of momentum.

And what you want to do is you want to get people in, get them to the Builder Club, get their event ticket and promote them into that next Get Money Saturday. Do the strategies. You're going to learn from that webinar with Justin Berenjia, okay, and you want to go out there and generate leads. Focus on lead generation. Do it on Facebook.

Do it through blogging. However you could do it, okay, but you want to generate leads, generate sign-ups and then work with those people. Get them to the Builder Club and then promote them into that next Get Money Saturday. Then on that, we're not just going to train you. We're also going to train your team.

But you're just not going to have a team. You're going to have a team that talks to the Builder Club. You'll have made some money, okay, and then we're going to train your team how to build from there until when? Until the next event in Nashville, okay, so we're going to come from that and we're going to have, I'm telling you, 1,500 people in that next Get Money Saturday. We have like 600 people in the last one.

We are going to bring in a lot of people here in the next 26 days and it's going to be crazy. But in order to take advantage of it, you've got to capitalize on it and you've got to position yourself. This is urgent. Your time is running out, okay. This is not just a matter of making a decision and buying a product.

This is a matter of making a decision that you're going to run with a team, okay. I don't expect you to run alone. I expect you to run with us and to promote with us and to build towards this next Get Money Saturday coming up March 26th, 5 to 10 p.m. Eastern time. But to do that, you've got to complete the Fast Start training, upload the core checklist, buy the Builder's Club, okay, and you also want to get your event tickets to Nashville.

Those are the three things you need to do. And when you do that, we're going to email you out a link to an internal page later tonight that's a replay of the last Get Money Saturday. I want you to watch that entire thing and start applying these strategies, okay, because those strategies are going to change your life. And just aim. You say, where do I aim, Dave, applying this strategy?

Here's what you want to do. You want to do the same thing Justin Brindgey and I did to break through. And that's aim for 30 leads a day, okay. When I got online, I was like, I know that if I could get 30 leads a day, I could sponsor two people a day. But I was working.

You've got to understand, guys, I wasn't messing around. You know, I was talking about that earlier in the call. I wasn't messing around with my future. I knew, I knew, okay, that if I could get 30 leads a day, I'd put my phone number in the emails. I'd put my Skype in the emails.

I would return phone calls. I would connect with people on Facebook who were leads. I just worked and worked and worked and worked. And I actually started sponsoring two to four people a day from the leads that I was generating real fast when I got started on the Internet, right. And I did it by doing the kinds of things that we learned this Let's Get Money Saturday.

So you want to get that replay and lock in that. You position yourself right. Now for those of you who are in the all-in, who are in the, who are all-in the Power Network, who are Black Card members here, those of you who are all-in, okay, and you bought the Mass Influenced Formula or you upgraded in the last few days, we're actually doing some, a couple of coachings here between now and the next Get Money Saturday with the all-in group. So if you're in that group, it's cool. We're going to do it with you.

But what you want to do is you also want to take action and apply that information. But we're going to be doing some coachings with you because Justin Berenji, he's actually going to do, we want you to go and apply that information, okay, on that webinar. And we're actually going to get together once more and do some coaching and help you fix some of the ads that you guys are putting out there on Facebook to generate leads and help. But you need to take action on that and you need to be in the all-in club in order to take advantage of that. So those of you who are getting all-in, who are doing it tonight, you can just go into that link that we sent out earlier today, pull out your credit card, and just upgrade.

But you got to do it before midnight and make sure your phone's uploading because we got some other things that we mentioned last Saturday that we're going to give you as bonus as well, okay. But as you can hear, I mean, I've got a lot of excitement in my voice. The reason is because I'm so pumped up because this is what we're doing. Let me explain what's going to happen here in the next bit. But it's going to happen.

Here's the thing. A wave in the ocean doesn't mean that you're going to be surfing, right, and like you're going to be like going like to the promised land too. You've got to work, right. You've got to work. When a wave hits, there's a lot of people in the ocean kind of paddling out on their boards but only a couple of people catch the wave.

In order to catch the wave here, the growth and the momentum that we're creating, you got to position yourself right, you got to get educated fast, start taking action now, okay, and then get into the group of people that we're actually going to be mentoring and coaching over the course of this month in order to produce a bigger, more dynamic result. And you can do that. You're an all-in club. You can do that and we're going to help you guys to achieve a bigger, better result. So what you want to do specifically is this, is you get positioned right, number one, then the number two thing that you need to do is focus with that information on generating 30 leads a day, 30 leads a day, okay, at least as a minimum before we do that coaching, just start taking action.

Then you want to start getting members in Empower Network and when you're sponsoring new members and customers, get them to the Builder Club, get them to get an event ticket, get them to complete the Fast Start training and then promote them into that next Get Money Saturday because then you're going to have a team of educated people getting results building from the Get Money Saturday to the event in Nashville coming up April 21 through 24th the following month. So we're going to build from this month all the way until March 26th, okay, everything that we do this week, we're going to hang out Thursday, we're doing other things through the course of the week, every email we sent out is building towards getting people in the Builder Club towards March 26th and then we're going to take that group of people and we're actually going to bring on one of the other diamonds and show you some more strategies that you can even increase your sign-up beyond that. So imagine if you could just take these strategies, focus on getting 30 leads a day, start signing up people literally every day like a crazy person, okay, just with momentum, with energy, you know what I mean, and then you're going to be getting them to the Builder Club, promoting them into that Get Money Saturday that's going to be our second one we've ever done and we're actually going to get, we've already got some of the diamonds that have agreed to give you some strategies that are just, these things I'm telling you, you can take the combination of what Justin's taught and the stuff that we're going to teach later this month and if you just apply those things together, I'm telling you what we can do, what we can do and I want you guys to think about this, this is what we're doing together, we can go into that Nashville event with so many people that the fire marshal has to come and kick some of us out because we can't all fit in the room. So it's actually urgent that you get your event tickets because we're going to create such a huge amount of momentum that we might have to turn off the event ticket sales and you might have lost your chance and you do not want to lose your event tickets to this event because we've got some special stuff happening there that's never going to be repeated and if you don't literally take action right now and get your event tickets, you could lose out. This isn't a clock thing, this isn't a price increasing thing, look the price is increasing Thursday at midnight, not tonight, okay, so it's like it's not about the price increasing, it's about the urgency of space running out and literally momentum because of how many people are buying tickets, offering the power club and promoting into that next event.

I would rather look you in the eye and have you crying but saying, yes, it's my time. I would rather have you be nervous to not take action because we're moving by so fast. I would rather you be on this call and say, you know what, this makes me uncomfortable, I'm stepping massively outside of my comfort zone but I'm getting all in and I'm going to build and I'm going to bring 10 people with me to the next Get Money Saturday. I'd rather you say, you know what, I've never done something like this before but it doesn't matter because I'm just going to freaking take action and you go out there and you apply that Facebook information and you start sponsoring a person or two people a day, you get on our coaching webinar because you get all in tonight before midnight and you say, you know what, this makes me uncomfortable but I'm not just getting to Nashville, I'm bringing 100 people with me to Nashville. I'm going to bring 10 who bring 10.

I'm going to bring 50 people with me to the next Get Money Saturday. I'm going to upgrade two people a day to the Builder Club. I would rather that you go all out and you know what, if you're a man, step up and be a man and if you're a woman, step up and be a woman and stop listening to the critical of people around you that say that you can't do it. Stop listening to the people around you, the voices in your head, your negative spouse or relative. Stop listening to people that don't believe in your dreams.

Stop listening to people, hear this, that quit on you and abandoned you. Stop listening to people, you know what, that gave up on you, that gave up on you and they made excuses about why they gave up on you but they still quit and they're still quitters and they still abandon you. Stop listening to them because I'm telling you something, you know who you want to listen to? You want to listen to the Justin Berenges of the world. You want to listen to the Tracy Walkers of the world.

You want to listen to the Lawrence Pams of the world. You want to listen to the leaders that are willing to be here with you no matter what happens, that are willing to step into the parted Red Sea or the promised land first, first before you step in and you know what, they're afraid that the waves might collapse on them too, that they step in anyway, then they walk towards the promised land because those are the leaders that have enough vision to take the rod and slam it against the ocean floors, the ocean parks and they step inside. That's who you want to listen to. That's who you're listening to tonight and I want you, if you're on this call, to say enough's enough because I am rising up inside my tower and just step into it and make a decision that you are doing it now, that's it, period, and I will see you through the week but more importantly, I'm going to see you in Nashville, I'm going to see you with a team at the next Get Money Saturday. Guys, we've got 45 minutes left to upgrade people before discounts go away.

Hurry!