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Well, I’ve had some very difficult times in the early 90s. Many of my friends went bankrupt. Many of my enemies went bankrupt also, which I didn’t mind at all. But many of my friends never to be heard from again. And I never did go bankrupt, but I was certainly in trouble. And you fight and you keep fighting and you use your brain and you make a lot of moves and hopefully they’re all good moves or most of them. And you end up being much bigger than you were before and it is a character

builder and I love the fact that it’s a character builder. It’s not something you want to go through every 10 years of your life but you do learn a lot about

yourself Robert. Right, the reason we want to do this is because for me it was in the early 80s I only went down a million. That’s not very much.

I know.

Today, it was.

Congratulations.

Thank you. But a million dollars back then was everything. It was everything. I was wiped out. I had nothing. I didn’t declare bankruptcy either because I decided to just fight back.

I think that’s our message, right, is that it’s a time to fight back. Don’t give up. Everybody goes through tough times. And for some people, they come out the other side better. Other people don’t. And so we’re encouraging people to do better.

Well, I really believe that times like this where the economy of the world is so bad, you have greater opportunity for financial gain than you would ever have in really good times. And I tell people go to the bank, buy a house, work a deal with the bank, they’ll take back financing. They said, well, we don’t have that kind of money. I said, you don’t need money. The bank already put the money in. And you work out a financing deal and the bank is dying to get rid of houses that are far nicer than any house you’ve ever lived in before. So it’s very important. I mean, you and I have had great experience. We did a number one bestselling book. And as you know, you decided to be a little bit

penny wise and you went to a printer for this book because we didn’t need a publisher because you had number one bestsellers. I have number one bestsellers. So you go to this printer and you save about three dollars and the company went bankrupt. And so we went from being number one to being not on the list and everyone’s going crazy saying where do we get the book. Right. So that was probably the fastest drop in history from number one to you can’t get the book. But we learned from that. And I wanted to go to a publishing house which would have

cost a little bit more but they’re solid. Right. And I don’t say you’re wrong and in many cases you would have been right. For instance, if you went to that same printer two years before, they were a hot printer. Right. And they would have lasted for two years. But you learn lessons in life and I think we both learned. It was always tough, you know, number one to nothing. That was a tough one. That’s right. And we learned something from it. That’s correct.

And we just keep coming back and battle back and come out stronger the whole thing.

You could be anywhere doing a lot of different things, but you chose to be here. And you chose to go somewhere you said, man, I can go and I can get better. I can go and I can learn. I can go and I can maybe go from where I’m at to where I want to go. But one of the most important things that you will ever do or not do in your life is to value and seek wise counsel. To be coached hard means you have to be willing to be uncomfortable.

Some shows don’t need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, 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. Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark, and the entrepreneur trapped inside an optometrist’s body.

Dr. Robert Zoller. Two men, eight kids, co-created by two different women. Thirteen multi-million dollar businesses.

We started from the bottom, now we’re here. We started from the bottom and I’ll show you how to get here.

Started from the bottom, now we in the top

Teaching you the systems to give what we got Colton Dixon’s on the hooks, I break down the books See, bringing some wisdom and the good looks As the father of five, that’s why I’m alive So if you see my wife and kids, please tell them hi It’s the CNC up on your radio

And now, 3, 2, 1, here we go!

We started from the bottom, now we in the top

Started from the bottom, and we’ll show you how to get there

Grab the duct tape and mentally prepare yourself for yet another mind-expanding knowledge bomb

America’s number one business coach, Clay Clark.

That’s it, arms away. Yes, yes, yes, and yes, Dr. Z.

It is just always, always, it’s audio ecstasy when you are next to me. So how are you doing? I am fantastic.

I love that someone thinks it’s ecstasy when I’m next to them. That just puts a smile on my face.

Well, I think for the listeners out there that are into the definition of words.

Words.

Controversial idea. When you look at the definition of ecstasy, it reads an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement. So I can actually say that with a straight face.

Sure.

Oh, I know you can. I mean that. Now, for the listeners out there today who are not familiar with the show, we like to focus on things that actually can change your life. So on today’s show, I want to talk about pushing forward in the face of adversity. So we’re going to go around the horn here, go around the room, and what we’re going to

do is we are going to bring up examples of where we fought through rejection and we kept pushing on, en route to success. And we’re going to one-up each other. So I’m going to start first, and no matter how good my little warm-up story is, Z’s story will be better. And then Paul Hood’s story can surpass that story. And then Ryan Wimpey with Tip Top K9 gets to win the prize here.

So here we go. We all have a good idea. Everybody out there has a good idea. You say, I want to raise capital. I want to start a business. I want to open my new company.

We all have these ideas. But the person who can’t fight through adversity never executes the idea. And they run around going, I have that idea. Entrepreneurs is what we call them. Entrepreneurs. They say, why didn’t I do it?

Why didn’t I do that idea?

I thought of that idea years ago.

You should share it with me now, since you did all the work. Have you heard this, though, this kind of logic?

Absolutely, sure.

And then colleges applaud it. They give you awards for the best business idea. They rarely give an award for the best execution of the idea. It’s always the best idea. Idea. And so here we go.

I had an idea that I wanted to book Boeing, Boeing, you know, the people who make the airplanes, Boeing for their Christmas party.

Yes. OK, you wanted to book.

When you say book it, I mean. I wanted to be their disc jockey. There you go. I wanted to be the DJ of choice for Boeing, their 40th anniversary.

Oh, wow.

And I remember I cold called Boeing and see what’s crazy Boeing didn’t call me. I called them Didn’t they know you had a DJ business DJ connection

They must have skipped it in the phone book because they did not call me. I called them But I had a lot of equipment and it occurred to me that a lot of people don’t wake up with a burning desire to Pay me really, but I didn’t have that idea until after I bought my equipment Paul have you ever had that thought as an accounting firm? Have you ever thought, like, wow, you know, we have a lot of overhead now, but not a lot of people call us.

We should probably call other people.

Yeah, it might be good. My payroll is $2.5 million a year, so I’ve got to call a lot of people.

You’ve got to call a lot of people. Ryan, have you ever had that idea with Tip Top K9 where you’re thinking to yourself, man, not a lot of people are calling me just because I have overhead.

I know they have dogs!

I have a bright yellow van, I’ve got all my flyers made, and my business cards are finally in and I know what to do and no

one’s calling.

Yeah. So we’ve all been there. So this is what I did. I picked up the phone book and I called Boeing. Now, this is how I got through. Zeke, can you be the front desk person?

Sure, absolutely. And you’re going to reject me at least three or four different times, okay? Sure. Call number one. Yeah, who’s in charge?

No, give it to me.

Do, do, do, do.

Let me answer.

Hello, I think it’s calling Boeing Airlines.

Yes.

How can I help you? I’m trying to talk to the person who’s in charge of booking your entertainment.

Who would that be?

Why did I take your name and number and I can pass that along? That happened like seven times. Then I had an idea. Here’s my idea.

Oh, oh.

This one worked.

Hello, and thank you for calling Boeing. Yeah, I got a question. I’m trying to get the details for our Christmas party this year. My wife and I want to make sure we’re addressing appropriately, you know, the times and all that stuff. Who’s organizing it this year?

Oh, that’s Roxanne.

You know, she’s…

There we go. And they gave me Alice Hargrove’s number, and there I was on the phone with Alice. So I said, Alice!

Alice!

And that move worked. I just changed my script a little bit to who’s planning our Christmas party, thus implying I might be invited.

Yeah, you’ve got to find out.

You never know. I mean, that’s a safe assumption. You’re just a positive adventurer. Yeah, sure.

But I mean, I had to try all these different… It took me weeks to figure it out, but I finally got through. I’m on the phone with Alice. I’ll never forget it. She said, well, we already have… I said, Alice, who are you using this year for the DJ?

She said, we’re using such and such company. And I said, how happy are you with their performance? On a scale of one to ten, if ten is great and one is terrible, how happy are you with their performance? And she does what most people do. She said something like, well, about a seven or an eight?

I said, well, I’ll take it from a seven or an eight to great. So I’d like to come meet you. Free consultation. I can show you how we can help you. I’ve got a lot of plans, revolutionary plans, that take parties from ordinary to extraordinary. You only have to pay me a dollar to book me.

You don’t have to pay the rest unless you’re happy. So it is a hot deal. Now again, you might ruin the party, and that might still be a dollar, it might be too much, or it could be great, but I’d love to meet you.” So Z, she agreed to meet, and I just told her I have revolutionary party ideas that will take parties to the next level.

And you know the one thing…

Did you have any specifics?

Nothing.

So when she agreed to do it, I thought to myself, I better get something. So I went there and then I was… By the way, folks, we have a very smart professor from Yale who’s now talking about how the hype about coronavirus is not a real thing. We have… I’ll put it on the show notes.

We’ve got MIT doctors now saying coronavirus is overhyped. We’ve got Stanford doctors. So anyway, the point is that I think eventually people will wake up and we’ll go back to stores. But the point is, I go in there, I bought a book called How to Be a DJ or something. Or, you know, how to take your party to the next level. And I got the book, see?

Yeah. Crazy thing. And I wrote down the ideas in the book. No. And I showed up to meet her. And I asked her, we have a man who wants in the door there.

There we go. And so I asked the question, I said, do you want me to teach everybody a line dance? And see, she says, yes. Yes, I do want you to teach the line. Now, you know what the problem was there?

You didn’t know the line dance.

Right, right.

That’s it.

Now, do you want to do name that tune? She says, yes, yes.

Now, do you want to do Price is Right?

Do you want to do Family Feud? Do you want to do karaoke? And she said, yes, yes, yes. And it occurred to me, I don’t know how to do any of these things. No, but then I read the books, learned how to do it, hired someone to teach me things.

Boom, there it is. But if I had not been willing to push through all that rejection, I would not have had super success. But that right there is a lame story.

Because this is the game of one-upsmanship.

We’re playing the one-upsmanship game. Yeah, but you can’t start off with Boeing. That’s not fair.

No, it is.

That’s a good story.

I know, but that’s not fair.

But I mean, you’ve been rejected by banks.

Well, I know, but still.

You’ve been rejected by, uh…

You can’t tell my rejection stories.

Z, are you backing down to a challenge? I’ve never seen this.

I think his knees are quivering over there.

No, Paul.

No, Paul.

I just want to point out the facts that he’s rigging the game.

He swung big, didn’t he?

He swung big. He goes, I’m just going to go up and coach him in a bunch. And then he just goes back and knocks it out.

I have better stories. That was a solid C. That was a solid C. I could have done better.

That was about a 7.

A 7.

That was a better 7. Alright, now get yourself ready because this is a hot and fast show here. 15 minutes of fury. Question number one. Story number one. I’ll give it a B, maybe a C. But I know Paul’s going to one-up you, so give us a story that’s

true. Well, I was coming out of optometry school. You alluded to it earlier. It’s kind of got a fun ending to it, so hang in there, folks. But when I came out of optometry school, every young wannabe doctor says, I want to have my own clinic.

Have my own clinic. Have my own clinic. Or be a partner in a big, big thing going on. So I found a gentleman who wanted to sell his practice. It was kind of cool. It was right over there by 71st and Lewis, as a matter of fact.

And so he said, all you have to do is go get the financing, and I’m sure any bank in town, since you have a DR in front of your name, and since you carry around a hard case Samsonite briefcase, you know, with the little flip toggles on the side, you know? Yeah. Yeah, oh, sexy. Since you carry that around, you must mean business.

Done.

Business time. I went and knocked on every bank in Tulsa’s door.

Everyone.

Knocked on the door.

Knocked on the door.

You actually showed up? I showed up. I just physically walked in and they greeted me and said, well, how can we do this for

you today?

And I said, well, I’d like to talk to a loan officer. I’m Dr. Zellner and I’m, you know, I’m not even off the top of my head. Here it is. Doctor. And most of the times I would get a meeting.

Sometimes I’d get a, well, they’re busy, we have to make an appointment. You looked very young back in the day.

I mean, when you were 30, you looked like you were 10.

Well, I was 10 at that point.

I mean, you’re a young man, though. Seriously, you’re a young…

I’m 25 years old at the time.

But you looked really young. Well, I guess… I mean, your 25 was like… Don’t you think, objectively, you looked very young?

I don’t know. I never really had a big head of hair, so that kind of…

I mean, you were beautiful, but you looked like a young, beautiful man.

A young, beautiful man. Well, I smell good.

I know that much.

Rejection, rejection, rejection. It was the same thing. You don’t have enough history. There’s not enough this. There’s not enough that. And as crazy as it may seem out there, for those of you wanting to buy a business, and

when they hand you their… Paul, you can probably stop talking on this. When they hand you their numbers, their papers, and they give you a wink and go, but you know, I usually make a little bit more than that. And what that means, folks, is that sometimes the cash doesn’t get included in the day’s tally. I run through the business.

But what happens is, when you go to buy it, now you have to show the money that’s coming through, and there’s no record of that. And therefore they look at you and say, well, that doesn’t justify the loan you want. You won’t be able to pay it back with that cash. So you’re not honest with where the money goes, kind of like Black Lives Matter. So I found one bank that said, listen, I’ll give you the loan on one condition.

He said, I’ll give you half the money up front, the other half you have to put in a CD for six months, and if you make your payments and it looks like you’re heading in the right direction we’ll release that second half to said seller of the office.

Does a CD stand for cash put into a hole that someone dug?

No, no. It’s a certificate of deposit.

Oh!

Thank you for clearing that up. And they have a lifeline of six months usually, maybe they can do it nine months, a year. And if you take it out before that, it’s a penalty. But anyway, so they told the gentleman that, and me, and he said to me, no. All up front, that was our deal, or out the door.

And I said, man…

So I went and I did something crazy.

What’d you do?

Hey, this is going to sound absurd.

Chaka Baba.

I went and got a job.

Wait a minute.

Let me cue up the box fan. When you talk about, the story sounds too crazy. It makes me want to go talk into a box fan.

La la la loo.

I mean, this sounds less crazy.

That does actually sound crazy.

You’re talking about getting a job?

J-O-B.

A J-O-B.

For somebody else?

But that wasn’t my dream. No. My dream was to have my own practice. Be to have my name on the door. Oh yeah. My name up on the side. Your body. I worked all that. I worked all that. You know it was a long weekend in Puerto Rico to get what I wanted and I found

it. That was eight years. But uh. A quick eight years. In Tulsa. I mean in Tahlequah. Went to the

Northeast. By the way folks for you those of you out there looking for a great family vacationing idea, go to Tahlequah. It’s known for…

It’s actually got some…

It is good stuff.

You can float the river there.

Float the river. Ten Killers of Beautiful Lake.

Yeah.

It really is a charming place. It’s a good place.

Go to Sal Manila’s?

Oh, wow.

So anyway, it wasn’t my dream, but I thought, well, now that I can’t do my dream today, that doesn’t mean I can’t plan to do my dream down the road. And now, as you so eloquently like to say, not only do I have all the businesses that

I have, but actually own about 10% of a bank.

So how about them apples?

Did you say that you own 10% of a bank?

Yeah, roughly.

You know, folks, for any of you out there right now who find yourself in a tough spot and you’re looking for free suckers, go to drzellner.com and just tell them, I want some free suckers. Because at the bank, you get all the suckers you want, right?

Oh yeah.

A lot of our listeners, business people, they want suckers.

A lot of toasters.

Yeah. I think beyond two suckers, you’re stealing, though.

You have more suckers in your lobby than what most MLM people have in their conferences. That’s how many suckers you have.

Wow.

I didn’t have that before.

So many suckers. But that was my thing about rejection. Sometimes you get rejected enough, and you could just go out there and say, well, I’m not going to stop until I open my business. You can’t do it without the thing called the money.

I got my job, I lived below my means, I saved up some money.

How long did it take you?

Oh, let’s see, it took me a year, one year.

A quick 12 months. Now that story, if I were going to give that story some quality, that story is already a solid A-. Mine was a solid B. Let’s be real. My story was a C-. So now your story hopped up from a C- game to an A- game.

I think it’s maybe B+.

Oh, I got this.

Okay, Paul, please give us a good story. And then by the way, we’ve got about 15 minutes of fury here, so we’ve got to get two stories in in six minutes. So Ryan Wimpy, be ready. Well, I don’t have a bank or Boeing story, so we’ll see what Paul has. You’ll one up these lame stories.

You’re next, Paul. All right, so here it is. This is Later in Life, and this is a fun story, because I got the same stories about bankers and blah blah blah blah but here’s the deal. So I get this email from my son and it’s about a $25,000 quarter house. We go look at this house.

I already have a nice house. I have a ranch and love where we think this is where we are. End all, end all, you know our final home and I go look at this house and it’s winter. There’s no power on. I have to use my cell phone to go look through it. There’s bats, Clay, flying around in this house.

Bats?

Bats.

Was Dr. Fauci there? He loves bats. Fauci was, I believe he was there. It was kind of a ghosting thing. But this guy had built this house for like 12, 14 years. And he got it to the sheetrock phase.

So he had some issues, blah, blah, blah, and had about $6 million into this place.

Did he have issues with sheetrock?

No, he loved sheetrock.

Okay, I just want to make sure it wasn’t…

Not with bats, for instance.

Did he have a bat cave?

He did not. I looked. I’m hoping I still find the button.

Was the house in Wuhan?

No, it was just outside of Wuhan.

Okay.

So all the bat references just…

Yeah, it just kind of gets us confused.

The guy doesn’t sing Meatloaf, does he?

No, he does not sing… Not that guy.

Another guy.

Continue, Paul. I’m sorry.

They’re getting into my six minutes.

Sorry, sorry Paul.

So the point is, by this time I have very good banking relations, I’ve got very good net worth, I’ve got money set aside, and I go to my banks, which I deal with about seven different banks. And normally I just walk in and say, hey, I need some money, and they just put it in my account. Sure. So I go to the banks and I ask, here’s this deal, I’ve got a six and a half million dollar house I can buy for 1.5 million.

Makes sense.

Yeah, it’s yeah, so common sense. They all said no.

They all said no?

What? They all said no. What? Yeah, they kept bringing up this movie Money Pit. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that movie Money Pit.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, so something ain’t right, something’s not right.

Is Money Pit about Dr. Fauci?

No, Tom Hanks is in it and that’s a whole nother, that’s a whole nother discription.

Oh, that Tom Hanks and Pitts.

Did someone say pedophile?

Pedophile Pitts.

I don’t know what that is.

I’m sorry.

You guys are… Go to Greece. He’s going to Greece.

It’s not against the law. I’m sorry.

It’s like any window in the story, Paul.

I know.

I know.

A lot of rabbit trails.

A lot of bat trails. So anyway, long and the short of it is none of my banks would loan me money. So this was a dead deal. I mean, I’m thinking, well, gosh, it’s a great deal. Why can’t I get somebody to loan me money?

It’s a fabulous deal.

Fabulous. So I go, I talk to the bankruptcy attorney that’s involved with it. I talk to the realtors. I talk to the existing bank. And they all said, you know, can’t get it done, can’t get it done, can’t get it done. Finally I just push and push and push and push and push.

And finally the bank that had the loan was getting ready to have to foreclose on it. And I convinced them to loan me the money plus another couple million to finish the house. So, now I’ve got a house that is worth two and a half times what I’ve got into it. And I’ve got, I’ve literally had builders mad at me because they didn’t have the cojones to ask to make an offer.

Because see what I did was, I believe if it had to be a hell yes, and so I set an extreme anchor. I offered 1.1 million thinking they’re going to laugh at me, but that was my number and when they came back and went from four something six something four something to 1.9 I said, holy smoke. This is got real and so just by asking if I would all these other builders all these other people They they said no they could okay. This can’t be done. It’s can’t be done Can’t be done and it took me six months of trying to get somebody to say yes

But I didn’t stop and now my net worth went up, you know several million the problem about this show is I want dr

Fauci to stop listening to it because he just keeps asking should we shut down your company? Can you please wear a mask? Can you please even though it defies logic? It doesn’t make any sense at all

Eventually people are going. Okay. I wish he brought up about it. I’m hoping he keeps watching because all this money He’s making off the coronavirus. He might be able by my house No, it’s it’s for sale if somebody can stroke a check.

Oh yeah, everything’s for sale, technically.

So that story, I would say that story’s solid. I probably saw it as A+, that was a phenomenal story.

I don’t know, he sounded, because it’s a violent story, he was doing a lot of pushing, like I don’t know if it’s UFC.

Paul Hood has thousands of customers.

That was almost mafioso kind of influence.

I’m telling you folks, Paul Hood, if you go to hoodcpas.com and you schedule your free consultation with Paul Hood. What’s going to happen is, one, you can schedule a free consultation. He has tons of these stories. He has a plethora, a cornucopia of these stories. He has at least seven stories.

That’s like something you eat, isn’t it?

Corn on the car well how did you look at the record account uh… you know i recommend you always call two or three shop around but you get free stores

with the great stories so all around call me last ok

now

right and i recap the story he wanted money no one would give it to him

he walked into the business and was uh… what’s the point of the money right now and they say no sir, we’re not going to give it to you. We’re not going to give you that money. He goes, I don’t think you understand what’s going to happen right here. I’m going to start pushing you.

And I mean pushing, I mean really pushing. I’m going to push you so hard. You’re going to feel really pushed. And therefore, you’re going to give me the money. So save us both some time. Save us both some time.

And then they went, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes sir, here’s your money. Sneaks us into the lobby having a stomach.

That’s A-minus, I think. I think it’s a good thing in your toolbox to have the push move ready to go. I think that’s, as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to have the push button.

Sneaks! Quit asking for the free suckers!

Coach Gisele’s got to go!

Unbelievable. Okay, so Ryan, you run Tip Top K9. It’s a dog training franchise. Yes, sir. How many locations are open?

Right now, 12. And they’re making money? Yes.

What kind of gross revenue is one of them doing where you can actually talk about it? So last year we had a lot of them averaging $30,000, $40,000 a month.

Of revenue? Yes. Training dogs?

Yep.

Good story.

That’s a good story.

That’s a great story.

So Ryan, give us a story.

What’s your story?

Well, there was no banks or Boeing or million dollar houses, so basically when I first started up like 14 years ago, I maxed out seven credit cards.

Just started up. Oh yeah, I started up. What’s credit cards?

Yep, credit cards.

You make a grown man cry. What kind of credit cards?

Macy’s cards?

Plastic?

No.

Target?

We just…

Sears?

It was all types of credit cards to be honest. Did you use any of the Mimi’s Cafe cards? No, I just got eight cards and cash-advanced them all. Creditcards.com? Yep. How much money did you get? $35,000. $35,000. I love it. That’s a great story. The internet wasn’t as fast, so I literally opened up like eight browsers at the same time.

That’s the movie. And then put them all in, and then it was like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I did that move as a young man. Right. Did you ever do the thing, I know you only, I know that you only listen to Christian music now, and for that reason I get it. But did you ever do the thing to a BMG Music where you got 11 CDs for a penny?

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Did you do that move too?

Can’t you win a million dollars by doing that or something?

Dude, let me tell you, the catch was you had to buy one CD within the month and you had to cancel and you got to get 11 for a penny. I signed up when I was like 15, 16, any name I could think of. I literally signed up my dad, my mom. I tried, I went to the dog, and I recognized it worked. So I was like just signing up random people.

It seemed like there’s probably 45 people living in my house at some point. I mean, that’s how I built my first CD collection. I like the resourcefulness. So you did it. You maxed out the credit cards.

Right. So then I paid, I’d been working with another dog trainer. They moved. I paid a guy who trains trainers, how to be professional trainers and get set up and stuff. He came out. I paid him a huge chunk of money.

Chunk of money.

Money in chunks. On my own, and I’m bombing it. So I have a yellow van, it’s wrapped, I have some pretty, you know, Word document flyers, business cards got in and then I realized I only have a few leads that I’ve got, right? And then I did okay selling with him when it was like half him there, right? Because he was the guru.

And then my first one I go to by myself, the people are really not impressed asking if I know any other dog trainers that train similar to me.

Wow. Did you ever take your van and go park it by a dog park? Yeah.

And you sit out there in a lawn chair? So what happened is I get everything started and then I’m like, hey, I literally have no leads. And so I would go park my van and I would train my dogs in public for like three or four hours at a time to try to generate leads because I had no leads at all.

Speaking of public, you guys remember that grocery store called Publix?

Yes, Publix.

No.

It’s in Texas, I know.

They sponsored me to speak, like, I don’t know, when I was 26. And you’re supposed to thank the sponsors, Z. So I get up and I’m like, I want to thank the good folks at Publix for sponsoring me. And I didn’t know that wasn’t the name.

No, you didn’t.

My wife can vouch. And so I’m like, I want to thank Publix. They’re just a great organization. And I probably said it.

Oh, no.

I probably said it.

Dun, dun, dun, dun.

Maybe 10 times.

Is that like calling Mr. Dumas Mr. Dumbass?

The crowd did this.

My wife is waving at me like, stop.

No.

And I don’t know what she’s doing. So I just keep saying it.

Oh, no.

So anyway, it turns out it’s not.

Was that your worst faux pas?

Yeah, referring to Publix as Publix. It got everybody laughing, I just thought they liked me. They love this guy. What a great, funny guy. Anyway, so that is a story that didn’t end well. I want to read three notable quotables and we’re going to wrap up today’s show.

Napoleon Hill once wrote a book called Outwitting the Devil. Outwitting the Devil. And in the book, Outwitting the Devil, he says, You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.

Fear.

The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

Boom.

Boom.

Next notable quotable.

Napoleon Hill says, The capacity to disarmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling. Napoleon Hill, because he was on fire, goes on to write, failure is a man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent. So if you’re out there today and you’re dealing with some rejection, you’ve got to push through

it. You have to not stop. You have to keep pressing, keep pushing. This is going to be your year to thrive I I know you’re gonna have success, but you cannot stop because all success is on the other side of great adversity You have to fight through the problems you gain strength through struggle

You got to fight through it. Do you have to do it? And by the way, is he here your calf muscles are percolating?

Well that had a lot of adversity. I bet if it showed those calves when he went to the bank

Lone done short shorts, baby. That was my that was my secret move, but I didn’t use it

Well, we’re gonna hit this show with a bow down here. We gotta be unfair It would be we’re gonna end the show with a boom here. We go three two one

Hey, I’m Ryan limpy 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. 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. And I went what was actually ranked as a very good business school. The linear workflow, the linear workflow for us in getting everything out on paper and documented is really important.

We have workflows that are kind of all over the place, so having linear workflow and seeing that mapped out on multiple different boards is pretty awesome. That’s really helpful for me. The atmosphere here is awesome. I definitely just stared at the walls figuring out how to make my facility look like this place. This place rocks. 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. I literally want to model it and steal everything that’s here at this facility and basically create it just on our business side.

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. We appreciate you and really just appreciate how far you’ve taken us.

This is our old house. Right, this is where we used to live a few years ago.

This is our old neighborhood.

See, it’s nice, right?

So this is my old van and our old school marketing. And this is our old team and by team I mean it’s been another guy.

This is our new house with our new neighborhood.

This is our new van with our new marketing and this is our new team. We went from four to fourteen 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 one to ten locations in only a year.

In October 2016, we grew to 13 grams for the whole month. Right now it’s 2018, the month of October. It’s only the 22nd, we’ve already grossed a little over 50 grand 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, times a thousand.

So we really just wanna thank you, Clay, and thank you, Vanessa, for everything you’ve done, everything you’ve helped us with. We love you guys.

All right.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to bring up my good friend Ryan Wimpy, my good friend Ryan Wimpy and his dog, Odin. This dog has the ability to eat me, so I’m sort of concerned. I’ll pass the mic to you and Odin, you can have your own mic if you want, whatever you

want, Odin.

Okay.

I’m a little bit afraid of Odin.

Hi, I’m Ryan Wimpy.

And I’m Rachel Wimpy,

and the name of our business is Kip Top Training.

Our business is a dog training business. We help people with behavioral issues and teach their dog how to listen. When I was learning to become a dog trainer, we didn’t learn anything about internet marketing or advertising or anything at all.

It’s just dog training, and that’s what’s so great about working with Clay and his team because they do it all for us.

So that we can focus on our passion, and that’s training dogs. Clay and his team here, they’re so enthusiastic. Their energy is off the charts.

Never a dull moment.

They’re a threat.

We’ve been working with Clay and his team for the last five months, two of which have been our biggest months ever. One, our biggest gross by 35%. Clay’s helped us make anything from brochures to stickers, new business cards, new logos, scripts for phones, scripts for emails, scripts for text messages, scripting for everything.

How I would describe the weekly meetings with Clay and his team are awesome. They’re so effective. It’s worth every minute. Things get done, we’ll ask for things like different flyers and they’re done before our hour is up. So it’s just awesome, extremely effective.

If you don’t use Clay and his team, you’re probably going to be pulling your hair out or you’re going to spend half of your time trying to figure out the online marketing game and produce your own flyers and marketing materials, print materials, all the stuff like that. You’re really losing a lot as far as lost productivity and lost time. Not having a professional do it has a real sense of urgency and actually knows what they’re doing when you already have something that’s your core focus that you already know how to do.

You would also be missing out with all the time and financial freedom that you would have working with Clay and his team.

We would recommend Clay and his team to other business owners because they need to be working on their business, not just trying to figure out the online game, which is complex and changing daily. So no one has a marketing team, too. Most people don’t.

They can’t afford one. And their local web guy or local person that they know probably can’t do everything that a whole team and a whole floor of people can do in hours and not just weeks or months. There’s a definite sense of urgency with Clay and his team. I used to have to ride other web people, I mean, really

ride them to get stuff done. And stuff is done so fast here. There’s a real sense of urgency to get it done.

What I’ve seen from Clay and his group at Thrive is they’ll

give you a simple system. And it’s the simple systems are the ones that people can wrap their brain around. They’re the ones that people can work with on a day-to-day basis.

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

I started working with them in mid-February of this year, so we’re about four months in of working together, and it has completely transformed my business in pretty much every facet. So I’m gonna check my notes here. So in four months, my leads have tripled.

I was getting probably like two leads a week, now I’m getting more in the like 10 to 15 leads a week. I have doubled my number of employees. I’m now hitting the highest revenue weeks in the history of the company, week to week it seems like.

We went from about six appointments today as our highest in February to now 14 to 15 appointments a day. And hiring quality employees has become much simpler and less stressful by using their systems for hiring. I typically only get maybe two complaints a month,

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

single week. It’s just been great and such a lot, I don’t waste as much time on low quality candidates anymore. I have successfully gained our second largest commercial client and that was during COVID. So again, I started working with Luke and Clay in February and then COVID hit in mid March or so.

So for the entire month of April, we were shut down residential, April and May, I believe. And so despite that, and again, being a new business and all this stuff, I mean, we came out of COVID like stronger than ever, and now hitting our highest numbers in the history of the company, it just leads,

just piling in, and the beauty is when people call us, they’re already sold because of our Google reviews, our online presence, the no-brainer offer that we now give to our clients, which is, you know, if they book their second appointment within a month of the first, they get 50% off. And again, they’re just ready to book.

I hardly have to do any work, it feels like sometimes to actually book people. So that’s amazing. So every week I meet with Luke, and it’s awesome. Obviously I’m in Wisconsin, he’s in Oklahoma, but we have a great time. I know I can text him at any time, call him at any time with any issues I’m having, especially when COVID did hit,

they were so helpful in helping me get the PPP grants and everything settled away there and really pushed me to make sure I was on the ball and getting all of the grants that I was possibly able to, which was amazing. So they’ve just been such a wealth of information.

And when I’m freaking out because, you know, a burning fire is happening, Luke’s there to calm me down and back me off the cliff edge. It’s just awesome to have him as a resource there. Every week we meet and we have a big tracking sheet, so we track all my leads, we track

my numbers, where the leads are coming from, any complaints. I love my tracking sheet. I know it’s probably a little extra, but I love it because I can see everything that’s actually happening in my business. This is so important because it’s not like I’m just saying, well, I feel like it’s busier. I know if it’s busier and I know, are we making a profit every week? Why or why not? It’s just amazing. Then I’m tracking my Google

reviews, tracking my competitors’ Google reviews, and Luke is always pushing me to get more reviews even though I was not very comfortable with that at first. It felt just pushy, but now I’m seeing the effects of having a lot of Google reviews. A lot to me, at least. It’s not very high compared to others, but people are finding us on Google, and they’re already ready to book because of our reviews.

Going for those reviews has been so integral in having, basically, easy sell leads. So tracking has been just so vital and I really enjoy it actually. So anybody who is skeptical about working with Clay or Luke, you know the whole team at Thrive Time, I was definitely skeptical and to me again new business it seemed like a lot of money but in comparison to other business coaches especially like specific to the cleaning industry like I’m in, I mean you’re talking like $10,000 a month and honestly I feel like

I get like that much value out of Luke just my meeting with him once a week. It’s amazing and it has just transformed my business and in every single aspect. I I always aspired to be a successful business owner. And now, I mean, it’s not even a question that this business is going to be successful, even if a pandemic happens and you have to shut down. I mean, if I can make it through that, and directly because of them, it is absolutely because of them.

Obviously, I’m a hard worker, blah, blah, blah, all that, and I was made to be an entrepreneur. However, having them as like the guiding light of this is what you need to do and it’s very straightforward. Doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it is very straightforward of what needs to be done. And I like that. I like having that step-by-step process and I love having the accountability because there’s a lot of stuff that they have me do that I don’t want to do. It’s not fun, but it works. And that’s, you know, having that discipline to just do the things week after week regardless if it’s dull

or boring or you don’t want to do it. Luke really pushes me to do those things which I love. I mean I hate it at the time but I love it because I can see how it’s affecting my business in a positive way. And you know I don’t want to be just good I want to be the best and I see them as an integral part of that and I will not be the best if I if I don’t have them with me. So I just love having them on my team and it just feels like the best decision I ever

made in my business. And I know I’m still really small and things like that, but there’s a reason I reached out to them when I was small because I want to be big and I want to not grow and then collapse because I grew too quickly without the correct systems in place. So it’s just, it’s been amazing and I would suggest anybody who’s willing to put in the work and do things that make you uncomfortable Reach out to them

But if you are not willing to change the way you are doing things if you’re not willing to implement a no-brainer If you’re not willing to ask for Google reviews if you’re not willing to write content really really boring content for your website So the Google bots find you Then don’t reach out you need to be willing to put in the work as well. And your coach will hold you accountable, I mean, which I love.

Again, the tough love is really great. You know, Luke’s like a stern father figure, but he’s also nice, but also stern when he needs to be when I’m being lazy and not doing the things that I know I need to do because I don’t want to do them.

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

what they say even if you think it’s stupid or ridiculous just do what they say because it’ll work you know people when they look at my business you know people in my town they think I’m lucky they think I’m just you know things just happen for me and you know maybe I am lucky but it has a lot to do with hard work and you know perseverance and you know working till you cry sometimes that’s just being an entrepreneur,

which if you’re a business owner, you understand that. But it’s having these systems in place of, you know, of course I’m gonna be successful. It’s an absolute, because I have all this stuff in the background happening, and I have Luke and Clay and everybody on their team working really hard

to make sure that I’m a success. And I can tell that they are just so excited every single week when I’m having all these wins and things like that They’re so excited for me So it just it’s the best thing ever and I would suggest to anybody to work with them So sorry for the long-winded reply

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

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

and that simplicity brings power with it. So it shocked me how simple some of the stuff is. And at times I’m like, why didn’t I think about that? Workflow creation, systematic marketing, and coaching has helped our church so much. You know, the workflow creation is what it really is, is they’re going to look and see every moving part of your church, of your ministry, what needs to be done.

And it’s going to go up on a massive board. And so now what it does is it takes what you know needs to be done out of your heart and out of your head. Really takes the pressure, the stress off your shoulders. And it puts it on the board where your entire team, your ministry can see exactly what you want them to do every day. So they know this is the playbook.

This is what we’re doing. And then there’s a laser sharp accountability with a meeting afterwards. Did it get done or not? I’ll tell you, it’s changed the way we execute as a church so fast. And it’s produced really an excitement because people, people, they want to get done. If they know what they’re supposed to do, a good person wants to get it done.

It’s been massive for our team. The systematic marketing has really been like this. In the past, we used to market and we would try something. I’ve done everything, billboards, you know, ads, mailers, internet, Facebook, but we would run something for so long. And then we wouldn’t see that it was

producing the results we want. Instead of staying consistent, we would jump to another horse. Then we would jump to another horse. And what systematic marketing does is it makes you pick some things and stick with it. And then the coaching is massive. And I think having a coach that looks and sees what you’re doing and can come help you

make small adjustments. I believe those small tweaks, once he gets everything set up, those small tweaks can make massive differences. A great coach doesn’t even have to play your sport, right? Doesn’t even have to do what you do. A coach has an eye to see things that you can’t see, or to see it from a different angle.

Just having that extra eye on what I do, and just, hey, have you thought about this? It’s making all the difference in the world. What Clay Clark and his team can provide for your church that you can’t do in-house and I can’t do in-house. What’s been massive for me is that search engine optimization, how to get to the top of Google, taking care of transcribing all of my sermons to drive me up the list on Google,

stuff that I don’t think about and I don’t have time to do. I’ve got all these things I have to do as a pastor, right? I have sermons to preach. I have a staff to manage. I have a budget to take care of. I got sick folk to see about.

I have a team that has to do that. You know how it is. You got to marry people. You got to bury people. We’re never going to stay in a dark room with a keyboard optimizing our Google presence. These guys do that kind of thing for you.

Also, if you’re at a couple hundred member church, I remember how hard it was back in the day to take care of the website needs, to come up with graphic design. And these guys are available to you for sermon slides, getting that kind of stuff done, where you can have a sharp-looking presentation of the gospel. And it takes it off you and puts it on them at a very reasonable price. I really believe Clay Clark and his team can help a church with limited resources in a big way. I know what it’s like to be a church of limited resources.

My wife and I, we walked into a town where we didn’t know anybody. We had a Bible and we just had a few bucks in our pocket. Somebody introduced us to a couple of families. We started going there. So I know what it’s like to be a church of two, and I know what it’s like to be a church of 2,000 in two different campuses now, 1,000 apiece, and everywhere in between.

So I love churches at every level. I believe God wants them all to grow. And I think about the needs I had back in the day, the lack of direction I had. I mean, I was working 80 hours a week all the time, but a lot of times I was a shotgun instead of a rifle. I think when you start, you can really hone in with the right coaching, you can get a lot of your different needs met in one place.

Instead of having somebody on marketing, and somebody on showing you how to do systems, and somebody on graphic design, Thrive can do a lot of that for you at a very reasonable cost. I think it’s a great place to invest in the life of your ministry. I’m telling you, I think you can get the results you want with the coaching here faster than any other way.

Clay Clark is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy Clay?

Clay’s the greatest. 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. So this guy’s like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right?

His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing.

Okay, Aaron Antis, March 6th and 7th. March 6th and 7th, guess who’s coming to Tulsa, Russia?

Ooh, Santa Claus?

No, that’s March. March 6th and 7th, you’re going to be joined by Robert Kiyosaki. Robert Kiyosaki. Best-selling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Possibly the best-selling, or one of the best-selling, business authors of all time.

And he’s going to be joined with Eric Trump. He’ll be joined by Eric Trump. So we’ve got Eric Trump and Robert Kiyosaki in the same place. In the same place. Aaron, why should everybody show up to hear Robert Kiyosaki? Well, you’ve got billions of dollars of business experience between those two.

Not to mention many, many, many millions of books have been sold. Many, many millionaires have been made from the books that have been sold by Robert Kiyosaki. I happen to be one of them. I learned from the man. He was the inspiration. That book was the inspiration for me to get the entrepreneurial spirit, as many other people. Now, since you won’t brag on yourself, I will. You’ve sold billions of dollars of houses, am I correct? That is true. And the book that kick-started it all for you, Rich Dad Pornhub, the best-selling author of Rich

Dad Pornhub, Robert Kiyosaki, the guy that kick-started your career, he’s going to be here. He’s going to be here. I’m bummed. And now, Eric Trump, people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees.

There’s not 50 employees. The Trump Organization, again, most people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. And while Donald J. Trump was the 45th president of these United States and soon to be the 47th president of these United States, he needed someone to run the companies for him. And so the man that runs the Trump Organization for Donald J. Trump as he

was the 45th president of the United States and now the 47th president of the United States is Eric Trump. Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within, marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems, workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build. I mean, everything 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. You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint. I mean, who else has been able to create a brand like the Trump brand? I mean, look at it.

And this is the man behind the business for the last, pretty much since 2015. He’s been the man behind it. So you’re talking, we’re into nine, going into 10 years of him running it. And we get to tap into that knowledge. That’s going to be amazing. Now think about this for a second. Would you buy a ticket just to see Robert Kiyosaki, Eric Trump? Of course you would. Of course you would. But we’re also going to be joined by Sean Baker. This is the best-selling author, the guy who

invented the carnivore diet. Dr. Sean Baker, he’s been on Joe Rogan multiple times. He’s going to be joining us. So you’ve got Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Eric Trump, Sean Baker. The lineup continues to grow.

And this is how we do our tickets here at the Thrive Time Show. If you want to get a VIP ticket, you can absolutely do it. It’s $500 for a VIP 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. 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. Now we only have limited seating here. The most people we’ve ever had in this building was for the Jim Brewer presentation.

Jim Brewer came here, the legendary comedian Jim Brewer came to Tulsa, and we had 419 people that were here. 419 people. And I thought to myself, there’s no more room. I felt kind of bad that a couple people had VIP seats in the men’s restroom.

Oh, no, I’m just kidding. So I thought, you know what, we should probably add on. So we’re adding on what we call the upper deck, or the top shelf. The seats are very close to the presenters, but we’re actually building right now, we’re adding on to the facility to make room to accommodate another 30 attendees or more.

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.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. That’s my cell phone number.

My personal cell phone number. We’ll keep that 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. 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 one for a one.

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 you tell me what you’re gonna learn here, okay?

Okay, you’re gonna learn marketing marketing and branding. What are we gonna learn about marketing and branding? Oh, yeah, we’re gonna dive into you know so many people say oh, you know I got to get my brand known out there like the Trump brand right you want to get that brand out there It’s like how do I actually make people know what my business is you can make it up a household name? You’re gonna learn some intricacies of how you can do that. You’re going to learn sales.

So many people struggle to sell something. 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. 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 and so it can 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. 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. 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? 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. It’s two days. Each day starts at 7 AM, and it goes until 5 PM.

So from 7 AM to 5 PM, 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-and-answer session. So Aaron, what kind of great 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. 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 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 to make it entertaining when you’re stretching. And this is a true story.

When you get up and stretch, you’ll be greeted by mariachis. There’s going to probably be alpaca here, llamas, helicopter rides, a coffee bar, a snow cone. You had a crocodile one time. That was pretty interesting. I should write that down. Sorry for that one guy that we lost. The crocodile, we duct taped its face. It was a baby crocodile. Yeah, duct tape around the mouth so it didn’t bite anybody.

But it was really cool to pass that thing around. I should do that. We have a small petting zoo that will be assembled. 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 identify as 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. 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. 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. And you say double? Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses we’ve grown 8x. There’s so many examples. You can see it at thrivetimeshow.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. And then you add to that Robert Kiyosaki, the bestselling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. You add to that Eric Trump, the man that runs the Trump Organization. You add to that Sean Baker. Now you might say, Clay, is there more?

I need more. Well, OK, Tom Wheelwright is the wealth strategist for Robert Kiyosaki. So people say, Robert Kiyosaki, who’s his financial wealth advisor? Who’s the guy who manages? Who’s his wealth strategist? His wealth strategist, Tom Wheelwright, will be here.

And you say, Clay, I still, I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more. OK, fine. We’re going to serve you the same meal both days. True story. We cater to food and because I keep it simple, I literally bring him the same food both days for lunch.

It’s Ted Escovedo’s, an incredible Mexican restaurant. That’s going to happen. And Jill Donovan, our good friend, who is the founder of Rustic Cuff. She started that company in her home and now she sells millions of dollars of apparel and products. That’s rusticcuff.com.

And someone says, I want more. This is not enough. Give me more. OK. I’m not going to mention their names right now because I’m working on it behind the scenes here.

But we’ve got one guy who’s given me a verbal to be here. And this is a guy who’s one of the wealthiest people in Oklahoma. And nobody really knows who he is because he’s built systems that are very utilitarian, that offer a lot of value.

He’s made a lot of money in the, it’s the, it’s where you rent, it’s short term, it’s where you’re renting storage spaces. He’s a storage space guy. He owns the, what do you call that?

The rental, the storage space?

Storage units. This guy owns storage units, he owns railroad cars, he owns a lot of assets that make money on a daily basis, but they’re not like customer facing. Most people don’t know who owns the mini storage facility, or most people don’t know who owns the warehouse that’s passively making money. Most people don’t know who owns the

railroad cars, but this guy, he’s giving me a verbal that he will be here. And we just continue to add more and more success stories. So if you’re out there today, you want to change your life, you want to give yourself an incredible gift, you want a life-changing experience, you want to learn how to start and grow a company, go to Thrivetimeshow.com. Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow.com. Request a ticket for the two-day interactive event. Again, the day here is March 6th and 7th.

March 6th and 7th, we just got confirmation. Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author, rich dad, poor dad, he’ll be here. Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump Organization. It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells. Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible, and there’s somebody out there right now, you’re watching, and you’re like, but I already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin. I think that’s going to change your life.

I promise you this will be ten times better than that.

It’s like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Don’t do the Smoke Your Way to Thin conference. That is…

I’ve tried it.

Don’t do it. Chain smoking is not a viable… I mean, it is life changing.

It is life changing.

If you become a chain smoker, it is life changing. It’s not the best weight loss program though. Right. Not really. If you’re looking to have life-changing results in a way that won’t cause you to have a stoma, get your tickets at Thrivetimeshow.com.

Again, that’s Aaron Antis. I’m Clay Clark. And reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two-day interactive Thrivetimeshow workshop right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I promise you it will be a life-changing experience. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.