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Forget Pitch Fest and Hotel Ballrooms.

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My guest today here is Brody Lee and he is here re-engineering events into

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immersive experiences powered by ai, where it's actually shaping all the details.

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It's co-created with the audience, and breakthroughs aren't just sales, it's

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actually his, it's set up to trigger, to donate clean water for millions of people

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based on what's happening in the room.

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So his personal experiment with all of this is to build a seven

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figure event in only 100 days with absolutely no safety net.

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So no previous email list, no ad spend, none of his personal

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cash putting into this.

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And he's doing this all so he could prove what's possible

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when business equals impact.

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It's completely redefining what events are in this new phase of AI and technology

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and kind of human disconnection.

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So he's flipping the script.

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He's gonna dive into it now.

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Brody Lee.

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All right, Brody, we're doing this.

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How are you doing, my friend?

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I am doing just great.

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I'm really happy to be here.

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dude, me too.

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I'm, you know, we got connected recently through Charles Bird.

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Gotta give him a shout out.

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Always

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do.

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And um, you know, we have a lot of mutual friends.

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We were just talking about Greg Merrilees, another buddy of

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ours who has just awesome, he's been on the show a ton to time.

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So, but you are, you are the events guy and that's,

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Hopefully I, hopefully I have that reputation.

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Yeah.

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that's what I hear at least a word on the street is, and you get some big plans,

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which I want to talk about and how things are changing because you know, we're,

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we talk a lot about AI and how things are changing so much on this show for

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entrepreneurs and just everyone alike.

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But like you're, you're kind of spearheading this whole like, reinvention

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of what events can be are and yeah, you just have this interesting, you know.

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Background track record of doing them, but also what they can become.

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So I guess any thoughts on, on that before we dive in?

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Yeah, man.

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Look, look, I come into the event space with a, uh, I was fortunate enough

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to work for Apple at the time when Steve Jobs was around, so the late

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two thousands, early 2000 and tens.

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And I, uh, I got to see firsthand how he did these incredible events, these product

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launches that just captivated people around the world and forced millions of

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people to come into stores to the point that people were waiting outside overnight

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to get the latest iPhone and they would queue up for hours and everything.

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Um, so our product launches were amazing, but they created a quality problem for us.

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Whereas our one-to-one sales model where you go into an Apple store, you get

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that specialist, which is Apple, kind of redefined retail in that way, and everyone

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ended up copying them, but it fell apart.

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And so part of my role when I was training, uh, their leadership, their

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executive teams, as a sales trainer, I would, I would support them with

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like, how do we sell one to many?

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How do we get people in our store environments, having somebody at

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the foot of a table at a launch and facilitating a sales conversation

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with like 40 people at one.

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Which is great.

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It was a really awesome time to be there, and so I kind of had this

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PhD style education from Steve on how to sell one to many, which is an

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amazing, amazing, amazing experience.

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And I, I learned a ton from the guy.

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And so coming into this space now in the, you know, the, the, the personal

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development, business development kind of coaching, consulting, creator kind,

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kind of space, um, I've been able to take a lot of what I learned from Steve and

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implement it into our strategies around how we help people to create events that

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truly touch, move, and inspire people.

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Um, I have this firm.

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That most events that people go to live in person events are terrible.

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Most people do a phenomenally horrible job at producing that event.

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You think about it, they go into a gray hotel room with a monotone speaker,

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no attention paid to the experience, and then it's just a pitch fest pitch,

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pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch.

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Like, we're kind of all over that.

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And it's interesting, you know, we've come out of this experience with the

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pandemic and all that sort of stuff.

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We all went virtual and at a time in society where technology is

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on the ri rise, like AI is taking over, it's kind of like, I see it

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as the wild west of the.com era.

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Uh, at the moment it's like a repeat of that.

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Um, everyone's got all this really exciting stuff.

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No one really knows what's happening, but supply of human connection is dwindling.

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And so what I know to be true is that demand when supply

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dwindles demand increases classic supply and demand, right?

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And so the event space is really, really ripe right now for disruption, and it's

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really, really ripe for people to come in and to provide their audiences with an

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experience that they cannot get online.

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We know that people are more likely to purchase when they're in an in,

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uh, an in, in-person environment.

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We have stats to back that up.

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Depending on the study, it's anywhere from like 20 or 30% more likely to purchase.

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Um, we know that people also have more affinity with brands.

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They're more likely to trust them and also they're less likely

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to develop a long-term, sorry.

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They are more likely to develop a long-term relationship with that brand.

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When they've had a tactile experience with them.

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So what does that mean for everyone listening here?

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It means that if you are in the high ticket space, you have an

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offer and you're serving people.

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If you are not running some sort of an event, either as an acquisition

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strategy, which is our space, or as a client kind of success strategy, then

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over the next three to five years, you are really gonna be left behind.

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We have been blessed with internet marketing strategies over the last

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25 years that have made many, many, many, many people millionaires,

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sent millionaires, billionaires.

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And the strategy of events has been around for far longer.

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Like Tony Robbins has been doing events for the past 40

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years, the exact same event.

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Uh, the church puts on the exact same event every weekend

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for the last 2025 or so years.

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Right.

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Um, we've been get gathering at events from like blood sports

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at the Coliseum, political movements, all that sort of stuff.

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Right.

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So I'm gonna bet on that strategy.

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And what's really interesting right now is that I want to, the

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way that we're approaching this is that we, we are redefining how

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people think about these events.

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Instead of just pitch fest speaker on stage, like how are we engaging people

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at the event so that they're touch moved and inspired and wanna stick with you

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to make them really, really sticky.

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So for us, that looks like every single experience at the event is carefully

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curated with something other than just somebody presenting something on stage.

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I, I'll give you a really like clear example.

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So we're running an event.

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and it's about helping people to create events.

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The tagline is one event, 1,000,001 Weekend.

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That's the goal for our, for our, our attendees.

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But what we're doing is very different to anyone else.

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We're not just up there teaching them.

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They're gonna build their live with us and have live brand activations with our

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sponsors and whatnot, so that on day one, their event is launched to market and

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they are selling tickets immediately.

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And the brands that come in and support us, and we, we are carefully curating

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the sponsors to come in so that somebody has the support of, say, for example,

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uh, an AI company that's gonna help them with their AI conversational chat bot.

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And they will launch that live.

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So that's when somebody registers, they start getting

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a nurture campaign immediately.

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Um, that we are working with different CRM providers.

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We're working with affiliate partners.

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So for example, if someone's like, I want to get affiliates

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to market my event for me.

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The affiliate partner will be there and they will literally design their affiliate

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campaign live so that they can send it to people, uh, to, to, to basically

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to, to send for them that weekend.

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We build out their event with them on the second day through experiences

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and activations where people get to experience and like, I'm an instructional

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designer by trade from way back when.

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I want when people are learning at my event to apply it live.

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We've got an amazing, um, sponsor that I'm so close to getting, and I hope I get the

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sponsor, um, that's gonna do a metaverse experience where we give everyone a,

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um, uh, uh, one of those, uh, quests.

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The, the, the whatever they are from, from Meta.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then they have an experience live at our event inside the Metaverse, talking

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about all the different possibilities and it kind of just builds from there,

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like, so by the end of the weekend.

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Everyone's walking out with a tactile product built, launched a market, and then

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all of our sponsors that come in, instead of just having a crappy booth, they're,

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I'm mandating, I'm commanding from them that they create an activation zone.

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And I saw a really, really great example of this, um, at a, at an event

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recently, and one of those companies that, uh, do those iMessages, the

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blue, like the blue messages, right?

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They set up this tent, which was just hilarious.

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It looked like it was something out of the apocalyp.

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And what they did was, so they set up a tent.

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They were all wearing hazmat suits.

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They had a body bag and it was called the SMS treatment center.

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And then they all had these CO2 guns and they were disinfecting people,

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uh, live from the perils of SMS.

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And so when I talk about event experiences, I'm talking about this

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sort of stuff that keeps your people really, really inspired and so that

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they're not just sitting there all day going, twiddling their thumbs, all that

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sort of stuff, listening to speakers.

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Uh, well that's, that's the common event, right?

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Like,

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like you said, it, It's,

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kind of like you're sitting in this sea of people.

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A sea could be as small as 20 people or it could be thousands, doesn't matter.

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But either way you're just kinda sitting there.

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Yeah.

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You're like, you described it's this room.

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I mean, I've been to some pretty large events like, uh, recently Cisco

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Live, you know, it's massive event.

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It had something like 30,000, 20,000 people, something

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like that, which is epic.

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But still at the same time.

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I mean like, and they're doing everything they can, you know, it

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looks like a rock concert when you're inside there, but, um, you know, but

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at the end of the day you're still sitting there for like a long time just

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Yeah.

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Well, and that's the other thing.

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We have music, we get Tony Robbins music guy to come in and

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do all of that sort of stuff.

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We en, en engage in movement.

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There's like five different anchors that you can activate.

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There's visual, auditory, um, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory.

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And when you're thinking about the experience of people at the event,

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it's like how do you tap into those different anchors to get people

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to have memorable experiences?

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And how do your sponsors use them as well?

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A really amazing hack for like, from a sponsorship point of view to get

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those anchors is to look at how you can engage local businesses, for example.

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So we know that coffee sucks at, at events, right?

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Everyone hates the coffee.

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Um, and it's in these aff and it's kind of like, it's, it's there because it's there.

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But what if you could engage a participant from an olfactory

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and gustatory point of view?

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So olfactory is smell, gustatory is taste, right?

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And you went to a local coffee roasting company and they came in and they did

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a coffee experience where every single person got free coffee all weekend.

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And you found out, let's say it was like, I don't know, $7,000

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for them to do this, right?

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Then you bring in a sponsor and say, Hey, do you want to get

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foot traffic of basically 90% of the people coming into the room?

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And they go, yes, I want that.

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So then what happens is that this experience is associated with that brand.

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That brand gets to market it.

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They have all of their people there, and you charge that sponsor

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$21,000 for the privilege of being in front of those people.

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Your coffee's paid for.

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Your participants have an incredible experience.

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You are respected because you've given them good coffee.

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And that brand has a really, really.

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Cool experiences too.

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That's what I'm talking about when we, when we're thinking about these

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experiences, you gotta get a little bit beyond just the, I've got people

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in my room, I'm treating them like human ATMs, and I'm providing them

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with an experience that makes the cost of them being there worthwhile.

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There's six costs, three visible and three invisible of people

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actually coming to your event.

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The, the, the visible ones are simple things like flights,

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accommodation, and, um.

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Uh, flights, accommodation.

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What's the other one?

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Hotels.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Flights, accommodation and the ticket price.

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The ticket price, of course.

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And then the invisible ones are things like the physical

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time that they're present.

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No one actually ever thinks they could be anywhere but in your room, and they've

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chosen to spend that time with you.

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Then you've got the opportunity.

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Cost of them are being away from the immediate income generating activity.

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This, the immediate incoming generating activities that they could be doing

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in their business, which is why I, on day one, help them make money while

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they're live at the event, because I want them to have that hook, right?

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But the third, invisible cost is the, probably the most significant one.

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And then, no, I don't think anyone really considers this.

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And that's the relational cost of them being away from their family,

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their communities, and their teams.

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Now, if you can pay attention to those costs in the way in

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which you provide the experience.

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Even put, you're an event somewhere where the family wants to come.

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So I love places like Orlando and LA like Anaheim

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because the kids can come to Disney.

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Yeah.

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All of those sorts of things.

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Then the people start to feel like they're not being treated like an

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ATM and of course you want 'em to buy your stuff, but I guarantee you, your,

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your conversion will increase when you pay attention to all of these things.

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Yeah.

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You know what's funny?

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This, this reminded me of, um, I dunno if you ever went to these Glazer

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Kennedy events back in the day, uh, GKIC, you know, Dan Kennedy and, um,

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basically they, they ran these massive marketing events and, and it was

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great, you know, direct response type type people, but they had a whole.

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The rule, basically when they put their events on, there would be massive

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thousands of people and very successful.

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They would put them in very not ideal locations or, or places

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like right by an airport.

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So I guess it's convenient, but they didn't want to make it easy for people

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to leave and actually do things around.

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They wanted to keep their attention locked

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in.

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Uh,

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And so it was not family friendly.

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It was like nothing was walkable.

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I remember very clearly one was at like O'Hare Airport in Chicago.

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I'm like, there ain't nothing around here.

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I want to do

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like

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uh, I play the same game as well, so like when you think about all

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of those places around Orlando.

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None of them are easily accessible to anything else.

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Right.

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They're all out of the way.

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I was actually at a really cool event, uh, last year by Amber Spears.

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She's one of our clients, and, and she, yeah, she does the Forums

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Mastermind, and she, she, um, she put it at the Conrad in Orlando.

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Now the Conrad is inside a gated community in the middle of a compound

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in the middle of nowhere in Orlando.

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It's a beautiful venue,

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It looks like it's like

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not go anywhere.

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or

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It does.

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Yeah.

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And they've got this amazing manmade length that took them like three months

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to fill and all this kind of crazy stuff.

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But to your point, like I do look at those sorts of things as well.

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Like I, I'm a big fan of the beach.

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I would love to put my events close to the beach.

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Awesome.

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But the challenge is that it's so distracting for people

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to be in that environment.

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And usually when there's a beach, there's like towns and all those sorts of things.

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I agree with you.

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You, you wanna make it, uh, you wanna make it amazing for people to come so

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that they have access to those things.

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So for the family, but.

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Close enough that they're in the environment and they hold you.

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And I'm a savage with my events as well.

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Like, you know, my events, they go from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM and

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people don't leave the room.

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And then from nine, and then from mid 9:00 PM to midnight, we have

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like what we call an impactathon where they work on their events.

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So like, it's intense.

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And part of that is by design, because I want, I'm not, I'm not wearing them

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out, but I'm, I'm trying to get them into the buying state by getting them

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fully immersed in what they're doing.

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Um, and it's great for me.

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So like the people on day one, when they launch their event,

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when they get great success.

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And they're selling lots of tickets.

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Like, oh my God, Brody's strategy's really, really worked.

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This is awesome.

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I wanna keep working with him.

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And for the people that are struggling, they're like, oh my God, I need help.

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I need to continue working with Brody.

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So it helps me out with my conversion as well.

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Absolutely.

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I mean, I've been to, yeah, some types of events as well where it's like doors are

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locked, or at least it's, it's like it has that illusion of like, we are here,

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we're together, you're committed, and, uh, no one's leaving until you do the thing.

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Basically, like whatever

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I could take their phones off them, I would, but I don't think that would fly

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Yeah.

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Well, how do you get people to prepare for something like that?

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Because I feel like some people would be like, whoa, hold up.

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Like I guess, how much do they know ahead of time?

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Or like, how do you get

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well.

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Well, I've just revealed all of my secrets, so anyone that's, uh, that's,

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that's coming, uh, to my event after this is gonna know exactly what we're doing.

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No.

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Look, part of what I do is actually, I don't let the event itself,

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I don't publish the session.

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I don't publish anything about what's happening, who's like, they'll know

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who the speakers are beforehand.

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But one of the things is that I don't give them a blow by blow breakdown

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because I don't want people to selectively choose what they're coming to.

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It's like there's this allure of you gotta be in the room, and we set a lot of

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intention around that at the beginning.

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It's like you've chosen here for three days.

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Uh, you are, you are here with us.

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It's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

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You could be anywhere.

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Anywhere else.

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Let's make sure that you're actually present because you came because

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you wanted to make a million dollars or plus in one weekend.

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I'm gonna help you to do that.

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You gotta be here.

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You gotta fully participate.

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And also the people around you, you never know who you're gonna meet in that room.

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You never know who could be this.

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And I'm also not really squeamish.

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A lot of people are squeamish about people doing business in their rooms.

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They're like, it's about my offer and my offer running now.

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I'm the only person that's allowed to sell on my stage.

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However, um, I, I, want people, I do deal flow sessions on the last day

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where people can actually do deals with each other as well, because I want 'em

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to feel like, you know, that they're meeting the right who, even if it's

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not me, um, should be me, they will buy my stuff, but hey, like, like if the

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more the merrier, you know, like I'm, I'm, I'm quite an abundant mindset like

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you

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are.

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Yeah.

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No, I can, I mean, well.

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I mean, I Absolutely, you are.

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And there's, I know there's other things that we talked about where it's like an

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extension of the event can affect even way more people, so there's a bigger purpose.

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And that's, that's what I take from, you know, the, the little that we know about.

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You know, we've, we've met before and I did some research and all this stuff, and

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everything is wrapped around a big cause.

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It seems like, uh, around the events and the things you're doing, the mission,

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the, I mean, your shirt says impact on it in big and bold, so there's a

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reason for

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that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, and you know, I, I saw there, lemme see, I'm pulling up the

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quote really quick, so, oh, yeah.

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All right.

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So there's a quote on your side.

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I don't know if this is always what you go by, but you said,

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what if every time we do business, something good happens in the world?

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So

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it's like tattooed on my mind.

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It's daily.

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the story behind that?

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I, I'm,

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I'm very

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yeah, so we partnered with a company called B one G one or buy one, give one.

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And they do help us with all of our philanthropic giving.

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Um, the backstory is, is when I was 10 years old, I ordained as a Buddhist monk.

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Uh, and I traveled to Burma.

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To me, it's now called mema.

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Uh, my, I was raised in a Buddhist household.

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My parents with a bunch of other hippies, took a particular strain of

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Buddhism from the east to the west.

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They built all of these temples.

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One was five minutes from my house.

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Gold plated.

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So I was, I was, I I was brought up in a religious family.

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Um, Manai got this opportunity.

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First time ever jumping on a commercial flight.

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Of course, I said yes, I wanted to do this thing, but we did

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this really interesting thing.

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Um, so monks are not supposed to have worldly possessions or

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money or anything like that.

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And so what they do is that they have a black bowl called an arms bowl.

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And this is literally what the Buddha did.

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He was a wandering aesthetic, uh, sorry, aesthetic.

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Um, he moved between towns.

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And what happened is that he relied on what's called Donna, which is in, in,

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in English terms charity essentially.

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Um, and people would come out and they would place things in the bowl like

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food or envelopes with money for the monastery and those sorts of things.

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So here we are in 1996 in one of the poorest countries in the world.

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It's in the mid middle of a military hunter regime, right?

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Where, the, the Westerners were not something that they had seen.

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White people were not something they'd seen in a long time in this country.

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And it was a huge deal that we were there and people were like celebrating in

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the streets and all this sort of stuff.

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And so we, um, we were doing an arms round, which is what

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monks do kind of every day.

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And we were walking down the street and people were lining

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the streets and everything.

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And uh, out of the corner of my eye, I caught this woman

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who was a few people back.

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Um, and she caught me.

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She smiled, and then she wandered to the front.

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And you know, as a monkey, you're not supposed to make eye contact.

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It's not supposed to be like you're begging.

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It's just like you are, you're receiving.

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Um, but anyway, I was 10 years old, so of course I look up at this woman,

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she smiles down at me and she and I had this really, really clear moment.

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It's so clear to me to this day.

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Um, one of the, like most, uh, one of those poignant memories I've had in my

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entire life, she was skin and bones.

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There was nothing to her, and yet she placed food into my bowl and.

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There was a part of me at the time, and I remember the thought process.

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It was, this is at 10 years old as well.

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So, um, I was like, this is not fair.

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And then I kept walking.

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what I've realized since is that that was my first experience of

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injustice and inequality in the world.

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And so since then I've kind of had this thing in high school I

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was like a social justice warrior.

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I raised money for charity and everything.

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Some stuff happened in my life that took me off that track.

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But when we came, when I came back into business, I suddenly, I had.

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All this money, and the money was good, but it felt a little bit empty.

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And so we, we, we, we ran this event called Impact.

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This was the branding for it in 2020 when we were locked down in Australia.

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And we'd, we'd recently met this company, B one, G one,

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uh, Paul and Masami who run it.

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And there's this, this idea like, what if every time we do business,

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something good happens in the world?

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So what they do is they embed micro giving into everyday business tasks.

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You send an email, a meal gets donated, you send a, um, something happens.

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A new client signs 10, 10 days of clean drinking water.

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And so what we focus on primarily now is clean drinking water.

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That's our primary thing.

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Um.

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2 billion people don't have access to a, to clean drinking water

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yet we are on a water giant.

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So it doesn't make sense to me.

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We have, we have the water, we just don't have the infrastructure.

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4 billion people don't have sanitation.

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Water is literal life, water.

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And then food is our next one because we need nutrients.

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And so, um, this statement, what if every time we do business,

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something good happens in the world?

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And so when we run our events, our participants are engaged in the process.

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Us, our participants are engaged in gamifying the event so that it's not

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just about us making money or them getting new clients and all that sort

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of stuff, but hey, we're doing business.

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Let's do some good at the same time.

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So every single time someone's touched, moved, inspired, they have a

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breakthrough, something cool happens.

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We stop the event, they get up and they share what it was, and then

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it triggers, say, for example, a week's worth of clean drinking water.

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And so with this event that we're doing in March.

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This event's crazy.

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It's got all of these 1 million references.

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So for the, for the people, it's one event, 1,000,001 weekend.

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That's what the forward facing thing.

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I have a personal goal, the time we're recording, this is September.

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I know this isn't being released till, um, till November.

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I have a personal, internal goal of, um, of, I'm gonna do this.

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I'm in a new country right now, so what I, what I've decided is like,

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let's, let's spice this up for myself.

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New country, zero following, no list, no money down.

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So I have a new account that I've set up with no following.

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I'm not allowed to use my email list, and I am not putting any of my own

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funds down to, to fund this event, and I'm documenting the whole process.

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And so what I'm aiming for is a million dollars worth of sponsorship

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by December nine, from December nine, and through March 19 when the event is,

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I'm selling 1000 tickets in 100 days.

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Which is a million dollars in ticket sales.

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And then at the event itself, we're gonna set a new Guinness World Record

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by donating 1 million days of clean drinking water, uh, live at the

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event triggered by the audience.

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They'll have a counter on screen, they'll trigger it, and every single

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time they touch, moved and inspired, we'll donate a week worth of clean

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drinking water with a thousand attendees.

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I'm fairly confident we'll be able to hit it, and it just adds

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a different element to the event,

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Oh, that's so cool.

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That's, well, and I'm just thinking as the event, it's just gonna spark

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engagement all the way through, and I guess what are, what are the.

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What are the things that would trigger this to, uh, to apply, like say a a week

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is, you know, a week of water is granted.

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What, what's the thing that gets to happen at the event

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My whole purpose in doing this is not just to be like, oh, Brody's doing this

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really, really cool thing, and like, look at him, he's a philanthropist.

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It's to inspire people to do better and to inspire people to think about different

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ways they can engage their audiences.

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And so the way in which it'll happen is at our virtual events,

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people type the word impact into the chat, and then we stop the event.

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We bring them up on screen, et cetera.

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F there's a technological challenge at the event, um, at a live event in that how do

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we get a counter up on screen to register live when somebody is touched, moved

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and inspired, they have a breakthrough or, um, they wanna do something cool.

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So I don't know what that trigger is yet.

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That's part of the next little while for me to figure that out.

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But we're gonna do it.

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There'll be some technological thing that we can do that'll

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make it really, really easy.

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Um, and then it's just gonna happen and it's gonna become this whole thing, the

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whole event, we're gonna see it go up.

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We're gonna celebrate it at the breaks.

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People are gonna, whatever.

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And.

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I've calculated that for a thousand people, um, to e

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every time they're triggered.

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If we do one week of clean drinking water, uh, each person needs to

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hit the trigger, uh, 20 times across the course of the weekend.

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I think that's very tangible for a thousand people to do that because I'm

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gonna ensure that they are touched, they're moved, they're inspired, they

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have breakthroughs, they're crying.

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They're like, they, they, the whole thing is designed around

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this whilst they're building out their event and so on and so forth.

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Um, I'm also gonna do, I've got a surprise around all of this as well,

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that will help us, help us get there.

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But I won't announce that

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Yeah.

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that's fair.

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Uh, I just, I, I'm just picturing it like in the motions, almost like

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people running to this button and like smashing it in the middle of

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the floor and everybody's like, ah,

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yeah, but

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That would be really, really cool.

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And yeah, but I also,

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because there's

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disruptive

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yeah, yeah, look, there's like a thousand people, and so I almost want them all

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to have their own personal triggers.

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I'm just not sure what that will be yet, but I'm sure that there's, Hey, if

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you're listening, is somebody out there?

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Yeah.

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I don't want them on their phones as well though, so hey, if you're listening and

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you've got a solution, please hit me up.

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I'd love to hear it so that we can make this happen.

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There you go.

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So that's why I wanted to ask about it.

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There's something, someone out there, a sponsor potentially, that could,

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Yeah, that's right.

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Show me your tech.

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I'll give you some space.

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Give you your money.

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There you go.

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Well, dude, I mean, what, what a hell of a challenge and putting yourself on

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the line of, of doing this with, you know, with a, with a fresh account, with

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no email list and you know, no, none of your own personal funds to basically,

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I mean, it, it puts your back against the wall, I would imagine, right?

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Like

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I am like terrified.

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I'm terrified because it's.

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It.

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Well, yeah.

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Look, so, so how this hap all this came about was I was at an event,

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uh, a few weeks back, a, a good friend icon Becca puts on an amazing

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event called Create a Hub Live.

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And in the middle of this event, I'm like, I'm sitting down and suddenly

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like I'm in a pool of sweat and I realize, I'm like, I have to leave.

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And I balled out the door, ran up to my room.

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And I was like shaking and I'm like, I realized something.

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And what had happened in 2020, I was supposed to be on the

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road for 36 weeks of the year.

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I actually came back from Tony Robbins house in March.

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I was in Sun Valley in Idaho.

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We had an event there.

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And then I left and I landed at Sydney Airport and then the next day, Australia

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shut down our borders for two years.

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I lost millions of dollars overnight because that was my breakout

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year in business where I was gonna move to the United States.

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I had 36 weeks of travel booked and it was gonna be it for me.

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And then that year, thankfully, like there's gifts in all of this, I ended up

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doing a virtual event later that year.

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I cleared my first million dollar event.

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It set up this pattern of virtual events for myself.

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But what I realized at this event with with Icon and everyone, I was

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like, hang on, when was the last time you did something big Brody?

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Like, you've got clients doing thousand plus people event.

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You've been on stage in front of 15,000 people at somebody

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else's event, where's yours?

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And I was like, I'm not living my own thing here.

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Like I'm not preaching the thing.

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I've done smaller intensives, but why am I doing this thing,

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this virtual event thing?

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And what I realized is that I just, I just fallen into a pattern.

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I'd fall into safety, but what I had noticed in the previous

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six months is my performance had started dropping at my own events.

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My clients were doing really, really well.

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Our portfolio partners, we do JVs with people, so there's, they're my

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events, they're doing really well.

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But my own personal events, I'm like, I'm not clearing a

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million dollar events anymore.

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And I started feeling really incongruous because that's like my whole brand.

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And so at, at this event, I like this, this, this, uh, come to

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non-denominational Jesus moment

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That's

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I was like, yeah, well yeah, I'm not religious, so I gotta be careful.

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Um, uh, so, so I had this moment and I'm like, okay, you have to change the game.

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You have to do something that's so unique and so powerful.

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Um, and so I literally, actually, I'm gonna just, if I can bring it up on,

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on my phone here, because I've, I've, I'm documenting this whole process now.

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And so, um, this, this event that I'm doing, um, I, I do, you know,

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those, uh, notepads that they have in the hotel room that no one ever uses

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with the little pens and everything?

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I always take 'em home because I feel like I use 'em at my desk,

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Well, there you go.

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Okay, cool.

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That's a good use.

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So, So, I wrote this thing down and it's there and it says, new

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country, no following, no list.

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1000 tickets, 100 days.

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It was August 17 at the time.

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I gave myself two weeks to like mentally figure it out, and then I was gonna go,

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boom, okay, I've got my 100 days to do my sponsors, and then all that sort of stuff.

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And, um, it just, it it, what it did, you're, you're right, it put my back

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against the wall, but I was in the room when I made the decision to do it.

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I remember, I, I got up off the seat, I turned around, I sat down

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again, and then I got up and I'm like, I don't know what to do.

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And so I called, I, I got on a call with my, uh, my chief of staff and

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I said, I think we're doing this.

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And she's like, finally.

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And I'm like, what?

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She's like, I have been waiting.

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You have just been, you've been playing such a small game.

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And so, um, it inspired out of that.

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And like, like I said, man, I'm terrified.

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I'm putting so much on the line for this, but one of the really cool

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things about this, the passion that I have for this, the way in which

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it's coming across and the narrative behind it, I'm finding people are

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falling over themselves to be involved.

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People want to be a part of this and this idea of this, this world record

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that's kind of coming in, I got that.

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I was literally riding a bike down, uh, on the west side,

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hi, highway here in Manhattan.

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One day I was riding down and I'm like, oh.

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Wow.

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No, that's like the, that's like the true, um, reflection.

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That's the true, I guess, what's the word?

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Um, it, it, it is the true culmination of all of my stuff around impact

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to do something powerful like this and what a great experience for the

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participants to be involved with something so much more meaningful than

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just come and learn how to make money.

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And then at that point, once I'd got that in, I was like, I am all in on this.

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I'm not wasting a moment on this.

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I'm documenting the whole process and I'm gonna enroll as many

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people as possible in this.

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So I'm, uh, I'm well on my way to my $1 million in sponsorship, looking for more.

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But, um, I'm, I, I'm quietly confident I'll hit it, that that one's not

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as important to me as the thousand tickets in a hundred days and helping

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people to do their own event stuff.

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Um, but the, the point of it is that I wanna prove to people that you can do it

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with no money down with the right vision.

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With the right enrollment skills, all that sort of stuff.

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Yeah.

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you mentioned impact, I'm looking at, at your, on your chest there.

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Do you think that's the missing link for a lot of folks when it comes to, maybe

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not just events, but like you said, it was empty earlier with money, you know, like

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with just the money aspect and you almost like, kind of lose touch of maybe the, the

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reason why you're even doing something.

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we, I know so many billionaires that are manifestly unhappy because

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they've got all of this money and they don't know what to do with it.

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Or they've exited from their businesses and they've got all this money.

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They're like, I missed the days when I was doing that sort of stuff.

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What I know to be true is that, um, you know that there's an old saying, um,

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whoever said money can't buy happiness.

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You've heard that,

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right?

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The, the follow on from that is simply hasn't given enough away.

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Okay,

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Yeah,

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whoever said money card by happiness simply hasn't given enough away.

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Something remarkable happens when you give, when you give freely as well.

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And here's some stats to back that up.

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So 80% of the world's population live on less than $10 per day.

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The top, uh, 75% of the world's wealth is concentrated in the top 20%.

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And two years ago.

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I know it's worse now, but the top 1% have five times more wealth

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than the bottom 80% combined.

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Now for a lot of people, you look at those numbers and I used to be a social justice

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warrior and I was like, screw the rich.

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Like rah, this is not cool.

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But what I know to be true now is that the 1%.

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Have figured out how to make the world work for them.

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And so I have this follow up statement, you know, the whole, um,

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what if every time we do business, something good happens in the world?

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There was this old futurist called Buckminster Fuller and he posited

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this idea of the world game, and he had this kind of statement, and I've

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modernized the statement and put it into a question into what Simon

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Sinek would call an infinite game.

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And it's what if we could make the world work for 100% of humanity

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100% of the time without damaging the environment or harming people?

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That is a really nice question to live in because I also know that for every $1

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that you invest below the poverty line, another $5 is created in the economy.

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'cause when you give cash freely without restriction, here's what people do.

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They invest in education, they start businesses, they save, they

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spend, and you have this circular kind of bottom up approach where

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there's not a zero sum game anymore.

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All.

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And so when you look at the 1%, instead of us fighting them,

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we look at them for clues.

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Now we go, okay, well they've managed to make the world work for them.

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Some of them have damaged the environment and harmed people.

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Sure.

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But there are some clues around how to make the world work for you.

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And then by extension that people that, first of all, you love the new

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communities and then the wider world.

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So the foundation that we are setting up as part of a larger project we're doing

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in space is called one Down 99 to Go.

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Hmm.

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At Apple, we used to have this statement when Apple had a 1% share

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of the personal computer market, um, that they were one down and 99 to go

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in terms of getting that share, right?

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And so it used to be this rallying cry and I've like kind of co-opted

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and go, okay, cool, that's humanity.

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We're one down and 99 to go.

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To answer your question in a more direct.

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Yes, I believe that everyone is in business, gets into business for

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good initially, first for themselves.

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They're like, I want to create a better life for myself and my family.

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And every single time I have an event, I ask people Why you got into,

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into business in the first place?

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95, 90 Actually probably 99% of people say, I want to have

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an impact on people's lives.

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Um, and which is great.

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And, and it's that few people say, I wanna make money also really, really cool.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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what happens along the way is we get so caught in the weeds,

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and I'm guilty of this as well.

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We get so caught in the weeds of the daily nationalisms of our business.

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Where's that next lead coming from?

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Where's the, where's that next check coming from?

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Uh, this system is broken down.

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All this sort of stuff that we lose sight of the biggest, the bigger picture.

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We are in this planet for a very finite period of time.

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You know that if we were to put all of history.

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13.8 billion years into a 24 hour block.

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That was history, right?

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The time that you and I occupy on this little speck of dust

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floating around a ball of gas.

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And this infinitely expanding universe is literally one, 1000000000000th

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of a millisecond to midnight.

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We're here for like a blip, right?

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So given the choice between living a life of mediocrity and following

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someone else's path, or living a life of life of true impact and meaning.

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I want to know that my contribution to the planet far outlives me.

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I want a million year vision.

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I want this thing that kind of pulls me forward.

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One of my keynote speeches is around the million year vision and and

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look, here's what's really important about that is that, you know, most,

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some people have a one year vision.

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Some people have a 10 year vision.

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When I ask this in my keynotes, who here has a 1000 year vision?

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No one puts their hand up.

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10,000. No one puts their hand up.

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Million year vision.

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I'm the only person to put my hand up.

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And people, people like, like whenever you just, I'll ask you a question.

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When you set a one year vision or a goal, what's the first thing

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that you kind of do after that?

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I, I, well definitely wanna write it down and, and, and set some, oh, I

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like to work backwards, you know, so

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Yep.

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Okay.

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Figure out the plan.

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Right?

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So you start planning around it and you get into it, and then it's

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like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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You're working towards it, right?

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But when you ask somebody to, to, to do like, what's your million year vision?

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They're like, why would I do that?

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And that's the clue instead of the tyranny of how we get stuck

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in the question of why, which is far more powerful than a how.

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Because the why gives us more meaning, it gives us more power, and it gives

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us more agency over the future.

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We sit in this infinite thing of why?

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Why would I do this?

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What would be possible?

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What if the world could work for a hundred percent of humanity 100%

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of the time without damaging the environment or harming people?

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That's a really unique position to be in as opposed to being stuck in the weeds

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of where's the next lead coming from?

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All of those sorts of things.

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It becomes this thing that kind of pulls and propels you forward.

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Now, for myself, am I perfect at this?

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Hell no.

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I've had a really stressful day today, but getting on here and talking about

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it, and this is the other thing.

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You gotta preach it, like preach it from the rooftops, what you're doing,

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because I guarantee you I'm gonna leave this call today far more energized

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than I was at any point throughout today when things were on fire and I

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was pulling my

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hair out.

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I had fires going on before this too,

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Yeah,

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Well, and, and so how would you get yourself, uh, and maybe not you,

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but if you were to think like other folks or people you advise like at.

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What, you know, let's say they have this vision, they, they leave your event and

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they have, they, now they're starting to think of this 1 million year vision.

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Uh, how do they keep the vision strong?

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Like, how do they always have that, that way to propel themselves

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further when things get stressful?

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Like,

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what's, what do you do?

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so I have this statement In our business, we always come back to impact.

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We always come back to impact.

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One of my old mentors, Taki Moore, he said, fix nervous with service.

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Fix, nervous with service.

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And so when things, shit, say hitting the fan and all those things going up,

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the best thing you can do to get out of your head and get momentum is to get

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in the service of other people, whether it's clients, whether it's whatever.

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So when you think about building out your mission, take one step

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towards it, take one step towards it, that's going to excite you.

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I got on a call with somebody earlier today that I'm trying to bring on

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as a sponsor for the event, and I was having a shitty day beforehand.

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And then I explained everything I've explained to you about the event, like

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the challenge and all that sort of stuff.

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And by the end of it I was like, oh, like hell yeah, I've got this.

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Hell yeah.

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Screw this other stuff for my day.

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This is really awesome.

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So the other part of this is for people is to verbalize the crap out of it,

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because when it comes out of your mouth, it's no longer just an idea.

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It's a plan.

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Yeah.

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die, right?

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Plans get fulfilled.

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And I really love this, this concept of, you know, like the, this idea of

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this million year vision is so potent because it removes this where people get

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stuck and it's just like, let's do this.

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This is insane.

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The other piece I would also say about this is that if you're getting

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stuck, then you're gotta look at the environment that you're in, two parts

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to your environment, your inputs, and then the people around you.

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Inputs meaning what are you consuming?

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Uh, what are you consuming online?

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Um, I, I don't look at other people's social media.

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I do not look at my competitors.

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I do not look at, uh, I do not look at, I, I occasionally get sucked

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into some political stuff, which is really bad because it's such a

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toxic environment at the moment.

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But I try to avoid all of that because what's happening on the

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social media is that people are hijacking your brain and hijacking

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your attention for their own game.

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Now, am I hijacking everyone's attention for my own game right now?

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Absolutely.

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Right.

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And I'm shameless about it.

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And I need to protect my energy so that I can like stay on mission.

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We call it being on mission twenty four seven three sixty five.

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There's no rest with this sort of stuff.

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This, this is something much, much bigger than you.

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Um, I also just wanna put a little bit of a caveat in here for people.

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I'm crazy.

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I know that I'm certifiable.

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Cameron Harold did a, um, a did a a, a YouTube video once and

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he said all CEOs are bipolar.

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And he listed off all the different things that CEOs have that makes them bipolar.

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I'm bipolar.

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I think we're all

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yeah,

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it's, we're

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all there.

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right?

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And so, um, but, but like, I'm crazy.

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I have these really, really big things.

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Your million year vision doesn't need to be as expansive as mine.

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The fact that I'm taking 280 people up to space.

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To run an event that's gonna be broadcast for 24 hours to raise $10 billion for

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charity does not need to be your vision.

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Notice how I just dropped that in

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Yeah, I had a note about that, but I was, I was wondering if you'd bring

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yeah.

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Look, look, your mission, your vision could be as simply as I

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want to provide for my family.

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I want my family's legacy to live on.

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I'm so like all the power to you.

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That's powerful, right?

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I just think a little bit differently and that's my thing.

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Well, it

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could be the 1 million year legacy of your family.

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I mean, like, however it shapes up.

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You can, you can make it bigger.

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Expand, but

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And there's one other thing as well.

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So this is, this is why events are also infinitely more powerful than anything

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else you can do in the marketplace.

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So internet marketing strategies have been around for 25 years.

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They're designed to hijack your brain on these devices that I used

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to help sell part of the problem.

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Um.

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Ironic.

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Yeah.

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Um, and then people have been connecting at gathering, right?

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Like, I've got a book over there called The Art of Gathering.

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Um, we've been, we've been basically gathering together as a tribal species

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to connect, to communicate and engage in commerce for about 300,000 years, ever

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since we were chimps, even before then.

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Chimps were like always communal as well.

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Um, and so.

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We have this really unique ability when we are live on stage at an event.

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Couple things happen.

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First of all, when you're in person with someone, your magnetic field's

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intertwined and there is a connection.

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They've actually shown this on like infrared, I dunno if

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it's infrared, but with tech

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right?

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there.

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That, yeah, yeah, All that sort of stuff.

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And, but we, what we also know is that every single word that comes out of

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your mouth, every single word that comes out of your mouth has an impact

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on the person that is in the room.

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Um, I went to a Tony Bins event.

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I heard the right message that I was in the room at the right

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time, heard the right message.

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That completely altered my perspective on life that made all of this possible.

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And so I have a deep reverence for the art and science of speaking and selling

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from stage because you literally hold the audience in the palm of your hand.

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It's a big responsibility.

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What happens when those words come out of your mouth is that you're literally

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rewiring their neural pathways.

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They're having a spark, they're having an insight.

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Our sole job as a species, as a species, right down to biology

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is to evolve the human race.

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That's it.

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That's what we are.

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That's literally why we are alive.

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And so when I think about this in terms of the millionaire vision and

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my big crazy ones and whatnot, if what you are doing is meaningful to

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you, no one else can tell you what.

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It's just like the concept of integrity.

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I hate when people say, oh, you're so out of integrity.

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I'm like, you don't know what that person's integrity

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is.

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I don't know what your, I don't know what your mission

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is and what's important to you.

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But so long as what you are doing is meaningful and impactful for you, you

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are literally rewiring your biological code in your neural pathways, your DNA,

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by pursuing that thing and taking that one step after one step after one step.

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So no matter what the vision is, you are powerful beyond measure.

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Um, the, there's a great quote from one of my former clients,

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uh, Marianne Williamson.

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She, uh, there's a photo of us there.

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Um, she, I helped her design her announcement that she

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was running for president.

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We did some, I, I searched Washington DC high and low for a

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venue for her to announce with her.

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Um, but she has this book called A Return to Love and she says, our greatest fear

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is not that we are inadequate, but it's that we are powerful beyond measure.

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It is our light, not our dark, that most scares us.

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And, and I'm paraphrasing here, but she says something along the

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lines of, who, how are you to be?

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Like, we say, who am I to be powerful, beautiful, um, uh, uh, you know,

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and, and all these lovely adjectives.

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And then she says, truthfully, who are you not to be those things.

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And uh, when I hear all of that, I go, yeah, like every single

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person has power in their own way.

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Everyone has their own vision.

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And that power is something that you uniquely hold, and so go forth with it.

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Do the thing.

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Who cares what anyone else is, is thinking and saying, and just

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by your presence on this planet, just know that you have power.

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You have a one, one in 1 trillion chance of being alive.

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Like make some, make some use of it.

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ain't that the truth?

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I mean, there's so many like wild stats when you start to put perspective

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in,

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in front of someone or yourself as that reminder, that constant

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reminder that like, hey.

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If any of you know it, it's, it's all about you.

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You have to take charge of this thing, but have that vision so

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you know exactly where, at least the direction you're headed.

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Right.

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You're not gonna know the full plan because the Y is so big.

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Like it's an infinite game, like you said, Simon Sinek, I mean, it's, it's, it's all

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wrapped up in there now just to kind of.

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Start to close this one out.

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You know, you mentioned AI and you're redefining a lot of everything that

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you're doing in your events with ai.

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Uh, my brain goes to like, so are virtual events, like, are they just

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not as important as the in-person events because of human connection?

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I dunno, some thoughts there or just other ways you see AI and this, this

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technology that's just rapidly evolving, like how is that gonna shape how events

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and just human connection are working?

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Yeah, so I don't think virtual events are dead.

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I just don't like them anymore 'cause I've done too many of them.

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I know.

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I've got lots of clients that are very successful.

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I have a client that had an event with 900 people on it, which was three

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times more sales calls than his team did in the previous three months.

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Right.

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They're really powerful.

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They're low overhead, all of that sort of stuff.

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Of, but when I think about what human beings desperately want and need right

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now, it's that in-person connection.

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And I think that we need people to be at the forefront and the vanguard of this

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as we are moving into this AI world.

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And if you're not using AI to enhance the experience, then you're done.

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yeah.

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Uh, right.

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So like a couple of examples of how we are using this to support.

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So we've fed all of our stuff, all of my ip, every time I've

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spoken on stage into our ai.

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It has a knowledge bank that understands how I think really, really

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clearly, and all of the strategies.

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We've also fed now over a thousand hours of Steve Jobs selling from

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stage into that, I got, I got a hold of some incredible footage.

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Um, and it's now trained, or it's being trained right now, it's training, it's got

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its training wheels on, on, like helping to craft speeches and talks and pitches.

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Like Steve Jobs.

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There was very unique things that he did with language embedded commands

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and stuff like that, that to a casual observer, it looked like just

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a dude in a, you know, in a, um.

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Uh, there's a quote actually in a turtleneck.

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Yeah.

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But what it was, was like a carefully created sales pitch.

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This person says it's a carefully created product, demonstration, sales

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pitch, um, corporate cheerleading, um, uh, uh, something else in a dash of

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religious revival for good measure.

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And it's true, right?

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And so we've tried to get that into RA.

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What it's allowed us to do is go from ideation from, I wanna put on

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an event to create an entire ideal client profile for the person that

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we want at that event in seconds.

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Then from that, ask a couple of questions about the event that we want put on.

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And about the different features of the event to produce the copy for a landing

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page that can then be programmed into GHL.

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And we're trying to get it to a position where it gets programmed in like,

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sorry, A CRM, like GHL or whatever.

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So it gets programmed in automatically and then it designs all of the scripts

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for ads, all of that sort of stuff.

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My time to first value with our clients, and this is why I can get

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'em to build their event live on day one with us is literally 10 minutes.

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I can have an entire event built out in probably about an hour,

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the marketing in about 10 to 15 minutes with the right inputs.

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Um, and so it's trained on all of this sort of stuff.

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And so what that means for our clients is great.

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It means that instead of all of the hard yards now, I still make our

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clients watch the videos and learn the stuff because it'll help them

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to get better outputs from the ai.

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But it does enhance everything that we're doing to the point that

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I have a landing page to a free event that's converting at 47.5%

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Woo.

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All right.

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That's

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which is just nuts right now to, in truth be told, like in full

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transparency, the VIP upsell, at the moment, I'm, I haven't nailed that

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with the AI yet, and it's tanking, but on the front end we've got that.

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So the optimization for us is the next one.

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Um.

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So I think that's part of it.

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The other thing that's really, really cool is that we're using voice agents now

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to capture psychographic and demographic information about the people that are

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gonna be in our room at our event.

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Really interesting things can happen.

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We can also gather financial profiles from people based on their credit score,

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the credit that they have available, the cash that they have available

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through their registration process.

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So I can start building up a buyer profile of the people that are in my

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room based on where their business stages at, um, their psychographic information

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and all their financial information.

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We feed that into the ai it, knowing what my event's gonna be about all

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the different things that I'm doing.

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It has all of the bank of my knowledge and activities, and it'll allow me to

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carefully curate every part of the event based on the people that are in the room.

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And at the same time, if I need to make live adjustments in the

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room to the activities based on what's happening in the room.

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Uh, a really good example of this, um.

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A client did a pitch, all that sort of stuff.

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We had some data from the audience in the room about their hopes, their

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dreams, their aspirations, their fears.

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They filled out a survey.

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I grabbed that survey whilst, uh, our, our portfolio partner was presenting.

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I put it into our AI and it produced a re-pitch script that was perfectly

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tailored to the audience in the room.

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I then used that script to do the re-pitch, and I extracted

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an extra $75,000 out of the room because it touched on every single

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point that they had just told us.

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About, and then it allows us also for like the main pitch as well.

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So these are the people in the room, these are the things that they need.

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So I hit them in the pitch with every single thing that they've told us

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that they need, and it just makes our office seem inevitable to them.

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Then post event, well pre and post event.

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Um, they have a, a, a, a, a voice agent that they're developing a relationship

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that before the event that's making sure they have everything that

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they need, all that sort of stuff.

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We have a text agent going as well, and then on the, on the post event, all of

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the post event follow up is done by.

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Uh, a chat bot that's like checking in with them.

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How are you going?

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Like if they purchase, they, they get like an onboarding sequence.

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If they didn't purchase, they get a sales conversation that's happening in the

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dms or, or a voice agents calling them.

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Like, there is so much opportunity here for us to be able to create

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incredible experiences for people using this technology while still

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giving everyone that personal touch of you being at the event.

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And reducing the workload on your team, uh, that would normally be like a manual

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lift for people so that you can focus on giving the right experience in the room.

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It is personalization to it's max.

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I mean like literally where Yeah.

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Before, during, and after and well after I'm sure follow ups.

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And that's an amazing use of AI and technology blended in with human

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connection and what actually people are looking to get, or maybe they

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don't even know quite yet, but it's helping extract that out of them

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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do something.

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Freaking

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awesome Brody.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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We've worked really, really hard on this stuff.

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Like it's a work in progress, um, and obviously like we're still

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developing it for ourselves, but the cool thing is, is that with this

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event, we're gonna have an amazing case study for us, like end to end.

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Um, and then what we're doing is part of our, um, a techno, like our rollout

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next year is to start rolling the whole end-to-end system out with select clients.

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And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take it to market as its own

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product, as a SaaS product as well, so that even if people are not in our

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world, they'll get access to the tech.

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And then I've got another revenue stream coming in.

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It's not necessarily about people in our world.

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Obviously that revenue stream will be programmed to try and

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get 'em to buy our stuff, but

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makes sense, but it's a hell of a way to launch something like this as

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Yeah, it is.

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It really is.

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Well as, as we wrap up here, I'm just, I'm.

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I'm just thinking because you're such an impact guy.

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So if you were to speak to the person watching, listening right now, uh, you

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know what's one, if you wanna leave 'em with like one belief that can completely

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change the way that they show up in the world, what would that one belief be?

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I always tell people this, it's like you're extraordinary, like you really are.

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You have survived every single day that you are on this planet.

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And this planet is not designed for you to live in, like it's the safest time

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in history for us to be alive, but we are constantly assaulted by messages

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that telling us that we are less than by people telling us that we are, uh, invalid

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because we're a part of a particular socioeconomic group or some, some cultural

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group and all of that sort of stuff.

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The internet is a cesspit at the moment of just everyone warring against each other.

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And so if you ever doubt.

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The, your place in the world or the impact that you can have.

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Just remember that you've survived every single day.

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You're the only person that has your exact experience.

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You're the only person that has it, and there are people out there that

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need to hear you and your message.

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They need to hear the things that you've been through, the trials,

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the tribulations, all that sort of stuff, so that it gives them the

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power to maybe take that little step forward towards what their dream is.

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You know, I, I come from a background of I was sexually abused when I was a child.

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I went through all of this drug stuff, all of those sorts of things.

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When I talk about those sorts of things in my keynote speeches, if just one

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person is impacted by the message, then I know that my life is meaningful.

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I know that it's like all of that stuff that I went through was worthwhile

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because it's helped somebody else.

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So if you are sitting in the mark, if you're in the messy middle at the moment.

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I would encourage you to A, remember that you're extraordinary.

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Your very existence is an absolute miracle, one in 1 trillion chance.

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And then get out of your own head and get into service.

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Find that thing that is important to you and just get out there and do it as

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fixed nervous with service, as they say.

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And you know, everything becomes easier when you're in

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the service of other people.

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Your stuff just doesn't seem as significant anymore,

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as significant as it is.

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I don't wanna minimize it, but.

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There's so much more that you can do and we need you on that

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path, whatever that mission is.

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It's all about evolving, right?

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And bringing everybody up with us.

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So Brody, this is absolutely, this is highlight of my day right here.

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So

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mine too.

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And like I'm finishing off the day here as well, so it's,

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it's pushing me out on a high

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too, so thanks so much for having me.

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I

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appreciate it.

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And, uh, we co-created this.

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How can people go follow you but also follow the event that's going

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to come and, and get involved?

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Go attend, gimme, gimme the

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Yeah.

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Okay, so, um, Brody Lee Live is the social media tag.

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We're on Instagram.

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Um, we're toying with the idea of doing it on YouTube shorts and also on TikTok.

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I don't know anything about those platforms.

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So Instagram's the place to go, um, depending on when you're watching this.

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So hopefully my followers have improved.

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I have no idea about this sort of stuff.

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So we, it's an experiment.

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I'm, I've got this internal goal of maybe a million views by the time of the event.

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We'll see if that happens.

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Um, again, I could fall on my face, but that's cool.

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I'm happy to do that for the cause.

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Um, so yeah, Brody Lee live.

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Um, we are launching the, our launch for the actual event.

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I'm, the first day I'm allowed to sell tickets is on December nine.

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So if you go to Brody Lee Live, there is a wait list that you can jump on,

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uh, and you'll be able to jump on that.

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We're gonna do a virtual event to launch this whole thing.

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And I'm gonna do some crazy cool training on that virtual event where you'll

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come in and learn all about events and I'm gonna give you like, uh, some

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stuff that you can action right away.

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And then there's an opportunity at that event for you to jump in, to be able

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to be a part of all of this and to, and to, to be a part of this magic.

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My, my guarantee to everybody is that this will not be like an event that

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you have ever experienced before.

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And if you are not convinced by the end of the first day that this is the strategy

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for you to be able to change people's lives, I will give you a full refund.

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That's my guarantee.

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And you can take what you've learned on day one and go and

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enjoy yourself in Disneyland or wherever it is that, that we are.

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Ha ha.

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I love it, man.

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Uh, well, hey, we will link everything up, show notes, uh,

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description, all, all the places.

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Make it obvious to, to make it easy and get the, get people there.

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Brody, this is epic.

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So thank you.

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I know you're gonna hit the, a million and above on all fronts, all the millions.

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So, and there's be gonna be a ton of drinking water for, for so many folks.

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So thank you for what you do, man.

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Keep inspiring.

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Thank you so much.

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It's been a pleasure being here.

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Thanks for having me.

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Appreciate.