Forget Pitch Fest and Hotel Ballrooms.
Speaker:My guest today here is Brody Lee and he is here re-engineering events into
Speaker:immersive experiences powered by ai, where it's actually shaping all the details.
Speaker:It's co-created with the audience, and breakthroughs aren't just sales, it's
Speaker:actually his, it's set up to trigger, to donate clean water for millions of people
Speaker:based on what's happening in the room.
Speaker:So his personal experiment with all of this is to build a seven
Speaker:figure event in only 100 days with absolutely no safety net.
Speaker:So no previous email list, no ad spend, none of his personal
Speaker:cash putting into this.
Speaker:And he's doing this all so he could prove what's possible
Speaker:when business equals impact.
Speaker:It's completely redefining what events are in this new phase of AI and technology
Speaker:and kind of human disconnection.
Speaker:So he's flipping the script.
Speaker:He's gonna dive into it now.
Speaker:Brody Lee.
Speaker:All right, Brody, we're doing this.
Speaker:How are you doing, my friend?
Speaker:I am doing just great.
Speaker:I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker:dude, me too.
Speaker:I'm, you know, we got connected recently through Charles Bird.
Speaker:Gotta give him a shout out.
Speaker:Always
Speaker:do.
Speaker:And um, you know, we have a lot of mutual friends.
Speaker:We were just talking about Greg Merrilees, another buddy of
Speaker:ours who has just awesome, he's been on the show a ton to time.
Speaker:So, but you are, you are the events guy and that's,
Speaker:Hopefully I, hopefully I have that reputation.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:that's what I hear at least a word on the street is, and you get some big plans,
Speaker:which I want to talk about and how things are changing because you know, we're,
Speaker:we talk a lot about AI and how things are changing so much on this show for
Speaker:entrepreneurs and just everyone alike.
Speaker:But like you're, you're kind of spearheading this whole like, reinvention
Speaker:of what events can be are and yeah, you just have this interesting, you know.
Speaker:Background track record of doing them, but also what they can become.
Speaker:So I guess any thoughts on, on that before we dive in?
Speaker:Yeah, man.
Speaker:Look, look, I come into the event space with a, uh, I was fortunate enough
Speaker:to work for Apple at the time when Steve Jobs was around, so the late
Speaker:two thousands, early 2000 and tens.
Speaker:And I, uh, I got to see firsthand how he did these incredible events, these product
Speaker:launches that just captivated people around the world and forced millions of
Speaker:people to come into stores to the point that people were waiting outside overnight
Speaker:to get the latest iPhone and they would queue up for hours and everything.
Speaker:Um, so our product launches were amazing, but they created a quality problem for us.
Speaker:Whereas our one-to-one sales model where you go into an Apple store, you get
Speaker:that specialist, which is Apple, kind of redefined retail in that way, and everyone
Speaker:ended up copying them, but it fell apart.
Speaker:And so part of my role when I was training, uh, their leadership, their
Speaker:executive teams, as a sales trainer, I would, I would support them with
Speaker:like, how do we sell one to many?
Speaker:How do we get people in our store environments, having somebody at
Speaker:the foot of a table at a launch and facilitating a sales conversation
Speaker:with like 40 people at one.
Speaker:Which is great.
Speaker:It was a really awesome time to be there, and so I kind of had this
Speaker:PhD style education from Steve on how to sell one to many, which is an
Speaker:amazing, amazing, amazing experience.
Speaker:And I, I learned a ton from the guy.
Speaker:And so coming into this space now in the, you know, the, the, the personal
Speaker:development, business development kind of coaching, consulting, creator kind,
Speaker:kind of space, um, I've been able to take a lot of what I learned from Steve and
Speaker:implement it into our strategies around how we help people to create events that
Speaker:truly touch, move, and inspire people.
Speaker:Um, I have this firm.
Speaker:That most events that people go to live in person events are terrible.
Speaker:Most people do a phenomenally horrible job at producing that event.
Speaker:You think about it, they go into a gray hotel room with a monotone speaker,
Speaker:no attention paid to the experience, and then it's just a pitch fest pitch,
Speaker:pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch.
Speaker:Like, we're kind of all over that.
Speaker:And it's interesting, you know, we've come out of this experience with the
Speaker:pandemic and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:We all went virtual and at a time in society where technology is
Speaker:on the ri rise, like AI is taking over, it's kind of like, I see it
Speaker:as the wild west of the.com era.
Speaker:Uh, at the moment it's like a repeat of that.
Speaker:Um, everyone's got all this really exciting stuff.
Speaker:No one really knows what's happening, but supply of human connection is dwindling.
Speaker:And so what I know to be true is that demand when supply
Speaker:dwindles demand increases classic supply and demand, right?
Speaker:And so the event space is really, really ripe right now for disruption, and it's
Speaker:really, really ripe for people to come in and to provide their audiences with an
Speaker:experience that they cannot get online.
Speaker:We know that people are more likely to purchase when they're in an in,
Speaker:uh, an in, in-person environment.
Speaker:We have stats to back that up.
Speaker:Depending on the study, it's anywhere from like 20 or 30% more likely to purchase.
Speaker:Um, we know that people also have more affinity with brands.
Speaker:They're more likely to trust them and also they're less likely
Speaker:to develop a long-term, sorry.
Speaker:They are more likely to develop a long-term relationship with that brand.
Speaker:When they've had a tactile experience with them.
Speaker:So what does that mean for everyone listening here?
Speaker:It means that if you are in the high ticket space, you have an
Speaker:offer and you're serving people.
Speaker:If you are not running some sort of an event, either as an acquisition
Speaker:strategy, which is our space, or as a client kind of success strategy, then
Speaker:over the next three to five years, you are really gonna be left behind.
Speaker:We have been blessed with internet marketing strategies over the last
Speaker:25 years that have made many, many, many, many people millionaires,
Speaker:sent millionaires, billionaires.
Speaker:And the strategy of events has been around for far longer.
Speaker:Like Tony Robbins has been doing events for the past 40
Speaker:years, the exact same event.
Speaker:Uh, the church puts on the exact same event every weekend
Speaker:for the last 2025 or so years.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, we've been get gathering at events from like blood sports
Speaker:at the Coliseum, political movements, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So I'm gonna bet on that strategy.
Speaker:And what's really interesting right now is that I want to, the
Speaker:way that we're approaching this is that we, we are redefining how
Speaker:people think about these events.
Speaker:Instead of just pitch fest speaker on stage, like how are we engaging people
Speaker:at the event so that they're touch moved and inspired and wanna stick with you
Speaker:to make them really, really sticky.
Speaker:So for us, that looks like every single experience at the event is carefully
Speaker:curated with something other than just somebody presenting something on stage.
Speaker:I, I'll give you a really like clear example.
Speaker:So we're running an event.
Speaker:and it's about helping people to create events.
Speaker:The tagline is one event, 1,000,001 Weekend.
Speaker:That's the goal for our, for our, our attendees.
Speaker:But what we're doing is very different to anyone else.
Speaker:We're not just up there teaching them.
Speaker:They're gonna build their live with us and have live brand activations with our
Speaker:sponsors and whatnot, so that on day one, their event is launched to market and
Speaker:they are selling tickets immediately.
Speaker:And the brands that come in and support us, and we, we are carefully curating
Speaker:the sponsors to come in so that somebody has the support of, say, for example,
Speaker:uh, an AI company that's gonna help them with their AI conversational chat bot.
Speaker:And they will launch that live.
Speaker:So that's when somebody registers, they start getting
Speaker:a nurture campaign immediately.
Speaker:Um, that we are working with different CRM providers.
Speaker:We're working with affiliate partners.
Speaker:So for example, if someone's like, I want to get affiliates
Speaker:to market my event for me.
Speaker:The affiliate partner will be there and they will literally design their affiliate
Speaker:campaign live so that they can send it to people, uh, to, to, to basically
Speaker:to, to send for them that weekend.
Speaker:We build out their event with them on the second day through experiences
Speaker:and activations where people get to experience and like, I'm an instructional
Speaker:designer by trade from way back when.
Speaker:I want when people are learning at my event to apply it live.
Speaker:We've got an amazing, um, sponsor that I'm so close to getting, and I hope I get the
Speaker:sponsor, um, that's gonna do a metaverse experience where we give everyone a,
Speaker:um, uh, uh, one of those, uh, quests.
Speaker:The, the, the whatever they are from, from Meta.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then they have an experience live at our event inside the Metaverse, talking
Speaker:about all the different possibilities and it kind of just builds from there,
Speaker:like, so by the end of the weekend.
Speaker:Everyone's walking out with a tactile product built, launched a market, and then
Speaker:all of our sponsors that come in, instead of just having a crappy booth, they're,
Speaker:I'm mandating, I'm commanding from them that they create an activation zone.
Speaker:And I saw a really, really great example of this, um, at a, at an event
Speaker:recently, and one of those companies that, uh, do those iMessages, the
Speaker:blue, like the blue messages, right?
Speaker:They set up this tent, which was just hilarious.
Speaker:It looked like it was something out of the apocalyp.
Speaker:And what they did was, so they set up a tent.
Speaker:They were all wearing hazmat suits.
Speaker:They had a body bag and it was called the SMS treatment center.
Speaker:And then they all had these CO2 guns and they were disinfecting people,
Speaker:uh, live from the perils of SMS.
Speaker:And so when I talk about event experiences, I'm talking about this
Speaker:sort of stuff that keeps your people really, really inspired and so that
Speaker:they're not just sitting there all day going, twiddling their thumbs, all that
Speaker:sort of stuff, listening to speakers.
Speaker:Uh, well that's, that's the common event, right?
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:like you said, it, It's,
Speaker:kind of like you're sitting in this sea of people.
Speaker:A sea could be as small as 20 people or it could be thousands, doesn't matter.
Speaker:But either way you're just kinda sitting there.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You're like, you described it's this room.
Speaker:I mean, I've been to some pretty large events like, uh, recently Cisco
Speaker:Live, you know, it's massive event.
Speaker:It had something like 30,000, 20,000 people, something
Speaker:like that, which is epic.
Speaker:But still at the same time.
Speaker:I mean like, and they're doing everything they can, you know, it
Speaker:looks like a rock concert when you're inside there, but, um, you know, but
Speaker:at the end of the day you're still sitting there for like a long time just
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, and that's the other thing.
Speaker:We have music, we get Tony Robbins music guy to come in and
Speaker:do all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker:We en, en engage in movement.
Speaker:There's like five different anchors that you can activate.
Speaker:There's visual, auditory, um, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory.
Speaker:And when you're thinking about the experience of people at the event,
Speaker:it's like how do you tap into those different anchors to get people
Speaker:to have memorable experiences?
Speaker:And how do your sponsors use them as well?
Speaker:A really amazing hack for like, from a sponsorship point of view to get
Speaker:those anchors is to look at how you can engage local businesses, for example.
Speaker:So we know that coffee sucks at, at events, right?
Speaker:Everyone hates the coffee.
Speaker:Um, and it's in these aff and it's kind of like, it's, it's there because it's there.
Speaker:But what if you could engage a participant from an olfactory
Speaker:and gustatory point of view?
Speaker:So olfactory is smell, gustatory is taste, right?
Speaker:And you went to a local coffee roasting company and they came in and they did
Speaker:a coffee experience where every single person got free coffee all weekend.
Speaker:And you found out, let's say it was like, I don't know, $7,000
Speaker:for them to do this, right?
Speaker:Then you bring in a sponsor and say, Hey, do you want to get
Speaker:foot traffic of basically 90% of the people coming into the room?
Speaker:And they go, yes, I want that.
Speaker:So then what happens is that this experience is associated with that brand.
Speaker:That brand gets to market it.
Speaker:They have all of their people there, and you charge that sponsor
Speaker:$21,000 for the privilege of being in front of those people.
Speaker:Your coffee's paid for.
Speaker:Your participants have an incredible experience.
Speaker:You are respected because you've given them good coffee.
Speaker:And that brand has a really, really.
Speaker:Cool experiences too.
Speaker:That's what I'm talking about when we, when we're thinking about these
Speaker:experiences, you gotta get a little bit beyond just the, I've got people
Speaker:in my room, I'm treating them like human ATMs, and I'm providing them
Speaker:with an experience that makes the cost of them being there worthwhile.
Speaker:There's six costs, three visible and three invisible of people
Speaker:actually coming to your event.
Speaker:The, the, the visible ones are simple things like flights,
Speaker:accommodation, and, um.
Speaker:Uh, flights, accommodation.
Speaker:What's the other one?
Speaker:Hotels.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Flights, accommodation and the ticket price.
Speaker:The ticket price, of course.
Speaker:And then the invisible ones are things like the physical
Speaker:time that they're present.
Speaker:No one actually ever thinks they could be anywhere but in your room, and they've
Speaker:chosen to spend that time with you.
Speaker:Then you've got the opportunity.
Speaker:Cost of them are being away from the immediate income generating activity.
Speaker:This, the immediate incoming generating activities that they could be doing
Speaker:in their business, which is why I, on day one, help them make money while
Speaker:they're live at the event, because I want them to have that hook, right?
Speaker:But the third, invisible cost is the, probably the most significant one.
Speaker:And then, no, I don't think anyone really considers this.
Speaker:And that's the relational cost of them being away from their family,
Speaker:their communities, and their teams.
Speaker:Now, if you can pay attention to those costs in the way in
Speaker:which you provide the experience.
Speaker:Even put, you're an event somewhere where the family wants to come.
Speaker:So I love places like Orlando and LA like Anaheim
Speaker:because the kids can come to Disney.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:All of those sorts of things.
Speaker:Then the people start to feel like they're not being treated like an
Speaker:ATM and of course you want 'em to buy your stuff, but I guarantee you, your,
Speaker:your conversion will increase when you pay attention to all of these things.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You know what's funny?
Speaker:This, this reminded me of, um, I dunno if you ever went to these Glazer
Speaker:Kennedy events back in the day, uh, GKIC, you know, Dan Kennedy and, um,
Speaker:basically they, they ran these massive marketing events and, and it was
Speaker:great, you know, direct response type type people, but they had a whole.
Speaker:The rule, basically when they put their events on, there would be massive
Speaker:thousands of people and very successful.
Speaker:They would put them in very not ideal locations or, or places
Speaker:like right by an airport.
Speaker:So I guess it's convenient, but they didn't want to make it easy for people
Speaker:to leave and actually do things around.
Speaker:They wanted to keep their attention locked
Speaker:in.
Speaker:Uh,
Speaker:And so it was not family friendly.
Speaker:It was like nothing was walkable.
Speaker:I remember very clearly one was at like O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
Speaker:I'm like, there ain't nothing around here.
Speaker:I want to do
Speaker:like
Speaker:uh, I play the same game as well, so like when you think about all
Speaker:of those places around Orlando.
Speaker:None of them are easily accessible to anything else.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They're all out of the way.
Speaker:I was actually at a really cool event, uh, last year by Amber Spears.
Speaker:She's one of our clients, and, and she, yeah, she does the Forums
Speaker:Mastermind, and she, she, um, she put it at the Conrad in Orlando.
Speaker:Now the Conrad is inside a gated community in the middle of a compound
Speaker:in the middle of nowhere in Orlando.
Speaker:It's a beautiful venue,
Speaker:It looks like it's like
Speaker:not go anywhere.
Speaker:or
Speaker:It does.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And they've got this amazing manmade length that took them like three months
Speaker:to fill and all this kind of crazy stuff.
Speaker:But to your point, like I do look at those sorts of things as well.
Speaker:Like I, I'm a big fan of the beach.
Speaker:I would love to put my events close to the beach.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:But the challenge is that it's so distracting for people
Speaker:to be in that environment.
Speaker:And usually when there's a beach, there's like towns and all those sorts of things.
Speaker:I agree with you.
Speaker:You, you wanna make it, uh, you wanna make it amazing for people to come so
Speaker:that they have access to those things.
Speaker:So for the family, but.
Speaker:Close enough that they're in the environment and they hold you.
Speaker:And I'm a savage with my events as well.
Speaker:Like, you know, my events, they go from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM and
Speaker:people don't leave the room.
Speaker:And then from nine, and then from mid 9:00 PM to midnight, we have
Speaker:like what we call an impactathon where they work on their events.
Speaker:So like, it's intense.
Speaker:And part of that is by design, because I want, I'm not, I'm not wearing them
Speaker:out, but I'm, I'm trying to get them into the buying state by getting them
Speaker:fully immersed in what they're doing.
Speaker:Um, and it's great for me.
Speaker:So like the people on day one, when they launch their event,
Speaker:when they get great success.
Speaker:And they're selling lots of tickets.
Speaker:Like, oh my God, Brody's strategy's really, really worked.
Speaker:This is awesome.
Speaker:I wanna keep working with him.
Speaker:And for the people that are struggling, they're like, oh my God, I need help.
Speaker:I need to continue working with Brody.
Speaker:So it helps me out with my conversion as well.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:I mean, I've been to, yeah, some types of events as well where it's like doors are
Speaker:locked, or at least it's, it's like it has that illusion of like, we are here,
Speaker:we're together, you're committed, and, uh, no one's leaving until you do the thing.
Speaker:Basically, like whatever
Speaker:I could take their phones off them, I would, but I don't think that would fly
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, how do you get people to prepare for something like that?
Speaker:Because I feel like some people would be like, whoa, hold up.
Speaker:Like I guess, how much do they know ahead of time?
Speaker:Or like, how do you get
Speaker:well.
Speaker:Well, I've just revealed all of my secrets, so anyone that's, uh, that's,
Speaker:that's coming, uh, to my event after this is gonna know exactly what we're doing.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Look, part of what I do is actually, I don't let the event itself,
Speaker:I don't publish the session.
Speaker:I don't publish anything about what's happening, who's like, they'll know
Speaker:who the speakers are beforehand.
Speaker:But one of the things is that I don't give them a blow by blow breakdown
Speaker:because I don't want people to selectively choose what they're coming to.
Speaker:It's like there's this allure of you gotta be in the room, and we set a lot of
Speaker:intention around that at the beginning.
Speaker:It's like you've chosen here for three days.
Speaker:Uh, you are, you are here with us.
Speaker:It's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker:You could be anywhere.
Speaker:Anywhere else.
Speaker:Let's make sure that you're actually present because you came because
Speaker:you wanted to make a million dollars or plus in one weekend.
Speaker:I'm gonna help you to do that.
Speaker:You gotta be here.
Speaker:You gotta fully participate.
Speaker:And also the people around you, you never know who you're gonna meet in that room.
Speaker:You never know who could be this.
Speaker:And I'm also not really squeamish.
Speaker:A lot of people are squeamish about people doing business in their rooms.
Speaker:They're like, it's about my offer and my offer running now.
Speaker:I'm the only person that's allowed to sell on my stage.
Speaker:However, um, I, I, want people, I do deal flow sessions on the last day
Speaker:where people can actually do deals with each other as well, because I want 'em
Speaker:to feel like, you know, that they're meeting the right who, even if it's
Speaker:not me, um, should be me, they will buy my stuff, but hey, like, like if the
Speaker:more the merrier, you know, like I'm, I'm, I'm quite an abundant mindset like
Speaker:you
Speaker:are.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, I can, I mean, well.
Speaker:I mean, I Absolutely, you are.
Speaker:And there's, I know there's other things that we talked about where it's like an
Speaker:extension of the event can affect even way more people, so there's a bigger purpose.
Speaker:And that's, that's what I take from, you know, the, the little that we know about.
Speaker:You know, we've, we've met before and I did some research and all this stuff, and
Speaker:everything is wrapped around a big cause.
Speaker:It seems like, uh, around the events and the things you're doing, the mission,
Speaker:the, I mean, your shirt says impact on it in big and bold, so there's a
Speaker:reason for
Speaker:that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um, and you know, I, I saw there, lemme see, I'm pulling up the
Speaker:quote really quick, so, oh, yeah.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So there's a quote on your side.
Speaker:I don't know if this is always what you go by, but you said,
Speaker:what if every time we do business, something good happens in the world?
Speaker:So
Speaker:it's like tattooed on my mind.
Speaker:It's daily.
Speaker:the story behind that?
Speaker:I, I'm,
Speaker:I'm very
Speaker:yeah, so we partnered with a company called B one G one or buy one, give one.
Speaker:And they do help us with all of our philanthropic giving.
Speaker:Um, the backstory is, is when I was 10 years old, I ordained as a Buddhist monk.
Speaker:Uh, and I traveled to Burma.
Speaker:To me, it's now called mema.
Speaker:Uh, my, I was raised in a Buddhist household.
Speaker:My parents with a bunch of other hippies, took a particular strain of
Speaker:Buddhism from the east to the west.
Speaker:They built all of these temples.
Speaker:One was five minutes from my house.
Speaker:Gold plated.
Speaker:So I was, I was, I I was brought up in a religious family.
Speaker:Um, Manai got this opportunity.
Speaker:First time ever jumping on a commercial flight.
Speaker:Of course, I said yes, I wanted to do this thing, but we did
Speaker:this really interesting thing.
Speaker:Um, so monks are not supposed to have worldly possessions or
Speaker:money or anything like that.
Speaker:And so what they do is that they have a black bowl called an arms bowl.
Speaker:And this is literally what the Buddha did.
Speaker:He was a wandering aesthetic, uh, sorry, aesthetic.
Speaker:Um, he moved between towns.
Speaker:And what happened is that he relied on what's called Donna, which is in, in,
Speaker:in English terms charity essentially.
Speaker:Um, and people would come out and they would place things in the bowl like
Speaker:food or envelopes with money for the monastery and those sorts of things.
Speaker:So here we are in 1996 in one of the poorest countries in the world.
Speaker:It's in the mid middle of a military hunter regime, right?
Speaker:Where, the, the Westerners were not something that they had seen.
Speaker:White people were not something they'd seen in a long time in this country.
Speaker:And it was a huge deal that we were there and people were like celebrating in
Speaker:the streets and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker:And so we, um, we were doing an arms round, which is what
Speaker:monks do kind of every day.
Speaker:And we were walking down the street and people were lining
Speaker:the streets and everything.
Speaker:And uh, out of the corner of my eye, I caught this woman
Speaker:who was a few people back.
Speaker:Um, and she caught me.
Speaker:She smiled, and then she wandered to the front.
Speaker:And you know, as a monkey, you're not supposed to make eye contact.
Speaker:It's not supposed to be like you're begging.
Speaker:It's just like you are, you're receiving.
Speaker:Um, but anyway, I was 10 years old, so of course I look up at this woman,
Speaker:she smiles down at me and she and I had this really, really clear moment.
Speaker:It's so clear to me to this day.
Speaker:Um, one of the, like most, uh, one of those poignant memories I've had in my
Speaker:entire life, she was skin and bones.
Speaker:There was nothing to her, and yet she placed food into my bowl and.
Speaker:There was a part of me at the time, and I remember the thought process.
Speaker:It was, this is at 10 years old as well.
Speaker:So, um, I was like, this is not fair.
Speaker:And then I kept walking.
Speaker:what I've realized since is that that was my first experience of
Speaker:injustice and inequality in the world.
Speaker:And so since then I've kind of had this thing in high school I
Speaker:was like a social justice warrior.
Speaker:I raised money for charity and everything.
Speaker:Some stuff happened in my life that took me off that track.
Speaker:But when we came, when I came back into business, I suddenly, I had.
Speaker:All this money, and the money was good, but it felt a little bit empty.
Speaker:And so we, we, we, we ran this event called Impact.
Speaker:This was the branding for it in 2020 when we were locked down in Australia.
Speaker:And we'd, we'd recently met this company, B one, G one,
Speaker:uh, Paul and Masami who run it.
Speaker:And there's this, this idea like, what if every time we do business,
Speaker:something good happens in the world?
Speaker:So what they do is they embed micro giving into everyday business tasks.
Speaker:You send an email, a meal gets donated, you send a, um, something happens.
Speaker:A new client signs 10, 10 days of clean drinking water.
Speaker:And so what we focus on primarily now is clean drinking water.
Speaker:That's our primary thing.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:2 billion people don't have access to a, to clean drinking water
Speaker:yet we are on a water giant.
Speaker:So it doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker:We have, we have the water, we just don't have the infrastructure.
Speaker:4 billion people don't have sanitation.
Speaker:Water is literal life, water.
Speaker:And then food is our next one because we need nutrients.
Speaker:And so, um, this statement, what if every time we do business,
Speaker:something good happens in the world?
Speaker:And so when we run our events, our participants are engaged in the process.
Speaker:Us, our participants are engaged in gamifying the event so that it's not
Speaker:just about us making money or them getting new clients and all that sort
Speaker:of stuff, but hey, we're doing business.
Speaker:Let's do some good at the same time.
Speaker:So every single time someone's touched, moved, inspired, they have a
Speaker:breakthrough, something cool happens.
Speaker:We stop the event, they get up and they share what it was, and then
Speaker:it triggers, say, for example, a week's worth of clean drinking water.
Speaker:And so with this event that we're doing in March.
Speaker:This event's crazy.
Speaker:It's got all of these 1 million references.
Speaker:So for the, for the people, it's one event, 1,000,001 weekend.
Speaker:That's what the forward facing thing.
Speaker:I have a personal goal, the time we're recording, this is September.
Speaker:I know this isn't being released till, um, till November.
Speaker:I have a personal, internal goal of, um, of, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker:I'm in a new country right now, so what I, what I've decided is like,
Speaker:let's, let's spice this up for myself.
Speaker:New country, zero following, no list, no money down.
Speaker:So I have a new account that I've set up with no following.
Speaker:I'm not allowed to use my email list, and I am not putting any of my own
Speaker:funds down to, to fund this event, and I'm documenting the whole process.
Speaker:And so what I'm aiming for is a million dollars worth of sponsorship
Speaker:by December nine, from December nine, and through March 19 when the event is,
Speaker:I'm selling 1000 tickets in 100 days.
Speaker:Which is a million dollars in ticket sales.
Speaker:And then at the event itself, we're gonna set a new Guinness World Record
Speaker:by donating 1 million days of clean drinking water, uh, live at the
Speaker:event triggered by the audience.
Speaker:They'll have a counter on screen, they'll trigger it, and every single
Speaker:time they touch, moved and inspired, we'll donate a week worth of clean
Speaker:drinking water with a thousand attendees.
Speaker:I'm fairly confident we'll be able to hit it, and it just adds
Speaker:a different element to the event,
Speaker:Oh, that's so cool.
Speaker:That's, well, and I'm just thinking as the event, it's just gonna spark
Speaker:engagement all the way through, and I guess what are, what are the.
Speaker:What are the things that would trigger this to, uh, to apply, like say a a week
Speaker:is, you know, a week of water is granted.
Speaker:What, what's the thing that gets to happen at the event
Speaker:My whole purpose in doing this is not just to be like, oh, Brody's doing this
Speaker:really, really cool thing, and like, look at him, he's a philanthropist.
Speaker:It's to inspire people to do better and to inspire people to think about different
Speaker:ways they can engage their audiences.
Speaker:And so the way in which it'll happen is at our virtual events,
Speaker:people type the word impact into the chat, and then we stop the event.
Speaker:We bring them up on screen, et cetera.
Speaker:F there's a technological challenge at the event, um, at a live event in that how do
Speaker:we get a counter up on screen to register live when somebody is touched, moved
Speaker:and inspired, they have a breakthrough or, um, they wanna do something cool.
Speaker:So I don't know what that trigger is yet.
Speaker:That's part of the next little while for me to figure that out.
Speaker:But we're gonna do it.
Speaker:There'll be some technological thing that we can do that'll
Speaker:make it really, really easy.
Speaker:Um, and then it's just gonna happen and it's gonna become this whole thing, the
Speaker:whole event, we're gonna see it go up.
Speaker:We're gonna celebrate it at the breaks.
Speaker:People are gonna, whatever.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:I've calculated that for a thousand people, um, to e
Speaker:every time they're triggered.
Speaker:If we do one week of clean drinking water, uh, each person needs to
Speaker:hit the trigger, uh, 20 times across the course of the weekend.
Speaker:I think that's very tangible for a thousand people to do that because I'm
Speaker:gonna ensure that they are touched, they're moved, they're inspired, they
Speaker:have breakthroughs, they're crying.
Speaker:They're like, they, they, the whole thing is designed around
Speaker:this whilst they're building out their event and so on and so forth.
Speaker:Um, I'm also gonna do, I've got a surprise around all of this as well,
Speaker:that will help us, help us get there.
Speaker:But I won't announce that
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:that's fair.
Speaker:Uh, I just, I, I'm just picturing it like in the motions, almost like
Speaker:people running to this button and like smashing it in the middle of
Speaker:the floor and everybody's like, ah,
Speaker:yeah, but
Speaker:That would be really, really cool.
Speaker:And yeah, but I also,
Speaker:because there's
Speaker:disruptive
Speaker:yeah, yeah, look, there's like a thousand people, and so I almost want them all
Speaker:to have their own personal triggers.
Speaker:I'm just not sure what that will be yet, but I'm sure that there's, Hey, if
Speaker:you're listening, is somebody out there?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I don't want them on their phones as well though, so hey, if you're listening and
Speaker:you've got a solution, please hit me up.
Speaker:I'd love to hear it so that we can make this happen.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:So that's why I wanted to ask about it.
Speaker:There's something, someone out there, a sponsor potentially, that could,
Speaker:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker:Show me your tech.
Speaker:I'll give you some space.
Speaker:Give you your money.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:Well, dude, I mean, what, what a hell of a challenge and putting yourself on
Speaker:the line of, of doing this with, you know, with a, with a fresh account, with
Speaker:no email list and you know, no, none of your own personal funds to basically,
Speaker:I mean, it, it puts your back against the wall, I would imagine, right?
Speaker:Like
Speaker:I am like terrified.
Speaker:I'm terrified because it's.
Speaker:It.
Speaker:Well, yeah.
Speaker:Look, so, so how this hap all this came about was I was at an event,
Speaker:uh, a few weeks back, a, a good friend icon Becca puts on an amazing
Speaker:event called Create a Hub Live.
Speaker:And in the middle of this event, I'm like, I'm sitting down and suddenly
Speaker:like I'm in a pool of sweat and I realize, I'm like, I have to leave.
Speaker:And I balled out the door, ran up to my room.
Speaker:And I was like shaking and I'm like, I realized something.
Speaker:And what had happened in 2020, I was supposed to be on the
Speaker:road for 36 weeks of the year.
Speaker:I actually came back from Tony Robbins house in March.
Speaker:I was in Sun Valley in Idaho.
Speaker:We had an event there.
Speaker:And then I left and I landed at Sydney Airport and then the next day, Australia
Speaker:shut down our borders for two years.
Speaker:I lost millions of dollars overnight because that was my breakout
Speaker:year in business where I was gonna move to the United States.
Speaker:I had 36 weeks of travel booked and it was gonna be it for me.
Speaker:And then that year, thankfully, like there's gifts in all of this, I ended up
Speaker:doing a virtual event later that year.
Speaker:I cleared my first million dollar event.
Speaker:It set up this pattern of virtual events for myself.
Speaker:But what I realized at this event with with Icon and everyone, I was
Speaker:like, hang on, when was the last time you did something big Brody?
Speaker:Like, you've got clients doing thousand plus people event.
Speaker:You've been on stage in front of 15,000 people at somebody
Speaker:else's event, where's yours?
Speaker:And I was like, I'm not living my own thing here.
Speaker:Like I'm not preaching the thing.
Speaker:I've done smaller intensives, but why am I doing this thing,
Speaker:this virtual event thing?
Speaker:And what I realized is that I just, I just fallen into a pattern.
Speaker:I'd fall into safety, but what I had noticed in the previous
Speaker:six months is my performance had started dropping at my own events.
Speaker:My clients were doing really, really well.
Speaker:Our portfolio partners, we do JVs with people, so there's, they're my
Speaker:events, they're doing really well.
Speaker:But my own personal events, I'm like, I'm not clearing a
Speaker:million dollar events anymore.
Speaker:And I started feeling really incongruous because that's like my whole brand.
Speaker:And so at, at this event, I like this, this, this, uh, come to
Speaker:non-denominational Jesus moment
Speaker:That's
Speaker:I was like, yeah, well yeah, I'm not religious, so I gotta be careful.
Speaker:Um, uh, so, so I had this moment and I'm like, okay, you have to change the game.
Speaker:You have to do something that's so unique and so powerful.
Speaker:Um, and so I literally, actually, I'm gonna just, if I can bring it up on,
Speaker:on my phone here, because I've, I've, I'm documenting this whole process now.
Speaker:And so, um, this, this event that I'm doing, um, I, I do, you know,
Speaker:those, uh, notepads that they have in the hotel room that no one ever uses
Speaker:with the little pens and everything?
Speaker:I always take 'em home because I feel like I use 'em at my desk,
Speaker:Well, there you go.
Speaker:Okay, cool.
Speaker:That's a good use.
Speaker:So, So, I wrote this thing down and it's there and it says, new
Speaker:country, no following, no list.
Speaker:1000 tickets, 100 days.
Speaker:It was August 17 at the time.
Speaker:I gave myself two weeks to like mentally figure it out, and then I was gonna go,
Speaker:boom, okay, I've got my 100 days to do my sponsors, and then all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:And, um, it just, it it, what it did, you're, you're right, it put my back
Speaker:against the wall, but I was in the room when I made the decision to do it.
Speaker:I remember, I, I got up off the seat, I turned around, I sat down
Speaker:again, and then I got up and I'm like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker:And so I called, I, I got on a call with my, uh, my chief of staff and
Speaker:I said, I think we're doing this.
Speaker:And she's like, finally.
Speaker:And I'm like, what?
Speaker:She's like, I have been waiting.
Speaker:You have just been, you've been playing such a small game.
Speaker:And so, um, it inspired out of that.
Speaker:And like, like I said, man, I'm terrified.
Speaker:I'm putting so much on the line for this, but one of the really cool
Speaker:things about this, the passion that I have for this, the way in which
Speaker:it's coming across and the narrative behind it, I'm finding people are
Speaker:falling over themselves to be involved.
Speaker:People want to be a part of this and this idea of this, this world record
Speaker:that's kind of coming in, I got that.
Speaker:I was literally riding a bike down, uh, on the west side,
Speaker:hi, highway here in Manhattan.
Speaker:One day I was riding down and I'm like, oh.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:No, that's like the, that's like the true, um, reflection.
Speaker:That's the true, I guess, what's the word?
Speaker:Um, it, it, it is the true culmination of all of my stuff around impact
Speaker:to do something powerful like this and what a great experience for the
Speaker:participants to be involved with something so much more meaningful than
Speaker:just come and learn how to make money.
Speaker:And then at that point, once I'd got that in, I was like, I am all in on this.
Speaker:I'm not wasting a moment on this.
Speaker:I'm documenting the whole process and I'm gonna enroll as many
Speaker:people as possible in this.
Speaker:So I'm, uh, I'm well on my way to my $1 million in sponsorship, looking for more.
Speaker:But, um, I'm, I, I'm quietly confident I'll hit it, that that one's not
Speaker:as important to me as the thousand tickets in a hundred days and helping
Speaker:people to do their own event stuff.
Speaker:Um, but the, the point of it is that I wanna prove to people that you can do it
Speaker:with no money down with the right vision.
Speaker:With the right enrollment skills, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:you mentioned impact, I'm looking at, at your, on your chest there.
Speaker:Do you think that's the missing link for a lot of folks when it comes to, maybe
Speaker:not just events, but like you said, it was empty earlier with money, you know, like
Speaker:with just the money aspect and you almost like, kind of lose touch of maybe the, the
Speaker:reason why you're even doing something.
Speaker:we, I know so many billionaires that are manifestly unhappy because
Speaker:they've got all of this money and they don't know what to do with it.
Speaker:Or they've exited from their businesses and they've got all this money.
Speaker:They're like, I missed the days when I was doing that sort of stuff.
Speaker:What I know to be true is that, um, you know that there's an old saying, um,
Speaker:whoever said money can't buy happiness.
Speaker:You've heard that,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:The, the follow on from that is simply hasn't given enough away.
Speaker:Okay,
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:whoever said money card by happiness simply hasn't given enough away.
Speaker:Something remarkable happens when you give, when you give freely as well.
Speaker:And here's some stats to back that up.
Speaker:So 80% of the world's population live on less than $10 per day.
Speaker:The top, uh, 75% of the world's wealth is concentrated in the top 20%.
Speaker:And two years ago.
Speaker:I know it's worse now, but the top 1% have five times more wealth
Speaker:than the bottom 80% combined.
Speaker:Now for a lot of people, you look at those numbers and I used to be a social justice
Speaker:warrior and I was like, screw the rich.
Speaker:Like rah, this is not cool.
Speaker:But what I know to be true now is that the 1%.
Speaker:Have figured out how to make the world work for them.
Speaker:And so I have this follow up statement, you know, the whole, um,
Speaker:what if every time we do business, something good happens in the world?
Speaker:There was this old futurist called Buckminster Fuller and he posited
Speaker:this idea of the world game, and he had this kind of statement, and I've
Speaker:modernized the statement and put it into a question into what Simon
Speaker:Sinek would call an infinite game.
Speaker:And it's what if we could make the world work for 100% of humanity
Speaker:100% of the time without damaging the environment or harming people?
Speaker:That is a really nice question to live in because I also know that for every $1
Speaker:that you invest below the poverty line, another $5 is created in the economy.
Speaker:'cause when you give cash freely without restriction, here's what people do.
Speaker:They invest in education, they start businesses, they save, they
Speaker:spend, and you have this circular kind of bottom up approach where
Speaker:there's not a zero sum game anymore.
Speaker:All.
Speaker:And so when you look at the 1%, instead of us fighting them,
Speaker:we look at them for clues.
Speaker:Now we go, okay, well they've managed to make the world work for them.
Speaker:Some of them have damaged the environment and harmed people.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:But there are some clues around how to make the world work for you.
Speaker:And then by extension that people that, first of all, you love the new
Speaker:communities and then the wider world.
Speaker:So the foundation that we are setting up as part of a larger project we're doing
Speaker:in space is called one Down 99 to Go.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:At Apple, we used to have this statement when Apple had a 1% share
Speaker:of the personal computer market, um, that they were one down and 99 to go
Speaker:in terms of getting that share, right?
Speaker:And so it used to be this rallying cry and I've like kind of co-opted
Speaker:and go, okay, cool, that's humanity.
Speaker:We're one down and 99 to go.
Speaker:To answer your question in a more direct.
Speaker:Yes, I believe that everyone is in business, gets into business for
Speaker:good initially, first for themselves.
Speaker:They're like, I want to create a better life for myself and my family.
Speaker:And every single time I have an event, I ask people Why you got into,
Speaker:into business in the first place?
Speaker:95, 90 Actually probably 99% of people say, I want to have
Speaker:an impact on people's lives.
Speaker:Um, and which is great.
Speaker:And, and it's that few people say, I wanna make money also really, really cool.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:what happens along the way is we get so caught in the weeds,
Speaker:and I'm guilty of this as well.
Speaker:We get so caught in the weeds of the daily nationalisms of our business.
Speaker:Where's that next lead coming from?
Speaker:Where's the, where's that next check coming from?
Speaker:Uh, this system is broken down.
Speaker:All this sort of stuff that we lose sight of the biggest, the bigger picture.
Speaker:We are in this planet for a very finite period of time.
Speaker:You know that if we were to put all of history.
Speaker:13.8 billion years into a 24 hour block.
Speaker:That was history, right?
Speaker:The time that you and I occupy on this little speck of dust
Speaker:floating around a ball of gas.
Speaker:And this infinitely expanding universe is literally one, 1000000000000th
Speaker:of a millisecond to midnight.
Speaker:We're here for like a blip, right?
Speaker:So given the choice between living a life of mediocrity and following
Speaker:someone else's path, or living a life of life of true impact and meaning.
Speaker:I want to know that my contribution to the planet far outlives me.
Speaker:I want a million year vision.
Speaker:I want this thing that kind of pulls me forward.
Speaker:One of my keynote speeches is around the million year vision and and
Speaker:look, here's what's really important about that is that, you know, most,
Speaker:some people have a one year vision.
Speaker:Some people have a 10 year vision.
Speaker:When I ask this in my keynotes, who here has a 1000 year vision?
Speaker:No one puts their hand up.
Speaker:10,000. No one puts their hand up.
Speaker:Million year vision.
Speaker:I'm the only person to put my hand up.
Speaker:And people, people like, like whenever you just, I'll ask you a question.
Speaker:When you set a one year vision or a goal, what's the first thing
Speaker:that you kind of do after that?
Speaker:I, I, well definitely wanna write it down and, and, and set some, oh, I
Speaker:like to work backwards, you know, so
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Figure out the plan.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So you start planning around it and you get into it, and then it's
Speaker:like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker:You're working towards it, right?
Speaker:But when you ask somebody to, to, to do like, what's your million year vision?
Speaker:They're like, why would I do that?
Speaker:And that's the clue instead of the tyranny of how we get stuck
Speaker:in the question of why, which is far more powerful than a how.
Speaker:Because the why gives us more meaning, it gives us more power, and it gives
Speaker:us more agency over the future.
Speaker:We sit in this infinite thing of why?
Speaker:Why would I do this?
Speaker:What would be possible?
Speaker:What if the world could work for a hundred percent of humanity 100%
Speaker:of the time without damaging the environment or harming people?
Speaker:That's a really unique position to be in as opposed to being stuck in the weeds
Speaker:of where's the next lead coming from?
Speaker:All of those sorts of things.
Speaker:It becomes this thing that kind of pulls and propels you forward.
Speaker:Now, for myself, am I perfect at this?
Speaker:Hell no.
Speaker:I've had a really stressful day today, but getting on here and talking about
Speaker:it, and this is the other thing.
Speaker:You gotta preach it, like preach it from the rooftops, what you're doing,
Speaker:because I guarantee you I'm gonna leave this call today far more energized
Speaker:than I was at any point throughout today when things were on fire and I
Speaker:was pulling my
Speaker:hair out.
Speaker:I had fires going on before this too,
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:Well, and, and so how would you get yourself, uh, and maybe not you,
Speaker:but if you were to think like other folks or people you advise like at.
Speaker:What, you know, let's say they have this vision, they, they leave your event and
Speaker:they have, they, now they're starting to think of this 1 million year vision.
Speaker:Uh, how do they keep the vision strong?
Speaker:Like, how do they always have that, that way to propel themselves
Speaker:further when things get stressful?
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:what's, what do you do?
Speaker:so I have this statement In our business, we always come back to impact.
Speaker:We always come back to impact.
Speaker:One of my old mentors, Taki Moore, he said, fix nervous with service.
Speaker:Fix, nervous with service.
Speaker:And so when things, shit, say hitting the fan and all those things going up,
Speaker:the best thing you can do to get out of your head and get momentum is to get
Speaker:in the service of other people, whether it's clients, whether it's whatever.
Speaker:So when you think about building out your mission, take one step
Speaker:towards it, take one step towards it, that's going to excite you.
Speaker:I got on a call with somebody earlier today that I'm trying to bring on
Speaker:as a sponsor for the event, and I was having a shitty day beforehand.
Speaker:And then I explained everything I've explained to you about the event, like
Speaker:the challenge and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:And by the end of it I was like, oh, like hell yeah, I've got this.
Speaker:Hell yeah.
Speaker:Screw this other stuff for my day.
Speaker:This is really awesome.
Speaker:So the other part of this is for people is to verbalize the crap out of it,
Speaker:because when it comes out of your mouth, it's no longer just an idea.
Speaker:It's a plan.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:die, right?
Speaker:Plans get fulfilled.
Speaker:And I really love this, this concept of, you know, like the, this idea of
Speaker:this million year vision is so potent because it removes this where people get
Speaker:stuck and it's just like, let's do this.
Speaker:This is insane.
Speaker:The other piece I would also say about this is that if you're getting
Speaker:stuck, then you're gotta look at the environment that you're in, two parts
Speaker:to your environment, your inputs, and then the people around you.
Speaker:Inputs meaning what are you consuming?
Speaker:Uh, what are you consuming online?
Speaker:Um, I, I don't look at other people's social media.
Speaker:I do not look at my competitors.
Speaker:I do not look at, uh, I do not look at, I, I occasionally get sucked
Speaker:into some political stuff, which is really bad because it's such a
Speaker:toxic environment at the moment.
Speaker:But I try to avoid all of that because what's happening on the
Speaker:social media is that people are hijacking your brain and hijacking
Speaker:your attention for their own game.
Speaker:Now, am I hijacking everyone's attention for my own game right now?
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And I'm shameless about it.
Speaker:And I need to protect my energy so that I can like stay on mission.
Speaker:We call it being on mission twenty four seven three sixty five.
Speaker:There's no rest with this sort of stuff.
Speaker:This, this is something much, much bigger than you.
Speaker:Um, I also just wanna put a little bit of a caveat in here for people.
Speaker:I'm crazy.
Speaker:I know that I'm certifiable.
Speaker:Cameron Harold did a, um, a did a a, a YouTube video once and
Speaker:he said all CEOs are bipolar.
Speaker:And he listed off all the different things that CEOs have that makes them bipolar.
Speaker:I'm bipolar.
Speaker:I think we're all
Speaker:yeah,
Speaker:it's, we're
Speaker:all there.
Speaker:right?
Speaker:And so, um, but, but like, I'm crazy.
Speaker:I have these really, really big things.
Speaker:Your million year vision doesn't need to be as expansive as mine.
Speaker:The fact that I'm taking 280 people up to space.
Speaker:To run an event that's gonna be broadcast for 24 hours to raise $10 billion for
Speaker:charity does not need to be your vision.
Speaker:Notice how I just dropped that in
Speaker:Yeah, I had a note about that, but I was, I was wondering if you'd bring
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Look, look, your mission, your vision could be as simply as I
Speaker:want to provide for my family.
Speaker:I want my family's legacy to live on.
Speaker:I'm so like all the power to you.
Speaker:That's powerful, right?
Speaker:I just think a little bit differently and that's my thing.
Speaker:Well, it
Speaker:could be the 1 million year legacy of your family.
Speaker:I mean, like, however it shapes up.
Speaker:You can, you can make it bigger.
Speaker:Expand, but
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And there's one other thing as well.
Speaker:So this is, this is why events are also infinitely more powerful than anything
Speaker:else you can do in the marketplace.
Speaker:So internet marketing strategies have been around for 25 years.
Speaker:They're designed to hijack your brain on these devices that I used
Speaker:to help sell part of the problem.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:Ironic.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um, and then people have been connecting at gathering, right?
Speaker:Like, I've got a book over there called The Art of Gathering.
Speaker:Um, we've been, we've been basically gathering together as a tribal species
Speaker:to connect, to communicate and engage in commerce for about 300,000 years, ever
Speaker:since we were chimps, even before then.
Speaker:Chimps were like always communal as well.
Speaker:Um, and so.
Speaker:We have this really unique ability when we are live on stage at an event.
Speaker:Couple things happen.
Speaker:First of all, when you're in person with someone, your magnetic field's
Speaker:intertwined and there is a connection.
Speaker:They've actually shown this on like infrared, I dunno if
Speaker:it's infrared, but with tech
Speaker:right?
Speaker:there.
Speaker:That, yeah, yeah, All that sort of stuff.
Speaker:And, but we, what we also know is that every single word that comes out of
Speaker:your mouth, every single word that comes out of your mouth has an impact
Speaker:on the person that is in the room.
Speaker:Um, I went to a Tony Bins event.
Speaker:I heard the right message that I was in the room at the right
Speaker:time, heard the right message.
Speaker:That completely altered my perspective on life that made all of this possible.
Speaker:And so I have a deep reverence for the art and science of speaking and selling
Speaker:from stage because you literally hold the audience in the palm of your hand.
Speaker:It's a big responsibility.
Speaker:What happens when those words come out of your mouth is that you're literally
Speaker:rewiring their neural pathways.
Speaker:They're having a spark, they're having an insight.
Speaker:Our sole job as a species, as a species, right down to biology
Speaker:is to evolve the human race.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:That's what we are.
Speaker:That's literally why we are alive.
Speaker:And so when I think about this in terms of the millionaire vision and
Speaker:my big crazy ones and whatnot, if what you are doing is meaningful to
Speaker:you, no one else can tell you what.
Speaker:It's just like the concept of integrity.
Speaker:I hate when people say, oh, you're so out of integrity.
Speaker:I'm like, you don't know what that person's integrity
Speaker:is.
Speaker:I don't know what your, I don't know what your mission
Speaker:is and what's important to you.
Speaker:But so long as what you are doing is meaningful and impactful for you, you
Speaker:are literally rewiring your biological code in your neural pathways, your DNA,
Speaker:by pursuing that thing and taking that one step after one step after one step.
Speaker:So no matter what the vision is, you are powerful beyond measure.
Speaker:Um, the, there's a great quote from one of my former clients,
Speaker:uh, Marianne Williamson.
Speaker:She, uh, there's a photo of us there.
Speaker:Um, she, I helped her design her announcement that she
Speaker:was running for president.
Speaker:We did some, I, I searched Washington DC high and low for a
Speaker:venue for her to announce with her.
Speaker:Um, but she has this book called A Return to Love and she says, our greatest fear
Speaker:is not that we are inadequate, but it's that we are powerful beyond measure.
Speaker:It is our light, not our dark, that most scares us.
Speaker:And, and I'm paraphrasing here, but she says something along the
Speaker:lines of, who, how are you to be?
Speaker:Like, we say, who am I to be powerful, beautiful, um, uh, uh, you know,
Speaker:and, and all these lovely adjectives.
Speaker:And then she says, truthfully, who are you not to be those things.
Speaker:And uh, when I hear all of that, I go, yeah, like every single
Speaker:person has power in their own way.
Speaker:Everyone has their own vision.
Speaker:And that power is something that you uniquely hold, and so go forth with it.
Speaker:Do the thing.
Speaker:Who cares what anyone else is, is thinking and saying, and just
Speaker:by your presence on this planet, just know that you have power.
Speaker:You have a one, one in 1 trillion chance of being alive.
Speaker:Like make some, make some use of it.
Speaker:ain't that the truth?
Speaker:I mean, there's so many like wild stats when you start to put perspective
Speaker:in,
Speaker:in front of someone or yourself as that reminder, that constant
Speaker:reminder that like, hey.
Speaker:If any of you know it, it's, it's all about you.
Speaker:You have to take charge of this thing, but have that vision so
Speaker:you know exactly where, at least the direction you're headed.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You're not gonna know the full plan because the Y is so big.
Speaker:Like it's an infinite game, like you said, Simon Sinek, I mean, it's, it's, it's all
Speaker:wrapped up in there now just to kind of.
Speaker:Start to close this one out.
Speaker:You know, you mentioned AI and you're redefining a lot of everything that
Speaker:you're doing in your events with ai.
Speaker:Uh, my brain goes to like, so are virtual events, like, are they just
Speaker:not as important as the in-person events because of human connection?
Speaker:I dunno, some thoughts there or just other ways you see AI and this, this
Speaker:technology that's just rapidly evolving, like how is that gonna shape how events
Speaker:and just human connection are working?
Speaker:Yeah, so I don't think virtual events are dead.
Speaker:I just don't like them anymore 'cause I've done too many of them.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I've got lots of clients that are very successful.
Speaker:I have a client that had an event with 900 people on it, which was three
Speaker:times more sales calls than his team did in the previous three months.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They're really powerful.
Speaker:They're low overhead, all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker:Of, but when I think about what human beings desperately want and need right
Speaker:now, it's that in-person connection.
Speaker:And I think that we need people to be at the forefront and the vanguard of this
Speaker:as we are moving into this AI world.
Speaker:And if you're not using AI to enhance the experience, then you're done.
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Uh, right.
Speaker:So like a couple of examples of how we are using this to support.
Speaker:So we've fed all of our stuff, all of my ip, every time I've
Speaker:spoken on stage into our ai.
Speaker:It has a knowledge bank that understands how I think really, really
Speaker:clearly, and all of the strategies.
Speaker:We've also fed now over a thousand hours of Steve Jobs selling from
Speaker:stage into that, I got, I got a hold of some incredible footage.
Speaker:Um, and it's now trained, or it's being trained right now, it's training, it's got
Speaker:its training wheels on, on, like helping to craft speeches and talks and pitches.
Speaker:Like Steve Jobs.
Speaker:There was very unique things that he did with language embedded commands
Speaker:and stuff like that, that to a casual observer, it looked like just
Speaker:a dude in a, you know, in a, um.
Speaker:Uh, there's a quote actually in a turtleneck.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But what it was, was like a carefully created sales pitch.
Speaker:This person says it's a carefully created product, demonstration, sales
Speaker:pitch, um, corporate cheerleading, um, uh, uh, something else in a dash of
Speaker:religious revival for good measure.
Speaker:And it's true, right?
Speaker:And so we've tried to get that into RA.
Speaker:What it's allowed us to do is go from ideation from, I wanna put on
Speaker:an event to create an entire ideal client profile for the person that
Speaker:we want at that event in seconds.
Speaker:Then from that, ask a couple of questions about the event that we want put on.
Speaker:And about the different features of the event to produce the copy for a landing
Speaker:page that can then be programmed into GHL.
Speaker:And we're trying to get it to a position where it gets programmed in like,
Speaker:sorry, A CRM, like GHL or whatever.
Speaker:So it gets programmed in automatically and then it designs all of the scripts
Speaker:for ads, all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker:My time to first value with our clients, and this is why I can get
Speaker:'em to build their event live on day one with us is literally 10 minutes.
Speaker:I can have an entire event built out in probably about an hour,
Speaker:the marketing in about 10 to 15 minutes with the right inputs.
Speaker:Um, and so it's trained on all of this sort of stuff.
Speaker:And so what that means for our clients is great.
Speaker:It means that instead of all of the hard yards now, I still make our
Speaker:clients watch the videos and learn the stuff because it'll help them
Speaker:to get better outputs from the ai.
Speaker:But it does enhance everything that we're doing to the point that
Speaker:I have a landing page to a free event that's converting at 47.5%
Speaker:Woo.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:That's
Speaker:which is just nuts right now to, in truth be told, like in full
Speaker:transparency, the VIP upsell, at the moment, I'm, I haven't nailed that
Speaker:with the AI yet, and it's tanking, but on the front end we've got that.
Speaker:So the optimization for us is the next one.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:So I think that's part of it.
Speaker:The other thing that's really, really cool is that we're using voice agents now
Speaker:to capture psychographic and demographic information about the people that are
Speaker:gonna be in our room at our event.
Speaker:Really interesting things can happen.
Speaker:We can also gather financial profiles from people based on their credit score,
Speaker:the credit that they have available, the cash that they have available
Speaker:through their registration process.
Speaker:So I can start building up a buyer profile of the people that are in my
Speaker:room based on where their business stages at, um, their psychographic information
Speaker:and all their financial information.
Speaker:We feed that into the ai it, knowing what my event's gonna be about all
Speaker:the different things that I'm doing.
Speaker:It has all of the bank of my knowledge and activities, and it'll allow me to
Speaker:carefully curate every part of the event based on the people that are in the room.
Speaker:And at the same time, if I need to make live adjustments in the
Speaker:room to the activities based on what's happening in the room.
Speaker:Uh, a really good example of this, um.
Speaker:A client did a pitch, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:We had some data from the audience in the room about their hopes, their
Speaker:dreams, their aspirations, their fears.
Speaker:They filled out a survey.
Speaker:I grabbed that survey whilst, uh, our, our portfolio partner was presenting.
Speaker:I put it into our AI and it produced a re-pitch script that was perfectly
Speaker:tailored to the audience in the room.
Speaker:I then used that script to do the re-pitch, and I extracted
Speaker:an extra $75,000 out of the room because it touched on every single
Speaker:point that they had just told us.
Speaker:About, and then it allows us also for like the main pitch as well.
Speaker:So these are the people in the room, these are the things that they need.
Speaker:So I hit them in the pitch with every single thing that they've told us
Speaker:that they need, and it just makes our office seem inevitable to them.
Speaker:Then post event, well pre and post event.
Speaker:Um, they have a, a, a, a, a voice agent that they're developing a relationship
Speaker:that before the event that's making sure they have everything that
Speaker:they need, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:We have a text agent going as well, and then on the, on the post event, all of
Speaker:the post event follow up is done by.
Speaker:Uh, a chat bot that's like checking in with them.
Speaker:How are you going?
Speaker:Like if they purchase, they, they get like an onboarding sequence.
Speaker:If they didn't purchase, they get a sales conversation that's happening in the
Speaker:dms or, or a voice agents calling them.
Speaker:Like, there is so much opportunity here for us to be able to create
Speaker:incredible experiences for people using this technology while still
Speaker:giving everyone that personal touch of you being at the event.
Speaker:And reducing the workload on your team, uh, that would normally be like a manual
Speaker:lift for people so that you can focus on giving the right experience in the room.
Speaker:It is personalization to it's max.
Speaker:I mean like literally where Yeah.
Speaker:Before, during, and after and well after I'm sure follow ups.
Speaker:And that's an amazing use of AI and technology blended in with human
Speaker:connection and what actually people are looking to get, or maybe they
Speaker:don't even know quite yet, but it's helping extract that out of them
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:do something.
Speaker:Freaking
Speaker:awesome Brody.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:I appreciate that.
Speaker:We've worked really, really hard on this stuff.
Speaker:Like it's a work in progress, um, and obviously like we're still
Speaker:developing it for ourselves, but the cool thing is, is that with this
Speaker:event, we're gonna have an amazing case study for us, like end to end.
Speaker:Um, and then what we're doing is part of our, um, a techno, like our rollout
Speaker:next year is to start rolling the whole end-to-end system out with select clients.
Speaker:And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take it to market as its own
Speaker:product, as a SaaS product as well, so that even if people are not in our
Speaker:world, they'll get access to the tech.
Speaker:And then I've got another revenue stream coming in.
Speaker:It's not necessarily about people in our world.
Speaker:Obviously that revenue stream will be programmed to try and
Speaker:get 'em to buy our stuff, but
Speaker:makes sense, but it's a hell of a way to launch something like this as
Speaker:Yeah, it is.
Speaker:It really is.
Speaker:Well as, as we wrap up here, I'm just, I'm.
Speaker:I'm just thinking because you're such an impact guy.
Speaker:So if you were to speak to the person watching, listening right now, uh, you
Speaker:know what's one, if you wanna leave 'em with like one belief that can completely
Speaker:change the way that they show up in the world, what would that one belief be?
Speaker:I always tell people this, it's like you're extraordinary, like you really are.
Speaker:You have survived every single day that you are on this planet.
Speaker:And this planet is not designed for you to live in, like it's the safest time
Speaker:in history for us to be alive, but we are constantly assaulted by messages
Speaker:that telling us that we are less than by people telling us that we are, uh, invalid
Speaker:because we're a part of a particular socioeconomic group or some, some cultural
Speaker:group and all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker:The internet is a cesspit at the moment of just everyone warring against each other.
Speaker:And so if you ever doubt.
Speaker:The, your place in the world or the impact that you can have.
Speaker:Just remember that you've survived every single day.
Speaker:You're the only person that has your exact experience.
Speaker:You're the only person that has it, and there are people out there that
Speaker:need to hear you and your message.
Speaker:They need to hear the things that you've been through, the trials,
Speaker:the tribulations, all that sort of stuff, so that it gives them the
Speaker:power to maybe take that little step forward towards what their dream is.
Speaker:You know, I, I come from a background of I was sexually abused when I was a child.
Speaker:I went through all of this drug stuff, all of those sorts of things.
Speaker:When I talk about those sorts of things in my keynote speeches, if just one
Speaker:person is impacted by the message, then I know that my life is meaningful.
Speaker:I know that it's like all of that stuff that I went through was worthwhile
Speaker:because it's helped somebody else.
Speaker:So if you are sitting in the mark, if you're in the messy middle at the moment.
Speaker:I would encourage you to A, remember that you're extraordinary.
Speaker:Your very existence is an absolute miracle, one in 1 trillion chance.
Speaker:And then get out of your own head and get into service.
Speaker:Find that thing that is important to you and just get out there and do it as
Speaker:fixed nervous with service, as they say.
Speaker:And you know, everything becomes easier when you're in
Speaker:the service of other people.
Speaker:Your stuff just doesn't seem as significant anymore,
Speaker:as significant as it is.
Speaker:I don't wanna minimize it, but.
Speaker:There's so much more that you can do and we need you on that
Speaker:path, whatever that mission is.
Speaker:It's all about evolving, right?
Speaker:And bringing everybody up with us.
Speaker:So Brody, this is absolutely, this is highlight of my day right here.
Speaker:So
Speaker:mine too.
Speaker:And like I'm finishing off the day here as well, so it's,
Speaker:it's pushing me out on a high
Speaker:too, so thanks so much for having me.
Speaker:I
Speaker:appreciate it.
Speaker:And, uh, we co-created this.
Speaker:How can people go follow you but also follow the event that's going
Speaker:to come and, and get involved?
Speaker:Go attend, gimme, gimme the
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay, so, um, Brody Lee Live is the social media tag.
Speaker:We're on Instagram.
Speaker:Um, we're toying with the idea of doing it on YouTube shorts and also on TikTok.
Speaker:I don't know anything about those platforms.
Speaker:So Instagram's the place to go, um, depending on when you're watching this.
Speaker:So hopefully my followers have improved.
Speaker:I have no idea about this sort of stuff.
Speaker:So we, it's an experiment.
Speaker:I'm, I've got this internal goal of maybe a million views by the time of the event.
Speaker:We'll see if that happens.
Speaker:Um, again, I could fall on my face, but that's cool.
Speaker:I'm happy to do that for the cause.
Speaker:Um, so yeah, Brody Lee live.
Speaker:Um, we are launching the, our launch for the actual event.
Speaker:I'm, the first day I'm allowed to sell tickets is on December nine.
Speaker:So if you go to Brody Lee Live, there is a wait list that you can jump on,
Speaker:uh, and you'll be able to jump on that.
Speaker:We're gonna do a virtual event to launch this whole thing.
Speaker:And I'm gonna do some crazy cool training on that virtual event where you'll
Speaker:come in and learn all about events and I'm gonna give you like, uh, some
Speaker:stuff that you can action right away.
Speaker:And then there's an opportunity at that event for you to jump in, to be able
Speaker:to be a part of all of this and to, and to, to be a part of this magic.
Speaker:My, my guarantee to everybody is that this will not be like an event that
Speaker:you have ever experienced before.
Speaker:And if you are not convinced by the end of the first day that this is the strategy
Speaker:for you to be able to change people's lives, I will give you a full refund.
Speaker:That's my guarantee.
Speaker:And you can take what you've learned on day one and go and
Speaker:enjoy yourself in Disneyland or wherever it is that, that we are.
Speaker:Ha ha.
Speaker:I love it, man.
Speaker:Uh, well, hey, we will link everything up, show notes, uh,
Speaker:description, all, all the places.
Speaker:Make it obvious to, to make it easy and get the, get people there.
Speaker:Brody, this is epic.
Speaker:So thank you.
Speaker:I know you're gonna hit the, a million and above on all fronts, all the millions.
Speaker:So, and there's be gonna be a ton of drinking water for, for so many folks.
Speaker:So thank you for what you do, man.
Speaker:Keep inspiring.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
Speaker:It's been a pleasure being here.
Speaker:Thanks for having me.
Speaker:Appreciate.