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The Russell Brunson Show

When Your Ceiling Becomes Your Floor: The Hero’s Journey to Your Next Level | #Success - Ep. 61

The Russell Brunson Show

Russell Brunson

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I’m taking you back to the old-school “marketing in the car” days - recording behind the wheel on my way to a Prime Mover event here in Boise. Before I get into business, I share a recent family adventure - an Alaskan cruise to celebrate my parents’ 50th anniversary - and a surprising rabbit hole I fell into after watching Titanic on the ship. That led to a fascinating question: if you could watch any moment from history as if it were on tape, what would you choose? From there, I shift gears into the core message I’m bringing to the Prime Mover group: the real meaning of the hero’s journey, and why the skills, habits, and patterns that get you to one level in life or business often become the very things holding you back from the next. Whether you’re going from zero to a million, a million to ten, or ten to a hundred, each leap requires you to “burn down” the old way and rebuild yourself from the ground up. Key Highlights: ◼️How an Alaskan cruise, Titanic, and a thought experiment led to a powerful question about perspective ◼️The “heavenly blockbuster” concept: replaying moments from history - or your own life ◼️Why the hero’s journey always starts with being unqualified for the challenge ahead ◼️How your subconscious ceiling becomes your subconscious floor - and why that’s both good and bad ◼️Wrestling stories that reveal the painful but necessary process of leveling up ◼️The dangerous comfort of your “ordinary world” and how to step beyond it Bottom line: Growth is a game of constant reinvention. To win, you have to be willing to let go of what made you great at the last level so you can step into the unknown and become who you need to be for the next one. This episode is both a personal reflection and a roadmap for anyone ready to answer their next call to adventure. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way)  Register for my next event →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://sellingonline.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ◼️Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clickfunnels.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Special thanks to our sponsors: NordVPN: EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://nordvpn.com/secrets⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Northwest Registered Agent: Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠northwestregisteredagent.com/russell⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to start your business with Northwest Registered Agent. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions: Get a $100 credit on your next campaign at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn.com/CLICKS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rocket Money: Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RocketMoney.com/RUSSELL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Indeed: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job’s visibility at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Indeed.com/clicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.3

This is the Russell Brunson show.

0:33.3

What's up everybody?

0:34.5

This is Russell Brunson.

0:35.5

I want to welcome you back to the show.

0:37.6

And I am right now driving to downtown Boise for a prime mover event. So I got 21 minutes in the car.

0:43.6

And I thought, let's go old school marketing your car style podcast and hang out with you guys as I'm driving.

0:49.2

So hope you don't mind. I've got so many fun things on my brain that I want to share with you guys.

1:12.2

And more of the podcast recently has been more video-based and things like that. And there's a lot of different things. But like, I just miss this hardcore, old school, me sitting in the car, sharing my thoughts with you guys. Hopefully you enjoy this episode as well. And we'll see where we go from this. We're doing these prime mover events once a quarter and this is people who join the prime mover coaching program and they come to

1:15.8

boys seen it's really cool experience they come in and uh they're all learning how to do one

1:19.8

to many presentations and stuff like that um but then here they come in um after somebody's made

1:25.8

uh after they make 10,000 dollars with uh with their first one to many presentation. They get an award and they get a picture with me on stage with this. I'm going to go to some pictures with everybody and I'm going to I'm going to drop some some gold nuggets and then they have a chance for two days to, um, to network to mastermind and we got some really cool speakers coming in and just a really special event. So I'm excited to go see all the peeps today.

1:45.5

If you're listening and you're there, what's up?

1:47.2

I can't wait to see you here in a minute.

1:49.9

Anyway, what I wanted to, today I was just thinking about like, okay, so for the last week,

1:54.6

I have been gone.

1:56.5

My parents celebrated their 50th anniversary and they wanted to take all of their kids and

2:03.1

their kids' spouses.

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