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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

I watched a founder lose his company in six months.

He still owns 60% of the shares, but nobody listened to him anymore. Not his team,

not his board, not even the investors he brought in. He didn't get fired. He just became irrelevant.

And here's what killed me. He never saw it coming because he thought owning the company meant

controlling it. But ownership and influence are two totally different things.

And if you can't move people to act, somebody else will.

Here's what you need to know.

I've spent 35 years inside billion-dollar companies and startup boardrooms,

and I've watched this pattern destroy brilliant leaders over and over again.

They had the best ideas, the best strategy, the best product,

but they couldn't make anyone believe in them. So somebody else stepped in and took the wheel,

not through a coup, not through politics, just by being more influential. And once I started

teaching other leaders how to prevent this, I want people who were losing control of their own companies, take it back. Founders who couldn't get their teams aligned suddenly

had everybody executing their vision. CEOs who were being overruled in every meeting became the

voice everybody waited to hear. And executives who watched opportunities slip away, started closing

deals they thought were impossible.

Same people, same companies, wildly different influence.

Here's a brutal truth that you need to know.

Every meeting that you walk out of without making an impact, your authority shrinks.

Not dramatically, just a little.

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