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(Speaker 1)
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, please stand at your feet and greet the son of President Donald J. Trump, the man who runs the Trump Organization, my good friend and now yours, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Eric Trump.

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Some shows don’t need a celebrity in the ring, but this show does. In a world filled with endless opportunities, why would two men who have built 13 multimillion dollar businesses altruistically invest five hours per day to teach you the best practice business systems and moves that you can use. Because they believe in you, and they have a lot of time on their hands. They started from the bottom, now they’re here. It’s the Thrive Time Show, starring the former U . S.

(Speaker 10)
Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark, and the entrepreneur trapped inside an optometrist’s body, Dr. Robert Zunder. Two men, eight kids, co -created by two different women. 13 multi -million dollar businesses.

(Speaker 1)
him for what he’s done for our country. Do I agree with him on everything?

(Speaker 39)
No.

(Speaker 1)
Does he agree with me on everything? No. But it’s a thing where I have a certain reverence, right, where you have a reverence for that. We say, well, so it took me first, just the first step was reading the Bible as though God is talking to me and going, okay, I probably need to sit up and read it with a reverence. So that was a really big, like, send tingles down my spine moment for me is really having a fear of the Lord. That’s big.

(Speaker 1)
Just a fear of the Lord. The Bible says, with the fear of the Lord, right, the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. So that was a real big thing. Now, as far as the specifics, if you read Mark 13, that’s Jesus’ final big message. Mark 13, right? Mark 13.

(Speaker 1)
What was His final message? You know, some people say, man, what was Charlie Kirk’s last message? You know, may he rest in peace. Or what was the final message of Martin Luther King Jr.? What was Jesus’ final message? Mark 13.

(Speaker 1)
Powerful, okay? Now Luke wrote it down too, and this is Luke’s perspective of the same conversation. That’s Luke 21. So Luke 21, Mark 13, and Matthew 24. So Matthew 24 is the same as Mark 13, as Luke 21. Those three parts of the Bible are the same, but if you had to say, where am I going to start that thing?

(Speaker 1)
I’d start right there. Mark 13, Luke 21, Matthew 24. Now, What you need to understand is that Genesis guides the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, right? So it says in Matthew 24, verse 37, it’ll be like, as in the days of Noah, when Christ returns. It’ll be like, as in the days of Noah, when Christ returns. Matthew 24, seven, so you start to go, well, Matthew 24, seven, that’s referenced in Genesis chapter six.

(Speaker 61)
So Genesis chapter six talks about Matthew 24, 37.

(Speaker 1)
Wow, that fits. So now you’re like, oh, I’m reading Matthew 24, but now that fits into Genesis 6. So now you’re interested in that part. Okay, so then there’s this guy named Daniel. Daniel, okay, God gave him a vision of this thing called the fourth kingdom, the fourth kingdom, and it was a time as to how the ending of the age would be, right, where God’s the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, and so God gave Daniel revelation and said, this is how it’s going to be before my return, and he called it the fourth kingdom.

(Speaker 1)
He said it’ll be a time where man will try to mix with machine. The miry clay with the iron, man with machine, that’s Daniel chapter two. And you understand that, well, Daniel chapter 2, it fits into Revelation. So Daniel chapter 2 and Revelation 13, they fit together. We’re on the same page? So 27 % of the Bible is prophetic, and 73 % of the Bible is historical.

(Speaker 1)
So when you start to go, wow, this book is telling us what’s happening in advance. So now you have a different way. So if I said, you said, where should I start? I would read Mark 13, takes you five minutes. Matthew 24 takes you five minutes. Luke chapter 21 will take you five minutes.

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I recognize I’m cutting into your Netflix time here by a little bit, but we’re, you know, we’re busy people. We have a lot of Netflix we need to watch. Not you people, but other people. We want to watch Netflix all day. So I’m taking 15 minutes out of the Netflix time, but to watch, we can’t watch that mindless TV series. We got to take 15 minutes here.

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And once you read that, now you’re like, well, well, Okay, I’m in the conversation. I understand. Jesus said, before my return there’s going to be wars, and rumors of wars, and famines, and pestilences, and neighbor rising against neighbor, and there’s going to be earthquakes in diverse places, and there’s going to be division in your homes, and you go, wow, okay, I get it. And then you go to Daniel chapter 2, and you go, wow, Daniel said there’d be this thing called the fourth kingdom, where they’re going to mix the miry clay with the iron, and Yuval Noah Harari, and Klaus Schwab, and Elon Musk keep talking about the fourth industrial revolution which is mixing man with machine now you go oh wow these guys are just catching up to what the bible said would happen so now it’s kind of more of an exciting book right and then final area i’d tell you to start with if you’re an new to that, is Revelation chapter 16, verse 12 through 14. Revelation chapter 16, verse 12 through 14.

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And without divulging any of our private conversations, these are the things I talk to Eric about. So I am a struggling missionary to a, my mission field is one person, and these are the things I talk to General Flynn about. And so I’m a struggling missionary, and I evangelize to two people. And I’ll never forget, General Flynn was like, It’s in, this is in the Bible.

(Speaker 47)
I go, this is in the Bible?

(Speaker 1)
He’s like, really? He’s in my man cave, upstairs at my house. And he’s like, this is in the Bible. And now you start to go, wow, God has a plan. He’s got it all figured out. Things aren’t falling apart, they’re falling together.

(Speaker 1)
They’re falling into place, right? They’re not falling apart, they’re falling into place. So now it’s a different thing. So Revelation chapter 16 says, 12 through 14, it says when the Euphrates River dries up, which it is, China and Russia are gonna team up And they are. They’re ideologically opposed, by the way. Russia has some sort of, like, government -sponsored Christianity, whatever that means, and China is communist, atheist, but they teamed up.

(Speaker 1)
The Bible says when the Euphrates River dries up, and it is, China and Russia are going to team up, and they are. And it says the beast technology will show up. By the way, you’ve all know Harari. He refers to AI as the beast. The world’s best -selling author, who’s the lead advisor for Obama, Zuckerberg, Gates, MIT, Stanford, Harvard. He calls it the beast technology, AI.

(Speaker 1)
So, now, the Bible says when the Euphrates River dries up, and it is, China and Russia are going to team up. False prophets are going to show up. China and Russia are going to team up. And then it’s all the nations are going to gather against Israel, and things are going to blow up. So, even if you like Israel or you don’t like Israel, the Bible says, Ezekiel chapter 38, all these nations are going to gather against Israel. Who knows this?

(Speaker 1)
And Israel’s going to be like a burdensome stone for the world. People are going to be irritated about Israel, and they don’t know why. And they’re going to all come together against Israel. and then God’s gonna show up and show off, and it’s gonna be a thing. So once you have that confidence that God has a plan, and it’s not falling apart, it’s all falling into place, now you have a very different way you approach the world. So for me, when we’re here today, I know that you, whoever you are, you’re the most important thing in the world for me today.

(Speaker 1)
I’m here to talk to you. That’s why I’m here, you know? So I’m not, you’re not a mistake, I’m not a mistake. I’m here to talk to you, and being present is a present, right? Every day is a gift. So I’m locking in, and I’m intentional, knowing that if this was the fate, if today was my last day on Earth, I’m glad we did this.

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It’s a little too hot, a little too packed, not enough parking. Who thought of this, this crazy guy? Did he call before he did the helicopter rides?

(Speaker 8)
Did he get approval from the neighbors?

(Speaker 1)
Uh, no. I’d say there’s a little bit. of conditions that could be improved upon. But who remembers Carlton Pearson’s church back then? Anybody remember that Carlton Pearson’s church? I just remember Carlton’s church, everybody his church was doing this.

(Speaker 1)
You remember that? You remember that Christy? You remember that Glessners? Everybody was like, oh man. And they had all the women with the big hats. Who knows about women with the big hats?

(Speaker 1)
And he would get up there singing about, yes, You know, and it was like a three -hour service. Three hours got you about two -thirds of the way through the service. It’s a little bit too hot. Everyone had a big hat. Everyone was wearing purples and pinks and big bougie hats, you know, and there’s a handful of white guys sneaking in. I’m sneaking in, and Carlton would wave at me sometimes.

(Speaker 1)
Hey, Casper, how you doing? I’m like, it’s good to see you, sir. You know, but it was a little too packed. It was a little too hot. It was a little too, wasn’t, the parking wasn’t ideal, but we were seizing the day, right?

(Speaker 12)
So you say, how do I read the Bible?

(Speaker 1)
Recap. A, when you read the Word of God, no, you’re reading the Word of God. You are not reading a book written by dudes. This is the Word of God. So have a reverence for that moment, a reverence that far exceeds the reverence I have for Eric. Trump or General Flynn, but I have a reverence for those people.

(Speaker 1)
Read it as though it really is the Word of God. Second thing is that the Bible is not a past tense book, it is a forward thinking book. 73 % is historical, 27 % is prophetic. Do that And specifically start with Mark 13, Matthew 24, Luke 21. I recommend you go there. And if you want to read the news, like right now, just read Revelation chapter 16, verse 12 through 14.

(Speaker 1)
And you’ll go, that is crazy. How many of you know the Euphrates River is getting dry? Come on.

(Speaker 23)
How many of you know China and Russia are teaming up? Hello. Hello.

(Speaker 1)
Hello. I mean, what is the coincidence, the statistical probability? How many people live in Tulsa, roughly? Like, is it about a million people in the whole thing? What is the probability that Dr. Zellner, my lifetime mentor, who is my spiritual father, like the guy who literally has stepped into the authority position as my dad on the earth, he’s at the exact restaurant with Eric Trump, what is the probability of that? I don’t even know.

(Speaker 42)
What’s the probability that you’re here right now?

(Speaker 1)
I don’t know. But I just think once you have a spiritual understanding and you look at things that way, you’re gonna process everything a lot differently. So when someone says, I really hated your conference, I think to myself, I don’t know that in eternity this is gonna be a big issue, but okay. If you have an eternal perspective, it makes everything easier, okay? It makes the rejection and the setbacks, it makes it all fit into place. So tonight, 6 .30, these people who are preaching and teaching the word of God, Amanda Grace, Colton Dixon, Pastor Jackson, this is what they do.

(Speaker 1)
I’m a specialist in growing businesses. These people are specialists in the Bible. I promise you’re gonna learn something.

(Speaker 12)
I promise you’re gonna learn something.

(Speaker 11)
Josh Burrell, back to you.

(Speaker 3)
Next one, Clay.

(Speaker 1)
How can it be safe to hire an entrepreneur?

(Speaker 27)
How can it be safe to hire?

(Speaker 1)
Yes. I don’t know that it is. I find that some of my people that I’ve devoted my time and energy to the most have screwed me the most. And I’ll tell you a story being very vague. Can’t name names, OK? But man, one day I came to work, and I noticed we were at the Riverwalk.

(Speaker 1)
And we had a really, really core team. I mean, good people. Who remembers the Riverwalk? Who was at the Riverwalk? OK. We were at the Riverwalk, and we had a core team that was great.

(Speaker 1)
And one of my longtime employees came to me, she said, hey, I want you to know one of our employees is trying to hire me to work for her. And I’m almost confused, who’s ever had this happen? I’m like, what now? She says, one of our coworkers, our employees, a person that I’ve mentored, by the way, and has worked in my office for more than five years, who went from making no money to making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and they’re going, they tried to hire me away from you today. And I’m like, really? So I go to Judas, Ms. Judas, Ms. Judas, how are we doing?

(Speaker 1)
Hey, are you hiring my staff? Oh, I didn’t know what the policy was. It’s just work after work. Like, well, the policy is you don’t hire my employees, but let’s, okay.

(Speaker 25)
Why are you raising your voice?

(Speaker 1)
Are you insecure?

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That’s what she said.

(Speaker 1)
There’s part of, who knows about Jesus flipped the table? Sean, look it up. Who knows that? No, how many of you know that? Within the realm, if you, by the way, Jesus was on your staff, Within the realm of things, like in my office we might say, you’re fired, that’s an opportunity. We could do that move, we could try to inspire, we could try to fire, we could hold you accountable.

(Speaker 1)
But in Jesus’s world, he’s gonna sit there and think about it. Shawn, you gotta look up the Bible verse. He’s gonna make a whip. How methodical, how premeditated is that? Jesus homeboy son of God is sitting there going I’m gonna I’m gonna make a whip right now like Jesus What are you doing right now? Why are you making a whip?

(Speaker 1)
Well cuz I’m gonna chase people out of the temple soon So I got to make it think about the premeditated nature if I came into the office and I go What are you doing over there clay? Well, I’m making a whip Well, why are you making a whip? Because I’m going to flip the tables and chase you all out of here. I mean, wow, my boss is extreme. I don’t know if this is allowed.

(Speaker 1)
This is Jesus. Think about that, table -flipping Jesus. That’s some wild stuff, table -flipping Jesus.

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My thesis is the world needs more table -flipping Jesus. So I go to the young lady. I said, hey, she’s about my age -ish. I said, hey, I’m going to flip the tables. Are you hiring more people?” She’s like, are you insecure?

(Speaker 12)
I would never. I go, well, I’ve got two clients that say that you work with them on the side and you’re trying to take them away. And then I said, she goes, two? I go, two, two, two.

(Speaker 1)
She said, two.

(Speaker 12)
I said, actually, did I say two? I meant eight.

(Speaker 1)
She said, eight? I go, come on. She’s like, okay, there’s eight, but they’re just people that are doing some side. As I said eight, I meant to say 16. I know you’re embezzling money from me. Let’s just talk about it.

(Speaker 1)
I never saw that person again.

(Speaker 30)
Never saw them again.

(Speaker 1)
They were in my life for years. Now they’re gone. And I have those stories. Who has stories like that? Who has some stories? And I’ve got probably ten of those that are pretty good, you know.

(Speaker 1)
But all I can say is I let them go. I move on. Turn the bitterness into betterness. Hopefully God convicts them. But you gotta move on. And so, I’m not gonna let that prevent me from mentoring people with a reckless passion.

(Speaker 1)
So I’m still gonna pour my heart in every employee who works here. I want them to become super successful. And will some of them turn into like, you know, Darth Vader Jr. Killin’ Obi -Wan Kenobi, reliving Star Wars. Yeah, that happens. But I’m not gonna let that…

(Speaker 1)
Are we on the same page? I’m not gonna let my heart hurt keep me from helping people, training people. So I can’t… And by the way, there’s no non -compete. It works. There’s no, your lawyer, come on, stop it.

(Speaker 1)
There’s no non -compete that’s gonna work, okay? It’s not gonna work. There is not a no solicitation agreement that works. You know why it doesn’t work? Because somebody who has nothing has nothing to lose. So back to this woman.

(Speaker 1)
I’m like, hey, you signed a non -compete, you signed a non -solicit, non -solicitation. and she’s like, well, just so you know, I know that on social media, I look a certain way financially, but we have no money. My husband and I, we spend all of it. So you can sue us, but we don’t have anything. You might look online, but I just want you to know we have nothing. We’ve thought through this.

(Speaker 1)
So you can have fun suing us, but we don’t have anything. And that’s usually the kind of mind that will recruit your employees away. So I’m just telling you, just gotta let it go, don’t let it make you bitter, but non -disclosures, people sign it, but how many of you know, if you try to enforce a non -disclosure or a non -solicitation and try to hold a broke person accountable in the court of law, how does that go? Now you’re all of a sudden, I got one, back, back, back, back, when I was still stupid and I didn’t figure it out yet, I went after one of our employees and I won, because they were screwing me, and I’m getting checks in the mail for like $13 a month. because they couldn’t make payments or something, and I’m getting, how many of you have ever gone through the legal battle and you won but you lost?

(Speaker 8)
Now I get a monthly reminder that I won but I lost, so just move on, okay?

(Speaker 1)
So, next question.

(Speaker 50)
Can you point me in the direction of a not -for -profit or ministry, not necessarily a business?

(Speaker 1)
point me in the way of a not -for -profit or a ministry? That’s what it said, yeah. I don’t know, is His Glory here? Are they around? Is Dave here? Dave, is the team here?

(Speaker 1)
His Glory is a great ministry. Is Amanda Grace here? Is Amanda Grace here? Amanda here? There’s non -profit folks in the building and around. I don’t know what the, who had that question?

(Speaker 1)
What’s the nature of that question? All I could say is, well, I just want to say this real quick. I don’t know that if you have a business, you have a business, sometimes you can take the money that you would be donating to quote -unquote non -profits and invest it better in your people. So like my wife is that way. You know, my people are, random pastors are always calling me, hey man, thanks for the donation. I’m like, I did not donate anything.

(Speaker 1)
I bet my wife did. Call my wife, did you donate to that? So my wife is very generous with teamwork. and helps people in need, and so our office or our clients are kind of our mission field, if that makes any sense. And sometimes nonprofits, you donate to them and you recognize these people live high on the hog, they waste their money, they’re going on exotic trips, and sometimes those, who’s ever donated to a ministry and you found they were living the high life on your dime? You ever had that happen?

(Speaker 46)
Okay, so again, just have a balance.

(Speaker 1)
Christy, do you have a, Ms. Glessner, do you have a thought on that? Yeah. And just so you know, you might say, who is this wonderful woman? The Glessners, they’re wonderful people that behind the scenes do a lot of work for Project Save America. But they also build massive bridges and infrastructure. They’re super successful entrepreneurs.

(Speaker 1)
But if you have questions about non -profits, I’d go see her, because she’s got some. But she said, owning a profit is a profit before profit business exists to make a profit. And a non -profit, what’s that? You have one of each. So, again, she’ll be here. Thank you.

(Speaker 1)
Thank you.

(Speaker 11)
Thank you, Glessner team. Okay, next question. Clay, I’m excited for you to answer this one because I’ve heard your answer before and your answer is hilarious. LinkedIn content history.

(Speaker 1)
Should it compare, blend with the website?

(Speaker 3)
The concern is the past history in the new direction.

(Speaker 11)
Read it again now, the content, what?

(Speaker 3)
LinkedIn content history.

(Speaker 1)
Compare, blend with website. LinkedIn. Well, OK, I had a speaking events for Oral Roberts University. They called me up, and I got kicked out of ORU. And again, a lot of things I said in that song when I was 18 are pretty caustic, and I needed to kind of work through that phase of my life. But they asked me to come speak to their school one time.

(Speaker 1)
They said, hey, could you come turn our office department around? And I’m like, this is interesting. I got kicked out. And by the way, I framed the check. It’s on the wall over there.

(Speaker 1)
It’s an $8 ,000 check. And you walk into your right, there’s a pink slip where I got kicked out, and there’s my check from them. So they paid me $8 ,000 to turn around their alumni department, $8 ,000 a month for several months to turn it around. And so I’m running the ORU call center, their alumni department. And I’m like, I got kicked out of a school, but yet they’ve hired me to turn it around. This was under the leadership of the Hobby Lobby team that came in.

(Speaker 1)
This is post -Richard. They’re like, hey, we’re sorry. You left in a not great way. We’d love to bring you back. We understand you went here. Could you help us turn it around?

(Speaker 1)
And so I’m doing that. And somebody who, they said, could you speak to the students on marketing? I said, sure. And they call me, and it’s like five hours before the event. We notice that your LinkedIn says you work at Applebee’s. And I’m like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I worked at Applebee’s.

(Speaker 1)
And they’re like, but it doesn’t say anything about your academic credentials, and I think it says you also work at Target or something. And I’m like, yeah, I mean, I worked at Target. Well, how come you don’t update your LinkedIn? I go, I don’t think it’s relevant. And they’re like, well, you need to update it, because we’re going to speak. I’m like, you can update it.

(Speaker 1)
I’m not going to update it. I’m going to put, I’ll just update it and say, used to work at Target. So my LinkedIn is I used to work at Target, you know, that was my accolade. And if you go to paulgram . com, Paul Graham, he’s the most successful entrepreneur of our lifetime. And most people don’t know he exists.

(Speaker 1)
He’s the most successful entrepreneur of our lifetime. And most people don’t even know he exists. He’s the most successful, I’ll repeat that, most successful, very intentional about the words, most successful entrepreneur of our lifetime. And no one knows he exists. He invented online shopping. Who’s heard about shopping online?

(Speaker 1)
He invented that, okay? He sold that technology to Yahoo back in the day. He invented Airbnb, Dropbox. uh… read it and i go on and he’s credited with having invented or started if you look at his wikipedia profile it’s over 2 ,000 successful startups. And what his move is, is entrepreneurs that are struggling, you team up with him and he takes a big part of the equity.

(Speaker 1)
And just to be clear, Paul Graham’s the only guy I know who does what I do, but I don’t take equity. So where’s James at? Is James here?

(Speaker 10)
James, are you here?

(Speaker 66)
James?

(Speaker 1)
James? Hello? If you guys see James, we can find James, that’d be great. James, is he here?

(Speaker 52)
Anybody see him, James?

(Speaker 8)
Is he outside, inside?

(Speaker 12)
You found him? Is he here? James? You see James?

(Speaker 1)
Is he inside? Is he in my office?

(Speaker 27)
James, can you come up here real quick?

(Speaker 23)
This is James.

(Speaker 1)
James? Hello? There’s James. He’s coming in there. Let’s hear it for James. That’s James, yeah.

(Speaker 1)
Okay. James, I’ll get you on that mic real quick here. So what we do, Paul Graham is the only person who does what I do, that I know of. So what Paul Graham does is, Paul Graham says if you want to team up with him, he’s going to take a large percentage of equity. Now why would the guy who invented online shopping want to take equity to coach you? Because your business is going to succeed and he’s like, I…

(Speaker 1)
You know, I’ll help you grow your Dropbox thing or your Reddit thing, but I just want to get a percentage. So if you look up Paul Graham, look up the number of startups, S -T -A -R -T, just Command -F there. So go to his Wikipedia, and then click on his Wikipedia, and then click Command -F, and then Start. You’ll see it. So the number is 1 ,300 startups as of this update. So 1 ,300 profitable startups.

(Speaker 1)
And he’s like, hey, I want a large slice. I’ll coach you. And that’s how it works. You have to office out of my building. Okay, and Paul Graham, if you go to his website there, he never updates his website. That’s his website.

(Speaker 1)
That’s his current website. And people are like, why don’t you update your website? He’s like, well, I don’t need to. How many of you know what an X -Y axis is? What is the X axis? What is the X axis?

(Speaker 1)
Which direction does it go? What’s that? Horizontal? And what does the Y do? Goes up. So it’s called Y Combinator.

(Speaker 1)
You team up with him and you go up. Y axis. So he’s done, he’s a very interesting individual, but he’s done long -form interviews and they go, what does Y Combinator stand for? And he’s like, well, if you don’t know, you can’t work with me. And they’re like, what? And he’s like, I don’t have any interest to explain it to you.

(Speaker 1)
If you can’t figure that out, we’ve got to move on here. Because he doesn’t want to work with shallow -thinking people, you know? And they’re like, well, Paul, you take equity. I mean, what’s your point? Is it fair? Is it ethical?

(Speaker 1)
Whatever.

(Speaker 68)
And he’s just like, I have a very long track record of growing businesses.

(Speaker 12)
And so if you want to work with me, I just take equity.

(Speaker 10)
And it makes sense for me, because that’s, you know.

(Speaker 1)
So in my world, what I do, and James, your desk is like five feet from mine.

(Speaker 27)
Yes.

(Speaker 1)
Can you explain what we do? So we take businesses, and we grow them exponentially. But we don’t take equity.

(Speaker 10)
And we don’t take equity.

(Speaker 1)
And why do I do it month to month? You’ve been around here long enough, three and two and a half years. Why do I not do, why is it always month to month? Because I’ve seen Clay fire clients. And it’s not like a mean thing, it’s just like if somebody is a difficult human, just, and I don’t want to be a part, I don’t want to get on the call talking about your ex -wife and your, I don’t, I don’t want to go there because I’m trying to grow a business.

(Speaker 8)
So to me, and by the way, contract, typically my main, my world looks like there was a con, and now you’re on a weird track.

(Speaker 1)
Who’s ever been stuck in a contract?

(Speaker 8)
You made it, there was a con, and then there’s a weird track. Now, James, we charge $1 ,700 a month, that’s what I charge.

(Speaker 1)
That’s right. Why do we do scholarships? We do scholarships for lovely people like Karima and her daughter so that, you know, Clay loves to see good people make a lot of money and impact their community. He really wants to use business as a way that you could fulfill what God’s calling you to do with your life financially. Sophia can you come up here real quick here because helping you doesn’t make mathematical sense back to the non -profit thing it doesn’t make any sense financially to give somebody a scholarship but it’s something that I believe in because I know that my dad would have wanted that hand up does that make sense not a handout but a hand up so this lady how many of you feel like this person is worth helping and investing in?

(Speaker 1)
Let me have you guys share a mic real quick. Has anybody been inspired by a 15 -year -old on the microphone? Kind of give you a little hope and humanity, you know?

(Speaker 22)
Can you talk about what we do? Because you’re living it.

(Speaker 9)
I mean, you’re on the receiving end of what we do, good or bad.

(Speaker 1)
Just say whatever you want.

(Speaker 67)
It’s more Sean.

(Speaker 1)
You can get wrapped up in the work sometimes, and it’s good to get a refresher every now and then. When we get on the call with Sean, we get encouraged, and by the time we get off it, we’re ready to go. Yeah, and it’s just something about accountability and knowing what to do, and so again, if you’re thinking about, you know, why Combinator? What do they do? It’s an equity thing.

(Speaker 27)
I’m not, and it’s month -to -month for my sanity, primarily, because most of my clients are long -term, and I don’t do well with people that are short -term anything.

(Speaker 1)
Like, I really hate short -term relationships. Like, I don’t want to know you unless I want to know you a long time, if that makes any sense. So, like, I have relationships that are decades, you know what I mean? I’m… Dr. Z will always be close to me. I don’t want to have, like, these fly -by -night, get rich… You know what I’m talking about?

(Speaker 1)
Like, I don’t want to tell somebody, oh, sure, work with us, and you’ll get rich tomorrow.

(Speaker 12)
That’s not a real thing.

(Speaker 11)
But I can tell you, you’ll have a very successful business if you stay the course, and that’s how it works.

(Speaker 3)
So, hopefully that’s helpful.

(Speaker 1)
Next question. Don’t update your LinkedIn profile, doesn’t matter. As a business, products and services diversify. What considerations are there before splitting it into multiple LLCs? Every time you make a new LLC, you have to keep it updated. And I’m going to get Josh’s thoughts on this, because I see so many people, Bill, this is a true story.

(Speaker 1)
I’ll be very vague.

(Speaker 12)
A client of mine who’s making some money, they said to me, hey, I worked with this accountant and this lawyer, not Josh by the way, and they told me to break my company up into like 10 different LLCs.

(Speaker 3)
Who’s heard of these kind of things? You get a shell company over here, you get an LLC over here, you pay this company, and this company over here is like a staffing company for this company, but this company, right? I’ll pay myself because I’ll pay myself differently here because this is not actually income this is a distribution and all this and they’re breaking it down and they go but here’s the deal we didn’t pay taxes on any of them I’m behind on everything I’m not filing and I’m overwhelmed I think I’m gonna go back to one LLC So I want to get your thoughts on this where these super complicated strategies meet reality. What’s your thoughts? Yeah, that would be the first filter would be the cost because sometimes the revenue activity doesn’t justify the cost of being number one. Number two would be the complexity.

(Speaker 3)
So now you’re adopting a more complex reporting structure that the business owner is going to have difficulty understanding. Probably number three, sometimes there’s some tax considerations, and sometimes we can achieve a better tax outcome.

(Speaker 8)
What expense might be ordinary and necessary in one corporation combined, you might be able to maximize ordinary and necessary expenses in two.

(Speaker 1)
That’s an example. And the last consideration might be asset protection. So usually, a professional is going to help you walk through all of those. If they’re just talking about one of those, they’re probably trying to maximize their fees. I just would really encourage you to keep it simple. Steve Jobs said, simplicity scales and complexity fails.

(Speaker 1)
Simplicity scales, complexity fails. William Shakespeare said, brevity is the soul of wit.

(Speaker 8)
Brevity is the soul of wit. You want to simplify till it cannot be simplified.

(Speaker 1)
You want to perfect until it’s perfect. Hopefully these ideas make sense, but get it simple, get it clean, make it scalable.

(Speaker 36)
Next question, sir.

(Speaker 1)
As your business gets revenue, what do you recommend to do with that money to get it out of your business and protect it? You got to buy some goats. You got to get some chickens.

(Speaker 49)
No, but I want to talk.

(Speaker 12)
Is Heather here?

(Speaker 61)
Heather, are you here?

(Speaker 1)
Can I bring you up here? Is it okay? Can I bring you up here, Heather? Yeah.

(Speaker 66)
You’re the best Heather that I know in this area right here, Heather.

(Speaker 1)
I’m looking right at you. Miss Arkansas.

(Speaker 42)
Miss Arkansas 2025.

(Speaker 49)
They’re incredible.

(Speaker 1)
Heather. Because Heather is.. . Thank you, Sophia. by the way, thank you, you’re the best.

(Speaker 12)
So Heather is, I would call a polymath.

(Speaker 65)
By the way, a lot of our founding fathers and mothers were polymaths.

(Speaker 1)
It’s where you’re good at multiple things simultaneously, right?

(Speaker 15)
A polymath, so you think about like, what profession was Benjamin Franklin?

(Speaker 12)
He was a postmaster, okay, he was a founding father, okay, he was an inventor, he was a, so Heather, can you explain real quickly, what all do you do?

(Speaker 9)
Heather, what are the things you do?

(Speaker 12)
All of it?

(Speaker 4)
Yeah, tell us, just fire off a few things.

(Speaker 1)
Doggy daycare.

(Speaker 4)
Doggy daycare.

(Speaker 1)
Dog training company. Dog training company.

(Speaker 7)
Dog grooming company.

(Speaker 1)
Dog grooming company.

(Speaker 46)
Cafe.

(Speaker 43)
Cafe?

(Speaker 12)
For dogs or humans?

(Speaker 9)
For humans, but they can bring their dogs, they can play out in a play yard and they can watch them play.

(Speaker 1)
So you got the cafe for humans, dog grooming, dog training, dog… Yep.

(Speaker 7)
Spa.

(Speaker 12)
Dog spa.

(Speaker 1)
For humans.

(Speaker 64)
Spa for humans.

(Speaker 8)
A spa for humans.

(Speaker 1)
But then the fun one is the farm. The farm. Yeah. And then you have real estate. Oh yeah. I’m a realtor.

(Speaker 1)
So it’s like I think there’s seven professions we have here simultaneously. And so all I could say is whenever you start making money in your business, find a way to buy assets and not liabilities. Assets make you money, Robert Kiyosaki. Liabilities cost you money. So you want to buy, and I’m so thankful that I lived really cheap in my 30s and 20s because when we started this reawakened thing, it was crazy. Who’s ever been a part of lawfare?

(Speaker 1)
It’s wild. By the way, how many of you ever texted me before? So they said they want to get a record of every cell phone call I’ve ever made or received or every text message. But that, just so you know, just to give you numbers, it’s usually about $50 ,000 every time they request that. And you have to do that all the time. So imagine you get a $50 ,000 bill often to get your phone records.

(Speaker 1)
That’s a real thing. Then you have to do a subpoena, right? And then when you do a subpoena, you have to do a deposition that’s on you on video experience. whatever it is. And then they’re going to send you a transcript under penalty of perjury. And now you have to read.

(Speaker 1)
So I actually, Mike King, my attorney, I had him sit in a room with me at the CityPlex Tower. And I’m like, we’re going to take eight hours and you’re going to read every word to me of the transcript as I read along. Because I don’t want to have perjury for something that is wrong in the transcript that I actually said that’s correct. Because the transcript is different than the words.

(Speaker 12)
And so in the transcript, the whole time, every time I said, Yuval Noah Harari, which was often in my transcript, it came out as, you all know he. So when you looked at it, it kept saying like, you all know he, which would imply that I was talking about the person that was suing me for defamation, but I wasn’t.

(Speaker 1)
And it would have been a perjury thing because I would have certified a transcript that was wrong.

(Speaker 7)
And so I’m just saying is you just gotta really, really important as you’re growing your businesses Do what she’s doing here. You’re diversifying. You want to create multiple streams of income. You want to do that. Any advice you have for somebody out there that doesn’t have a business that’s successful? What would you say to someone who’s trying to build one business that’s successful, Heather?

(Speaker 1)
Well, we focused really hard on the doggie daycare and boarding for about six or seven years and got that right before I started playing with all these other things. And then I think it’s really important that they kind of, that there is some connection between them, at least for me, to keep them all It’s not just keeping them straight, but it’s also, we like to leverage the customer base that we already have with our one business to bring them to the other businesses. So it’s kind of just, it’s like we leverage all of those contacts that are local, that want the other businesses that we have, or the products that we serve in the other businesses. And then our healthy cafe is going to make them even happier. Oh yeah, and we are the most expensive in Texas. and we always wanna be the most expensive in town.

(Speaker 1)
Bam, yeah, now again, the question is what do you do with money that comes in? And I’m trying to tell you something, and I wanna make sure you write it down and think about it, okay? How many of you have ever read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Rich Dad, Poor Dad? There’s a lot of things I agree with from Robert Kiyosaki. Is it okay that I agree with most of the things but not all? So from a biblical perspective, the Bible tells you that who will be a slave The debtor, right?

(Speaker 1)
Bible talks about this. So I don’t owe people. So I don’t do debt. So I’m more like on the Dave Ramsey side of life. I’m not attacking you if you’re on the Robert Kiyosaki side of life, okay? Another example.

(Speaker 1)
Eric has a lot of wisdom. I love what he does. I never, ever, ever travel anywhere, ever, unless my wife’s with me, ever. Like, ever. It’s never happened. I’m not saying that because I want to win an award.

(Speaker 1)
I’m just saying I don’t do that. It’s probably good for me, her, for the whole thing. So I just don’t travel apart from her, you know? And so the Trump family, they travel all the time. And so you have to have come up with your own culture. And I just like to be debt -free, me personally.

(Speaker 1)
I like to travel with my wife as debt -free. That’s how I like to be. But I want to make sure that the thing we can all agree on is you want to protect your assets. And assets are what makes you money, right? And liabilities are what cost you money. So Eric would buy Bitcoin, right?

(Speaker 12)
I’m going to buy gold.

(Speaker 34)
Eric’s going to buy Bitcoin.

(Speaker 11)
I’m going to buy gold.

(Speaker 1)
I’m not attacking that idea. But I want to make sure you’re buying an asset with your money and not a liability, OK? So next question, sir. Here we go.

(Speaker 8)
Feel the flow.

(Speaker 1)
How would you handle getting reviews for a real estate appraisal business since the review would be tied to the value results?

(Speaker 11)
I don’t know, maybe I’m a shallow person.

(Speaker 1)
I would just call every single person that you work with and ask them to leave you an objective review.

(Speaker 45)
I don’t, but maybe I’m misunderstanding the question.

(Speaker 3)
Is there a deeper question there?

(Speaker 51)
Am I missing it?

(Speaker 1)
Every industry I would ask. I think they’re saying with the appraisal business, if they’re not happy with the appraisal, they’re not going to give you a review. Well, then they shouldn’t be unhappy with the appraisal. I don’t know. Because they think the price is too low. Yeah, I don’t know.

(Speaker 1)
I mean, I’m a business consultant. I think a lot of people, I mean, usually like one person per hour will tell me during the break or during a couple of break stills come up to me. We had to reawaken in Ohio where the lady came up and was mad about parking. Were you there? You weren’t there yet? You were at Pennsylvania’s before then.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, this lady in Ohio, she came up, she’s like, I just want you to know, this event is packed, and I had to walk, like, four blocks in the snow to get to your event. And I’m like, well, you know, George Washington was working in the snow, going across in the Durham boats, and I believe these guys were eating shoes and stuff to feed themselves, and they needed some fog to get through it, and I don’t know, I think you can go from McDonald’s to here. Wow, I hate you, or I just like you, or whatever. Okay, well, that’s cool. But we could start from, why don’t I upgrade you to a VIP ticket so you can sit closer, and then we can see how you’re doing later. And we ended up winning her over, she apologized, she didn’t realize it’d be the snow, whatever.

(Speaker 1)
But you can’t win everybody over.

(Speaker 12)
But you do want to do the best job you can, then ask for a review.

(Speaker 3)
And I think if people are only leaving you a bad review because they don’t like the appraisals you give them, there’s probably a deeper thing we need to improve upon. So even bad news can be delivered with some good, If you’re going to be honest, you better be funny.

(Speaker 63)
How about that?

(Speaker 1)
If you’re going to be honest, you better be funny.

(Speaker 21)
So if you’re going to deliver bad news through an appraisal that’s not necessarily the best, then make sure you’re delivering a great way in which you package it. OK, next question.

(Speaker 12)
I appreciate you sharing the working six days a week, you know, as per God, and it makes sense, but what about the do less, have more, or do less, more often theories?

(Speaker 1)
I’m burned out after following my dreams for 28 years, need to find something new. J . D. , I’m ringing up J . D.

(Speaker 62)
here.

(Speaker 12)
J . D.

(Speaker 1)
, are you there?

(Speaker 12)
J .

(Speaker 9)
D.

(Speaker 12)
, can you come up here? I know J . D.’s got to go in a minute, but I want to tap into your wisdom, because J .

(Speaker 6)
D. , you have kind of found a new groove in the last couple of years, and you’ve been self -employed for a long time. He’s how many we had the opportunity to work with you JD almost two years now What do you do?

(Speaker 62)
I am a college planner.

(Speaker 25)
I help kids get into college and maximize scholarships Have you found that working with Carter?

(Speaker 43)
Is it energized?

(Speaker 1)
Yes, it made life worse. How’s it going? Oh, yeah, totally worse totally worse. Yeah Carter is the best I mean, honestly, is it putting some wind in your sails?

(Speaker 59)
Is it bad?

(Speaker 54)
How’s it going?

(Speaker 8)
No, what you need is someone to be accountable to.

(Speaker 3)
If you’ve been in business for a long time and you don’t have someone to be accountable to, your feet kind of drag.

(Speaker 1)
And then now you’ve got someone to be accountable to, and you’re like, oh, yeah. It kind of re -energizes you. And thank you. Thank you, Carter. Yeah. And I’ll just say, if you’re feeling like you’re stuck, Whether you hire me or some other company, just have somebody in your life that’s pushing you, you know?

(Speaker 1)
If you’re trying to lose weight, hire a personal trainer, have fun with that, you know what I mean? If you’re trying to fix your accounting, hire an accountant like Sproul that can help you. Just find some way to, you gotta have a new source of wisdom that’s pushing you. Next question. Next question. What do you got there?

(Speaker 1)
Can you cover the Dream 100 for first -timers? Yeah, Dream 100. Now, Dream 100 is a system created by Chet Holmes, and it’s where you make a list. Chet Holmes was the best -selling author of The Ultimate Sales Machine. He was personally mentored by Charlie Munger. Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett’s longtime partner.

(Speaker 12)
Charlie Munger.

(Speaker 61)
The book is called The Ultimate Sales Machine.

(Speaker 1)
It has a red cover. Chet Holmes, may he rest in peace. Great book. He talks about you want to make a list of the 100 ideal contacts that you have, and you want to go after them relentlessly. You want to go for relentlessly, okay? So, Andrew Sorcini.

(Speaker 1)
Where’s Andrew Sorcini? Is he here? Andrew Sorcini? Okay. Andrew Sorcini, he runs a company called Beverly Hills Precious Metals. He’s made a lot of people in this room very wealthy in the last couple years here, so great job, Andrew.

(Speaker 1)
Let’s hear it for Andrew. Yeah. So, you know, Andrew’s the guy that I’ve had the pleasure of working with and serving, and, um… Dream 100 goes like this. I’m gonna keep you up here, JD, for a second here. So the Dream 100 is we make a list of the people you want to work with.

(Speaker 1)
Now, how many of you know that Nike’s not sponsoring conservative podcasts?

(Speaker 8)
How many of you know Pizza Hut’s not sponsoring conservative podcasts? How many of you know Levi’s is not sponsoring? Who knows about that? Who knows the big advertisement dollars are not going to conservative podcasts, right? So all these conservative podcasters, they come to me and they say, hey, I need to monetize my show.

(Speaker 12)
And I always say, well, you should team up with Andrew because Andrew is a big sponsor and sponsors and helps and teams up with many conservative podcasters.

(Speaker 11)
And even if I make an introduction or I say I’ve worked with Andrew for years and years and I love his service, even then, Still people, they’ll say, I’m looking for a sponsor.

(Speaker 12)
And I’m like, Andrew’s a great sponsor.

(Speaker 8)
And even then, they’re like, I don’t know.

(Speaker 47)
But you just have to talk to enough because you’ll eventually get a yes.

(Speaker 1)
How do you approach, you know, rejection when you’re talking to somebody who says, I want you to sponsor my show. But upon further review, I don’t want you to sponsor my show. How do you process that? Where does it go in your mind? I mean, for me, the first no is just the next step to the yes. I never accept the first no.

(Speaker 1)
It’s like getting on the airplane on the way here, they told me I couldn’t carry my suit in the bag, that I would have to check it. That’s an automatic no. I’m going to keep asking until they say yes. You’re the same way with that, huh? I am. I’m not going to check a bag.

(Speaker 1)
No, I’m not checking here. I’m not checking that bag. Sure, you’ll need to check a bag. No, I’m not going to check that bag. So again, a little persistence. With the Dream Hunters, you make a list of all of the people, all the referral sources you want to get, or the big connections you want to have.

(Speaker 27)
You make a list, and you call them all until they cry, buy, or die.

(Speaker 1)
That’s the process for the Dream 100 system, and my Dream 100 system for the Reawaken tour is on the back wall of this office.

(Speaker 12)
So that’s my whiteboard there, and that was my path to reaching Donald J. Trump, and I did, and that’s how I did it.

(Speaker 8)
So you gotta make a list. I like the whiteboard.

(Speaker 6)
I’m not a new -ager.

(Speaker 12)
It’s not a vision board.

(Speaker 1)
It’s not a whatever these new -age terms are.

(Speaker 8)
I’m not trying to adjust your frequency. I’m not meditating with crystals. I’m not running around. doing different yoga positions.

(Speaker 6)
What I’m saying is I just have a whiteboard of people that I’m trying to reach out to.

(Speaker 1)
I put them on a board and I reach out to them relentlessly. Is that helpful? JD, you do a Dream 100 of some kind, don’t you?

(Speaker 12)
How do you do your Dream 100, dude?

(Speaker 60)
Well, first you said find your ideal client, ideal buyer.

(Speaker 1)
And I forgot the name of the guy. He was a bank robber. I don’t know this information. Don’t look at me. I don’t know.

(Speaker 51)
He was a bank robber in the 1800s or so.

(Speaker 1)
And they interviewed him, like, well, why are you all banks? He’s like, well, that’s where the money is. So you’ve got to find your ideal buyer, because that’s where the money is. And that comes from part of the Dream 100. Okay, Dream 100, hopefully that’s helpful for somebody out there.

(Speaker 3)
By the way, usually you have to talk to someone five times before they know and trust you.

(Speaker 1)
So let me give you an example. John, how you doing? Good to see you. Okay, Carter, how you doing? I trust you guys, know you guys. But I don’t know, I think it takes a few times, because you’re like, wait a minute, this guy’s dressed up like Adam Sandler at a high school football game, what’s happening?

(Speaker 1)
And then you’re like, wait a minute, he’s wearing a red tie, I don’t know. I don’t know. There’s a little, I don’t know how many times, but I feel like, you know, we got to a point where I’m like, okay, I like this guy, I like his family, but it takes, how many of you, it takes at least four or five interactions before you have a little bit of trust there? So you gotta increase your rate of failure if you wanna succeed. Hopefully that’s helpful. You just put on a calendar, you just increase your rate of failure if you wanna succeed.

(Speaker 1)
Next question. When you have 1 ,000 opportunities to grow your business, how do you decide what to prioritize first? How do you prioritize what to, well, I don’t know. So you have a thousand different opportunities, how do you decide what to prioritize? And again, I’m not trying to pitch coaching, I’m just telling you that’s what I do, but you just have to sit down and go, what’s going to move the needle the most this week? And that’s what a coach should do, or an accountant consultant, or what’s going to move the needle the most, and you do that.

(Speaker 1)
So like with Eric’s book,

(Speaker 10)
wife and I we went to a restaurant at Utica Square and I’m going we’re not leaving this restaurant until I’ve edited the book the final time and you have to so I’m reading the page it’s kind of a funny situation to watch entrepreneurs on a date this is our date but I’m reading a page and I’m like Yeah, you read it.

(Speaker 11)
And I’m circling an error, she’s circling an error, and then she finds an error I didn’t find and gives it back to me, and we just keep this rotation. And the waitress is like, what’s happening here?

(Speaker 1)
I go, well, the pages that are perfect, we’re crumpling those, that’s our pile of throwaway. These are the ones that need to be perfected. And that’s what we’re doing. And why was I spending my time on that?

(Speaker 12)
Because that’s the biggest needle mover in my life was, you know, if we could help Eric get this book out there, I believe this is going to help Eric share a critical message with people.

(Speaker 9)
And therefore, it’s the most important thing. So there’s other things that are important, but maybe not as important as that at that time. Hopefully that’s helpful. So tonight, Amanda Grace, when she’ll be here presenting, that’s the most important thing at that time. And so I’ll be mentally and physically present for that, too. So you’re always asking, what’s the most important thing at the time?

(Speaker 9)
Yes. Next question. How would I tell everyone to stay awake America tour? Our next stop is next weekend, October 3rd, 4th in Texas at Oakland Ranch.

(Speaker 1)
Coming up here, this is Ohio Amy.

(Speaker 8)
She’s from Ohio, that’s why they call her Ohio Amy.

(Speaker 9)
I think I met her in Ohio, which is where the name Ohio Amy comes from. I met her in a snowstorm. Tell us what’s happening.

(Speaker 12)
Yes, I’m the director and the organizer of the Stay Awake America Tour, and we’re walking by faith from a conversation at the last Reawaken event in Selma, Ohio, or Selma, North Carolina.

(Speaker 9)
Yeah.

(Speaker 12)
I’m stuck on Ohio.

(Speaker 9)
And it came from a conversation with Casper McCloud in General Flynn. And through that conversation, after President Trump was elected, the number one concern was

(Speaker 1)
going back to sleep and we all know that’s that’s farthest from the truth that That Donald Trump is not going to save America. There’s not one man or one woman That’s gonna save America until Jesus Christ walks again on this earth Amen We’re in a spiritual battle and we all have to have a sense of urgency because the prize of this war is our souls And each and every one of us need to get in this fight. We’re in information war. Not everybody’s getting the same information. Excuse me. So the Stay Awake America tour, the mission is to unite, engage, and activate local action for national impact.

(Speaker 1)
And where’s your next one?

(Speaker 36)
Where is it?

(Speaker 1)
It’s our fourth.

(Speaker 3)
Our fourth event is next weekend in Texas at Oakland Ranch, which is just a little bit south of Fort Worth.

(Speaker 5)
And we have a Christian rock band, and then we have 20 national speakers.

(Speaker 1)
And how do people get a hold of you? Stayawakeamerica . com. Stayawakeamerica what? Stayawakeamerica . com.

(Speaker 1)
OK, that’s it. Let’s hear it for Ohio Amy. Yes, thank you. Now, we had a, real quick, someone was asking about work -life balance. Josh, do you remember that question I kind of dodged and then came back to? They had a question about work -life balance or working?

(Speaker 12)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the nature of that question?

(Speaker 1)
They were just asking, you know, burnt out after 28 years. As opposed to working six days a week? I don’t know.

(Speaker 57)
The Bible says, John look it up.

(Speaker 1)
It says, work as unto the Lord, Colossians, you’ll find the Bible verse. But the Bible says you’re supposed to work as unto the Lord, and the Hebrew word for work means worship, and worship means work. So I don’t view, and I know this is horrible, that’s why I’m not a pastor. I don’t like praise and worship.

(Speaker 12)
What? I don’t know how to do it.

(Speaker 1)
Because I analyze the songs, and I don’t agree with the lyrics to most songs.

(Speaker 42)
So I have to go, is this song about me or Jesus?

(Speaker 12)
And if there’s these weird songs that are coming out now where people are dancing around doing like jazzercise while they’re singing, everyone’s hopping around, and they’re talking about like, you know, I’m gonna be a champion, I don’t know, I don’t know.

(Speaker 1)
So I do like Praise and Worship, but I usually am about 10 % of the songs I agree with. Maybe it’s 5%, but I’m usually like, That’s why I don’t like movies. I have a hard time with movies, because I’m like, I don’t know if I should put this in my mind right now. I don’t know. I probably, I’m going to leave. So that’s why I’m famous for going to a movie, and I’ll usually be there for four minutes, and I leave.

(Speaker 1)
Like, let’s go, family night. We’re going to the movies. And it’s like, and dad’s out. And we made it. The other night, we went to a comedy thing. There was supposed to be a clean comedian.

(Speaker 1)
I made it like seven minutes at the BOK, and I’m like, I got to go. I got to, I can’t. It’s my gaydar, my gaydar, my gaydar. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. It’s going off. They had a lesbian opening act, and I’m like, I don’t know about that.

(Speaker 1)
Anyway, so I had to leave. And so all I’m saying is I have a filter in my mind. I’m trying to keep my mind on what God wants me to think about.

(Speaker 42)
And the thing I’m trying to think about is my work is my worship.

(Speaker 8)
Because the Hebrew word for work means worship, and worship means work. And I can get into that. So I can really do worship and praise and worship via work. I can do that all day.

(Speaker 1)
I can go, man, you know what?

(Speaker 8)
I’m gonna serve a customer because I’m gonna, that’s like working as unto the Lord. I connect with that.

(Speaker 1)
I have a hard time singing a song if I don’t agree with it. That’s why I feel great about Colton Dixon tonight, because I know his heart and why he’s singing the songs he’s singing. But I have a hard, have you ever been to praise and worship? Have you ever felt like, is this song biblically correct? Have you ever had that thought? So I like praise and worship, but I just have a hard time with some of it, you know?

(Speaker 1)
So Andrew Sorcini, you’ve been in the gold business for 30 years. Brian’s selling precious metals. What keeps you energized? Dude. I think for me is just doing what’s right in front of me. It’s like you said in like Eric said earlier when you have a long list of things that you have to do that day rather than focus on the whole list when you have that one task just only do that.

(Speaker 1)
task. And for me, that’s worked really, really well. And when people buy gold from you, you have to then ship it from A to B? Yep. I absolutely do. There’s a lot of different moving parts every single day.

(Speaker 1)
I mean, this is what he does. He buys gold, sells gold at massive quantities. That’s bh -pm . com. That’s what he does. But it requires focus and diligence, and it keeps the mind active.

(Speaker 1)
That’s why a lot of people who… I’m not attacking you if you’re retired, but you know the word retirement means to retreat from, right? You know this, right?

(Speaker 3)
Retirement means to…

(Speaker 38)
Or vacation means to retreat from.

(Speaker 1)
We know this, right? And vocation means calling. Are we on the same page? So vocation is your calling. and vacation is to retreat from. Are we on the same page?

(Speaker 1)
So vocation is your calling, vacation is to retreat from. And I just have, that’s why a lot of people, the statistics show that those that retire typically have some bigger problems very quickly because they’re kind of searching for a purpose. And I think it’s because we’re not worshiping anymore. And so I would just say find a way to view work as worship. And nobody does it better than James. James, you like working.

(Speaker 1)
You like working, right? I think your mic’s muted.

(Speaker 6)
His mic is muted.

(Speaker 44)
James, why do you like working, dude?

(Speaker 1)
Your mic’s muted, there we go.

(Speaker 12)
Why do you like working?

(Speaker 8)
Look, you’re either going to do good things or bad things with your life, and if you’re working, you’re going to end up doing good things. And I find a lot of employees, they’ll come and they’ll say, hey, is there any way I could get my schedule trimmed down so I can get four days off?

(Speaker 1)
And the ones who do it always come back and they go, I really made a bad decision on Friday and Saturday and Sunday. Can I work five days a week again? Can I go back to five? Can I work six? Because idleness is the devil’s workshop.

(Speaker 59)
Look it up, Sean.

(Speaker 11)
The Bible says idleness is the devil’s workshop.

(Speaker 1)
I think Eric said, keep your kids poor and busy.

(Speaker 50)
Idleness is the devil’s workshop.

(Speaker 1)
So the worst thing I could ever How do we manage to grow our business while doing current to -do’s? JD, you’re growing your business while doing current to -do’s. I’ll go to Andrew on that. How do you manage your business while doing like current right in front of the items? You just do it. There you go.

(Speaker 1)
A highly motivational pro tip from JD. Okay. Sorchini, how do you do that? I think for me, I’m continuing along my list, but if something comes in like there’s an emergency and there always is one, I have to do that one first. I always do. Yeah, I just think it’s a daily thing.

(Speaker 58)
I get up at least an hour before I see everybody.

(Speaker 8)
I try to do two hours a day before I see people, and I just organize my day.

(Speaker 1)
It’s so important. You organize your day every day.

(Speaker 12)
Next question.

(Speaker 11)
How do we better streamline our sales from Facebook Marketplace, where half of our business and leads come from?

(Speaker 43)
How do you streamline that?

(Speaker 1)
Yes. Who’s asking the question? OK, and leads come in. You’re selling hats? What are you guys selling? The bet box containers.

(Speaker 1)
And you’re saying, how do you streamline your sales? Talk to me about that. I don’t know that I have a better way, but I can tell you, people that I know who sell well on Facebook, you gotta get really used to those tedious tasks. And there’s not really a way to automate some of those things in the way you might want to. It’s gonna be tedious. As an example, for our haircut chain, one out of two leads we get is usually fake.

(Speaker 1)
Andrew, do you ever get fake leads at bh -pm . com? I’ve gotten a few, but mostly they’re legit on our website.

(Speaker 14)
But you know, you’ll want to call them all, but if you’re not careful, you’ll start to go, well, how can I filter the good ones and the bad ones and decide only to call the buyers? I would just say, just kind of embrace the tedious nature of that a little bit.

(Speaker 1)
Spurl, next question. What to do if you have a great business and your spouse makes fun of you? I’m going to be vague because I don’t know who he is. asked the question. I don’t I don’t know how to um, so I don’t do Cheerleading does anybody here like cheerleading? So my kids like cheerleading, but I don’t really understand it because they don’t get that The point system doesn’t make any sense to me.

(Speaker 1)
Have you ever been to cheerleading events? It’s like, Sean, Cuba routine real quick. They have an ESPN cheerleading NCAA competition, or NCA, sorry, NCAA, you’ll find it. And so they have these events where the girls perform for two and a half minutes. Who played basketball or football, some sport? And you know who’s winning or losing, do you not?

(Speaker 1)
You finish the game and you’re like, okay, we lost, okay, they won, hey, it’s the third quarter, we’re behind, hey, we’re up. Who’s been to a cheerleading event ever?

(Speaker 39)
You go and this is what happens, hit play on this one.

(Speaker 1)
And I don’t know, it’s hard to know what’s happening. Yeah, there you go. Make it happen. This is the kind of stuff my kids do. I don’t know what’s happening. Pause.

(Speaker 14)
Behind the scenes, there’s a lot of hairspray.

(Speaker 36)
So as a dad, I don’t worry about global warming, but I’m thinking this may cause the end of humanity if this keeps going.

(Speaker 1)
I don’t believe the Earth is getting warmer, but if it was getting warmer, it’s hairspray from cheer events that’s doing it. And how many of you ever got caught in the backdraft of one of those, all of a sudden your face can’t move? And I’m feeling, like Barbara, it’s like, what was the lady who talked about Michelle, a . k . a.

(Speaker 30)
Michael, I mean, Obama, and then sort of Joan Rivers, yeah.

(Speaker 12)
I started to feel like Joan Rivers after I’m like, my face doesn’t work anymore. And so, and then there’s fake hair.

(Speaker 1)
Who knows about fake hair? Cheerios, they have fake hair.

(Speaker 10)
They bring their hair.

(Speaker 27)
They carry their people hair.

(Speaker 1)
First time I saw this, I’m like, are people carrying animals? What’s happening?

(Speaker 13)
They’re bringing in hair, fake hair.

(Speaker 1)
Everyone’s sprayed with fake hair. I don’t get it. And then they perform. And Sean, crank it up a little bit here. This is what’s happening for two and a half minutes. And there’s a lot of estrogen going.

(Speaker 14)
A lot of that.

(Speaker 57)
There’s a lot of like, you know, a lot of pause.

(Speaker 1)
And there’s usually a man who, we’ll call him fabulous, who’s usually going, spirit fingers. Parents, spirit fingers. They’re yelling at you while the kids are performing. Spirit fingers, engage. Mom and dad.

(Speaker 21)
I’m like, I don’t know.

(Speaker 14)
I can’t do that. So I don’t know, we haven’t talked about it, but I think you’re on that team, and I’m on this team, and I don’t know, I want… Spirit fingers! Who’s been to the chair? Come on. Spirit fingers, spirit engaged, spirit…

(Speaker 14)
So I usually sit there in like a silence as my soul slowly dies.

(Speaker 36)
I’m just…

(Speaker 1)
Keep playing, Sean, this is my thing. There’s no points being accrued here. You don’t know, you’re watching it. Keep going, crank it up, Sean, you can see. And then at the end, they all start clapping like they’re in a clap cult.

(Speaker 14)
Like the vinyl, keep going, Sean.

(Speaker 1)
It’s the final 30 seconds. They’re gonna all… Every chair routine ends with like… It’s like a German festival, like, you’ll see it. It’s every one of them. They end with this German -American theme.

(Speaker 1)
I feel like I’m at my birthday at the Bauserhof. Here we go. You’re going to see it. I don’t know what’s happening still. I want to make it stop, but we have to watch it, because this is my life. I don’t want to watch it.

(Speaker 1)
Here it goes. Here it goes. Now they’re doing that. That’s dangerous. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. I don’t know anybody who goes professional with this.

(Speaker 8)
I don’t know how this applies to other life aspects of your life after you’ve finished here.

(Speaker 14)
I don’t know if this works in the workplace.

(Speaker 34)
I’m not sure what transferable skills you can take from this and move into the workplace.

(Speaker 1)
You can’t really go professional. I’ve never seen anything like that. It was not fun. And were you also confused as to what the score was? You don’t know, because there’s no… No one scores points.

(Speaker 1)
So at the end, you’re just like, well, girls, good job, way to go, good composure. Facials were a little bit off. You need to be smiling more.

(Speaker 12)
My daughter’s like, it’s terrible. You know, the stunts could have been tighter, and we’ll know the answers, but we need to be here all day now, because you performed for two and a half minutes, so we need to take the next 800 minutes and watch people we don’t know about.

(Speaker 37)
And because we’ve broken it up into an impossible org chart that no one knows who’s competing against who, there’ll be mass confusion, and a lot of money will be spent at the hotel.

(Speaker 18)
And I’m like, okay, and the dads, and it’s like, dads, does anyone, the dads have questions, and every guy’s going, I hate myself.

(Speaker 1)
So I usually will meet these guys at the bar, I’ll go over there, I’m like, I’m gonna get, can we, can we, how you guys doing? They’re like, oh, dude, it’s two in the afternoon, I gotta get away.

(Speaker 42)
So all the guys were hanging out at the lobby, or the bar, or the restaurant, just trying to get away.

(Speaker 1)
from the thing and I’m saying this because my kids love it so I’m not gonna like spend my day harassing my kids I say you guys did a good job and they go dad we lost I’m like you did a job and you did it, and you did it well. And then they’re like, no, we didn’t. It just wasn’t tight enough. What was the score? I don’t know.

(Speaker 1)
It happened, and I’m going over here. And I’m glad that it happened. Dad, we lost. I mean, who’s lived the cheer life? Everyone’s crying. And if they win, there’s more crying.

(Speaker 1)
And as a man, I don’t do that spectrum of emotions. When it’s great, I don’t cry. I can’t sort it out. Did we win or we lose? There’s no score. I’m just like, do we win?

(Speaker 1)
Are we losing? And the best ones were the most tears.

(Speaker 36)
I’m like, so we lost.

(Speaker 8)
No, we won.

(Speaker 12)
I’m just saying this. I try not to rain on their parade. I’m like, you know what? I’m so glad you’re doing what it is you’re doing. So my wife and I have this rule now. I show up about 30 seconds before they perform.

(Speaker 56)
I get in position.

(Speaker 11)
I try to block the bad, embrace the good, tell the girls, good job. And then that they rebuke it, I move on.

(Speaker 51)
But a lot of pressure.

(Speaker 12)
There it is.

(Speaker 3)
But I’m just telling you this because if you’re married to like a spouse that’s antagonistic to what your kids are passionate about, that’s a tough deal.

(Speaker 55)
So if you’re the person whose this is about, please encourage your spouse and say, girls, I’m glad that you’re doing whatever it is you’re doing with the hair and the thing with the tanning and the whole thing, but hopefully that works out for you.

(Speaker 5)
I’m excited.

(Speaker 12)
I’ll be here if you need something. I think sometimes being there and being encouraging is important, but you don’t want to be antagonistic.

(Speaker 1)
And I see so many entrepreneurs that their spouse is antagonistic to what they want to do. And so all I’m just saying is, if it aligns with the Word of God, please encourage your spouse. Please encourage your spouse. Please find a way to do that. Okay, next question. Yeah.

(Speaker 1)
How do you consume scripture and not simply just read it?

(Speaker 54)
I don’t know.

(Speaker 8)
That’s why I was talking about it earlier. I don’t know if I can consume it. Maybe I have digestion problems with scripture. Maybe I’ve got indigestion. Okay, I’m deleting it. Next one.

(Speaker 8)
Diona Rigney’s late husband, about in the fall of the military would be awaiting elected politicians. No, I don’t know that.

(Speaker 3)
Next one.

(Speaker 1)
For a podcast, how do you market it before it launches? What steps do I take? Can’t do it. Can’t do it.

(Speaker 51)
Can’t do it.

(Speaker 1)
You got to be on shows. Get people on your shows. Get on shows. Get people on your shows. Then run those adroll . com retargeting ads.

(Speaker 1)
You got to launch that thing. Next. To Andrew Sorcini, what’s the best way to invest in silver and gold with a low fixed income? I think the best way to start with silver is sometimes you get a check in the mail, something you’re not expecting, maybe a tax refund.

(Speaker 8)
Use all or a portion of that towards silver.

(Speaker 53)
Once you start getting it and once you start stacking it, it becomes a little bit addictive.

(Speaker 8)
You start to appreciate what you have. You’re watching the price of silver.

(Speaker 1)
It’s moving upward. You’re getting further verification that you made a good move. And for me, that’s the best way.

(Speaker 3)
I mean, obviously, it’s better if you could go in with a much larger amount, but not everybody can do that, and we understand that.

(Speaker 1)
I ran into a lady at the Reawaken Washington. We’re in Washington, and it’s the Washington -Idaho border. And a lady, he had claimed, she said, hey, just so you know, I’ve been buying from Andrew for a long time, and I’ve doubled my net worth. And I just want to tell you, I’ve doubled it. And I’m going. You know, what’d you do?

(Speaker 1)
She’s like, I just buy gold. And when I started buying, it was around like 1 ,500 an ounce. And now we’re, you know, 2 ,500 or whatever it was. And it says if you’re buying gold or silver, just buy and hold. You’re not buying to get rich. It’s like an insurance policy.

(Speaker 1)
Does that make sense? You buy and hold. And silver’s how much per ounce right now? It’s $46 .25 for one ounce. Yeah. How much?

(Speaker 1)
$46 .25. Let me say, I would encourage you to buy, you know, just buy $45 a week or $450 a week or just find some number, but I would recommend MePay. I take 25 % of my revenue, I buy precious metals, I hold it, and then 25 % of my real estate. Next question. Any advice for balancing investing in your marriage and building a business? Yeah, I don’t know if they have an answer for that, but I can tell you this, I’m excited about my wife, you know?

(Speaker 1)
So I’m excited, I am. And then your schedule, right, your schedule shows what you value. Now, I’m not saying I’m, I’ve arrived at this night over night, it took me a long time and I’ll never forget, I talked to Dr. Z one day, I said, Dr. Z, hey man, and by the way, Dr. Z likes to sip on Lagavulin, I’m not endorsing it, but you can pull it up, so just so you have a context, we’re burning firewood and Dr. Z’s sipping on Lagavulin, Lagavulin is a whiskey made from peat moss, this is his way he prefers to communicate, he’ll sip on it and you’ll get drunk just looking at it, like it’s just a nasty, who knows why I’m talking about whiskey, it’s like peat moss, I mean, it is some, it is rough, This is, there he is, that’s Dr. Z, that’s, there he is. I made this poster for him years ago. They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our Lagavulin. Okay, so, he like sipping on that thing. And when I’m with Dr. Z, I’m like, hey Z, he’s burning firewood, just he and I talking.

(Speaker 1)
You know, I said, hey, he’s, again, he’s kind of a father figure in my life. I said, hey, I, you know, my wife might or might not be mad today about a thing. And he’s like, why are you here talking to me about it? Get out of here, go solve that problem. I’m like, okay, good meeting.

(Speaker 8)
You know, I’m like, It was like a 60 -second meeting, you know? Come back the next week, how’s that going?

(Speaker 1)
I’m like, well, we’re working through the thing.

(Speaker 8)
It was years ago. And he’s like, well, then get out of here and go work on the thing, you know?

(Speaker 12)
And so, and it’s just like, but sometimes you just have to schedule time for that.

(Speaker 1)
Now, my wife and I can tell you right now, we’re not going through a thing. There’s no problems. And we’re in a great spot, and I feel like, I frankly feel like we’re in a flow now that’s better than when we first got married. I think we’re in a really good flow, you know, 24 years in. But it’s a very intentional flow. Like, I take her on a date every night now.

(Speaker 1)
Every night we do it. Every night, every night. It was just like, and you say, what’s your date? We go to Reesers, look for some meat, you know. She didn’t like meat, but I’m always like, can you pick me out a favorite steak? She’s like, you know, I don’t want to do that.

(Speaker 1)
I say it every night. I try to tickle her because she hates it. So I kind of sneak behind her when she’s looking for toothpaste. Do you use that coal toothpaste stuff, the organic toothpaste? Does Lynn make you buy that stuff?

(Speaker 12)
I use something like that.

(Speaker 1)
I forget what it’s called. Does Lynn have you eat an organic?

(Speaker 12)
I can’t do it.

(Speaker 8)
I eat whatever I want.

(Speaker 14)
You’re sick.

(Speaker 8)
OK.

(Speaker 1)
How many of you, your wife shops differently than you do? Anybody like that, your wife? So my wife’s reading labels, and she’s like, well, this has coconut oil in it, and it’s organic, and this is good.

(Speaker 12)
And I can’t do it at a certain point.

(Speaker 1)
I’m like, I’ll meet you at the checkout line.

(Speaker 8)
So I go around that other, and I look and I see her, and now she doesn’t see me.

(Speaker 1)
So it’s like, I could sneak up on her and make her scream. And so I wait for her to get near and then I… Gotcha.

(Speaker 46)
And the guys at research know what I’m doing.

(Speaker 1)
I always try to sneak up on her, you know, send her little love notes throughout the day, you know, but it’s very intentional. I schedule time for it, you know, but if I didn’t schedule time, it wouldn’t happen. So if you’re here today and you say, I want my marriage to be great.

(Speaker 12)
What gets scheduled gets done.

(Speaker 1)
So schedule time for your marriage. And by the way, it’s a financial tip. Sorchini, what happens if you get divorced financially? I mean, you’re a gold guy. Tell us what happens. What happens to your net worth when you get divorced?

(Speaker 1)
Sorchini, come on, tell us. You’re going to lose half your money in most cases. Come on. It’s not good. Yeah, so it’s a financial tip too.

(Speaker 8)
So love your wife the way Christ loved the church.

(Speaker 1)
It’s what the Bible says. Okay, schedule time for it.

(Speaker 30)
Next one.

(Speaker 1)
Can you make an app so we can stay connected and even find other Thrive Time members near us, post events, challenges, help each other with reviews? No, but you do have my cell phone number and you can text me whenever you want. We’ll have that communication. Some of you text me every day.

(Speaker 27)
I appreciate that. Some of you text me.

(Speaker 1)
and I don’t want to ever waste your time. I won’t text you unless I need to reach you, and you won’t text me unless you need to. We got that thing. And then we try to do these events. I’ve been doing business conferences for 20 years, but with Eric joining now, it’s kind of interesting, because some of you guys are here, because you’re like, well, Eric’s there, and I’ll see what that’s all about. And Eric says that these events are his favorite events outside of his dad’s rallies.

(Speaker 1)
He goes, that reawaken, the business crowd, those are my favorite people. I go, why? He says, because they’re real people. Like, they’re not fake, they’re not bogus, they’re not veneers, they’re real people. He says, that Amanda, I like that show where she has the horse with her on the air and the parrot and that thing. We gotta do that show.

(Speaker 52)
And so, again, I would just encourage you to come to events like this and then outside of my, uh, me you know meet each other connect build relationships i think so you meet some of the best people here the next question is that it would not come out quite okay so we’re going to go more question clearly i think we’re gonna start as i had a text from a client or they were asking about stipends versus health insurance and just uh… i think they probably want to use the word stipend tell me what you mean by this yeah just given somebody some extra money instead of giving health insurance yeah i would say a story that’s not ethical not legal not moral not whatever it’s real One of our employees years ago, he was driving a car that looked like it had gone through some things.

(Speaker 1)
You ever seen a guy, Andrew, you’re in Beverly Hills, do you ever see a car where you’re like, man, this car’s been through some things? We call it a hoopty.

(Speaker 41)
A hoopty.

(Speaker 1)
And this guy, he had a car that looked like it had been through some stuff, like the bumper’s falling off, and you know, and I’m like, man, that car, you know, that car is just, that is a, whoa. You know what I mean? How many of you have seen that car? And it comes into the parking lot and it’s making noises like, it’s coughing. You seen that car? uh and it’s the brakes maybe it’s just an annoyance thing is you’ve seen that car yeah how many of you’ve ever seen a car like that and you’re like that someone’s got to stop that it’s smoking it’s like smiegel is trying to

(Speaker 1)
into a vehicle. Eh, precious. And I’m just so frustrated with the guy’s car. I’m like, how are you doing? How are you doing?

(Speaker 12)
He’s like, I’m doing good.

(Speaker 1)
Why? I’m like, I mean, I pay the guy, you know? I’m like, what’s up? And he’s like, well, you know, I got some kids, and my kids are doing some things. And I had to take the money I had saved for my kids.

(Speaker 31)
Had to do this to my kid.

(Speaker 1)
And so I’m just trying to help out my kids.

(Speaker 51)
And so I’m like, OK. I didn’t mention the car, but it was Doan.

(Speaker 1)
That car, eh, precious. I mean, boom, boom, boom. He would stop, and it would just, boom, boom, boom.

(Speaker 12)
If the car wasn’t even in motion, somehow there’s still momentum to the crazy sounds.

(Speaker 1)
Boom, boom, boom.

(Speaker 51)
He could turn the car off, be in here, and it’s still.

(Speaker 1)
It’s like, OK. So I tell my wife, hey, we got to deal with this thing. I can’t handle it. She said, well, let’s get him a car. I’m like, OK. So I walk up to the guy.

(Speaker 1)
Hey, we’re going to get you a car. He’s like, Oprah moment. But I’m not Oprah, and I’m not trying to do anything. He’s like, Manteer, are you buying me a car? I’m like, my wife is. But yes.

(Speaker 8)
And just tears and the whole thing.

(Speaker 12)
And I’m like, just stop. I don’t know what to do with that emotion right now, but let’s just get the car, make the thing. The only thing is, don’t tell people I bought it.

(Speaker 9)
Please.

(Speaker 1)
Biblical idea.

(Speaker 50)
How many of you know that?

(Speaker 1)
Giving in secret, whatever. And then next day at work, people are like, well, how come I didn’t get a car? I heard you bought this guy a car. And I’m like, well. I had a plan to, you know, injure you, but I didn’t act on that plan, so I don’t act on all the plans I have, you know? I mean, I don’t know.

(Speaker 1)
But anyway, then all of a sudden, how many of you have ever done that? Like, no good deed goes unpunished, and all of a sudden, people are upset about it? So, that happens in my life every week. Like, every single week, that happens. So, the most recent one, and Manna, who’s Andrew’s wife, got a chance to see it. We had a guy who’s way behind on child support.

(Speaker 1)
How many of you know what happens? if you’re way behind on child support? They start garnishing your wages, and so I’m talking to the accountant guys, and I’m like, hey, Spurl, if you have someone who works in your business, and you pay them extra money, how can they avoid paying child support? How could they do that? If someone really wanted to avoid paying child support, how could they do that? If they really wanted to, not ethical or legal, but if you had an employee who’s behind on their child support, and you paid them, and they wanna not get that money to the child, how could they do it?

(Speaker 1)
You’re asking me how to fraudulently get the money. I’m not saying you should. I’m just saying how could someone do it? What are the ways that it’s possible? Bitcoin, gold. There’s a lot of ways, right?

(Speaker 1)
Yes.

(Speaker 49)
So I’m like, here’s what I’m going to do.

(Speaker 45)
I’m going to just give you a pay raise so you make more money than you ever made.

(Speaker 1)
And that way we can just take it out, direct deposit to the kids. So I didn’t give the person a raise.

(Speaker 45)
I gave their kids a raise.

(Speaker 48)
Does that make sense?

(Speaker 11)
Because I wanted the money going to the kids, you know? And these guys tell me the story. Well, anyway, every employee is like, hey, You gave the worst guy a raise? I’m like, no, I was giving a raise to his kids. And I told him, if you’ll say it in a private conversation, I’ll give you a raise. It does help when you get caught up on your back child support.

(Speaker 11)
Therefore, I feel good, you feel good, but don’t tell anybody.

(Speaker 3)
And sure enough, he tells everybody.

(Speaker 1)
Now, that particular thing cost me $52 ,000. thousand dollars of longtime employees that were like, how come I didn’t get my raise?

(Speaker 12)
And it was this whole thing, and it was just radical.

(Speaker 30)
So all I’m saying is, you don’t have to treat everybody equally.

(Speaker 43)
You don’t have to.

(Speaker 1)
I prefer to give and help people in my life when I can. I can’t always do it, but if I can.

(Speaker 47)
But I do find that no good deed goes unpunished.

(Speaker 14)
Who knows about that sometimes?

(Speaker 8)
Matthew 5 .10 says, blessed are ye who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for ye shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.

(Speaker 46)
So Sean, does that answer that question?

(Speaker 8)
Is that helpful at all?

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, so if you did a stipend, maybe a question for Spurl. Don’t say the word stipend. Don’t say the word stipend again, but I love you so much. If you gave somebody extra money for health care, can you write it off? Tax -wise? I mean, anything that you give to these people.

(Speaker 1)
is going to be payroll. So there’s no magical way around the payroll tax. Everyone always thinks that there is, and they think they’re being creative. But there’s not. So in general, when you look at health insurance, you just got to consider the size of the team. Sometimes people look at insurance options when they’re much, much too small.

(Speaker 1)
And then conversely, when they’re big enough too, they’re ignoring the problem. Three final things I want to communicate here today. Three final things. Sean, do you have a follow -up on that? Are you good? No, we’re good.

(Speaker 1)
Thank you. Three final things I want to communicate. Anything with two heads is a monster.

(Speaker 11)
Certainly. Is that funny to you? It is. Why?

(Speaker 1)
I don’t encounter that too often, so. Well, I’m just saying what happens is I see a lot of couples where the woman owns the business, but the guy kind of wants to make passive -aggressive statements about the business or vice versa. So you want to figure out who’s in charge.

(Speaker 8)
So my wife and I, she’s in charge of the kids, and she’s all in. And Eric, by the way, loves that.

(Speaker 1)
Eric loves that Vanessa’s all in with the kids. And he’s always asking her about that, because he loves that.

(Speaker 12)
He wants to see more of that, and he talks about that.

(Speaker 11)
And I’m all in with the business. So I don’t sit there and micromanage my wife’s decisions about the kids. We’ve agreed on a budget. She does that thing. I do the business. But when I’m working on my own business, I didn’t have to seek my wife’s approval to figure out the budget for this event.

(Speaker 1)
Does that make sense? I’d have to seek my wife’s approval for the, because we already decided that I get to decide that. But as it relates to my house, she could decide that. Hopefully that’s helpful. Standing with two heads is a monster. Second thing, cause of common dysfunction I want to communicate here, is a budget is telling your money where to go, and not having a budget is wondering where your money went.

(Speaker 1)
And I find that most people don’t look at their numbers weekly. What happens, Spurl, people don’t look at their numbers weekly, and I’ll go back to Spurl, or go back to Andrew with a follow -up on that, but what happens when you don’t look at where your money’s going? They make bad business decisions. Really, it’s like playing a game and not knowing the score. Like, if you want to win the game, you’ve got to know the score, and it’s something that you have to look at. because it’s the only way, you know, that you’re going to make better decisions and make the score better.

(Speaker 1)
abdicate the throne and give it to someone else, because he’s like, I’m going to go in exile, I don’t want to die. And I think a lot of people abdicate their finances to an accountant who also isn’t paying attention. Andrew, do you ever see that, where people are, they come to you, and they don’t know where their money went?

(Speaker 12)
It happens all the time.

(Speaker 8)
I mean, it’s like you said, they don’t have a plan on where it’s supposed to go, so therefore, they’re trying to figure out where it went. How often does that happen for you, Spro, where you talk to a client, and they’re like, man, I was abdicating, or I thought my bookkeeper was on top of that. And now it turns out they’re not. How often does that happen? Well, it doesn’t happen often to our clients because we take over their books. Usually they have no idea what those numbers are going to be.

(Speaker 8)
For perspective, we used to have on our intake form where we would ask clients to give us their revenue. But we no longer ask that question because it was never accurate. So we just ask them what industry they’re in and how many people they have on their team. And usually our estimate is better than the estimate they would give us. Yeah, you figure out the patterns.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, final housekeeping note here. For anybody who wants to schedule a 13 -point assessment with me, you can. James will be here to do that. If you don’t want to, that’s fine, too. But hopefully, the three things have been achieved. Hopefully, did everybody here have a good time over the last couple days?

(Speaker 1)
Did anybody here meet anybody? Did anybody here meet somebody, meet some good people? Hopefully, you’re exchanging cell phone numbers and connecting, and whether I see you again, hopefully, you’re making some friends. Did everybody feel like you got your questions answered? You got your questions answered? Did you have a follow -up question?

(Speaker 1)
Yes, ma ‘am, yeah. recommend that you have physical gold and hold, but she’s talking about the gold IRA. Andrew, what say you? I’m really happy to hear that question. For me, if you’re not retired anytime soon, or if you don’t plan to be retiring anytime soon, you might as well put it into gold and silver, because that’s considered to be a longer -term hold, somewhere between, say, two and five years. Yes, absolutely.

(Speaker 1)
You should have both gold and silver.

(Speaker 45)
So for people that have been buying silver from us since the start of the Reawaken tour, it’s been maybe four and a half years, those people bought silver at like $18 an ounce, and it’s sitting at like 46.

(Speaker 30)
So if that’s sitting in your retirement account, and it’s invested in silver, which is a longer term investment, and you’re not planning to retire, I can’t think of a better place for it to be.

(Speaker 1)
Also, Also, if the dollar were to start to collapse even more than it is now, then you would actually be able to take delivery of some of that silver. Now, that would be a taxable event, but at least you would feel more secure having it at home in your own safe. But I think that that’s one of the best ideas out there.

(Speaker 44)
And just one final thing, the room is filled with people here that have already done that through me and my company, and they’re up a lot.

(Speaker 1)
I didn’t talk to a single person today that’s down or unhappy, not one.

(Speaker 12)
And now a final thing here, housekeeping note.

(Speaker 41)
We’re gonna have church service tonight.

(Speaker 1)
Colton Dixon, Amanda Grace, Pastor Jackson. I know it’s five, and we’re gonna have that at 6 .30. So if you wanna like order food here, like Uber Eats, that’s always fun when this happens, but a lot of times we’ll have a conference and we’ll have like 150 people that order Uber Eats. That’s exciting, it’s kinda fun. We’ll see if you get your food.

(Speaker 40)
But the address, if you type in the address, Sean, Well Done Lawns, Tulsa.

(Speaker 1)
That’s my son’s landscaping enterprise.

(Speaker 24)
It shares this address, and for some reason Google gets his address right, but it gets my address wrong.

(Speaker 1)
But that’s the address, it’s 3920 Wynn. 91st Street South, Tulsa. So if you want to order food to be delivered here, you can. And then I’ll be available to shake your hand, talk to you if you want to. If you want to schedule 13 points, James is here. But then at 6 .30, we’re kicking off right on time with Colton Dixon, Amanda Grace, Pastor Jackson.

(Speaker 1)
It’s going to be a blasty blast. So let’s put our hands together for Sean back here. Type in, make an applause here for Sean. Thank you. Thank you very much. Devin up there, Natalie, the audio -visual team.

(Speaker 1)
Let’s hear it for those guys. I know Eric’s not here right now, but let’s hear it for Eric Trump. All right? And give yourselves a round of applause for being the best audience in the whole world. I really appreciate you guys. All right?

(Speaker 1)
And we will see you guys tonight at 6 .30 if I don’t see you sooner. And we’re going to end every event with a boom, because boom stands for big, overwhelming, optimistic momentum. And that is what you need to succeed. So here we go. 3, 2, 1, boom. See you tonight.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, Aaron Antis, guess who’s joining us for the December 4th and 5th 2025 Thrive Time Show Business Growth Workshop. Santa Claus? No, we will not be joined by Santa Claus, but we will be joined by Eric Trump, the son of the 45th and now 47th president of these United States. And yes, Amanda Grace will be in the place. And yes, Dr. Stella Manuel will be there, so you know it will go well. Yes, we have Mel K in the house.

(Speaker 19)
Pastor Phil and Tammy Hotsenpiller will be hosting this event at their beautiful church right there in sunny Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 36)
Yes, folks, make this a December to remember.

(Speaker 27)
Make this a December to remember and join us at the two day interactive business growth workshops.

(Speaker 43)
For over 20 years, folks, I’ve been hosting business growth workshops, where we’re going to teach you marketing, sales systems, human resources, accounting, social media, marketing, branding, sales training, search engine optimization, accounting, workflow development, financial management,

(Speaker 1)
all this and more. How do you get tickets? Go to Thrivetimeshow . com. Again, how do you get tickets? Go to Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 1)
com and request tickets today. Eric Trump, people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. There’s not 50 employees. 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, this just in from our home office, President Donald J. Trump is now the 47th president of these United States as well. I’m Ron Burgundy.

(Speaker 1)
a 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 it.

(Speaker 8)
You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint.

(Speaker 1)
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. And we get to tap into that knowledge.

(Speaker 1)
That’s going to be amazing. Now think about this for a second. Nothing is over until we decide it is. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? German? Forget it.

(Speaker 1)
He’s rolling. The lineup continues to grow.

(Speaker 42)
And this is how we do our tickets here at the Thrive Time Show.

(Speaker 1)
If you want to get a VIP ticket, you can absolutely do it. It’s $500 for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 24)
ticket. We’ve always done it that way. Now, if you want to take a general admission ticket, it’s $250 or whatever price you want to pay.

(Speaker 1)
And the reason why I do that and the reason why we do that is because we want to make our events affordable for everybody. I grew up without money. I totally understand what it’s like to be in a tight spot. So if you want to attend, it’s $250 or whatever price you want to pay. That’s how I do it. And it’s $500 for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 1)
Now, we only have limited seating here. There’s a lot of togetherness and closeness, camaraderie. So again, if you want to get tickets for this event, all you have to do is go to Thrivetimeshow . com, go to Thrivetimeshow . com. When you go to Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 1)
com, you’ll go there, you’ll request a ticket, boom. Or if you want to text me, if you want a little bit faster service, you say, I want you to call me right now. Just text my number. It’s my cell phone number. My personal cell phone number. We’ll keep that in mind.

(Speaker 1)
private between you, between you, me, everybody. We’ll keep that private. And anybody, don’t share that with anybody except for everybody. That’s my private cell phone number. It’s 918 -851 -0102. 918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 1)
I know we have a lot of Spanish speaking people that attend these conferences. And so to be bilingually sensitive, my cell phone number is 918 -851 -0102. Zero tip. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Kwan for a one. It’s not the same thing.

(Speaker 1)
I think you’re attacking me. Now, let’s talk about this. Now, what kind of stuff will you learn at the Thrive Time Show Workshop? So, Aaron, you’ve been to many of these over the past seven, eight years. So let’s talk about it. I’ll tee up the thing and then you tell me what you’re going to learn here, OK?

(Speaker 1)
OK. You’re going to learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we going to learn about marketing and branding? Oh, yeah. We’re going to dive into, you know, so many people say, oh, you know, I got to get my brand known out there like the Trump brand. You want to get that brand.

(Speaker 1)
It’s like, how do I actually make people know what my business is and make it a household name? You’re going to learn some intricacies of how you can do that. Why does everybody have to learn how to manage people? Well, because first of all, people are, you either have great people or you have people who suck. So it could be a challenge, you know, learning how to work with a large group of people and get everybody pulling in the same direction can be a challenge. But if you have the right systems, you have the right processes, and you’re really good at selecting great ones.

(Speaker 1)
And we have a process we teach about how to find great people. When you start with the people who have a great attitude, they’re teachable. they’re driven, all of those things, then you can get those people all pulling in the same direction. So we’re going to teach you branding, marketing, sales, search engine optimization. We’re going to teach you accounting. We’re going to teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance.

(Speaker 1)
We’re going to teach you time management. How do you manage your time? How do you get more done during a typical day? How do you build an organization if you’re not organized? How do you do organization? How do you build an org chart?

(Speaker 1)
Everything that you need to know to start and grow a business will be taught during this two day interactive business workshop. Now let me tell you how the format is set up here. And again, folks, this is a two day interactive 15. Think about this, folks. It’s two days. Each day it starts at 7am and it goes until 5pm.

(Speaker 1)
So from 7am to 5pm, two days, it’s a two day interactive workshop. The way we do it is we do a 30 minute teaching session, and then we break for 15 minutes for a question answer session.

(Speaker 34)
So Aaron, what kind of great stuff Stuff happens during that 15 -minute question and answer session after every teaching session.

(Speaker 1)
I actually think it’s the best part about the workshops because here’s what happens. I’ve been to lots of these things over the years. I’ve paid many thousands of dollars to go to them.

(Speaker 41)
And you go in there and they talk in vague generalities and they’re constantly upselling you for something trying to get you to buy this thing or that thing or this program or this membership.

(Speaker 1)
And you don’t you leave not getting your very specific questions answered about your business or your employees or what you’re doing on your marketing. And what’s awesome about this is we literally answer every single question that any person asks. And it’s very specific to what your business is. And what we do is we we allow you as the attendee to write your questions on the whiteboard. Yeah. And then we literally, as you mentioned, we answer every single question on the whiteboard.

(Speaker 1)
And then we take a 15 minute break to to stretch. And this is also your opportunity to meet some of the great speakers like Pastor Dave Scarlett. You could meet Mel K. You could meet Amanda Grace. You could meet Dr. Stella Emanuel.

(Speaker 40)
You could just grab a coffee. You could find some alone time.

(Speaker 1)
You could get lost in the bathroom. You could try to go and get a photo with one of the speakers. You could try to photobomb a photo where someone else is getting a photo with the speakers. You could go attempt to find your phone, wallet, and your keys. now that’s a good idea well it’s going to be great and then you’re in the company of hundreds of entrepreneurs so there’s not a lot of people in america today in fact there’s less than 10 million people today according to us debt clock that identifies being self -employed so if you have a country with 350 million people That means you have less than 3 % of our population that’s even self -employed. So you only have 3 out of every 100 people in America that are self -employed to begin with.

(Speaker 1)
And when Inc. Magazine reports that 96 % of businesses fail by default, by default, you have a 1 out of a thousand chance of succeeding in the game of business, but yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. I’m just no, no, no hyperbole, no exaggeration. I have thousands of testimonials to back this up. We have thousands of testimonials to back it up.

(Speaker 1)
But when you work with a home builder, when I work with a business owner, we can typically double the size of the company within 24 months. Yeah. And you say double. Yeah. There’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses we’ve grown eight X. There’s so many examples.

(Speaker 1)
see it thrive timeshow . com. But again, this is the most interactive best business workshop on the planet. This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet. Add to that Eric Trump, the man that runs the Trump organization. You say Clay, I still I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, fine. We’re going to serve you the same meal both days.

(Speaker 39)
True story.

(Speaker 1)
We have we cater food.

(Speaker 6)
And because I keep it simple. I literally bring in the same food both days for lunch.

(Speaker 20)
Who’s with me? Let’s go. It’s an incredible Mexican restaurant. That’s going to happen. Someone says, I want more.

(Speaker 19)
This is not enough. Give me more.

(Speaker 9)
OK. I’m not going to mention their names right now because I’m working on it behind the scenes here.

(Speaker 10)
But we just continue to add more and more success stories.

(Speaker 18)
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.

(Speaker 13)
Go to Thrivetimeshow . com. Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow . com. Request a ticket for the two -day interactive event.

(Speaker 10)
Again, the event’s going to be on December 4th and 5th in sunny Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 18)
Great weather. Make this a December to remember. Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump Organization.

(Speaker 13)
It’s going to be a blasty blast.

(Speaker 10)
There’s no upsells.

(Speaker 8)
Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event.

(Speaker 13)
I think it is incredible. And there’s somebody out there right now, you’re watching and you’re like, but I. already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin.

(Speaker 38)
I think that’s gonna change your life.

(Speaker 3)
I promise you this will be 10 times better than that. It’s like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. to the two -day interactive Thrive Time Show Workshop in beautiful Anaheim, California. And it changed my business, and I built another business. And now I’m here to do it again with this business. Yeah, I’m a brand strategist.

(Speaker 3)
And it’s been really easy to go to a lot of events like this and just leave really in your head what to do next. And already, there’s the strategic, step -by -step, real -life implementation that we can do to our business. And I’m so grateful to be here. I’m very excited that Eric is here, and that is going to be epic. My name is Erica, and it has been amazing being here at the conference. I’m learning so much.

(Speaker 3)
Everything is perfect for me.

(Speaker 11)
Clay Clark, man, he is one character.

(Speaker 33)
That’s a good word for him, character.

(Speaker 3)
Yeah, that is it. Good, driven, smart, and I’ve never met a guy like him. so hyper all the time.

(Speaker 7)
He’s doing so much good. And then I met his mother and she just says she just lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so he’s endorsed by his mother and he’s doing magnificent work. So it’s great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with. His Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning. Oh, it’s incredible.

(Speaker 7)
Yeah, he’s he’s like he’s he’s a machine. He’s a machine. But his, you know, I have problems with my company starting at 9 o ‘clock. He has hundreds of people showing up at 5 a . m.

(Speaker 12)
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

(Speaker 13)
Man, he’s a leader of a leader.

(Speaker 1)
He’s a fantastic young man. No, he is. And the greatest thing that will come out of all of it, aside from winning the presidency of the United States, we’ll get to that in a second. Was an everlasting friendship between clay and I because I’m telling you there’s not too many people in the world that have this man’s backbone and his Tenaciousness and his perseverance and so buddy. I love you and to general Flynn. Thank you.

(Speaker 1)
You guys are incredible You guys are incredible warriors. You guys are incredible incredible warrior. So thank you. Thank you, my friend Blake Clark is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy play plays the greatest? I met his goats today.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 3)
So this guy’s, like, the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right? His entire life. Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing. 4 ,000 % from February to February. Now, I can better that. Okay, Clay, I don’t think you know this.

(Speaker 3)
I don’t think you know this. I’m pinching myself, and if I cry, forgive me. In the last two and a half days, we have bettered our entire month of February in the last two and a half days. So, and the phone’s blowing up. Everything’s just blowing up.

(Speaker 3)
You’re right, it is like a rocket ship. So, we’re pinching ourselves, actually. I learned at the Academy at King’s Point in New York, acta non verba. Watch what a person does, not what they say. We’re going to move into action mode here. So for anybody out there, if you say, I would like to go to Mar -a -Lago.

(Speaker 3)
Now, Jackson, you know this just in, they raided Mar -a -Lago. You know about this just in. And so some people say, you know, that wasn’t cool. I didn’t like that. But you know, so a lot of people out there, we want to kind of stick it to The New York Times. We want Eric to become the number one best -selling author in America.

(Speaker 3)
And we also, we kind of also want to go to Mar -a -Lago and check it out. We’ve never been there before. So what we’re going to do is for anybody right now, if you go to Amazon right now and you buy a copy of Eric Trump’s book, Under Siege, My Family’s to save our nation.

(Speaker 1)
So you go to Amazon right now, you buy a copy of the book. and you just text a screenshot of your proof of purchase to my cell phone number, 918 -851 -0102. So text my number, 918 -851 -0102. So again, step one, you go here to amazon .

(Speaker 27)
com, you buy a copy of the book Under Siege, then you just text a screenshot of your purchase, your proof of purchase, you text my number, 918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 1)
You have a chance to win a dinner at Mar -a -Lago with Eric Trump and myself, and there’s more. Mar -a -Lago right there just for your viewers. It’s the most exclusive private club in the world. $2 million to get into. It’s just base membership fee. And I promise we’re going to make your night absolutely incredible.

(Speaker 1)
Clay goes, listen, why don’t we do this? Why don’t we put it out to all the amazing Reawaken people, all the people who supported us all around the country, all around at every one of these conferences who adore your family. We’ve got to beat The New York Times. The New York Times is going to do everything they can. even though we’re number one on Amazon right now. We just hit number one this morning.

(Speaker 1)
New York Times is going to do everything they can to keep you from being number one bestseller. You know that. I know that. You know the games that they’re willing to play. But Clay goes, why don’t we do a couple of things?

(Speaker 37)
First of all, I love having dinner with Clay.

(Speaker 3)
He’s the greatest.

(Speaker 36)
Second of all, why don’t we bring one of the amazing people that I guarantee you I’ve been in front of at all these events.

(Speaker 3)
Why don’t we bring a couple to dinner at Mar -a -Lago?”

(Speaker 1)
And I said, absolutely, consider it done. So I said, they have to text you, Clay. They can’t text me because we’ll be getting 1 ,000 of these. But yeah, go buy a book. Text Clay. And we’ll set up a dinner.

(Speaker 1)
I’ll make sure you guys have the absolute time of your life. I want to pull this up again one more time here, Jackson. I think sometimes I’m a poor communicator, and I need to work on communicating more effectively. So you go to Amazon. That’s step one, OK? Yes.

(Speaker 1)
You buy a copy of the book, Pop Quiz. What book? Under Siege. You buy a copy of Under Siege, and then you screenshot a picture of that, and you text my phone number. It’s 918 -851 -0102. Folks, that is my cell phone number.

(Speaker 1)
So we’ll keep that private between you and me and everybody. And then when you text that to me, you have a chance to win a backstage pass to the actual in -person business workshop. That’s a business growth workshop, December 4th and 5th, featuring Eric Trump in Anaheim, California. and you have a chance to win dinner with Eric Trump and myself at Mar -a -Lago. Now, someone says, when does this contest end? Now, Eric, your birthday was hijacked.

(Speaker 1)
OK, so your birthday was hijacked. January 6th is this man’s birthday. He now has to switch his birthday because no one wants to talk about his birthday on January 6th anymore. So we’re going to run this promotion until November 5th. That’s my birthday. No, no.

(Speaker 3)
So we’re going to run it until October 14th. October 14th. It has to be pre -sale. This just in. It has to be between October 14th. That’s why we’re clarifying.

(Speaker 3)
So between now and October Now, folks, let me just clarify this real quick here, so make sure I’m leaving you with some good clarity here. One, you buy a copy of Under Siege on Amazon. That’s the step one. Step two, you text a screenshot of that purchase to my cell phone number, 918 -851 -0111. Three, you have to do that before October 14th. Before October 14th, this just in, it has to be before October 14th.

(Speaker 3)
And you have a chance to win a backstage pass to the upcoming business workshop. You have a chance to have dinner with Eric Trump at Mar -a -Lago. And I want to tell you some benefits of buying the book. One, I’ve read the book. It’s incredible. If you’re a father out there and you want to learn about mentoring your kids, it’s a great book.

(Speaker 3)
If you want to learn about American history, it’s a great book. If you want to make America great again, it is a great book. It’s a book you got to have. Now here is just a quick editor’s note. You do not have to buy a copy of Eric Trump’s book Under Siege to be entered into the drawing. Just text the number.

(Speaker 3)
All you have to do is just text the number 918 -851 -0102 and you will be entered into the drawing for a chance to win a copy of Eric Trump’s book Under Siege. and a once -in -a -lifetime opportunity to hang out with Eric Trump and Clay Clark at Mar -a -Lago, and win a backstage pass at the upcoming Thrivetimeshow . com two -day interactive business workshop. Again, you do not have to buy a copy of the book to be entered into the drawing, but it would be great if you’d buy a copy of the book, because that would make sense. However, that is all, and now back to the interview. Also, Eric, a final question here for you.

(Speaker 3)
You are donating a portion of the proceeds to support Charlie Kirk and his continued mission there. Could you tell us about that briefly there? And then we’ll let you get back to what you’re doing today, sir. Yeah, well, I was on with Benny Johnson. Benny Johnson was a great friend of Charlie Kirk’s, as you know, and you know Benny, and Benny’s a very good friend of mine, and you know, Cash Patel is a very good friend of mine, and was a very good friend of Charlie’s. I mean, you watch everybody else up on that stage every single day as they got to the bottom of exactly what happened, and they brought justice to what happened, or are trying to bring justice to what happened, and it’s kind of unthinkable.

(Speaker 3)
But, you know St. Jude, and I talk a lot about St. Jude in this book, because I think pediatric cancer has always been a cornerstone of my life.

(Speaker 1)
But Charlie truly, truly, truly was the epitome of being under siege, not only in the movement that he helped create, but obviously in how his life was savagely taken. My book came out three days, two and a half days before Charlie’s assassination. You better believe he would have been the final chapter of this book as just another illustration of what these people will do at any cost. to try and win, because it’s who they are. It’s the not -so -tolerant left. And we can never let our voices be extinguished, Clay.

(Speaker 1)
You stood on that stage, as well as anybody I’ve ever seen stand on a stage. You did our reawakened events all across the country, which you funded out of your back pocket, because you believed in America.

(Speaker 3)
You believed in a greater country. And you were on that stage every single day.

(Speaker 10)
You know I was on that stage with you every single day.

(Speaker 18)
And I was on the turning point stage with Charlie all the time.

(Speaker 9)
on stages across the country and three campaigns.

(Speaker 13)
I’ve stood on thousands of them. And honestly, they don’t want us to stand on that stage. That’s why they’re sending bullets from rooftops. They don’t want us to go out there with a bullhorn and have loud, independent thought. When they see these beautiful arenas full of kids and they’re cheering, they’re celebrating, they’re holding American flags, they don’t want that. And so they want to silence us.

(Speaker 18)
They want to silence our voice. That’s why they killed Charlie.

(Speaker 13)
That’s why they tried to kill my father. That’s why they sent 112 subpoenas to me. That’s why they wanted me in jail and my father in jail and Don in jail. That’s why they made up the hoaxes.

(Speaker 18)
They wanted to see us destroyed and gone with no voice, with no money, with no company, with no political aspirations, gone.

(Speaker 17)
And we can’t allow that to happen. And so we need to make sure that turning point continues.

(Speaker 13)
We need to make sure incredible patriots elect Donald Trump.

(Speaker 16)
continue to spread, you know, sensical speech, pro -American values, you know, pro -religious, pro -constitutional values. And that’s why I want to donate the funds to Turning Point.

(Speaker 3)
I want to donate, you know, a portion of the funds to Turning Point because we can’t allow, we can’t allow anarchy to win and we can’t allow voices to be deleted.

(Speaker 35)
And we need to keep Charlie’s legacy going.

(Speaker 3)
Eric Trump, thank you so much for joining us.

(Speaker 34)
Pastor Jackson, thank you so much for joining us.

(Speaker 33)
Absolutely.

(Speaker 3)
Eric, have a great day. We really do appreciate you.

(Speaker 7)
Everybody go out there and buy that book, Undersea. Just not too early to buy your Christmas gifts. And if you have a Democrat in your family, buy them a copy as well. Eric Trump, take care. Thanks, guys. See you later.

(Speaker 7)
But Clay Clark, man, he is one character. That’s a good word for him, character. Yeah, that is it. Good, driven, smart, and I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time. He’s doing so much good. And then I met his mother and she just says, she just, she just lets him be Clay Clark.

(Speaker 13)
I mean, so, you know, he’s endorsed by his mother and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was a great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with. His Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning.

(Speaker 10)
Oh, it’s incredible.

(Speaker 5)
Yeah. He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine. He’s a machine, but his, you know, I got, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock. He has hundreds of people showing up at 5am in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Man, he’s a leader of a leader. He’s a fantastic young man.

(Speaker 5)
No, he is. Clay Clark is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy Clay? Clay’s the greatest. I met his goats today. I met his dogs.

(Speaker 5)
I met his chickens. I saw his compound. He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs.

(Speaker 32)
So this guy’s like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right? His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing.

(Speaker 5)
4 ,000 % from February to February. Now, I can better that. OK, Clay, I don’t think you know this. I don’t think you know this. I’m pinching myself. And if I cry, forgive me.

(Speaker 5)
And the last two and a half days we have bettered our entire month of February and the last two and a half days. So and the phone’s blowing up. Everything’s just blowing up. Well you’re right. It is like a rocket ship. So we’re pinching ourselves.

(Speaker 5)
Actually I learned at the Academy in Kings Point in New York. Octa non verba. Watch what a person does. not what they say. I definitely just stared at the walls figuring out how to make my facility look like this place. This place rocks.

(Speaker 5)
It’s invigorating. The walls are super, it’s just very cool. The atmosphere is cool. The people are nice. It’s a pretty cool place to be. Very good learning atmosphere.

(Speaker 5)
I literally want to model it and steal everything that’s here at this facility and basically create it just on our business side. Play is fun. Hilarious. I literally laughed so hard that I started having tears yesterday.

(Speaker 15)
And we’ve been learning a lot.

(Speaker 31)
which, you know, we’ve been sitting here, we’ve been learning a lot, and so the humor definitely helps, it breaks it up.

(Speaker 5)
But the content is awesome, off the charts, and it’s very interactive, you can raise your hand, it’s not like you’re just listening to the professor speak, you know? The wizard teaches, but the wizard interacts and he takes questions, so that’s awesome. If you’re not attending the conference, you’re missing about three quarters to half of your life. You’re definitely. . It’s probably worth a couple thousand dollars.

(Speaker 5)
So, you’re missing the thought process of someone that’s already started like nine profitable businesses.

(Speaker 30)
So, not only is it a lot of good information but just getting in the thought process of Clay Clark or Dr. Zellner or any of the other coaches, getting in their thought process of how they’re starting all these businesses, to me, just that is priceless.

(Speaker 29)
That’s money.

(Speaker 5)
Well, we’re definitely not getting upsold here. My wife and I have attended conferences where it was great information, and then they upsold us like half the conference. And I don’t want to like bang my head into a wall.

(Speaker 28)
And she’s like banging her head into the chair in front of her.

(Speaker 15)
Like, it’s good information, but we’re like, oh my gosh, I want to strangle you. Shut up and go with the presentation that we paid for. And that’s not here. There’s no upsells or anything. So that’s awesome.

(Speaker 5)
I hate that. Oh, that makes me angry. So glad that’s not happening. So the cost. of this conference is quite a bit cheaper than business college.

(Speaker 27)
I went to a small private liberal arts college and got a degree in business and I didn’t learn anything like they’re teaching here. I didn’t learn linear workflows.

(Speaker 15)
I learned stuff that I’m not using and I haven’t been using for the last nine years. So what they’re teaching here is actually way better than what I got at business school.

(Speaker 2)
And I went what was actually ranked as a very good business school. I would definitely recommend that people would check out the Thrive 15 conference. The information is there. to get is just very, very beneficial. And the mindset that you’re going to get, that you’re going to leave with, is just absolutely worth the price of a thousand dollars. a little bit of money and a few days worth of your time.

(Speaker 2)
I’m Rachel with Tip Top K9, and we just want to give a huge thank you to Clay and Vanessa Clark. Hey, guys. I’m Ryan with Tip Top K9. Just want to say a big thank you to Thrive 15. Thank you to Make Your Life Epic. We love you guys.

(Speaker 2)
We appreciate you and really just appreciate how far you’ve taken us. This is our old house. This is where we used to live years ago. This is our old neighborhood. See? So this is my old van and our old school marketing.

(Speaker 2)
And this is our old team. And by team, I mean it’s me and another guy. This is our new home with our new neighborhood.

(Speaker 26)
This is our new van with our new marketing, and this is our new team.

(Speaker 2)
We went from four to 14, and I took this beautiful photo. We worked with several different business coaches in the past, and they were all about helping Ryan sell better and just teaching sales, which is awesome, but Ryan is a really great salesman, so we didn’t need that. We needed somebody to help us get everything that was in his head out into systems, into manuals and scripts, and actually build a team. So now that we have systems in place, we’ve gone from 1 to 10 locations in only a year. In October 2016, we grossed $13 ,000 for the whole month. Right now it’s 2018, the month of October.

(Speaker 2)
It’s only the 22nd. We’ve already grossed a little over $50 ,000 for the whole month, and we still have time to go. We’re just thankful for you, thankful for Thrive and your mentorship, and we’re really thankful that you guys have helped us to grow a business that we run now instead of the business running us. Just thank you, thank you, thank you. Time to go. So we really just want to thank you, Clay, and thank you, Vanessa, for everything you’ve done, everything you’ve helped us with.

(Speaker 2)
We love you guys. Hello, my name is Charles Colaw with Colaw Fitness. Today I want to tell you a little bit about Clay Clark and how I know Clay Clark. Clay Clark has been my business coach since 2017. He’s helped us grow from two locations to now six locations. We’re planning to do seven locations in seven years and then franchise.

(Speaker 2)
And Clay has done a great job of helping us navigate anything that has to do with like running the business, building the systems, the checklists, the workflows, the audits, how to navigate lease agreements, how to buy property, how to work with brokers and builders. This guy is just amazing. This kind of guy has worked in every single industry. He’s written books with like Lee Crockrell, head of Disney with the 40 ,000 cast members. He’s friends with like Mike Lindell. He does reawaken America tours where he does these tours all across the country where 10 ,000 or more people show up to some of these tours on the day to day.

(Speaker 2)
He does anywhere from about 160 companies. He’s at the top. He has a team of business coaches, videographers, and graphic designers and web developers, and they run 160 companies every single week. So think of this guy with a team of business coaches running 160 companies. So in the weekly, he’s running 160 companies. Every six to eight weeks, he’s doing Reawaken America tours.

(Speaker 2)
Every six to eight weeks, he’s also doing business conferences where 200 people show up and he teaches people a 13 -step proven system that he’s done and worked with billionaires helping them grow their companies. So he’s, I’ve seen guys from startups go from startup to being multi -millionaires, teaching people how to get time freedom and financial freedom through the system. Critical thinking, document creation, making it, putting it into, organizing everything in their head to building it into a franchisable, scalable business. Like one of his businesses has like 500 franchises. That’s just one of the companies or brands that he works with.

(Speaker 2)
So amazing guy, Elon Musk, kind of like smart guy. He kind of comes off sometimes as socially awkward, but he’s so brilliant. And he’s taught me so much. When I say that like, Clay is like, he doesn’t care what people think when you’re talking to him. He cares about where you’re going in your life and where he can get you to go. And that’s what I like him most about him.

(Speaker 2)
He’s like a good coach.

(Speaker 25)
A coach isn’t just making you feel good all the time.

(Speaker 1)
A coach is actually helping you get to the best you. And Clay has been an amazing business coach. Through the course of that, we became friends. I was really most impressed with him is when I was shadowing him one time. We went into a business deal and listened to it. I got to shadow and listen to it.

(Speaker 1)
And when we walked out, I knew that he could make millions on the deal. And they were super excited about working with him. And he told me, he’s like, I’m not going to touch it. I’m going to turn it down because he knew it was going to harm the common good of people in the long run. And the guy’s integrity just really wowed me. It brought tears to my eyes to see that this guy, he doesn’t, his highest desire was to do what’s right.

(Speaker 1)
And anyways, just an amazing man. So anyways, impacted me a lot. He’s helped navigate any time I’ve gotten nervous or worried about how to run the company or, you know. navigating competition and an economy that’s like, I remember we got closed down for three months. He helped us navigate on how to stay open, how to get back open, how to just survive through all the COVID shutdowns, lockdowns, because our clubs were all closed for three months. And you have $350 ,000 of bills you’ve got to pay, and we have no accounts receivable.

(Speaker 1)
He helped us navigate that. And of course, we were conservative enough that we could afford to take that on for a period of time. He’s a great man. I’m very impressed with him. So Clay, thank you for everything you’re doing. And I encourage you, if you haven’t ever worked with Clay, work with Clay. He’s gonna help magnify it.

(Speaker 1)
And there’s nobody I have ever met that has the ability to work as hard as he does. He probably sleeps four, maybe six hours a day, and literally the rest of the time he’s working. And he can outwork everybody in the room. every single day, and he loves it. So anyways, this is Charles Kola with Kola Fitness. Thank you, Clay.

(Speaker 1)
And anybody out there that’s wanting to work with Clay, it’s a great, great opportunity to ever work with him. So you guys have a blessed one. This is Charles Kola. We’ll see you guys. Bye bye. a Lamborghini all of a sudden, so I was willing to listen.

(Speaker 1)
In my career, I’ve sold a little over $800 million in real estate. So honestly, I thought I kind of knew everything about marketing and homes. And then I met Clay, and my perception of what I knew and what I could do definitely changed. Doing $800 million in sales over a 15 -year career, I really thought I knew what I was doing.

(Speaker 24)
I’ve been managing a large team of salespeople for the last 10 years here with Shaw Homes.

(Speaker 4)
And I mean, we’ve been a company that’s been in business for 35 years. become one of the largest builders in the Tulsa area, and that was without Clay. So when I came to know Clay, I really thought, man, there’s not much more I need to know, but I’m willing to listen. The interesting thing is our internet leads from our website has actually, in a four -month period of time, has gone from somewhere around 10 to 15 leads in a month to 180 internet leads. in a month. Just from the few things that he’s shown us how to implement that I honestly probably never would have come up with on my own.

(Speaker 4)
So I got a lot of good things to say about the system that Clay put in place with us. And it’s just been an incredible experience. I am very glad that we met and had the opportunity to work with Clay. So the interaction with the team and with Clay on a weekly basis is honestly very enlightening. One of the things that I love about Clay’s perspective on things is that he doesn’t come from my industry. He’s not somebody who’s in the home building industry.

(Speaker 4)
I’ve listened to all the experts in my field. Our company has paid for me to go to seminars, international builder shows, all kinds of places where I’ve had the opportunity to learn from the experts in my industry. But the thing that I found working with Clay is that he comes from such a broad spectrum of working with so many different types of businesses, that he has a perspective that’s difficult for me to gain because I get so entrenched in what I do, I’m not paying attention to what other leading industry experts are doing. And Clay really brings that perspective for me. It is very valuable time every week when I get that hour with him. From my perspective, the reason that Any business owner who’s thinking about hooking up with Thrive needs to definitely consider it, is because the results that we’ve gotten in a very short period of time are honestly monumental.

(Speaker 4)
It has really exceeded my wildest expectation of what he might be able to do. I came in skeptical because I’m very pragmatic, and as I’ve gone through the process over just a few months, I’ve realized, probably one of the best moves we’ve ever made. I think a lot of people probably feel like they don’t need a business or marketing consultant because they maybe are a little bit prideful and like to think they know everything. I know that’s how I felt coming in.

(Speaker 6)
I mean, we’re a big company that’s definitely one of the largest in town. And so we kind of felt like we knew what we were doing. And I think for a lot of people, they let their ego get in the way of listening to somebody that might have a better or different perspective than theirs. I would just really encourage you, if you’re thinking about working with clay, I mean, the thing is, it’s month to month. Go give it a try and see what happens. I think in the 35 -year history of Shaw Homes, this is probably the best thing that’s happened to us.

(Speaker 6)
And I know if you give them a shot, I think you’ll feel the same way. I know for me, the thing I would have missed out on if I didn’t work with Clay is I would have missed out on literally an 1800 % increase in our internet leads going from 10 a month to 180 a month. That would have been a huge financial decision to just decide not to give it a shot. I would absolutely recommend Clay Clark to anybody who’s thinking about working with somebody in marketing. I would skip over anybody else you were thinking about and I would go straight to Clay and his team. I guarantee you’re not going to regret it because we sure haven’t.

(Speaker 6)
My name is Danielle Sprick, and I am the founder 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 to 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. He’s a home builder, so real estate and home building go hand in hand, and we just rolled with it.

(Speaker 6)
I love people. I love working with people. I love the 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, 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 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. 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 to 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. 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 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 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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