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

To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Laura Parrish, and it is Monday, September 9th, 2013, and I'm super excited to be here tonight introducing some awesome, awesome speakers and leaders we have here for the Empower Hour here in the Empower Network, which we do every single Monday night and haven't missed one since we started back in 2011, and we've got just so many things going on. If you're in the Empower Network already, you've seen numerous videos coming out about the upcoming rollout, and if you're not in Empower Network yet, boy, oh, boy, are you going to get some information that is going to blow your mind tonight and completely change the game for you guys.

So I'd like to tell you a little bit about myself. Again, my name is Laura Parrish, and I've been in Empower Network since May 2012, just a stay-at-home mom looking to do something on the Internet, you know, that wasn't a scam, that could earn me a little bit of extra money to help with my family's finances, and I came across Empower Network, and it completely changed my life. You know, not only did I earn a little bit of extra money, I earned a lot of extra money and, you know, have been able to change the way I live and have been able to base my decisions on my life on what I want to do for myself, for my family, for my business, and not on whether I can afford something or not. And I'm going to go ahead and put it out there because you're going to hear some people talking about numbers tonight, so if you would like to see the average earnings of an Empower Network affiliate, you can go to www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php because we proudly announce those and update those on a daily basis because we're proud of what we're doing, but Empower Network is just an amazing marketing tool, and marketing training at several different levels.

The base is a blogging platform, and you guys are going to hear about some things tonight and see some videos that are going to be rolling out about what is coming up in the next 30 days. You know, if you were at the event in Denver, then you already know what I'm talking about, but if you weren't at the event in Denver, you're going to have the opportunity to get those recordings to see what is rolling out in the EN, which is Empower Network version 2. That is absolutely not only going to revolutionize the marketing industry, but also revolutionize the Internet itself. This is a multi-million dollar platform that is going to be rolling out.

It's like something that you've never seen before. Not only a blogging platform, but a social media networking site all in one, video hosting, the whole nine yards. It's just a super, super exciting time, and it's never, ever been seen before in this industry, never been seen before in marketing at all. So I'm super, super excited about that being rolled out.

And in addition to this coming up, we have the events coming up. We have some regional events coming up here in October. We're going to have some events in Washington, D.C. We'll be having an event in Anaheim, California, Dallas, Texas, and Orlando, Florida. So, you know, we implore all you guys to, wherever you look closest to, to get your tickets so that you can get to the events that will be happening.

And they're everywhere. And we did that so that it would be easy for everyone to be able to get to an event and not feel like you have to go all the way across the country or whatnot. But speaking of countries, you know, Empower Network is not just in the United States. Empower Network is worldwide.

There are people all over the world who are involved in Empower Network, from the United Kingdom to Iceland to Ghana to the Philippines to Australia, Kuala Lumpur. And those are just to name a few places of people who are a part of Empower Network. And it's just absolutely amazing. I couldn't ask to be part of a better business, a better opportunity, because it has completely changed my life. And to me, the best thing about Empower Network, even though it has exceptional products and teaches you the skills and trades and tools that you need to be an excellent marketer, to me, it changed my life.

To me, it taught me to learn to believe in myself, to believe that I deserve to live the way that I wanted to live and that I could have it all. To not fit myself into that cookie-cutter shape that we're all ingrained to believe the way that we have to live. And I got that by going to an event. You've got to get to the event.

It's one thing to be surrounded by like-minded people and positive-minded people all the time, which we are in Empower Network. We're here to edify you, to lift you up, until you can believe in yourself. But going to the event allows you to actually hang out with and see and be around all these people. And it's amazing. And the event that I went to in San Diego is what did that for me.

I went to San Diego six months after I joined Empower Network, and I listened from the audience. And I heard one of the co-founders, David Sharp, speak hope and inspiration into my heart. And there was something about him. There were some things that he said, some things that I related to, that I stepped up and I said, hey, if he can do it, why can't I? He's no different than I am.

He's just a guy, right? Just a girl. And I believe that I can do it. And I believe because he believed in me. And I went up to him, and I said, hey, I'm going to do this, right?

And he said to me, I believe you. And sure enough, three months later, I did it. I was on a stage. And then three months after that, I was not only on a stage, I was speaking on a stage in front of 6,000 people. So what I'm here to tell you tonight is if you're on this call, there's a reason for that.

Everything happens for a reason. And you are exactly where you were supposed to be in this very moment, listening to this call. So as you hear the people on the call tonight, as you hear our voices and the things that we're saying, and your heart is beating a little bit faster because you understand and you say, I can relate to that person, and you get it, understand also this, that you are here for a reason and that you, too, can do it. And something that you will hear will reach out to you, will grab you, and will make you say, hey, I'm going to do this, and I'm worth it, and I can do this.

So without further ado, like I said, we have some questions. Some awesome people are going to be on the call tonight speaking. But I have the honor and privilege not only of opening this call up tonight, but of introducing someone that is very dear to my heart, that I respect, that I admire, that I appreciate, that I love, that has co-founded this company and just brought it to the level that it's at. There's almost 160,000 affiliates inside the Empower Network right now, and he's just doing it. That's all I can say.

He's doing it. He is my mentor. I am proud of him. I love him. He inspired me.

He spoke hope into me. And because of him and the Empower Network, I will continue to move forward and move up in this business. So without further ado, it is my pleasure and honor to introduce to everyone tonight one of the co-founders of Empower Network, Mr. David Sharp. David, if you're there, let us know.

Laura, I'm on the call. Can you hear me? We can hear you. Thank you so much, brother. I appreciate you.

Oh, I appreciate you, too. Hey, before you go, I saw that you went on a vacation here a couple of weeks ago and got yourself a new SUV. How's the family doing, and how was the vacation? I actually haven't talked to you since you've been back, so I was a little curious.

No, it was absolutely awesome. We decided to go on a road trip, and we had thought we were just going to rent an SUV, and we couldn't find anyone that we liked, so I said, well, heck, I could just buy one. So we went and bought a brand-new 2013 Chevy Suburban and hit the road, and it was absolutely amazing. And we were able to do that because of this business and Empower Network. Well, hey, listen, first of all, congratulations.

Second of all, super ridiculously proud of you because I remember where you were at when you started, and you deserve it. So thank you for the intro and the call. Great job. And I will take it from here, so I appreciate it. Awesome, man.

Appreciate it. All right, cool. So, guys, Dave Sharp here, co-founder of Empower Network. Welcome to the Monday night Empower Hour call. I am, and I can tell you this, more excited, and the funny thing is I just keep getting more and more pumped up every single week and every single time that I do one of these calls, because there is somebody, and I don't know who that is on the call tonight.

I don't know if it's somebody who's sitting in the United States or in some other country. I don't know if it's somebody who has a job, doesn't have a job, is in a situation to where their family really, really needs to hear something special. They need an opportunity. They need to be in the right place at the right time. And if you're that somebody, and there's some of you who are, and there's some of you who are just kind of dipping your toe and just a little bit curious, and that's okay, because what I found is whether people make a decision right now to get involved with what we're doing or whether they sit on the sidelines and whether they look at it and kind of just dissect it and study it and then eventually get involved.

Oftentimes what happens is a lot of times when somebody gets out of their own way, and when they stop really trying to analyze things and let their heart make the decision for them, oftentimes it leads them in the right direction. And so tonight my goal on this call is to actually — and I know some of you analytical people and you logical thinkers on the phone are thinking, well, why would he ever want to do something like this? But I'll tell you what, I'm going to do it.

I'm going to tell you something. I want to get past your head and into your heart, and the reason why I want to do that is because I know that the decisions that you make that are short-term and that affect you in a small way, you make with your head, and decisions that affect you long-term and that make a big impact and influence the direction of your life, you make with your heart. And tonight my goal is to show you something, let you experience something and open up a new world of opportunity to you. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about who we are, but sharing my story and some other people's stories with you and giving you guys a glimpse and, most importantly, a game plan, how you can really capitalize on what we're doing here over the next 45 days. When we started this company, and I'm really not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about my story, actually, because for those of you who don't know who I am, really the only thing that I want to tell you is that, just like Laura said, if I can do it, you can do it.

Five and a half years ago, I was strung out. I was dealing with drug addiction, alcoholism. I was homeless, and I didn't know what I was going to do next. And I somehow, someway reached down inside and pulled out something that I did not know that I had inside of me. And I made a decision.

And I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I made that decision. And I was looking at myself in the eye in a way that I hadn't looked at myself in a long time and said, what you're doing right now is not your purpose. And I made a decision. Eventually, the marketing world found me, and what I was doing was not fulfilling my purpose yet again. So somehow, someway, my paths crossed with my partner.

We threw around some ideas, and the idea of Empower Network and what it really is today surfaced. And over the course of the last 20 months — and I think we've been going for about 20 months, we've been going since October 2011 — things have happened that I would have never imagined. Our vision was big when we started this company. We were so sick and tired of people not having the opportunity to really, really do something big, right? We were so sick and tired of company owners whose only interest was themselves.

We were so sick and tired of comp plans that were only built for the company. We were so sick and tired of promoting and selling products that we really actually didn't even like. And for some of you ladies out there who love your face creams and your lotions and potions, I can tell you that I love that you wear them, because you ladies look amazing with it on. But I can remember myself actually in a company who's no longer around anymore, and I was out there selling face cream because I just was looking for something different.

I was looking to change my life, and I was at that point in my life wanting to do anything that I could do to make that difference and willing really to go at any length for my family. And I know that there's some of you on the call tonight that can relate to that because you're just in a situation right now to where you need something to happen, and you're willing to put forth the work, and you're willing to put yourself in the position, and you just need the opportunity. And whether you've been in or you're just about to get in tonight, I want to paint the picture of that opportunity, because over really the last 20 months, more people — and I've seen a lot in this industry now over the last few years that I've been involved, I've seen a lot, but I have not ever seen what we've done. We've got people who have just gotten started, never made money on the Internet, never made money in network marketing, like Laura Parrish.

Who just came up to me at an event and just said, I'm going to be on stage in your next leader. And I looked at her, and I said, I believe that you will. And what do you know, not three months later, she's on stage, and not six months later, she's speaking, and she's speaking again, and she's one of our top earners. Guys, I've seen people come in who sat on the sidelines for nine or ten months and who made a decision to get in and have made millions of dollars. Income disclosure disclaimer, guys, that in no way guarantees that you're going to make that amount of money.

You have no clue what type of effort, what type of work and dedication you're going to put into your business. And we do publish average earnings, and Laura already gave the link. So please let me be up front with you about that, guys. This business does take work, but I'm going to tell you something. If you're willing to put in the work, the outcome will be magical, beyond your wildest dreams, beyond what you can imagine is possible.

And I'm going to tell you something I know from experience, and most importantly, I know from seeing other people. I know from seeing the things that we've been able to create. So again, with that being said, I want to get right into the call, because what my goal is, is to paint out a picture and, most importantly, a game plan. Over the last year, guys, we've been quietly kind of developing a new platform that we're about to launch. And this platform is bigger, better, sexier, faster than anything that I've ever seen before.

And I can tell you that I've seen a lot of products. I've seen a lot of systems. I've seen a lot of platforms, and I've used a lot of stuff. As a matter of fact, I have a blog outside, a blog that I've been running for years, and the other day it got hacked.

It usually takes me at least — and I sometimes can be slow if I'm getting a video or a picture — at least $20, at least $20-ish to $30, sometimes more, to create a blog post. If I want to upload a video, I certainly can't do it directly from my phone to my blog, right? And there are some things that just are super difficult.

As a matter of fact, when I first got started, I can actually remember — and I used to work construction — I would come home every day hot and sweaty, and I would be sitting there hovering, and please, if you can relate, just smile, because I know you're there. I was hovering and hunching over my computer at 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and this obviously, and most of the time, lasted until 2, 3, and sometimes 4 o'clock in the night. I know that Laura Parrish can relate to that, because she hardly sleeps, right? But it's not because she's trying to move an image over a centimeter on her blog like I was trying to do. These were the issues.

These were the challenges. These are the struggles that I dealt with when I first started to try to build a business online. I don't think I need to prove or tell or really showcase that the opportunity to be able to build a business online, guys, is there, right? Right. Right.

The opportunity to be able to trust — now, I'm running here a multimillion-dollar company and have a team of 150,000 people. As accurate statistics, I can't tell you right now how many of those are active and inactive. I can tell you that so far in 20 months, we've generated over 160,000 customers. 150, 160, I think we're probably over that by now.

But, guys, I still have the ability to be able to travel the world. I still have the ability to leverage my time. I still have the ability to be able to automate things, and that's about to get better, because what we've done in the last 20 months has automated a lot of that. It has given people, especially and mostly because we've provided them with good training, and most of all provided them with real personal development, which is the power really of our event.

And if you have not been to our event, guys, I'm telling you, once you go, you do not go back. Once you go, you will not stop coming. And if you've been to one of our other events, then you probably have already got a ticket. And I can tell you that we're doing four events here in October. And I'm going to paint out a picture of why getting to these events is so important here a little bit later on the call when I lay out a game plan.

But guys, mostly because we've given people the actual support and the guidance and the mentorship and a place that they can come and connect with real people, that I never had when I first got started. But guys, like I said, that's about to get a whole lot better when we release the new platform that we're going to be releasing here in just over — let me see what the dates are — just over a month. So what I want you to do, guys, is I want you to get a piece of paper and a pencil, and I want you to pay very close attention, because, guys, tonight is when you make a new decision. Tonight is when you realize the power and the opportunity that lays ahead of you.

Tonight you realize how big you can really do this. And tonight you realize that you, too, can do this, no matter where you're from, what your background is, what your religion is, what your skin color is, where you've been, where you've lived, how far you've been down, if you've been a drug addict, if you've been homeless, if you've been divorced, if you've had issues, if you have some sort of an issue going on right here, right now in your life, if you've been bankrupt, if you've been in financial distress or are in financial distress. It does not matter where you've been, because your past doesn't equal your future. It matters what you do right now.

And I can tell you guys, from the stories and the experiences and the things that I've seen, heard, the things that I've connected to with other people and how I've seen people grow, I will not stand — I will not accept that anyone who has the desire to do this cannot do this. I won't accept it because I've seen it. I've seen it done. I've seen things that I would have never imagined that I would ever see in my Internet marketing or network marketing career, guys, and I'm going to tell you something. The opportunity is right now.

Here's what I think as we launch this platform here in just about 30 days: my prediction is this will be the biggest launch in Internet marketing history. That's my prediction. It's an opinion. But I'm going to tell you, what we've invested, the value of what we've got and the marketing magic that we've injected into this whole launch, is going to be a combination of things that when they all react together is going to just be magical. So here's what I want to do. I want to talk to you guys, one, from a customer perspective, and two, from an affiliate perspective.

If you guys are somebody who's just on the call tonight and you're just looking for something, a community, a platform that you can plug into and you can learn — I go around and I have a lot of family and friends and people who know what I do, and some of them kind of don't know, and some of them are just kind of curious, and some are afraid to ask. But everybody, and I mean everybody out there, wants to really, really leverage the power of the Internet. They really want to leverage the power of automation, but they don't know how. I've got an uncle.

God bless him. Love him. Great guy. Just saw him the other night. He's got an insurance business.

And every single time that we're together, he says, David, I just can't figure out why people are not walking through the door. And this is a guy who's been super uber successful over the last thirty-ish, five years. Built an amazing business, right? Times have changed. And he's still doing business back in the 1980s.

He's still hoping and wishing and thinking that if you put the sign in the front of an office, people are just going to walk in. And the truth is there are some specific things that will help you get the sale, right? And there's a difference. And I want to really point out to you guys, there's a difference between looking good and perceiving that you have a big business and looking important. And this is the difference between me when I used to hand out business cards and then when I used to start collecting business cards.

I used to hand out business cards and dress up in a nice fancy tie. And I used to walk around. And this was back when I sold Xerox machines. I'd go around. I had this big Crown Victoria.

It looked like a dang cop car. I'd be driving around in this thing. And I had a territory that was like 30 minutes away from where I lived. So literally, I would be broke by the time I actually got down to my territory. And I'd hope that I'd be able to sell a Xerox machine.

And guys, I would have this — I still remember how the shirts and ties looked. It was so crisp and nice looking. And I'd go business to business, knocking and trying to sell somebody a Xerox machine, right?

And I can tell you that those were some painful years. And then I started to smarten up, right? And I started to start collecting business cards, start generating leads. And this was offline. This was before I even knew anything about the Internet.

Same thing happened when I got into marketing, network marketing, was going around. Guys, I remember putting a sign on the front of my house thinking that was the secret, and that people, because I lived on a main road, people were going to drive by and see the information on my sign. And they were going to pick up the phone and call me. And nobody did.

I sat by the phone hoping and expecting the first night that I put that sign on that fence that people were going to start calling. And they didn't, right? Because there's a difference between looking good and looking as if you got your stuff together and you're important. And I'll tell you something. I know a lot of people who have pretty looking businesses, great logos, beautiful business cards.

They dress up in suits. They look sexy. They look good. But they're broke because they don't know how to get the sale.

So guys, I'm going to tell you something. If you're on this call tonight, you're somebody who just wants to learn how to get the sale, right? You're in a position that you just are like, you know what?

Dang it. I've tried everything, listened to everything, went to seminars and courses and gone through stuff. And I've got the fanciest business cards and the best looking suits, but I just can't get the sale. That's what we teach you. So if you just finally want to get involved, here's the thing.

A lot of times there's some really, really epic, beautiful marketing courses that teach all of this fancy stuff. And people get stuck behind their computers going through courses. And the truth is, the people that are teaching it do not know how to get the sale. The power of what we're doing is people who are teaching this stuff, people who are training and speaking at the events, people who are up, the leaders, the top affiliates, the top earners, the trainers — guys, they know how to get the sale. So if you're looking for just a place that you can learn from people who are actually doing it, you've come to the right place.

The platform that we're going to launch is going to solve those problems. Now, if you're an affiliate, somebody who's looking and really excited about an opportunity, you know, it's hard, really — and this is something that's very rare — it's hard really for me to articulate, right?

I'm almost at a loss for words to share and express how big the opportunity is that we have over the next 30 to 45 days and throughout the month of October. I'm going to lay a game plan out at the end of this call that, if you follow it, and if you follow it to a T, will produce some amazing results for you. And I'm going to tell you something. Here's, I think, sometimes some things that I think and realize when I'm looking at what we're doing, is that it's much bigger sometimes even than I realize, right? And I think if I can relay any sort of message on tonight's call, it's going to be that oftentimes there's an opportunity that's staring us right in the face, right?

And it's kind of like your keys, when you're looking for them — they're always right there sitting on the counter, and you just didn't see them. And so many times I've been around, and I've even been the guy who's been looking for an opportunity, who's been looking for something that would change my family's direction, the path that we're going in life, would give me the ability to stop living paycheck to paycheck, would give me the ability to be able to travel and spend more time and retire my husband or wife and give my kids a life that I want to give them. And I'm just looking for the opportunity, and it's right there staring me right in the face. And I've been that guy before.

And what I want to share with you tonight is sometimes it takes some brutal honesty to get focused. Sometimes it really takes you to look in the mirror and say, is what I'm doing right now really the fastest way to success? Is it really going to help me get to where I want to go? And oftentimes that answer really is no, right? Oftentimes that answer is no.

And sometimes I think one of the biggest issues is the misguidance and misdirection and sometimes the misinformation we get, because, guys, on the Internet, especially if you're an Internet marketer, it can be very, very distracting because you're on a million email lists. Right. Right. It takes you to really be honest with yourself, to look at is what I'm doing getting me the results that I want. And sometimes you've got to just put your ego aside.

Today I was talking to a guy, and we were sitting across the lunch table. Great guy, very intelligent dude. And we got to a place where I was asking him some questions, and he did not have the answer, right? I was asking him some questions about some direct response marketing stuff and kind of how some of the things that we were doing worked. And I could just see it on his face.

He just kind of started to sweat a little bit, and he started to kind of swallow, and the lump kind of came in his throat. And I knew he didn't have the answer, right? It honestly took him about a minute or two, right?

And I think it was probably a long minute for him, a minute or two, to finally say, Dave, you know what? I don't have the answer to that. And he said it just like that. Dave, you know what? If I'm honest, I don't have the answer to that.

And what I want to do is I want to put my ego aside here and not let my ego ruin my opportunity. I always call it, don't let your ego get in the way of your bank account. And what I could see in that moment for this guy was that there was a chance and an opportunity for him to take advantage of what I was about to tell him and learn something that was going to have a big impact on his life, because he just did not know it. Oftentimes we just are not okay with not having the answer and letting somebody else lead. And the truth is, guys, what we're doing — and here's the point and fact about me — is I am just miserable at some things, right?

I don't clean, right? Honestly, I just get distracted all over the place if I'm trying to clean something. If I'm trying to cook, let me tell you something, I have a hard time boiling water. I really do. I open the fridge and my eyes go over.

I get confused and I don't know what to do. There's a million things and I don't know how to put them together. But, guys, when it comes to creating mass influence, when it comes to building direct response marketing funnels that work and that help people get the sale — that's what we do, right? Let us lay out a game plan for you to follow and help you get some results that will help you.

And, again, I can't guarantee results, but it will help you. And this is important. I want you to think about what this would do for your life. I'm going to bring somebody on here in a second who's going to share with you how having the biggest month of his life changed and altered the course of his life. And now some of the things that he's done here since he made that decision and had that month.

Guys, I want you to imagine here for a second what it would be like if you had the biggest income month of your life, if you had the biggest month and were able to hit your goals, and then some, and what that would do for you. I want you to just take a second and just feel that, experience that. If you've got to close your eyes, that's okay. Some people do when they do these types of exercises. I want you to visualize what you would do, how you would feel, what you would say to your spouse, what you would say to your children, what you would say to the people who have always doubted you, what you would do and how you would act, and how that would put a fuel under your fire that would give you the motivation that you've needed.

I want you to feel that, and I want you to see that right now, because that is what you have the opportunity to do right now. Some of you want to travel. I know you, and I know you do. And guys, if you can get that feeling right now, if you can see that picture, that is the opportunity that we have right now.

So here's what I'm going to do. I want you to just sit with that here for a second. I want to bring on just a couple of people because I want to paint another picture for you of what really is happening. Here's what's happened with me over the last couple of months. And I want to tell you a quick story.

I went, about a year ago, over to Singapore, right? And so often I think we think that we know really how big something stretches, how far it stretches, how big it is, what's going on the other side of the world. And I got there, and I'm going to tell you something. It did feel like the other side of the world, because I was able to see — and sometimes we go to like sushi restaurants and stuff, and we think we know what it's like to be in like Japan and China and stuff. Or sometimes we go to some sort of an Italian restaurant, right?

And we have like Olive Garden. Now, God bless Olive Garden. Love it. Not saying anything good or bad about it. But we go there and we think that's what it's like to eat in Italy.

And I just got back from Rome, and I'm going to tell you something. Again, God bless them, but it ain't Rome, right? Because I sat down and had some pasta and experience and things over there that just ain't Olive Garden, okay? So guys, what's happening right now is people are building this business all over the world, right? And there was just a couple of folks, right?

A couple of our leaders who actually just did an event over in the UK, right? And here's what I really want you to envision. Here's what I want you to see. Here's what I want you to get, as a couple of these folks here speaking in the next couple of minutes, is I want you to imagine, I want you to envision, I want you to really visualize, not only what I asked you to do here a second ago, which was having the biggest month of your life, but I also want you to visualize and really feel what it would be like to know that you've got people all over the world inside of your business, building your business while you're sleeping. Because when I was in Singapore, you know what my family was doing?

They were sleeping, because it's literally the other side of the world. I want you to think about that, because this is just literally — and I've said this before, but I'll say it again — the pimple on the freckle on the hair of an ass of what we're about to do, right? I'm telling you, it's truly just the tip of the iceberg. And guys, yes, I should have given you another disclaimer that you're going to hear some ridiculous stuff on this call.

Things that you've never heard before. But here's what I can tell you: I was sick of, before I was getting involved with other companies, that I did not feel like people were being authentic and being who they were when they were telling and talking to me and on stage. And guys, the power of what we're doing here is that you can be who you are. That being said, I want to actually bring on a couple of people who I just honestly love hearing them. They got those awesome accents.

I was over in London, and everybody was looking at me like I had a dang accent. And I said, you know, I don't have an accent. I've got the accent. So that being said, Chris or Susan Beasley, tell me if you guys are on the call. Yes, we're here, Dave.

We're both here, Dave. Hey, how you guys doing? We are absolutely awesome. And of course, we are the other side of the world from you. And it is actually just 2 or 3 a.m.

here in London. But you know what? We are absolutely pumped up to be on this call tonight and share some of our story. And we're going to be talking with you, if we may, and tell you how we are building this the other side of the world and all over the world. Sometimes while people are sleeping, we're awake.

And when we're asleep, others are awake, and they're building the business with us. We absolutely love it. Well, you know what? You go ahead and do that. I just want to tell you guys that I appreciate you, proud of you.

You too, and as far as I know, as far as I remember, have been at every single event that we've done. You've been there. You've been doing it. And I'll tell you something.

You've created some unbelievable results out of the process. So I'm going to just turn the call over to you for a few minutes, guys. We just want to tell you I love you and appreciate you. Thank you, Dave. We appreciate you having us on this call.

And for everyone listening, please appreciate this is a global business. It is the most fantastic thing that we have ever been involved in in our lives. We are your very untraditional people who build a business like this. We are accountants by profession. We're what they term baby boomers.

That means we're 50 plus. We're not the kind of people that normally do this, but this has all changed. So if you're in that position, think about that right now. We were just sick to death of the treadmill of our business, getting up every day, being in the office 7, 8 a.m., leaving 7, 8 p.m., and being at the office at the absolute mercy of our clients day in, day out. Just absolutely sick of it.

And we wanted to get off that treadmill. Yeah, the thing was we had other things we were passionate about. We wanted to travel the world. We loved our skiing. In fact, we'd gone to the extent that we fulfilled one of our other dreams.

We actually owned a ski chalet. But we were lucky if we got there a couple of long weekends in a whole ski season. And we just were tied to our U.K. clients, and we had to change that. Something happened about three and a half years ago, and we just said, this is not going to be us anymore.

We are going to do the things we want to do. And so we started researching online. But we weren't actually researching online for a business, because we were accountants. We already had a business.

But we were researching online, and we had to find out how the Internet worked for our clients, how we could get our clients to use the Internet. But do you know what? We came across this. We just came across this opportunity.

We didn't even know they existed. And we realized that we could in actual fact build a business online. We could, if we followed the system, if we did what we were expected to do. We put some energy in. We put some effort.

We put some time. Then we could build a business online. And that's exactly what we did three and a half years ago. We just made a decision. And if you're on this call, if you're like us, you're one of the logical people.

You're one of the people in the detail. And you're saying, will this work for me? Because it really is the one question. It doesn't matter how you dress it up. But it's the one question that everybody asks themselves.

Does it work? Will it work? Does it work for me? Well, we can tell you absolutely categorically that Empower Network will work for anybody. Now, Dave mentioned that we were a couple who've been to every single event of Empower Network.

It started in Atlanta. It was the very first one we went to. And we have been to every one. I cannot tell you guys the power of events. You have to be there.

You have to feel the energy, the excitement, the knowledge. So, we're a big team here, and we do have a great community and a great platform to be involved with.

So, we're going to make the changes. And this is another great opportunity to get to know our community and to have a good conversation with our community people. And I think it's important to have a community of people who are like-minded, people who are willing to share their knowledge that gets given to you at these events. This is life transforming. But more than that, it's the community, the community of people who are like-minded, people who want to do the same as you do, who want to be free, who want to earn a good income online and fulfill their passion and purpose, and whatever their big why is.

And this is another thing you want to write down. Why do you want to change what it is that you're doing right now that doesn't suit you? Because if you're listening to this call, I can tell you there is something in there niggling away in the back of your head, and it's saying, I've got to do something. Look at it and make a decision right now.

Today is going to be a couple of the other leaders who also live here in the UK. And we said, guys, we need an event here in the UK. But we didn't hang around. We didn't wait for someone else to do that. We said, it's down to us.

Just as you in your business have to make those decisions, it's down to you and no one else. So we put on this event and I have to tell you, we were completely blown away by the success of it and the number of people here in the UK who really and truly wanted to get together just like we do when we go to the event. And we did.

We'd launched it out here. And everyone is so excited about this business that they have. They're so excited about the launch of EMV2 that they don't care if you know nothing about working online, you know nothing about an online business. You have to put your trust in all of us and know that we come from a place where we're the most positive people.

And I think that's what we need — a place of honesty and integrity and trustworthiness. And when we say to you this new product is going to completely revolutionize the internet, that is what you need to be part of, that's absolutely right. Now let me just take you back three and a half years, because I just want to paint a picture, I just want to give you a contrast to where we are now from where we were three and a half years ago. Now, three and a half years ago isn't a very long time, and when we first came online, you know, as Susan said, we were baby boomers. We were in our mid-50s, and we got online and we were working with a guy who was 27. We had children older than him. This guy had the experience and the knowledge we wanted, and we said to him, how do we get started? And he said, you've got to build a website. I said, fine, never done a website before in my life, how do I do it? He said, you go buy this piece of software, you learn it and you build a website, and you FTP it and you HTML it and all this stuff, and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, and it took us the best part of six months to build a website. Six months! Right now, even as you're listening to this call, you can get back to the person who invited you and get a link to get started, and literally press the button and it's there for you. It is that powerful, and it's just going to get a hundred percent better than that in the next few days. And we want to ask you: which side of the cash register do you want to be on?

Do you want to be on the side where you're a customer? What do I mean by that? You're the person getting out their credit card and you're actually paying the money. Or do you want to be on the side of the cash register where you're the merchant, which means you're receiving the money? So if you're in a situation where you're just sitting on the fence at night, thinking about this, you absolutely just need to do it, because there is no reason on this earth why you can't be on the merchant side of the cash register. And we don't care what profession you're in, what you're doing right now in your life, what your past experience is, because your past has nothing to do with your future, and your future is right now.

So just one other thing, just before we finish, I just want to pick up on that: Dave mentioned the power of events. Now, to me, the events are an experience, an absolute experience, and they're just something that you have to go to, and as Dave rightly said, once you've been to one you will never ever stop going. We went to the first one in Atlanta in June of last year, and we have been to every single event. Why is that? Our story of the event was we just joined Empower Network when the first event happened, and we went there, and we thought, no, we're sitting at the back of the room, we've got to check this out, we've got to make sure that it's real, and I have to say we met Dave, and we met a thousand or so other people at this event, and they were all so genuine. But you know, at the front of the room there were a few people who had a different color lanyard to us. We had a blue one, and they had a red one, and us being us, we said, how the heck do we get to the front? We want to be at the front, it's the place where you learn best. That was our understanding, that's what we always wanted to do, and we had to find out how we got there. And we were told, okay, at the next event, if you're in the top 100, I think it was, then you can get a red lanyard and you can be at the front. So we came back, we worked hard, we got into the top 100, and at the next event we had a red lanyard, and we were sitting close to the front, and we were over the moon, we'd achieved a goal. This is the power of events. It just made us feel like we were in the right place, and we were in the right place to take action. But when we got to the next event, which was in San Diego, we got a red lanyard, but there were people who had black lanyards. Not only did they have black lanyards, but they were sitting on white sofas, they were sitting somewhere really comfortable, and we thought, okay, that's what we want to do the next time, we're going to have a black lanyard. But I can tell you more than that: all of a sudden we realized the power of this business, we realized the power of Empower Network, because we saw people walking across the stage getting big checks. Income disclaimer here, guys, and we've been through all that, we're all very sensible people — when you work hard you make money, if you do nothing, nothing happens. So that's absolutely right. So we were at our second event — that was three months later — but we made a decision at that event. We said, at the next event, two things are going to happen: we are going to have a black lanyard, and we're going to walk across stage and get a check. That was our goal, and three months later, at the Austin event, that's exactly what happened. So if you are determined and you're prepared to put in the time and the effort and the consistency, just like we have done and just like thousands of other people have done, then events will change your life, and the key word here is action. You need to take action, and you need to take action now. You're listening to this call because you want to do something, and you need to do it. And we wish you every success in the world as you take that step right now and get involved with something that is truly unique, truly special, and there will never ever be a time better than this than right now.

Thank you, Dave, so much for inviting us on the call this evening or this morning for us. It's absolutely awesome. It's a great honor to be here, and we cannot wait to see you in the next few days as we join you at the next event.

Hey, guys, I love you and appreciate you. And I tell you what, just super good to hear you guys, and congratulations on everything that you've done here over the course of the last however long you've been involved. I think you were here since the start. So just appreciate you guys. You've done a great, great job.

Thank you, Dave. We appreciate that. All right, cool, man, cool. So, guys, listen, I want to bring out somebody else, and this is somebody else from the U.K., and this is somebody who I met actually about I'd say probably nine-ish months ago, eight, nine months ago. And this guy had struggled.

This guy had struggled. As a matter of fact, he worked — I believe he may have even owned a printing press or a printing business — and just had struggled to make money online. And I actually don't know how many years he'd been working to try to build a business online, but he just struggled, right? Over the course of the last seven-ish, seven, eight months, I've seen this guy come in and absolutely put up some numbers that would make anybody just stop, look, and pay attention.

So, with that being said, Paulo, are you on the line? Hey, David, I am. Can you hear me? I can hear you, my brother. I can hear you.

Listen, not only Paulo — let me just add something else. This guy knows how to have a good time. I went out to Hawaii at his team event, probably about five months ago. And here's what I like about the people that we've got here. I hinted at this before, but I tell you what, it's about here building a business and having a life, right?

And being out in Hawaii with you, Paulo, and just hanging out was a great experience, brother, just to get to know you, man. And I think that what you've done — as a matter of fact, I know what you've done up until this point — is just really only a sliver of what's coming for you, man. So, just give me a couple of minutes and just tell me your experience, brother, with what you've seen so far, what you've gotten, because you just spoke at your last event. I believe you're speaking at the next one here in about 30 days, man, and what you're excited about here with the future. And just whatever else you want to touch on, man.

I appreciate you. Sure. Thanks, David. We had an amazing time in Hawaii. I'm so glad you mentioned that.

It actually brings a smile to my face, because that's how I got to know you. And you're a wonderful guy, by the way, and we had an amazing time together. So, I appreciate you, brother. Just wanted to say good evening, everybody. My name is Paulo, and although I live in London, the UK, I'm actually a Portuguese immigrant that arrived in England at the end of the 1970s.

So, thank you for having me. I was born in 1958 with no English whatsoever, and not a lot of skills, and not particularly talented. As David was saying, I got into printing just as a profession, and for many, many years I struggled financially. I had two small kids that I was trying to obviously give the best, and I struggled for the longest time.

And all I wanted for my wife and my kids was a better life. And I remember getting paid on the first of each month, and by the 10th, not even the middle of the month, but by the 10th, I used to be broke, guys. And that just pained me. I had to change my life.

That was my biggest why I got into Empower, and why I started searching online for something else, because I absolutely was in a dead-end job, a job that I really hated. And I was broke. And I just struggled. And I just wanted to give my family something better. And I remember promising my kids from an early stage that one day Daddy would take them to Disney World in Florida.

That was a big dream of ours, which, by the way, we've managed to do because of Empower Network. A couple, actually three weeks ago, we visited Disney World in Orlando, Florida, all because of my success with Empower Network. And again, an income disclaimer: this is not typical or average income. But then again, guys, I am not typical, and I'm not average.

But it can be achieved, because if a little Portuguese immigrant can do it, who arrived in England with no English and no special skills, and believe you me, guys, I'm not particularly talented either — you can ask my wife — if I can do this, guys, can you imagine what you all can do? Empower is home for me. I absolutely love this company.

I believe in the products. I study the products every day. It completely changed my life. It's changed my mindset, the way I think, the way I act, the way I speak to people. I've even been asked to speak on stage, which is something that if you would have told me two years ago that I would be speaking on stage in front of 6,000 people, I would've called you crazy, because two years ago, I couldn't even put two sentences together, never mind speak in front of 6,000 people.

My mentor told me: if that's the advice your age figure mentor gave you, forget it, you're not even serious. I'm going to tell you right now, that's exactly what he told me. He said, Lawrence, I know you have a job. I know you only have two weeks of vacation.

I totally understand why you can only take a couple days, because you need that vacation with your wife. If you want to stay married, you better take your wife out. And if you want to have happy kids, you better spend time with them on your vacation time. So he said, you can make a sacrifice. You need to go to events.

Why? Nowhere in your engineering firm, nowhere among your friends, are there ever going to be more people who believe in the same dream of being financially free. And if you go to an event, when you work with other people with high energy, people who have hopes and dreams — not people who go, I want to kill myself on Monday, but people who go, today's Monday? Fantastic! Can't wait to hit the computer, go for a jog, and drink some beer.

That's awesome. That's awesomeness. The only place you find these types of people is at events — seeing and believing, seeing the majority of the people making money in our industry, in our company, at an event, great place to find some friendship, because it's hard. It's hard solo. So here's what I want you to do.

If you really want to make a lot of money, you want to change your life, you want to retire, you want to retire your spouse, you want to have a successful life, get further from chasing the vision, and lead it. Be the first person to say, this is your life, and this is what you wanted to dream of.

Okay? Boom. I made it. I made it happen, all because we use a system that helps us make money even when we're sleeping, and primarily because we have events that really change your life.

My name is Lawrence Tam. I'm going to pass it back to you. Life-changing, man. I'm staring at the million-dollar ring you guys gave me, and I just think it's awesome. I want to say thanks.

My most epic line on an Empower Hour call ever is, I'm smiling all the time because I don't have to go to work. Get it? Dude, that's it, brother. That's it, man. Just what more can you say?

I mean, and I'm going to tell you something. Here's what else I noticed about people who have really gotten involved and really get inside and really immerse themselves in what we're doing, is that they morph. Lawrence Tam is not the same person that I knew, my friends, 20 months ago. He's just not. Lawrence Tam had issues with really being able to believe that something was possible, my friends, and I'm going to tell you something.

I saw this man put his head down. I saw him put his head down. There it is: I'm smiling all the time because I don't have to go to work. I've got to quote that.

I've got to put that in the bank because that's hilarious, and it's true, man. And sometimes I think, and I want you guys listening in to really internalize this here for a second, is when you do get to the place that you want to be in this business, when you do get to the place to where you're not in the daily grind — I'll tell you a quick story. I was in Denver here. We went on a two, almost three-week vacation.

I got engaged over in Rome, most epic thing ever. We went to Amsterdam, Rome, London, and Scotland, and the next guy who I'm going to bring out, I actually hung out with in London. I'm going to introduce him here in a second for a few thoughts. I got back, and we flew into Denver, and we flew in that same night, and we were driving somewhere, driving to go get something to eat. And we were sitting in traffic.

We were sitting in traffic. And I looked over at my fiancée Erin, and I said, what in the hell are these people doing? They were all sitting bumper to bumper in traffic, and I looked over at their faces, and they were angry, and they were mad, and they were not happy with what they were doing, and I forgot. I forgot what it was like. I forgot what it used to be.

I forgot what it used to be like to get up every day at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, or whenever the heck I finally dragged my butt out of bed in the morning, because I truthfully don't like getting up in the mornings, right? And usually if I'm seeing 5 o'clock right now, it ain't because I'm getting in bed. It's because I'm waking up, maybe using the bathroom and rolling back over, right? It ain't because I'm rolling out of bed. It's because I'm rolling over in bed.

And guys, I'm going to tell you something. It's a different lifestyle. It's a different mentality. You're opened up to new things in life when you don't have to do the things that keep you tied down, that keep you inside of a cubicle, that keep you inside of a self-made prison.

And the truth is, and here's the harsh reality that I had to face, was it was not the system's fault. It was not the government's fault. It was not my boss's fault. It was me that had to take responsibility for where I was at in life. It was me that had to take responsibility for the amount of money that I was earning.

And it was me that had to take responsibility for the people that I was around and working with, and I will tell you that it is hard to find people who are successful and who think like you, and guys, that's why what we're doing here is so powerful. That being said, I went over to London and I met up with a guy named Shakir, good friend of mine — we've traveled all over the world together, been to Singapore together, been to various different events in various different states of the country, we've hung out, we spent a lot of time, good personal friend — and I was in London hanging out, stopping on a family vacation about two or three months ago or so, and this dude pulls up, and we're going to get in his Range Rover, and this man tells me that he has never driven a car before, and I almost crapped a brick right then. He said it was his very first car, and by the way he was driving this thing, it was evident that he was telling the truth. I was nervous as hell. We were shooting videos and stuff as we were going, but I'll tell you what, it was a beautiful thing to see this man living his dreams at the age that he is. With that being said, brother, I'm sure it's obviously probably three o'clock over at your time too, over in the UK, my brother, you're on the call.

Hey, what's going on? Oh, what's up, my brother? What's up, yeah man, I'm doing awesome, magnificent, hope everyone's doing amazing. Thanks for having me out here, Dave. You know, I always say how grateful I am for Empower Network and for you and David Wood for creating this amazing community and platform and the system that's not just allowed me but hundreds and thousands of others to finally leverage the time, finally leverage the internet to create an income so that they can live the life of their dreams. You know, when I got started I was one of those typical guys, I was always jumping from website to website, program after program, always trying to get the next affiliate launch and promote it to my list and burn my list out, and then not even have subscribers that would follow me, and I just didn't understand how to build a long-term business, a long-term money-making system online. I had to leverage it to the extent where I could make predictable, consistent, stable income month after month, day after day. And, you know, in my first month, I don't know if I actually told you, I actually made a lot of money, and I actually pulled out the stats, because there's probably a few people in this call that are absolutely brand new, that haven't made any money, or that have maybe made a couple hundred or maybe a few thousand dollars, on this call listening, or maybe you're someone just listening in thinking, you know, is it too late? One of the things — and even tonight it just cracks me up, people are like, you know, he's in a panic, saturated, or — here's the thing. When I actually joined Empower Network, which was 12, 14 months ago, I actually joined after everyone else had joined. And even then, everyone was saying, oh, can you still make money with Empower Network? And, you know, 14 months down the line, I've banked over $780,000 or so with Empower Network. Obviously, income disclaimer, results may not be typical.

And it's obvious that I've followed the system and I've listened to what the experts inside of the formula and the market have taught. And if you're someone who's serious about getting from where you are right now to really cutting through the BS, cutting through the fluff, and really skyrocketing and fast-tracking your success — when I got started with Empower Network, by my 12th month... okay, I joined in June 2012. And I can tell you one of those things that Dave Sharp always talks about is when you have that money, you can have lots of opportunities that come with it. Right?

Right. Where you can just breathe. Where you can just freaking do amazing things. Like, inside your mind, you're free. You don't have any locks.

You don't have any blocks. You don't have any blockages. You're not forced to think a certain way, or forced to do certain things, because internally you're free. And, you know, I've always been a grateful kind of guy, but I've always been maybe a bit loose with making money and spending money.

And it's only maybe in the last six to 12 months have I even matured into understanding what a great thing, and more importantly — not just to have my own freedom and get to travel around the world. Next week I'm going to Spain for a couple of weeks to hang out with Tony Robbins, and then I'm going to Mexico, and then I'm going to Singapore, and then I'm just traveling all over the world. But it's not just about me doing my own thing. It's the fact that once you have money and once you have money freedom, you can now give back to your friends and your family. And that kind of stuff is absolutely priceless.

Just last week, my younger sister got married, and I contributed a whole big chunk towards the wedding. And I could tell my entire family was just so shocked as to why I would just give a whole chunk of money towards the wedding. If it wasn't for Empower Network, I don't know if I would be able to even contribute a whole chunk of money to my younger sister's wedding. And I remember just two short years ago, when it was my older sister's wedding, man, I was struggling to even hire a decent car to go to the wedding. And I have three sisters.

So my youngest sister, just the other day, she's sitting in my Range Rover, my first car, as David Sharpe was talking about. She's sitting in the car and she goes, you know, just a few short years ago, you were always miserable. You were always complaining. You were always so busy doing your own thing and never giving any time to the family, and always complaining about how you don't have any money and this whole internet thing isn't working out for you. And now look, 18 months, two years down the line, you're throwing money at the family.

And I just smiled at her, and I said to keep praying for them. And that's just a little point that I wanted to make: once you start acquiring money with a system like Empower Network — hands down the number one recommended system right now, and it will be for a very long time — for anyone from any background, regardless of age, experience, race, religion, whatever it is, anyone with the right attitude can start making a serious amount of money. Now, obviously, if you're brand new to this call, this is the Empower Hour call, and it represents a small portion of what happens within the Empower Network community. And this community is not like anything else I've ever seen online.

No other system has ever done that. Now, I want you to imagine this, okay? A lot of people always talk about taking action. And if you've been on any internet marketing seminars, calls, webinars, newsletters, every marketer is always talking about taking action. And it's great.

You should always be taking action. However, from my study — I am a nerd sometimes, so I'm going to go off on a tangent — from my studies, what I realized, after reading tons of books, and I'm kind of giving you the shortcut here, is a handful of people, even 40 to 50% of people, are not actually just motivated by taking action because they want to achieve X, Y, Z. A lot of people, even myself, in the beginning especially, are motivated by the fear of losing out, the fear of not taking action. So sometimes I might be telling you, you could do X, Y, Z, you can travel around the world and make a couple hundred K or whatever, and sometimes that doesn't resonate with you. That doesn't motivate you intrinsically.

But if you start looking at it from a different perspective: what happens if I don't take action? What happens if another six months goes by, and I see all these other hundreds and thousands of success stories, people getting on stage with the big massive checks — it's amazing. I just got my last check a couple of days ago to my house, and let's just say my mom and dad get kind of freaked out when they see big checks. It's my fourth one that's come to my house. And if you use that for your motivation, if you're someone who's sitting on the fence thinking, is Empower Network a fit for me?

I've been sitting on the fence. I've kind of been watching the sidelines. Is there still room for me to make money?

I can tell you right now, I've been obviously involved in the internet marketing space for the last four years, and after studying it tremendously, I've realized that there are different waves that happen. There are different — I like to call them money waves — and especially in this new economy, where everyone's moving from traditional businesses to online businesses, there's this wave that happens. And every so often, a handful of insiders — people that are listening to this call, people that are new members, existing members, or people that are just thinking they want to get started — you have the potential to become one of the first guys and girls that ride the next launch. Because the heavy lifting is already done, the social proof, people getting results, people like myself and tons of other people that are getting tremendous life-changing amounts of results — our proof, our social proof is already there. So the entire network has already done the heavy lifting for you.

So you don't need to be going out doing personal selling, because the system will help enable automatic selling, because of the last 24 months. Now, when the new product comes out, which is EMV, if you haven't positioned yourself and you haven't got all in and committed yourself mentally, emotionally, financially, and you haven't actually put skin into the game, you need to really ask yourself how committed are you to your success. And I remember my first business opportunity, when I got started, which was in June 2009 — that's kind of when I got introduced into this internet marketing space. I quickly realized that listening to 10 different gurus, being on 100 different emails, being on the same email list, ain't going to put money into my pocket.

I needed to switch from being a consumer to becoming a producer. And I could not comprehend how the heck someone makes so much money. And at the end of the event — and this is why going to events is so crucially important, you need to get those tickets and you need to invite your team members, or invite anyone that you know is interested, because the event is where the real magic happens — I remember going to my first event, and one of the guys who I spoke to, called Michael, Michael S., kind of broke it down to me what makes a top earner a top earner. I was very curious at the time, and I'm still very curious.

I'm a very curious person now. And I used to ask these questions to everyone, anyone. What makes you get up on stage in front of thousands of people? How come you're the one that's winning awards and getting these big checks? And when it came down to it — okay, if you don't have a pen and paper, make sure you write this down, okay —

Number one is you've got to follow the right people, okay? So a lot of the times people get online and they get overwhelmed and they get frustrated, and then they're forced to learn 10 different things. And that overwhelms them. It kills them, and then the frustration basically builds up, and it's only a matter of time before they give up and they quit and then they go to the next thing. And so the second thing was you have to put skin into the game.

Now, I didn't understand what the heck that meant, but I realized when I came back home — I was part of this old school kind of home business, the company doesn't exist anymore, but it was a $2,000 program, $10,000 program, $20,000 program. And I actually had my first ever check, and it's funny because I actually pulled it out and I'm actually holding it right in front of my hand. I don't know if you can hear the shuffling noise of that, right? And that was pretty much my first ever check I got from online marketing in 2009, okay?

So that was, I think, number one. Okay. So that was November, December, October 2009. And I remember I came back from that event and I didn't have $20,000 to get all in to the products. But I had made that decision.

See, I learned something early on from reading a book by a guy called Tony Robbins. And he says that it's not the fact that we don't have resources that hold us back, it's the fact that we're not resourceful enough, and that's what causes the issue. So I came back home and I realized, one of the things, apart from not just having the resources, is I've got to get resourceful. I've got to figure out how committed I am, you know? And I remember.

I was just writing down a list of people that I knew around me and going to them and asking them for money, borrowing, essentially begging them, because I wanted my dream and I wanted my life to improve so bad that I had to go and beg and borrow. And I didn't care. You know why? Because I realized two things, the two things that hold us back in anything in life, okay? Number one is our ego.

The fact that we think that we're not resourceful enough. The fact that we think we know it all. The fact that we think we've done it all or we've experienced it all, and it closes our mind off. And I realized the ego holds us back, and number two, our disempowering stories hold us back. You see, when we grow up, we want to live our lives in a certain way.

We have dreams. We have this inner core identity, right? Inside, we feel like, you know what, we're this age, we're going to do this, we're going to do that. And so the outer core identity that we have is the identity that we walk around in front of our friends and family.

And that's really caused and created and manifested because of TV, media, society brainwashing us to think a certain way, to act a certain way, and to do things a certain way. Let me give you an example. When I was growing up, because I come from an Asian background, my parents — bless them, I love them to bits — but the only thing that they wanted was, you need to go to college, you need to go to university, you need to get a job.

And in my final year, when I dropped out of university — I'm the oldest son in the entire generation — when I dropped out of university in my final year, I could feel that the entire family was hugely disappointed. But I realized that I had to break out of that shell. I had to become uncomfortable. I had to release that ego, the disempowering stories, that everything was just so much different. Everyone else was feeding into me.

And if you're in that position, it may not be your fault, but you now have your own responsibility, and now that you're exposed to this information, now you realize that you have the power to change your future. And when you know that you have that power to change your future, and you realize how bad you want it, there should be absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing in this world that damn holds you back. If you want something bad enough, you're going to go make it happen. And I realized very quickly, at an early age, at 21, that if I do those things that the top earners, if I do those things that the leaders, the people walking on stage, holding the big massive checks, getting paid to fly out, doing all of that — if I just listen to those guys and forget everyone else for a second — as, what's his name?

I think it was John Robbins or whoever it was, I can't remember. Some famous person's quote, okay? And it was, choose your friends and love your family. And I quickly, because I was living at home, realized that I had to just kind of block everything off within my mind. I had to kind of block off everyone's messaging, everyone's input into my life. I'm not saying that you need to be a hermit or anything, but that's why I had to do that for a little while, for a few months, just so that I could get my feet into this whole internet marketing thingy and figure it out.

And I'll tell you, it's not rocket science. If you have a strong desire, if you're willing to do the work, if you're willing to listen and learn and implement — okay, this thing is not rocket science. Anyone can do it. And anyway, I don't want to be speaking for the next five hours. Sharp.

Yeah, I'm here, brother. Okay. Yeah. I was just ranting on. But, you know, when it comes down to it, you have a choice.

You have a choice on this call. You can be the person that takes action, gets all in, really commits, gets to the next event, and meets all the leaders. Or you could be the person sitting on the sidelines and passing this opportunity by. And I'll tell you right now, it kind of sucks to be one of those fence sitters, the people that sit on the fence.

And this is kind of my last point. And the reason why I know this so well is because I used to be a fence sitter. Okay. When Empower Network first started, I was actually one of the first guys to join. And then I didn't like it for one reason or another.

I didn't stick to it. And I quit. Okay. Can you imagine? I quit.

And probably about six months down the line or so, after the first event happened, my sponsor — Alex Z. Alex Z, if you're listening to this, I love you, bro — Alex Z invites me out to the event. And once I went to the event, I was the guy at the back of the room with my arms folded across.

And I was standing right at the back of the room, still skeptical as hell, looking at Dave and Dave, thinking to myself, what on earth am I getting myself into? But I had that realization that this is the right place at the right time with the right people, and the right vision. And the vision is what carries the people to keep moving forward, to keep going for bigger goals and bigger dreams.

And right now, I'm so damn excited for ENV2 and what's happening within Empower Network. We're planning to do a lot more events in the UK. I spoke to Dave recently, and he said he'll even fly down to London over the next few months. So we're getting together, and I know it's going to be blowing up in the UK very fast. So just take action, get started.

And remember, if me saying take action, or you can travel around the world, is not motivating you enough, then ask yourself, where will you be in the next two months? Where will you be in the next six months? Are you going to be the person in the next six months who decides to jump onto an Empower Network call and listen to other newbies, people that have just got started? So really, the decision is yours.

The choice is yours, and I wish you all the best. Bye for now. Well, hey, brother, that's it, man. I appreciate you. I appreciate you, Shakir, man, and some of the things that you were saying there, brother.

Just, as you were saying them, I really kind of just put myself and related that to what I've gone through. And I think that, first of all, just thank you, brother. You're literally right around the corner from becoming a member of the Millionaire's Club, brother. So just seriously want to congratulate you, brother, and looking forward to doing more big things and just appreciate you, man. I mean, just seeing you grow, and you're just a powerhouse, just a beast, man.

So, guys, something that Shakir just said really kind of resonated with me. Because he was talking about just really kind of how so many times our environment dictates the decisions that we make. And the only way to get out of the situation that you're in is to no longer let your environment dictate the decisions that you make, to no longer allow your environment to be the reason why you're where you're at, but instead of relying on the economy to fix you, you go out and create your own economy. And that's the only way to do this. And the best thing about it — and I've just got to give you guys just a strong call to action right now — is if you're listening to this call, there is not a better time to have just happened to stumble upon one of these calls than right now, because with the launch — and I'm going to lay out a game plan here in a second — the launch of Empower Network, the new platform we're about to launch, that's going to be a combination of a blogging platform and a sales marketing machine and a mobile sales platform, all of that integrated, and we're already working on the next version, right?

Because the difference between what we're doing and what everybody else is doing is you've got to have the ability to be able to reinvent yourself. You've got to have the ability to stay ahead of the curve. You've got to have the ability to have a vision for yourself. You've got to have the ability to be innovative and to be creative. And one of the things that sets us apart, because there's a lot of people who we're looking at in our rearview mirrors who are trying to copy us and duplicate us, and the truth of the matter is, you just can't duplicate the vision, and you just can't duplicate the heart.

And the reason why we started this company in the very first place was not because we wanted to start a company, because Lord knows, there's been people who have gone out and started their own deals, and people have started their own 100% commission companies and all this stuff. And I'm going to tell you something. There's been months that I would have made more just being an affiliate of this company than owning it, but I'm also an affiliate, which is one of the difference makers between us and other company owners. I ain't afraid, and I do on a daily basis get in the trenches and actually sell our own products that we're putting out there for people to sell. And that, my friends, that is the Empower Network difference. That is the difference.

We're not just releasing some products and telling people to go out there and promote them. We're using them. We're promoting them. We're getting in the trenches. We have the vision.

It's not just a business that we're in. It flows through our veins. It is our bloodstream. The people are our family. It is what we are really put on this earth to do.

It's not to run a company. It's not to be an affiliate of something. It's not to go out there and sell a product. It's to go out there and have a vision. It's to go out there and make an impact on somebody's life.

It's to go out there and put your heart and your soul into something. It's to go out there and realize that your past is not your liability but your greatest asset, that's going to get you out there and make an impact and give you all of the tools and all of the experience that you need to take your life, not just your business, but your life to the next level. It doesn't matter where you've been in the past. It doesn't matter how many times you've failed in business. It doesn't matter what you went through and what you've experienced, guys, because I'm going to tell you something.

All of that has prepared you for what you're about to do right here, right now. So if you are not a member yet, if you are not in, or you were in and you're ready to get reengaged, now is the time. And I'm not just telling you that. Believe you me, I'm an excited guy. I'm passionate as hell, but I'm even more excited because I know what's right around the corner and I know what's coming.

And my friends, I'm going to tell you something. It's bigger than you think it is. It's a lot bigger than you think it is. And the amount of money and the amount of resources and the amount of marketing effort and energy that we've really invested into what I believe is going to be the biggest and most powerful marketing and blogging and mobile platform on the Internet — the amount of energy that we've invested, the amount of heart and soul, the amount of vision, the amount of just pure innovation, and most importantly, literally dumping all of our heart and our soul into not just trying to create a product but trying to create something, and then ending up after money wasted and ideas thrown down the toilet and sitting around debating and coming up with ideas and doing what entrepreneurs do — because, my friends, this is not a job. This is a lifestyle.

And even me, whether I'm coming up here helping drive the vision of the company, or you out there helping drive the vision of your own business, it's about literally getting in the trenches and putting all of your mind and all of the ego aside and saying, what can I do that's going to impact people's lives? And that's what we've done. We haven't created a product here that we're about to launch.

We haven't really created a platform. We've created a vehicle, a tool, something that people can actually get inside of, and when they use it, it impacts not just their business, not just their bank account, but their entire life. And, guys, that's some of the stories. And it was kind of funny because we've had like three or four people from the U.K.

tonight, but the truth is that there's people all over the world, there's people in countries. And I can tell you this, that until you've seen it, you've experienced it, you've been to some of these other countries, you know what other people are going through, you really don't know. You just don't know what you don't know. And after traveling the world and seeing different places, there's literally people in different parts of the world that are building this business that have insurmountable odds against them.

And you may even be sitting here right now in a living room or in your house or an apartment, maybe you're in foreclosure, maybe you don't have a car, maybe you can't afford to put food on the table, and you also have insurmountable odds that are against you. And that is what is going to make you successful. That is what is going to give you what you need to get to the next level. So here's a game plan. Guys, if you're not in, period, just get in.

Pull out your credit card and decide to buy here right now. Get back to the person that referred you. If you saw a post on Facebook, message that person and say thank you. Because that's what I did for the very first person that I got involved with.

I went back to Lawrence Tam when I first got online, and today I said, Lawrence, thanks for just putting up that page and being the guy that you are. Because we've come full circle now, brother, and we're doing bigger and better things. So the first thing is, if you're not in, thank the person that invited you tonight. Get back to that person and get in. It's $25 to set up your blog, $19.95 to become an affiliate.

That qualifies you to earn commissions on our products. And if you want to dissect our comp plan, you're certainly welcome to do that. But the truth of the matter is our comp plan works in a way that most of our top earners are getting commissions that they don't even know where they're coming from. So I say that to say that it works whether you understand it right now or not. And one of the most powerful things that you can do for yourself is get started right now, even if you don't understand what you're doing.

Because so many people have to overanalyze. And I said at the beginning of this call, and I'll say it again, my goal, my real intention was to get past your head and into your heart tonight. And the majority of the people let their own head, their own thinking, their own analytical need to be able to dissect and understand everything before they get started, paralyze them from really having the success that they need. Step number one, if you are in, is we release the footage from the Denver event. And the Denver event, we demoed ENV2.

You saw that on some of the sales videos. If you don't have that footage, go and get that footage right now. It's going to be live and available to buy here for the next four days. I think it's going down on Thursday. I want you to buy that footage.

For the sole reason that what's in that footage is going to give you the head start, the training, and the process. I'm going to give you a step-by-step game plan and blueprint to really see what's going on and to really prepare yourself, and if you were there, to rewatch it. I'm also going to be doing a bonus training where I'm going to break that down on a whiteboard so you can actually see it. It's going to be extremely, invaluably priceless to your business and the amount of results that you get here with this launch over the course of the next 45 days.

So go do that. Number two thing, we're actually going to be launching this product at the same time as we're doing these events. Listen, there's only room for a few, couple thousand people at each event, because we're doing four events simultaneously across the country, and each and every event is almost sold out.

So I want you to get to one of the events. I don't care which one it is, because each one is going to have an equal opportunity to participate in the launch. You're going to be able to be there with us while it's happening. We're going to be able to coach you and take you step-by-step through exactly what to do, when to blog, what emails to send, how to promote. We're going to be doing promotional videos.

You'll have the opportunity to be involved on video in some sort of, if we can get you to cut a testimonial or something like that, and it's going to be priceless to your results to be able to be there. I don't care if you've got to fly there. I don't care if you've got to drive there. I don't care if you've got to hitchhike there. I don't care if you've got to blow up the tires on that old bike where the tires are flat in your garage right now and ride your dang bicycle there.

I know people who literally — there was a guy who I watched a video of named Dakota McClurg, and he's like 19 years old, and he caught a ride to the event in San Diego many, many months ago. It was probably about almost a year ago now, and he was showering on the beaches in San Diego, and he came there broke with no money. He came there with no real vision, no real hope, just knew that he needed to get there, right? And he got there, and I think 30 days, maybe 45 days later, he had turned it on and got what he needed.

He didn't have the launch that we're about to do, but he had what we have right now. And he got what he needed, and 45 days later, he cut and sent us a video of him. He had flown over there with some people that he met at the event and was in Thailand, living in a mansion over there, living the life of his dreams, that fast. He cut a video, and we posted it on the front blog, and it was one of the most moving, impactful things that I'd ever seen. Why?

Because he made the decision to get there. He made the decision to be there no matter what. And even more importantly, I'd say this is the most important event to be at, because the launch is going to be going on at the same time as these events. So Anaheim, Dallas, Orlando, or Washington, D.C., either one of those, whichever one's closest.

We've got people who are going to a few of them, okay? We're going to have people from all sorts of different teams that are going to be speaking at each event. So if you're on a specific team and you want to go where your team is, don't worry about it, because here's what you need to worry about: being the leader and getting people there and starting to develop your own following and starting to nurture your own team. Because that's what's going to determine your income. It's the difference between which side of the cash register you're on, like Chris and Susan were talking about.

The difference in what changed in my life was when I started to really look at what I was focusing on. Was I focusing more on what my sponsor was doing for me and the training that I was getting, or was I focusing more on being a leader and what I was really going out there and providing to people? There's a difference between going out there and selling stuff and buying stuff, right? Right. What you need to focus on is buying the things that you need to buy to invest in your business, and then turn it around and use that information to sell stuff and to train your team and lead your team and create a real vision for your team so people can follow you, because people want hope, and that's the only thing that you can transfer into them anyway. And it's the reason why people go to all sorts of foundations and religious institutions and other institutions — why?

Well, number one, because they have specific beliefs, and number two, because they need hope. And if you can understand that, if you can understand the real dynamics of how people really work, what makes them tick, what makes them pull out their wallet and buy, what makes them join things, what makes them show up to different places on a weekly basis for years at a time, it's because they're looking for something to believe in. They're looking for hope. They're looking to know that their beliefs, their desires, who they are, matters. And if you can do that, you're going to be successful.

If you can tap into that, then, friend, you can write your paycheck. So focus on being the leader for your team and being at the event. And if you go, people will follow, which means you've got to move forward, you've got to walk forward, and you've got to not look back, okay? You've got to not look back.

Here's the next thing that I want you to do. I want you to gather your team and gather your inner circle and start doing events, start doing calls, start hyping things up, start creating agitation amongst people to listen to what they're saying. Let them know that something big is coming. The difference between what we're doing here and all of the previous launches is some guru will go out there and create some product and call up his five super friends, and they'll go and launch a product together. And everybody else will be left out of the inner circle of knowing what's going on.

Right here, right now, you have 30 days to prepare for this. You have 30 days to prepare for the biggest launch, something that is literally going to be talked about and remembered for the rest of your life, for the rest of your business career, and people who are involved are going to remember it. It's going to be a staple and a defining moment in their career, right? You have 30 days to plan for that, 30 days to prepare for that, 30 days to create hype, to create agitation, to get people wondering, to keep people wanting, to get people in your team excited and to get people to get involved and join, so they're ready to go out there and really slam, because when they do, what's that going to do for you?

It's going to build you a business. It's going to build you a future. And you're going to be able to do what Lawrence Tam was talking about, which is now know, and not just have it as some belief, but know and be a reality that you can make money and build a business regardless of what you're doing, whether you're taking your kids to school or whether you're hanging out. And Lawrence was absolutely right.

Can't hardly get a hold of him because he's always out on a date with his wife. Guys, listen. Right here, right now, okay, right here, right now is your opportunity to do something bigger than you've ever done before. It's your opportunity to tap into a system that's already proven, that's already here, okay?

It's your opportunity, and it's a very unique opportunity. It's one of those opportunities that does not come along often, where we are literally putting all of the resources, all of the tools, all of the systems in place, all of the marketing material. Guys, wait until you see the videos and what we shot. I can't even talk about them, but I'm going to tell you something. It's the most epic thing that you've ever seen in your life.

It certainly ain't me in front of a whiteboard, or Dave Wood in front of a whiteboard. It's not that. It's the most badass, epic thing. The marketing is going to be better than anything you've ever seen before.

I promise you that. Why? Because we stepped our game up here, and we already deliver, but I'm going to tell you, we delivered bigger, better, and sexier, and cooler, and funnier, and more compelling than we've ever done before. It's going to be big. It's going to be good, and it's going to be up to you whether you capitalize on the opportunity or not.

Guys, I'm going to tell you something. When we started this company, we had a vision. We had a vision for people. We had a vision that we wanted to create something different. We had a vision that we wanted to give our teams, and this was the most important thing.

We wanted to give our teams a place that they could actually get results. We made a lot of mistakes. One thing about us is we ain't perfect. We make a lot of mistakes on a daily basis. We're human beings, and the powerful thing about what we've done and been able to build together is we've been able to build a place to where not only have people gotten better, but people have gotten results.

Not only have people made money, and oftentimes, in many cases, life-changing money, become financially free, been able to really manifest. I can remember doing calls and doing webinars. I can remember literally this one time I was building a company, and I was on vacation. This was when I was working construction. We were going to a convention.

It was for our personal life. It wasn't a business convention. We were driving down to West Palm Beach. It was a little network marketing company. I was doing conference calls literally every three hours.

There wasn't anything special that was going on. There wasn't a launch. It was just what I was doing to build my team, to build my business. I'm going to tell you something, guys. I was a grinder.

I was a grinder. Here's what I will tell you. You do got to work your ass off to get started and to really get some momentum in your business. Guys, there's a difference between being a grinder for life, going around, and what I didn't want to do when we launched this company. I was a grinder for life.

When we launched this company, I did not want to be a grinder, nor did Dave. We were so sick and tired of having to pick up the phone, so sick and tired of people running around and being burned out. We just wanted to build a business and teach people how to have a life at the same time, to be able to travel and do the things that they want to do. I'm going to tell you guys, there's nothing like that feeling that you know that you are not tied down, because here's a secret: a lot of people, when they become entrepreneurs, they become slaves to their business.

They go and they quit their job. This is something that most people do not and will not talk about. They quit their jobs and they go open their own business. Some of them even get involved in network marketing and other things.

You see some gurus and they've got big circles under their eyes. Believe me, I've met a lot. They got big circles under their eyes. They're working 26, 27 hours a day. They're not sleeping.

They're not eating, and they're miserable. I made a vow to myself that that was not what we were going to build, because listen, guys, with me, when I got clean five and a half years ago, I made a commitment to myself that I was going to go out there and do things that were going to serve people. I was going to go out there and do things that were going to make a difference in people's lives.

It's why I still do what I do today. It's why some of the people that I still work with and deal with are people who are just getting clean and coming off the streets and have dealt with homelessness and addiction and a lot of the things that I dealt with throughout my life. It's why I still have my feet on the ground. Guys, there is something powerful in that. I want you to ask.

Ask yourself, what is your vision for yourself, and are you ready to step into your power and stop making excuses? Because when you do that, when you step into your power and stop making excuses, because you realize that you're responsible for everything that you've created up until this point in your life, it does not disempower you. It more empowers you to be able to do what you need to do for your future, for your family, for the people that deserve it — you included. Guys, with that being said, I love you.

I appreciate you, okay? We are just literally getting started. This is literally just the tip of the iceberg. This is just really pregame warm-ups. And what you're going to see here in 30 days is going to be something that I promise you is going to blow your mind, and you're either going to watch it or be a part of it, and that is going to be your decision.

With that being said, guys, Dave Sharp, co-founder of Empower Network. I love you. I appreciate you. Make sure you're watching for our emails, for our text messages. Make sure that you're plugged in to everything that your sponsor is doing.

Make sure that you are plugged into what we're doing, and get ready for the time of your life. Just put your seatbelt on. That's all I'm going to say. Love you guys. Peace.

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