Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Prime Mover Core Values: Our Formula For Winning | #Success - Ep. 06

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

What separates successful entrepreneurs and marketers from those who struggle? It’s not just strategy… values! In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I break down the essential principles that drive long-term success in business, marketing, and selling. I’ll share the core values we developed inside our company, Prime Mover, and explain why setting the right standards can elevate your business, your team, and your ability to influence and sell effectively. You’ll hear the lessons I’ve learned from top business leaders, personal mentors, and even my own experiences in wrestling that shaped these principles. Key Highlights: The role of “values” in sales, marketing, and business success, and why most entrepreneurs overlook them. How structuring your company around growth, contribution, and extreme ownership creates a winning culture. Why the best marketers and business owners funnel hack first instead of starting from scratch. The hidden power of over-delivering and how it turns customers into lifelong fans. The golden rule applied to marketing and sales and how treating others the way you want to be treated builds trust and drives results. The secret to pushing past mediocrity: Work until you’re proud. Whether you’re a marketer, entrepreneur, or business owner looking to scale your sales and influence, this episode will challenge you to rethink how values shape your path to success. Tune in and start applying these principles today! https://sellingonline.com/podcast https://clickfunnels.com/podcast Special thanks to our sponsors: Northwest Registered Agent: Go to northwestregisteredagent.com/marketingsecrets 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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from changing the world. This is the Russell Brunson Show. What's up everybody? This is Russell, welcome back to the show. Okay, today's episode I wanna talk about something that most people don't talk about, they don't share outside of their own internal company. So, and that is your values.

What are your company values? Do you have those yet? And I'm asking because for a long, long time I always thought that, I was like, values are cheesy. Why would you do those inside your company? What's the purpose of them? I would read people's values and they'd be a bunch of words.

I'm like, that seems so stupid, like I don't wanna do that. So I fought it for a long time. So I had to click funnels. We never really had a formal, like these are the core company values. We had values, we had things, but it was never like finalized

and like printed on the wall where it was like a thing. And I remember over the last year, I had a chance to go to a couple people's offices. I remember going to Ryan Panetta's office and he had a big old thing, like his values like on the wall. I was like, that's kind of cool. And I went to Andy Elliott, it's office and he had a big old thing like his values like on the wall, it's like that's kinda cool and I went to Andy Elliott's, the same kinda thing.

And then recently, just so you guys know some internal workings, inside of ClickFunnels, we basically took our company, we separated into two companies, just to be able to handle employees and management, a whole bunch of stuff differently, right? Also different goals and focuses. And so one side of our company is ClickFunnels,

which is the software side, and one side is called PrimeMover, which is the education, coaching, info product side of the business, right? They still work tandem hand-in-hand, but we separate them differently. So now we have two different CEOs, two different, like all different things, right?

Which has been a really, really cool move. So we made that separation, officially started January 1st of this year, and then the new CEO we brought in for the coaching side, his name's Bill Allen. Bill's been an Atlas member, he's built a huge company, he's awesome. And we brought him in to be like the official CEO of his name's Bill Allen. Bill's been an Atlas member, he's built a huge company, he's awesome. And we brought him in to be the official CEO

of the PrimeMover company. And one of the first things he wanted to do was establish our company values. I'm like, no, company values are cheesy. He's like, no, you don't understand, it's like this completely radically transformed our entire business. Doing it, they're really cool.

So we actually did a two day planning event planning a whole bunch of stuff, and then one of them was like, my homework was roughly to figure out what value, like what are your values, like what are those things? And again, in the past I always hated values. I look at people's value lists, it's like hard work, integrity, you know,

and those things are all great. But I don't know, there's something about it, I just, they didn't connect with me. And I think it's because obviously they weren't my values. They weren't the things I was focusing on. And so I had the last two or three weeks to think about this for the PrimeMover company, what are the core values we want as a company,

as a, you know, and, but also it bleeds more than just the company, it also bleeds into the community. And so I wanna share with you guys for a couple reasons. Number one, I think there's really cool lessons behind each of the values, which I think you get value from. Number two, if you're looking for like company core values for your own company, hopefully this will help kick off,

kick start the exercise in your own mind. Maybe you can borrow some bar values. And number company, hopefully this will help kickstart the exercise in your own mind, maybe you can borrow some of our values. And number three, these also should be, can and should be the values of our community as a whole. And so I thought I would share them for those reasons and hopefully enjoy them and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Okay, so that's gonna be the plan for today's podcast and I hope you guys enjoy it.

I hope you get a lot of cool ideas from it and hopefully it motivates you and inspires you. So first off, I wanna lead with like the name of the company, right? When we made the separation, I was like, what's the name of the InfoSight of the company? And a lot of you guys know, I've talked about this concept of a prime mover for a while.

Ayaan Rand in her books Atlas Shrugged and found that she talks about a prime mover. She talks about the prime mover in like, in an engine or in a train as the engine that pulls everything around, right? That pulls the thing. Most of her characters are the prime movers. If is the engine that pulls everything around, right? That pulls the thing. Most of her characters are the prime movers. If you read out the shrug, right?

Dagny and Hank Reardon and like John Gault, like they are the prime movers of society who are changing things, right? Or if you read Fountainhead, like Rorke is the prime mover, right? It's the person that's like moving societies and moving things. And I thought that was an I and ran term.

I didn't realize going back in time that like Aristotle, I think, I actually found something I think I might have said before Aristotle. Aristotle talks about this concept of a prime mover, right? And when he talks about it, he talks about God being the prime mover of the universe. And he talks a lot about it, but one of the interesting things he said

that I thought was really powerful was that God is the prime mover is, he doesn't go into like, he's not like moving people, right? He sets a standard and people move towards him. I was like, ooh, that's such a cool, like analogy. So for prime mover, it's like, for me, it's like the prime movers are the people in the world that are changing the world, right?

Which are entrepreneurs and creators and like the people that I serve anyway. It's like, we are prime movers. But number two, it's like, again, what's the prime mover do? It sets the standard that draws people to them, right? And so I love that like analogy. And so for our company, like with my employees, my team,

like we are the prime movers, like each of us have become prime movers. And that's like, that's this top level thing, right? Of who we are. And so that's kind of where it all began with. And then from there, it's like, you know, what are the core values of a prime mover? And again, these are for my internal team, internal company, but I think for a lot of you guys

who are prime movers, like you're the prime mover in your business, you're the prime mover in your community, like these are values I think that you should think about and adopt as well, okay? All right, so as I started doing this values exercise, it was tough for me, because there were so many things I started valuing. I started making a list, the list got way too big.

And I was like, I'm like, Bill, how many values can I get? He's like five or six. I'm like, oh, cause I got like 40. He's like, no, it doesn't work that way. He's like, you gotta pick, what are the core things? And so the goal with the values too is like to set this as a standard for the company where it's like in any interactions,

like you can run it through these core values that fit our core values. If it doesn't, then we need to change it, right? Or if it's like an interaction, if you see someone on your team doing something, it's like, ah, this stuff doesn't fit through the lens of our core values. If it doesn't, then we need to change it, right? Or if it's like an interaction, if you see someone on your team doing something, it's like, ah, this stuff doesn't fit through the lens of our core values. It gives you a way to coach and to motivate

and to readjust and realign somebody on your team as well. And so, yeah, so hopefully these values will help you for yourselves as well, just kind of look at things through this lens of just like, okay, these are the values and I'm checking the things I'm doing based on these. Okay, so I'm gonna go through these in no particular order other than the way that we kind of presented them to our team today.

So the first one, and this was tough because initially it was two different values, and then over time, I tried to figure out how to put them into one value. So the two values were growth and contribution. Those are the two values I kind of started with. And if you've heard me talk about Tony Robbins, six human needs, like this is kind of where

this concept first came for me, right? He talks about there's needs of the body or the personality and there's needs of the spirit, right? And needs of the body without going too deep, there's like, there's variety, there's certainty, there's love and connection, there's significance. And those are the four needs of the body, right? And all humans will figure out ways

to get those needs all met. And I'm not gonna go deep into the philosophy of Tony Robbins' six human needs, because that's one of my favorite things to talk about, and I could and I would love to. Maybe that's the podcast episode from the other day. But there are basically two of the needs, like love and connection,

significance are opposites, right, which is funny. And then certainty and variety are opposites too. So we have these four needs, and everything in our life's based on, we figured out how to get those needs met. And sometimes it's positive, sometimes it's negative and like that's the first thing that everyone figures that out.

But after those needs are met, then you transition to the needs of the spirit, which a lot of people never get there, but the needs of the spirit are growth and contribution. Those are the two needs of the spirit, right? And so I love that like as soon as you get your body and your personality under control, then you can transition to the needs of the spirit,

which are growth and contribution. And again, that's where I think happiness, fulfillment, everything happens there inside of growth and contribution. And again, so growth is like personal development. How do you become better? How do you achieve more? How do you become more? How do you do more?

Like growth is like that driving, it's a driving value, right? It's again, it's one of our needs. Like it's one of the needs of the spirit. And so growth is one that I love, especially as a prime mover, like as a driving value, right? It's again, it's one of our needs. Like it's one of the needs of the spirit. And so growth is one that I love, especially as a prime mover. Like as a prime mover, we need to be the ones at the forefront.

We need to be growing and developing and like becoming the person we're supposed to become, right? Growth, growth, growth, growth. Okay, so that's one of the needs of the spirit. And then the second one is contribution, which is like taking your tools and your talents and your gifts and contributing and helping other people.

Right? And the expert secrets book, I talk about this a lot. I talk about like those who've become an expert, right? They're coming in and they're in this phase of growth, like growth, growth, growth, like they're personally developing and then eventually it's like, I want to contribute, like I'm learning so much.

And that's when you become the expert. Like now you're shifting from a growth mode to contribution, right? In the secrets of success, business is the business about personal growth, growing, growing, growing, growing, growing. Then you transition to the Russell Brunson, you know, to the marketing side, click funnel side,

like that's contributions. Like now I'm starting a business. So for me in my mind, like this growth and contribution concept, I think about, I talk about all the time, like the two important things, like we should be growing and developing as prime movers. And then after we get these skillsets,

we gotta be contributing, right? And so those are the two extremes. But I titled my value for our company, we titled it growth through contribution. And the reason why I shared that is because, and I'll tell you guys a story, so this, a lot of you guys know my background, as you can tell from my cauliflower ear, I'm a wrestler.

It is my core passion to this day. Like if I could quit business and just become a full-time wrestler again and actually compete at a high level, 100% I would do it. As much fun as I have making money and growing businesses, I've never felt more, I don't know, I love wrestling more.

So that's all, when all is said and done, the feeling of being my hand raised in a wrestling match is the greatest feeling I've ever had. Like bar none, I've never been able to sync it with anything else, I love that feeling. So I love wrestling. And I learned this lesson. So when I was in high school,

I was an athlete and I wanted to grow. So I was learning how to grow through strength training, cardio, skill sets, wrestling, mindset, it was this growth phase. I loved it, I was obsessed with it. And I grew, grew, grew. So in high school, I was a state champ, I took second place in the nation, I was an All-American, right? So I grew to the top echelons of our

country, like in wrestling, right? And I remember after my senior year, took second place in the nation. And that summer, my coach, one of my coaches, Greg Williams messaged me. He's like, hey, he's like, do you want to come coach at a wrestling camp? And I was like, why would I do that? Like I'm, you know, in my head cocky, you know, 18 year old Russell is like too cool for that. He's like, well, I'll pay you $100 a day if you come coach. I'm like, done. Because I was making $0 an hour. And so I went down this wrestling camp

and I was there for five days and I got to coach. I got 500 bucks from it, but he had me coach these kids. And so there's a lot of moves that we're coaching on. But for me, the thing that I'm the best at, if you look at all the moves in wrestling, there's a move called the cheap tilt. I'm obsessed with that. I think it's the greatest move in all wrestling.

If you ever wrestle me, I will hit you in it 100 times. It doesn't matter how good you are. Like it's just, it's my move. I can get out of the best in the world. And so they like, hey, teach these guys the cheap tilt. I'm like, okay. So I go out there to teach the kids the cheap tilt, which isn't a hard move,

but there's a lot of like little intricacies. I go out there and I, here's the guys, I show them. I'm like, hey, go to the move. And then what happened is the kids all went out there and they all did it wrong. 100%, nobody got it close. I'm like, you guys are so dumb. I didn't say that, but in my head I'm like,

they're so dumb. So I bring them back in, come back in you guys. Let me show it again, show it again. Okay, go out and do it. They go out and try to do it and they don't do it again. I was like so frustrated. I bring them all back in again. I'm like, okay guys.

So I get down on the mat. I'm like, okay, this is how it works. And so I'm looking at all the movement. Okay, your elbow has to go here. Your knees gotta go here pointing towards the mat. This is how you pinch your hips. This is how I started like, I started breaking down all of the movement, okay, your elbow has to go here. Your knee's gotta go here, pointing towards the mat. This is how you pinch your hips. And I started breaking down all of the pieces to get it to actually fit together, right?

And they had that, I showed it the move, and I was like, okay, here's how it works. So then the kids went out, they started trying again, and then they were able to do it. They started actually connecting. It's like, okay, elbow's here, hip's here, right? And then they got up, they were still missing pieces. I brought them back in, I'm like, okay, well actually,

also your head's gotta go here. Your arm goes here. And so I kept going back and forth and back and forth for like an hour with these kids, breaking down the move, trying to figure it out. And as I was doing that, I started realizing all these reasons that the move actually worked, which I didn't even know consciously, right?

I knew from a feeling standpoint, because I'd done it so many times, but I didn't realize. And so I became aware of it all of a sudden like, I was like, oh, I realized in that match where I lost to so-and-so's because I wasn't able to hit it, it's because of this and because of that,

like positioning was wrong. And I started growing again, right? There comes a time in our life where personal growth, we hit a growth ceiling, right? Like you growing, you're growing, you're consuming, you're learning, you're loving, and eventually at the ceiling. And then the only way to continue to grow

is by transitioning to contribution. When I started coaching kids, all of a sudden I broke through that ceiling and I started becoming better. And that whole five When I started coaching kids, all of a sudden I broke through that ceiling and I started becoming better. And that whole five days I was teaching kids, learning stuff, and as I was doing, as I was coaching people, as I was contributing to other people,

I became a better athlete. Like it was like this exponential shift in my growth. Okay? And so contribution is the next phase. And so the value that I gave our company, it was growth through contribution, okay? So we should be focusing on personal growth. But also as you guys are learning things,

we gotta be contributing back to our community, to each other, to other employees, other teammates. We all need to be growing together. We need to be contributing because as we do that, as you learn how to contribute and open up ideas and information and stuff to other people, that's when you grow the next level. So value number one, as a prime mover,

somebody on our team and obviously you guys as well as part of our community is growth through contribution. Right? And again, I think the expert secrets is like my favorite explanation of it where it's just like you're growing, you're growing, you're growing and eventually you hit the ceiling and then you transition into like,

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Head to Northwest Registered Agent today and start building something amazing. It's really cool. In fact, if you want to get scriptural, there's a scripture in the book of Moses where God's talking about what his role is. And he says that, behold, this is my work and my glory to bring about the immortality and true life of man. Think about this, like, God is perfect, all-knowing, all-powerful. He doesn't, he's not gonna get smarter,

he's not gonna get more powerful, but how does he grow? He grows by giving us glory. Like, when we become better, right, that's how he grows. And that's the same thing, growth through contribution. Like, as we start helping other people and they become better, that, that's how he grows. And that's the same thing, growth through contribution. Like as we start helping other people and they become better, that's how we grow as well. Like I don't know if that makes sense, but it makes total sense in my head.

So value number one is growth through contribution. Okay, value number two. This one actually came from Napoleon Hill, The Man. If you've ever read his book, Law of Success, which is a huge book set, Or if You're a Thinkin' Grow Rich, both are amazing. Or any of his books, Law of Success, which is a huge book set, or If You're a Thinkin' Girl Rich, both are amazing, or any of his books, honestly. He talks about these laws of success

over and over and over again. But one of the laws of success that he talks about, and I'm gonna pull up the actual definition here so I can make sure I quote it correctly, but he talks about this concept. And then I took the concept and I added my own kind of name to it.

But this is the concept. He says, this is the law of success. He says, build a habit of doing more than you're paid for. Build a habit of doing more than you're paid for. Now in the book, Think and Grow Rich, he's talking about how to make more money. So he's talking about always over delivering. Always do more than you're paid for.

So someone pays you for this job, do that plus more. And he says, if you always do more than you're paid for, So someone pays you for this job, do that plus more. And says if you always do more than you're paid for, eventually get paid for more than what you do. Like that's the principle, that's the law of success. And he talks about it, it's funny, because Napoleon Hill, he was big into nature. He said think about nature, nature always over delivers. It's like the tree, this big huge tree,

it has all these apples on it, and there's enough apples and stuff for the tree to produce and then it drops all the excess, and? And there's enough apples and stuff for the tree to produce and then drops all the excess and then from there, more trees grow, more things. And so like nature always over delivers in everything, right? And that's how the whole ecosystem and everything works. And so for us, it's the same thing.

Like we have to be over delivering. And so the, again, the concept in Napoleon Hill is build a habit of doing more than you're paid for. Now this is not just tied to like a salary though. This is in every situation in life, right? If the value is always over delivered, that's our value, always over delivered, right? And it's about doing more than you're paid for.

So think about this. In every interaction you have with somebody, I think about with my wife, right? When I hang out with my wife. If I'm in that situation and I'm just kind of doing the bare minimum, we're gonna have a minimum marriage or it's gonna fall apart, right?

If I come to that relationship, I'm like, how can I over deliver with my wife today, right? When I'm over delivering, the marriage blossoms, it grows. Right? If I'm working with an employee on my team, right? And if I figure out how can I over deliver with this person, every interaction, every contact, every time I talk to them,

if I can over deliver in that moment, what happens, right? The relationship grows, it blossoms. We're talking to a customer, I'm talking to a coaching student or someone in my mastermind, like in every situation I gotta figure out how to over deliver. When someone buys coaching from me, right?

How do I over deliver at the coaching point? How to over deliver in the course? How to over deliver social media? Every interaction, if I focus on like doing more than I paid for, right? Over delivering in that situation, that situation, everything will grow from it, right? So that's the concept we gotta start thinking through

is like, how do we always over deliver? And this is true again for employees. It's like, if you're getting paid for this, but you're doing this, eventually it's like, man, this person always like crushing it. I go to the people in my company who've risen at the top echelons,

there's people who show up every day, they're always over delivering. Where it's like, man, if this person left, I would be screwed, right? Like that's the kind of value you gotta deliver at every single level. And so that's the next five is always over delivering. And again, this is true in every situation,

as an employee, as a contractor, as a husband, as a parent, as a kid, as like in every situation in life, it's always over delivered, right? Whenever I'm in any interaction with somebody, how do I over deliver? I think about this, you know, again, this is the value for our core company.

So I'm telling everyone from the very top down to the support team, like the support team, when you're answering someone's ticket, it's not just the answer to get it done, but like how do you over deliver every single ticket, ticket after ticket after ticket. If you're always over delivering, like it changes everything, right?

And so that's kind of the concept. This podcast, I'm trying to over deliver, right? I'm trying to put more effort, more energy, how do I over deliver? So if you're gonna dedicate 30 minutes of your time to listen to this, the time you're gonna be like, holy crap, I got that from Russell in 30 minutes for free?

Imagine if I go and buy the next thing, the next thing, where's he gonna over deliver here, over deliver here, and so on and so forth, right? So always over deliver is value number two. Okay, you guys good with that so far? So number one, growth through contribution, number two, always over deliver. All right, let me transition now to value number three.

So this is one that has to do with how we do our work. I call this value funnel hack first. And this is the reason. It's funny, because when we launched the ClickFunnels community a decade ago, I taught this concept of funnel hacking. And I still remember a night, so when we first built ClickFunnels,

it was me, it was Todd Dickerson, and then we had another co-founder named Dylan Jones. He's one of the most brilliant guys I know. And I remember we all flew out, Todd and Dylan flew out, Todd and Dylan flew out to Boise, we were in our little tiny office, working on ClickFunnels, and I remember Todd was coding,

doing all the Genius Todd stuff, and then Dylan was doing the UI design and stuff, and I was writing copy, right? And so what I was doing is, the very first step, I'm trying to write copy for the ClickFunnels launch, right? And so I'm going through trying to figure out like the scripting and the VSL, what I'm gonna say and all that kind of stuff, right? So what I'm doing is I'm going back and I'm literally pulling every single VSL I can find, every single software funnel. So I'm funnel hacking, I'm finding all these

things, I'm listening to sales videos, I'm listening to things and so like I'm going through this whole concept and I remember like three or four hours, it was probably two o'clock in the morning, we're three or four hours into work and then Dylan, again one of our co-founders, and Dylan, by the way, is the one who built the original ClickFunnels editor. I did the original ClickFunnels UI. He's brilliant.

And he came over to me and he's like, he's like, so what are you doing? So I'm like, oh, well, I'm writing copies. So I'm trying to find as many examples ahead of time so I have my swipe file that I'm gonna work off of. I was funnel hacking, right? He said, he's like, so interesting. He's like, when I do my design, I'm the same way.

I'm like, really? So I walk over to his desk and he shows me. He's doing the UI design for ClickFunnels, he's doing the UI for the editor stuff. And what he is, he's on, I think it was gerbil.com, D-R-I-B-B-B-L-E.com, which is like this marketplace for designers. And he's looking at UI design and like layouts and stuff.

And he was doing the same thing I was doing, but he was doing it over there with UI. And he like funnel hacked a thousand things. And from there, from the funnel hacking, then he started creating the UI for ClickFunnels, UI for the editor, stuff like that, right? I think what most people do wrong in business as a whole is they try to just be creative, maybe creative, right?

It's like, no, no, no, no, stop, okay? There's another, this almost became a value but it didn't quite fit in. So I am weaving it into FunnelHack first, but another value that I had initially was like money follows speed. like we have to move quickly. Money follows speed, money follows speed, right? And so if you think about that,

if you're gonna go and like start from scratch, your time from beginning to execution is long, right? Instead, what I wanna do, I wanna figure out what's the best practice, what's working today right now, and I'm gonna go through everything and then take that, right, we're working off the shoulders of giants, right? We're taking all of the stuff that's been done in the past and we're building from there.

So we're funnel hacking first. Okay, a good example is emails. We had an email copywriter for a while, and it's like every time you do an email, this person, to be vague, this person would go and they would write a whole new email, and they'd be like, here's an email, like, do you approve it?

I'm like, it's all right, but I'm like, the thing you're promoting, I've written emails for this eight times in the last 10 years. I'm like, before's all right, but I'm like the thing you're promoting, I've written emails for this eight times in the last 10 years. I mean, before do you ever write an email to promote the thing? Look at what I've done in the past. Like go look at every single email

Russell ever wrote to promote this thing or something similar. If it's a webinar, go find every email campaign where I ever promoted a webinar and go look at them all. Look at them all, dissect them, figure it out, and from there write an email. Because right now you're trying to read,

guess what would be the best way to get somebody to buy this product? Like I've, I have done this hook thousands of times. We've, we've tested it. We have perfected it. Like, like always go funnel hack first, get the data first. And from this, like, man, this seemed like it was great.

Or else I'm just going to tweak the headline a little bit here and I'm not touching anything else. Like, cool. That's the bet. That's, that's the right response. It's not like, oh, I was creative. I built some, what do you think? Like, what, why would you do that?

Okay. I think that's in all areas of life. was creative, I built something. What do you think? Like, what? Why would you do that? Okay? I think that's in all areas of life. Like, again, from HR, right? HR, it's like, people come, like, here's a bunch of different ways to do things. Like, well, what did we do in the past? Like, we have not, this is not the first time we thought through it.

Or what's company we're modeling? How did they do it? Like, don't try to reinvent the wheel from scratch. It's like finding out who's already done this and that becomes the baseline. So we start from there. From there, we work and build something amazing, right? We can do, we can be creative,

but the creativity is built on a foundation of funnel hacking, right? We funnel hack first and from there we go and we grow. Okay, this is true in all aspects. And one of my, one of our partners does a bunch of video stuff. And then he always tells me, he's like, before I created a sales video,

he's like, and he's the one that does all the big fancy like funnel hacking, like trailers, like those things. He's like, I go and I watch a hundred trailers. He's like, I'm looking for sales video, he's like, and he's the one that does all the big fancy, like funnel hacking, like trailers, like those things. He's like, I go and I watch a hundred trailers. He's like, I'm looking for inspiration in a whole bunch of different places. And then from there, I get the mindset that now I've seen like what's possible and like my mind was stretched and grown.

And now from there, I take what I have and I can build on top of that. And I can add my creativity and add my sprinkles in. But he's like, I'm not just starting. And he talks about, he's like, I gotta find four or five inspirations that I like the most. I'm looking at those as inspirations that I'm remixing it on top of it, right?

Bands do this, music does this, right? Like people aren't just inventing music. Like, let me think of a, just do a C and then we'll do it an A, right? No, it's like they're finding inspiration. Oh, here's music. I love how they did the riff here. I love how they did this.

I love the flutes and then things. And they're like, okay, let me go. And from there, based on like funnel hacking, first I'm gonna build something that's gonna be my version, but it's gonna be based on these principles, right? And so always it's like, okay, let me go and from there, based on like funnel hacking, first I'm gonna build something that's gonna be my version, but it's gonna be based on these principles, right? And so always it's like, if money follows speed, then we have to funnel hack first.

Funnel hack first is the value. In every area, every department, every everything, funnel hack first, that's how we're gonna beat people to the finish line, because we're not reinventing the wheel every single time we do something, okay? So that is value number three. What's up, funnel hackers?

Today I wanna talk to you about something that's kind of like a funnel for your finances. There's an app called Rocket Money that my wife and I recently downloaded. We went and added our bank accounts, added everything in there and instantly started showing all the subscriptions we were paying monthly for. And what's crazy is most of these things we completely forgot about. Oftentimes my wife has signed for something and I also signed up for it and we're paying twice for the exact same service. It was crazy. So we started using Rocket Money and changed everything for us. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps you to find and cancel your unwanted

subscriptions, monitors your spending, and it helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Now here's what Rocket Money did for me. It showed me all of the subscriptions in one spot. Our streaming services, our apps, our membership sites, some of which we literally had not seen in months and a couple in over a year. Now, Rocket Money canceled the ones we didn't want anymore, saving us hundreds of dollars. In fact, actually for my wife and I, it was over a thousand dollars per month.

And they didn't stop there. Rocket Money even monitors my spending and sends alerts if bills increase or if I'm going close to my budgets. Now, with their personalized dashboard, you can see exactly where your money is going. I've even created custom badges with categories for everything from groceries to business expenses. Do you want to save automatically for a new house or paying off some debt? Their Goals feature makes it simple and hands-free. Rocket Money has over 5 million users, including my wife and I, and it saved over $500 million in canceled subscriptions, saving members up to $740 per year when using all of the app's premium features.

So if you want to cancel all your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money, then go to rocket all your underwater subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money, then go to rocketmoney.com slash Russell today. That's rocketmoney.com slash Russell, R-U-S-S-S-E-L-L. That's rocketmoney.com slash Russell. What's up, funnel hackers? I want to talk to you guys about a challenge that every business faces, including mine, and that is finding good people to hire.

For the last few years, we've been using Indeed to find the right hires in every one of the different departments inside of our company. Okay. Now think about this. You've built a successful funnel, your business is scaling, and now you're wearing all of the hats. Does this sound familiar? This is the path that most entrepreneurs go on. So at some point you need a team to help you keep growing, but finding the right person can be very overwhelming. It can be a huge pain. And for me, it's not something I love to do. That is until we found Indeed. And here's why I love it.

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Start hiring faster and smarter. When it comes to hiring, indeed is all you need. Okay, we got growth through contribution, always over deliver a funnel hack first. Now we're moving to value number four. And this is one, this one, it's so powerful, so simple. It's so hard to do. But yet it transforms everything.

This is based on a book written by Jaco. Jaco spoke at Fun Hacking Live 18 months ago and I had him just come and speak on one principle that I cared about, which was extreme ownership. Okay, and if you haven't had extreme ownership yet, it is probably one that, it's just, it's so simple and it's so powerful and it's so good. Jaco is a military dude.

He talks about how in the military, like every situation you have to, like if something doesn't work, it's always your fault, right? And I remember reading this book and just like, that's awesome for military, that's not true for me. Like that guy screwed up, that person screwed up, they did it wrong, like all those kind of things, right?

And after reading the book and then hiring him and paying him and for a ton of money, he comes to me and I'm just like, getting this thing ingrained in my head. It's like, okay, if I'm gonna be successful, I have to take extreme ownership over everything, right? If something's wrong in my marriage, it's so easy, like, oh, well, it's cause of that person,

it's cause of them, right? No, no, no, no, no. If something's wrong in your marriage, it's cause of you. Something's wrong with your family, it's cause of you. Something's wrong in your business, it's cause of you. Something didn't go right on the product launch, it's cause of you. Something like, and yes, it's so easy to point outwards.

It's so easy to point outwards, right? But the reality is even if you're pointing outwards, like it didn't work because of them, okay? Well, that's your fault. It's your fault. Either you got the wrong person or you didn't train them correctly or you didn't get the right tools,

you didn't get the right resources, you didn't give them enough background information. There's something wrong and it's always you, okay? And the reality is as hard as that is to do, because it's like, man, I blew up, I screwed up again, I screwed up again, I screwed up reality is, as hard as that is to do, because it's like, man, I blew up, I screwed up again, I screwed up again, I screwed up again, I screwed, like, as hard as that can be, it's also very empowering.

Because if it's their fault, I can't do anything about it, right? But if it's my fault, it's like, I can actually do something about it. Okay, what can I do different? How can I change my approach? How can I change the inputs? How can I change, like,

oh, it opens up a whole world of possibilities when you start pointing inwards and you take extreme ownership over the concept. Right? And so that's the key. And so in all aspects of business, right? It starts with you as the leader. Okay. You as the prime mover of your business or your community, you have to take

extreme ownership initially. Okay. You take extreme ownership first. And what happens is as you start doing it, then your team will, like your managers and the employees, but you have to like building a culture of extreme ownership from the top all the way down to the bottom. And that is one of the keys. If you don't do that, that's where everything kind of starts falling apart.

Okay? So extreme ownership is one of the values. And it starts with you. Taking extreme ownership, focusing on it, and really focusing there. And then trading your team to that, right? Your employees, everyone else in your team, like if they're not taking extreme ownership, like again, it becomes a value where someone comes back and like, oh, I tried this thing, but so and so, the affiliate over here or the email thing,

or they're trying to blame something else. Okay, I understand that, but what's one of our core values? Extreme ownership, you have to stop pointing the finger. If it didn't work, it's because of you. Something that you didn't do in the process is why it broke. Okay, and there's only you can fix. So figure out, what did I do wrong in the process? How can I fix me?

If I can fix me, then there's a shot at it fixing the outcome. But there's no way of pointing at somebody else that you're ever gonna fix the outcome. It's impossible, okay? So extreme ownership from the top to the bottom, which is such a good solid value for any kind of prime mover. All right, you see as I'm going through these,

now I'm like, I love these values because these values for me are like, yeah. Like I don't get tattoos, but if I did, I would tattoo these to my face. All right, value number five. This one is really cool. This one, I don't get tattoos, but if I did, I would tattoo these to my face. All right, value number five. This one is really cool. This one, I wanted this one because this is actually a value literally in almost every religion of all time.

It doesn't matter what religion you are. In fact, it's funny, I was talking to my team about this. I'm like, I actually have a paper somewhere that has it. I looked over and it was on my desk. So the value is the golden rule. You guys know the golden rule is doing to others as they would have to them, as you would have them doing to you, right?

The golden rule, very simple. And you think about this, like back in the day, this was a big thing. In fact, even Napoleon Hill in 1919, he launched the golden, Hill's golden rule. His whole magazine was based on this one principle, which is following the golden rule. Tons of authors back then wrote about this,

this concept of the golden rule. It was like a big thing in the thought mindset of people back in the early 20s. Nowadays, you never hear someone talk about golden rule, at least I don't. Do you ever hear people talk about this concept of the golden rule. It was like a big thing in the thought mindset of people back in the early 20s. Nowadays, you never hear someone talk about golden rule. At least I don't. Do you ever hear people talk about this? Yet it's like the core fundamental principle of all faiths. And so right here, this little piece of paper I have

that shows the golden rule and a whole bunch of different religions. Some of these religions I've never even heard of. And this is a partialist. I found another one later that hadn't had even more. But almost every major religion on the planet has some form of the golden rule. So I'm gonna read a couple so you guys see like,

this is a universal thing, right? Okay, so I'll start at the top. First one says Brahmanism. Brahmanism, I don't know that religion, but Brahmanism. And this is their version of the golden rule. It says, this is the sum of duty. Do not unto others which would cause you pain if done unto you.

Boom, okay, it's in their scriptures. Next is Buddhism, okay? Here's Buddhism's version. Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would done unto you. Boom, okay, that's in their scriptures. Next is Buddhism, okay? Here's Buddhism's version. Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Boom, golden rule, all right? Confuciusism, right? Confuciusism, anyway, I might have said it wrong.

Is, here's their version. Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness. Do not unto others what would not have them do unto you. Boom, okay. Next one, Taoism. Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain

and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. Boom, here we go. Zoro-tra-ne-ism. I'm sure someone in my search is following that faith and you've got it as well, so there you go. That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto others whatsoever is not good for thyself. Okay, Judaism, here we go.

What is hateful to you, do not unto your fellow man. That is the entire of the law. All the rest is commentary. Okay, Christianity. All things whatsoever you do that men should do to you, do you even to them for this is the law of the prophets. Matthew 7-12. I hear it Islam, Islam says,

no one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which is he desires for himself. Boom. So every faith, every religion has some version of the golden rule and it's something I think we need to bring back into the mindset. So do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Every situation, right?

I need this value so when people are interacting with customers or employees or whatever, it's like how would you want to be treating the situation, right? You submit a support ticket and you're stressed out or something, you know, or the person that comes back and like doesn't give you the full answer just gives you that like kind of pushes you off. Like that's not how you'd want to be treated. You want something like give you all the answer, all the information, like help give you resources and like hook you up and do it, like whatever that is, right? It's like that golden rule. Like how would you

want to be treated if someone submitted some support ticket to you? and hook you up or whatever that is, right? So that golden rule, how would you wanna be treated if someone submitted a sport ticket to you? Or if you guys, if you were submitted a sport ticket, treat that person the same way you'd wanna be treated. You're on the phone with someone, how would you wanna be treated? That's the golden rule, right? You meet someone at an event,

you meet someone at a live event thing, in every situation, right? How would you wanna be treated? Okay, the golden rule, that's the value I wanted everyone to have is just like making sure that when you're working with somebody or talking to someone or connecting or whatever that is, any points of interaction with another human,

that when you're looking at that interaction, you're thinking about, okay, how would I wanna be treated in this situation? Okay, and I also do this as well, like I think about in my company, like I started this by myself 20 years ago, right? And so everything that's grown, like everybody who's we've hired and built a team,

they're an extension of me, right? In theory. And so a lot of the times it's like, also it's like, okay, who's the person that I'm working for? How would they treat someone in this situation? If you don't know, it's like, how would Russell treat them? I've had a lot of times we've had employees

who would go and they'll snap at somebody. And it's like, you're an extension of me. I would never do that. How would you talk to that person if you were me? Thinking about that, right? I think all those things weave into this golden rule just like doing to others you have them doing to you. But then also it's like, you know,

the people you're working for or working with, it's like, how would they treat some of this situation? Like I need to match, I need to sync that. I got to funnel hack that and model it in my life as well. Look at that. We're taking values and we're funnel hacking and we're weaving them together, so. Okay, that's number five.

And I got one last value I'll share and then we'll be done for this episode. And this is one I got a really cool story about. So when I was a kid, in fact, it's number five. And I got one last value I'll share and then we'll be done for this episode. And this is one I got a really cool story about. So when I was a kid, in fact, it's funny, we did a viral video on Facebook. We had Actors Act this whole thing out. Hired Jay Shetty's team, I think, built this for us and launched it way back in the day.

It was really cool to kind of, they act out this whole situation. But this is the thing that happened when I was a kid. I was a kid and it was a Saturday morning and my dad gave us all of our chores to list. And my chore was to go clean the car. So go down in the car and I'm a typical young kid. I'm in there vacuuming, doing stuff,

I'm like, okay, I'm done. I wanna go play, I wanna go play basketball. I'm like, hey dad, I'm done. He's like, are you? I'm like, yeah, come check it out. You can see he's done. And my dad stops for a second, he's like, were you proud of it?

And I was like, oh well, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. He's like, well, if you're proud of it, then you're done. But if you're not proud of it, go keep doing it until you're proud of it. So I was like, okay, so go back down. I'm like, okay. Am I proud of it?

I'm like, well, all right. I guess I didn't clear that well. So I'm like, I'm gonna go back to him again and get all the cracks and get all the crevices and do everything, you know? And so I spent more time there for a minute where it was good to come back. Okay, dad, it's done.

Can I go play basketball? I was like, were you proud of it? I was like, well, yeah, but well, okay, I'll be back. So I back to him and I'm like, okay, I keep looking at my, okay, well there's fingerprints on the windows, there's stuff I asked, I'm like washing the windows, getting it cleaned. So I do this with my dad three or four times, going back and forth, back and forth. And finally last time I come back, I'm like,

dad, the car's done, I'm gonna play basketball. He's like, you proud of it? I'm like, yeah, I am. He's like, cool, if you're proud of it, then you're done. And I remember like, there was like this impact, it hit me, I was like, whoa. He didn't care, like, it wasn't what he thought. It was like, was I proud?

If I was proud of it, then I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the, I did the. And I remember there was this impact, it hit me. I was like, whoa. He didn't care, it wasn't what he thought. It was like, was I proud? If I was proud of it, then I did the work correctly, right? So our sixth value we created is called work until proud. Like when is the work done? It's when you're proud of it. If you're designing something, you're writing an email,

you're working, whatever it is, when all is said and done, when you do the work you're supposed to do here inside of our company or inside of your community, whatever it is, you gotta work until you're proud. And when you're proud of it, it is like when all is said and done, when you do the work you're supposed to do here inside of our company or inside of your community, whatever it is like, you gotta work until you're proud. And if you're proud of it, it's like, you're proud of it? Cool. All right, if you're proud of it, now I'm proud of it, good, you know, go for it.

And so that's the standard and what we look at like when work is done, when we're proud of it, we can look at it like, I created that. It turned out really, really good. I'm proud of that, therefore it's finished. Like that's kind of the last value here we had for our company. So let me share with you what we got.

These are the, again, the six values that us as the prime mover company are gonna be focusing on an embodying side of our company. It's also the lens that we look at everything, right? Every situation, like doesn't feel right. It's like, why does that not feel right? It's like, oh, it's because, you know, we're not using the golden rule,

or hey, that person's not taking extreme ownership, or hey, that person's not over-delivering. Like, all the, everything comes through this lens of those things, right? And so these are the six values you created. Number one is growth through contribution. Number two is always over-deliver. Number three is funnel hack first.

Number four is extreme ownership. Number five is the golden rule. And number six is work until proud. So those are the values that I'm very proud of here inside the Prime Mover Company. I think that, I think they embody what I believe. It embodies what I've tried to do from the very beginning and I think it gives my company and my team

a framework to look at. I'm hoping also that I've shared this publicly with you guys that it's giving you as a community something to look at as well, like values that us as a community can embody, that we can look at, that you guys can be doing with your own audiences and your companies and your communities as well.

And I also recommend you guys figure out what are the things that you value most for your company? And actually sitting down and doing the exercise and figuring it out, what are the things you wanna value? And get your team on board. It was really fun today, we did the meeting with our team, we proposed the values, and everyone was on fire, I got a message like, that was the best meeting ever!

I was like, wow, how interesting. In the past, I remember in ClickFunnels, we never focused on the values, because I was like, we all should have good values. Let's just be good people. That's the value, right? And it's good when it's a handful of people, but as you grow, it's like you gotta have standards

for people to look at, right? What are prime movers? What Aristotle said, right? We set a standard, we draw people to us. And so for us, as prime movers of our communities, our companies, whatever it is, we are setting the standard and drawing people to us. And so for us as prime movers of our communities, our companies, whatever it is, we are setting the standard and drawing people to us. If they don't know what that standard is,

it's hard for them to follow. And so this is me planning the flag for the prime mover community, from our company, for our team. This is the standard I am setting. Number one is always gonna be the number one person who's grown through contribution. I'm always gonna try to over-deliver.

I'm always gonna fall back first. And four, I'm always taking extreme ownership. Everything number five, I'm always gonna practice the golden rule. And number six, I'm always gonna try to over deliver. I'm always gonna fall back first and fourth. I'm always gonna take extreme ownership. Everything number five, I'm always gonna practice the golden rule number six. I'm gonna work until I'm proud. And by doing that, I set the standard and everybody else on our team rises to that. And I hope this is valuable for you guys.

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