True Momentum

I don't know what your situation you're up. Come back. Come on up. And the reason I'm talking about this is here's why okay? Now the reason I mentioned this is on November 1st.

I am increasing the price of the mass influence formula from $3,500 to $5,000 and if you get all of the products now, you have to be active in them all Okay, and I'm talking if you did have them, but you have no subscriptions Which there's no way you could be watching this because this is coded right, right? You wouldn't qualify either. Okay it if you are active in all of the products By October 31st, okay, we'll comp you to earn all that stuff Right and you'll get locked in but if you're not You'll have to pay full price which may be fine And maybe you want to come and if you are paying now and you want to come to one of the masterminds What we'll do is we will have a fee it will be you there will be a charge Okay, because people are paying 5,000 to go and they're limited right, but we'll have a discounted fee that you would be able to attend for but we want to lock you in to be able to earn on that because we'll be able to build systems out to be Able to sell that if that makes sense so tell us about your broke man story and as we go does that help? But if that helps in the comments just say yes if that helps so when I first got started in power network, it was October of 2012 We had our primary home that we were living in at the time was in foreclosure the office building that we had Sunk our entire life savings into and been expanding a business that then got Essentially shut down because of government regulation changes that office building was now in foreclosure Because we couldn't pay the mortgage on that any longer I had to basically give away one of my vehicles that I'd purchased about a year prior to that and sell it to some guy who drove all the way out from Texas to get it And I barely got out of that without owing a bunch of money Just because we had to start cutting everything we cut the cable bill Natasha my wife had gotten her real estate license to allow me to build an online business You know it was kind of the deal that we said is like look. We're broke We're gonna re-engineer our lives from this point forward We're gonna create something online that actually allows us to create the kind of lifestyle that we want But in the interim we got to do something to bring in money because our business was gone We had no income we were upside down in a flip house that I was currently managing the construction side of that to try and get it done, so we could at least get out from under it and what ended up happening is we ended up short selling the house that we were living in and Moving into the house that we were intending to flip just to try and you know make everything work and in the meantime I got started in Empower Network And you know was got all in bought all the products And how did we do that?

Well? We went through the basement. We went through the garage We sold everything that we weren't using that we could you know get some value out of I had stuff listed on Craigslist I think at one time I had like 40 different items listed on Craigslist And it was just you know having people come out to the house and buy this stuff and just unloading it as fast as I Could old bicycles and old generator you know anything that had any kind of significant value We also borrowed some money from family members and tapped out any credit cards that we still could do that before they Ended up chopping that the available balance because we were defaulting on a mortgage And then three months later. I decided that we were going to go to the Austin, Texas event and You know I just knew that I had to be there Every the culture of empower I'd been on all of the Empower our calls and everybody was saying look if you're serious You got a you got to show up to this event because that's what the leaders do that's what the successful people do So I looked at Natasha and said you know I don't know how we're gonna do it But we're gonna go and not just me I said you got to come with me You know we need to both go do this because it's important If you have a spouse that there they have a buy-in You know that they understand what it is that you're building whether they're going to build it with you or not is immaterial They need to understand what it is and have that buy-in so that they're supportive of what you're doing And so she said you know hey I don't know much about it But you know we'll figure out a way and What we ended up doing was taking all of the airline miles that I had built up from prior business in you know traveling And doing consulting we had a lot of miles that were about to expire on American Express And we pooled all that together and it managed to cover our flight and most of our hotel costs for going to Austin, Texas And that was a turning point you know my first three actually almost first four months in empower Network I only made about seven hundred dollars in commissions And I think that's important thing to point out because a lot of people watching this especially new people They see some of the leaders coming up here and hearing the amount that they're making and they think gosh You know they're making all this money And they expect that they might make that money in their first week or their first month of doing this That's not how it always goes right I put in a lot of effort in the beginning doing blog posts doing videos doing all kinds Of different things that didn't pay off initially It's that you know that effort and that work that you put in like what on day one Dave drew that momentum chart up here You know and it's that kind of flatline Dead cat looking scale that goes across there in the beginning that people don't notice and then it starts going way up and everybody's like Wow instant success Right, but it's not instant so first four months was like seven hundred and fifty bucks I think is I actually went up on stage in Austin, Texas, and I've made seven hundred some dollars but Less than 45 days later. I had a sixty eight hundred dollar month and Again that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't all in and didn't own the products that gave me the ability to earn that kind of Commission and the education that came with owning those products that you know helped me become that person Capable of earning that kind of income so well you and you know here's well give him a hand give me a hand You know and here's the thing that I want to point out again, right the breakthrough for him came when he stopped creating excuses Right and instead he realized I'm gonna change this.

I'm responsible for it, right It just the poverty stops, maybe it takes some momentum time to get rid of it, right That's fine right for me for first time that happened to me was 2009 when it was just like there was no more low It's like there's nobody to blame anymore, and we all do that we all say oh, yeah What about this person or that person and somebody's like well? Oh? Yeah? I'm just gonna go the back doorway right and I know I forgive you. I'm not attacking you I understand because I've done stuff like this too, and it didn't work Okay, trying to cheat the shortcut doesn't work We actually have a thing called the shortcut, and it's like I'm gonna cheat that way You know and it's like what for right?

Do you want it or not now if you want it right what you do? You must reach a point where you decide that you want it and you burn the bridges Right that's what decide means it means that right and every time somebody does that Right and if that's their risk right like for me somebody asked me this question I don't think I finished it the other day And they say I'm not gonna be able to pay my rent if I do this and truthfully I'm not even my rent if I don't do it What would you what should I do? Can you give me some advice and I can't tell him what to do I'll tell you what I would do Right I'll say what I would do and you shouldn't listen because I'm crazy Right What I would do is I'd burn the sales and decide where I'm going and it would happen right and My I am a history book of that if you guys knew some of the stuff I've had to deal with financially even running in power right you know when and this is here Let me let me let me I'll talk briefly about this because some of you are new and this doesn't apply to you, right? And power was in a bad spot three months ago It just was right it was let me repeat. It was it's not now and There was basically two things I could do at that point cash out Right, which wouldn't be much anyway Or burn the sales, right?

That's what I did Right Because that's all you can do right and there's people there's people a couple times who thought I'm great They're like I do not understand why you do this John. It's one of them You know and I won't tell that whole story because you know I'll say what I think I'm about some people that probably won't be good for public exposure and stuff, but like and recently too, you know, but see that was like for me that point we were at in Was it that Dallas? Right. It wasn't that it was right before that. That was like the van point for me again Where I realized that I had been I had been allowing people to run the company and not doing what I want with it right send CNB to And I just reached a point where I'm just like I am done with this bullshit Right and started doing it exactly like I want to do it and the result of that is what you're seeing right now Which is in power is just back and you're gonna see it's gonna be more than freaking back in three months because the stuff We're doing next month the month after and then going into Atlanta going coming out of Atlanta.

We will grow so fast It will completely break your mind apart watching it You won't be able to make any sense of what's gonna happen now who's gonna capitalize on that? I will tell you not the period not the person who continues making excuses about things. I don't have money I don't have this. I don't have that you might be right But you know, what's more right, right? You know, I grew up in a house.

They said I'm a child of God, right? Well, if I if I'm the if I'm related to somebody that has all the resources in the universe I ain't pretty come up with five grand, you know what I mean? Like that's the way I think about it I think people can just do crazy stuff because I've seen myself do it I've seen the guy in Africa, you know start a trucking empire who couldn't afford a watermelon field, you know, I've seen a Engineer make two million dollars that'll turn into a hundred right? I've seen you come out of nowhere And he used to be a farm on a farm I'm joking, right? Yeah, everybody knows that's a joke, right?

He didn't actually have far He's like actually like a DJ business owner, right? I've seen what John Oaks has done But you ain't seen nothing yet from this guy man, cuz he's got he's got you know, you told you told him about this cancer stuff Yeah, it's it's not something I've talked a lot about publicly but yeah, I mean so I mean like but here's you don't have to talk about if you don't want we can change subject I might just brought up something. I shouldn't bring up he was He was just going through chemo and Like bone transplant t-cell crap. I don't even know how it works and he's not making excuses Talk you want to talk about that? Oh, yeah Well, I it started at the beginning of this year or that the end of last year, you know I was I had just come back from a trip in Europe and I was at home went through the holidays this past December and Then got to a point where I literally couldn't get out of bed one morning my back was like immobile and Then I tried really hard to get out of bed and my back was having spasms and all kinds of things and it got to The point where my I couldn't feel my legs anymore.

And so we called the ambulance and I was called to the hospital Went through a six-hour emergency surgery and found out that I had bone marrow cancer, you know So it's quite a shock basically like two days before New Year's Eve I'm laying in a hospital and all of a sudden I that's my new reality is that I've got bone marrow cancer and You know, it was a rough couple of weeks that first couple of weeks I was in the hospital for 10 days and then essentially had to kind of learn how to walk again Move again. I lost a ton of weight like, you know, all my muscle mass was gone about 14 pounds of muscle mass gone When I was when I go home from the hospital after about 10 days in the hospital I actually had to have a hospital bed moved into my office and I was working from a hospital bed in my home office You know and most people at this point didn't even know I was still getting on masterminds. I was still participating I was still doing my marketing, you know, just working through that But that's what my reality was that first two weeks of this year and then it just continued, you know So the next step was going through radiation. So I went through two weeks of radiation therapy Through my back as well as a spot on my leg and Then after that it was four rounds of chemotherapy So because of that I did miss a couple of events this year which was you know, I've never missed any empower events until that but it was literally I was unable to come and Then just recently in July. I went through a bone marrow transplant and so that process put me in the hospital for another 14 days and that's where I was when I filmed the video that was played At the Dallas event because I couldn't be at that one and all the meanwhile most people didn't even know that was happening Because I just didn't let that stop me from continuing with my life You know, I decided right after I kind of got over the initial shock of finding out that I had cancer I decided that was not my story.

You know, this is not my reality It's just something I'm going to experience and push through and that's what I did. You know, I put it behind me I made up my mind right about March time frame that I was going to wrap it up this year You know put it all take care of it get it gone and be done with it And so after the bone marrow transplant in my mind anyway, it's completely gone, you know So I'm now back to putting weight on building muscle working out again getting all my flexibility back and moving forward But my business was not affected by any of that because I just continued to do the same things, you know Even from a hospital bed, you can do this business even from a chemo chair. You can do this business, right? I even I had a photograph I think at the Nashville event. I was up on stage and I shared some of this story and showed, you know picture of me sitting in a chemo chair in the hospital and I'm on my cell phone And I'm actually posting stuff on Facebook and continuing with my marketing So when people come to me and they say well, I can't do this business because I'm disabled You know, I can't do this business because I can't come up with $1,000 can't do this business because I have a full-time job I can't do this business because I have two new kids at home, you know, those are just excuses They really are, you know If you can do this business from a hospital bed with a back surgery that lays you up for you know, a couple of months going through chemotherapy You know all of these things And not have that affect your ability to do this business.

You can do it no matter what your situation is you know, so When you go through those kind of things and people then try and give you excuses about why they can't do this You see that those are really nothing more than excuses and you don't take that from anyone, you know I don't accept excuses from myself and I don't accept them from anyone else And I think that's like the best thing you can do to help other people, you know sometimes they might feel that's like, you know, you're being you're being mean to them because you're not feeling bad that they're You know their situation or something like that But the truth is, you know, if you if you don't allow them to give you excuses That's really something that's very helpful for other people. It helps them grow Give me a hand You have a guy cancer He has an excuse Not in his mind he doesn't he has an excuse in somebody else's mind, right? Doesn't matter your background Doesn't matter if you have a college degree or not. I don't have a college degree. He does he does I'm sure I don't know who else does he doesn't right?

You know doesn't matter doesn't matter. There's no degree requirement to be here, right? There's a commitment requirement who else's came over overcome massive financial obstacles to build their business Michael Martin, come on up. Come on up. Give me a hand Is there any coffee back there or anything