Clay Clark Client Testimonials | “We Went from Expecting $250K This Year to Where We Are At $400,000. It’s Been Implementing What Clay Clark Teaches. The Hiring Processes & Resources Clay Has…An Incredible Experience!”

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Play, my honor, my honor to be on your show and thank you for all you do. I hear the ripple effects from you are good ripple effects. You know what I mean? People rave about what they learn from you, so congratulations.

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We went from expecting maybe $250,000 this year to we’re at $400,000. Hi, I’m Kelsey with K&D’s Woodruff Finishing, business owner at 23. So, I’ve been working this K&E’s company for about 5 years now. We started working with Thrive not too long ago. And we went from expecting maybe $250,000 this year to we’re at $400,000. That’s what we’re going to hit or exceed.

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So we’re pretty excited about that. It’s been pretty much just listening to what they have to say, their hiring process has just really been incredible as far as finding good quality help and the just the accountability of meeting up with them weekly and like such good insight, the resources they have for specific business questions. It’s all been really incredible. It’s been a great experience so I would recommend it to anybody.

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Hi, I’m Amy Chaney. My husband and I are owners of Chaney Construction here in Pampa, Texas. And I was a little skeptical at first because my husband tried to do things like this before. But once I was able to speak with Clay myself, I thought we need to give this a chance. So we were able to determine that the savings that we have from the decision that we made each month is going to be roughly about $2,000 a week, so that’s about $8,000 a month. Plus, we also made the decision to get rid of a billboard that hadn’t really brought

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us any business, and that was another $475 a month. So we’re looking at $8,500 a month, and that’s a really big deal. So my first thoughts when Clay introduced us to the weekly Know Your Numbers system was no big deal, we don’t need to do that. We have a secretary that’s an amazing QuickBooks person and so she enters all of that stuff and every single day for us. So we don’t need to do that ourselves. QuickBooks will pull a

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report, that’s all we need. We don’t need anything else. There’s no sense in me double duty. You know, Clay, do you understand how many transactions are in our bank statement every single month? It would take me forever to do. And so very resistant, because I thought, we already know our numbers. We already have everything into QuickBooks,

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and we already know what we need to know, and we can pull a report to provide you with that information. So some of the struggles in being able to complete this action item were getting the want to do it.

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And once I actually decided, OK, Clay, you can stop asking me. I’m actually going to sit down and do this every single week. And actually got through it. And that was it. Like, I’ve made that commitment. It takes me maybe 20 minutes on, you know, every Saturday morning to go in and do the previous weeks. And now that I’ve been doing it for a while, I’m kind of on a roll. And so it makes it a lot easier. So one of the things we discovered when we started looking at the money this closely was that my husband doesn’t want to know the numbers, first of all.

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He pays good money to have someone do that for him because he just doesn’t want to know. It’s not his thing. And so I had worked for an accountant previous to this, so that’s kind of my thing. And so for him to be able to sit down and take a look and see some of the things we’re spending the money on that he probably didn’t even realize or to realize how much we’ve been paying some employees that were not operating as A players.

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And that was the big eye opener for my husband. But when he saw the numbers of what we were paying in payroll expenses for two team members that were not operating as A players and hadn’t been for quite some time, that was a huge eye-opener for him and he realized that he needed to take that emotion out of that decision and make it a business decision. It’s accountability for your secretary as well or your bookkeeper, whoever does your

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book, especially if it’s not yourself because if you’ve not ever had anybody embezzle money from you, then you’re very fortunate. And so it’s really good to have that accountability. We’ve had that happen in the past to us. And so my secretary actually even came back to me and said, hey, Amy, I really appreciate that you’re doing this now,

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because now at the end of the month, if there’s not any money, then you know exactly where the money’s went. You and Jimmy have known exactly where the money’s gone. So we’re not coming to her going, where’s all our money? Because that’s not a good position for her to be in either.

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So, like I said, just knowing where your dimes are going is a huge deal and being able to know where to cut back from that’s a big deal, but also the accountability for everyone on your team.

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My name is Danielle Sprick and I am the founder

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of D. Sprick Realty Group here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After being a stay-at-home mom for 12 years and my three kids started school and they were in school full-time, I was at a crossroads and trying to decide what do I want to do. My degree and my background is in education, but after being a mom and staying home and all of that, I just didn’t have a passion for it like I once did. My husband suggested real estate.

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He’s a home builder, so real estate and home building go hand in hand, and we just rolled with it. I love people. I love working with people. I love building relationships. But one thing that was really difficult for me was the business side of things, the processes and the advertising and marketing. I knew that I did not have what I needed to make that what it should be. So I reached out to Clay at that time, and he and his team have been extremely instrumental in helping us build our brand,

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help market our business, our agents, the homes that we represent. Everything that we do is a direct line from Clay and his team and all that they’ve done for us. We launched our brokerage, our real estate brokerage, eight months ago. And in that time, we’ve gone from myself and one other agent to just this week, we signed on our 16th agent. We have been blessed with the fact that we right now have just over 10 million in pending

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transactions. Three years ago, I never would have even imagined that I would be in this role that I’m in today, building a business, having 16 agents, but I have to give credit where credit’s due. And Clay and his team and the business coaching that they’ve offered us has been huge. It’s been instrumental in what we’re doing. Don’t ever limit your vision. When you dream big, big things happen.

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I started a business because I couldn’t work for anyone else. I do things my way. I do what I think is in the best interest of the patient. I don’t answer insurance companies. I don’t answer to large corporate organizations. I answer to my patient and that’s it. My thought when I opened my clinic was I can do this all myself. I don’t need additional outside help in many ways. I mean, I went to medical school. I can figure this out.

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But it was a very, very steep learning curve. Within the first six months of opening my clinic, I had a $63,000 embezzlement. I lost multiple employees. Clay helped us weather the storm of some of the things that are just a lot of people experience, especially in the medical world. He was instrumental in helping with the specific written business plan. He’s been instrumental in hiring good quality employees, using the processes that he outlines

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for getting in good talent, which is extremely difficult. He helped me in securing the business loans. He helped me with web development and search engine optimization. We’ve been able to really keep a steady stream of clients coming in because they found us on the web. With everything that I encountered, everything that I experienced, I quickly learned it is

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worth every penny to have someone in your team that can walk you through and even avoid some of the pitfalls that are almost invariable in starting your own business. I’m Dr. Chad Edwards and I own Revolution Health and Wellness Clinic.

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What I’ve seen from Clay and his group at Thrive is they’ll give you a simple system and it’s the simple systems are the ones that people can wrap their brain around. They’re the ones that people can work with on a day to day basis.

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Hi there, my name is Stephanie Pipkin. I am 24 years old and I own Black River Falls Cleaning Services. We opened in April of 2019 and it is now mid-June of 2020. So I wanted to talk today about the success and growth I have achieved by implementing the Proven Path with Clay Clark’s team and my business coach Luke from Thrive Time. It has been insane to say the least. I started working with them in mid-February of this year so we’re about four months in of working together and it has completely transformed my

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business in pretty much every facet. So I’m gonna check my notes here. So in four months my leads have tripled. I was getting probably like two leads a week now I’m getting more in the like 10 to 15 leads a week. I have doubled my number of employees. I’m now hitting the highest revenue weeks in the history of the company,

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week to week it seems like. We went from about six appointments a day as our highest in February to now 14 to 15 appointments a day. And hiring quality employees has become much simpler and less stressful by using their systems for hiring.

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I typically only get maybe two complaints a month, if that, and everybody shows up to work. I just have really high quality employees now, especially in something people typically consider a high turnover type of work, you know, cleaning houses, cleaning businesses. I have amazing employees now, and I get rid of the ones who are not so amazing and bring on new ones because of group interviews and interviewing every single week.

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It’s just been great and I don’t waste as much time on low-quality candidates anymore. Your coach will hold you accountable, which I love. Again, the tough love is really great. Luke’s like a stern father figure, but he’s also nice, but also stern when he needs to be when I’m being lazy and not doing the things that I know I need to do because I don’t want to do them.

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So that’s just great. Worth every penny. I mean, I’d pay him a million dollars a month if I can, and maybe someday I’ll be able to, but I would just say go for it. If it seems like a good fit, just go for it. Do what they say, even if you think it’s stupid or ridiculous, just do what they say because

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it’ll work. You know, people, when they look at my business, you know, people in my town, they think I’m lucky. They think things just happen for me. Maybe I am lucky, but it has a lot to do with hard work and perseverance and working until you cry sometimes. That’s just being an entrepreneur, which if you’re a business owner, you understand that. But it’s having these systems in place of, of course I’m going to be successful. It’s an absolute because I have all this stuff in the

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background happening and I have Luke and Clay and everybody on their team working really hard to make sure that I’m a success and I can tell that they are just so excited every single week when I’m having all these wins and things like that. They’re so excited for me. So it’s the best thing ever and I would suggest to anybody to work with them. So sorry for the long-winded reply, but I just had so much to say,

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and I could go on for hours probably about how amazing they are. But thank you to Clay and Luke and the entire team there, everything you guys have done for me, and I am so excited to continue to work with you for years to come.

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Thanks so much for watching.

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My saying is, if it’s important to you, hire a coach. And I think that’s one of the reasons people are not successful is they eat a cheeseburger instead of hiring a coach. And so my coach pushes me, they’re younger than me, they push harder, they’re trained. And as my rich dad always said,

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amateurs don’t have a coach, but professionals always have coaches. So I’ve always had coaches for whatever is important. My rich dad was one of those persons. I wanted to learn how to play Monopoly in real life, so he was my coach.

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Well, Carter, you know, we have an opportunity here at the Thrive Time Show to work with some really great business owners, people that are actually serious about growing their company. They go to thrivetimeshow.com, and they reach out to schedule a free 13-point assessment. And oftentimes, I hop on the phone with these folks,

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and we figure out if they’re a good fit. And once we start working with a client, our goal is to help the client to actually grow their actual business. And on today’s show, we’re joined with a man who we’ve had the opportunity to work with.

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The company’s called NWA Gutter Perfection. And my understanding, Carter, is that they’re up over 60%. Is that right? I would say that’s correct, yes. DJ, welcome on to the Thrive Time Show. How are you, sir? Good. How you doing Clay? I’m doing great. So for anybody out there who

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Is doubting whether you’re a hologram or not? What’s the name of your company, sir? Dutter Perfection. How did you guys first hear about us? Do you know?

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It’s actually a friend of mine found out about your business conferences there and then we went there. I guess I was sold the first conference we went to.

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If you go to nwagutterperfection.com, you can see they’re a real company, they’re a real business, they really are growing. What markets do you service there, DJ, for people out there that might be looking for your services. What’s the market area that you service?

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Pretty much all of Northwest Arkansas, Bentonville, Springdale, Fayetteville, Rogers, you know, the little surrounding towns there too.

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And again, if you go to the website here, folks,

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nwagutterperfection.com,

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you can see they are a real business, real people having real success. DJ, I really do appreciate your time today, sir, and we’ll talk to you soon. What I’ve seen from Clay and his group at Thrive is they’ll give you a simple system,

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and it’s the simple systems are the ones that people can wrap their brain around. They’re the ones that people can work with on a day-to-day basis, and that simplicity brings power with it. So it shocked me how simple some of the stuff is, and at times I’m like, why did not think about that? Workflow creation, systematic marketing and coaching has helped our church so much.

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You know the workflow creation is what it really is, is they’re going to look and see every moving part of your church, of your ministry, what needs to be done. And it’s going to go up on a massive board. And so now what it does is it takes what you know needs to be done out of your heart and out of your head, really takes the pressure, the stress off your shoulders and it puts it on the board

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where your entire team, your ministry can see exactly what you want them to do every day. And so they know this is the playbook, this is what we’re doing. And then there’s a laser sharp accountability

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with a meeting afterwards, did it get done or not?

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Clay, you’re an entrepreneur, I’m an entrepreneur. And as they say in Stoic, the obstacle is the way. I think YouTube is a tremendous educational platform for good and bad. So you’ve got to really choose your teachers wisely as anything else. So the biggest, best lesson sits in the back here. I think you do it and Dr. Z does it. Once you learn something, if you really want to learn it, you’ve got to teach it.

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I think it was life-changing for me and how I approach business. Could you explain Okta Nonverba, what it means and how our listeners can apply it?

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Clay, you gave me goosebumps, man.

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I’m glad it hit you as hard as it did. Okta Nonverba is the motto of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. I had appointments with Naval Academy and Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy.

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And Merchant Marine Academy’s motto was Okta Nonverba. In other words, don’t listen to what a person says. Watch what they do.

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Well, the first time that I ever met you, Clay, was at that first conference in Tulsa. And that was an incredible conference. And I was so impressed with just the whole thing, just the professionalism, you as a person, your business, your work ethic, and really just who you are. And I was very impressed with all of that. And I thought, gosh, you know, this might be someone that I would really consider working

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with. Like maybe he could really help me. And that’s really what got me interested because I was so impressed with just the professionalism of all of it. And I learned a lot. I come about once a year to a business conference.

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And I’d like to come more, but every year I try to come with my marketing girl with me and we always learn something. We always learn something and I think next year I’m gonna bring my husband

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because he really needs to come too.

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And you’re in McKinney, Texas, right? So how long have you been an orthodontist in McKinney, Texas?

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So I’ve been an orthodontist for 26 years. Practicing in McKinney.

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And when you went to medical school, what percentage of the time in medical school or dentistry school, dental school, did they spend teaching you how to market and or grow your own practice?

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Absolutely zero. Zero? Zero marketing skills.

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Okay, okay. And from when I talked to Andrew, you’re the coach who works with you, I’m always hearing that more and more patients are coming in from Google. Could you talk about that?

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How much of an impact does it have having maybe a rebranded or updated website and Google leads coming in?

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It has had a huge difference, absolutely huge difference in our patient load coming in. And you know, before I really wasn’t tracking really well, and that’s one of the things I learned from Thrive Time Business was how to track patients coming in, how to really see where they’re coming from. And at the time, I really didn’t know much about Google. And, you know, being an orthodontist for 26 years,

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I didn’t really know a lot of, I kind of went through a time where I went through shock. It was really what I call culture shock because the old ways of marketing were not working anymore. And because I really didn’t know about online marketing, I really didn’t, I was still doing, you know,

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phone book ads and magazine ads and all of these things. And so Thrive Time has really helped. And I will say that it’s a process. It doesn’t happen overnight, but if you stay the course, you’re gonna see results because I’m absolutely convinced.

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Dr. Christ, thank you for allowing us to take up some of your valuable time today. I really do appreciate you and I can’t wait to see you in person here soon.

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All right, thanks so much, Clay.

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Clay Clark is here somewhere.

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Where’s my buddy Clay?

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Clay. Clay. Clay’s the greatest.

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I met his goats today, I met his dogs, I met his chickens. I saw his compound. He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs.

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So this guy’s like the greatest marketer

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you’ve ever seen right his entire life Clay Clark his entire life is marketing. Okay Aaron Antis on March 6th and 7th March 6th and 7th guess who’s coming to Tulsa Russela? Santa Claus? No that’s March March 6th and 7th you’re gonna be joined by Robert Kiyosaki Robert Kiyosaki best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad possibly the best-selling or one of the best-selling business authors of all time and he’s going to be joined with Eric Trump. He’ll be joined by Eric Trump. We’ve got Eric Trump and Robert Kiyosaki in the

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same place. In the same place. Aaron, why should everybody show up to hear Robert Kiyosaki? Well you got billions of dollars of business experience between those two, not to mention many, many, many millions of books have been sold. Many, many millionaires have been made from the books that have been sold by Robert Kiyosaki. I happen to be one of them. I learned from the man. He was the inspiration. That book was the inspiration for me to get the entrepreneurial spirit,

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as many other people.

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Now, since you won’t brag on yourself, I will. You’ve sold billions of dollars of houses, am I correct? That is true. And the book that kick-started it all for you… Rich Dad Pornhub. Rich Dad Pornhub, the best selling author of Rich Dad Pornhub, Robert Kiyosaki, the

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guy that kickstarted your career, he’s going to be here. He’s going to be here. I’m bummed. And now Eric Trump, people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. There’s not 50 employees.

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The Trump Organization, again, most people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. And while Donald J. Trump was the 45th president of these United States and soon to be the 47th president of these United States, he needed someone to run the companies for him. And so the man that runs the Trump Organization for Donald J. Trump as he was the 45th president of the United States and now the 47th president of the United States

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is Eric Trump. Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within, marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems, workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build. I mean, everything that you see, the Trump hotels, the Trump golf courses, all their products, the man who manages billions of dollars of real estate and thousands of employees is here to teach us how to do that.

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You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint. I mean, who else has been able to create a brand like the Trump brand? I mean, look at it. And this is the man behind the business for the last, pretty much since 2015. He’s been the man behind it. So you’re talking, we’re into nine, going into 10 years of him running it.

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And we get to tap into that knowledge.

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That’s going to be amazing.

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This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet. And then you add to that Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. You add to that Eric Trump, the man that runs the Trump Organization. You add to that Sean Baker. Now you might say, but Clay, is there more? I need more.

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Well, okay, Tom Wheelwright is the wealth strategist for Robert Kiyosaki. So people say, Robert Kiyosaki, who’s his financial wealth advisor? Who’s the guy who manages, who’s his wealth strategist? His wealth strategist, Tom Wheelwright, will be here. And you say, Clay, I still, I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more. Okay, fine.

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We’re going to serve you the same meal both days. True story. We cater and food and because I keep it simple, I literally bring him the same food both days for lunch. It’s Ted Escovedo’s, an incredible Mexican restaurant. That’s going to happen.

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And Jill Donovan, our good friend, who is the founder of Rustic Cuff. She started that company in her home, and now she sells millions of dollars of apparel and products. That’s rusticcuff.com. And someone says, I want more! This is not enough!

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Give me more. OK, I’m not going to mention their names right now, because I’m working on it behind the scenes here. But we’ve got one guy who’s given me a verbal to be here. And this is a guy who’s one of the wealthiest people in Oklahoma and nobody really knows who he is because he’s built systems that are

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very utilitarian that offer a lot of value he’s made a lot of money in the with it the it’s where you rent it’s short it’s where you’re renting storage spaces he’s a storage space guy he owns this what do we call that the rental the storage space storage unit this guy owns storage units, he owns railroad cars, he owns a lot of assets that make money on a daily basis, but they’re not like customer facing. Most people don’t know who owns the mini storage facility, or most people don’t know who owns the warehouse that’s passively making money. Most people don’t know who owns the railroad cars, but this guy, he’s giving me a verbal that he will be here.

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And we just continue to add more and more success stories. So if you’re out there today and you want to change your life, you want to give yourself an incredible gift, you want a life-changing experience, you want to learn how to start and grow a company, go to Thrivetimeshow.com. Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow.com. Request a ticket for the two-day interactive event. Again, the day here is March 6th and 7th. March 6th and 7th. We just got confirmation. Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author,

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rich dad, poor dad, he’ll be here. Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump Organization. It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells. Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible, and there’s somebody out there right now, you’re watching, and you’re like,

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but I already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin. I think that’s going to change your life. I promise you, this will be ten times better than that.

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It’s like I picked the wrong week with smoking.

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Don’t do the smoke your way to thin conference. That is, I’ve tried it, don’t do it. Chain smoking is not a viable, I mean it is life changing.

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It is life changing.

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If you become a chain smoker, it is life changing.

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Not the best weight loss program though.

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Right, not really. If you’re looking to have life changing results in a way that won’t cause you to have a stoma, get your tickets at Thrivetimeshow.com. Again, that’s Aaron Antis. I’m Clay Clark, reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two-day interactive Thrivetimeshow workshop right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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I promise you, it will be a life-changing experience. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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My name is Claire Yinger. I was looking to learn everything about business, which I have learned so many things.

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It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant. I’m going to have to do it again, multiple times. What I’ve learned so far has been, I mean, just a lot about processes, systems, the power of them, your due diligence. I mean, the list can go on and on and on. Well listening to Clay is like very entertaining, because he is entertaining. But also just meeting all the different people and having time and space to like, you’re learning a lot, but then also being able to discuss with other people what they’re learning and just getting different perspectives.

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So, very entertaining, very funny, very thorough, but also could be random because it’s full of a lot of stories but it’s also intentional. It’s like everything he’s doing is intentional but you wouldn’t be fully aware that it was. It’s like everything he’s doing is intentional but you wouldn’t be fully aware that it was.

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But it is.

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