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(Speaker 4)
Since I’ve been working with you, I would say from maybe two a week to probably close to 20 a week.

(Speaker 2)
Repeat that one more time. You went from how many leads to how many leads?

(Speaker 4)
Two a week to 20 a week. And that’s calls in our office, real calls. Name of the company is Roof Angel. We’re a commercial and residential roofing company. Currently, we’re servicing Henderson, Kentucky, Owensboro, Kentucky, really the western northern part of Kentucky and south end of Indiana. Yeah.

(Speaker 4)
My first and last name is Jake Gibson, and the web address is it’s www .

(Speaker 38)
roofangel .

(Speaker 2)
com. Again, for everybody out there that might have blacked out when they heard that, I think you said you went from two calls per week or two leads a week to 20 leads a week. Maybe I got that wrong.

(Speaker 4)
Can you let me share again just how much of an increase you’ve seen in the leads in these first 120 days? Yeah, the increase, I mean, what would that, that’s like 400%, maybe more. Sorry, that’d be 1 ,000%, I guess, right? 2 to 20?

(Speaker 2)
Correct me if I’m wrong.

(Speaker 39)
No, I guess it’s wild.

(Speaker 4)
It’s wild. It’s unbelievable. People are mad at me. A lot of companies here, it’s not just roofing companies, they’re mad at me because they’re like, what are you doing that we’re not doing? There’s a lot of talk that just does not make sense to people. And I love it.

(Speaker 4)
I want to keep doing it. Yeah, so my big claim to fame roofers in a lot of industries, they have a bad name. So I want to, I want to make sure I want to set that straight. And I want to set a higher expectation. So when we go out to roofs, we a lot of times we do free repairs, even we bring a caught gun, we bring all the stuff we need on top of that roof. And if it’s a simple fix, we’re fixing it for free.

(Speaker 4)
Not for free, because we want to Google review or a video review. But in that case, we’re taking them, we’re saying, hey, next time a storm comes by, we want to be your roofer, so give us a call. We’re not chasing money.

(Speaker 2)
We’re chasing just doing the right thing. Folks, on today’s show, we’re gonna interview a wonderful client who, it’s kind of interesting, because I’ve known of this man for years, and I’ve had the opportunity to work on a very close level with this man’s uncle, I believe. So this man, his uncle, is the pastor of a church called His Church. It’s Pastor Brian Gibson, it’s called His Church, and I’ve had the opportunity to work with both pastors, Brian and Jesse Gibson, for years. And I kept hearing rumors about this family member they have that’s got the entrepreneurial spirit and this guy who’s going to go on to become super successful. And so we’ve had the opportunity to now work with the founder of roofangel .

(Speaker 2)
com.

(Speaker 38)
And I believe the nephew of Pastor Brian Gibson, Jay Gibson, welcome onto the Thrive Time Show.

(Speaker 37)
How are you?

(Speaker 4)
I’m great.

(Speaker 2)
How are you, sir? I’m excited to be here with you, and I want to just celebrate the wins and encourage somebody out there. So first off, your website, your company is roofangels . com. It’s roofangel . com, singular, roofangel .

(Speaker 2)
com.

(Speaker 4)
Tell the listeners out there, what’s the name of your company, and what markets do you service? The name of the company is Roof Angel. We’re a commercial and residential roofing company.

(Speaker 36)
Currently, we’re servicing Henderson, Kentucky, Owensboro, Kentucky, really the western northern part of Kentucky and south end of Indiana.

(Speaker 6)
Yeah. My life has been completely transformed over the last 13 years, and I take every opportunity to thank Clay. It’s incredible.

(Speaker 2)
It’s such a change that it’s not just me that I get to experience the change and my wife, but my children and my children’s children will embrace it.

(Speaker 9)
And everybody that I get to talk with now and work with, with all of my business clients that I get to work with, it’s the seed. Now, laziness doesn’t look like what you think it looks like. Lazy people aren’t always lying on the couch watching television. Some of the laziest people I know are busy all day long.

(Speaker 2)
They’re busy being busy, but they’re not busy doing the things that matter.

(Speaker 1)
Well, hey, this is Play Stairs with the Leadership Initiative, and I’m here talking today with a longtime client, come to be friend of mine, Jeff Bell, from the beautiful Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, and with his company, Sky House Company.

(Speaker 3)
So Jeff, introduce yourself, tell us who you are, what you’re doing, where are you from, all these beautiful homes you’re building there in the mountains. Yeah, so like Clay said, my name is Jeff Pell. I’m the owner of Sky House. We are a fine home builder located in the northwest corner of North Carolina in the mountains. We focus on architecturally driven custom homes, renovations, and additions. And I have been working with Clay.

(Speaker 3)
We are now in our eighth year, I think. Yeah, so yeah, we’ve been together a long time. We’ve come a long way. Yeah, it’s been good.

(Speaker 2)
Started where we were, where we did start to where we are now is, is very different and very exciting. Yeah, Jeff, I still remember some of those very first phone calls when we were just meeting one another and talking about your company. and talking about my company and how we can help. I remember we kind of went back and forth a number of times. It wasn’t just one phone call of, yeah, let’s do some coaching. But it was actually back and forth a number of times and trying to get to the point of making sure that we were a good fit for you.

(Speaker 2)
Do you remember some of those early phone calls when you were trying to make a decision You know, do I do I go with a coach? Do I stick with what I’ve got and keep plowing here? You remember some of those thoughts that were going through your head? And then eventually, what was it that made you decide, okay, I’m going to give clay a shot.

(Speaker 3)
I’m going to give this this whole coaching thing a shot. Right? Yeah, no, I remember. I probably got a cold call, but I was, uh, I was driving up to a job answer. I typically don’t even answer phone numbers, uh, like that, but answered it thought, huh. You caught me on the right day as I’m, uh, driving back and forth and five different projects, uh, with my mobile office and my truck and, uh, a one man band, you know?

(Speaker 3)
Um, so definitely was curious. So I needed more information. You guys provided it. We did have a couple different meetings. Um, I met with some of your associates. on some of it and then me and you got connected on a call you know laid out kind of you guys had some some great initial kind of graphics program game plan steps steps to success how to build the company which was everything that I was sounded great and and thought I was doing and on track to do but then quickly realized like yeah I know how to build houses and this could help me a lot understanding building the business.

(Speaker 3)
you know, so that’s where we linked up and, uh, you know, that’s pre yeah. I mean, we linked, we linked up. I was, I was busy. I was, I was growing, but, uh, it was all word of mouth referrals. I didn’t have any website, online presence, um, zero marketing, um, zero organization.

(Speaker 2)
from an organizational standpoint, I guess, in the company. And yeah, we got right in, rolled up our sleeves and started down the path. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, so if we started things up, kind of the structure of our coaching, let’s talk a little bit about what the coaching actually looks like from your point of view as a client. of the leadership initiative? How often do we get together?

(Speaker 2)
How long do those calls last? What are they like? Do we have an agenda? Do we just sit around and say, what do you want to talk about?

(Speaker 6)
Or are there actually specific things that we talk about on each phone call?

(Speaker 3)
Talk a little bit about that from your perspective as a client of the leadership initiative. What do those calls look like? Yeah, sure. The calls are every week throughout the year. And I guess initially when we first started, there’s kind of a where are we at now assessment of the company and assessing what place in the path that we need to hop in at and focus on. We meet every week, but it could be different themes.

(Speaker 3)
We could have different goals. Obviously, we have annual goals, but starting out, it could be building out a website, getting digital media ready, photography, putting together sales graphics, marketing graphics. SEO, all those different aspects of it. And then that kind of stuff becomes more like a maintenance mode. So you’re not spending so much heavy time on it. And then we could spend time on the build out of the organizational chart, the identifying and listing out all the roles and responsibilities for every position within the company.

(Speaker 3)
And then identifying that, yeah, I’m probably wearing 30 out of 32 of those hats in those boxes. Yeah, and then identifying, what am I doing that’s worker level? What am I doing that’s management level? What am I doing that’s CEO level? Let’s eliminate, as soon as we identify the boxes where I’m wearing those hats, let’s eliminate, how do we eliminate me out of the worker level? Okay, hire, how do we hire?

(Speaker 3)
We gotta have a system to hire. So yeah, it’s just building blocks. We’re constantly working on something. And I love, the great thing about it too is the accountability. Uh, that, uh, I feel a level of accountability that we’re going to show up together and, uh, be good stewards of the time that we’re putting in and the program that I, that I pay for. And, uh, and keep the ball rolling on whatever it is that we’re working on, but yeah, very structured.

(Speaker 6)
We always have a to do lists, agendas, uh, goals to hit where we have schedules, uh, you know, scheduled times throughout the year that where we’re going to get things done or, you know, focus on. And that’s the name of the game.

(Speaker 2)
Fantastic. Fantastic. Yeah. So so kind of our linear path, we start out with like you were saying, we start out with, OK, where are we right now? Where are our bottlenecks in the company? the limiting factors that we have?

(Speaker 2)
And then as we start down our path, we start with, okay, where are we wanting to go? What are the goals that we’re wanting to hit? And I remember some of those early days when we were first getting together, you had multiple goals.

(Speaker 3)
They weren’t just money goals, you know, but there were some multiple goals. And we talked a little bit about that F6, those F6 goals. And talk to me a little bit about those as we had some of those early conversations and how those F6 goals have helped us with the coaching, kind of stay on pace and stay on our path, because we have a goal that we’re going for, rather than just, you know, help me with everything, you know? Yeah, so F6 goals, faith, friends, family, fitness, financials, and time freedom. Yeah. Yeah, all big goals, right?

(Speaker 3)
So, And they’ve become more important, at least to me too, because, you know, when we first started out, I was like, well, my, I don’t need a friend’s goal right now. I need a finance goal. I’m building a business. I want to work a hundred hours a week.

(Speaker 35)
I don’t really care about these other things.

(Speaker 3)
I remember that. I remember those days. You were saying, man, I’m ready to plow. Yeah.

(Speaker 34)
Yeah.

(Speaker 6)
And then, uh, well then, you know, you get married after that, then you have a kid and you’re building a business and you’re like, yeah, I like this freedom goal.

(Speaker 2)
That’s how do we get, how do we get more time freedom and maintain and still hit financial goals and still hit fitness, you know, goals, still have time, you know, family, all those things. So it’s, yeah, it’s not just, um, well, yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s coaching for entrepreneurship lifestyle, not just, you know, growing, you know, singularity of a business. Yeah. So fantastic.

(Speaker 3)
Fantastic. Yeah. And like you’re saying, those goals change as you as your life changes. And when we first started out, you were the single guy. And you had you had the time and the the bandwidth to just work.

(Speaker 33)
You know, yeah, but since we’ve been together, you’ve gotten married, you’ve got a little kid now, which is fantastic.

(Speaker 2)
And so as life changes, those goals tend to change. And yeah, also, on top of that, it’ll make it makes it more important to, to follow the path. So, you know, why do I need to create a Why do I need to create a lead report sheet or a script or all these other things? I’m doing it every time. Well, you know, you could, you need to hire somebody else in order to get some of that time back or that, that freedom back. So they all, they all kind of compliment other aspects of, um, you know, the goals.

(Speaker 6)
Yeah.

(Speaker 2)
Okay.

(Speaker 3)
So, so on our path, we start out with kind of focusing on our ideal and likely buyer and beginning to say, okay, how do we get in front of that ideal and likely buyer, so that the phone starts ringing. So this is our marketing. you know, our branding and our marketing. So talk a little bit about some of the things that we did early on and now we continue to do on a maintenance basis. But talk a little bit about, you know, what was it like putting together the website? We got the one sheet, we got your ads going and your branding and your logo and all that kind of stuff.

(Speaker 3)
We’re putting all that together for you.

(Speaker 2)
Yeah, the three -legged marketing stool, right? Yeah.

(Speaker 3)
yeah, like I said, when I first started out, it was, um, my business started and grew solely from relationships and word of mouth referrals, um, that I was comfortable with, um, at the time and, and, and, and grow moving through it and understanding. Yeah. But if that dries up, how, you know, where’s our redundancies, where is, uh, you know, it became a goal of saying, getting excited to be able to say no. 90 % of the time. In order to do that, you need to be flooded with opportunity. So, to me, I just viewed it as let’s get targeted on our clientele, but let’s bring in some volume of opportunity so that we can feel comfortable and confident in discerning what’s a good best fit for us and being able to off -board other ones with knowing that we got some more coming. There’s going to be an opportunity next month, even if I don’t see it.

(Speaker 32)
Yeah.

(Speaker 3)
Yeah. Talk a little bit about the, uh, the Google reviews and video testimonials and, and also let everybody know, uh, where is your website? How does somebody find you online? Yeah. Our website sky house company . com.

(Speaker 3)
It’s all spelled out.

(Speaker 2)
Um, and there is where you can find, uh, Google reviews and you can find, uh, a stacking and growing number of video testimonials, beautiful, wonderful video testimonials.

(Speaker 32)
Um, That is probably my favorite aspect of all the getting reviews and what’s it called?

(Speaker 3)
Your online reputation badge or what have you. But yeah, just getting reviews. is big. You know, it’s proven, you know, people even, you know, you can do it in self anecdotally, you’re good, you’re looking on Google at a restaurant or this, you’re gonna look at reviews. And I might have thought, well, I don’t need a I don’t need a bunch of reviews, because I’m so niche and custom. And nobody, nobody will get it.

(Speaker 31)
And I don’t, you know, need to have that.

(Speaker 3)
But, but, you know, you find you, you definitely need to put that in.

(Speaker 13)
It’s not that it’s not that big of a deal to instill that into a system in your company, and then delegate some of those responsibilities.

(Speaker 2)
So yeah, the biggest Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, just the biggest thing I love is the is stacking up these video testimonials. For one, it’s just awesome to see a client that we’ve worked with for two years, sometimes longer.

(Speaker 3)
after they’ve already moved into their house and been in their house months, sometimes even a year, be willing to take the time out of their day to sit down and tell, you know, tell an audience or a video camera how their great experience with us and, you know, seeing all of our, the fruit of our hard labor come out of their mouths and is really enjoyable. But it also, that’s me, that’s my selfish love of it, but it’s also, immensely important for the sales funnel for the future. Yeah. You know, it’s it’s getting, you know, somebody is doing a looking at investing in a 2 .5 million dollar house. Some video testimonials of some past clients that have had a multimillion dollar house would come in handy. Right.

(Speaker 3)
So it’s been great. Yeah. Fantastic. So let’s talk a little bit about with that marketing.

(Speaker 2)
Did you find that all of a sudden the phone did start ringing and And not only more work, more potential work, but larger and larger projects. over the last eight years. So it’s not just been, man, we’re building more and more and more houses, but talk a little bit about the type of houses and the price range of houses that have increased over the years with your branding and marketing that we have been working on. Yeah, I mean, it’s been my whole path, or my goal too, is just to continually be building and looking at and planning to build cooler houses than I’ve ever done in the past.

(Speaker 3)
And, uh, and we’ve continually done that, you know, the stuff I’ve got underway right now is going to be the coolest stuff. I can, you know, can’t wait to put it on. I, first of all, I love building complicated stuff, but, and beautiful stuff, but I can’t wait. It’s like, wow, this stuff’s going to look great on the website and photograph well and great clients. Um, yeah, it’s another part of it too, is just not, not building a really an ideal house with a budget and all that, but really being able to be selective and, and, uh, engage with clients that you feel you’re going to get along with real well. That’s a very important part of it because we’re, you know, we’re basically, uh, essentially we’re partnering up with a homeowner for two years, you know, um, doing business together, we’re getting work done and they’re writing us a check.

(Speaker 3)
So to have the, uh, to have leads and opportunities continually coming in, again, allows us to stay honed in on our, what we, you know, our ideal client, and really not selling out, just to, just to, you know, cut it, make it make a paycheck, or just to get something done. We’re still holding true to our goals and vision for the company. Fantastic. So the marketing pieces that we put into place gets the phone to ring. And then let’s talk a little bit about some of the sales flow now.

(Speaker 3)
So in the sales process that we’ve been able to put into place at SkyHouse and talk a little bit about those tools that we’ve done with our phone script and the recording and the tracking of leads and all of that. Let’s talk a little bit about that and what has that been like for you And how has it helped you as a business owner to have those tools in place? Yeah.

(Speaker 6)
Yeah, it’s been a minute since I went down memory lane thinking about what it was like building that stuff out.

(Speaker 3)
Because now it’s It’s on autopilot. Everything’s set up in a way that the leads come in. We have a lead report sheet. We have office personnel that have been trained to take those sales calls, to quickly be able to discern whether or not it’s a good lead, promising lead, qualifying them. And then after they go through that, then they set up an initial consult. Most of the time it’s a Zoom with me and they put it on my calendar.

(Speaker 3)
So there’s filters, you know, through the lead system.

(Speaker 2)
And then in the meantime, too, we’ve incorporated setting constant follow -up calls with potential leads or, you know, keeping the ball moving, keeping updates and reaching back out to, you know, not everybody’s, you know, quick moving and fast on a, on a house, their initial, Hey, we bought a piece of land. Um, you know, and a lot of these are second, third home, so they can get busy with life.

(Speaker 6)
or, you know, a kid could have, they could have a kid that gets sick or breaks their leg or, you know, you name it.

(Speaker 3)
So us following up every two weeks or whatever, what have you, has been, yeah, it’s just a no brainer now, right? So it’s helped us continue those relationships and then, and then Uh, constantly making that contact also shows the client that we’re organized and communicative right out the, you know, right from the initial contact with them.

(Speaker 2)
So yeah, all those systems that we built together, uh, work, uh, autonomously, like as we’re speaking now. Eight years later. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah.

(Speaker 3)
So, and the ability to track all the data and the numbers, you know, how many leads do we come in from? Yeah. Which revenue, you know, which, uh, uh, path did they come in? Word of word of mouth drive by stopping at the office, uh, Google, you know, any other social media or something. It’s good to track and see where, where the leads are coming from. Um, and then, you know, how much, you know, How many leads that we’re getting are qualified leads?

(Speaker 3)
And then out of those leads that are qualified, how many are we signing construction agreements with and pre -construction? So yeah, it’s really good data as well. Yeah. Going to our scoreboard that we have. That’s right. Have you appreciated having that scoreboard that we look at each week to be able to look at those important numbers for your company?

(Speaker 3)
Has that been a helpful thing?

(Speaker 6)
Absolutely. Yeah. We look at it all the time. Yeah, fantastic. So, okay, so we’re, so we put together all these different tools now for your sales process. So we’re getting the leads now we’re getting the phone calls and we’re starting the sales process.

(Speaker 6)
Now, how would you say. it seems like as I look at the scoreboard over these last eight years, our revenues have gone up and up and up. And you don’t have to give specific numbers on this, but how would you say your revenues in your company and your profits in your company have increased over the last eight years?

(Speaker 2)
I mean, I think there’s a good string of, you know, four or five years there where we were doubling, tripling the last year’s numbers.

(Speaker 3)
And then, you know, several years ago, we got to a point of, okay, we’re at a revenue goal that we should just maintain. And let’s maintain that revenue goal, meaning, you know, the amount of projects we’re doing. And let’s refine our systems. So let’s, let’s get better at, at, at doing our systems and our efficiency of building, you know, and, and maintain that. And now we’re at this, okay, let’s, let’s bump it up another 4 million a year, you know, on top of this, let’s make it, let’s go to this, this revenue. Well, what is that going to take us?

(Speaker 3)
Well, we have all this data now, so it’s like, okay, that’s a, that’s probably two more, uh, personnel hires. Okay, well, what am I going to do? Do I just hire somebody? Well, we have a hiring system. We have a training system, you know, all these things that allow you to grow when the moment comes. you know, you have the tools in place to be able to grow when the opportunity has shown itself.

(Speaker 3)
Yeah, fantastic. And that was my next question. Now that we’re, we’re, we’ve got the phones ringing, we’re getting leads, and we’re closing leads through our sales process. And now we’re our revenues are increasing. Next thing we have on our packet

(Speaker 6)
here is okay now we got to hire the right people, you know, we got to make sure we have the right people in place. When you and I first started, it was like you.

(Speaker 2)
You know, it was it was Jeff in the truck type of thing.

(Speaker 30)
How many employees do you have now?

(Speaker 3)
And talk to us a little bit about the system that we’ve put in place to help you consistently find new people and replace people when you need to, because I know that’s been going on, too. Yeah, that’s the that’s the nature of the beast. Right. So, yeah, the river of life weekly interviews. There’s another system that we built and set up in place. I did it at first and then Once you make a, you know, I think your first hire is an executive assistant, right?

(Speaker 3)
Well -rounded, just a diligent doer of tasks that you need done. And then once you’re able to do that, you teach them and you create the system for indeed running job ads, you know, re -uploading the job ad, tracking the applicants that, you know, setting up and scheduling the interview.

(Speaker 6)
it’s, it’s, it’s been paramount. Again, another system that doesn’t grow older is not trendy. We use it to this day in the company.

(Speaker 3)
Yeah, we’re now at 12.

(Speaker 6)
We’re about to be at 13 or 14. So we’re at 12 people in the in the in the company now and it’s all management level. That’s just management level employees.

(Speaker 3)
So yeah, once you get Get you an executive assistant that can help you can give them tasks to free up your time to do higher serving tasks, then you can create systems for a project coordinator, then you can. take the time to write down the systems for project management.

(Speaker 2)
You know, all these other hats that I’m wearing, superintendents, operations managers. Yeah. That’s fantastic. Fantastic. Well, Jeff, if someone was watching this video right now and they were considering hiring the leadership initiative to do some coaching with them in their company, what would be some of the encouragement that you would have for them based on your experience? Yeah.

(Speaker 2)
Well, I would say don’t hesitate to do it, but you should have the expectations that nobody’s going to just build your company and create the systems while you sit back on the other end of the computer. You know, you got to roll up your sleeves and do the homework and track and stay on task because you guys can move. You guys can move as quickly and progress a company as quickly as the person is willing to progress.

(Speaker 15)
You know, so I would say, too, if you could expedite a lot of time by pushback and being hesitant of particular tasks or systems or ideas that Clay and the Leadership Initiative are wanting to implement, save you a lot of time and just trust and say, well, I’m going to give it all.

(Speaker 2)
And if it doesn’t work, well, then it doesn’t work because it’s going to work. Business is business. Everybody’s got their differences in businesses, whether it could be e -commerce, and that’s a different has its different obstacles as it does a custom home builder, but there’s nuts and bolts of all business that gotta get handled and you guys know how to do that. Fantastic. So Jeff, once again, how do people find you and take a look at some of the great things, some of the great homes that you’re building?

(Speaker 2)
How do people go about finding you? Yeah, just go online, our website, skyhousecompany . com. Fantastic. Jeff, thank you, man. Sure, appreciate you.

(Speaker 2)
Absolutely, appreciate you. Yep. All right.

(Speaker 20)
Okay, Aaron Antis, guess who’s joining us for the December 4th and 5th 2025 Thrive Time Show Business Growth Workshop.

(Speaker 2)
Santa Claus?

(Speaker 22)
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.

(Speaker 29)
And yes, Amanda Grace will be in the place.

(Speaker 28)
And yes, Dr. Stella Manuel will be there so you know it will go well.

(Speaker 27)
Yes, we have Mel Kay in the house.

(Speaker 2)
Pastor Phil and Tammy Hotson -Piller will be hosting this event at their beautiful church right there in sunny Anaheim, California. Yes, folks, make this a December to remember.

(Speaker 6)
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(Speaker 26)
Make this a December to remember and join us at the two -day interactive business growth workshops.

(Speaker 2)
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, all this and more. How do you get tickets? Go to thrivetimeshow . com. Again, how do you get tickets? Go to thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 2)
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(Speaker 2)
I mean, look at it.

(Speaker 18)
And this is the man behind the business for the last, pretty much since 2015.

(Speaker 2)
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. That’s gonna be amazing.

(Speaker 25)
Now, think about this for a second. Nothing is over until we decide it is!

(Speaker 2)
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? German? Forget it, he’s rolling. and it’s $500 for a VIP ticket. Now, we only have limited seating here with… Whoa!

(Speaker 2)
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(Speaker 23)
com.

(Speaker 2)
Go to Thrivetimeshow . com. When you go to Thrivetimeshow . 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.

(Speaker 2)
It’s my cell phone number, my personal cell phone number. We’ll keep that in mind. 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.

(Speaker 2)
It’s 918 -851 -0102. 918 -851 -0102. 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. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Juan for a Juan.

(Speaker 2)
It’s not the same thing. 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.

(Speaker 2)
I’ll tee up the thing, and then you tell me what you’re going to learn here, OK? 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.

(Speaker 2)
You want to get that brand out there. 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. You’re going to learn sales.

(Speaker 24)
So many people struggle to sell something.

(Speaker 2)
This just in, your business will go to hell if you can’t sell. So we’re going to teach you sales. We’re going to teach you search engine optimization, how to come up top in the search engine results. We’re going to teach you how to manage people. Aaron, you have managed, no exaggeration, hundreds of people throughout your career and thousands of contractors. And most people struggle with managing people.

(Speaker 2)
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. And we have a process we teach about how to find great people. 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.

(Speaker 2)
So we’re gonna teach you branding, marketing, sales, search engine optimization. We’re gonna teach you accounting. We’re gonna teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance. We’re gonna teach you time management. How do you manage your time? How do you get more done during a typical day?

(Speaker 2)
How do you build an organization if you’re not organized? How do you do organization? How do you build an org chart? 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. Again, folks, this is a two -day interactive 15.

(Speaker 2)
Think about this, folks. It’s two days. Each day, it starts at 7 a . m. and it goes until 5 p . m.

(Speaker 2)
So from 7 a . m. to 5 p . m. , two days. It’s a two -day interactive workshop.

(Speaker 2)
The way we do it is we do a 30 -minute teaching session, and then we break for 15 minutes for a question and answer session. So Aaron, what kind of great stuff stuff happens during that 15 minute question and answer session after every teaching session? 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. 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 2)
And you don’t, you leave not getting your very specific questions answered about your business or your employees.

(Speaker 23)
what you’re doing on your marketing.

(Speaker 2)
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 allow you as the attendee to write your questions on the whiteboard. And then we literally, as you mentioned, we answer every single question on the whiteboard. And then we take a 15 minute break to stretch. And this is also your opportunity to meet some of the great speakers like Pastor Dave Scarlett.

(Speaker 2)
You could meet Mel K. You could meet Amanda Grace. You could meet Dr. Stella Emanuel. You could just grab a coffee.

(Speaker 22)
You could find some alone time. You could get lost in the bathroom.

(Speaker 2)
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! 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.

(Speaker 2)
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 three out of every 100 people in America that are self -employed to begin with. And when Inc. Magazine reports that 96 % of businesses fail by default, By default, you have a 1 out of 1 ,000 chance of succeeding in the game of business. But yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. No hyperbole, no exaggeration.

(Speaker 2)
I have thousands of testimonials to back this up. We have thousands of testimonials to back it up. 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.

(Speaker 1)
And you say double?

(Speaker 2)
Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses we’ve grown 8x. There’s so many examples. you can see at thrive timeshow .com. com. But again, this is the most interactive best business workshop on the planet.

(Speaker 21)
This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet.

(Speaker 2)
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 16)
OK, fine.

(Speaker 2)
We’re going to serve you the same meal both days.

(Speaker 20)
True story.

(Speaker 2)
We cater in the food. And because I keep it simple, I literally bring in the same food both days for lunch. Who’s with me? Let’s go! Come on! incredible Mexican restaurant that’s going to happen.

(Speaker 19)
Okay, I’m not going to mention their names right now because I’m working on it behind the scenes here.

(Speaker 2)
We just continue to add more and more success stories.

(Speaker 17)
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.

(Speaker 18)
You want to learn how to start and grow a company.

(Speaker 16)
Go to Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 8)
com. Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow . com. Request a ticket for the two -day interactive event.

(Speaker 17)
Again, the event’s going to be on December 4th and 5th in sunny Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 10)
Great weather.

(Speaker 17)
Make this a December to remember.

(Speaker 7)
Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump organization.

(Speaker 16)
It’s going to be a blasty blast.

(Speaker 13)
There’s no upsells.

(Speaker 7)
Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible. And there’s somebody out there right now. You’re watching and you’re like, but I already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin. I think that’s going to change your life. I promise you this will be 10 times better than that.

(Speaker 7)
It’s like I picked the wrong week. Quit smoking. Don’t do the Smoke Your Way to Thin conference.

(Speaker 15)
That is, I’ve tried it.

(Speaker 14)
Don’t do it.

(Speaker 13)
Yeah.

(Speaker 15)
Chain smoking is not a viable, I mean, it is life changing.

(Speaker 7)
It is life changing. If you become a chain smoker, it is life changing.

(Speaker 14)
Not the best weight loss program though.

(Speaker 7)
So if you’re looking to have life -changing results in a way that won’t cause you to have a stoma, get your tickets at Thrivetimeshow . com. Again, that’s Aaron Antis, I’m Clay Clark, reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two -day interactive Thrivetimeshow workshop in beautiful Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 13)
I’m Vince Suzuki, also from Sarasota, Florida.

(Speaker 1)
He dragged me here. Yup. I was here in 2018, 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, 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 could do to our business. And I’m super excited to be here.

(Speaker 1)
And very excited that Eric Trump 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. Everything is perfect for me.

(Speaker 12)
Clay Clark, man, he is one character.

(Speaker 11)
That’s a good word for him, character.

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, that is it. driven, smart.

(Speaker 5)
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 lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so you know, he’s endorsed by his mother. And he’s doing magnificent work.

(Speaker 5)
So it was 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. Yeah, he’s he’s like he’s he’s a machine.

(Speaker 7)
He’s a machine. But his you know, I could I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock.

(Speaker 2)
Yes. Hundreds of people showing up at five a . m. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Man, he’s a leader of a leader. He’s a fantastic young man.

(Speaker 2)
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.

(Speaker 1)
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. You guys are incredible You guys are incredible warriors. You guys are incredible incredible warrior. So thank thank you my friend plate Clark is here somewhere Where’s my buddy play plays the greatest?

(Speaker 1)
I met his goats today. I met his dogs. I met his chickens. I saw his compound. He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs.

(Speaker 1)
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. I don’t think you know this.

(Speaker 1)
I’m pinching myself, and if I cry, forgive me. In the last two and a half days, 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. You’re right. It is like a rocket ship.

(Speaker 1)
So we’re pinching ourselves. Actually I learned at the Academy at King’s Point in New York.

(Speaker 2)
Octagon Verba. Watch what a person does not what they say. We’re going to move it down. Under siege my family’s fight to save our nation. 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.

(Speaker 2)
So again, step one, you go here to amazon . 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. 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.

(Speaker 2)
$2 million to get into. It’s just base membership fee. And I promise we’re going to make your night absolutely incredible. 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.

(Speaker 2)
The New York Times is going to do everything they can.

(Speaker 10)
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.

(Speaker 2)
You know that.

(Speaker 1)
I know that.

(Speaker 2)
You know the games that they’re willing to play. But Clay goes, why don’t we do a couple of things? First of all, love having dinner with Clay. He’s the greatest. 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. Why don’t we bring a couple to dinner at Mar -a -Lago?

(Speaker 2)
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 2)
I’ll make sure you guys have the absolute time of your life. I want to pull this up again one more time here, Jax, because 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? You buy a copy of the book, Pop Quiz. What book?

(Speaker 2)
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, 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.

(Speaker 2)
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, 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.

(Speaker 1)
So we’re going to run this promotion until November 5th. That’s my birthday. No, no. So we’re going to run it until October 14th. October 14th. It has to be pre -sale.

(Speaker 1)
This just in. It has to be between October 14th. That’s why we’re clarifying. So between now and October October 14th. Now, folks, let me just clarify this real quick here. So make sure I’m leaving you with some good clarity here.

(Speaker 1)
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 -0102. Three, you have to do that before October 14th. Before October 14th, this just in. It has to be before October 14th.

(Speaker 1)
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. father out there and you want to learn about mentoring your kids, it’s a great book.

(Speaker 1)
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 gotta have. 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.

(Speaker 1)
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. You are donating a portion of the proceeds to support Charlie Kirk in 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.

(Speaker 1)
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 Kash Patel is a very good friend of mine and was a very good friend of Charlie’s. you watch everybody else up on that stage every single day as they as they got to the bottom of exactly what happened and they brought justice to what happened or trying to bring justice to what happened.

(Speaker 1)
And it’s it’s it’s kind of unthinkable.

(Speaker 2)
But you know St. Jude and I talk a lot about St. Jude in this this book because it’s been you know fighting pediatric cancer has always been at you know a cornerstone of my life.

(Speaker 10)
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.

(Speaker 2)
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.

(Speaker 1)
And we can never let our voices be extinguished, Clay. You stood on that stage, as well as anybody I’ve ever seen stand on a stage. You did at Reawaken events all across the country, which you funded out of your back pocket, because you believed in America. You believed in a greater country. And you were on that stage every single day. You know I was on that stage with you every single day.

And I was on the turning point stage with Charlie all the time. And I was on that stage. on stages across the country and three campaigns. 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. They want to silence our voice. That’s why they killed Charlie. 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. They wanted to see us destroyed and gone with no voice, with no money, with no company, with no political aspirations, gone. And we can’t allow that to happen. And so we need to make sure the turning point continues.

We need to make sure incredible patriots like you 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. 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. And we need to keep Charlie’s legacy going. Eric Trump, thank you so much for joining us. us.

Pastor Jackson, thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely. Eric, have a great day. We really do appreciate you. 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.

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