How to replace cold calling and prospecting forever by blogging daily

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To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. This is Dave Sharp, and just taking the last sip of my IHP here. You know what, guys? If that don't get your blood pumping, then you need to check your pulse, because we've got packed out lines, close to 1,000 people. I don't know, I'm not looking at it in stats right now.

Last week, we actually had 3,500. 3,500 people call in, and the lines only hold 1,000 people, so that means that about 2,500 people got kicked off. So if you're sitting on this call right now, tonight, then you're here for a reason. You're here because you're here to hear and listen and learn what I'm going to teach you guys tonight. And I'm telling you, what I'm going to teach you tonight is something that if you listen, and if you use it, and if you just ignore everything else, then you'll fast-track your way to having success in your business.

How do I know? Because everything that I'm going to teach you tonight is the things that I did after I struggled and failed and did all of the dumb stuff in my business for a long time, and I want to cut through all of the bull crap for you tonight. Guys, if you're a guest on this call, I'm not going to go into too much why you should be involved in what we're doing, because the truth of the matter is, is whether you just are somebody who's looking to make more money, or whether you're somebody who's already got it, and just needs a way to market online, and needs tools and training that actually work and help them, and have helped tens of thousands of people around the world, then you're in the right place. If you're looking for the next gimmick, if you're looking for the next get-rich-quick scheme, if you're looking for something that's going to have you running around like a chicken with your head cut off, doing things that just don't work, or take a really long, long, long time to build a business, then this just isn't for you. Thank you.

Thank you. The things that you're going to hear on this call tonight are going to open your eyes and make you realize that if you have been doing things that don't work, A, you don't have to do them anymore. B, it's not your fault if you have been doing them, because we've all, and I mean all of us who are successful now, have done those things before. And it is only because we didn't have people who were saying, hey, look, this is a mistake that I made, and you don't have to make those in your business. Over the course of the last 12 months, we've literally helped.

Tens of thousands of people earn money in their business. So I'm telling you that if somebody invited you here, it's $25 to get started with our blogging system. Just get it. Don't screw around. Don't be a weenie.

I don't got a whole lot of time to sell and convince and pitch on this call, and I mean, quite frankly, I don't really need to, because the proof's all over the internet, and the truth of the matter is, is we've got systems that sell for us. We've got videos. We've got really, really effective platforms that do all the work for us. That's with no special deal. That's with nothing funny going on.

That's marketing and selling products inside of our company, just like everybody else does. And I'll tell you what, I didn't work that much doing it. Why? Because I already did the work and set up the systems and then let the systems do the work for me, and I can tell you that I also made thousands and thousands of dollars, tens of, I don't know, I didn't even check the stats. Over the course of the last three or four days over the weekend, and I didn't do much then either.

The reason why, guys, is because I figured out how to use systems and how to use a platform to do the work for me, do all the selling and convincing, and I get on a conference call usually once a week, unless I'm doing some meetings with the leaders or stuff like that, and I train, and I just teach what I've learned over the course of the last couple of years, making a lot of mistakes, and the rest of the time, I'm sitting around thinking about how I can help people make more money, once a week I go into our corporate offices and I help construct the vision for projects that are being worked on, and why do I get to do that? Because I've got teams and systems set up in place that do the work for me, so I'm not running around doing a bunch of stuff that doesn't make sense for me to be doing. If you're on this call tonight, there's a good chance that you're an entrepreneur. You're probably not a very employee-minded person, and what do I mean by that? There's somebody who's brand new that's scratching their head saying, Dave, I've never heard, I've heard that before, the majority of you have.

Here's what I mean. If you're sitting in a cubicle and you hate your life right now, then you're probably more of an entrepreneur than an employee. If you're somebody who goes to work every day and can't wait for it to be 5 o'clock because you hate what you're doing, then you're probably more of an entrepreneur than an employee. I'm almost sounding like the whole Jeff Fox where you might be a redneck thing going on here. A couple of my country boys on the phone think that's funny.

Tony probably thinks that's funny. Guys, the bottom line is, is, is, you are not comfortable doing what 99% of people do their entire lives and you think and you know that there's something more for you to do. Somebody sends you a link to sign up to Empower Network, get in. We'll teach you how to be an entrepreneur. We will teach you how to use what is already inside of you, which, here's a little secret that I'm bombing and I'm going to drop on your head.

There's a lot of gurus who have been spreading a lot of bullshit. And guys, I'm going to get a little passionate. I'm going to get probably a little bit, a little bit worthy on the call tonight. And it's because I'm going to tell you something that there's a lot of mess going around. And there's a lot of people out there that are being misinformed.

And the truth of the matter is, is a lot of people are wasting their time doing a lot of things that they don't need to do. And what I'm going to teach you tonight is I'm going to teach you how to cut through that crap. I'm going to teach you why, what we've developed and what we've been doing over the course of the last 12 months. It works better than anything that I've ever seen before work inside of my business and anybody else's. I'm going to show you how you can use, like I was about to say, what you already have inside of you.

Now, let me throw this out there before we even get any further in the call. I may be dropping some income claims, income mentions. I may be saying some things about how much money people make. That in no way, implies that you're going to make any money or that much money or anything. And I know you guys are smart.

I don't want to insult your intelligence. I'm just going to drop a big old, fat, obvious income disclaimer right up front. We actually post average earnings on our website at empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php to where we actually post and are proud of our average earnings. And we let everybody know right up front that just because lots and lots of people have made lots and lots of money, that doesn't mean that you will too. And I know that, you know that, but I've just got to do that just so I can do the right thing for the right reason.

So guys, back to what I was saying. Here's something that I want to hit you with first before we even get into this call. What do I mean by that? Well, like I'm going to teach you on tonight's call, the things that everybody's been teaching and telling you make money inside of your business, aren't really the things that make money inside of your business. Let me say that again.

The things that 95% of us are told when we get started are going to make us money inside of our business are not actually the things that make us money inside of our business. There are two things, guys. There are two things that you can do inside of your business on a daily basis and that you can get your teams to do on a daily basis that will make you more money than anything that you can do in a hands-down period with your time and that is creating content, videos, and writing blog posts. I'm going to break down something for you guys tonight. Here's the interesting thing is I was actually having a conversation with a couple of leaders.

Toby and Layla came down and hung out with me over the weekend. They were in Florida. Their parents actually live down here in Florida. They were getting some tattoos. Toby dragged me out on the golf course.

We had some fun, shot a little golf. He beat my butt off a little bit, but he inspired me to get back out there and play some golf, which I remembered and realized that I really enjoyed doing. We were talking about something and something came up because I was explaining some things about why we do some of the things that we do and it sparked a conversation about creating content and creating blog posts and creating videos and posting to a blog every day. Now, let me also open your eyes because I've got some leaders that are just kind of eavesdropping in on the call tonight because we sent out some emails saying that I'm going to teach you something on tonight's call, that can help your team stay around for a long time, literally as long as you're willing to take their money and serve them. But guys, if you are one of those leaders, what I'm going to teach you and the insight that I'm going to give you can be applied to any business.

This is something that has a lot of psychology built around it and this is something that can be applied literally to anything. It's that powerful and it's been one of the driving forces of us building our business as big as we've built it over the course of the last 12 months or so. But here's what I can tell you is that, like I said, most of the things that people tell you make you money aren't really the things that make you money. What does make you money is sharing your story and sharing stories that inspire people to take action. Stories that engage people emotionally and intellectually and get them to think and feel about things that you're saying and then make a decision to take action based on what you say.

Or what you wrote. What you shared. From stage, from video, from a call, in a blog post. It's not all of the mechanic stuff. This is why I'm always talking about the dynamics and mechanics of marketing.

There's a big, big, big difference. And a lot of you have the mechanics down pat. It's you get up every day and just tell me, tell me that I haven't hit the nail right on the head with this. You get up every single day. The first thing that you do is check your email.

And you scroll through everybody else's agenda for you that day. You figure out what everybody else wants you to do, say, buy, think. You find out where they want you to go and what they want you to do, what they want you to click on. And then you go and you check your Facebook and more of what everybody else wants you to do. You check everybody else's agenda.

By that time, you've literally lost all focus in what you were going to do that day. You've taken no time up until that point. Maybe even if you're, if you're a just ridiculously driven, crazed entrepreneur like me, then maybe you haven't even had anything to eat. You've probably had three cups of coffee before you had anything to eat yet. Your stomach's grumbling.

You're feeling lightheaded and nauseous. You're so confused because you have 10 windows opened up on your computer and you're wondering how the hell it's already noon and you haven't done anything inside of your business. That's 95% of people out there trying to build a business online. And it's no wonder why building a business online, has gotten such a bad rap. You ever see these people who go back and forth, all of the old school network marketers, they say building a business online doesn't work.

Well, because you know, X, Y, Z, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth. Here's the reason why, is because if you don't practice some discipline inside of your business, then you will get lost in a sea of confusion in everybody else's agenda. So number one thing, if you're going to do this and you're going to do this consistently, is you've got to wake up on a daily basis with some sort of direction and some sort of focus. And you've got to realize that the world is filled with people who are going to get you involved in their agenda for that day. And you have to wake up and know what your agenda is and be ready to implement your agenda inside of your business that day.

And to be quite frank with you, go out and see how many people you can get to get involved with your agenda that day. If you want to be real honest, it's the difference between being a customer and a business owner. If you think like a customer, then that's what you're always going to be. You can go out there and buy my products, buy everybody else's products, buy Empower Network products, but the truth of the matter is if you never turn around and take the information that I'm telling you tonight, or you learn inside of the master's course, or you learn in the inner circle, you learn in the 15K formula, and apply it to your business, then the truth of the matter is you're going to be chasing your tail for the next 10 years or 10 months or 10 days if you're going to practice what I'm going to teach you tonight to learn how to focus on your agenda, on your business, and when you get up in the morning, do something that's going to get you focused. What do I do?

Well, somebody asked me the other day, actually it was Toby, Dave, what do you do on a daily basis? What is your routine? Everybody wants to know the secret. What's Dave Sharp do? What's Dave Wood do?

If you were with us, you'd probably laugh because we're awful ADD and we actually have to work really, really hard at this. I don't know if Lawrence is, he's more of an analytical, mechanical engineer type thinking guy, but I know me on ADD like a monster and it's the best damn thing that ever happened to me. So if you have ADD kids or you're ADD yourself, know that it's a blessing, not a curse, and try not to over-medicate your kids too much because it's actually a good thing for them. They'll grow up and be super creative and you've got to get up and you've got to do something to get you focused. So what do I do?

I get up every morning, I take my daughter to school and I usually go to the gym. After I go to the gym, I come home and I meditate and I do freaking yoga. Yes, Dave Sharp, the ex-street running, drug addict, ex-alcoholic, bent sober and clean for five years by the way and I'm not going to go into all that on the call tonight. Those of you, most of you know my story. But the damn street running, hoodlum, crazed wild man does yoga.

Can you believe that? It's un-freaking-believable. I never knew or would have thought that I would admit that, but it's true. Why do I do that? Well, because somebody sat me down one day, actually my girl, and she said, you're an ADD monster.

You should probably sit down and maybe try to do something to get focused. I said, that's a great idea. You got anything in mind? And she said, yeah, try this. So I sat down and I did yoga.

And I'll tell you, I started doing it before the last event and I did it and I realized that it's good for me. So what do I do when I find something that's good for me? Well, I usually don't follow through with it because why would I want to do something that's good for me? I have to get up and remember that this helps me. It doesn't hurt me.

What do human beings typically like to do? We like pain. I don't know why we like pain so much, but we do like pain. We like pain a lot. We like pain much more than pleasure.

Why do you think you go and delve into your email inbox with 60,000 emails and go on Facebook and get so frustrated and confused and overwhelmed by 12 o'clock that you don't know what in the hell is going on? Well, because you like pain just like me. So when you find something good for you like meditation and yoga and having a good meal before 9 o'clock or 8 o'clock in the morning, typically we don't do that. But as entrepreneurs, what is being an entrepreneur about? Somebody just said, making lots of money.

Getting rich online. It's about that, but it's only about that if you can learn to get focused and do things that are good for you and force yourself to do them until they become a habit. So that's the number one thing. The number two thing is you have to start to go out there and realize that the mechanics inside of your business are nothing in comparison to the impact that the dynamics inside of your business can have. What do I mean by that?

Well, if you look at some of the highest paid marketers and you look at their marketing, you'll realize that the things that they're doing are not the things that you're doing probably if you're not making that much money. Here's what I mean by that. It's the 80-20 rule. I'll start with 20% of what you do will make you 80% of your money. How do you find out, though, what that 20% is?

Well, you can either be on a call like this or somebody who's done everything you can imagine and failed teaches you and tells you what to do or you can go out for the next 6 to 12 months or 18 to 36 months and try it yourself, fail miserably, then crawl your bloody butt back and say, okay, I'm ready to surrender and I realize that my way doesn't work. I did the latter the first time around until I finally realized that what I was doing wasn't working. And I realized that the things that I shared intimately wasn't all of the funny marketing business that everybody thinks that you have to have, but the tiny little products to SEO your blog post and get it ranked number 5 on the first page of Google and all of this ridiculousness is not actually the things that are making you the biggest money. The things that are making you the biggest money inside your business is when you understand that what people are looking for in today's marketplace are to connect with somebody that they can identify with, somebody that they feel is a real human being, somebody that they're working with them. Let me say that again.

It's not all of the scheming, ridiculousness, $25, $2500 products that teach you how to SEO your blog. Now, there's nothing wrong with SEO. Absolutely nothing wrong. I know some SEO geniuses, but those SEO geniuses will tell you that if you're trying to do that first and foremost without building a relationship and creating a fan base and a following of people who know, like, and trust you, you're wasting your time. So you have to realize and learn that creating content, putting content out there via video and blog posts is what is going to make you the most money.

Why is that? Well, the reason why, and let me give you a perfect example of why, is because if you put out two pieces of content, one piece that you try to get ranked on the first page of Google and it's like training or it's like a how-to, and a lot of you leaders who are on the call, if you're anything like I was when I first got started, I thought that my teams wanted technical training. I thought that they wanted how-to training. I didn't know at that time that's not what they wanted. They wanted to be inspired and be around somebody that they felt good being around and that they enjoyed listening to.

So what I did was I went around doing how-to training in ridiculousness that kept me busy doing this is no better than checking your email and hanging out on Facebook all day. What's wrong with Facebook and being in your email and all that stuff because it's all useful stuff? But you get the point and you know why I'm saying it because you know exactly what you do on a daily basis and it's probably what all of us are tempted to do each and every day, which is waste our time doing a bunch of monotonous ridiculousness. And one of the reasons why we do that is because A, we were caught to do that by somebody who didn't know what the hell they were doing or B, we were just never on a call like this and had somebody tell us directly and bluntly what we should be doing and why what we're doing doesn't work. So bottom line, creating content is the is that 20% of your marketing that makes 80% of your money.

Creating content. Let me simplify that for you. Shooting videos and writing blog posts. Shooting videos and writing blog posts. And building a relationship with the people who are finding the content.

Because the truth of the matter is like I was going to say a second ago before I got ADD distracted, you are going to get more leads and sales with a piece of content that exposes something about you or shares something intimately about you or gives people the ability to be able to relate with you or identify with you or hear something that you share that they're going through and that you overcame or maybe that you're struggling with at that moment and they hear it from you or that you're struggling with at that moment to take action right that minute. You want to know what somebody does when they find something that's technical that doesn't have your personality stamp on it? They say, yeah, great. It's like a YouTube video, thanks. And they X out of the page.

And then they go find somebody who they watch their video and they're sharing something intimate and personal about themselves and they say, wow, that guy or that gal is badass. And then they take action and they feel compelled to opt into that person's list or continue to follow them in their business because there's trends that happen. And one of the reasons why I know this and why I just have this absolute conviction in my heart and soul about this is because I don't just study network marketers and affiliate marketers and online marketers. A lot of people say, Dave, what are your inspirations? How did you become such a good speaker or copywriter or leader of leaders, right?

And the way I did that was not through watching people who don't know what they're doing. I watched people who have built multi-multi-multi-million dollar businesses sometimes in industries other than the industry that I'm in. And what I can tell you, if you look at singers or rappers or musicians is a big one, what you'll notice is that people have a really deep connection with those people because they said something that related to something they were going through in their life at that very moment, right? My daughter is very, very into music because she listens to music where the people talk about things that she's experienced and gone through. She's experienced a lot in her little life, right?

She's almost 13 years old, but because of a lot of my struggles and things that I've went through and I'm not going to get into all that on this call, I do get into that a lot though, just not on this call tonight, because I want to stay somewhat focused and not be too ADD, but the reason why she listens to what she listens to is because she can identify and relate to that, and what that creates is sell-out stadiums. What that creates is platinum records. What that creates is followers in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions. If you look around at some of the biggest followings and fans and people who have literally millions of fans who hang on their every word, the reason why is because they give them a reason to connect and identify with them.

Yeah, hey, Dave, I'm here. Not only is she on the call, but she's in Ireland, so what time is it over there? Yes, can you hear me? Oh, sweet, I'm doing the A-bone dance. Yeah, I do the A-bone dance. You guys do the A-badass dance, I do the A-bone dance. Oh, gotcha. Well, you know, I just wanted to bring you out because not only are you someone who's up and coming, but you're somebody who is obviously following the system, and what I want you to do, we ran a little bit long, that was worth every single second, what I want to do is take about 5-10 minutes at the most here, and I want you to go through just a little bit about how you got started, maybe what you did at the very beginning, and then how you stuck through whatever you were doing that maybe wasn't working, and how now you got to the point to where you just had, what did you make last month?

Hello? Okay, I was hoping a surge would happen. Oh wait, it doesn't matter. Okay, okay, I think I can get it together. Thank you, thank you, everybody. Look, there's a will, there's a way, it doesn't matter if you're on medication, you can make it happen. Okay, you can make it happen too. Alright, the report. Okay, so I got this report from the surgeon and he told me that my symptoms were bizarre and florid and that I just didn't want to work anymore, and you know, you've talked about your moment, Dave, David Wood talked about his moment when that police officer came when he was in the van, and that was my moment for me, okay, that was it for me. I just said enough, I am not, I am not taking it anymore, I am not going to be on sickness benefits for my life, my employer's not going to do anything for me, I have to take control, and that's when I guess I got started online and started with a network marketing company, a traditional sort of network marketing company, and I had never done anything online before, I'd never done network marketing before, but I think one thing that really helped me was my four years of experience offline doing door to door sales, a lot of the sort of principles, the law of averages, you know, and knowing how to keep a good attitude, that when you have a tough day you just pick yourself up, keep going, a lot of those sort of principles really helped me when I was starting to build a network marketing business, especially because I couldn't attend a lot of the events there either. You know, what it took to build with an MLM had me in and out of acute pain for five years, I work 14, 16 nowadays on the phone, so I wasn't on medication, which was the big difference, I didn't take any medication only when it was acute, so that was great, so didn't have brain surgery, which helped because I had to be on the phone with leads non-stop, but even through those five years, okay, I was still naturally, just naturally using creating content to communicate to build my business, for me it's always been a natural thing, and then when I retired from that because, you know, the message is not there, I don't want to work 14, 16 hour days for the rest of my life, I want to start a family, you know, I want to be able to continue to see my partner and be there around my kids, and just got into normal affiliate marketing, and that's actually when I started building a list, I didn't for my first five years online, you know, it was quite interchangeable, but through creating content with emails through, I started blogging four years ago, blogging's been huge, I mean it just lets you, it lets you really helps your subscribers really get to know you, it is a platform for you. You know, a lot of people, they worry, and I know new people do, they don't have a list or what have you, you can start building a list right now with EN. Okay, connect your AWeber accounts to your EN marketing system and start building a list now, and what you can do is use your blog, if you're unknown or you haven't built a story yet, it's okay, while you're going through the process of building your story, okay, write about it on your blog. The way everybody that's been talking about here has been saying, write about your journey, your story, everything as you record it, literally like a photo, just record it all the way through and share it. Share it with your subscribers, even if you only have 10 subscribers, so what, get into the habit of sharing your blog post with your subscribers because it's going to help you develop a relationship. The other thing I noticed through with blogging is it gives you an opportunity for your subscribers or your Facebook contacts, whatever it is, your social network or your tribe, okay, to witness your growth too, to actually see you build your business in real time, to actually see you grow as a person in real time too. So what you'll actually find is over time, more and more people will start to join you as they see you make the breakthroughs that you make, but you have to be willing, like sort of what you said earlier, Dave, and everybody else, you have to be willing to put yourself down, you have to be willing to share your story as painful as it is. And I'll be completely bluntly honest, when I joined Empower, even though I've always been honest and always shared who I am, I never made a big deal about my health challenges. Okay, never, even though I had damaged this, very few people knew that it crippled me to the degree that it did, very few people would know that most of the time I was working on a mattress on the floor, you know. But when I first joined Empower, it was when hearing about the importance of sharing your story and why, because it's repeated over and over and over, and there's a reason, because it's magic in it, it really is, it's transformational, is what it is, not just for the individual sharing the story but for others. And there's nothing more important, and I'm kicking myself for not fully understanding that so much sooner, I could have done a lot more good a lot sooner if I hadn't understood that. So I'm forever grateful to you, David, and to David Wood for helping me understand that. So it wasn't long after I joined Empower, I thought, right, well okay, I'm going to be honest about what I live with, I'm going to be honest, you know, that in January 2011, you know, oh stupid me, packed some boxes and I damaged, well actually prolapsed all my discs and then severely damaged my sciatic nerves, and you know, I'd reached a point where I was building another business and everything was going hunky dory, and then I could not do the things I needed to do to build my business anymore. I was in 24/7 agony really until I had surgery because the nerves were so compressed, they were just, I was just being electrocuted 24/7, even the medication couldn't help, but I just snatched time as I could do things, and then I had my surgery in May, and that did actually fix, got the nerve out, he just was able to get the nerve out, but what it meant was it sort of cut, and what it does, it doesn't send the signals to my legs the way it's meant to, so what happens is if I try and stand or walk for long, I can't really walk up and down the hallway more than a few times, or if I'd stand to do the dishes for more than a few minutes, sometimes it lets me do it longer, but it's always unpredictable, but what happens is the power literally goes out of my legs, and that would be fine if the power just went out of my legs and I could sit wherever I am without any pain, that would be wonderful, I reckon I could get in the wheelchair and be able to do whatever I want, it doesn't do that, what it does is the power goes out and I'm in agony, it's horrible, and I have to get morphine injections to settle it down and all the rest of it. So even after the surgery it was still like that, I just couldn't do anything and I was just sort of learning, trying to work out how to deal with it. My income went, it just died, virtually be lucky to earn 2k, 4k, I think I had one 10k month all of last year and almost killed myself to do it, and it came clear, like come by February when I barely made 2k and our credit cards were getting maxed. I have a family, a wonderful partner that I've been with for 19 years, Nicola, I could not do what I do without her. I think anybody who is successful in anything has got an incredible partner, spouse, significant other, or what have you, and she is certainly that to me, she's been through everything with me and I could not do what I do without her, she's sort of more like takes on the primary care role with our two daughters, I have a five year old and a three year old because I physically can't do a lot. So that means the world to me to have that support and that sort of belief there, and I thought, no, this cannot be happening, I have to find a way to support my family again because my partner has been supporting me for nine years, hasn't worked because of my physical issues, so you know, my business thankfully would pay for it, but you know, wasn't there to, she was sort of out of the workforce, so she could go to work, she could get a part time job but it wasn't enough to pay the bills. So when I came into Empower and I was told, share your story, and I thought, oh my god, I mean who's going to want to join someone with nerve damage, you know, and I had a fear that if I write about what's really happening to me and what really it's like to live with what I live with and the challenges that's involved there, and you know, come clean about the fact that I'm, you know, my income died last year, and just be totally all the, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly, and start writing about it, is it going to turn people off, you know, is it going to just scare people away. And then I realised through being within Empower, so what, so what if it does, you know, I just sort of reached a point that I feel that here online there is a hunger for honesty, there's a hunger for authenticity, people want to hear the truth, people want to know that they're dealing with real people, and we're seeing evidence of it over and over and over all the time. And when I think about the success that I've had with Empower, which frankly has been like a miracle to me, I could not have done it without support from you, David Sharp, or you, David Wood, for you guys supporting me as I went through the process of building my Empower business and still am, and I break through and break through and break through the whole time, and I've only been in the business seven months, okay, it's been the gift that you've given me and you're giving everyone else about saying, hey, share who you are, write about who you are, don't be anything you're not, sew up what anybody thinks, be yourself, do what you love, all those things just makes me want to explode with happiness, okay, because that does not exist anywhere else. So if you're starting now, just new with Empower, you're thinking about getting started, try and empty your brain of everything that's happened before, your past failures, anything, doesn't really matter, even if you've been successful, now this is a big one, okay, because even if you've known success, try and keep your ego out of it too, and maybe just try it David Wood's way and David Sharp's way for a while, you know. So when you get told, don't call leads anymore, and you've been calling leads for years, and I know that's uncomfortable, it's uncomfortable for me to stop calling leads, okay, just stop, don't do it, just listen and do the things they tell you to do, because what's happened with me, with my business, just in my personal life too, by simply literally just doing what you guys tell us to do, follow the 8 core commitments, write content every single day, I'm always writing something, my blog post turns into an email that also goes into my Facebook, I just like spin it, that's a really quick way of getting people or getting your content out there quickly, is to use it in various ways. So if you write a blog post, okay, you turn that blog post into an email, okay, then you turn that content into a Facebook post or Google Plus post or a Twitter post, and boom, you've just turned one piece of content and you've been able to distribute it a whole bunch of different ways and use it, okay, and that goes the same with your video marketing too, because then what I'd sometimes do is I'll create a video, I'll create the video, write the email, because I'm so used to writing email, I generally write the email first, then I send the email, then I write the blog post, or the other way around sometimes. So you can literally, if you do a video, okay, turn that into a blog post, turn it into an email, then spin it all over the social media as well, but make sure that your content is authentic, that it's just sharing you, your story, all the time, and you'll change your life and you will change the lives of other people too, and that's the greatest gift to me is what's happened there, because I know that I have inspired other people, and the fact knowing that I've inspired other people inspires me, it inspires me every single day to learn more and to get better and to keep learning to be the best I can be and get on calls like this even though I'm on 100mg of Oxycontin and I know I'm going to get a brain surge and I just can't talk properly until I get off the medication which hopefully will be in December.

In December I'm going into hospital for a week, and the whole plan is to get me off the Oxycontin and some other drug they're going to give me, but it's not as mind altering as the Oxycontin, and if that works then I'll actually have my mind fully back again. So you know, if I can create content when it takes me longer, it takes me much longer, I have to really concentrate and think about it and go back, it just does with the medication, I thank God I still can. I can't wait to the day I'm off all the medication and able to manage the pain in different ways or not with Oxycontin anymore in particular, and can actually express myself verbally the way I want to again too, because I know what it's like to have nothing. I know what it's like to hate life. I know what it's like to not appreciate anything, and I know what it's like to get out of bed and not be grateful, because I was like that for a long time. If you can relate with that, then you absolutely know how that feels. I know what it's like to be an empty shell and get out of bed every day and not know what I'm going to do with myself and not really be excited about anything whatsoever at all because I didn't have anything that I was really living for. I had to reach down deep inside and realize that, you know what, life's worth living, business is worth building, and there's relationships and experiences that I have yet to have that if I don't go out there and push myself to do the things that make me uncomfortable, then I'm never going to experience the gifts that life has to offer. Guys, making money can do so much more for you than you ever know, making money isn't just about getting a big house and a big car, it's not just about not being able to worry about your bills, it's not just about being able to get your husband or your wife whatever they want when they go into a store or going out to dinner as many times as you want each week, it's not just about all of that, although that stuff's nice, but the ability to be able to use your resources to go out there and affect and inspire people in a way that is magical when you do it, and you do it the right way for the right reason. A lot of people get a lot of money, they get rich, they're super successful, and then they lose touch of why they're doing it in the first place, and the truth of the matter is the sole reason for us doing what we're doing is because there's a bigger purpose here, there's somebody who hasn't heard our message, hasn't been on one of these calls, hasn't seen one of our videos, hasn't been to one of our events yet, and when they do, when they do get on, when they do see your video and get involved in Empower Network because you said something that inspired them to take action, then they're going to quite possibly break free from the struggles and the issues that they're dealing with, whether that's just simply a belief in themselves that they can have success. If you're sitting on this call tonight and you don't believe that you can be successful, then friend, you need to make a decision right here right now and realize and know this, that everybody started out at the same exact place when I got started, and that was with nothing, knowing nothing at step one, and you cannot get to step two, guys, without going through step one, there is no way to get around it or over it, you've got to get through it, you've got to get through all the challenges, you've got to get through all the headaches, you've got to get through the grinder stage, you've got to get through the stage to where you've just got to watch the videos and you've just got to take action, you've got to get through the days here before anything really starts to happen, and then when the results start to kick in and the magic starts to happen, then you look back and you don't damn all of the challenges that you've persevered through, you're thankful for them, you realize that every single thing that you've struggled with, you realize that every single thing that pissed you off, every single thing that I said on a conference call when you said, damn it Dave, screw this, it is about the money, everything that we said was for a reason, you realize that we're saying it because we've been through it and been in the same spot that you are, and it was a decision that we made to take action and get started, because everybody's got to start in the same place, and that's just deciding to order, that's just deciding to get in, that's just deciding to take action, and you realize that's the first step on the journey of the rest of your life. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you that when I got clean, people said to me, Dave, your life is going to be beyond your wildest dreams, and I sat there absolutely shaking with cold sweats because I was actually coming off of Oxycontin, and I was coming off of heroin, and I was coming off of all of the drugs that I'd been doing, and I was detoxing in cold sweat and leg cramping, and I said, fuck you, is what I said to somebody, and I got up and I stormed off. And I can tell you that I recently saw that person, and I went up to him and I gave him a hug and I said thank you, because my life is beyond my wildest, fucking dreams. And guys, I'm going to tell you something, that right here right now you have a decision, no matter how much pain you're in, no matter what situation you're in, no matter how many struggles you went through, no matter what you've had to go through to get to the place that you're at right now, to make a decision and realize that this is the first step in the journey of the rest of your life, and your life too can be beyond your wildest dreams, but you're going to have to go through some shit, you're going to have to make some tough decisions, you're going to have to persevere through some things, you're going to have to go and take action when you don't want to take action, you're going to have to stay up on a call when sometimes you might be tired and you might just have to drink a cup of tea or coffee, you might just have to slap yourself around a little bit when you're on a webinar because we're redoing the 15k formula this week, and you want to know what's on those webinars, and if you don't have that product you need to get that product because a lot of times those webinars go for an hour and a half or two hours and the things that are revealed on those webinars are things that will change your business, and sometimes you gotta do those things when you don't feel like doing them, you gotta do those things when everything in your body is telling you to quit, everything in your body is telling you that you can't go on, and you say, one more step, one more hour, one more word, and you do it, and as a result of you taking that action and doing it, the payoff, which sometimes isn't immediate, is greater and means more than you ever imagined, which is exactly why I'm in Empower as a freaking affiliate, not because I own the company, but because I like to promote the products and I like to be with the people because it inspires me to make a difference in somebody's life, whether that's somebody in a treatment center that I go in and speak to who's dealing with the heartache and heartbreak of screwing up their life like I did for so many years, or whether it's somebody at an event that's sitting there who came there with their arms crossed, skeptic, and said, screw this shit, I'll give you a chance to prove it to me, and I walk up to them at the end of the event and their arms are uncrossed, like Nicole Cooper said, and they're leaning forward and they believe for the first time in a long time. Maybe you're on this call tonight and you haven't believed for a long time, maybe you've lost hope, maybe you forgot what it was like to be inspired, maybe you forgot what it was like to kind of take the armor off, take the mask off, and just be yourself for a day, and realize that the best gift that you can give yourself is to be yourself, and realize that the best gift that you can give the world is to be yourself too. Maybe that's the gift that you're going to give yourself this holiday season, maybe right here right now you're going to make a decision that you're tired of not getting the results that you want, you're tired of not living the life that you know you deserve to live, and you're tired of robbing people of the opportunity to experience your stories that you've been able to overcome, maybe you're going to make a decision right now to overcome all of that and realize that everything in the past is in the past for a reason, to bring you right here where you're at right now on this call, listen to the sound of my voice, and that the sound of my voice is a voice that understands where you're at and where you've been, and also knows where you want to go, and I can tell you this, that where I'm at and where I've been is a place that I can't describe in words, and I can hoot and holler and rant and rave, and I can get on stage and jump up and down, and I can stay up all hours of the night at the events when I'm tired as hell and can't speak the next day because I just want to get one more picture with you, not just because you want to get one more picture with me, because I love you, because I enjoy the people, because this is what I live for. And I'm going to tell you that everything that I've done, all of the challenges I've been through, all of the shit that I've overcame, all of the times that I almost died, I couldn't do it, were all worth it, because when I look back at my life, not only over the last year but over the last five years, six years, seven years, every single challenge was 100% worth it, because I made a decision one day to turn all of my liabilities into my greatest assets and realize that what I had inside of me was what I needed to succeed, and I just needed somebody to show me how to organize that stuff in a way that allowed me to commit and communicate that message to the world and inspire them, and that's what I've been able to do. You're hearing from a guy who the judges, all of the friends, parents, everybody who met me in the streets, all of the lawyers, all of the people who saw me in the drug treatment center said that guy's got potential but he will never be anything, and today I look back and I thank every single one of them, because they gave me the fuel to the fire that I needed to get to the next day, every single person who ever doubted me and every single person who ever loved me, I thank them and love them equally for the same reason, because they gave me exactly what I needed at that moment to get through that situation and get to the next day, because life, friends, is a day by day thing, it's not a month by month thing, and it's not a year by year thing, it's a day by day thing, and you've got to learn how to live in the day, and you've got to learn how to live day to day, and you've got to learn how to find something in each day that's going to inspire you to get to the next day. And if you can learn to do that, if you learn how to get up in the morning and focus, if you learn how to get up in the morning and focus on the things that are going to make you money, and basically focus on the things that are going to inspire other people, because those are the things that make you money, and if you can learn to do that, guys, your life is going to turn into something that you absolutely cannot believe, and I'm going to be there to witness it, and I'm going to be there to be a part of it, and I'm going to be there to support you and hold you up, and we're all going to be there to support you and hold you up when you're having a great month and you have a shitty month, the next month shows up, and that's just what human beings have to go through to be human beings. Why? And why are we going to be there? Because that's what we do, and that's what this is all about.

And the day that I can't do that is the day that I stop. Guys, a couple of years ago, I knew in my heart that I had to do something that made a difference in people's lives, or I wasn't going to find it in me to keep going. And I'm going to tell you that I had no idea I'd be talking to you on this conference call tonight when I was swinging a hammer on a construction site, or I was in a treatment center not knowing what my future was going to bring me year to year, month to month, or even day to day. I had no idea that I was going to be on a call or be on stage or be surrounded by tens of thousands of people around the world who had the same ideas and the same mentality that I had when I was at my lowest point in life. But sometimes you don't realize why you're going through something.

Until you get to the other side of it. And friends, whatever you're going through right now is exactly what you are supposed to be going through to get to the other side, and is exactly where you are supposed to be at right here, right now, at this second in your life. And the second that you embrace that, and the second that you believe that, and the second that you know that with every fiber of your soul and heart and mind is the second that you're going to be able to get to the other side of it. You will release the inner badass inside of you to go out there and make a difference in the world. To make the difference that you were supposed to make when you were born.

To make a difference that whoever the maker is has planned for you. Because friend, I'm going to tell you something. You've got more potential than you know. You're going to make a bigger impact than you can ever imagine. And your journey has just begun.

Tonight, tonight is the first night. And the rest of your life. Let's rock it out, guys. Meet us in freaking Austin. Be on the webinar on Thursday.

And meet us next Monday on the Monday night call, guys. And let's make this freaking week a week that we'll never forget because we made a decision and realized that everything that we needed was already inside of us. And we're absolutely in the right place at the right time with the right people who are going to show us how to take all of the badassness inside of us and turn it in. It's not only a full-time income and not only a business that's going to pay for the rest of our lives, but also is the power and the potential that we have inside of us to go out there and affect one person, two people, ten people in the masses. Because I'm going to tell you what, friend.

You are a badass and you don't even know it yet. A lot of you do know it. And for those of you who do know it, congratulations. Welcome to the other side. I'm going to freaking unmute the lines and I want you to scream your head off.

And I want you to say, I'm a badass and I want you to believe it in your heart, baby, because you are. I love you all. Good night. Although you're listening to a private recording in a non-disclosure Empower Network customer training, the principles and strategies in this audio can be applied in any business. Although these techniques, philosophies, and strategies may have worked for others, no one can guarantee that they will work for you.

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