The Russell Brunson Show - Liberate And Educate

Episode Date: July 27, 2018

How this external mission can actually transform your business forever. On today's episode Russell talks to us all the way from Kenya about the importance of doing good in the world after you have made a lot of money. Here are some of the awesome things you will hear in this episode: How Russell has been able to help the less fortunate by being successful in business. Why after this trip he will be focusing more on his new mantra, to liberate and educate. And why helping serve people who don't necessarily do anything for you can actually help motivate you to become more successful. So listen here to find out how Russell plans to continue to liberate and educate children and why he's going to start focusing on that aspect even more. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/liberate-and-educate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With TD Direct Investing, new and existing clients could get 1% cash back. Great! That's 1% closer to being part of the 1%. Maybe, but definitely 100% closer to getting 1% cash back with TD Direct Investing. Conditions apply. Offer ends January 31, 2025. Visit td.com slash dioffer to learn more. What's up, everybody? This is Russell Brunson. I'm in the middle of a village in Kenya right now, and I wanted to welcome you to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. So the big question is this. How are entrepreneurs like us, who didn't cheat and take on venture

capital, we're spending money from our own pockets, how do we market in a way that lets us get our products and our services and the things that we believe in out to the world and yet still remain profitable? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing Secrets. Hey everyone, so I am about to start packing up my bags after spending three days here in a little community called Ndau. I'm probably going to pronounce that wrong. And it's been a really special trip. This is actually, for those who don't know, this is my third time coming to Kenya.

We came the first time in 2012. And it was the first time I'd ever been in a country like Kenya. And it was this emotional, crazy experience. And we fell in love with the children and the people here. In fact, we met a little girl here that first time. Her name was Jane, who became almost like a daughter to us. And as we went home, we ended up keeping communication with her. And she was, I think, 13 years old at the time.

And that was the first time we came to Kenya. And then two years ago, we weren't really planning on coming back again. But actually, Dylan Jones is one of the co the initial co-founders of click funnels he was supposed to come on the trip i think he forgot to get his shots or something in time i don't know what it was and so um but we still had our shots four years earlier still raging through our blood so they um they let us come back and so we um or they need someone to take the the spot that dylan paid for so we like the week's notice jumped and came back out and just just came for three days just to be with the kids.

And it was amazing because we got there. And Jane had graduated from the school when she was going to secondary school, which is like their high school. And so she came back to the village and saw my wife. And it was just like this amazing emotional experience. My wife was bawling her eyes out and crying. And it was just an amazing experience. That was two years ago. And then Fun Hockey Live two years ago, um, we, we made an offer where we said, Hey, if you guys want to actually come to Kenya with us and build schools with us, you can do it. And so, um, we had about 15 or so people who each,

who each paid about $20,000 to build a classroom in Kenya. And so collectively it was enough to build an entire school. And we were supposed to come out last year, but the trip was set at a time. There turned out to be some political elections and things. We ended up canceling the trip and moving until right now. And so right now we're here with a bunch of the donors from Fun Hockey Live. And they had a chance over the last three days to see their actual school. In fact, I'm looking at it right now. If you've been following me on Instagram or Facebook,

you've probably seen videos and pictures of it. But it's beautiful. And so we got to dedicate the school yesterday. We had a big celebration. And it was cool. But actually, let me step back. I could tell you guys stories for hours, but I have to start packing in the next about five minutes.

So this will be a little short and condensed, but there's a couple messages I wanted to share before I left this beautiful place and forgot. So this time when we came in, Colette and I came in a day early because now Jane, we've been funding her to go to college. And so she's actually in college now. So we came a day early to see her. And so we had a chance to, she came to our hotel and we met her and, oh, it's just amazing to see, see this progression in six years of this little girl who, you know, had nothing, um, in this little village who was just getting the ability to learn for the first time because we built this school here. And now six years later, she's, she's in college and, um, and,

uh, she got, she has, she got a job as a model and she's, um, doing this modeling thing. We actually are helping her to fly to Germany to compete in a modeling competition in Germany later on this year. And, uh, she took us to her home, which her home is probably 300 feet, you know, square feet, maybe, maybe three 50. If you count the bathrooms and stuff, which the bathroom is literally you know a two foot by two foot room with a toilet and then there's a shower above the toilet like it's crazy and she was so proud of it she wanted to show us and she wanted us to be proud of her and she had her own little home and she you know could cook cook her own food and they shook us to her school

and showed us you know her principal and saw the classrooms and oh it's just so cool to see her and how how she just wanted um she just wanted us to be proud of her which we are and uh it was such a such a cool experience all right so let me fast forward through the last three days here so we've been here in this community and we got to help paint the school and we got to help build these brick paths and you know doing all this doing all this manual labor but the best part is the kids there's about i think 250 kids that now attend this the school we built so we were playing with them we were wrestling with them we were playing soccer with them we were doing i taught them dog pile which means um i run and then i bend over and all 250 or so jumped on my back at once like i'm so sore today anyway but it's just been amazing experience and then yesterday they had

this uh really cool um celebration where the government officials came in and the community came in about five or six hundred people were here and we got to dedicate the school and um uh it was cool because they asked if colette and i would actually speak at the dedication and so we there was an interpreter there for us, and we got to stand up, and I told the story of why I'm here. I told the story about basically 10 years ago, Stu McLaren and Amy, his wife, had a vision for this thing where they were going to build schools in Kenya, and he called me up and told me the vision.

And then six years ago, Stu brought me here, and I told him how we fell in love with the Kenyan people and how then when we went back home, we told our community, the funnel hacking, ClickFunnels community about, about what's happening here. And, and for those of you guys don't know, some of you guys know this, but every time you build a funnel inside of ClickFunnels and you set the funnel live, we actually donate a dollar towards world T-Trade. And so every time you're building click funnels you're actually helping build schools and i told him so there's tens of thousands of entrepreneurs every single day

um are are trying to grow their own companies and when they do that they are investing here in this community because they love you guys as well and uh just for example last you know last year alone at funnel walking live we gave a world or excuse me it used to be called world tea trade they changed the name to village impact but we gave village impact a check for over a hundred and I think 120 or $130,000. And that comes from all of you guys building funnels. And so, uh, we gave them, you know, gave told them about that. And I said, you know, and there's some donors who, um, who wanted to, to, uh, who loved you guys so much. They wanted to come in the, uh, in distance of the donors who who came and um

anyway just a really special special moment but this one i want to share actually two more things i want to share so the first one was as i'm sitting there during the ceremony i'm thinking about there's two charities as you guys know that i participate in that i believe in and one is operation underground railroad which is the the charity that we've been working with that saves children from human trafficking from sex slavery and then the other one um is uh village impact which helps to build schools and educate children in these third world countries and i've seen you're thinking like how do i like how do these things tie together like i'm drawn to both of them so strongly how do they how do these things fit together and um and the, the two words that came to my mind were liberation and education.

I started thinking, that's what we're doing. Like we're liberating children and then we're educating children. I thought, what greater mission in the world is there than to liberate children from, from evil people and then to educate children so they can, they can change the world. They can change their world as they grow up. It's got me excited. I think that, um, moving forward, that's going to be a lot, a big part of my, my, you know, from the philanthropy or charity or whatever you want to call it side of, of me and my business is that, that mantra of liberation and education with

liberating and educate children. Cause if you can liberate a child and give them a life and then you can educate a child so they can create their own life. Like what better, what better mission can we have on this earth? Um, than that. And so, um, anyway, I just want to share that with you, um, liberate and educate children. Um, that's my, my focus is moving forward and you'll see a lot more of that funnel hacking live and moving forward in fact i'm already envisioning t-shirt this is liberate on one sleeve and educate on the other sleeve one with the our logo one with the world or the village impact logo and uh and then maybe funnel hackers in the middle bridging the gap between these two these two vital important missions um ah so excited anyway all right so one more story i'm going to tell you

and then i will wrap it up for today because I'm already over my time limit and they're probably going to, probably going to miss the bus home tonight. Roby, if I don't worry. Um, so, uh, after, after the ceremony ended yesterday, um, I was on boxer and I was kind of, you know, working on a really cool funnel. He has a C-string. So I was kind of giving some feedback, some people. And as I'm doing that, I look up and there's this man walking towards me. He's got a backpack on, he's got a, he's got a suit on and he's, uh, you know, uh, he's 33 years old and he's walking towards me and, and I look up and, and I'm still doing my thing. I look a little closer and he's looking right at me and he's got kind of smile on his face and I'm looking

off and I was like, Oh my gosh, that gosh that's that's Leonard and so I put my phone down I come run and give him a huge hug and um some of the backstory on Leonard is um as we were helping Jane in college um about two and a half three years ago uh Jane who I mentioned earlier um we asked Irene who's one of the main people here in Kenya on the ground that run the whole Village Impact mission, we said, Colette had this impression. She's like, is there another kid? There's someone else. She's like, we want to help one more person.

Is there one more person we can help? And Irene said, well, actually, there is this boy who, he's a hard worker. He said right now he's in the community. He's volunteering teaching for free. He's got a wife and five kids. And, um, and, uh, he, he was studying school to be, um, a doctor of like microbiology and things like that. So that, um, and so that basically he had, uh, he'd done two and a half years of, of his his schooling but he had to drop out because they had no more money to to keep funding it and now he's back in the village just volunteering and

and working and trying to help serve the community and said you know he's a hard worker who got really high grades and would love to go back to school and so clut said yes and she came to me said hey there's this other kid we're gonna help and it's like 800 a semester for him to go to school and you know he's got i can't remember five or six semesters left and so she's like $800 a semester for him to go to school and he's got I can't remember five or six semesters left and so she's like I sent the money for him to finish his schooling and so for us it's like what 2,500 bucks or you know 3,000 bucks or whatever it was like just not something we think about like oh here you go and we just you know gave gave the money and and um here's for this boy Leonard who's an amazing human five Five kids. Oh, just such a cool guy.

So I see him and he gives me a huge hug and he starts telling me the story from the very beginning. He says, okay. And he starts talking about what was happening and, you know, the village he was in and how he got the government, Moonmount's village, and then he fought to get back into school. And then he worked all year round to raise funds for school. And he went to a semester and then he had to work for another year to raise funds to go to another semester. And all these things. And finally when school got ripped away from him last time and he couldn't, couldn't raise funds anymore. And, and, um, and they said that one day he was with his family and they were out in the field, um, um, getting, um, you know,

getting, getting food for their family. And he said, he got this phone call from Irene. He said that on the phone call, Irene said, Hey, I found, um, some, some donors who want to sponsor you for school. And, um, and, and, uh, and they've already wired the money and it's in an account and you can start school. And he said, he sat there in this field with his kids, just crying that there was somebody on earth who cared enough about him and his family to do this. He said, he said, I, I told myself and I told my family that because somebody cared this much that I was not going to take it easy or I'm not going to, I'm not going to relax. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do my

best and get the highest grades possible. And so he went back to school and over the next two and a half years or so, he, uh, he got his degree. Uh, he got honors. He was the top three out of his, like out of all the classes. I think he was the second or the third highest, uh, highest marks. And, um, and, uh, and what was crazy is he actually this yesterday morning had jumped in a motorcycle and driven for four hours to get here to see us. And the streets here, aren't like streets in America. These are like roads with four foot potholes. Like it's, it's, it's crazy. It's not easy drive. Drove four hours to get here to come in, to tell me the story. And then afterwards he opened his backpack and he pulled out his diploma and he wanted me to see his diploma because he

was so proud of it. And, uh, we looked at his diploma and, uh, Clint and I both just gave him a hug. We were so proud of him. And, and, uh, and then when he said that was so powerful, he said, he said, every single night, my wife and my five kids, we pray for you in America. We pray for the people who cared enough about our family to help support us. And it brought tears to my eyes just thinking, God, like you think about everyday struggles we're dealing with, like how, how powerful to have family or families on the other side of the world who are so clean and so pure. And so, um, just such good people who are praying for us to, to survive and to thrive and to do good. Um, because we serve them. And, um,

we literally changed not just his life, but like he told us after he graduated, he said, he went back to the school, which when the school is the village impact built, he said, I wore all my robes and we had a huge celebration. The government came out and it told all the kids that because I was successful because I got a degree, all of you guys can get degrees. And now there's an entire community of kids who believe they can get a degree because you believed that I could get a degree. And, um, it was just such a special, special, special thing. And so, um, that the, I know this isn't like me teaching you a marketing secret or anything, um, but I kind of indirectly am. Um, I promise you guys, as you start shifting your focus from yourselves, um, to your customers, I think that's the first level.

Um, you will start seeing your, your businesses grow. What I mean by that is most entrepreneurs start, um, typically from a selfish standpoint, like I want to make money, which is not bad. That's how, that's, that's what gives most of us enough desire to get through the pain that it takes to get one of these things running. Right. Um, but the people who grow are the ones who very quickly shift from a me focused to like, Oh my gosh, I'm serving these people. And this is amazing. And that becomes a focus of serving other people. And I think the third, the third tier after that is when you start looking outside of just your customers, like you'll outside yourself, like outside your customers,

like how can you have a greater impact on people who, who they can't necessarily do anything for you other than pray for you, which is, which is amazing. Um, and you know, I look at, I look at my business. I look at, I look at the blessings I've, that I, I received daily. And I think a big, a huge piece of that is because, um, I've been willing to, um, to give time and money to, to people like this. And now because I was willing to do that, I have an army of people around the world who are praying for our success, who are praying for my family, who are praying for my marriage, who are praying for my business, who are praying that I will continue to be successful because

I cared enough to try to change their world. And so for you guys, I just want you guys to think about that as you're looking through your own personal evolution, that, you know, initially it's you, then it's your customers and then it's outside of that. Like, how can you help? And, um, you know, I, I always get nervous sharing these kinds of things cause I don't, I don't know. You know, I like bragging about my customers. I don't like bragging about like charity stuff. And that's not the point of this. The point though, is hopefully to inspire you guys to do, to do more of it. Um, cause I promise you have an army of people on the other side of the world praying for you is a powerful force. Um, and, uh, and so again, my, my, my new, my new mission after this trip is to liberate and to educate children. And, uh, and I will

continue to have ways that you guys can participate in that vision, that mission. If you feel like I do, you know, on the OUR our side we have our film.org you can go watch that and that'll help you learn how to how to liberate children and uh we're gonna be putting out some really cool funnels um on the education side with world t trade as well so you can and i'll announce some of those when we get home and you can see how to help on the education side as well um but find a mission like that you know know, Stu talked about this yesterday. Anissa, who came from our ClickFunnels community here to Kenya as well, she talked about it as well. You know, a lot of us feel guilt, internal subconscious guilt when we start making money that holds us back.

I think when you start realizing that the more money you make, the bigger impact you can have, that's when you start getting free. Like Stu talked about, he had all these mental barriers because he felt guilt. Like subconsciously, he felt guilty making money, making money, and he could never get past certain levels. Then he started shifting to helping other people and realized, man, the more money I make, the more people I can help. Then those subconscious beliefs disappeared, and he was able to grow his company to the levels he wanted to and that he needed to. I think the same thing is true for all of you guys as well.

So anyway, I just want to shout out to you guys today. I'm looking at all these kids, probably a hundred kids are now watching me waiting for us to come play. So I have to go finish packing my bags and come play with the kids. And then we're heading back to Nairobi. And then after that, we're heading to a safari for a couple of days, which will be really neat as well, but nothing's as good as this first three days. We get to play with the kids and be here in the village. So there you go, guys. Appreciate you all. Thanks for listening. Um, hopefully this, um, helps shape and help focus your vision. Um, because while it may not seem like it has anything to do with business, it has everything to do with business. Thanks so much for listening guys. And we will talk to you soon. Bye. Would you like to see behind the scenes

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