What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the marketing seekers podcast.

Pump to have you here. Today I want to talk about the things that give you energy and the things that

suck away your energy because that has 100% to do with whether or not you are going to have success in the mission that you are pursuing.

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 in this podcast.

We'll give you the answers. My name is Russell Brunson and welcome to marketing secrets.

All right, so I wanted to start off with telling you a story because that's what Russell does. I tell stories. I know. So I,

so you guys know I have my inner circle, but then this year we created a new level of my

mastermind called the Category Kings. And the Category Kings, it's people who made at least 10 million

bucks inside their business. It's an expensive group, $150,000 a year to be part of it. And it is insane.

Like, anyway, like, the group's amazing.

Like, it's so much fun.

But this last meeting we had, I did something different I've never done before.

The first time, obviously, we did everyone to introduce themselves and got, you know,

everyone got to know each other.

But that was like, you know, that was the second time we all knew each other.

So it wasn't like, I'm like, how do we start this meeting?

And so I had an idea right before started.

I thought, you know, instead of introducing ourselves or instead of just, you know, diving right

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