Lessons Learned From the Masters of the Industry

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To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php. Hey everyone, Chris Record here. Welcome to the Empower Hour Call. It's really exciting right now. We've got a bunch of us leaders out in Miami, Florida.

We've been out here brainstorming and masterminding this entire past week with tons of exciting new announcements for you. We're going to talk to you about a new contest that we're going to be unloading on. Everybody, it's going to be a mad sprint. It's going to be awesome. So what I want you to do is I want you to get present.

I want you to pull out a pen and paper and take some notes, because in a minute I'm going to introduce someone that's going to come out and break down a lot of what we've been doing this past week, and a lot about this up-and-coming contest. And I'm telling you right now, it's time to get excited, because the playing field has been leveled. This is a contest that anybody's going to have a chance to win. And we've got about a 30% most badass event that Empower Network has ever put together, period. So what I want you to do right now is get straight fired up.

What is the feedback you're hearing from your team? What is the feedback that you're hearing out there in the field? What would help you and your team go make more money? And everything we did this entire week was really based around you, the feedback that you've given us, so that we can help empower you to be able to make this year the best year of your life, to be able to make this business where you've had the most success you've had anywhere, to be able to help you to make more money, help you to create more traffic, help you to get more leads for your business, help you to free up more time so you can spend it with your family. Whatever those goals are, you should be straight fired up that you are in Empower Network because now you have a chance to achieve them with a real company doing just amazing things.

And so it's my privilege to be able to introduce this call to you tonight and introduce the next speaker. You all know him very well. He's one of the original co-founders of Empower Network himself. You get a chance to hear directly from the guy running the show. His name is David Sharp.

If you haven't had a chance to meet him in person, you're going to be able to do that in Denver. He's going to be there along with David Wood. David Sharp is going to break this down for you right now, what we've done this whole entire last week. So take out a pen and paper and get ready to just be blown away by these amazing announcements that are coming. So with that being said, I want to check to see if David Sharp is out on the line.

David, are you there? What's up, my brother? I'm here. Thanks for the intro. Appreciate you, man.

And we're actually just hanging out here in Miami, having a good time, masterminding, coming up with the vision of the company. And it's just an honor and a privilege to be able to hang out with leaders of the caliber that we have here at Empower. It's something special when you gather around. And what I'm reminded of is actually back in the day, and I can remember because I kind of grew up as an athlete, and watching sports was one of my passions. And I would sit around and I'd be watching back in the Michael Jordan days, the Scotty Pippen days, the days of all these greats, and they gathered this dream team together.

And I just remember this dream team when I was watching the Olympics, one year just going and kind of traveling around the world, and just literally crushing the competition. And that was the first time that I ever saw the power of a mastermind assembled in real powerful leadership coming together for a common purpose. And that's what I've experienced this week. So I want to just give our leadership, first and foremost, the credit and the edification they deserve, Chris Record being one of them, all of the people on the Leadership Mastermind Council, because this company, and I've just got to – I like to just be completely transparent and authentic and just give credit where credit's due. This company is where it's at, not only because there's a great vision behind it, but also because our hearts are in the right place, but most importantly, because of the quality of the leadership that we have here at Empower.

So guys, listen, if you have an opportunity to get around some of the people that are putting up big numbers who are leading armies in their teams, the Chris Records, the Aaron Raskins, the Chris Campbell, and Chris Jones. The Vic Streithaus, the Tracy Walkers, the Justin Brengius, the Lawrence Tams, the Chuck Marshalls, all of these people who are regular people just like you, but are going out there creating massive above-average results, then guys, you've got to take that opportunity. Listen, we've got thousands of people on the call tonight, and I'm just in a place this week to where I'm relaxed. I'm really kind of sitting back, and I'm looking at where we can really take this thing. Okay.

Okay. And I'm just going to let you know that moving forward, what we've done up until this point is nothing compared to what we're going to do here in the future. I can remember a time back when I was just kind of getting back on my feet in life. And I can tell you that I was sitting on the balcony this weekend looking over one of, and I say this a lot because I see a lot of beautiful stuff, but I was looking at one of the most beautiful scenes that I have ever seen in my entire life. And I can tell you that when I started in this business, when I started in this industry, my dream was not to go out there and live in big fancy houses and my dream was not to go out there and drive big fancy cars.

My dream was to get out there and find a way that I could share my story, make enough money to stop working a job that I knew was not my purpose or reason for living on this earth and go out there and impact and change people's lives. For me, and I don't know about you, if you can relate to this or not, but I'm the type of guy who just puts my head down and I just take action. I mean, that's just who I am. I don't come up for air.

I don't spend a whole lot of time getting ready to get ready. And for those of you who are really listening into what I'm saying, you may be feeling compelled lately to take action. Who knows? Maybe you spend a lot of time getting ready to get ready. I don't know.

I'm telling you, though, my success has been in direct proportion to my ability to be able to just take action. So it's only been recently that I've kind of come up for air. We've been building strong and hard here for the last 18 months at Empower. And I was sitting over this balcony a couple of days ago and I looked over at Aaron and I said, honey, this is not what I ever dreamed. This is not what I ever imagined.

I just wanted to have the opportunity to be able to do something with my life. I had no idea. I didn't know what was possible. I did a call a couple of weeks ago to where I talked about stretching your vision. And I told a bunch of stories about some experiences that have happened with me over the last couple of years to where I thought I knew what was possible, but I really had no idea.

Just like when we first started this company, Dave and I sit in a room building out the vision of what we wanted to do and the intention of what we wanted to do the first 30 days. And our intention was to bring in 2,000 customers. And we ended up bringing in 10,000 customers, right? So my vision has just continued. Everybody stretched over time.

But I was looking out over one of the most beautiful, majestic views that I've ever seen down here in Miami Beach. And I realized that what was possible as I stood around and I talked to the leaders and we brainstormed and we masterminded. And I'm going to talk about some of the things that are coming here on this call. I want to give you guys a little bit of a glimpse because as you're sitting wherever you're sitting or wherever you're standing or if you're like me, you're pacing back and forth because you're all excited and pumped up because you just know what time it is and what's coming on these Monday night calls.

I want to remind you that, number one, you're so much more powerful than you know that you are. Number two, you can do so much more than you may think that you can do right here right now. And number three, so much more is possible in your life. What your goals are right now, what your dreams are right now, they're going to get stretched. The possibility is going to get greater.

Things are going to get more. They're going to become bigger, right, as you stay involved and plugged in. And most importantly, get started around people who are going to continue to stretch your vision.

That's what it's all about. That's what Empower is about. That's what the leaders are about. It's not only about going out there and helping somebody make money. It's not only about going out there and helping somebody quit their job and become financially free.

It's also about expanding and stretching and challenging somebody to do more than what they think they can do. And this past week and this weekend and actually for the last three or four weeks I've been traveling around the country just going out there and meeting with people. Helping people. Helping to transform people's business. Working with people.

Going out there. I've been to a couple of team events. I've gone out to a couple of mastermind sessions with other people. I did a little team event myself down here in Miami. And I'm going to tell you something.

The power of getting better and more influential and growing inside of this business is by getting around people who are doing things that you're not doing and who are thinking in ways that you're not thinking. And I'm going to tell you what is going to happen at Denver, guys. It's going to be beyond your wildest imagination. Number one, the ability to be able to connect with people like the Chris Records, like the Aaron Raskins, like the Lawrence Hams and the Toby and Layla's and the Chris and Chris and the Vic and the Dave Woods and all of us that are no different than you are. Really, we put our pants on the same way.

If you cut us, we actually bleed blood. It's weird. But who are doing above average things. Average people doing above average extraordinary things inside of their business and their life. But you're also going to have the opportunity, which is one of my favorite parts of Empower.

So, really, really, really take an honest look at your life and business and really get clarity about what you need to change. Because I know for you, just like it was for me, right? And it still is. This is not a journey, guys, of becoming financially free. It's really not.

A lot of people come into this business and they think of this journey of making money. It's not, right? It's a journey of breaking free from the self-made prisons that we create inside of our own lives and becoming okay with who we are inside of our own skin, developing our own greatness, coming out of our shell, releasing our badass and going out there and impacting and influencing the world in ways that oftentimes we don't even know that we can do, right?

So, when you come, you're going to get clear on exactly what it is that you need to do with the areas that you need to improve and who you need to connect with to create a game plan and a blueprint so you can take your business and your life to where it needs to go. Guys, this is a leadership factory that we're creating here. And what's going to happen in Denver is going to blow your mind, guys. And I can't really release the details, but here's what I am going to say is we're going to be doing something very, very specific, okay? And, again, I can't talk about the details because it's going to be a hardcore NDA, no excuses, no exceptions to get in.

You're going to have to sign an NDA to be able to come into the room because we're going to be releasing some things in Denver that are absolutely going to change the game. And here's the cool thing because I've always heard guys and gals say change the game inside of this industry for years. You know, they'd like maybe change the ingredients to maybe a product or something like that. Or, you know, maybe roll out what they would call a quote-unquote enhancement to the comp plan or something like that. But it was never really, you know, a game changer.

Guys, what we're going to roll out in Denver, and let me just kind of be super clear about this, is not only going to change the game inside of our profession, but it's going to change the game on the entire World Wide Web, okay? What we've had cooking and brewing in the background for the last 9 to 12 months is going to happen. It's going to absolutely impact people all over the world. It's going to change the way that people, marketers, Internet marketers, network marketers, and entrepreneurs use the Internet. It's going to change the way that people communicate with people.

It's going to change the way and the speed somebody can get started. It's going to change the way that people connect with their audience. It's going to change the speed in which people go out there and have the ability to get their message out into the world, okay? So things are going to be changing drastically. And as important, because a lot of affiliates are on this call, people are going to have the opportunity to take part and an opportunity to go out there and obviously have some big, massive financial breakthroughs.

And that's something that excites me just as much as rolling out new products and doing new promotions and things like that, is that I got in this business for a couple of reasons. Number one was to change my life. Number two was to make money and help people make money too. And number three was to help people transform their life. So becoming financially successful.

And number four was to create a game plan and roll out something in Denver that is not only going to change this profession and this industry, but it's also going to go out there and change the way that people use the Internet and market online, as or more importantly, depending on why you're here. Because we do have some people that are just cool that just like to plug into what we're doing. And some of them don't even like to participate in our affiliate program because our products are just so good and valuable, and more importantly, they like to just be around us. But for those of you who want to make a lot of money, right, plugging into what we're doing in Denver, when we roll out what I'm talking about, which I can't give the details on this call, you have to be in Denver to find out what's going on, guys are going to have the opportunity to have a big, big, big, big month, big quarter, and a big year, guys.

I feel like right here, right now, and I'll tell you a little bit of a funny story. I was in Denver. I was in Denver not too long ago. I took my dad out there. For those of you who don't know, I took my dad out to Denver.

My dad, about five years ago, right, when I got clean, and for those of you who don't know, maybe just first time on an Empower Hour call, I struggled with addiction and alcohol for 10 years. I was homeless for many of those years, running off and on the streets, jumping from couch to couch, from house to house, from trailer to trailer, sleeping in my car. When I didn't have a car, I was left with nothing but, you know, just, you know, to find my way on the streets and find shelter. That's what I did for 10 long years. When I got clean, I went over to my dad's house, kind of found my way to his house, and he let me sleep on his couch.

And about three months into that, he went on a vacation to Colorado. And when he came back, he was absolutely a different person. It was almost like he went out there, and he just had a defining moment in his life, and he found something that he loved, right? But for the next couple of years, he went skiing. For the next couple of years, he couldn't afford to go back.

So about, I would say, probably six months ago, just a little bit after Austin, our event in Austin, my dad and I was with him, and he said, son, you know, man, I really wish, you know, some friends and family are going out skiing, and I really wish that I could go out and go skiing with them. And I said, oh, that's, you know, that sucks. I wish you could go too.

And I kind of thought about it but didn't say much and called him back a week later and said, dad, pack your bags. We're going skiing. And I took him out on a vacation. I took him out on a vacation for a week long out to Denver, Colorado, just he and I. And I like to do those things to spend time with my family because that's what I got involved in this business in the first place for was to be able to do the things with the people that I want to do them, when I want to do them, how I want to do them, and have as much fun with people that I love as I possibly can.

So I called him up, took him out there. We spent a week out there in actually Steamboat Springs. And I didn't know how to ski. My strategy was turn, turn, tumble down the hills. I remember just kind of getting out.

I was out there and thinking that I was going to go out there and be able to kick some major tail out there on the slopes. And I'll tell you what, I busted my butt several times, right, out there on the slopes. I mean, it was not a pretty situation, right? But when I was out there, I was able to get in touch with a different part of Mother Nature. I was able to see things that I hadn't saw before because I grew up in Florida.

And, you know, I mean, we don't have mountains. We don't have snow. When I was up there, I saw a couple of mountains. Almost like many avalanches come down. What I feel like the situation that we're in right now with Empower, with what's coming here over the course of the next couple of months, I feel like is an actual avalanche.

And I feel like there's going to be people who are going to be good skiers, right, just like I wasn't at the time because my strategy, of course, was turn, turn, tumble down the freaking hill. But I feel like there's people who are going to be smart, who are going to take advantage of what's coming. And, again, I can only tell you, that it's the biggest thing that we've ever done inside of Empower Network. But they're going to take advantage of what's coming and be a good skier or get good here over the course of the next 30 days and be in front of that avalanche. Or there's going to be people who are going to be behind that avalanche.

And it's up to you to decide where you're going to be inside of that avalanche. But, guys, I'm going to tell you something that's going to be big. So you can get tickets. First of all, if you're not in, just get in. We've got thousands of people on this call tonight.

And if you're not in Empower, just get in, right? I'm not going to hammer that home. I'm not going to say that a million times. But by now, you should probably realize that it's time to join.

You've seen what we've done. You've seen what we've been doing over the course of the last 18 months. You've seen the lives that have been impacted. I almost get tired of talking about the success and talking about how much money people are making because it's a proven model now. Now we're into the phase to where we're out there really trying to develop leaders and transform lives.

We're over the part of going out there and proving that we can help people become successful. Look, we've proved that. Now we're in the place to where we're looking to go out there and transform people's lives and help them get to the next level, help them step into their power, help them really live their dreams and go out there and become the person they were meant to be. Listen, I've seen stories, people, guys, gals, over the course of the last 18 months who just were completely different people 18 months ago. I've seen people like Toby and Layla step into their power, right?

I've seen people like Tony Rush who were a little bit burnt out, didn't know if they wanted to do this industry anymore, turn around and go from burnout and financially distressed to earning over six figures a month, right? I've seen people like Laura Parrish who have never earned a dollar inside of this industry go from walking up to me at an event and saying, I'm going to be your next leader on stage. And I said, I believe that you will, to being one of our main speakers at our last event inside of Chicago within six months, having our first big-time five-figure month the month before that event. I've seen people like Tissa who was literally invited to a speaker's training and did not have the money to afford a hotel room in Austin, three months later come back with a team to Chicago making enough money to not only pay off his mortgage but also to give his wife, his family the life that they deserve, right? I've seen a lot.

I've seen a lot of people do a lot of things that maybe they didn't even think that they could do, but we're in a phase now to where we're really interested in going out there and impacting people's lives on a deeper level, right? We're interested in impacting more people's lives. We're interested in really seeing how many leaders we can develop because, guys, this is not about Dave and I. It never was, right? And it's not about making money.

It never was. Listen, I'm not in this for that. I'm in this because, guys, five years ago when I got clean, I realized that the thing that was going to give me freedom, serenity, and peace and was really going to keep me fueled was going to be going out there and helping people because I can still remember, and I tell this story a lot, but I can still remember detoxing off of drugs five years ago and some change, which I'm still clean and sober today and it's been five years and three months, but I can remember going out there and it's all I wanted to do was stay clean for a day, right? And a guy named Samuel told me, Dave, there's going to be one day that you are not going to be doing this for yourself. You're going to be doing this for somebody else.

And I could not believe him at that moment. I did not believe him at that moment because all I was doing was I wanted to just stay clean for one day. And lo and behold, 90 days later, I found myself speaking in a treatment center, carrying a message of hope and inspiration that somebody else could do what I had done. And a young man walked up to me at the end of that meeting and he said, what you said, my friend, gave me hope for the very first time in a long time. And that was when I knew that my life would never be the same again.

And I've carried that same passion and that same purpose into this business. And that's exactly why I do what I do. So guys, I want you to rally around that purpose. I want you to rally around that vision. I want you to rally around the cause of why we're really doing what we're doing here.

Because if you're anything like me, you've heard the what's your why inside of this business. And for a lot of people, and even me at one point in my life, my why was a lot different than it is today. But guys, I'm going to tell you, there's a bigger purpose for you in life. Yes, I want you to retire your spouse. Yes, I want you to give your kids the life that they deserve.

I also know that there's somebody out there and most likely there's hundreds, thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to hear your story, who need to hear what you have to say, who need you to get through the struggle that you're going through right now so you can go out there and share that inspiration, share that hope with them and impact their lives, maybe even help them become financially free. And go out and do the same thing to somebody else. So guys, meet us in Denver. Not only are you going to walk away a different person than you came, and I can guarantee that. You will not be the same person when you're leaving as you are when you come.

And if there's some wind in the background, I'm actually standing outside here down in Miami. It's a beautiful, windy night, so I apologize about that. But guys, listen, you won't leave the same person that you came. Log into your back office and get tickets. If you're just joining tonight and by now you know that it's time to join, right?

It's time to just get in. It's time to decide. But when you join, what I want you to do is I want you to log in and I want you to get your tickets to the event in Denver and I want you to meet us there. Listen, we have people who drive there, they fly there, they run there. I mean, people do whatever they got to do to get to these events because they know that there is something that they're going to experience there that's going to make a difference and change their life.

We just did an event down here in Miami. We learned some things about doing events that are going to make this event even better than the last event. It's not a pitch fest. You're not going to come there and get a bunch of gurus up on a stage pitching you a bunch of ridiculous products that you don't want or need. You're going to get what you need, what you came for, what you deserve, which is a breakthrough.

And guys, I'm going to tell you something. Chicago was just bad to the bone, but Denver is going to blow it out of the water, okay? For the contest, we're launching a new contest tonight, okay? I'm excited about this contest. It's a 30-day contest.

All the details are going to be up on the site here by tomorrow, okay? But the contest is going to go live tonight at midnight. The point system is going to go as follows. If you want to write this down for your notes, please do. If not, just go out there and kick some ass tonight and you can look at the points and the contest details tomorrow.

It's going to be 25 points when you sell a new blogging membership, okay? It's going to be 25 points when you sell a ticket to Denver. It's going to be 50 points when you get two blogging customers in a day and get a ticket sold to somebody on your team to Denver, okay? And it is going to be, what is it, 100, 150 points. Here's the real kicker, okay?

We're going to do something a little bit different, okay? We're going to give a 150-point bonus to anybody when somebody on your team who has bought a ticket shows up at the event, right? So this is a level-the-playing-field-type move here, okay? We want everybody to be able to have the opportunity to be able to place in this contest and you'll see why that's so important here in just a second. But guys, this is not just based on production.

It's based on getting your team to the event. And guys, the bottom line is when you get your team to the event, I'm going to tell you something, it just changes your business and it changes your income. We've had people here, and guys, listen, I'm going to just throw out the income disclosure here because I haven't done it yet, but I'm just going to do it because, listen, I like to give full disclosure. I like to protect our opportunity and our company and I like to give everybody enough information so they can make well-informed decisions. We actually publish average earnings at empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php.

There's no guarantee of any income. Some people make no money at all, so on and so forth. Guys, I think you know the routine. You know the deal. Everything is straight up here and we'd rather tell you that you've got to absolutely work your tail off to build this business than ever tell you that it's easy.

But guys, I've seen people come to the event and have massive, massive, massive days, right? Because not only are people making decisions to get all in at the event, but also you've got team members who are being pushed over the edge, right? They're pushed over that decision-making breakthrough point to where they realize they're in the right place at the right time and that's probably going to happen to you as well because when you see what happens in Denver, guys, what we roll out and just when you feel the energy, let me give you a little bit of training here inside of this call here real quick. Listen, guys, a lot of times people get involved in a network marketing or an internet marketing opportunity for the money, right? They'll get involved because they want to quit their job.

They'll get involved because they want to change their life, make more money on the side. Obviously, they'll buy the products because they need what's inside of them. Lots of people are buying our products because we've got the best internet marketers in the game all involved in what we're doing here and they want to know what the heck they're doing, right? Guys, people stay around because of how they feel. They stay around because of how they feel.

There's organizations in our profession that keep people around for decades, right, who are just not interested in building a business. Why do they do that and how do they do that? They stay around because of how they feel. When you come to Denver and you bring your team to Denver, what it's doing is creating a family atmosphere. You're building value in a relationship.

You're injecting your team member who maybe for the last how many ever years may have been around somebody who is not inspiring and encouraging them like they're going to get inspired and encouraged in Denver. You're going to have somebody who walks in and they're going to come alive that weekend. You're going to see the fire in their eyes that weekend. You're going to have somebody on your team who's going to start dreaming for the first time in a long time that weekend. You're going to have people start to really see the world through different eyes that weekend.

You're going to have people walk out of that room inside of Denver who are going to walk out a completely different person with a completely different feeling about the world in themselves because you love them enough, because you care about them enough to tell them that not only they deserve to be there but guys, I'm going to tell you the difference between somebody I know who loves me and somebody who just kind of is my acquaintance is they tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear. I learned that lesson the hard way because for the majority of my life I surrounded myself with people who always told me what I wanted to hear. Oh, Dave, you're not that bad. Oh, Dave, you can recover from that. Oh, Dave, you can go out and continue to screw that up.

Oh, Dave, that decision you made was really not as bad as they're all saying that it is. And you know what? My life changed when I got around people who said, Dave, it's time to shape up or ship out. Stop being a wussy and get your butt in gear. And that's when I really started to make a change inside of my life.

So guys, I'm here to tell you tonight the same thing that not only do you deserve to be in Denver, but you need to be in Denver, right? And I'm not just going to tell you that. You're going to hear it from a couple other leaders tonight. But guys, I'm so pumped about not only Denver, but what we're doing in Denver. It's hard for me to sleep at night.

We actually showed some of the leaders in the Mastermind Council this weekend what we're rolling out. And, you know, listen, I can't talk too much about it, but I'm pumped. I'm pumped. And I'm always pumped, but I'm super pumped right now because this is going to not just change our profession. It's going to change the way that people market on the Internet.

It's going to change the way that people have the ability to share their story on the Internet. It's going to change the way people are able to build their business on the Internet. And it's just big stuff. Back to the contest. Guys, a contest is an opportunity for you to get exposure.

It's an opportunity for you to get out there and get your face up on stage. I've seen people have breakthroughs because they participated in a show and placed in a contest. I've seen somebody get into, and I'm standing in front of them right now, a guy like Peter Sorensen who this guy just comes to all the events. And for some reason, it's weird, last month he just had his first, and guys, again, this is not a guarantee of income, right? And I don't want to make this claim as if this is, you know, average, but the guy just had his first 30,000 month last month.

Why is that? Well, he gets to all the events, right? Gets to all the freaking events. It's weird what happens when you actually do what the people who are getting results are doing and telling you to do. And the cool thing about Empower is that we're actually doing what we're teaching you to do, which is just weird because the majority of the time, you'll have a company owner who says, oh, go sell my products.

Go sell my products and I'll just sit here on the top of my executive suite here in the corner with my fancy suit on and, you know, I'll make all the money while you do all the work. Well, that's just not what we believe in here, right? We believe in giving you guys the opportunity to be able to go out there and put forth the work, and get the credit that you deserve, and make the money that you deserve. So guys, this contest, I actually had a breakthrough in a contest and actually hooked up with a lot of the leaders that are now inside of Empower by placing inside of a contest, an affiliate contest that I did. Actually, Aaron and Sophia Raskin who's standing right next to me, I first met them in an affiliate contest prize, little mastermind event that was going on for the top 10 in an affiliate contest.

And that relationship now, I've earned tens of thousands of dollars from that relationship. Right now, not only are we great friends, but I've earned tens of thousands of dollars from that relationship all from a contest. It's weird. I remember floating in Austin, Texas on rafts and stuff meeting these guys. Look, we're still hanging out to this day.

He's right here. He's about to pop on the phone. It's the power of placing in a contest and getting around people who, and I like to call it partnering up as Les Brown would like to say, partnering up inside of your business, getting around people who are doing bigger things than you're doing. If you have the opportunity, and actually there's, I'm going to say the prizes here in a second, if you have the opportunity to get around somebody who's doing bigger things in their life and business than you, it's a no-brainer, right? If you have the opportunity to come to an event and shake an Aaron Raskin's hands or a Chris Record's hands or a Vic Streisand's hands or a Dave Wood's hands, then it's a no-brainer, right?

How bad do you really want this? So as far as prizes go, guys, we're going to have a $25,000 first prize, okay? $10,000 second prize. $5,000 third prize. I believe a $2,000 fourth prize.

A $1,000 fifth prize. We're going to have some cool tech gadgets, cameras, computers, or something for 6 through 10. And guys, I want you to really pay close attention to this part. The top 50 in this contest are going to be able to cross the stage, get on stage, get recognized, get a picture in front of 6,000, 7,000 people inside of Denver, and get up there and get some dang recognition, right? Be celebrating.

You know how we do in Empower. We don't just celebrate you, right? We just absolutely go crazy for you. So the top 50, get a picture on stage in front of 7,000 people, shake some hands, cross the stage, get some massive love from the Empower Network family. Top 200, get to meet us in a leadership mastermind meeting on Friday night.

And that's just going to be a meet and greet with Dave and I, all of the leaders. We're going to have a leadership training, a leadership discussion, talking about the vision of where we're going and what we're going to be doing over the weekend. So that's something that has impacted and changed a lot of people's businesses when they got into that mastermind. And it will yours too when you get in at Denver. So guys, the contest is a big deal.

Get raring. Get ready to go. You've got 30 days here, around 30 days. Remember, contest details are going to be emailed out tonight. There's going to be a page made.

Everything will be up. Everything will be there for you to check out. I'm just excited. I'm more pumped up than I've ever been in my entire life. I'm completely, completely recharged.

We've got leadership here who has your best intentions in mind. There's not a bunch of back, you know, and, you know, I challenge you. I challenge you to go up to your team leader and ask him or her what is really going on. Where are these guys' hearts at? Because what they're going to tell you is that they've never been around a group of people that are so successful and so influential but have such little ego, because guys, the real purpose of what we're doing here is to lift you up.

It's no other reason. Right? There's all of the leaders here who can make money in anything they're doing but they see a bigger purpose just like I was talking about at the beginning of this call with the dream team. Guys, we've assembled a dream team here of people who are here because they want to be here. Aaron Raskin is not here because he's being paid to be here.

There's never any, look, he bought the products and went all in just like you bought the products and went all in. Right? We're here because we want to be here. We're here because we want to lift you up and empower you to be the person that you were meant to be, to build the business that you deserve, to take your family where they deserve to be taken, to step into your power, to go out there and change, to tell your story. Right?

To be the person that you want to be. And if you don't want to wear a suit, you don't have to wear a suit. If you want to wear flip flops and walk around barefoot on stage, you can wear flip flops and walk around barefoot on stage. If you want to wear tank tops like Dave Sharp on stage and be ridiculous, you can do that. Right?

Guys, this is about you. This is an opportunity for you to do something that you may have never had the opportunity to do before in your life. This is an opportunity for you to go out there and change somebody's life. This is an opportunity for you to do more than just build a business for yourself. It's an opportunity for you to go out there and build a business for other people.

And I learned this lesson just like I shared with you earlier on this call that there's power and there's payoff in doing something for yourself. But there is an unbelievable internal change that happens when you go out there and you serve other people. And you go out there and you build a business with other people's best intentions in mind. And I'm going to tell you something. What we're doing here is unlike anything I've ever been involved with.

Right? But I don't want you to just hear it from me. Right? I want to throw on Aaron Rashkin here because this guy, when he came into the company, this was a guy who had been in the business for 15 or 20 years. Right?

He'd seen all the ups and downs. He'd been involved with other companies. He'd been a top producer and a top earner. Right? And he joined with us back when we were one or two months into this business and went through all of our startup struggles with us.

Believed in us. Even in nights when we didn't believe in ourselves. Right? Because that's what this team is about. I'm out here walking around on a tennis court with Chris Record, Peter, Aaron, and Sophia Rashkin.

And Chris and Chris is walking around here somewhere. And guys, you know what? The only thing we've been talking about this weekend is you. So with that being said, I'm going to turn it over to Aaron. He's going to give you his thoughts.

He's welcome to talk about whatever he wants. But I'm going to tell you something. He was excited about what's rolling out. But I've got to hold him to it. He can't talk about it because everybody here has sworn a secrecy.

So with that being said, Rashkin, brother, over to you. Yeah, it's almost like he can hit the ball over to me. We're actually standing on this tennis court here at the host hotel of the Leadership Council Mastermind that took place here just over the last weekend. And man, I'll tell you what, Sophie and I have been in Miami, Dave, now for I think this is our ninth day. And, you know, we didn't have to come out here early.

You know why we did? Because we could. Because of what Empower provides us and it provides our family and it provides all these members, thousands of people, you know, tens of thousands of affiliates all over the world. And we're standing out here on an empty tennis court in the middle of Miami at one of these beautiful hotels on the beach. And the only reason that we're standing out here is because it's the only spot in the hotel that we can get good reception and it was quiet enough to actually jump on a call with thousands of people.

And that is just a testament to Dave, your leadership and what you brought to this company. I mean, what you and Dave have done, in my opinion, I've been around for two decades in this industry. The way you guys treat the team and the people has transcended anything that we've ever seen. And this is why over dinner about an hour ago we're sitting there having a sushi dinner with Dave Sharp and his beautiful partner Aaron and myself and Sophia, Chris Campbell and his wife and Chris Jones and his wife and Chris Record and Peter and we're sitting there having dinner and we're talking about what Empower Network has actually done here. This is the equivalent of a $200 million company.

And my friends, that is not very common. I don't even think there's more than a couple of companies in our industry, even outside of our industry that do that kind of business in its first 18 months, let alone the first six months, being attempted to be shut down, you know, banks attempting to shut the company down and hackers trying to get into the database and the internet, you know, crashing, or the servers crashing when the database got overloaded, and all of the resistance that came from all of the, you know, the big wigs and the network marketing and the home-based business industry trying to stop the movement whose time is now. And that's never been done before and what we see happening here is unbelievable. And Dave, I'll tell you right now when we were on that bus on Sunday, last Sunday, just a little bit over a week ago, a week ago yesterday, you and I were sitting in the back of the bus with some of our friends, Jordan and Chris Rushlow and Laura Parrish, and there's a young lady sitting next to you on the bus in one of those seats and she looked around and she says, God, I'm embarrassed. I'm one of the lowest earners in the entire bus.

I'm one of the smallest, most income earners in the entire group here. And I remember, Dave, you turned to her and you said, Ashley, how much have you actually made? And Dave and I looked at each other and started high-fiving across the whole bus because we're sitting there laughing. And here she is. Now, she is a top income earner, obviously.

You know, very part-time. She does it all online. She does it without picking up the phone and prospecting or doing three-ways or trying to recruit her friends and family. She does it all online part-time and without using the phone much. And when one person does well like that, it raises an entire company.

It raises an entire community. It brings up the entire industry. And, you know, laugh sometimes because people don't realize that in this company, that's about average. There's thousands of people making money in Empower Network. You know, each week the company pays out, you know, seven figures.

To their members. And we're just an affiliate company. You know, we're not some multi-level marketing company. We're not corporate, you know, CEOs and CFOs, you know, pushing pens at big mahogany desks. We're hanging out in tank tops and shorts, going jet skiing over some of the beautiful beaches around the world, some of the nicest beaches in the world, and spending time with real people in real places and for the right reasons.

And I just can't tell you how exciting it is to be a part of what we have going on here. And, you know, just this past Saturday, right, the leadership council, we were taken out on this incredible 120-foot yacht, right, Dave and Dave, of course, they bring their team out here to Miami and we go out on this incredible yacht and in the middle of the yacht ride, I jump onto my computer and, you know, picked up internet with a hotspot and get on the Skype and there's an event going on over in Portugal with the amazing Silvio, the fortune maker, Fortunato, and, you know, he has a room full of 100, I don't know, 140, 150 people out there in Portugal and, you know, he's got members all over the world that are tuning in to what he's doing and, you know, this is just a glimpse of what's coming. It's happening there. It's happening in the UK.

It's happening in Australia. It's happening in Southeast Asia. It's happening every corner of the globe right now. The quiet rumblings are about Empower Network. Now, we haven't been so quiet, obviously, right, with the incredible numbers that we've put up here in the last 18 months, but it's kind of rumbling right now.

Just in the bubble. Here's what's happening. In 31 days, we're going to all meet in Denver, Colorado. And it's going to be an event that will be the launching pad for thousands of people's lives that they never even knew existed. Because what we saw yesterday up in Dave and Dave's presidential condominium suite up at the top of this hotel up the street that we're at right now, we got a chance to stand literally behind Casey, the CEO of this company, and to see what is being unveiled in 31 days.

And it is not just a game changer, it is a life changer. It will change not just the way you do business, but it will change the way you live your life. It will change the things you do on a daily basis to the point where it's going to allow you to develop new skills, to develop new relationships, it's going to allow you to develop a new following bigger, better, and faster than anything we've seen in this industry. Now, I mentioned earlier, I've been in the industry for two decades. Dave talked about that.

I've been around for, you know, quite a long time. I was there in the dot-com boom. I was there when the dot-com bombed. In Y2K, the year 2000, just 13 years ago, I was there when the very first internet marketing companies started. When we used to go into chat rooms and AOL and Yahoo.

So I've been really around the industry for some time. You know, back when it was like the wild, wild west, the frontier of the internet. And never have I seen anything as damn cool as what is coming that you're going to get to see in Denver on July 31st. I want to talk about something really important. It's called First Mover's Advantage.

It's about positioning yourself in front of a giant wave. Now, today I was out on the beach with my sons. You know, our boys were out and I went down to the beach and there was the wave runners that were sitting up on the sand and I went over to the guy and I said, you know, I want to take out a wave runner for a half hour with my son and we jumped on this wave runner. And we're out there and we're pretty far out and there were some big, big waves rolling in. I was running against the waves.

So I turned that puppy around and got in front of the wave and I floored that thing. I mean, it's a thumb throttle so you don't have a lot to do with your feet. But man, I pressed that fast. It was like pedal to the metal on that wave runner and I got in front of this wave and it took me over 50 kilometers per hour. Now, I don't know how fast that is as far as, you know, miles per hour if you're in the U.S.

But it was pretty damn fast. Now, I couldn't get the kind of speed I was getting going against the waves and I couldn't even get that going sideways. But when you get in front of the wave, when you position your son in front of the wave and you just paddle, even just a little bit, if you paddle like your life depended on it, and you do the work and you stay focused and you stay pointed in the right direction, that wave can take you all the way home, baby. I'm telling you, we've got some speed on that thing and it was amazing because every step of the way, every single little bump and ripple that we just tore right through, I just kept thinking, this is what's going to happen for members of the Power Network. This is what's going to happen for people who are here and they've planted their flag, they're calling the Power Network home, they're doing the work, they're paying the price, they're enjoying the price, they're loving the community, we talked about what's called the payoff tonight.

Some people come here and they just love to plug in, get on these calls and all the hangouts and they love training and all the products and you know what? Little by little, they're making their way. They're building business. They're learning how to do what Chris Record does, and I'm going to bring him out here in a minute, but they're doing what Chris Fox does, right? The drift, the trickle and the flow.

You know what happens is when you do that long enough, you stay consistent and persistent because if you're not consistent and persistent, you are non-existent. Let me say that again. If you are not consistent and persistent, you are non-existent. You know, every day I look at members' testimonials all over Facebook and in our private chats and in our Skype groups and I see people telling us that they're generating their first website visitors. They're generating their first, you know, leads.

They're generating leads for the first time. They've been struggling for a year, two, three, five years to make money online. Some people, I met a gentleman by the name of Richard on this yacht last Sunday. It only took him a small handful of months to do it where he was struggling for years beforehand. And he hunkered down, he plugged in, paid attention, and he's doing the work.

And I'm going to keep repeating that because when you plug in and you pay attention and do the work, there's nothing that you couldn't achieve if you set your mind to it. I tell our kids all the time, right, you can have anything you want. You can do anything you want. You can have anything you set your mind to.

And it's no different here. It doesn't matter whether you're five years old or you're 55 or 85 or 95 years old. We have members that are into their golden years that are just getting started in life. And the great thing is that they're going to get a chance to live their life and finish their life the way they wanted to all these years all along. So nothing new here to share with you.

I can just tell you this. There's no new strategies. There's old, timeless principles. And if you would just apply old, timeless principles of being persistent and being consistent and showing up the way you know you can and going further than anybody else expected you to and getting up to fight that one more round. You know, champions are made in training.

They're not made when they step into the ring. They're made in their training. I saw a quote by Muhammad Ali. It said, I hated the training, but I knew if I just showed up every day and I did it, I could live the rest of my life as a champion. It's about paying the price.

It's about enjoying the price. It's about doing work so you can live the way you want. Live the life of your dreams. And so many people are listening to my voice right now.

And I'm not saying, I'm telling you, every one of you can do it. You know, I have a background. I was a personal trainer. I used to work in the gyms.

I was the guy that would show up early and stay late for the clients. I would get in the gym by 5, 5:30 in the morning. I would work out all day with my clients and I would eat out of an Igloo cooler. And I would stay sometimes till 11, 11:30 at night. And if you looked at me on paper, I didn't have any, I had barely any money saved up.

I had no credit. I was living paycheck to paycheck. At one time, I was $60,000 in debt, living in a one-bedroom apartment keeping candles and flashlights in my kitchen drawer. My electricity was shut off more than once, begging my landlord for an extra day to get the rent. Never sure how I was going to pay my next bill, let alone eat my next meal.

There was a time where I survived on 99-cent value meals from Taco Bell. And I literally had nothing. If you looked at me on paper, I had a car accident. I crashed my car. I had no insurance.

I was just living in an apartment. And sure, I had an apartment. I had a place that sat in my head at night. I wasn't sure for how long. But if you looked at me, I had nothing.

I had no savings. I had no money. I had no income. I was living day to day. I know some of you were like this.

See, like you, I had one thing that most people didn't have, and that was desire to change. The thirst and the hunger to succeed. Like Les Brown says, you got to be hungry. Right? That's what he says.

And you know what? It's true. You got to be so hungry. You got to be willing to do things that other people find boring and uncomfortable. Trust me, I know.

Okay? I have a family too. I had friends in the real world too. The 97 percenters that used to laugh at me when I would leave a party early to go home and read a good book on a Friday night while they went to the beach and drank beers and partied up at the bonfires. I was the guy going home with a good book so I could live my dreams.

I was the guy that would stay in and write in his journal on a night that everybody was going out after the beach on Sunday, going to the beach happy hour. I would just be working on myself. And that's why I love Empower Network. That's why so many tens of thousands of people thrive in this community, because there's so much there. Look at the training products.

Look at our product line. Listen to these trainings. Let them transform you. Let go of what you knew before you got here. Our good friend Justin Valencia talks about emptying the cup.

Emptying the cup. That story goes way back. It goes back to a famous monastery, one of the most famous monasteries in all of Japan, and a young monk was visiting all the masters and came upon this one master and he says, unlike the other masters, I wish to remain here with you. And the master looked at the young monk and he said, son, sit down.

And as they were sitting down, a set of tea was brought out, hot tea and some cups. And the master started pouring tea for his new student. And when the student's teacup got full, the master kept pouring and the hot tea comes spilling over the edge of the cup. And the young monk jumps up and says, master, I'm being burned. Stop pouring.

And the master looks at the young monk and he says, son, your teacup is filled to the top with all that you think you know and all that you think you don't. Go away from me. Leave my temple, young man. He said, you need to empty your teacup and come back to me when you're ready to learn what I have to teach. And see, if we all just empty our teacup, if we all just realize that we're no different than anybody else, David Wood did, Sean, all the top earners here, my friend Tony Rush and his beautiful wife, some of the most brilliant people that we all know, were broke just a short handful of years ago.

A couple handful, I think just two years ago. They were broken, they were busted, and they were disgusted. Chris Ruckers, same thing, part-time, just in the last, I don't even think a year he's been here. Part-time, had a job. Alex Zubarev, same thing.

Chuck Marshall, some of the most badass friends that we have today, just a year to two years ago were no different than some of you on the line right now. They were no different than some of you that are watching from the outside wondering, is this real? Does it really work? Is it really happening? And let me tell you, I'll be the first to tell you, it's real, it's really happening, and it could be happening for you too.

But now it's time for you to start happening to it. There's a big difference. You have to take the action. You have to put your best foot forward. If you haven't gotten started yet, join now.

Go back to whoever invited you to this call. Go back to their email. Go back to their page, their Facebook page, and do what it takes to put yourself in a position to win from this day forward. Take back total control. Just think about this.

Take back total control right now. Make a choice to take back total control of your life. Take back your finances, your freedom, and your life. All it takes is for you to choose right now what you want.

And if you're already a member, do the right thing. Get all in. Get a ticket to the next live event in Denver on July 19th. Make sure you get everything taken care of. See, people who can decide quickly and make choices quickly are the people who take this all the way to the top.

It's true. Successful people make decisions quickly and they change their minds slowly, while unsuccessful people who struggle, people who complain, people who blame, people who justify, people who point fingers, people who never take full responsibility or accountability for their success in their business or in their life, make their decisions slowly and they change their minds quickly. Don't let that be you. So that being said, here's what I want to do. I know Dave is probably somewhere on this tennis court although the lights are out on the tennis court.

We are burning white hot right now and so I think I'm going to bring over who I see in the shadows over there, my good friend. Are you on the speaker line? My brother who I was kicking a soccer ball around with over the tennis court here while we were chatting on the phone with you. I'm going to bring over my good friend and one of the most badass marketers that not only Empower Network has but this industry has ever seen. My buddy Chris, I'm going to bring over Chris Record.

I'm out there, Aaron. Hey, that was fantastic. I just love it. I'm getting fired up right now and I know we've got thousands and thousands of listeners right now that are getting fired up as well. People are going to be logging into the website and be listening to this recording.

They're going to be pumped up and we've been going for about an hour so I'm just going to pretty much wrap up here, just a couple of final thoughts on things and then we'll call it a night. I mean, we're just out here in beautiful weather. That whole time that David Sharp was talking to you and that whole time that Aaron Rashkin was talking to you was pretty awesome. We're out here at this private resort. We're walking around the tennis court.

We're just kind of playing some kickball, messing around, having some fun. After this, we're going to jump in the jacuzzi in the pool out here and just have some fun with leaders. I mean, I want to put a challenge out there to you, okay? Even if you're brand new, this could be your first week with Empower Network, and I just want to put a challenge out there to you. It's just an internal challenge and it's a long-term one, but I just want to tell you, look, when you hear about stuff like this, you deserve it.

You should be out here with us. You know what I'm saying? You deserve it. You should set it in your priorities that you are going to do whatever it takes to be part of the leadership of a company like this. When you participate with a company you want to rise to the top.

You want to get there. So you want to have that. You want to be fueled by a big dream. Sure, your day-to-day activities, your income-producing activities, should be very specific. You know, you're going to get your two a day.

You know, you're going to start getting people to the next event. You're going to write your blog post. Very specific. But you've got to be fueled by a big vision that gets you passionate. You know, you should get so passionate from the bottom of your feet all the way to the top of your head that you're going to do whatever it takes with everything inside of you to be part of the success and leadership of this company.

That you're going to start even if it starts with serving, and then you're going to get out and start producing, and then you're going to start getting your name on the leaderboards at the contest. And you're going to start, when you show up at events, you want to be introduced to Dave Wood, Dave Sharp, where they come up and go, hey, I recognize that name. How do they recognize your name? Because you got it on the leaderboards. And that's exactly what I did when I first started this company.

Just like you, I heard about a contest. It was announced and they broke down all the points and everything. And I sat down that very night and I made a game plan that I was going to rank well in that contest. I made a game plan. And you know what I said?

I'm going to do it fast. Because the faster you start getting your name on the leaderboard, there's not as many people there. A lot of the big marketers are going to take time to be able to do stuff. You've got a chance right now to get your name on the leaderboard. Start getting your name out there.

Start getting recognized. And it starts with simple daily income-producing activities. And that's exactly what I did. I got up into the top 10 of the contest for the first one when I had it down in San Diego. And from there I actually helped my team get there.

Not only was I there but I had people on my organization direct to me that I also told them, do whatever it takes to get in the contest, to rank on the board, and let's make it happen. So here's a true story and I'm going to introduce somebody to actually share a quick testimonial where what we did was we got our names on the leaderboard just doing simple activities. 2-1, 2-1, 2-1. Registering two new people at the basic blogging level and moving one conference ticket to somebody personal. We called that a 2-1.

Every day me and somebody I'm going to introduce to you, we just did 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1. And sometimes we missed a day and we tried to make it up on another day. But what happened was we didn't even realize what had happened, was we went number 80 in the contest, then number 50 in the contest, then number 40, number 30, number 20, number 10. Next thing you know, me and this gentleman I'm going to introduce to you right now were both number 1 and 2 out of the entire company in the contest. And we ended up settling not first and second, we ended up settling pretty high.

And when we met David Wood and David Sharp for the first time at the event in San Diego, they knew who we were because they recognized our name on the leaderboard. That power of positioning is what helped us excel. And it all came down to the simple daily income-producing activity. So tonight set a goal that you're going to do whatever it takes. So with that being said, I just want a quick testimonial here from one of my good friends and business partners, I'm hanging out with him here after this while I jump in the jacuzzi, you know, maybe eat some of our leftover sushi, have some fun.

But Peter Sorensen, what I'd like you to do is jump on and share a quick testimonial about you and the power of contests and how that literally revolutionized your business and you've had some massive success this month. So congratulations on that. But here you go, share it with everybody on the call. Thanks, Chris. And yeah, just to be very brief, the fact of the matter is these contests can absolutely change your life.

When I just got started in this business just a year ago, like Chris mentioned, the contest rolled out for the event we had in San Diego. It was brand new, no list, very little online marketing experience. I just focused, I made a decision, I made a decision to do whatever it takes to not just get to the event but to get as many people to the event and to rank in the top 25 of the contest.