Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Launching ClickFunnels Connect and The Truth About Influence with McCall Jones | #Marketing - Ep. 39
Episode Date: May 28, 2025This episode of The Russell Brunson Show takes you inside the ClickFunnels Connect event we just hosted in Salt Lake City. In the first part of the episode, I share what ClickFunnels Connect actually... is, who it’s for, and why we believe it’s the next big chapter for funnel builders, entrepreneurs, and creators looking to grow faster by growing together. Then you’ll hear from one of our most powerful voices in the marketing world… McCall Jones! Her session on influence and authenticity blew everyone away, and I knew we had to share it with you here. If you’ve ever struggled to feel confident on camera… or wondered how to build real connection with your audience without trying to be someone you’re not… McCall breaks it all down with frameworks that are both simple and life-changing. Key Highlights: Why we created ClickFunnels Connect and how it’s helping entrepreneurs grow together The hidden reason most people feel awkward on camera (and how to fix it) How McCall uses the “Stage & Story” method to turn your personality into your superpower The difference between real influence and trying too hard to be “authentic” Why copying other marketers kills your connection — and what to do instead How to show up with more confidence, clarity, and presence in every piece of content This episode is packed with strategy, identity shifts, and the kind of clarity that can transform your marketing from the inside out. Whether you’re already showing up consistently or still finding your voice, McCall’s insights will change the way you think about influence forever. And if you love it and want more from McCall… Follow her on Instagram at @mccalljonesofficial https://sellingonline.com/podcast https://clickfunnels.com/podcast Special thanks to our sponsors: NordVPN: EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal https://nordvpn.com/secrets Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Northwest Registered Agent: Go to northwestregisteredagent.com/russell to start your business with Northwest Registered Agent. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions: Get a $100 credit on your next campaign at LinkedIn.com/CLICKS Rocket Money: Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at RocketMoney.com/RUSSELL Indeed: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job’s visibility at Indeed.com/clicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey, what's up? This is Russell. Welcome back to the show. For the next couple episodes,
we are going to be doing something really cool. A little while ago, a week or so ago,
we actually went out to Salt Lake City, Utah, and we did a special type of event that we call
the ClickFunnels Connect event.
A lot of people have been asking, what's the plan on Funnel Hacking Live? Where are we
going? What are we going to be doing? Some of the future for next year or two is really
going to be these little mini meetups, little mini Funnel Hacking Lives happening all around
the country, all around the world. This is one of the first ones we did to kind of kick
it off, kick off the idea. Then we launched literally like, not a marketplace, but similar
to like meetup.com where you can go and see like the meetups are happening in your local area
but this is for funnel hackers for people like you and me who are obsessed
with marketing and funnels and digital marketing and stuff where you can do
these little meetups in your hometown and so we did this first event it was
three hours long we did we covered a lot of really cool things and then at the
end of it we kind of launched this thing we had I think 400 500 people who applied
to be able to run meetups in their hometown so there's probably meetup And then at the end of it, we kind of launched this thing. We had, I think, 400, 500 people who applied
to be able to run meetups in their hometown.
So there's probably meetup happening
in your hometown right now.
So two things I want you to do.
Number one, I want you to listen to this,
because again, this is the kind of value
you'll be getting at these events
just for free for hanging out at them, which is amazing.
And then number two is if you want to run an event,
I'll talk about how to actually run an event during this.
So you can sign up and do a ClickFunnels Connect event
in your hometown, you know, at the IHOP or at your house
or a hotel or restaurant, whatever.
And then number three is if you want to go tag in
to invent something else,
I mean, over at ClickFunnelsConnect.com,
by the time you hear this, we should have it live,
but it'll be a page, it looks like Meetup.com.
You go over there, you see all the Meetups
and find one in your hometown,
and then you can go RSVP and go hang out and go do it.
So that's what's happening.
So this is behind the scenes of the ClickFunnels Connect event.
Again, it's three hours long, so I'm going to do this over the next three podcast episodes
so you can kind of hear.
The first one, I'm going to talk about what's been happening since SenseFHL, why we're doing
these ClickFunnels Connect events.
And then McCall Jones is going to be coming and sharing with you guys one of the coolest
little nuggets.
I literally am writing a new video sales letter
based on what she taught here.
It was so powerful.
So that's what's gonna happen here on the first episode.
Next episode, well, I'm not gonna tell you yet.
I'll surprise you.
So that's it.
I hope you guys enjoy this episode.
After that, go check out ClickFunnelsConnect.com
and go find a ClickFunnels meetup happening near you.
This is the Russell Brunson Show.
First off, this is so fun. I feel like I know about two thirds of your faces. This is the Russell Brunson Show.
First off, this is so fun.
I feel like I know about 2 thirds of your faces.
So I feel like I'm back home in Utah.
So excited to be hanging out with you guys for the next,
I think, like, three hours away of schedule.
But we have no, like, definite plan.
So we could go forever.
I don't know how long Nicole's going to talk for,
but she could go for days.
Like, it's between all of us.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
No, we got a lot of fun stuff.
I'm gonna talk for like 15, 20 minutes right now,
and then we've got, we're gonna do a ClickFunnels demo
on a really cool new feature some of you guys may not know
about, I've got two amazing guest speakers here,
and then in the end I'm gonna come back,
and I've got a whole bunch of stuff I wanna talk about.
So yeah, hope you guys have a good time.
This is really fun for me.
When I walked in this morning, I saw the room,
I was like, I had these flashbacks
from when I first started in this business. So I walked in this morning, I saw the room. I was like, I had these flashbacks from when
I first started in this business.
So I remember going to my very first event.
It was Armand Morin's big seminar.
There were like 500 people in the room.
And I saw the first time I saw someone self-instaged.
Everyone ran in the back of the room.
I told that story a million times.
But it was the first time I'd ever been to an event.
And I saw it.
And I was like, this is really, really cool.
And I started getting asked to speak at events.
And the way the event world worked back then is different.
Nowadays, most people run events where there's
a lot of speakers who are just speaking just to serve,
and then usually one or two pitches, right?
But back then, every speaker sold.
That was just the way it worked, and that's
the way the business model worked.
So I started having people invite
me to come speak at these events.
And they're like, yeah, I'm going
to have 300 people in the room.
It's going to be amazing.
So I'd get all excited.
I'd tell my wife, it's going to be payday.
We're going to make some money. And so I had to pay for my own flight,
fly out there, pay for my own hotel, pay for my own taxi drive because there was an Uber's back
then, get to the hotel and then you'd show up to the room and you'd walk in the room. So it's
have 300 people and there'd be like 30 people and there were 10 other speakers. So 10, 30 people,
but 10 of them are speakers. There's 20 people in the room and we're all the speakers looking
at each other. It's like, one of us is going to make money this trip,
and the rest of us are going home broke.
And that's how it was.
And that's literally how I learned speaking.
And there were times I would go in there,
and it's like, OK, I'm competing against 10 other speakers.
We've got 20 buying units in the room.
Let's see how we do it.
So we do the pitch, and I would bomb, and I'd fly home,
and literally I'd lost money by doing these trips, right?
And so I had to get better and get better.
And that's where I learned the art of public speaking
and selling because literally like it would cost me money
if I didn't figure out how to out-close everybody.
And so that was always the thing.
How do I take all the money out of the room
so that nobody else can make any money this trip?
Cause only one of us is walking home and he make any money.
And so that's how I learned this game.
And so I walked in, I had this reminiscent
cause this is what most of the rooms look like.
They weren't this nice though.
They were never like with the view,
they were always in like motel sixes with like yellow walls
and it was nasty, but this feels like that.
And it's actually really fun.
So I appreciate you coming and doing this,
this little small meetup.
And this is kind of a kickoff for us as well.
Obviously you guys know for the last decade,
we've been doing Fun Hockey Live and got bigger and bigger
and the spot where after 10 years, it was just,
I think all of us on our team were just tired, especially me, probably Miles, maybe we're
just like, because what happens we do Funnel Hiking Live and you come off this high, it's
amazing.
And then like a month later, we're like, who's speaking next year?
What's the plan?
And then it was just like 11 months of just grinding and filling and promoting and like,
and that kept happening year after year for a decade, 10 years.
So it means I got 10 months off in 10 years
because the rest of the time we were planning for
like, and the same time we were trying to run
a software company, being a wrestling coach and a dad
and like all the, so it was just, it was chaos.
And so as we got closer and closer to 10, we're like,
if we go past 10, we gotta go to 20 or we can stop.
And it was like this weird thing.
And so as you know, we decided to stop for now.
Cause I wanted to wait for something different,
something bigger.
I don't know what that is yet.
I know when we first launched Funnel Hacking Live,
the way we did it was very unique.
It was different.
Every seminar up to that point, again,
every speaker come and there's 20 speakers,
everyone's selling.
And we kind of re-imagined Funnel Hacking Live
when we first launched it.
What if none of the speakers sold?
What if it was people from our community, not just like the public speaking people? And what if they asked me to reimagined Funnel Hacking Live when we first launched it. What if none of the speakers sold? What if it was people from our community, not just like the public
speaking people? And what if they asked me to build the first Funnel Hacking Live? And it was unique.
And then the second one and third one, and the way we marketed, the way our, like, the way Dan and his
team invented, like, the after movies, where after the event we put out these trailers in the movie
before, and like, it was all just unique and different. And then over time, everyone started
looking at what we were doing, started funnel hacking us, started modeling us and then everyone else events
started looking more and more like ours and honestly it's weird we look at
people's events now like how similar they all look to Funnel Hacking Live and I
hated that because it's like I don't want to think that like that I'm a me too.
It's like no like they're all copying me like this is not so, and so I have a
vision for something different and bigger and better and I don't know what
that is yet but I'm in pursuit of looking and so the reason why I'm actually here today is because Garrett J. White's decided to try
to fill a stadium with people for a one-day event.
And I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know if it's going to be good or bad, if it's going to crash and burn, it'll be
the next big thing.
I have no idea, but I want to be here for it all.
And so I was like, I need to come and just, I want to sit in the room as an attendee,
experience it and watch it and see, because he's trying to push the edge on something
that's unique. I've been watching people dabbling with different models.
How many of you guys know Mel Robbins?
If you follow Mel, she's filling up stadiums right now, but she's like a three-hour keynote.
So they come in at night, three-hour keynote, and she's bounced, but she's getting 20,000
people to fill it up for a three-hour thing.
If you look at Jordan Peterson, how many of you guys have gone to a Jordan Peterson event?
So this is crazy, I'm in Boise, Idaho on a Tuesday night
and Jordan Peterson's coming to Boise,
I found out from a friend,
cause I didn't see any ads or anything,
I'm like, no one's gonna beat that,
who even knows about it?
So on a Tuesday night in Boise, Idaho,
I show up and he has packed a stadium with 5,000 people
to hear him talk.
And Jordan Peterson in sound bites is really fascinating.
Jordan Peterson, long form,
anybody heard of him long form?
You all know what I'm talking about?
Someone asked him a question,
went for two and a half hours,
and I watched the train fight site,
he goes here and then here and then here and then here,
and then we're like clear out in who knows where.
I was like, what is he talking about?
And then somehow like 90 minutes, two hours,
and he starts looping back,
and then all of a sudden it comes back, and two and a half hours later it lands.
I was like, how did he do that?
But anyway, I like Jordan, short form Jordan, a lot better than long form Jordan.
And I was like, he's actually not that good of a speaker.
He is insanely complex and confusing and kind of boring and he didn't sell anything, which
really made me mad.
But he had 5,000 people on a Tuesday night in Boise, Idaho
show up for an event.
And then the next night, he was in Montana.
And the next day, he did this tour.
So there's something I'm working towards.
I don't know what it is, but it's going to be amazing.
So right now, I'm in the pursuit phase of that, trying
to figure out, I want to create something that's
different, that's unique.
So once you guys do see what that is, it's like, oh, oh,
that's better.
And then everyone copies.
We'll make something different.
But for right now, that's where I'm pursuing. So I don't know when that's going to look like. But in the short term, we's like, oh, oh, that's better. And then everyone will copy this and make something different. But for right now, that's where I'm pursuing.
So I don't know when that's going to look like.
But in the short term, we start thinking, like, what can we do?
Our community is the best.
It's the best in the world.
And I don't want to lose the community thing.
And funnel hacking life is amazing.
Everyone would come together once a year, and we had this big, huge thing.
But also, it's like once a year.
There's 361 days of the rest of the year that everyone's left to their own devices, just
kind of figuring things out.
And it's funny, over the last 10 years of ClickFunnels, we kept having this idea.
In fact, I remember Dave Wardward and I, it was after the whole Fire Festival dude did
the first Fire Festival.
GSC just launched number two, but it failed as well.
Anyway, that's the story from the other day.
But after the Fire Festival guy happened and it crashed and there was the documentaries, we were the documentaries who are watching that like, we should do the ClickFunnels Fyre Festival.
So we made this like logo, the ClickFunnels logo on fire. And it was like, and Dave and
I already did, it was like, what if we did these local meetups all around the world?
And then there's a period of my life, my wife and I are watching a lot of Bachelor and Bachelorette.
So those of you guys who know, every night when
Bachelor would be on, Chris Harrison and who
have the Bachelor, they'd go to these different meetups.
They'd show up, and he would freak out.
And like, wouldn't that be cool if there's
these little ClickFunnels Fire Festival meetings happening
all around the world, and we'd just show up randomly
at different people's parties.
And like, how cool would that be?
And so we talked about it.
We kept putting together.
We never got it executed.
We tried three or four times.
We had a logo that was so cool, but that was about all we had.
We kept trying about talking about it
and it just never, for some reason,
it never made it to fruition,
never happened as a thing.
And so a little bit before Final Hacking Live this year,
our team decided to do an event
they call the ClickFunnels Connect event.
And anyone go to the very first one?
A couple of you guys read that one.
I wasn't there.
I found out it was a side project I found out later.
But it was cool.
And the footage and everything was amazing.
And I was like, oh, this is closer to what we're trying to do, like smaller meetups
where people can get together.
And we can talk about marketing.
We can look at software.
We can do ideas.
And what does that look like?
And so it's fun to talk about closer and closer.
I was like, I want to do something like that during this, whatever this middle space is,
where there's time for us all to still get together and something cool and then me and Chris Harrison can fly
to people's houses and like hang out.
And I was like, imagine like a ton of mini little funnel hacking lives happening all
around the world, right?
In restaurants or it's people's houses or in little studios like this or in whatever
that would look like, right?
And so that kind of became the vision.
So that's what we're working towards.
And so this is kind of a kickoff event for that for us, just to do a little one so you can see
what this potentially could look like.
Like imagine this happening in your own backyard
or in your home or in whatever.
You gather together two or three or 10 or 100 friends.
And this is people at home.
I'm talking to all you guys as well.
Talking about all around the world,
we want to have these happening.
And sometimes like in meetings where you just get together
and you hang out.
Other times it'd be coordinated times where we say,
we're all doing it Thursday night at
4 a.m. East Coast time, whatever, right?
And we all do something where I can stream in or people can bring in guest speakers and
like anyway, so that's the vision what I'm trying to create right now, which I think
will be really cool.
And so we built some really cool software to run and manage this.
We were planning on launching it today, but we're going to do like a kind of a two-step
punch.
Do you want to pull it up? It's similar to like meetup.com where by it's like but we're gonna do a kind of a two-step punch. Do you wanna pull it up?
It's similar to like meetup.com,
where by the way, someone can come here
and click from us, connect, and then scroll up a little bit.
What'll happen, you'll see, okay,
here's all the meetups that are happening
all around the world, wherever you're at.
And then down here, say, okay,
there's a meeting happening in Dubai,
and in Chicago, and in Boise, and in Salt Lake,
and there's two in Salt Lake, and there's this,
and like, you see all these funnel hacker meetups.
And then you have a chance to go back,
oh, I wanna go to that one and do it.
Or if there's not one happening,
I wanna throw a party at my house,
let's do one at my house, right?
And you can set up a little party
and have people come to it.
Now, for me, the idea originally came for this
because, man, this is a long time,
probably 20-some odd years ago,
Mike Phil same created a website,
it's called marketingbreakfast.com,
and it was similar to this,
where you could go and you could set up,
it'd be called the marketing breakfast. And you set up marketing breakfast, and then you could like this. We could go and you could set up, he called it marketing breakfast and you said marketing
breakfast and then you could like people from around could go and hang out and
just talk marketing and hang out at breakfast. It was really cool and so I
remember there was a boy some guy did a Boise one and he had us all meet at
IHOP at like 10 a.m. on a Saturday and so I like IRSVP to it and we showed
there's like eight of us in Boise who all showed up and I didn't know there was
anyone else in Boise who actually was in the business. It was the coolest thing
in the world. Malis and I had friends locally and we did these marketing breakfasts at IHOP and we
talked about marketing and stuff.
It was really cool.
And so that's kind of the vision for this is something like that where again, any of
you guys could set up a meeting where it's like, I want to be meeting in my house and
we're going to watch an old FHL presentation.
We're going to talk about it or we're going to set up a meeting and whatever that can
look like.
Okay.
And then like I said, we'll also do coordinated ones where it's like we're all getting together
at the 30th of this month and me, I'm going to show up at someone's house, Todd's going to
show up at someone's house, throw a cool party because you have no idea where Chris Harrison
and me are going to show up at.
I wonder if I could hire Chris Harrison to come with me on some of these.
He probably is like hireable right now because the whole, you know, anyway.
So one of the goals for today for everyone here and everyone at home is how many of us
would be interested in running a little ClickFunnels Connect event at your house, at your restaurant,
at...
Okay.
So what we're going to do is we are having...
I have my mouse pulled up.
There's a page where you can apply to be an event host.
And the main reason for this is we want to make sure that you guys are people who aren't...
There's a lot of...
Ayan Ran calls them looters.
These are people who don't create value, they just go steal value, especially from our community. And so this is the frame to make sure you're. He's kind of in charge of this. So he's going to be doing a call.
Yeah, so all you need is you fill this form right here, boom.
And then Danny will be doing some like group meetups over the next couple of weeks.
You jump in, he'll kind of explain everything again.
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You just want to make sure that you're a ClickFunnels Funnel Hacker person, and then after that
you can go and create meetings whenever you want, set them all up.
Like I said, we'll also have everyone who's doing meetings, we'll coordinate with the
guys when we do the group ones where we're all doing it at the same time, same place,
where we could bring in...
I was thinking about this.
In the Mormon world right now, my wife's in this group called the Inkling's Group. It's really cool because
once a week, all of them meet together in our area and they take a talk from general
conference, which is our kind of like our final hacking live for the church. And so
they all, they show that they, right? We got enough Mormons in here, you guys know what I'm talking about.
So we're in Utah.
Everyone at home, that's, yeah, anyway.
So they all get together and they all watch a conference talk and they talk about everything.
I was like, how cool, we've got 10 years of the most amazing Final Hack Live presentations.
How cool would it be if it's like, all right, coordinated thing, we're watching charisma
hacking around the entire world tonight.
We all watch it.
Then McCall comes in, does Q and A to everybody.
And then everyone in the thing is like, practicing their charisma, like,
how cool would that be in these little mini things
happening all around the world?
So that's the vision of where we're going
with these ClickFunnels Connect events.
And so the only call to action for anyone,
we're not selling anything today,
other than just go apply to be a host,
doesn't cost you any money.
If you go to clickfunnelsconnect.com slash host,
or scan the QR code at home or here, whatever that is,
that's the current game plan.
And I'll show this again at the very end
before we get done tonight, but I just wanna lead there,
like this is where we're going,
this is what we're trying to do.
And I want just these things happening
all around the country, all around the world,
because I think it's going to keep
the ClickFunnels community tight,
which would be really cool.
So that's kind of the game plan.
So I'm going to, yeah, thank you.
Let's go.
We have a lot of other fun plans,
but we'll drip feed them all.
We'll give them to you as we go.
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So without further ado, this is the founder of Charisma Hacking and Charisma Style.
Let's give it up for the one and only McCall Jones.
Okay.
Hello friends.
I am so excited to be here with you today.
Like Chris said, my name is McCall Jones and I am the founder of Charisma Hacking, or
co-founder with my cute husband over here.
You can wave.
Yeah, Tanner.
So at Charisma Hacking, we help coaches and creators
sell more on video by making them more charismatic.
Now this is important for our presentation today.
Our definition of charisma is the ability
to hijack people's emotions and energy.
Yeah, can I teach you how to hijack people's emotion
and energy today, say yes?
Yes, amazing.
So, what we're gonna talk about today
is exactly what Chris said.
We need to hook people at the beginning of your sales presentation.
Yeah, it's so important.
Let me tell you why.
So over the last couple of months, we've had a lot of clients come to us and they all had
the same problem.
The problem that they had is they had an amazing offer.
They had awesome secrets and the rest of their webinar was incredible.
The problem was nobody was seeing it.
Because all of these people would show up, they would spend a ton of money on ads, get
a ton of attendees to their webinar, and then over the course of the first 10 minutes of
their webinar, people would leave.
Yeah, they weren't even making it to the pitch.
As I was going through all of these different clients, I mean, and it was clients from very
beginners to doing several million dollars a month or a year.
It was crazy.
They were all making the exact same mistakes.
Yeah, so I'm gonna show you how to not make
those mistakes today and how to redo the first 10 minutes
of your webinar so that people actually make it
to the pitch.
Does that sound good?
Say yes?
Amazing.
So I first wanna talk to you guys
about why this is important.
The first 10 minutes are the most important part of your webinar because,
I know everybody thinks it's the pitch, right? Yes? Yes, I'm seeing some head nods.
It's not, because if they don't see the pitch, then it doesn't matter.
Yeah, the first 10 minutes have to be the most important, so you want wanna spend your most time focused here first.
Yeah, once you can get them to stay,
then we adjust all the other things
that they're actually gonna see.
But this is the most important thing, is the first,
I'm gonna use this board, is the first 10 minutes
and really the first couple minutes.
Now we have one goal with the first 10 minutes
of our webinar.
Yeah, the one goal is that we want people
to think to themselves,
this could be my missing piece. That's it. That's our one goal. Yeah, does this make sense?
Now, let me show you the wrong way to do this and the wrong way to do the first 10 minutes
of your webinar. Yeah, now, I don't want you to say it out loud
because some of the webinars that you may have watched
that have been making these mistakes could be close to you.
They could be online.
I'm looking at you online, people, right?
Don't address it.
You also could be making these mistakes,
but these are the two wrong ways to do it.
Yeah, and we're gonna keep coming back
to this piece of paper, but these are the two wrong ways
to establish authority and open your webinar.
The first one is what we call a sob story.
What a sob story is, is sometimes people will hear
the word origin story, and they start to dive into
their background, right?
They start to dive into all of the things that have made
them the person who they are today.
They dive into all of the mistakes that they made
when creating their business, right?
If you guys heard of this before,
you can just nod your head.
Don't say yes out loud.
Yeah, a lot of times we'll go to conferences
or we'll hear speakers start to speak
and they'll start to tell this sob story, right?
And they open up the speech with this sob story.
Now, this actually does have a place in your webinar.
Your origin story is important.
Yeah, I do want you to use it elsewhere, but it can't be in the first 10 minutes.
Yeah, it can't be in the first 10 minutes because worst case scenario, the thing that
people think is who cares?
That's worst case scenario.
But that's not the reason why we can't start with a sob story. The reason we can't start with a sob story
is best case scenario. When you tell a sob story
they think good for them.
Now if best case scenario
we're getting good for them, the problem with this
is it doesn't achieve our goal.
Right, neither one of those things brings people back to
this could be my missing piece.
Yeah, we understand, say yes?
Yeah, amazing.
So, we will tell our origin story elsewhere,
and there's right and wrong ways to do that too,
but we're not gonna tell it in the first 10 minutes, yes?
If you solemnly swear, I want you to raise your hand,
get very solemn in your face and say, I solemnly swear.
Solemnly swear.
Do not use a sob story.
Do not use a sob story.
Thank you so much.
So, the second one, you're gonna really enjoy this picture.
The second way that people make this mistake
is what we call sexy screenshots.
Now what a sexy screenshot is,
is people in an attempt to really establish
their authority, right?
Because it's important that we establish
our authority at the beginning.
But when people try to go through and they say,
hey, this is why you should listen to me,
all of a sudden, they start to pull up these screenshots.
And these screenshots can be anything from,
if you're in the fitness industry,
it's like you in a bikini, like flexing of like,
yeah, you should listen to me.
Look at my biceps, right?
If you are in a make money industry,
this looks like striped notifications, right?
All of a sudden they're like,
hey, just so we can get this out of the way,
you believe me, I made a lot of money, right?
We don't want to do sexy screenshots.
And here's why.
And this also has a place in the webinar.
Yeah, 100%.
Very valuable, very valuable.
Wrong place to do it at the beginning.
Yeah, wrong place to do it.
Let me tell you why we can't do this.
Worst case scenario, people see you going like this
and they think, who cares?
Best case scenario, and this is why we can't use
those sexy screenshots, is best case scenario.
They look at this and they think, good for them, right?
Which neither one of them, he he he, love this to the beef,
neither one of those things is,
this could be my missing piece.
Yeah, now I said this at the beginning,
but the crazy thing is these two mistakes,
people make them at the beginning of their businesses.
A lot of times if they're like, oh man,
I am maybe a little bit insecure
and want to establish my authority
and I've been through a lot of stuff,
maybe I can inspire people, they go to Sob Story.
Yeah, or if you feel like you have overcome a lot of trials,
you'll go to Sob Story, right?
If you've achieved a lot of stuff,
if you got a really good looking butt in a bikini,
you're gonna go to the sexy screenshot, right?
If your stripe balance, I was gonna say notifications,
if your stripe balance is very high,
your tendency will be sexy screenshots.
People make this mistake all the way up, all the way up. And when they see a drop off at the first 10 minutes
of their webinar, they accept it.
And they say, oh man, that's just what happens.
It's just what happens, oh well.
It's a numbers game, I'll just spend more money on ads
to get more people there, so hopefully the people
that will stay will buy,
and hopefully that number will go up.
So with this, I want to show you the right way to do this.
You'll see why I'm looking like this.
I have to draw a picture that is crazy.
Let me show you the right way to do that.
Is that okay?
Say yes?
Awesome, now every single person can use this.
Whether you're just starting your business or you have a gajillion case study stories, you've made a lot of
money, the only thing you need is a single testimonial. Yeah, I know some
people who are starting their businesses, they don't have a testimonial yet.
Totally fine. Learn this principle. Go find a testimonial. Get some results for
people. Come back here and then use this. Yeah, do we know we can use to say yes?
Okay, so this happens in the first 10 minutes and this is the right way to do this. It has three steps. How many?
Amazing. Okay, so step number one
Failed before yes, I failed before
Amazing
Step number two. This is my most complex drawing. It's a puzzle piece. Kind of.
Step number two is one thing. I want you to say one thing. Awesome. Step number three.
Yeah, look. It's this, right? We call it the high kick hook or the fast forward hook.
Say fast forward.
Fast forward.
Amazing.
So we are going to go through all three of these steps.
I'm going to teach you how to tell this story.
Yeah, so if you do this right, it hooks people to the end.
And remember, charisma controls the emotions and energy of the people watching the webinar.
So we're going gonna hijack their emotions
and make them feel the things that we want them to feel.
Yeah, sound good, say yes?
Amazing, okay.
So first we are gonna dive into failed before.
Now this story is a case study story.
So it's not your story.
This is why you need a single testimonial.
It's a case study story.
So I want you to think to yourself
and I want you to write down the first name
of your biggest testimonial so far. Yeah, your biggest testimonial so far.
With this biggest testimonial, the first step that you have to do in this story is you have
to do failed before, and there's a couple reasons why. The first reason is your warmest
customers, the people who are the most likely to buy from you, are people
who have tried to get your solution before and failed.
Yeah, they're people who have joined other programs.
They're people who have been duct taping a solution together to try to get it on their
own.
They are your warmest customers and we want to identify them as quickly as possible at
the beginning of your webinar.
Understand?
Say yes?
Yes. Amazing.
So there's a problem here though,
because not only are they your warmest,
but they're also the most skeptical.
The reason why is because they've tried it before
and they failed, right?
A couple things happen in their brain
because they've tried it before and failed.
The first one is they look at you and they say,
hmm, somebody else told me this would work too.
Look how that turned out, wah ha ha.
Right?
And the second thing is, which is even worse than that,
is they start to think it's their fault
that they haven't succeeded so far.
If they start to believe that something is wrong with them
and that's why they haven't succeeded before,
it doesn't matter how amazing your offer or your secrets
or anything you're about to sell them is.
If they believe I am the thing that's bad,
even if your thing is good, they'll still never buy.
Yeah, they'll still never buy.
So even though they're the warmest,
they're the most skeptical.
Now, something we have to understand
is that people will not buy
if they think they won't succeed. Yeah, they will not buy if they think they won't succeed.
Yeah, they will not buy if they think they won't succeed.
So what we have to do is we have to show them that it is possible for them to succeed,
even if they've tried before and failed.
Yeah, this is the very first step of our story.
So in order to build this story, we're going to start to build a list.
I want you to start to list out things that they have tried before and failed.
And I'm going to give you a tip because we can kind of kill two birds with one stone
here.
Part of the things or some of the things they've tried before and failed should be your competitors
methods.
It should be the things that they would buy elsewhere. Because if you can show in the first part of your story that, oh man, this person tried
this person's and this person, this person's and they failed, they automatically will think
your competitors are worse than you.
Yeah.
So what I want you to do is I want you to take just a second.
I want you to start to list out things your people would have tried before and failed.
As you do that, I'm going to give you some examples.
Yeah, so one of our clients, her name is Dara,
she helps women 50 to 70, age 50 to 70 lose weight,
lose like 40 to 80 pounds, it's amazing.
Now when we do this section of her,
we call that the MVS, MPS, the missing piece story.
Yeah, the missing piece story.
So with this, when we got to this section of it
She started listing out things that these women had tried before in their lives that didn't help them lose weight. So we had like
Dieting obviously Weight Watchers since they were 12. She listed out fasting. She listed out Adkins diet. She listed out
Snapping a rubber band every time they ate something, right?
Anything that these women had tried before and failed, she listed them all here.
Then, because Dara doesn't offer Ozempic, she also added Ozempic.
She added other things that her competitors would say, this is the thing.
Yeah, so we have another amazing client that's with us here.
Her name is Kelsey, she's incredible.
She helps high school athletes gain 15 pounds of muscle
so that they can get recruited.
As we're building out her story of fail
or things that they've tried before and failed,
it's things they've tried to gain weight and gain muscle.
Yeah, so she has like mass gainer, downing creatine,
downloading bodybuilder fitness plans on Instagram, right?
She lists out all of her competitors
and things that these kids would have tried without her.
Yeah, so does this make sense?
Say yes.
Awesome, so first thing we have to do
is we have to show them that even though you've tried before
and failed, that's okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna show you how to put it into a story
in just a second.
Okay, the second thing we wanna do
is we are going to address one thing, how many?
Okay, this is so important.
Yeah, so important.
And this was one of the biggest secrets that we found
that was really keeping people longer.
Yeah, so this one thing thing is that
when they've tried all these things before and
failed, we have to tell them that they are so close to success and that they're only
missing one thing.
Now here's what I mean by that.
We're going to talk about secrets versus system.
Yeah, secrets versus system. Yeah, secrets versus system.
Now, I know as well as anybody else,
you don't break a perfect framework, right?
You don't break the perfect webinar.
You don't take away the secrets.
But the way that we started presenting it
is instead of presenting the secrets
as disconjointed things or tips,
you want to present it as a single system. Yeah, it's a single
system that has three steps, but it's a single system. It's super, super
important because, yeah, super important. I love it. So as we are looking, it's
incredible, as we are framing this out for our clients or the
people who are watching us, we have to show them the gap between where they are
and where they want to be. Right? Now the gap can be massive, right? It's all these
skinny kids who want to gain weight, right? It's like, oh man, I need to gain
20 pounds and that seems impossible, right? it can be these women for Dara who are saying,
I am 80 pounds overweight.
That feels astronomical to lose 80 pounds, right,
from where I'm at, right?
Or I'm only closing 10% of my webinar,
I wanna be closing, you know, 50% of my webinar,
whatever it is.
We need to show them there's a gap,
but the most important thing is the only thing
standing between them and what they want is one thing.
Yeah, we're gonna even use that language.
Yeah, so the reason why is because if they think
it's a whole bunch of things,
here they think I've tried this before, I failed.
If we don't address this, they'll think
there's something wrong with me.
If we give them, this is crazy.
Earthquake! For this part, if they think that there's a million steps,
they think that there's a million ways that it can go wrong, right? All of a sudden they're looking
at this and they're like, oh man, that feels hard. And if they have already thought there's something
wrong with me, even if we overcome that, we have recently overcome that, right? If we're like, listen,
the secret to being in your charisma styles is you just have to
change your hair and change your face and change your voice and change your body and
change every single script that you're doing and then do this and then do this.
All of a sudden, even if we're like, you have the secret, they go, that's too many things.
It's very overwhelming.
Very overwhelming.
Amazing. Very overwhelming, amazing. Instead, if we can tell them, the thing that you've been missing is one thing,
we say the thing that you're missing is your charisma styles.
And all of a sudden they go, oh, I just have to use my charisma styles.
If you're not familiar with charisma styles, there are three different styles,
plus the false faces. It is a process to learn how not familiar with charisma styles, there are three different styles plus the false faces.
It is a process to learn how to use your charisma styles, but I'm telling the truth, they are
just missing one thing.
Yeah, so instead of presenting it as secrets, present it as a single system, and then that
system you can still use your titles of your secrets and things like that.
Yeah, a couple of examples.
We do have charisma styles, perfect webinar.
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What's up everybody? Russell Brunson here. I've got something really cool to share with
you today that I think is going to speak directly to that fire inside of you. You know, as entrepreneurs,
taking risk isn't just part of the journey.
It is the journey.
It's built into our DNA.
We've all had those moments where an idea hit you out of nowhere and your gut is screaming,
go for it.
And your brain is like, wait, are we really going to do this?
That tension between the bold vision and total fear, that exact leap is what this new podcast
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It's called This is Small Business.
And lately I've been hooked.
Seriously, the host, Andrea Marquez, takes you behind the scenes with real founders, people who don't
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And yeah, sometimes they crashed, but other times they absolutely soared. What I love
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That's the stuff that lights me up.
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the last piece of this is the hook.
Once you tell them that they're missing one thing
and it's called perfect webinar,
you're not gonna tell them what perfect webinar is yet.
You don't go through and you say,
oh man, yeah, we tried this and we tried this
and we tried this and then we came up with this solution
and we came up with this solution
and we trial and error here and here and here.
You can do that in an epiphany bridge once again later,
later in the presentation.
The hook here is you tell them
they were only missing one thing.
Then you fast forward to results and you say,
okay, fast forward to three weeks later
after using this one thing, here were the results.
And then you say, what changed?
What took them from where they wanted to,
or from where they were to where they wanted to go, what changed? What took them from where they were
to where they wanted to go?
What changed?
Well, they had to stop doing this and start doing this.
They were smart enough, they just needed the system.
Can I show you the system?
The reason why I call it a high kick hook
is I go say yes, and then I do a high kick,
which is why our logo is this.
This is the part of the speech where I add the high kick.
Yeah, this is the hook where all of a sudden they're
like yes I want to see the system I want to see the system and when you reveal it
that way all the sudden they're emotionally bought in we have now been
in complete control of the emotions and the energy of our people now they
believe oh my gosh it's not my fault I haven't succeeded oh my gosh I'm so
close to success.
What's that system you got for me?
Can I get that?
Yeah, is this making sense, say yes?
Awesome, so now I'm gonna give you the transitions
that just make it easier to tell the story.
So we failed before.
When we get to the one thing,
between them failing before and finding the one thing,
they just have to find you.
Yeah, so we say, okay, this is this person,
I'm gonna show you some examples.
Yeah, because I've done it at both Funnel Hacking Lives
and we just added it to a webinar of one of our clients.
Yeah, like this morning, which was so fun.
Yeah, so between this, we say, okay, this person tried this,
they tried this, they tried this.
They were failing, it was terrible.
One day they had enough and they found me.
And I looked at every single thing that they were doing
and I called them and I said, listen, you are so close.
You have the exact right this, this and this.
You're just missing one thing.
So fast forward three weeks later, she does the same event.
She does this, she does this, but this time, big result.
Now, what changed?
What took her from totally failing like she did before
to getting this big result?
Well, she had to commit to using the right system.
Can I show you the system?
Say yes, they say yes, and then you do it.
Right, so high kick optional, but not really,
because you should do it.
Just stretch the hammies.
Right, so they find you.
Yeah, does this make sense?
Say yes?
Amazing, so now the transition from here to here
is literally what I just said.
We say what changed?
Now what changed?
What took them from this place to this place?
Oh, they just needed the right system.
Yeah, so this together will hook them in.
Does this make sense?
Sorry, does this make sense, say yes?
Amazing, so I'm gonna show you a couple examples Does this make sense? Sorry. Does this make sense? Say yes? Amazing.
So I'm going to show you a couple examples of me doing these stories.
Yeah, we first started adding them to speeches because we knew we had to establish our authority
in a very short time window.
And instead of doing sexy screenshots or instead of doing a sob story, which a lot of speakers
do and you'll lose the audience because they think who cares or good for you,
we started adding them to the beginning of our speeches.
They were working so well that we started adding them
to our webinars and we had the same effect.
People stayed longer and they were more primed to learn
and they bought more at the end.
Yeah, so, do we have volume?
Yeah, cool.
Okay, we're gonna watch this.
It's a couple minutes long,
but you're gonna be able to see all of these points that I'm hitting over on the side.
This is Funnel Hiking Live 2023. And I'm gonna show you how I know. This is Kayla. Kayla had a new course, so she did what she was supposed to do.
She had a dramatic demonstration in the form of a three-day event. Day one of the event, she couldn't scroll fast enough to keep up with the chat. They were losing their minds.
By day two, it was all hashtag, fire emoji, value bomb.
Oh my gosh, Kayla.
She goes on to day three of the event, thinking, I am going to be so stinking rich.
Day three comes. You ever felt this? Say yes.
Day three comes, Kayla makes her big pitch and nothing happens.
Guys, nobody buys.
But that's not the nightmare.
The nightmare was instead of Stripe notifications coming in on her phone,
she was getting Instagram DMs that looked like this.
Kayla, OMG, so amazing girl.
You totally inspired me.
I'm finally ready to move. You'd be so proud of me.
I just joined Shailene Johnson's program.
I never would have been brave enough without you girl.
Thank you.
In case you missed that.
Kayla is not Shailene Johnson.
Now, you know what's worse than an event that doesn't convert?
An event that converts for your competitors.
Now here is why Kayla is a winner.
In this moment she could have said, I'm not cut out for this. I'm nothing like Russell Brunson.
This doesn't work for me. I've been doing everything that I'm supposed to be doing and it's not paying
off. But she didn't. Instead she said, I'm so close. Say, I'm so close. And she sent her videos to me and guess what she was
right she had the exact right offer content and credibility there was just
one thing that was tripping her up at the finish line so I called her and I
said Kayla listen you are trying to pitch like Russell Brunson when yes
Russell is amazing but you are nothing like Russell Brunson, when yes, Russell is amazing, but you are nothing like Russell Brunson.
You need to pitch like Tony Robbins and Gary Vee
and Brene Brown.
So three weeks later, Kayla does the exact same event.
It has the same offer and the same content
and the same information.
She only changes one thing.
This time, instead of modeling Russell Brunson,
who she's just nothing like,
she modeled her charisma after the right people for her.
What was a complete disaster three weeks ago?
This time was a six figure launch.
Now, Kayla wasn't years away from finding her voice
or being attractive. She was three
weeks and one tweak away, but she had to commit to the right process of becoming
an attractive character. Guys, can I show you the process? Say yes. Say yes.
High kick. high kick optional.
So do you see, yes there are more details,
that's why I put this here.
You can go, you guys take a screenshot of this.
Yeah, putting it actually in story form,
but if you even told a one minute version of it,
and you just went through those points,
these are the things that matter.
Yeah, if you put these elements in it,
it has the same effect.
Yeah, does this make sense, say yes?
Yes, okay amazing.
So we're gonna watch another one. Helpful to see examples? elements in it, it has the same effect. Yeah, does this make sense? Say yes? Yes. Okay, amazing.
So we're gonna watch another one.
Helpful to see examples?
Yeah?
Okay, this was Funnel Hacking Live 2025.
So with both of these years, like I said,
you have a very short time window when speaking anywhere,
but when speaking of Funnel Hacking Lives,
so it's a really good exercise of like, okay,
how do I get them to completely buy into my framework,
overcome all the false beliefs that I need to and establish authority instantaneously?
You tell a story that's two to three minutes and you're in.
Yeah.
Here is Final Hacking Live 2025.
Here's how I know.
This is Kristen and Sylvia.
They help Shopify business owners get traffic and turn it into sales.
Now they wanted to sell their product to more people in less time, so they started doing
live webinars once a week, every single Friday.
Now every single week looked the same.
Monday through Thursday, they spent all of their money on ads, they got tons of sign-ups,
and then they would frantically prep for Friday.
Friday would come, the audience would show up, and they would go crazy for the information.
These people would thank them profusely,
and then they wouldn't buy.
Their weekend ritual became tweaking slides,
stressing about ad spend, and thinking to themselves,
is there something wrong with us?
One day they had enough.
So they sent their webinar to me
and asked me to hop on a call with them,
and here's what happened after the call in their words. The first webinar we did
after we made these small tweaks we closed 20% of the room which had never
happened before and people bought the upsells and they paid in full which it
also never happened before. Now we we've evergreen this webinar,
and tonight, we are collecting our two Comma Club Award.
Now, what changed?
What took Kristen and Sylvia from this guy to this guy?
The secret was they knew how to take the most boring part
of a sales presentation
and make it the most exciting.
Because even the right information and frameworks and products, if presented the wrong way,
will completely sabotage your pitch and it will tank your sales.
But if you can say the right things the right way in the right order,
then you can sell like Russell, if you know the secret.
My friends,
can I share you the secret? Say yes. High kick. High kick transition. So we have one more. So this
is our client Kelsey, and she literally was adding this to her webinar this morning. So if you want
to what's working now, we literally added it this morning. So there aren't the arrows on the side,
but you can start to follow along. This one's about two minutes long.
Let me tell you about Ben. Ben was not only the best pitcher in his high school, he was
all state. His skills were above and beyond all of his friends and his teammates. So it
was no surprise when he got recruited to play at his dream school. But before the season
started, Ben's coach sat him down and told him that while his skills were incredible, his size was an issue.
Ben was 6'1 and 155 pounds.
So Ben tried everything to put on weight. Month after month, he would grind.
He would lift heavy in the gym. He pounded mass gainer.
He tried creatine. He 3X his protein intake.
The next month he would try to dirty bulk.
He'd eat so much he'd make himself feel so sick.
He was downing as much pizza and peanut butter as he possibly could.
And then he tried downloading a bodybuilder
Instagram influencers meal plan.
He tried his call his strength coaches meal plan.
But no matter how hard he tried,
the weight was not coming
and it was not coming fast enough.
So Ben showed up to his training camp
and saw the other pitchers
and every single one of them was 15 pounds
heavier than he was.
Ben without a doubt had the skill and the technique. But the fact of the matter was the other pitchers and every single one of them was 15 pounds heavier than he was. Ben without a doubt had the skill and the technique but the fact of the matter
was the other athletes he was going up against were just bigger. Ben was trying
to play at the college level with his high school body. So he ended up sitting
the bench the whole first season while the bigger but less skilled players than
him started above him and at the end of the season Ben talked to his coach and
his coach told him that if he didn't put on at least 15 pounds before
he came back in the fall that he would once again be sitting the bench all
season long. So Ben had had enough and he knew he needed to reach this goal fast
and he couldn't do it on his own. So with 12 weeks to go till training camp his
dad found me on Instagram and sent me a message. He told me everything Ben was
doing and asked if I could help him.
After analyzing everything he was doing, two things were clear to me.
Number one, Ben was clearly an amazing athlete.
He was hardworking.
He was committed. He was driven.
And number two is Ben was trying to fill a bucket that had holes in it.
All of Ben's hard work was being wasted.
In fact, he was working way harder than he needed to be because he was just putting all of his effort
into the wrong things.
So I sat down with Ben and his parents and told them,
Ben, you're trying to gain weight like a bodybuilder
when you need to start fueling like an elite athlete.
Fast forward 12 weeks later, Ben was 15 pounds heavier.
He could throw harder and his performance increased,
all of his PR has increased in the gym.
And he finally had his size to catch up with his skill.
His coach noticed and Ben started that season.
Oh yay Kelsey!
Okay friends, so with this story, can you see how it will immediately establish authority?
Say yes.
Yeah, do you see how you can do this with any testimonial you have?
You just need one, say yes.
Amazing.
Do we understand failed before?
Yes. Do we think we could create a list today of things that our people have tried before
and failed? Yes. Yeah, do we see how awesome? Kelsey, especially because this is a webinar,
the other two were a speech, we try to add as many as we can in there. They tried this,
they tried this, they tried this. Oh, so frustrating. Yeah, do you think you could create a list
just like Kelsey did? Say yes. Awesome. Okay, So now when we move to one thing right kid you take your secrets your system everything that you're doing and could you put it into?
A single system yeah put it into a single system and name it say yes
Some of you may already have a name right with Kelsey's the thing that comes right after this is hers is called the gain
System right we have charisma styles. There's like the right side up protocol, right?
Whatever it is, you should try to incorporate a system
or protocol or whatever, if it's not apparent in the name.
So it does feel like a single system.
Yeah, I also want you to make sure copy wise,
like actual phrasing, you do a couple things.
One, you say one thing. Yeah, you wanna use that phrasing, you do a couple things. One, you say one thing.
Yeah, you wanna use that phrasing.
They were only missing one thing.
Yeah, because then when you say the thing they were missing
is the system, can I show you the system?
They're like, well yeah, right?
When Kelsey says he needed to stop training
like a bodybuilder and start feeling like an athlete,
when she says the system is the gain system,
can I show you the system?
Everybody goes, well yeah, I wanna see the system, right? And if the entire goal,
I did that, thank you, if the entire goal is coming back to our bikini shots, all the things,
if the entire goal is for them to think this could be my missing piece, we have hooked them,
right? We haven't given too much information where they think,
oh yeah, I got it, and then they leave.
Automatically they go, I wanna hear this system,
I wanna hear these secrets.
They think this person could get it for me.
I'm okay even if I've tried before and failed.
Yeah, we understand, they say yes?
Amazing, okay friends, I want you to try to do this today.
When you leave this ClickFunnels event,
map out those three things, fill in the details of things they failed or tried before and failed. You can say, okay,
how would I say that they were missing the one thing? You can use these transitions. Yeah, did everybody get a picture of this?
Yeah, you can use these transitions. This one is what happened? What took them from blank to blank?
I can write that down if you want, but what happened? What took them from blank to blank? Right? It was that they didn't need more information. They were just missing
the system. Can I show you the system? And then you can go, say yes, high kick. Right?
So I want you to write this today. Do you commit to writing this today? Yes. And putting
it into your webinars sometime in the next week? Yes. Say yes. Yes. Amazing. Okay. Thanks
so much for having me friends.
Have so much fun with the rest of the event.
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