The Russell Brunson Show - The Atlas Shrugged Interview - Part 4 of 5

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

Welcome back to the 4th part of this interview series. We are getting near the end and the topics keep getting more interesting. In this episode you hear them talk about the influence their parents had on their lives in business. If they feel misunderstood as entrepreneurs and how their ability to communicate might be able to change that. Russell explains how he realizes that Clickfunnels is a team effort and that’s what help him stay so grounded. Then they discuss what each liked most about the Atlas Shrugged book and what character they each associate with most. So tune into part 4 of this exciting interview! Hit me up on IG! @russellbrunson Text Me! 208-231-3797 Join my newsletter at marketingsecrets.com ---Transcript--- What's up everybody, this is Russell. Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets podcast. All right. I hope you guys have enjoyed the first three. We are moving into the fourth episode of our interview. My interview with Josh Forti talking about Atlas Shrugged. Again, during this series, we've been talking about religion and politics and all the things you're not supposed to talk about, but we've done it all through the lens of Atlas Shrugged, which I hope you've enjoyed and had a lot of fun with it. Hopefully it's made you want to go and actually read the Atlas Shrugged book, which I think would be really, really cool. With that said, I’m going to queue up the theme song. When we come back, you have a chance to start listening to part four of my interview with Josh Forti. Josh Forti: So, what did your parents do right for you? One of the things that I try to say, I try to say it a lot but I don't even say it enough. My parents have played a absolutely tremendous... I owe so much of who I am today to my parents indirectly in a lot of ways. My parents didn't teach me about money or things like that. That wasn't their gift, but the principles of hard work and family values, biting your tongue, even though it doesn't seem like I bite my tongue. Oh my gosh. Every day, right? Russell Brunson: It could be worse guys. Josh: Right. It could be way worse. Some people would love that, but you know, deescalating situations and having those... I owe so much of who I am to those. Yeah, they messed up in a lot of ways like you said, but what were some of the things that your parents did right? What are the things that you remember from your parents? Russell: Yeah. I love my parents. I was very blessed with my parents, for sure. I don't think my dad was super engaged when we were younger just because he was in the phase where, like trying to figure things out and make money. It was different back then. Josh: Is he an entrepreneur? Russell: Yeah. He also had a job, but he did side business so he was always trying to figure things out. I saw him doing these things. I saw the job he didn't love and then I saw him doing stuff he did love and I watched him work really hard. Then when I started wrestling, I saw my dad... That became the thing that me and him connected with which meant the world to me and it was so important to him. What's cool was that my dad showed up to every wrestling practice. He came to every single match. His day job was State Farm insurance, he built up his book of business where by the time I was wrestling, he was able to take off as much as he wanted. It ran itself and he was making money and had residual income. I remember my dad was the only one, as soon as wrestling practice got done, my dad would walk in and we would do practice afterwards. Never missed a match. He was always there. I remember just thinking, I want to make sure I have a business or something like my dad was for me. That was so important to me. Like I said, he wasn't super around when we were younger and I think he struggled because of the younger kids, which I understand. That phase in my life, he was there and my best friend and it was just, it was awesome. I love that and I've been trying to have my kids now. Especially at times where maybe I wasn't as good of a dad, I was too busy. I'm trying to connect more. That was my dad for sure. Then my mom, for me she was just... I wouldn't say I'm a people pleaser but I'm very much an achiever. I think when I started wrestling and I saw my dad got closer to me and then I got a win and I saw him get excited, I wanted to win because I wanted to impress my dad. To this day, I think I still have that. Part of the reason I'm in this business and I'm doing stuff is I love when my dad sees it. There's something, I love impressing him. To this day I love that win. With my mom, she loved me even when I didn't win. that was something that was so foreign to me. I remember I'd be cutting away for wrestling, I hadn't eaten for three days. I'd be so tired, so miserable. She'd come down and sneak in my room, bringing me food. I'm like, "Mom, I can't eat. I'm not going to make weight." She's like, "Why don't you just quit then? You don't need to do this." She was the opposite of my dad. She loved me no matter what and didn't care that I was trying to win or succeed. Couldn't care less. She loved me just because I was me. That was weird but so cool as well. It's both those principles, it's something I've tried to weave in. I've got two different sides I'm trying to weave that into my kids. Again, so far from perfect, but I think those are the two things that meant the world to me, that I'm super grateful for them those things for me because I still remember those things now. Josh: So there is... Which by the way, that's awesome. There's a lot of people in this world that are growing up without a dad, without a mom. It's interesting because I think a lot of my social media posts, I kind of come across sometimes like the heartless a-hole, you know what I mean? A little bit, they're like, "Josh!" You know what I mean? You talk about, take personal responsibility for your life, everybody can do anything. If you're broke it's your fault, that's one of my favorite sayings. If you're broke in America it's your fault, right? They're like, "Josh, you don't understand. You grew up and your parents are still married. Not only do you have parents, they're still together and they still actually love each other." It's not even necessarily they're still together. You're like a percentage of the percentage of the percentage in a lot of ways. I don't even know what question I'm asking you, but what would you do? Where could somebody find that? What can we do as a society or just as entrepreneurs, as producers to help those people? I feel like that's a really big need. Russell: For sure. Josh: One of my big struggles with this is I always want to point it back to the church. I had a really awakening, come-to-Jesus moment back when I posted, this is probably a month ago or so. I posted it on Instagram actually. I think you liked it, actually, so I know you saw it. I said, "Defund the media, defund fear, defund career politicians. Fund orphanages, churches and schools." I posted it on Facebook and I posted it on Instagram, and I was shocked at how many people were like, "Dude. Fund the churches? They're a bunch of pedophile people there too." So many people had such this negative view of the church. I grew up in the church, that's what I knew. How I knew how family works is because I saw our own family and then I saw the church family and I saw the community and how the church was involved in the community. The church that I went to, after I moved out Grable, Indiana, I worked three doors down from it and that's where people went to vote was in their gym. And the fair, that's where people parked. The church was such an integral part... that word, a part of the community. So when I saw all these people that had this negative view of the church, that broke my heart because that was my solution. There are so many things. Like, if you don't have a dad, you can go to the church. If you don't have this, you can go to the church. Said, "What?" If that's your answer, that's cool, but how can we as producers of society and the people that are going out there and making the money, how can we help those that don't have what you and I had? Russell: It's interesting. What Mormons believe is the family is the central everything. That's God's plan. Husband and wife starts a family. That's an eternal principle, right? If you look at the adversary, Satan, whatever you want to call him, his job, if he can destroy the family, everything falls apart. That's the war we're in right now. We think we're in a lot of different wars. The war we are in is, Satan is attacking families. That's it. Josh: Okay. I want you to finish this, I have to say this though. Guys, and this is not Russell saying this, this is me. This is why I hate the Black Lives Matter organization. Not movement, the organization so much. Because, their whole principle is bragging about the traditional family values. Anyway, I'm not speaking for Russell. Russell: Yeah, if you Google "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," you'll see my beliefs on family. We have it printed out eight foot on my wall in my house. That's my belief. Family is central, everything. So, Satan, the way he destroys societies and nations and this world is, destroy the family. So when you see families are broken, they're single mothers and single fathers, it's heartbreaking. I think it's the saddest thing in the world. I don't know the right way to solve it. I do know that it's vitally important. I remember first time I met Tony Robbins and started learning from him, one of the principles he talked about in relationships is masculine, feminine energy. The masculine and feminine is key to a relationship. I could go on for four hours just on masculine and feminine. Oh, that's the most fascinating topic in the world. If you ever see how Tony fixes relationships, you look at the traditional view of traditional counseling, there's a problem. They're like, "What's the symptom of the problem?" They try to solve the symptom of the problem and counseling takes years because it's a symptom of the problem. All the issues, they're all symptoms of problems. The real problem is when there's a masculine and a feminine, and it doesn't matter. Again, this is true with gay, straight, doesn't matter. Feminine, masculine energy. You take a masculine and a feminine and that polar opposite, that magnetism, magnetize together, right? That's what creates attraction, passion, everything. What happens is you have a masculine and feminine, they're attracted together. That's how you start. That's how any relationship starts. Right? Then you look at people getting married. It was interesting because what Tony talked about, he said you look at typically in a relationship, there's what they call the seven-year itch, and why is that? He talks about the way the feminine causes change is... Some day I want to write a book on this. I don't know perfectly enough to- Josh: Russell needs to become a writer. My word… Russell: Yeah, I've got a lot of books to write. But, this is how it works in traditional marriage. Masculine and feminine. What happens is one of the ways that feminine causes change is they criticize, right? I see this with my wife, with friends, with girls. If they want their friend to change their hair they don't say, "Hey, you should get a haircut." They'll criticize to try to cause change. Right? What happens is that a feminine- Josh: Yo, wow. That's so true. Interesting stuff. Russell: Yeah. That's just one example of- Josh: Dave! Russell: Feminine… Josh: Right, right. Russell: So, feminine and masculine come together. This is just an example. They'll start criticizing the man, but a masculine man doesn't care, it bounces off him. Like, "Okay. Okay." Right? What happens after seven years of that happening? Eventually instead of it balancing off of you, which is the masculine response, you start taking it personally. Like, "Oh." As soon as you take it personally, guess what happens? You are shifting physically from your masculine into a feminine. You start shifting and what happens is you shift from masculine to feminine and boom, the attraction breaks, and it starts falling apart. And then all the other problems start happening. The problem isn't solving the fact that you leave the toilet seat up or that you don't communicate well. The problem is that the masculine-feminine attraction is broken. If you fix the masculine and feminine, you can make men become men and women become women. Attraction comes back, all the other symptoms disappear. It's fascinating. That's from a marriage, family, relationship standpoint. Josh: Okay. I want to- Russell: I'm telling this because I want to talk about this from the family with kids in a minute, but yes. Josh: Okay. But I want you to now give me another example that Tony Robbins has said, because what you made it sound like there is that the way the woman does something is the thing that's causing the bond. I know that's not what you meant. Russell: Oh, it could be, yeah. That's- Josh: I just wanted to do that clarification. Russell: It's the same thing with the men where the men are responding over and over, where women now become defensive and they become more masculine and it's the other way. Yeah. Sorry. That's not the only example. I was just- Josh: Right. Russell: The one- Josh: I just wanted to make sure we clarify that because I know thing's have been taken out of context before. Russell: Somebody is going to be angry at me. I apologize. I'm stupid. I get it. But conceptually, does that make sense? It's the break of the masculine and feminine that causes the split, which causes the disharmony. And if you bring the masculine and feminine together, I think that's what causes attraction and causes passion and causes all these things. I look at my life when we were struggling in our marriage, it's because I'm showing up feminine. When I show masculine, everything's great. Where my wife comes in masculine and I'm masculine, we butt heads, it's fascinating. Anyway, I don't want to get deep into this because there's so much stuff. There's another show on this, because you look at this thing. You've got a family and the mother and father split and then there's kids who go with either the mother or the father, and now what they have is they've got either a very masculine person they're learning from or feminine, but they don't see both. And so it shifts them and it shifts their relationship. So many problems. I think the way we help the most, or can help the most is... Hormozi does this. Alex Hormozi does this. He donates his money to... Do you remember the name of the charity? He got our first Two Heart award. It's afterschool kids. These kids, like men who... There's these kids trying to play basketball or lift weights or whatever, who don't have masculine energy in their life. They come and they donate their time and they help the kids to brig masculinity. All of us, we need male and female perspectives. Josh: Right. Russell: It's designed to have those things together. When you lose one of them, it's a tragedy. I think the way we can start helping is, how do we bring programs where they can see masculine energy and see the way to make it a positive and not a negative thing? A lot of times, all they know is masculine energy left and oftentimes there's a lot of anger between the people. They hear talking trash about the spouse and talking trash about these traits which are traits that are essential for them to develop. I don't know. I don't know if that's the right answer or not, but I feel like that's how we could help those things. Help them understand, like the kids who don't have a father or a mother. They need that energy in their life to understand it, to be able to... I don't know. Josh: Okay. This is seemingly unrelated to this, but I think that I can tie it back in because it's a question that I think fits in here. I'm going to start with a super-basic question, which I think the answer is obvious, but we'll go down this road. Do you feel misunderstood as an entrepreneur? Russell: I did early on, less so now. Josh: Why is that? Russell: When I was got started... Entrepreneurship has become more of a cool thing in the last decades. Since Shark Tank and stuff. Back when I first started it wasn't. Everyone was confused. Like, "Why would you do that?" It is cooler. Also, I think the more you talk, the more you either alienate people or you attract people, and I think a lot of the people who I have alienated have been alienated and I think they are attracted by attractive. So my bubble of people around me are people who understand this lingo, who relate to it. So it's less hard now than it was initially. Josh: I believe that one of my superpower... Your superpower, your art, your format is marketing and funnels, funnels specifically. That's what you do. I feel you could just sit there for hours and hours and days and forever for the rest of, all of time. Russell: Yes. I love it. Josh: My superpower thing that I like to do is this. Communication. I love constructing words in a way that people can understand. I'm sure not, but the Kanye West interview that Joe Rogan just did three days ago. Russell: I've heard about him… Josh: This has been a long awaited episode. No one thought it was ever going to happen because it was teased and it wasn't, didn't happen. Finally happens. So I see this, I had no idea what's coming. It drops and I'm a huge fan of Joe Rogan and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, this is amazing!" I sit down and I look online and all these people are like, "Terrible interview. Not worth your time. Couldn't get past the first 20 minutes." Anything like that. I'm like, what? So I go and the first 20 minutes are kind of like, eh whatever. I get done with this three-hour interview. It was like, top three interviews of all time. What's interesting is... Do you know Kanye? Like, how Kanye communicates at all?   Russell: No.   Josh: Okay, there's so many references that I want to use that you won't get. Kanye sees the world fundamentally differently and how Joe describes it in there and the way that I described it is... You wouldn't know this, like I said, because it's psychedelic, it's like a drug or whatever. But imagine being on a psychedelic drug in a small format at all times. That's how his mind works. He sees everything, it's like expanded. So even Kanye said, "The reason I have such a hard time communicating sometimes is because I see things in three-dimensional and then I have to put them into a two-dimensional conversation." I'm not trying to compare myself the way I think to the way that Kanye thinks, ubt this concept of people think he's beating around the bush when really he's just trying to explain something. One of the things I love doing is taking a concept that and figuring out how to describe it in a way that the average person can understand. I live in a different world, just like you live in a different world than the average person does. I live in a different world and that is by choice. I do not see the world the way that most people do. I intentionally do not want to see the world the way that other people do. Everything that I do, I will intentionally engineer where my life is different than the average person because I want to see the world differently, but I want to be able to communicate that in a way that they can understand. My question is, do you think that there's a lot of great ideas stuck inside of producer's heads that if more people understood them and thought like that, we could change the world for the better? But because they're stuck in their head and that person doesn't know how to communicate it well, or is not focused on that, that that effect never happens. Russell: Gotcha. Yes. That's why I think for me the study, this art of funnels and copywriting and story does, is so fascinating. That's what it is, right? I always pitch, like when we have an idea, in my head it's like this big granite block, right? It's like, this is the idea and give it to somebody, like, "This is the idea." You're like, "I don't get it." Right? Josh: Right. Russell: Then you start thinking about, who is it? Start chiseling away at the stone. You start chiseling, chiseling, and eventually you have this amazing statue. This thing that people can see and they can understand and they gravitate towards. I feel it's the same thing with communication or with any kind of idea you're trying to sell. The funnel is one thing. Right now, like, "Hey, you should buy my coaching programs." Why? Like, "Ah, it's too big." I need to take them to a path, simplify that. So there's a step-by-step process which is like chiseling away. Then inside each step of the process, there's the words and the stories, the things you communicate to simplify it to get more and more fine tuned. That's why for me, when we create a funnel and we launch it, it's like taking this big granite block and chiseling it down to now something that somebody can come in on the side of it go through a process. By the time they're done at the end, they're going to get some money, they're going to get a product and something's going to change for them. I think that's what marketing is. it's that process of trying to simplify the message. I think a hundred percent, that's why most ideas don't get out. I don't know, how many times have you had... This kind of comes back to talking about, who knows, an hour or two ago too, but four or five people get the same idea, but then one person executes on it. It's like the person who understands the communication the best is the one typically who gets it out, right? How much of your life or my life has been focused on the communication? I don't necessarily like that part as much. It's not my favorite part, but it's such an essential tool. I remember when I got in this game and I was trying to sell my very first product, Zip Brander. I put it up, I had a picture of it, Buy Now button and tried to send traffic, and nobody bought it. Someone's like, "Well, you need a headline," so I'm like, okay. So I put a headline. "Tell us what this does." So I found some sites that kind of modeled what they did and the people started buying it. It was learning that process of, how do you communicate? I remember thinking, I never want to learn how to write copy. That's what we all thought back then. "I don't want to write copy, I don't want to do that. That sounds horrible." I wanted to hire someone, but the people I tried to hire was expensive, it was 10 to $20,000 for a sales letter. I couldn't afford it, so I'm like, I have to learn this art and how to communicate. I'm so grateful because that's how everything we built has been, off the communication of an idea, and doing it in a way that gets people to move. Josh: How do you decide what you're going to communicate? You have a lot of ideas in your head and you have a lot of different thoughts on everything and you choose to share funnels and marketing primarily. Then you have some religion in there, which I would say probably is number two, maybe ish, of what you communicate. But that's it. How do you decide... Russell: The battles I want to choose? Josh: Yeah. Russell: What battles? That's a good question. I think part of what's interesting, like why did I want to do this interview? I read the book, it was fascinating. I don't know the answers and I thought this would be a fun way to talk it out loud. This is fascinating. Funnels are fascinating to me because I can apply it to so many things. You know when I talk a lot about wrestling, but not the community you bump into but for wrestling, I talk about that. I think it's just the ideas that fascinate me that I feel have the most fluidity and can do the most. Again, as an introverted person, I'll typically go out and have conversations with people as much as I can, but when I find something that does cause and effect, that's why I practice telling my story so many times and I'll do a podcast. I know now when I'm on stage in front of 9,000 people, the stories can get people to move because I practice it. So I think it's putting a lot of things out in the water and then seeing what things people relate to, and then I go deeper on the ones that are like, "Okay, this one had an impact." There's a lot of stuff. I remember in first version Dotcom Secrets, there were seven or eight chapters more that never got published. I was going to publish… Josh: Do you have copies of this? Russell: Yeah. It was like, all my best stuff at the time that I knew that I was going to publish it and it was all in the book. I remember I heard an interview with Tim Ferriss and Ryan Holiday... Ryan Holiday at the time and they were both talking... Anyway, they were talking about their books. Both of them said that when they write a typical book... You know, Tim Ferris's books are like this fat… My first draft was like, twice as big. It's like, to make your book go from good to great, it's not adding more. It's cutting. Like, I cut two thirds of my book to give you this one. I think it was Ryan said the same thing. The first draft is usually twice as big as the final one. Then the next section, it's cut, cut, cut, cut. I remember going back to Dotcom Secrets that night and I was like, "Okay, based on that, what would I cut and how would that do?" I cut seven chapters out and after I was done, I was so scared because I love these things, but those things aren't that important to get people what they need to actually be successful. Some of those things ended up being in Dotcom Secrets and Expert Secrets, and different places, but yeah. I wonder how that first version- Josh: I was going to say, I wonder if she just published the first day or if she had a 2,700 page book and cut something out of it. That's crazy. Okay. Back to the question in the car, and I want to tie this back to the book. How has growing a multi-hundred million dollar, making hundreds of millions of dollars having a roughly billion-dollar company, being the CEO of 400 employees, how has that changed your perspective of the world? Russell: So many things I could respond. I think there was a season of my life where I thought that if I was going to create something, if I was going to do something, the way I was going to do it, by me. Does that makes sense? Josh: Yeah. Russell: In fact, if you look at my history, the first decade of business, the businesses were about me. They were me. I was the sole owner, the sole person. On this journey, when we started, it was so different. It was like, what's the team look like? Todd was my first time I had a partner. That was so scary for me. Then it's been the greatest thing I possibly could have done. Right? Then we brought in other partners and then employees and stuff. I don't know. It's been fascinating just realizing that to build this, it wasn't about me. It was about... I don't know, just that whole thing. I think anything great, a lot of times there's a person that gets credit for it. Like, Elon Musk gets credit because whatever or Bill Gates or whoever the people are, they get the credit for it. You start really seeing how many people are involved to make something amazing. You know what I mean? I think that's the biggest thing for me as I started growing it. It's frustrating. Not frustrating for me. I enjoy it. People are always asking, "Russell invented ClickFunnels." I literally don't know how to code anything. There's not one dot of code in that word. Maybe once I leaned over Todd's shoulder, put a button in that and he had to delete it. I think it's cool that you see how many... Before Funnel Hacking Live, every time we start we bring our whole team together. I'm the one who's on stage, but I am fully aware that it is not me. This is us. If it wasn't for this team and these people, all you guys, all your contribution, this was impossible. I want to always ground that because I think sometimes the leader or whoever gets a big head where they think it's them. I see that with a lot of people who are on big stages where they still drink their own Kool-Aid so they think it's them. That's my shift in the world, just understanding the great things, the things that we remember. The things that are legacies that go on and on and on. There may be a head or a person that the branding tied too, but there's this group of people that created something amazing. That's… know what I mean? Josh: How do you stay grounded? I am a huge fan of Russell because for me, you're the person I look up to as not just, hey, you taught me how to make a lot of money, but I want to have the character that you have. I don't want to have... I look at Grant Cardone. You don't have to talk smack about Grant Cardone, but I can. Grant Cardone is really, really full of himself. Don't get me wrong. I learned a lot from Graham Cardone, especially about money. He's changed my perspective about a lot of things. I'm eternally grateful for that, but if I grew up to be Grant Cardone, where that was the focus.., I mean, I watched him, I was there at the stadium down in Miami or whatever. It was all about him. I think he even got up on stage and was like, "Oh yeah, everybody says Russell is the greatest salesman, but I'm the one that packed the house." I'm like, dude! You know what I'm saying? Why? Why is that necessary? How do you stay grounded? It's so fascinating to me to watch different types of people. I know Tai Lopez for example, for awhile there, it was all about Tai and now he's gone more behind the scenes, but each person that I watch whether it's Tai or Gary or Grant, they all have a different way about them. You have your way about them. The one that I see as the most grounded, humble... There's nobody that's looking at you. You get up on a stage and you're like, "Oh yeah, I'm Russell!" You know what I mean? Russell: Everyone awkwardly, like, "Yay." Josh: Right. Then you walk up and Grant's like... But you, it's just yeah, it's that awkward, "Hey, I'm just over here." How are you grounded in that? How do you not let it get to your head? Because it would be so easy for you to get wrapped up in your own head. Russell: Someone told me it's because of my wife. They said, "If you'd married anybody else, your head would be so big." Josh: I met your wife for the first time today. I mean, we had crossed paths, but I said when you were getting your haircut, "So what's it like being married to Russell?" She goes, "Hes just the sixth child of mine." I was like, oh boy. The big kid. Russell: That's awesome. I think I would say it's two things. We kind of talked about this earlier, but I'll tie back to it. The first one is that I am fully aware that these ideas are not mine. I didn't invent the funnel. I didn't invent any of this stuff. All I know is that I was on a path, in a journey. I was given the thing and the next thing, and I was freaking out and I was putting them together. That's part of it. This stuff's not mine. It's stuff that was given to me and tested and so I'm so grateful for that. It's never me like, "Oh, look what I invented." That's so annoying because it's not. Again, come back to these ideas, these thoughts, these desires and things that were given to us. I think that's the first part. The second part of it is, and I see this a lot in people in my world who, they had some success and then they're like, "This is my person. I made them a bajillion..." I hate that too. Like, you helped them in a piece but they did the work. I'm very careful to always when I'm talking about any of our success stories, I didn't make that person. We had this super-cool opportunity to be a piece to their journey. Right? We helped them give them some ideas and a tool, but they're the ones that killed. I don't know what it takes to build what they're building. I didn't do that. They did that. I'm grateful that they did and I'm even more grateful that I got to be a little piece of that. I got to be part of that journey. I got to see that and just have the impact of, oh my gosh. Because I killed myself and wrote those books and because Todd killed himself and wrote software and I was able to communicate it, they're able to do this thing and it's not all me. I'm fully aware it's not all me. I know what every entrepreneur has to go through to be successful and it's not a mentor who gives you everything. It's just a lot of people who are a piece. I've had mentors who gave me a piece that I'm so grateful for, but then they try to take all the credit, like, "Oh, this is when..." I hate that too. So I think those two sides. Number one is again, I don't think these ideas are something that I came up with. They were given to me and I was a good steward of them because I was able to aggregate and there's the thing. The number two is just my belief that I didn't help anyone. Even when you said, "You and Katie," I felt awkward. I didn't do anything. Josh: Right. Russell: Luckily some of the stuff resonated with you and it was a little piece of your journey. I'm so grateful for that. The fact, to see you do stuff now, it's so much fun for me to watch you. Just knowing, "Man, because he bumped into me, maybe something happened and now he's doing this stuff and this work and it's so cool seeing how you're impacting people." I think those are the reasons why I don’t think my head gets big, because I don't think it's me. I'm grateful that I get to be a piece of it, of the journey, but I'm not the creator of it. Josh: All right. I want to loop back to the book. Russell: Go ahead. Can we just read it? You guys want us to read it to you? Josh: Yeah. What was the thing that fascinated you about it though? When you've asked me, you were like, "Dude, I read it and I'm geeking out about it, I just want to geek out about it." What about it had you so fascinated? What did you want to geek out about it? I have a question that I want to ask later on about it, but what was the thing that just made you geek? Russell: There are a lot of things. I think the biggest thing that I was really excited, we talked about earlier was just… The biggest thing earlier was just this cons-... Again, for those of you who are tuning in late in here, there's the whole, it talks about greed. Right? And that concept of greed versus charity. Again, the book very much is like, greed is good, it's the thing that causes production and you should care about yourself and then good things will happen, it will create jobs and everything else will take care of as long as you're caring most about yourself. Which I thought was kind of cool but then also I had the other side with my beliefs in Christ and Christianity and all these things like that, where it's just like, how does that reconcile with faith, hope, charity and love, and serving everybody else? That's probably the thing that got me the most. I think about that a lot, especially in politics. Again, I'm not deep into politics, I'm not going to talk about who I'm voting for, not voting for, it doesn't matter. But I see that on both sides. I feel like on the Republican side you see a lot of this stuff, like this. Then on the Democrat side, you see a lot of the charity stuff. Again, in my notes I wrote this actually initially, because I wanted to talk about this. I'm a big believer that there's not a right and wrong. There's good in both sides. Josh: There's not a right or wrong side. Russell: Yeah. Things are messed up on both sides. It's how the world works. Satan, there's this eternal struggle between God and Satan and Christ, this is always happening. So there's two sides and there's God-like principles and things on the right that are amazing and then there's Satan that's twisting things and jacking them up. Same thing on both sides. I see everyone fighting tooth and nail and I bet you, if we all sat down, the majority of all issues we'd all agree on. But then it's these fringe things that causes so much hatred and fighting and just drives me crazy. I think that this book is the perfect example of what I believe so much in some of these principles, but there's also the opposite principles that I also believe in and they're both right. If you missed the beginning part of the interview, we talked more about that but the greed, the growth and contribution, that transition is the key that just fascinates me. Josh: Yeah. What parts of the book contradicted the most with your faith? What part of the books did you have the hardest time with because of your faith? Russell: Yeah. The producers in the book, the minds, the people that I connect with, because I self-identify as a producer, someone who's obsessed with production and creating. That’s why I relate with Hank Rearden, Dagny, all these people are cut from my same cloth. It's as they're growing this stuff that they didn't give back, that they didn't... That's the thing. I felt like they weren't rounded out characters and that's the biggest thing for me. The first half of the book, I want to be Hank Rearden. He's fricking the man. Like yes, that's all I want to be. I wanted to see him have that change of heart where he's Christ-like and he gives of his own free will. Not because the government came with the gun and told him he's got to pay taxes. I wanted to see his character develop and realize that, "Oh my gosh, I should be serving people because I love them. Not because of the government's force." That's the piece that I wish. Josh: It never took that turn. The book, you almost expected it and then it didn't happen. Russell: It got worse and worse and worse and then they waited until just everything... People were dying, everything collapses and then the lights in the yurt go out, wooh, and they're like, "Okay, now we can come back and build." Josh: Now we can go back and build, but even when they come back and build, it was built by our new law of basically... Actually, one of the things that's fascinating about that was... Gosh, it was towards the end. Was it Galt? I think it was Galt. Yeah, I think it was during his speech when he was like, "The minds society, we gave all this stuff to you guys basically." Trying to be like God there, but every day, we created all this stuff, we created these jobs, we created these resources. We gave it to you and all we wanted from you guys was for you to let us be in our own head. Let us, our minds be free and not be controlled by anything else. You took all that and not only did you take it all, then you said, "No, you're bad and we're going to take that away too. So we're all going on strike because of that." You relate to that so much and then it's like, yes! Then they explained how they live and it's like, you expect them to have that change of heart rather, but no. It's because we are amazing and because we are the great minds and we must live by this code. It has nothing to do with actually giving back or actually contributing to society. It was like they didn't care about contributing to society. It just happened to happen. Russell: Yeah. Which is cool, which is why again, governments should let producers produce because the byproduct is really good. Josh: Right. Russell: For everybody. So that part is so much I relate to. Part of this is probably because Ayn Rand didn't believe in God. You know what I mean? That wasn't part of her values and so it's tough because she weaved that... I just wish at the end of the book, it would have been like, and then Hank Rearden realized that he could help all these people himself and so he built orphanages and changed all these kids' lives. Like, yes! That would have been amazing. He found about OUR and he went and donated money to save all these children. Josh: Right. Russell: But he did it of his own free will because he had that change of heart. I don't want to die at the end of my days and... I produced some great jobs, but I didn't care about people. I feel like that missed the mark. Josh: Hank Rearden you say is the person you related to really most in the book? Russell: Yeah, I think so. I wanted to be Francisco though, he was pretty sweet. Josh: Who do you think I related to most in the book? Russell: Oh. Who was it? Josh: It was a relatively main one. You were close. Russell: Oh, was it Francisco? Josh: Yeah. Yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. Russell: He was cool. Josh: Right from the beginning he fascinated me. I knew right when, the plot twist of where he ran off and became the playboy or picture, he was obviously a playboy or whatever. I knew right then and there. I don't know what the plot, I don't know what the connection is but I know this is going to come back around and it's not going to be how it seems. The mind doesn't shift and then he stays in the scene or whatever. He fascinated me because, or he strikes me as someone... Hank Rearden didn't care about the crowds. He did not at all. He hated going to the wedding. It was by force that his wife drug him out there that one time. It was always, "I just want to work in my office." I'm actually not like that. I am actually much more the... I do like the crowds, but I don't like the crowds because I need praise. Don't get me wrong, I like being on stage and doing this type of stuff or whatever, but for me, I like the crowds because I love people. It's funny because I actually don't get along with a lot of people in real life. Whenever I go to the airport, I'm like, I will pay whatever it takes. Put me on a plane first, the least amount of people I have to deal with, whatever. I don't want to have to interact with people that I don't want to interact with. But I love studying and understanding people's minds. For me, one of the reasons I am so fascinated by Donald Trump is because of how he can control the crowds. You look at his rallies. Dude, you can't ignore them. They're just huge. My fiance's parents, or her mom and Kirby went yesterday, I think it was last night, to Omaha. 29,000 people showed up in the bitter cold of Omaha, a last-minute notice. That type of control or not even control, but that type of influence to be able to go through, what is it that makes people go and do that? So Francisco in the book, he was the partier guy and he went and he was with the crowds and he was very good with words and articulated, but he sold me at that wedding. I'm telling you. Russell: That was good. Josh: To me, there's more than two ways, but super simplified down, there's two ways to influence people. There's one, which is the indirect, which is build a software company, it's build a product, it's build an iPhone. You're not directly influencing them with your words or whatever, but it's influencing their behavior by creating a product, by creating a service that's going to go out and change the world. Then the other way is to actually go out there and change them with your words. That's why Jesus, for example, Jesus didn't build the product. He did it through His words kind of, sort of, but to me that's so fascinating. If I can figure out how to do that, that's how I can affect real change in the world. 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Travel moves us. What's up, everybody? This is Russell. Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. All right. I hope you guys have enjoyed the first three. We are moving into the fourth episode of our interview, my interview with Josh Forty talking about Atlas Shrugged. Again, during this series, we've been talking about religion and politics

and all the things you're not supposed to talk about, but we've done it all through the lens of Atlas Shrugged, which I hope you've enjoyed and had a lot of fun with. And hopefully it's made you want to go and actually read the Atlas Shrugged book, which I think would be really, really cool. So with that said, the theme song, when we come back, you have a chance to start listening to part four

of my interview with Josh Forte. So the big question is this. How are entrepreneurs like us, who didn't cheat and take on venture capital, who are 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. So how did your parents, what did your parents do right for you? Because one of the things that, I try to say it a lot, but I don't even say it enough. My parents have played absolutely tremendous. I owe so don't even say it enough like my parents have played a absolutely tremendous like i owe so much of who i am today like to my parents indirectly in a lot of ways like my parents didn't teach me like about like money or like like things like that like

that's not what that wasn't their gift but like like the presence of hard work and like family values like like biting your tongue even though it doesn't seem like about my tongue oh my gosh every day right like i like you, not like the worst guy, like it could be a way worse. And like, some people would love that, but like, you know,

like deescalating situations and like having those, like I owe so much of who I am to those. And like, yeah, they messed up in a lot of ways. And like, like you said, like,

so what were some of the ways, like, what were some of the things that your parents did right? Like, what are the things that you remember for your parents? Yeah. Um, i love my parents i was very blessed my parents for sure um you know my dad i don't think my dad was super engaged when we were younger um because and um just because he was you know he was in the phase where and i try to figure things out and make money and like it was different back then yeah but he also had a job but he did side business so he was always trying to figure things out and i saw him doing it was different back then. 18 hours a runner. Yeah. But he also had a job, but he did side business.

So he was always trying to figure things out. And I saw him doing these things. I saw the job he didn't love, and then I saw him doing stuff he did love. And I watched him work really hard. And then when I started wrestling, I saw my dad, like, that became the thing that made him connect to it,

which meant the world to me. And it was so important to him. And what's cool is that my dad showed up to every wrestling practice. He came to every single match. Basically, he built up his day job as a state farm insurance he built up his book of business where by the time i was wrestling he was able to take off as much as he wanted and it ran itself he's making money and had residual income i remember like my dad was the only one like as soon as wrestle pass got done my dad would walk in and

we do meet him do a practice afterwards like never missed a match never missed like he was always there i remember just thinking like i want to make sure i have a business or something so that i can either like like my dad was for me that was so important to me and um i said he wasn't super around when we were younger i think he struggled as the younger kids which i understand but i would like that phase of my life like he was there and he was my best friend and it was just it was awesome i love that and i've been trying to have my kids now. And especially times where maybe I wasn't as good of a dad, I was too busy. I'm trying to like now another port spots, try to connect more. That was, that was my, my, my dad for sure. And then my mom,

my mom is for me, she was just like, I think I wouldn't say I'm a people pleaser, but I'm very much like an achiever. I think when I started wrestling and I saw my dad got closer to me and then I would win, I saw him get excited. I wanted to win because I wanted to impress my dad. To this day, I think I still have that. Part of the reason I'm in this business, I'm doing stuff is I love when my dad sees it. There's something I love impressing him. To this day, I love that win.

With my mom, it was like she loved me even when I didn't win. Like that was something that was so like foreign to me. I remember like, I'd be cutting weight for us. I had eaten three days. I'd be so tired, so miserable. And she's like, she'd come down and sneak in my room. Like, like bringing me from my mom. I can't eat.

I'm not going to make weight. She's like, why don't you just quit that? I'm like, you don't need to do this. And she's trying to get like, and she's like the opposite of my dad. And she loved me no matter what. and i didn't care that i was trying to win or succeed or didn't couldn't care less like she just wanted me to be you know she loved me like just because i was me and like that was weird and but so cool as well and saying both those principles like it's something i've tried to to weave in you know i got two different sides

trying to weave that into my kids and again so far from perfect but i think those are two things that meant the world to me that i'm super grateful for them you know having like doing those things for me because i still remember those things now so there is which is by the way that's awesome um there's a lot of people in this world that are growing up without dad uh without a mom and like it's interesting because like i think a lot of my social media posts like i kind of come across sometimes like that heartless a-hole like you know what i mean a little bit like but josh like you know what i mean like you talk about like take personal responsibility for your life everybody can do anything it's like if you're broke it's your fault like that's one of my favorite things like if you're broke if you're

broken america it's your fault right like there's like josh like you don't understand like you grew up and your parents are still married. Not only do you have parents, they're still together. And they still actually love each other. It's not even that they're still together. It's like you're a percentage of the percentage of the percentage in a lot of ways. So I don't even know what question I'm asking, but what would you do? Where could somebody find that and like how can what can we do as a society or just entrepreneurs as like

as producers to like help those people because i feel like that's a really big need sure and like it's one of those things where i'm like one of my big struggles with this is i always want to point back to the church i had a really awakening come to jesus uh moment back when i posted uh this is probably a month ago or so. And I posted on Instagram actually. And I think you liked it actually. So I know you saw it. And I said, defund, yeah, defund the media, defund fear, defund career politicians, fund orphanages, churches, and schools. And I posted on Facebook and I posted on Instagram. And I was shocked at how many people were like, dude, fund the churches. They're just as like,

they're a bunch of pedophile people there too. They're, you know, like so many people had like such this negative view of the church. And like, I grew up in the church. Like that's, that's what I knew. Like how I knew how family works is because like, I saw that our own family, then I saw the church family. I saw the community and like how the church was involved in the community. And like the church that I went to, like after I moved out, like Grable, Indiana, like I, I worked three doors down from it. And like, they were, that's where people went to vote was in their gym and the fair. Like that's where people park. Like the church was like such this integral, integral part, that word, uh, part of the community. Right. And so like, when I saw all

these people that have this negative view of the church, like that broke my heart because I'm like, that was my solution. They're like so many things. Like if you don't have a dad, I can go to the church. Like if you don't have this, like you go to the church, it's like, what? And if that's your answer, like, that's cool. But like how can we as producers of society and the people that are going out there and like making the money, how can we help those that don't have what you and I had?

It's interesting because um you know what what mormons believe is the family is the central everything that's god's plan is uh husband and wife starts a family that's like that's a that's a an eternal principle right it's you look at like the adversary satan whatever you want to call him like his job like if he can destroy the family like everything else falls apart like that's that's the war we're in right now. We think we're in a lot of different wars. The war we're in is Satan is attacking families. That's it.

Okay, I want you to finish this. I have to say this, though, guys. This is not Russell saying this. This is me. This is why I hate the Black Lives Matter organization. Not moving the organization so much. Because their whole principle is breaking apart the traditional family values. Anyway, I know that's not your, I'm not speaking for Russell.

But yeah, if you Google family, the proclamation to the world, you'll see my beliefs on family. We have it printed out eight foot on my wall in my house. That's my belief. Family is essential to everything. And so Satan is the way he destroys societies and nations and this world is to destroy the family. And so when you see families are broken, there's single mothers and single fathers. It's heartbreaking. satan is the way he destroys societies and nations and this world is to destroy the family and so when you see families are broken they're single mothers and single fathers like it's it's heartbreaking it's the saddest thing in the world and i don't know the right way to solve it i do

know that it's vitally important like um i remember uh first time i uh met tony robbins started learning from him like one of the principles he talked about in relationships is masculine feminine energy like the masculine and feminine is key to like a relationship like i could go off like four hours just on masculine feminine like i'm it's like the most fascinating topic in the world um but you look like if you ever couldn't see how tony fixes relationships like you look at um traditionally if you had a traditional counseling they're like there's a problem right like what's the symptom of the problem they try to solve the symptom of the problem and they they counsel takes years because it's the symptom of the problem they try to solve the symptom of the problem and they they counseling takes years because it's a symptom of the problem it's like

like all the issues are all they're all symptoms of problems the real problem is like when when there's a masculine and a feminine and doesn't matter again this is true with gay straight doesn't matter like but feminine masculine energy right you take a masculine feminine and that polar opposite that that's magnets that magnetize together right like that's what attracts attraction passion and everything what happens if a masculine and feminine they're attracted together right that's how you start that's how how any relationship starts right and then you look at people get married and it's interesting because what tony talked about so you look at typically in a relationship there's like what they call a seven-year age and why is that and he talks about

because the feminine the way the feminine causes change is um how much i got somebody want to write a book on this i just don't know i don't know perfectly enough to to explain this to become a writer but can say yeah i think my word i got a lot of books right but uh so this outworks in traditional marriage right so masculine feminine what happens is one of the ways that feminine cause change is they criticize right like if if i see this with my wife, with friends, with girls, like if they want their friend to change their hair, they don't say, hey, you should get a haircut. They'll criticize to try to cause change, right?

So what happens is that a feminine- Yo, wow, that's so true. This is interesting stuff. Yeah, that's just one example of feminine energy. There's a million different things, right? But like, so feminine and masculine come together. So like, this is an example. It's like, they'll start criticizing criticizing the man but a masculine man doesn't care like it bounces off them like okay okay right what happens after seven years of of that

happening eventually um instead of instead of balancing off which is a masculine response you start taking it personally oh as soon as you take it personal guess what happens you are shifting physically from your masculine to effeminate you start shifting what happens you shift from masculine to feminine and and boom, the attraction breaks, and it starts falling apart. And then all the other problems start happening. So the problem isn't solving the fact that you leave the toilet seat up, but that you don't communicate well.

But the problem is that the masculine and feminine attraction is broken. If you fix masculine and feminine, you can make men become men and women become women. Attraction comes back, and all the other symptoms disappear. It's fascinating. And so that's from a marriage-family like relationship standpoint. Okay. Can I, I want to protect, I want to, I'm telling this because I want to talk about it from the family with kids in a minute, but yes. Okay. But I want you to now give me another example of that. Tony Robbins has said, because what you made it sound like there is that the way the woman does something is the thing that's

causing the bond. I know that's not what you meant it could be yeah that's okay i just want to make an example i want to do that clarification the same thing with with the men who the men are responding over and over where women now become defensively become more masculine and it's the other way yeah sorry that's not the only example i was just right the one time i just want to make sure we clarify that because i know things would take a lot of time it's gonna be angry yeah i apologize i'm stupid like i get it um but conceptually does that make sense like it's it's the the the the break of the masculine feminine that causes the split which causes the disarmament if you bring the masculine feminine together i think that's that's that's

what causes attraction and causes passion and causes all these things i look at my life like when we're struggling in our marriage like it's because i'm showing up feminine when i show masculine everything's great or my wife comes comes in masculine and I'm asking him, we butt heads like it's, it's fascinating. And so anyway, I don't want to get deep in this cause there's so much stuff, but there's no,

I'm sure it's because you look at this thing, like now you, you got a family, right? And the mother and the father split, right? And then there's a, there's kids who both either the mother and the father.

And now what they have is they've got either very masculine person that they're learning from or feminine, but they don't see both. And so it shifts them, and then it shifts their relationship. Like, so many problems. And so I think the way we help the most or can help the most is, like, Hermosi does this. Alex Hermosi does this. Like, he donates his money to, do you remember the name of the charity?

He got our first Too Hard Award. It's after- kids so like like these kids where they go to the like men who there's these kids trying to play basketball or lift weights or whatever who don't have masculine energy in their life they come and they donate their time and they help the kids that's awesome masculine so they have they admit all of us we need male and female perspectives like we have like it's designed to have those things together when you lose one of them it's a tragedy it's like i think the way we can start helping is like how do we bring programs where where they can see masculine energy and see the way to like to make a positive not a

negative thing and like um because a lot of times all they know is you know masculine energy left and oftentimes there's a lot of um anger between between the people when they hear talking trash about the spouse and talking trash about these, these traits, which are like traits that are essential for them to develop. And I don't know, I don't know if that's the right answer or not, but I feel like that's how we can help those things. It's just like helping understand like, like the kids who don't have, um, a father or a mother, like they need that energy in their life to understand it to be able to i don't know so okay so this is seemingly unrelated to this but i think that i can tie it back in because it's a question that i

think fits in here so do you i'm gonna start with a super basic question which i think the answer is obvious but like we'll go down this road do you feel misunderstood as an entrepreneur um i did early on i did less less so now why is that um when i was got started entrepreneurship has become more of a cool thing that's true last decade since shark tank on stuff back when i first started it wasn't everyone was confused like why would you do that uh it is cooler um also it's like i think the more you talk the more you either alienate people or you attract people and i think a lot of people who i have alienated have been alienated and i think i've attracted people i've attracted so like my bubble of people around me are people who understand this lingo who relate to it so it's less hard now than it was initially

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these people are like terrible interview not worth your time couldn't get past the first 20 minutes like anything like that i'm like what so i go and the first 20 minutes we're kind of like and whatever i get done with this three-hour interview it's like top three interviews of all time right and what's interesting is like, do you know Kanye, like how Kanye communicates like at all? Like, do you know? Okay, so like Kanye,

there's so many references I want to use that you won't get. Like, so like, like Kanye like sees the world like fundamentally differently. And like how Joe describes it in there and the way that I describe it is like, you wouldn't know this, like I said,

because psychedelic, it's like a drug or whatever. But like imagine being on like a psychedelic drug, like in a small format, like at all times, like that's how his mind works. Like he because psychedelic it's like a drug or whatever but like imagine being on like a psychedelic drug like in a small format like at all times like that's how his mind works like he's like sees everything it's like expanded and so even kanye said he's like the reason i have such a hard time communicating sometimes is because i have to like i see things in three-dimensional and then i have to put them in in a two-dimensional conversation right now i'm not trying to compare myself the way i think the way kanye thinks but like that

this concept of like him, people think he's beating around the bush, right? When really he's just trying to explain something. Like one of the things I love doing is taking a concept like that and figuring out how to describe it in a way the average person can understand. Cause like I, I live in a different world, like just like you live in a different world than the average person does. Like I live in a different world and that is by choice. Like I do not see the world the way that most people do. I intentionally do not want to see the, uh, the world the way that most people do. I intentionally do not want to see the world the way that other people do. Like everything that I do, like I will intentionally engineer where like my life is different than the

average person because I want to see the world differently, but I want to be able to communicate that in a way that they can understand. And so my question is like, do you think that there's a lot of great ideas stuck inside of producers heads that if more people understood them and thought like that, we could change the world for the better, but because they're stuck in their head and that person doesn't know how to communicate it well, or is not focused on that, that they, that,

that effect never happens. Yes. Yeah. So I would say, and that's why I think for me, the, this study, this art of like funnels and copywriting and story does is so fascinating.

Cause that's what it is. Right. Like I was, I was pitched like when we have an idea in my head, it's like this big granite block, right? It's like, this is the idea. And to give it It's like, this is the idea.

And to give it to somebody like, this is the idea. You're like, I don't get it. Right. Right. And then you start thinking about, uh, who is it? Start chiseling away at the stone, right? You start chiseling, chiseling. Eventually you have this like amazing statue, right?

Of like this thing that they, people can see and they can understand and they can, they gravitate towards. I feel like it's the same thing with communication, right? Or with any kind of idea you're trying to sell. Like the funnel is one thing, like right now, like, Hey, you should buy my coaching programs. Like why? Like, Oh, it's too big. Like I need to take them to a path to simplify that. So it was like a step-by-step process, which is like chiseling away. But then inside each step, the process, there's like the words and the stories and things you communicate to simplify it, just to get more and more fine tuned. Like, that's why for me, like when we create a funnel, we launch it, it's like taking this big granite block and chiseling it down

to now something that somebody can come in on this side of it, they go through a process, and by the time they're done at the end, they're going to give us money, they're going to get a product, and then they're going to change. Something's going to change for them. I think that's what marketing is. It's that process of trying to simplify the message. I think 100% that's why most ideas don't get out.

How many times like i don't know how many times have you had this guy comes back to talk about who knows an hour or two ago too but like four or five people get the same idea but then one person executes on it's like the person who understands the communication the best is the one typically who gets it out right like um how much of your life of my life has been focused on communication and i don't necessarily like that much that part much, like it's not my favorite part, but it's such an essential tool. I remember when I was learning, uh, when I got in this game and I was trying to sell

my very first product, zip brander. And I was like, I put it up at a picture of it by now button in like, tried to send traffic. Nobody bought it. Someone's like, we need a headline. So I'm like, okay, so put a headline. Like we need like, tell us what this does. And so I like found some sites that kind of model what they did and the people started buying and it was just like it was like learning that process of how do you communicate I remember thinking like I never want to learn how to write

like for me it was copy like that's what we all call back then like I don't want to write copy like I don't want to do that that sounds horrible um and I want to hire something but like the people I tried to hire was expensive it was like 10 to 20 thousand dollars for a sales letter I couldn't afford it so I'm like I have to learn this art of how to communicate and like so grateful because like that's how everything we built has been is off like the communication of an idea and doing it in a way that gets people to move how do you decide what you're going to communicate like you have a lot of ideas in your head yeah and you have a lot of different thoughts on everything and like you choose to share funnels and marketing primarily and then you have some religion in

there which i would say probably like number two maybe ish like what you communicate that's like it like how do you decide the battles i want to choose yeah yeah um that's a good question i think i mean part of it's like what's interesting like why did i want to do this interview like i read the book it was fascinating like and i don't know the answers and I thought this would be a fun way to talk it out loud. Like this fascinating funnels are fascinating to me because like I can apply it so many things. Um, you know, when I talk a lot about wrestling, but not bump into, I talk about that. Like, um, so I think, I think, um, it's just the, the, the ideas that fascinate me that

I feel like have the most validity and can, can do the most, you know, again, as an introverted person I don't typically go out and have conversations with people. Cause I'm like, uh, you know, as much as I can, but I find something like that does cause an effect, right? That's why I like, I practice telling my story so many times and I'll do a podcast and like, I know like now when I'm on stage in front of 9,000 people, the stories and get people to move because I practice, excuse me,

I practice it. So I think it's putting a lot of things out in the water and then seeing what things people relate to and then i can go deeper on the ones that are like okay this won't have an impact a lot of stuff i remember yeah i remember writing first version.com secrets um there were seven or eight chapters more that never got published i was going to publish them all do you have copies of this it was like yeah all my best stuff at the time i knew and i was going to publish it and it was all in the book. And I remember I heard an interview with Tim Ferriss and Ryan Holiday.

It was Ryan Holiday at the time. And they were both talking. Anyway, talking about their books. Both of them said that when they write a typical book, you know, Tim Ferriss' books are like this fat. My first draft was like twice as big. It's like to make a book go from good to great, it's not like adding more. It's cutting. It's like I cut two-thirds of my book to give you this one and then i think it was ryan said the same thing he's like it's not like he's like saying that my books start the final the first draft is twice as big as the final one then next section just cut cut cut cut

i remember going back to dot-com secrets that night and i was like okay based on that if i like what would i cut how would that do and i cut seven chapters out and out. And after it was done, I was like, so scared. I'm like, this is like, I love these things, but I was like, those things aren't that important to like get people what they need to actually be successful. Some of those things ended up being in dot-com secrets and expert secrets places, but yeah. I wonder if that first person.

I was going to say, I wonder if she just published the first thing or if she like had a 2,700 page book and cut something out of it. That's crazy. Okay. Back to the question in the car. And I want to tie this back to the book. How has growing a multi-hundred million dollar, like making hundreds of millions of dollars,

having a roughly billion dollar company, being the CEO of 400 employees, like how has that changed your perspective of the world? I think, so many many i could respond i i think there was a there was a season in my life where i thought that like if i was going to create something if i was going to do something that like the way i was gonna do it by by me does that make sense yeah and um in fact if you look at my history the first decade of business businesses were about me they were me they were i was the sole owner the sole purpose you know person um and on this journey when we started it was it was so different it was like how do we like what's

the team look like how do we like who you know todd was my first time I had a partner. It was like, that was so scary for me. And then the greatest thing I possibly could have done. Right. And then run other partners and then employees and man and make stuff. And like, I don't know, it's just, it's been fascinating just realizing that like to build this, it wasn't about me. It was about, um, I don't know, just, just that, that whole thing. And I think, um, anything great.

A lot of times there's a person that gets credit for it. Elon Musk gets credit because whatever Bill Gates or whoever the people are, they get the credit for it. But it's like, you start really seeing, um, how many people are involved to make something amazing. You know what I mean? I think that's the biggest thing for me was I started growing it and it's, it's frustrating, not frustrating for me. Cause I enjoy it. I like, I like, you know, people always say Russell, but that's a click funnels funnels i was like i literally don't know how to code anything i guess there's not one dot of code in that word that i like maybe once i leaned over todd's shoulder put a button

and then he had to delete it like you know but i think it's cool to when you see that like the like how many and i before fun hiking live every time we start we bring our whole team together and i see you know i'm the one who's on stage but I am fully aware that like that it is not me like this is us like that like it wasn't for this team and these people like all of you guys for all your contribution this was impossible I want to always ground that because I think sometimes that the leader whoever gets a big head where they think it's them and I don't know and I see that with a lot of people who are on big stages where they still drink their own kool-aid so i think it's them i think that's my my shift in the world

just understand like the great things like the things that we remember the things that that are legacies that go on and on and on there may be a maybe a head or a person that like that the branding tied to but it's like there's this group of people that created something amazing that's but how did you like how do you stay grounded like one of the things that i like i am a huge fan of russell brunson right like i like because like for me like you're the person i look up to as not just hey you taught me how to make a lot of money but like hey i like i want to i want to be like i want to have the character that you have i don't want to have like i look at grant cardone and i i don't you don't have to talk about grant cardone but i can right and like grant cardone is really really full of himself right and like

don't get me wrong like i've learned a lot from grant cardone especially about money like he's changed my perspective about a lot of things i'm like eternally grateful for that but if like if i grew up to be grant cardone like where that was the focus I mean like I watched him I was I was there when you know is the the stadium down in Miami or whatever right when it was you know it was all about him and it was I think he even got up on stage and was like oh yeah Russell everybody says Russell's the greatest salesman but I'm the one that packed the house right and I'm like dude like you know what I'm saying like like why why is that necessary and so like how do you how do you stay grounded yeah right because like

i think there's it's so fascinating to like watch different type people and i know like ty lopez for example like for a while there it was like all about time like now he's kind of like gone more behind the scenes but i'm like each person i watch whether it's ty or gary or grant like they all have a different way about them and like you have your way about them like the one that is like the most grounded humble like is like there's nobody that's looking at you you get up on stage and you're like you know what i mean like you know right and then you walk up and grant's like but like you it's like yeah it's that awkward of like hey i'm just over here like how are you grounded in that like how do you how do you not let it get to your head because it would be so easy for you to to get wrapped up in your own head um someone told me it's because my wife they

said if you married anybody else you had to be so big i think um well so i like met your wife for the first time today i mean like we had crossed paths, but I said, when you were getting your haircut, I was like, so what's it like being married to Russell? And she goes, he's just the sixth child of mine. I'm like, Oh boy, the big kid. That's awesome. I think I say it's two things. And we kind of talked about this earlier, but I'll tie back to like, the first one is that I am fully aware that these these ideas are not mine right

like i didn't invent the funnel i didn't invent any of the stuff all i know is that i was on a path in a journey i was given the thing and the next thing and i was like freaking out i was putting them together and like that's part of it's like i think this stuff's not mine it's it's it's stuff that was given to me and tested and so like i'm so grateful for that like i'm it's never me like oh this look what i look what i invented like that's so annoying because it's not right like um these are again come back to these ideas these thoughts these desires are things that were given to us and so i think that's the first part the second part of it is and i see this a lot in people in my world who who um they have some success and then they're like this is my person i made them a bajillion,

you know? And like, I hate that too. Cause it's just like, like you helped them in a piece, but like, but they did the work. Like I'm very careful, like to always, like when I'm talking about any of our success stories, like I didn't make that person, like we had this super cool opportunity to be piece of their journey. Right. We helped them give them some ideas and a tool, but they're the ones that kill. I got to work takes to build what they're building. Like I didn't do that. They did that. And like, I'm grateful that they did. Um, and, and I'm even more grateful that I got to be a little piece of that. I got to be part of that journey. I get to see that and just like have the impact of like, Oh my gosh, because I killed myself, wrote those books. And because Todd killed himself, wrote

software and I was able to communicate it. Like, like they're able to do this thing. And it's not all me. I fully where it's not on me like i know what every entrepreneur has to go through to be successful and it's not a mentor who gives you everything it's just like a lot of people who are peace and i've had mentors who who gave me a piece that i'm so grateful for but then they try to take all the credit like oh this is when and i hate that too and so i think i think those two sides number one is like again i i don't think these ideas are are something i came up with there they were given to me and i was gonna steward them and so because i was able to aggregate them and like there's the

thing and then number two is just um my belief that i didn't help anyone like even like when you said like you and katie like i felt awkward like oh like i i didn't do anything right i like luckily some of the stuff that you resonate with you and it's like a little piece of your journey i'm so grateful for that like the fact to see you you do stuff now is like so much fun for me to watch you. And like, just knowing like, man, because he bumped into me, like maybe something happened and now he's doing this stuff and this work. It's so cool seeing how you're impacting people. And I think those are the reasons why I don't think my head gets big.

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Indeed is all that you need. All right, I want to loop back to the book. Okay. Can we talk, can we talk? You guys want us to read it to you? Yeah. What was your, like, what was the thing that fascinated you about it like when you boxed me dude you were like dude i read it and i'm geeking out about i just want to geek out about

like what like what about it how did you so fast like what did you want to geek out about it because i have a question that i want to ask like later on about it but like what was the thing that like just made you geek there are a lot of things i think the biggest thing that i was really excited we talked about earlier was just, I'm sorry. I know. The biggest thing earlier. Yeah. The, the biggest thing earlier was just, um, this, this cause again, if those who are tuning

in late, uh, in here, uh, there's a whole, it talks about greed, right? And that, that concept of greed versus charity. Like, um, again, the book very much is like greed is good as thing that causes production and you should care about yourself. And then good things will happen. Like you'll create jobs and everything. Everybody else take care of themselves as long as you're caring most about yourself, which I thought was kind of cool. But then also I had the other side with like my beliefs in Christ and Christianity and all these things like that where it's just like, oh, like how does that reconcile with faith, hope, charity, and love and like, you know, serving everybody else.

And like, and so that was like, that's probably the thing that got me the most. I think about that a lot, serving everybody else. And like, and so that was like, that's probably the thing that got me the most. I think that I keep, I think about that a lot, especially in politics. Cause again, I'm not deep into politics. I'm not going to talk about who I'm voting for, not voting for. It doesn't matter. But I see that on both sides. I feel like on the Republican side, you see a lot of this stuff like, like this. And then on the Democrat side, you see a lot of like the,

the charity stuff. And, and, and again, my notes, I wrote this actually initially because I wanted to talk about this. I'm a big believer that there's not a right and a wrong. There's good on both sides, right? There's not a right and a wrong side. Yeah. Things are messed up on both sides. I think that there's – it's just how the world works.

Like Satan – there's an eternal struggle between God it's how the world works like satan and like there's eternal struggle between god and you know satan and and and christ like this is always happening so there's two sides and there's like there's there's god-like principles and things on the right that are amazing and then there's satan that's twisting things and jacking up same thing on both sides like i see everyone fighting like tooth and nail i'm like i bet you if we all sat down the majority of all issues we'd all agree on. But then it's like these fringe things that cause like so much hatred and fighting

and it drives me crazy. And I think that this book's a perfect example. I believe so much in some of these principles, but there's also like the opposite principles. I also believe it and they're both right. And it's like, and that's what, you know, I mean, if you missed the beginning part of the interview, we talked more about that, but it's like the greed and the growth and contribution, that transition is like the key that just fascinates me.

Yeah. So like what part of the, like what part, what parts of the book contradicted the most with your faith? Like what, what, what part of the books did you have like the most, the hardest time with because of your faith yeah um uh the producers in the book the the minds the people i connect with because like that's who i i self-identify as a producer someone who's obsessed with like production and creating and like right like i i really so hank reardon these it dag me like all these people like i really like like they're cut from my same for my same cloth and it's it's as they're growing this stuff that they didn't give back that they didn't like that's the best thing like i feel like they they weren't rounded out characters like i think that's the biggest thing for me it's just like i don't want to be like i like first i want to be a fan career and like he's freaking the man he's right like like yes that's what i

want to be but i wanted to see him have like that change of heart where he's christ-like yeah of his own free will not because the government came with the gun and told me i pay taxes i wanted to see his character develop and realize that oh my gosh like i should be serving people because i love them not because the government's forcing like like that's that's the piece i wish because that's that's like never i mean it like never took that turn like the book it was like you you almost like expected it and then it didn't happen it got worse and worse and worse and then they wait till everything's like people are dying everything collapses and then like the lights in the air go out and they're like okay now we come back and build now we can come back and build but like it even when they come back and build it was built like by our new law of right of like

basically so actually one of the things that's fascinating about that was um was it in gosh it was towards the end when was it gall i think it was gall it was like basically yeah i think it was during speech when he was like um all we all we wanted was like we we gave the minds inside like we gave all this stuff to you guys basically and like kind of being like God there. But like, here we did, we created all this stuff. We created these jobs. We created these resources.

Like, we gave it to you. And all we wanted from you guys was for you to let us be in our own head. Like, let us, our minds, be free and not be controlled by anything else. And you took all that. And not only did you take it all, then you said, no, you're bad. And we're going to take that away too. And so we're all going on strike because of that. And like, you relate to that so much and then it's like yes

but then they explain how they live and it's like you expect them to have that change of heart but it's rather but no it's because we are amazing and because we are the great minds and we must live by this code it has nothing to do with like actually giving back or actually contributing to society it's like they didn't care about contributing to society that just happened to happen yeah which is cool which is which is why again government should let producers produce because the byproduct is really good right right for everybody it's like that part is so much i relate to but then and part is probably because ayn rand didn't believe in god like so that wasn't you know i mean it's like that wasn't part of her values and so yeah it's tough because she she weaved, we've got, I just, I just wish at the end of the book, it would have been

like, and then Hank Gruden realized that he could help all these people himself. And so he built orphanages and changed all these kids' lives. And you're like, yes, he's like, ah, like that would have been amazing. You know, he found out about, oh, you are, and he went and donated money to save all these children. But he did his own free will because he, he had that change of heart. Um, cause that's like i don't i don't want to die at the end of my days and like i produced and created jobs but like i didn't care about people like ah like i feel like that missed the mark hang green you say the person you related to most in the book um yeah i think so um i wanted to be uh francisco though he's

pretty sweet who do you think who do you think I related to most of the book? Oh. Who was it? It was a relatively main one. You were close. Oh, was it Francisco? Yeah, for sure. For sure.

Yeah. He was cool. Right from the beginning, he fascinated me. And I knew right when she introduced the plot twist of where like he like ran off and became the playboy or like picture himself as a playboy or like whatever like i knew right then and there like i was like i don't know what the plot like i don't know what the connection is but i like know this is gonna come back around it's like not gonna be how it seems right like because like someone like the mind doesn't shift and like then he stays in the scene or whatever

but like he fascinated me because i like he stri me as someone hank grady didn't care about the crowds he did not at all right like he hated going to the wedding he hated going like it was by force that his wife like drug him out of there that one time it was always like i just want to work in my office like i'm actually not like that right i'm actually much more the like i do like the crowds but i don't like the crowds because like, I need praise it. Like, don't get me wrong. Like I like being on stage and you know, like doing this type of stuff, but like for me, like I like the crowds because I've, I love people and I don't, it's funny because I, like, I actually don't get along with a lot of people. Like, like,

like whenever I go to the airport, I'm like, I will pay whatever it takes, like put me on a plane first, the least amount of people I have to deal with, whatever, because, like, I don't want to have to interact with people I want to interact with. But like, I love, like studying and understanding people's minds, right. And for me, one of the reasons I am so fascinated by Donald Trump is because of how he can control the crowds, like you look at his rallies, dude, like, you can't ignore them. Like they're just huge. Um, uh, my, uh, fiance's, um, parents, like they went or her mom and, um, her mom and Courtney went yesterday. I think it was last night to Omaha, like 29,000 people showed up in the bitter cold Omaha, like a last minute notice

to, you know, and like that type of control or not even control, but like that type of influence to be able to go through, like, what is it that makes people go and do that? Like, and so like Francisco in the book, like he, like he was the partier guy and like he went and he was with the crowds and he was very good with words and articulated and then he, but he sold me like at that wedding. And I'm telling you,

but like, it was good because to me there's, there's more than two ways, but like super simplified down, there's like two ways to, to affect, like influence people. There's one,

which is the indirect, which is like build a software company. It's build a product. It's build an iPhone,'s build an iphone right it's like you're not directly influencing them with like your words or like whatever like but it's like influencing their behavior by creating a product by creating a service is going to go out and change the world and then the other way is to actually go out there and change them with your words right and so that's why like jesus for example jesus didn't build a product right he did it through his words kind of sort of but like to, that's so fascinating.

And I'm like, if I can figure out how to do that, like that's how I can affect real change in the world. And it's funny because like, you have had such a massive influence on my life, but probably like a year and a half maybe-ish into like me knowing like ClickFunnels. I was like, man, Russell's doing it all wrong. And I had this thing of like,

if Russell would communicate more about stuff besides funnels, like he would have a bigger impact, right? And like, I had this like limited belief of like, this is the only way you can influence impact people is by like going out there and actually like speaking to them, right?

But like, that's my superpower and my gift. So like in the book, Francisco was the one I think that best represents like my style of like trying to go out and do things. I find it interesting about Hank Grader with you because I think it's like I'm so I got to be in here building funnels doing some stuff right like there's scenes of Hank in the book where he's sitting there looking out over the factories at night and he sees he watches like the steel being poured it's glowing and yeah he's like enjoying that like for me it's similar where

um like I do the stage thing and things like that um i get less value out of like even interactions hard but like i love i spend a lot of time on social media night just looking at the people that i know are in our world and watching what they're doing because that's like me watching the steel like like i'm not like my my mission is not to go teach people how to do what you do right i'm giving you like a blow horn so you can go do it yeah it's like that's more fast for me to sit back and it's funny to my wife i and vents it drives her crazy because then it'll happen it'll get done and then i i screw you off i don't want to like talk to anybody i sit in the room and i just like watch like what people

take away and then who they're talking to like i spent a lot of time just like watching that's for me like looking over the steel and be like i gave them a trumpet or i gave them a blow horn now their message is going out there i just kind of watch it and so for me it's like i don't want to teach personal development and this and that that but i want to like empower or give these tools or whatever tools are so that so that you can and and you know whoever all the other influencers are to be able to do those things that makes sense like i'm an amplifier i'm an amplifier of other people's messages um and my message just happens to be like, here's the amplification thing you need to amplify your message. Yeah. Letting everybody else go and do it. Hey everybody, this is Russell again. And really quick, I just opened up a texting community, which means you can text me your questions. And

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