The Masters of Marketing Break Through Session (Live in Costa Rica, August 2012)

This is Dave Sharp, co-founder of Empower Network. Welcome to the Empower Hour Monday night call. We're coming to you live from the beaches of Costa Rica here, just ending with the Costa Rica Masters Retreat. And my goodness, what a weekend, what a week. We had certain expectations, obviously, just because our events have been so incredible and so many cool people have showed up, especially if you were in Atlanta, then you kind of know that the feel of our events are just a little bit different.

But when I was kind of expecting and looking into the future last Monday when we came to you live on the call, I can tell you that I had no idea what I was personally going to experience or what I was going to witness. I could only imagine. What I didn't know is that here on Monday we would still have a group of people, right, who just couldn't leave. And they're still hanging out. Some of them missed their flight.

Some of them delayed their flight because we've been hanging out with the people by the beach, not just talking about living our dreams, but actually living our dreams, which is, I think, the main thing that separates us from the rest of the people and companies out there. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to talk a little bit about what we learned this weekend, what we witnessed this weekend, what we saw this weekend, what we experienced this weekend, and what we felt this weekend. I'm going to share with you a couple of stories of things that people shared with us, some testimonials. And then you're actually also going to hear from people who were at the event this weekend. And you're really, I think, going to have a shift in the way that you look at your business, because hearing it from people, right, who just maybe a week ago even were looking at their business and their life in a way that was maybe so much smaller than they are now.

Because you can hear from Dave and I every week, you can hear how Dave and I hop on the calls and maybe some of the leaders who hop on and we rant and we rave and we yell about how we're feeling and what we're seeing and the vision that we have for the company and for the people. But to actually hear it from members, people who are just getting started, I don't know if you know or you've showed up at any of our events that I've been at or put on here in the last month, to where, given 24 hours notice, 150 or 200 people watching this. There are a lot of people who don't get it. People show up. I did one in Tampa a couple of weeks ago and then one in Santa Clara a couple of weeks ago as well.

But what's incredible and what just absolutely never ceases to amaze me is that the majority of the people that we bring up who are actually having results and in Empower are people who have just gotten started, people who don't have experience, people who are not industry legends, icons with all this experience. And that's what I was able to firsthand witness this week: a whole bunch of people who some have been in the industry for 5, 10, 15 years, and some who have been in different multiple companies and failed for the past several years. But also a lot of people who have started a new beginning, who have just gotten into the industry, or some people who have just decided to start their business over and have a completely new perspective, maybe because they've earned their first commission or got their first result, but also because they finally got around to a group of people who believe in them, finally got around to a group of people who they can relate to, finally got around to a group of people who are actually not afraid to tell what's really going on in their lives and the struggles that they're experiencing.

And they feel for once in a long time, maybe forever, that they don't just have a company. They don't just have a group of people. They don't just have a team. They have a family. They have a family that they can relate to and that they can feel a part of.

So again, that's just something that I want to put out there for those of you who are just starting out. And I want to thank you for that. For those of you who are just looking at Empower, for those of you who have just been exposed to Empower, for those of you who maybe saw ads or videos or emails from different people out there talking about how incredible this thing was. Maybe you heard that some people who have been struggling to get a blog set up or a website set up for one, two, or three years got instantly set up the minute that they bought. And our marketing day one, we even put up a video here.

A couple of weeks ago of a young kid who came in, first day, first blog post, made his first sale. Guys, these are the type of things that's happening. But I also, above and beyond all of that stuff, want you to get a deeper insight into also what's really going on here. Because I'm telling you, this is not just a movement of people who are making money and getting results. This is not just a movement of customers who are using our products because they're hands down the best developers.

This is a movement of people who are using our products because they're hands down the best in development, marketing, and on some level self-development training courses in the entire industry, and our marketing tools are just plain badass. It's not just because people are making more money than they've ever made in their entire life. It's because something deeper, more important is happening.

People are having personal breakthroughs. We had a guy this weekend down here at the Costa Rica Masters Retreat who at the very end of the retreat came up and shared his story. I believe his name was Scott, right guys? Scott.

There's videos of him all over the internet, because we actually recorded it, and maybe if you're ever able to even get your hands on the recordings of the Masters Retreat, right, you can watch it firsthand. But I can tell you that he came up and shared his story of, he was just feeling down, he was just, you know, at a point where he was kind of where I was four and a half years ago, when I was at my lowest of lows, and I was at my absolute bottom. For those of you who don't know where I was, I was coming off of being homeless, struggling with drugs and alcohol, and I just didn't have anywhere to go but up. Well, he was in a similar situation, but it was a little bit different, because he wasn't struggling with drugs and alcohol, but he was considering taking his life, and he was on his way home from his job, and he had the ways and means to be able to take his life with him, and for some reason, there was some sort of divine intervention that happened with his life, and his car broke. And he pulled over to the side of the road, and he put in one of our inner circle audios, and he was listening to a message of hope and inspiration and purpose, and he found it in himself to try again, to start over, and from that minute on, he had a new perspective on life, and decided that taking his life wasn't the route to go. This is what happens at Empower Network. These are the type of things that people experience.

These are the type of breakthroughs that people experience. These are the type of things that people have, and what we're going to do tonight is we're going to talk a little bit about that. We're going to share with you a little bit on a deeper level of what really goes on behind the scenes of Empower Network, because the money's great, and it's happening. Hands down, it's available for you. The information and training is there if you're ready to take your business from where it's at to where it needs to be, but also, what I can tell you is there's a lot of people on this phone line tonight who are dealing with a lot of different things in life, right?

The dog's barking. The kid's just started school back up. It's Monday. So, a lot of you went back to your jobs. Most of you are obviously not here with us in Costa Rica living your dream, right?

A lot of you are dealing with life on life's terms, things that are coming up on a daily basis, and you're feeling like there's no hope. You're feeling like you need a reason, just like Scott did, to keep pushing on, and tonight what I want to do is give you that reason. I want to give you that purpose. I want to give you a reason to believe again, a reason to believe in yourself again, and if you can't believe in yourself, then I want to let you know that there's a great, great, great group of people here that will believe in you until you can start to believe in yourself again. And I can tell you that I met people personally, hung out with guys this weekend who are doing the big numbers. It's just because they understand some of the strategies.

They understand some of the techniques that we talked about this weekend, and they even were gracious enough to share those. Again, if you're able to get your hands on the copies of the recordings this weekend, I can tell you that it's not even a question, okay? We'll talk about that later on. We'll give you guys the opportunity to possibly do that, but tonight I just want to carry on what we've experienced this weekend by letting you hear it firsthand from some of the people and let you know that whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling right now, whatever you think is not possible, my friend, where you could be in 30 days, just 30 days, if you get serious about your business and if you get serious about your life by taking the message that we give you tonight as well as the plan that we give you in implementing it, I'm telling you, my friend, where you could be in just 30 days could be beyond your wildest dreams.

I can tell you that because not only have I experienced it, but I've actually seen it, not only in my life, but in the people's lives here at Empower Network, so I'm telling you, my friend, that if there's any doubt that you can do big things, then the only thing that's holding you back, friend, is a decision. If you're tired of living small, you're ready to start living big, then tonight, tonight, friends, not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, tonight can be that turning point that you make that decision to start playing big, and you've got a whole army, a whole family of people who are going to help you and support you in that mission, guys. So let's get right into it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the call over to one of my best friends in the entire world. My business partner.

Business partner, guys, co-founder of Empower Network, Dave Wood, and he's going to really go through some of the things that he wants to talk about as far as the plan going into the next 30 days, because again, guys, we not only want to give you hope and inspiration, but we also want to give you a game plan to run with us for the next 30 days, so you can actually start to see the results of it. Not only what you want and need inside of your business, but what you damn well deserve, and it's time to start. And you know, guys, what I wanted to say just for a second here is I wanted to talk about the power of transforming your life in a moment. You know, one of the things that I've noticed across this industry since I've been involved with it is that what tends to happen is people tend to struggle for a long time. They tend to not get the results they want for a long period of time, but then once they make that shift, whether it's a shift in mind, whether it's a shift in attitude, whether it's a tiny shift in what they're doing, success doesn't come slow. Success comes unbelievably quickly.

We've got examples of that in this room. In fact, I'm sitting here with, you know, Justin Verrengia and his wife, Dee, who just literally a couple of months ago... guys, whatever it is, whether it's the universe aligning, whether it's learning the right strategies, whether it's finally getting the belief to get the results that you want, when success comes, it comes fast. When I first got started in my business in 2009, success came fast. A lot of people, they forget the part of the story, though, where I failed.

I went from 2002 to 2007 trying old-school bullshit traditional network marketing strategies. They didn't realize that I'd probably done about 2,000 home meetings, that I had been kicked out of three Walmarts in Phoenix, Arizona, that I had tried starting a weekly meeting on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, and for six months straight, the only person who showed up at the meeting was me, and I got myself in every week because I had to pump myself up, because all the people that told me they'd go, swore to God the next day when I'd see them at work or saw them on the bus or wherever it was, because I didn't have a car, that they were going to come to the meeting. They almost found it, but they just couldn't find the room or whatever it is, because it was in this backwoods aisle with no air conditioning. And, you know, so guys, the reality is that sometimes you don't see the struggle.

You just see the victory, but when success comes, it tends to come fast. When I started succeeding, it was September of 2009. I'd gotten in about two weeks earlier in mid-August. I started building my business. And so keep in mind, folks, when you hear stories, there's always a back story, but also your breakthrough is probably right around the corner if you haven't had it yet, and it's a lot easier than you think.

And this is the next thing that I want to cover with you guys that I've just seen time and time and time again: when you get it, making money is a lot easier than you think that it is. You know, when I first started in this industry, I thought there was a mystery. I thought there was a secret. I thought there was something, you know, some sort of magical power successful people had. You know, I was one of these guys that used to sit up.

Late at night, staring around in a circle, just looking at these Amway guys, kind of wanting to touch the side of their robes, hoping they'll bless me with magical powers. You know what I mean? I thought there was some sort of secret to the universe that I was missing, because certainly I was saying the things that was in the audios. I was using the closing lines that I was learning on the prospecting calls. I was reading the books that they were telling me to read, and for whatever reason, nothing seemed to be working.

Well, what I can tell you years later is that all I needed was a little bit of a change in strategy. I needed a change in environment, and I needed a change in my internal energy, and I needed to make a decision. I needed a decision to do it. Folks, this weekend, here's what I saw. More than anything else, from being at probably 100 different events in the network marketing industry, one of the most beautiful things to see in a person is that moment when they have a mental shift where not only do they know how to do it, but they know that they're going to make it happen right now.

And this weekend, I was looking into people's faces, and I saw some massive breakthroughs, and I believe we're going to have some of the best income stories that we've ever had, some of the best breakthrough stories that we've ever had, ever, from a network marketing event, based on what I saw happen in people's eyes. And it was a look similar to about a month and a half ago or two months ago when Justin Verrengia and his wife, Dee, came down to my house in Costa Rica, and Justin kept walking into my office just, you know, when I was sitting there at home, you know, I'd go sit there, I'd write a blog post, and then I'd send an email, and he'd say, are you going to do any more work today? And I think that he finally realized, after coming to my house, that what I do every day is write a blog post, send an email. And when he saw that, his face changed. So, guys, what I want to say is, not only is this easy, but when you get in the right environment with the right people, you learn the right skills, you have the right attitude and belief, it can happen for you, and it can happen for you fast.

Now, one thing I want to mention, and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of bring some people on and get their perspectives on what happened this weekend, okay? From different experiences in the room, we've got 10 or so people hanging out up in my little hotel room looking out over the ocean in Costa Rica, and I want you to hear their perspectives of what they experienced. But one thing that I want to tell you guys here is that events are magical, and they're magical for a variety of reasons. They're not magical because we're trying to corner you in a room and trying to sell you shit. In fact, this weekend, we didn't even pitch anything.

We just taught all weekend. Our last event was a no-pitch event. The next event that we're doing in San Diego, California, it's not going to be a pitch event, folks. We're going to get you in the room, and we're going to teach you, and we're going to train you. We're going to transform you.

We're going to help you get the results that you want. But I don't want you to hear it from me. I want you to hear it from people in the room, not only on why you should be at that San Diego event and make a decision, I want you to hear the stories about what they experienced as far as what this group of people is really about here at Empower Network, okay? So what I'm going to do is actually pretty simple: pass the phone around and just chit-chat with people. What do you think?

Yeah, quick interview, son. Here, come up real quick. We got video. We got video cameras in this room, guys. It's actually really fascinating.

Now, I got Justin here. Now, he's cool, because he lives in Costa Rica too, but he's actually moving, because the end of the world is happening this year, and so we've got to make fun of you, Justin. But we're all going to go party at his house December 21st this year, just in case. Hey, but you know what, guys? And this is funny.

He's going to Colombia, apparently, the safe zone. But this is the funny thing, guys: a lot of people actually, you know, they do believe the end of the world is in 2012, but the only person I know who has the most lifestyle to just do whatever they want and who believes that is Justin, because he makes a bunch of money on the internet, and so he's like, well, hell, if the world's going to end, I might as well take my wife and go to the safe zone, right? So anyways, he's been doing a lot of things, and he's been in a lot of stupid companies in network marketing. He's had some success. He's had some failure, and he's had some frustrations.

He used to do things in a slavery way, where he was picking up the phones, hammering old ladies, trying to get them in. And then he stopped doing that and started making a bunch of money, but I wanted to get his perspective on a couple things. Man, if you want to give a perspective on what you experienced this weekend, what you saw other people experience, what you took out of it, where do you think it'll take your business, why somebody should be at San Diego and really be a part of what we're doing there. By the way, everybody, in case you hear people talking about San Diego a lot, it's because they kind of have a little bit more of an inside scoop of what we're actually doing there, and so I want you to keep that in mind, that they're probably maybe a little bit more excited about it than you are even at this point. But, you know, they're practically beaming, because, you know, they know what they're doing.

They know the secret, so we're actually going to reveal the secret, finally, in San Diego. I know I said there wasn't one earlier, but if you want to know, we'll release it there. Anyways, brother, hey, go, take it away, bro. Right on. Thank you, Dave and Dave.

You guys are just badass. This is like the most incredible vacation I've ever had in my life. It's just insane. We're sitting in this room right now. There's probably over a dozen, maybe even two dozen people on the balcony here, just overlooking the waves, and just this beautiful place.

So this has just been the most badass vacation. Life-changing. We saw so many people break through. Dave Sharp shared earlier, there was a guy talking about taking his life, and he decided not to from an actual inner circle audio inside Empower Network. So it's not just about the money.

People are having massive breakthroughs. I want to talk real quick about my massive breakthrough I experienced at my last event. You see, originally, I wasn't even going to go to the event in Atlanta. I decided, you know, I already had some other travel plans, so I'm like, yeah, I can always go to the next event, but something happened. I was actually on one of these calls, and it was Tony Rush, and he just made a paradigm shift instantly occur in my mind where I decided, you know what?

There's no weenie-ass commissions here, which is pretty badass, and that's why a lot of us are on these, you know, inside Empower Network, because we're sick and tired of the horse crap. We're sick and tired of grinding it out for 10% commissions, where you have to be Superman mixed with the DNA of Spider-Man to really make any money, you know what I mean? So I go to this event, and I just saw so many people, their lives changed, people making serious money, and not even all about the money. But I saw more people make more money than I've ever experienced in this industry, and I've been doing this online stuff for five years. I've just been one of them grinders.

It just seemed no matter how many people I sponsored, I just still couldn't break through. But something happened. I actually learned the secrets of the universe at that Atlanta event, and I think you've got to really get to the event to experience that, so you can actually have one of these massive breakthroughs. So, what happened with me, I got pushed over the edge. I just believed that success is easy here.

I believed it. And that mental shift, that paradigm shift, I came back out of Atlanta. I started basically recruiting two people a day at the $25 level. See, I didn't even imagine that was even possible.

It just happened, because I had a breakthrough. So that's the power of events, and the next event that's going to be in San Diego, even if it was $10,000, I'd say get to the event, but the cool thing is it's not $10,000. They're cheap, because we want to help people experience breakthroughs in their life. That's what Empower Network is about, picking you up, empowering you to push you over the edge, so you can create a miracle in your life, because if you're one of those people like myself, I want to help as many people as possible. If you're poor, it's very, very difficult to help people, ain't it?

I mean, how can you help people? Most people that are in need typically are broke, you know, from my experience, so now that I'm actually making money, and I can help myself, I can actually help family members, I can help people in need, and just live a more fulfilling life. So, the next event, just make sure you're there. You don't want to miss it, because you can have that breakthrough just like I did, just like so many people did. We had about 1,200 people at that last event, so I'm going to be going to San Diego, I'm going to be bringing as many people as possible, and if you're listening on the line, that's exactly what I would encourage you to do, get really care about, because that can be that paradigm shift that happened to me, that can happen to you, listening on the phone right now.

So now I'm at this Costa Rica Masters Retreat, we decided to stay an extra day, because it's just super badass, and for my experience, it's just another life-changing thing. It's not just about the information that we got to download from listening to such great leaders like, you know, David Wood, David Sharp, Tony Rush, Tracy Walker, Chuck Marshall, and just a bunch of badasses that have taken their lives to the next level, that have inspired me to push my life to the next level. And if you really want to learn from the best of the best, the only way to learn from the best of the best is to put yourself around the best of the best. See, I believe in energy, like, you know, this thing we learn in school, E equals MC squared, what the hell does that mean? It basically means everything is energy, and what I discovered is if you can put yourself around successful people, it's just a matter of time before you become successful. So that's what I got out of this event: I surrounded myself with the best of the best in the industry, and I got to learn directly from, you know, their experiences.

I've had some major mental shifts, what I've learned, you know, inside of this event. There's no doubt in my mind I'll be making a hundred thousand dollars a month, because I just learned the secrets of the universe. I feel like He-Man, you know what I mean? Literally, it's just a mind shift, and now I have total confidence in myself, and a lot of, I picked up a lot of personal development here too, a lot of mental shifts have occurred. So this event, I don't know if people can actually get their hands on it, because it's over, but totally worth like a hundred thousand dollars, because I know that's where our incomes are heading, and the friendships that, you know, I was able to develop here, just networking with people, you know, I was able to develop a lot of friendships, and I was able to develop these with badasses. It's also been life-changing, so this Costa Rica Masters Retreat has just been super badass. I like to say badass a lot, and when I write badass now, like, on the internet, I start, instead of putting the S, I put like the dollar sign, because us badasses just happen to be making a lot of money here. So that's pretty much it, I just encourage you to get to the event, you know, it could change your life, just like it has for me. I'm just a normal dude, we're just normal people having experiences, extraordinary results, and that's pretty much it. I'm going to pass the phone here to share some other results here from some other people.

Well, you know, one thing, Justin, that you said that I thought actually was fairly significant, and we're just going to keep bringing some people up here one by one, is, you know, you're talking about energy, and you're talking about getting around the energy of successful people, and one thing that I learned, and this is just, call it an observation, call it just one of the things in life, it's no different than when you're a kid, and your friend starts moving his arm a certain way, you start moving your arm in a certain way, you meet somebody with a southern accent, you start hanging out with them all the time before you know what you're saying, things that they only say in the south. You kind of act like the people that you get around, right?

You kind of start acting like the people that you hang around, and one thing that I've learned is that in the beginning of my business, before I was succeeding, I knew that the people who are closest to you tend to rub off their attitudes, their beliefs, their behaviors on you automatically just by being around them, and I didn't want to be around poor people anymore, so I really fought my way into circles of being around people that made more money than I did, that had more success, that had a better life than I did, that could close better than I did, that had more success writing articles and making videos than I did, and it automatically rubbed off and it changed my life, and so this weekend, the energy changed. I've seen people's energy change, the way they're already making videos and speaking, it's been an amazing experience. So hey, Justin, you rock, brother, you're a half million a month guy, I know you said 100,000, but that's just, yeah, weenies, just getting started. So hey, guys, what we're going to do in here, oh, they're ready, here, come on up, we're going to have people come up, just share their name.

Background, you know, why they got value out of this event, and why you guys should be in San Diego, and what your biggest takeaway is, so here, take it away. Hi, guys, my name's Kevin Snyder, and if I say "eh" a lot, it's because I'm from Canada, so I apologize for that, but I came down from Canada, came down to Costa Rica, met some awesome people, I'm standing in a room of 12 badasses. I mean, I got to meet Justin Verrengia, he's like two feet away from me, so is Dave Wood, so is Dave Sharp, I mean, this experience was amazing. I got so much value.

Honestly, after the first day of the three-day course, I could have gone home and known exactly what I got to do, when to do it, and how to do it. I mean, it was super badass, I mean, this thing was awesome, so anyone listening to this call, get to San Diego, the relationships you get from meeting these people, it's priceless, so definitely, definitely come down to San Diego. Hey, Kevin, just real quick, man, and this is just going to be a real quick question, what was the single biggest takeaway that you had? From this event, you know, maybe a concept, maybe an experience you had, maybe it was a late-night conversation that you just could not have had if you didn't actually come down and hang out and meet the people down here? I think it was just meeting the guys, like I really wanted to meet John Morose, Justin Verrengia, and Tony Rush, and obviously you guys, and yeah, it was awesome, I got to meet all of them, got to have a little FaceTime with them, and it just changed everything. Like, to be honest, I love traveling, and this is the first vacation I've been on that I can't wait to go on. Well, that's badass, brother, and congratulations, I want to see you walk across the stage in San Diego, so let's, you want to rock it out?

Hey, I believe in you, brother, thanks for coming down. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, here, come on up. There we go, brother. Hey, what's going on, this is Grant Dunn from Wenatchee, Washington, and I'm just going to tell you a little bit about where I came from. You know, it wasn't long ago that my wife asked me, she told me she wanted to go to school because she wanted to be a nurse, she wanted to become something. She wanted to be more than what she already is, and right about the time that we were about to make this decision for her to go to school, we looked at each other and realized that we couldn't afford to do that, and that led me to come on the internet, figure out how I could make money, and it led me to these amazing, badass people in this room, Dave and Dave, and all the other leaders, and I've made more money in this business than my wife and I combined could make in our jobs, and, you know, it's just been an absolutely amazing experience.

I know exactly where I'm going because I was here at this event, and probably the one takeaway that I honestly have was just literally sitting down and having conversations with people who make a lot more money than I do, and realizing that they're just like me, there's nothing different between us, just the fact that they align themselves with the right people and took action, and did it right away. Well, that's it, that's badass. Hey, give him a hand, everybody, give him a hand. Let's make some noise. You're a badass brother, you can do this thing.

Now, this is a man here, you know, we call him the Amway man. Now, just share your story here, all of you.

My name's Jesse Wheeler, I'm from southern Utah, and as the Daves fondly refer to me, I am the Amway guy, but I'm not anymore. I left that company about four years ago, and quite frankly, the biggest thing I got from the event, and what I was looking for, you know, I had a good experience with the company, I made really good money, I was a rare, I guess, what you'd call success story in that company, and I had a good situation, and I had good people around me, and it's been four years since I've felt like I've had good people around me again. And that's the number one thing that I got from this event, is that I was able to come down and look the leadership in the eyes, and look the people, just the average people succeeding, and the people at the event. And this is the best thing I've ever done. This is what you're looking for.

Most of you are looking for something, you hope you found and Empower is something you can believe in, and that you can hang your hat on, and that you can do and be proud of, and what I got out of the event is you absolutely can. Awesome, brother. Hey, everybody give him a hand real quick. One question for you, man, is, you know, for people on the call, they're thinking about, you know, hey, should I really go all in, should I really go all out with my energy? You know, first you've got to go all in, then you've got to go all out.

By "all out," I mean work your ass off, right, for a little bit when you're getting going. But, you know, for people who are thinking about, should I go to San Diego, should I meet up with these leaders here? What are your thoughts about that? Yeah, absolutely. That's a great question.

I built a very successful business outside of this before on that one principle, is once you figure out if you've found what you're looking for, you don't split hairs, you don't second guess, you go. And you go all in. And most of you, you're trying to decide if you're going to be in San Diego. And that's a much better question, is are you taking 10, 12, 50, 100 people with you, because that will determine your income over the next 90 days. That's the right question to be asking.

Well, you rock, brother. Give him another hand. Hey, guys. It's Ross Lincoln here from Brisbane, Australia.

And I've absolutely had a fantastic weekend here, three days, four or so, with the Daves and the rest of the guys. We've met some amazing people here. And the fellowship and the friendship and everything is something like I've never experienced before, and something like you will never experience if you don't get along to one of these events that Empower Guys put on. I tell you what, one of the biggest things I took from this event and actually the training that the guys put on, was the fact that I was going to be in San Diego. It was an experience that I had when I saw Dagan Smith's presentation.

What Dagan had to say here was absolutely awesome, for once in my mind, and now I clearly know and understand exactly what's involved in storytelling and email. And for me, that was my real breakthrough from this event. So, guys, make sure you get yourselves along to the event in San Diego. It's going to be awesome. These guys rock.

They know how to put on an event. Everything runs really well, and just experience something like you'll never experience anywhere else in your life. See you in San Diego. Hey, everybody. This is Jen Smith from Brisbane, Australia, as well.

I just wanted to let you all know that coming down to this event here in Costa Rica has absolutely changed my life, and for many reasons. Not only have we got to hang out with Dave and Dave, who are absolutely awesome, all the top leaders, but the realisation I have had is that they are everyday people like the rest of us. The only difference is that they have applied what Empower Network is teaching, and that's something that I really have taken away from this, and I know now that I can go home and hone my skills to absolute perfection. It is easy. It's not a difficult process.

You don't need to be an internet guru to succeed, and why is that? Because Dave and Dave have put together such an amazing platform with Empower Network. It's all there. It's only $25 to get in. And getting in, you're going to succeed.

Now, do yourselves a favour. Get yourselves down to San Diego, because you're not going to regret it. This has been the most amazing event, absolutely worthwhile, and you really need to come along to San Diego and see what's in store for you all, because it's going to blow you away. Hey, guys, just one thing I want to point out to everybody who's on the call right now is the one thing that you need to succeed in your business is clarity. You know, you can have 18,000 strategies, you can be the sexiest-looking person in the whole world, be really influential.

If you don't have any clarity, you're just not going to get the results that you want. And one thing that you're going to hear just from the people here is they came here, some of them had a little bit of clarity, but they're leaving here with a plan of action, a crystal-clear vision, and exactly what to do, how to do it, and when to do it to get the results they want. And so be in San Diego, because we're going to give that to you there, all right? Thanks. This is David Jennings from Westchester, Pennsylvania.

And I'm here in beautiful Costa Rica with just the most amazing group. One of the things I have to stress is you have to get to San Diego simply because one of the most fundamental things to be successful is to hang with people who are successful. If you're home and you're grinding it, and we were grinding it for 20 years, my wife and I, in a franchise business, and we decided to get out just because we would have been dead. So we chose to live, and we chose to do it on the internet. But you need to get out and be with people.

There's breakthroughs that happen when you're working. You need to be with people that are actually doing it on a daily basis and showing you the ins and outs so you don't have to grind it out for years and years and years and spend a lot of money that is unnecessary to be successful. So get your tickets, be successful, and we'll see you in San Diego. Hey, David, just real quick, one question, man. Out of this weekend, you know, you came out, where do you say you're from again?

Westchester, Pennsylvania. You're from Pennsylvania. What kind of franchise do you run? I'm just curious here. Can you not say in the audio?

You run a... but you run a traditional business. Yeah, it was a brick-and-mortar business. Okay, brick-and-mortar business. What was the one thing that you picked up from this weekend that was most valuable to you? What do you think?

The clarity of purpose. Clarity of purpose? Yeah, because when you're home and you're by yourself, and if you're not with positive people, they just suck the energy out of you. So you lose direction, you lose focus. When you're here with people that are making money, they tell you to do A, which follows B, which follows C, which follows to the bank.

So that's what you need to do. Dave and Dave have just put it together. And, you know, we're going to do it. And you need to be there. You can't do it by yourself.

You need to be with others that can pull you along. Well, awesome, brother. Hey, give him a hand, everybody. Do you want to come up? Yeah, come on up.

Hold on a second. Here you go. I'm the other half of Dave Jennings. I'm Kathy Jennings from Westchester, Pennsylvania.

And, actually, we came here somewhat in the grinding stage but very new to the industry. As he indicated, we were from the franchise world. So this whole opportunity is totally new to us, and what a mind-blowing opportunity. I am so excited as a result of this event.

Quite frankly, the material that we received on the first day alone was worth what we paid. I was ready to go home and get started. I found the material to be both quality, in meat and potatoes, stuff we needed to do, along with the whole personal growth opportunity. So, you know, just being around a lot of people.

Dave said it well. He said family. We had a family before and now we're looking for a new family and I think we've found one. It's awesome. Hey, well, you rock, Kathy.

And great having you here. Everybody give Kathy a hand. Come on up. We'll just keep bringing them up, folks. But, you know, the thing is, and this is what I want everybody here to realize, is Empower Network is not just two crazy-looking ex-homeless people.

There's a lot of people who are from a million different backgrounds, not who just came here, not who just came to this event, but who are also going to the San Diego event, that you get to meet, that you get to shake their hands, you get to get to know their hearts. And, you know, I just heard comment after comment after comment from people who came to this event and said things like, you know, I've never met a group of people where I felt more at home.

And so, you know, I'm just pumped up and excited. But there you go. Okay, thanks. This is Laura Hodder from Cincinnati, Ohio. And one thing I do know what to do is to listen to the people who you're following.

So, all in right away. Truthfully, I just kept keeping up with them. Just kept getting stuck. So, you know, know not to give up. Went to Atlanta.

Came to Costa Rica. And what the training here gave me really just crystallized how to use what I already have. So, going all in, you're going to need all those tools to put the business together. But the training here really taught me how to use the tools and what I need to do and walk away with an action plan. So, no question, you need to go to San Diego.

It's a pittance, you know, relative to what you're going to get for your money. So, see you there. Hey, well, thank you. Give her a hand.

Give her a hand, everybody. Hey, come on up, bro. Jack. Here we go.

Thank you. Hey, this is Jack Sechon. Calling you from sunny, dark Costa Rica right now. So, I'm from the Bay Area, California. I'm a corporate guy.

I've been pretty successful in the corporate world for 25 years. Raised three kids and got my wife through a long-term illness. And going through all that, I've tried a bunch of different businesses. And they all kind of tell you what you need to do, and almost all of those prescriptions are impossible. And the thing that I really learned here, being a corporate guy, I'm a process guy.

And so, what I really need to know is what do I need to do to get to the next stage of this business. And so, what I learned here, it's like the most simplest thing ever. You get two a day, every day. You blog daily. And you go to the bank.

So, I'm totally going to San Diego. You got to go to San Diego. These events, just meeting the people here, like everyone here was saying, you talk to the leaders. The message is consistent. It's accurate.

They're making the money. And it's badass. So, thanks a lot.

Dave Sharp: So, the next guy I want to bring up, this is Dave Sharp here. Next guy, transition in here real quick, just to kind of keep you on your toes.

Next person I want to bring up, Michael Thompson. Now, here's just the quick skinny. A lot of times when I go around and I speak in different cities, I ask people who had the farthest trip to get here, right? And sometimes it's even more interesting, though, which is the question that I'm about to ask, okay, moving forward in these places: who didn't have the farthest trip, but who had the most interesting trip to get there? And I can tell you that Michael had an interesting trip to get here, but I can tell you that hearing his story really gave me a perspective on what it takes, because I'm a human being, too.

I need to be reminded every single day what I need to do inside of my business to take it to the next level, right? We're all in this together. And Michael's one of those people who reminded me of that, and in a nutshell, make sure that you include that, brother.

Michael Thompson: Okay. Thanks, Dave. It's Michael Thompson from Brisbane, Australia, from Down Under. I came to Costa Rica the other day. It seemed to take, like, forever, and it did, actually, because I sort of got lost on the way. It was a very small country, and it turned into quite a large country, driving around it and spending some time to get there. So headed in the wrong direction, basically, I'll just give you a short story in a nutshell.

I headed in the wrong direction by about eight hours, by car, so I had to catch up, get to the event, and it was the best thing I ever did. There was never a doubt in my mind that this was going to be a brilliant event. It was. But it just absolutely blew my mind when I met the leaders and met everybody that was there. I was very supportive.

And the great thing about this business is that Dave and Dave had laid out, step by step, how to actually do this business. So it's a win-win for everybody. The blueprints are there from this weekend, and we'll just go forward from there. And the only thing I'd like to send out there is the fact that, you know, there's a lot of hope. And I think the fact that everybody needs to be at these events, because this is where it actually happens.

And from there, you can just enjoy life. So real quick, Michael, so you've obviously flown and drove, right, around the world to get here. Are you going to do the same thing for San Diego? No, I'm still going to come to San Diego, but I'll do a direct flight. Hey, anybody else want to come out?

You want to come out, brother? Dee. Okay. So intro her.

There you go. Come on up here. No, this is obviously Justin Verrengia's wife here. And she's a wild character on her own.

No, but here's what I want to say: the first time we met was at the Atlanta event. Right. And I know you came there, you could talk about the shaky terms. You came there. I think Justin grabbed you by the hair and dragged you in or something like that.

But the time you guys came to my house, even from then till now, your energy had another shift this weekend where maybe you can talk about that, your experience, what happened in these little things that got you from one event to the next event, what you've experienced along the way, what you've seen in your husband, just take a minute or two.

Hi, y'all. I'm Dee, like you said, I'm Justin's wife. And when I first came to the Atlanta event, he wasn't kidding. Justin grabbed me by my hair, tied my feet together like a pig, put my hands behind my back and said, you're going. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna get there. So, you know, I was there and I decided, all right, I'm going to support my husband because I am his wife. And I realized that support isn't just saying, okay, baby, you go make money. Support is literally standing next to him and saying, okay, I see what you see.

So when we first went to Atlanta, like I said, he had to tie me by the hands, you know, and take me there. But after I went, I literally transformed myself spiritually, emotionally, physically. I started thinking about things that I never thought of, you know, just something very simple. For example, let's talk about advertising.

Maybe there's an advertising method that you will try and it's not effective. Maybe Justin will spend $500, $1,000, $2,000. Now the old Dee, the old wife would have been like, no, he didn't. I could have bought myself some shoes. I could have helped my mom.

I could have done all these things. I'm thinking in my mind, why did he do that? But the new Dee is like, wait, you got $500? We better spend $600.

We better spend $700 because I have faith in this. I know it will work. And to stand with someone, you know, and not just say, oh, I trust you or, oh, I love you, but to really stand next to them and say, I have faith in this. I believe you. I will run with you.

That's what this did to me. So when Dave and Dave are talking about the transformation within me, I can't say it is something that happened. I can just say that it is something that I witnessed, I experienced, you know, to be able to stand next to Curtis, to be able to stand next to D2, to be able to stand next to my husband and say, oh, yeah, they're making money. No. To be able to stand next to them and say they're changing lives.

To be able to stand next to them and say, wow, they are doing something that brings me to the point to where I can be proud to not just be his wife, to not just be the person beside him making all that money, to be the person beside him that's helping me. To be able to stand next to him and help other people. So when you're standing next to your spouse, you know, maybe you're there and you're like, ah, he's only making X amount of dollars. Maybe he's in the negative and he hasn't figured out the marketing yet. Or maybe she is standing there and she's running around in circles with the dollar bill.

All I'm going to tell you is stand with them. Run with them. Because your support, okay, and your love for them is going to bring them to a point that no one else can. So do that for not only yourself, but for your family. Because your family deserves it, right?

Hey, hey, hey, can I join again? Can I get in? Hey, but guys, just one thing here real quick. And I think we got a couple other people we're going to bring up here. If you don't have tickets.

Obviously, there's no question. Just real quick. Sorry, I'm ADD, so when I got a thought, if I don't spit it out, of course I'm going to forget it. And Dave and I, we constantly are interrupting each other. It's just kind of how our relationship is.

So, Dee, there's no doubt that somebody should bring their spouse, obviously, to San Diego. No doubt. If you are a leader and you want results, and I mean, screw the money. It's not about the money.

It's about the change in your life spiritually, emotionally, to be able to walk down the street with your head high and say, I'm not stuck anymore. I don't have to do this unless I want to. This is the point in your life that you have to bring to yourself. And you can't do that if you don't meet us in San Diego.

Point blank. And I can tell you guys, give her just another hand. I can tell you here, last thing, that I mean, I could honestly end it just on that. I'd be just straight up with you. But I remember seeing Dee and Justin at the event.

And Dee was, at the beginning of the event, you were not where you were at the end of the event. I can tell you at the beginning of the event, you were towards, maybe not all the way in the back, but you were towards the middle. And I can remember by the end of the event, just in those, like, two and a half days, you were not in a chair on the front row. You were on the floor in the front row. Okay?

So guys, that's the power. Now remember, we want to talk about things that nobody else wants to talk about because they're all scared to talk about it because it's uncomfortable. Right? The whole spouse thing.

The whole people doubting us thing. The whole uncomfortability thing. The whole skepticism that maybe even is happening inside of somebody's household. Right? Guys, there are specific things that you can do to help that.

One is, of course, make money and get results. But two is, obviously, don't leave your spouse behind. Bring them with you.

Let them experience the journey with you. So I wanted to point that out, guys. If you're thinking about it, not everybody can do it. But damn it, if there's a will, there's a way. And if you can, make it happen.

See us in San Diego, guys. That's my thought on that. Well, yeah. And all I was going to say, actually, is just if you don't have your tickets yet, don't be a weenie. Log in and buy them now.

There's a little button that says, you know, do you hate evil? You can click on that because, you know, when we talk about fighting the forces of evil, you'll see what we mean by that in San Diego. You guys are all going to think this is totally badass. But you need to buy your tickets and show up just for the show, if nothing else. And just to meet people who are just like you but are having radically different results than you.

And that was one of the biggest breakthroughs I've ever had in my life when I first started marketing on the internet. You know, I remember going down to meet a guy that, you know, to me, he was like this mythical creature. He was getting such better results than me. And, you know, no, really, it's like this person has the secret.

And it doesn't help that there's books out there called The Secret that have the mysterious keys to the universe. You know, hold a crystal and think good thoughts. And then that's going to make you successful. You know, you think there's all this wild things. And then you run into somebody, you meet them.

And you have a conversation. And, you know, they kind of speak to each other, and they space off a little bit. And they can't remember to do stuff.

And they're late to everything. You're like, this person is more spacey than I am. And goddamn, they're making a quarter million a month. I'm going to be rich. You know what I mean?

So, you know, when you meet people that are just like you, but are getting dramatically different results than you, and the only reason they are is because they have a dramatically different belief level and a dramatically different level of clarity, your life will transform.