RusticCuff.com | The Founder of RusticCuff.com Jill Donovan Shares Her Journey to Creating the Multi-Million Dollar RusticCuff.com Brand + Robert Kiyosaki & Eric Trump Join Clay Clark’s March 6th & 7th Business Conference

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You could be anywhere doing a lot of different things, but you chose to be here. 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. This 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 Zunich. 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 we’ll show you how to get here.

Started from the bottom, now we’re here. We started from the bottom, now we’re here. We took class, started from the bottom, and now we’re at the top. Teaching you the systems to get what we got Colton Dixon’s on the hoops, 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 here We started from the bottom and we’ll show you how to get there We started from the bottom, now we here

We started from the bottom, now we here This nothing moved me and all my friends knew what they wanted to do and I had no idea. And by this point I had learned how to tap dance, play the harmonica, I took cooking lessons for years, sewing lessons, everything. And I thought, I like all of those, but all those feel like have-tos. And then I thought, well, I think maybe I’m meant to be an attorney. Actually, I just wanted my own office, and I wanted to tell people I was an attorney.

But I didn’t really want to be an attorney, but I just wanted to go to school. So I made that a hobby. It turns out that’s more than a year hobby. It took me three years, and I thought, this is it. I am called to be a family law attorney. And then I got the office. I loved my office and did not enjoy the practice of law

at all. And I thought, God, why is all this time wasted? All of this is for nothing. And now I’m in my 30s. So I began to teach law. I became an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa and I thought

this is it. I think I’m called to be a law school professor, but the only thing I liked about being a law school professor was being able to tell a stranger that I was a law school professor because I thought it sounded cool. I was so, I was just not qualified. I hadn’t practiced long enough and I faked my way through it for eight years. I know, I hope that you were not one of my students because you need to get some money back if you were.

In my, well into my 30s I thought, or in mid 30s I thought, this is crazy, how is it that I’ve wasted all these years and still don’t know what I’m called to do? And I thought if I can just be around somebody that knows what they’re called to do,

then perhaps that will ignite something inside of me. Maybe I’m just not around enough people who say, I get to do this. And so, the person that I knew that she knew what she was called to do, because she was really gifted at it,

for me, growing up was Oprah Winfrey. I would watch her, and she just was really good at what she did. And I thought, if I could just get to the show, then I would be, it would rub off on me somehow, and I would be inspired and find what it is I was called to do because I believe

Every one of us we were born with a purpose given Uniquely to each one of us by God and how is it that I am now in my 30s? And I do not know what that is. And so I just decided to get a ticket to the Oprah Winfrey show Well, if you’ve ever tried to do that It’s near impossible. Well, that’s because she doesn’t have a show anymore, actually.

So now it’s really impossible. But it was super impossible back then because it was either a busy signal or they were sold out. So I decided that after four years of trying, still doing all these hobbies, still searching, after four years of trying, I decided that I would get online to see if there was another way that I could get to the show. And I was with one of my clients and she walked out of my office and I thought I’m not gonna leave here until I figure this out. Got online and pulled up Oprah’s website and it said

really in big letters like it was just for me it said do you want to be on the show? And I was like, okay. I mean if that’s gonna get me a ticket to the show, I’ll be on the show. And the very first thing that it said was, are you a regifter? If so, tell us your story.

Write Oprah an email. And I had grown up in a family. My mom was very practical. Frugal is a better way to put it, but practical. And we just were never allowed to buy gifts for our friends. We had to go to my mom’s gift closet

and shop with her stuff, which was never age appropriate. It was always 30 years older than I needed for the gift. And I said, mom, I will never, ever, ever have a gifting closet when I get out of this house. And I had the most amazing gift closet when I got out of the house.

It was amazing. And now Oprah was looking for me. And so I wrote Oprah a letter and just told her some funny stories about how I’d gotten caught re-gifting. And two hours later my phone rings and my secretary said, Jill, Maria from the Oprah show is on the phone. And I thought, how big is God? Like, really? Like

this is happening? Like my life is getting ready to change because somehow I’m going to figure out what I was created to do. And I picked up the phone like I was expecting Maria’s call, like we were best friends. And I was like, hey Maria, what’s happening? And she said, Jill, we just read your email. We loved it, we wanna fly to Tulsa tomorrow

and film your gift closet. And I thought, this is amazing. I didn’t care about being on the show, I just wanted to be there. So they flew to Tulsa, I had nothing in that gift closet, it was getting empty, so I went across the street to a little shopping center,

used a credit card, bought everything that I could to fill that closet up, knowing I was gonna take it all back and I just thought that would be the best advertisement they will ever have. The next day after she came and filmed, it was super fun, it was a show about etiquette,

is it proper to re-gift, can you chew gum in public, it was all these things and I was gonna be part of the show. She called me the next day, she said, the producers loved the clip. We would like to fly you and your husband out to be in the front row of the show.

And I just thought, this is happening. So I sat down, I wanted to write my resignation at the law practice, and I thought, yeah, I’m gonna let this life go, because there’s something else for me. So we fly out there, sitting in the front row.

I felt amazing, like I was just gonna say thank you. When Oprah thanked me for being there, all I was supposed to say was thank you. They told me to only say thank you. And the show, right before the show started taping, Maria came over to me and she said,

Jill, I just wanna tell you that there’s been a change of plans. Oprah wants you on the stage with her and she wants you to tell your stories. And I thought, this is when the heavens opened up, the angels were singing,

and I knew something was happening, I could feel it. So I get up on the stage and Oprah sits down and she looked at me and she said, all she said was, I love your shoes. Oh, she said, nice shoes. And I heard that and I thought this is this is the best day of my life

This is this feels so amazing I can’t imagine what I’m gonna learn here And then I looked over on the other side and there were etiquette experts from Canada, and they looked at me and said We love your shoes, and I thought This is this is so beyond Incredible what’s getting ready to happen here,

and just like that, the show started. They aired the clip and Oprah said, Jill, what do you think now that you’ve been exposed to the world? And this, again, was supposed to be a lighthearted thing, and I said, well, Oprah, and she said, hold on,

let’s ask the etiquette experts what they think. I’m like, yeah, let’s, they like my shoes. Let’s see what they think. And they looked, they looked over at me and they looked at Oprah and they looked at the, they had just written a book,

so that’s why they were there. And I just remember staring at them thinking, like, I know that you’re going to deliver something fun and funny, because they wanted me to tell all three of my stories. And so I was segueing in my mind,

how do I get into these stories, that I get these fun stories that I get to tell? And she throws it to the etiquette experts, and they said, Oprah, we think that Jill is rude and tacky and that entire closet needs to be sent back to Goodwill, needs to be sent to Goodwill.

And I felt like I was sucker punched all these years, all these years of doing hobbies and looking for this get to, and I’m on the couch, the same one that Tom Cruise had just jumped off of, and I’m sitting there, and maybe not have, there’s a lot of men in here

might not get that. Zach, you know when Tom Cruise jumped off the couch? Oh, I would have given you a bracelet if you said yes, but I’ll still give you one. So I’m sitting there and I feel sucker punched. And just like that, it ended as quickly as it started.

I didn’t tell a single story. 13 minutes passed and I could not understand why in the world God would take me to the highest peak only to go to the lowest valley in a matter of minutes. I would have rather just sat in the back like I wanted to originally than have to sit through the pain of 13 minutes of just not being able to blink because I had tears in my eyes. And I remember staring at these girls and thinking,

you are my dream stealers. I didn’t know what the dream was exactly, but you are my dream stealers. You don’t even know it, but you’re stealing something from me that is so valuable. I’ve been searching for it for so long.

And I remember going back to sit with Terry and he patted my leg like a good husband would do. And he’s like, good job. We both knew he was lying. But we went to Gino’s Pizza in Chicago after that, and I remember staring at the walls,

and I had what I call Gino’s Pizza moment, because everything got clear. It was really a lot of tears, cloudy, foggy, could not understand, felt wasted, all of that was wasted, and I had this clear moment as I’m staring at all the handwriting on the walls,

and this was my clear moment, that whatever it was that I was called to do ultimately in life, whether it was 30, 50, 80, it only could happen if this happened. This was going to have such a purpose in my life that I couldn’t skip this step. And then as soon as I felt that moment and had that clarity, I went back to fog. I went home, emptied, or took all the stuff back first so I could get my money back. And then I gave it all to Terry and said, I don’t ever want to open this closet again.

This closet is a memory. Not so much of the embarrassment. I can handle being embarrassed. It is a memory of the disappointment. My heart was sick from longing for something, only to be disappointed. And I did not want to be reminded of that. So five years went by. And a lot of times we don’t know whether it’s in business or in our personal life, we don’t know how much sleep we have gone on the inside because we’ve become resentful of somebody

else or something disappointed us. And then we stop creating. We stop being all that God called us to be. So for five years, I fell asleep internally. And I remember five years later sitting up in bed one night at two o’clock in the morning and I could not take it anymore. And I just said out loud when my husband was sleeping and kids were sleeping, I sort of whispered,

I said, I forgive Canada because that’s kind of what I call these girls. They represented all of Canada for me because they were from Canada. My apologies to anybody in here who is from Canada, but I said, I forgive these dream stealers. They don’t even know what they did. They’re not going to ever apologize, but I forgive them for what happened up on the stage. The second I said it, something, it was like I’d been carrying a backpack filled with a

lot of rocks of resentment and disappointment. The second I said, I let it go. It was like they came out and I felt lighter, completely transformed. And then I got up out of bed, opened that closet again,

that had been left closed for a long time. It was our linen closet. So I don’t know where we were getting our clean sheets from but it was not the linen closet. And I said, God, would you give me an idea to fill this closet up with things

that I can re-gift to other people. And just like that, because I now had room in my backpack, just like that, this idea deposited to open this drawer that was filled with cuffs. I worked for American Airlines, working my way through law school,

and I would buy a cuff in every country or city to remind me of the place I had been to. And I remember opening the drawer and looking at all of them, and I got this idea that may not have come, but for saying, forgive the dream stealers. And the idea was to teach myself how to make cuffs

and engrave on there words of life and hope that I wish I would have had on my wrist for the five years before that, to remind me that faith in God includes faith in his timing. This too shall pass, to take it one day at a time. And so I got up and I Googled,

how do you make leather cuffs? How do you engrave? And for the next five months, I ruined the guest bedroom, putting my kids to sleep at nine o’clock. I would stay there till four or five o’clock

in the morning. And when you fall in love with something, be it your business, a hobby, when you truly fall in love with something, you don’t really see a lot around you. I forgot to feed my children.

I’m like, you ate on Monday. It’s like Thursday. Back in the day, they probably just ate once a week. I was so obsessed because I had become alive again because I let go of something that I had been carrying for so long.

And I kept filling up this closet with words of hope and words of life. I didn’t even care about having a business. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even really want a business. All the business owners and entrepreneurs I knew would say, I haven’t slept in three days,

or I haven’t taken a vacation in five years. And I’d be like, I don’t want that life. I just wanted to create. But I felt like when I opened the closet up and it was filled with cuffs, that I was supposed to take a few of them off,

put them on my wrist, and start giving them away. And I was like, I’ve worked so hard on these, I don’t wanna just give them away to strangers, Aaron. We’re now friends. And I put three of them on, and I said, okay, I’m not gonna rest until I do

what I feel like I’m called to do. And I went across the street to the grocery store and I walked in and I saw a grocery store full of people. And I just said, okay, my knower will know when I see the person I’m supposed to give this to. And I saw this girl who was checking people out

and got some groceries in my cart and got in her line. And when I got up there, I didn’t look down at my wrist I just went like this and snapped one off and handed it to her and I said I feel like I’m supposed to give this to you and immediately this woman started to weep and it was a very awkward moment was the first one I ever gave away and it’s an awkward thing just to give away something like that like here’s an

earring like hope you like it like it was just a weird feeling and I said, are you okay? I’m so sorry. Are you okay? And everybody was in line behind me watching and and she said, I’ve never seen you before. I don’t know how you would know this. She said, but yesterday I was diagnosed with breast cancer. And when I was in the doctor’s office and just got the news, she said, I just said, quick prayer. God, give me a sign of hope that everything will be okay. And we looked down at the bracelet. I looked down at the bracelet and it was a pink bracelet and she looked back at me and said I just want to thank you for being that sign of hope and it was at that very moment that I said that is it

I know what I am called to do I am called to give away hope every single day for the rest of my life I got in my car shut the door and I started to weep and realized, wow, all along I thought what a waste this was, what a waste all these years of hobbies were. And God knew all along that at some point I would say, it was my get-to all along. All those things that I thought were have-tos, all the things that felt like Groundhog’s Day to me were actually part of God’s get to. See, I have these daughters

who like to change plans and they’ll call me at midnight and say, can you come pick me up from my friend’s house? And I’ll say, do I have to? And then I’ll tell my husband, I have to go get peanut or I have to go get Ireland. And I felt very convicted because God said, aren’t these the children after you had three miscarriages that you prayed for? Aren’t these the children for whom you prayed and I would say yeah and he said those are your get to whether you’re driving

them around and in the business like sometimes you don’t sleep for three days and I’m like I have to I have to say I have to do this and God’s like isn’t this the the company for whom you have prayed for years and years this is your get-to whether you’re on the highest mountaintop or in the deepest valley, this is all part of your get to. So when you leave here today, you may feel that your get to is way further

than when you walked in because of all the information you got. But I want to tell you that whether or not you are thriving financially or whether you are in the deepest valley financially, this is all part of your get to.

You can’t say at some future point, I will be happy and I will get there someday because if you do not lay each plank one at a time you will fall fast. This is all part of your get-to. You can only get to step 100 by going through all these steps. I want to, I’m going to close here in just a second, I want to say that when you, two years ago, I did a hobby and every single day, I mean I’m still doing them up to this year, but two years ago, every day I decided

to create one piece of art and fully finish the piece of art every day until I got to day 365 and I numbered all of them. Because I wanted to look back and say, how is day 200 compared to day one? And when I did that, I realized, there’s no way you magically get to day 200 without the pain of going through day one, two, three,

four, five, you have to. So whatever day you are on, if you don’t stop, you will get to day 200. Because when I got to day 200, I loved that art. It’s embarrassing when I look at the first 200 days that I numbered. I would never have gotten there if I stopped.

You just cannot stop doing what you’re doing because you will never get to the point where you love what you do if you aren’t bad at first. We have a saying when you first walk into our corporate office and it says, chapter one to chapter 20. And that is that is even for your for your own self not comparing it to anybody else. I’m saying that if you do not stop you will get to your day

200 to your day 300. Three years after Rustic Cuff started I got a letter from the Oprah show and it said Dear Jill congratulations. Rustic Cuff has been chosen to be on the wrist of Oprah on her March issue. It was a big orange cuff that I had mailed to her best friend, Gayle King, who used to wear it all the time on the CBS morning show. And I just

thought, you’re telling me that Oprah is wearing a re-gifted cuff on the cover of her magazine? Wasn’t planned, didn’t know it, but it’s a story that I could never, ever have written. And I say, how big is God? But for the pain of what I went through, but for the lowest valley, I don’t think I would have ever moved forward with even going to any sort of mountaintop had I not gone through that.

So I would say your lowest valleys are also your get-to’s. Every single hobby, when I look back, I think, wow, how grateful I am, but now I view them as my get-to. Every drive, every drive I drive my girls, every time I have to make my husband dinner, or order DoorDash, really, because I don’t like,

enjoy cooking, I’m like, okay, I get to do this, because we dated for 11 years, he had cancer, this is the husband for whom I prayed I get to do this so I want to inspire you I try to inspire you when you leave here that no matter where you are in your business in your company or in your personal life don’t say I will be happy when I get to the level that this speaker or this speaker got to like

right now is the spot that you have to be in this is part of your get to because this will pass you will get to another spot and you will be able to look back and say, that was all of my get to. So I made a little video up because it’s the end of the year. And it’s the most amazing thing when you do pick a new

hobby, even outside of your business, something branded that you’ve never done. And I hope this inspires you to do something different every single day for 10 minutes and make it all part of your get-to. Now I wasn’t great at any of these things really but I will say it changed my life to be able to do something every day and go all the way to day 365 because what that

happens is it starts to trickle into other areas of your life. You’re like I can do this, I can do something that I’ve never tried before. So this just for fun is a video to inspire you to maybe pick you might want to pick crochet for the year this is a little video to hopefully inspire you. I’ll be there in a hurry, you don’t have to worry. Baby, there ain’t no mountain high, oh, oh, oh.

I know it’s true. I know it’s true. I know it’s true. That you’re the one for me. I know it’s true. I’m going to announce this to everyone who’s listening, I am not your real mother.

Everybody gets two foul shots. I hope that inspires you to pick something new today and I hope when you leave here you will remember that you are purposed to do exactly what you’re doing. There’s only one of you doing that are called that is called to do this particular job that God has put on this earth for you. And so I say embrace your get to and go make the impact that you were meant to make.

Don’t wait until the future. You can do it right now no matter how difficult this is. Thank you very much. All right, we’re going to do a group photo. Can we do a group photo? I think a group photo is needed. So we’re all going to do a group photo. So you can kind of stand up here if you’d like. That’d be great. And we’re all going to squeeze in here. And then, Andrew, you’re going to get very tall on some. Are you doing good? Okay, Jill.

got a good job. crowd time show that’s where you want to be. That’s where you want to be. Where you want to be. Business growth is what you want to see. crowd time show that’s where you want to be where you want to be

Yeah, yeah, you got the big guns. Do what she did, yeah, do what she did. Clay Clark is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy Clay? Clay, Clay Clark! You’re on set.

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 Russel Santa Claus no no that’s March March 6th and 7th you’re gonna be

joined by Robert Kiyosaki Robert Kiyosaki best-selling author of rich dad poor dad possibly the best-selling or one of the best-selling business authors of all time and he’s going to be joined with Eric Trump. He’ll be joined by Eric Trump. We’ve got Eric Trump and Robert Kiyosaki in the same place. In the same place. Aaron, why should everybody show up to hear Robert Kiyosaki? Well you got billions of dollars of business experience between those two, not to mention many many many millions of books have been sold. Many

many millionaires have been made from the books that have been sold by Robert Kiyosaki. I happen to be one of them. I learned from the man. He was the inspiration. That book was the inspiration for me to get the entrepreneurial spirit, 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 Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki,

the guy that kick-started your career, he’s gonna be here. He’s gonna be here, I’m umped. 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. So Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within, marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems, workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build.

I mean, everything that you see, the Trump hotels, the Trump golf courses, all their products, the man who manages billions of dollars of real estate and thousands of employees is here to teach us how to do 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. Oh yeah.

Dr. Sean Baker, he’s been on Joe Rogan multiple times. He’s going to be joining us. 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. But 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. 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. So 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. It’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. 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. I’ll tee up the thing and then you tell me what you’re going to learn here. Okay. Okay. You’re going to learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we going to learn about marketing and branding? Oh yeah. We’re going to dive into, you know, so many people say, Oh, you know, I got to get my brand known out there like the Trump brand. You want to get that brand out there. It’s like, how do I actually make people know what my business is and make it a, a household name. You’re going to 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 either have great

people or you have people who suck and 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.

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.

But let me tell you how the format is set up here. And again, folks, this is a two-day interactive 15. Think about this, folks. It’s two days. Each day, it starts at 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 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.

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. I mean, you had a crocodile one time. That was pretty interesting. You know, I should write that down. Sorry for that one guy. We lost the crocodile. We duct-taped its face. It was a baby crocodile.

And we duct taped. Yeah, duct taped around the mouth so it didn’t bite anybody. But it was really cool passing 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 U.S. 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 1000 chance of succeeding in the game of business. But yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double the size. 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. Yeah.

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 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, but 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 the food.

And because I keep it simple, I literally bring them 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. Okay, 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. 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 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 and you want to change your life, you want to give yourself an incredible gift, you want a life-changing experience, you want to learn how to start and grow a company, go to Thrivetimeshow.com. Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow.com. Request a ticket for the two-day interactive event. Again, the day here is March 6th and 7th. We just got confirmation.

Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of 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. You think that’s going to change your life? I promise you this will be ten times better than that. Looks like I picked the wrong week. 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. 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.

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.