A private vox from inner circle member Bryan Bowman that I thought would benefit you.
On this episode Russell plays a voxer message he received from Bryan Bowman about burnout. Here are some of the cool things you will here in today's episode:
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Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I want to welcome you to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Today I want to share with you guys a very special voxer message I received from one of my inner circle members, that had a big impact on me and I think will have a big impact on you.
Hey everyone, a lot of you know in my inner circle program, I do a lot of cool things. In fact, we had a podcast episode earlier this week showing the behind the scenes of one of our Decade in a Day calls with Dana Derricks. One of the big benefits is that people have the ability to vox me. And vox is kind of like a walkie-talkie app, and we voxer back and forth. And one of the guys in our inner circle, his name is Bryan Bowman and he’s one of the coolest guys I know, someone I have so much respect for. He’s one of our speakers at Funnel Hacking Live, and just an amazing, amazing human being.
He doesn’t vox me a lot of questions, but he messaged me last week and sent me this message that was about 4 or 5 minutes long, and it had a really profound impact on me and I thought that some of the insights from it were really, really powerful and I wanted to share them with you. A lot of things, one of them is like, how do you know if you’re feeling burn out? Is it burn out or something different? And what can you do to kind of get out of that burn out phase?
He also talked about two really powerful questions I think all of us should be asking ourselves often. And then he talked about, just some cool stuff. I don’t want to ruin it for you. You guys will hear here in a second. But I want you to pay attention because this was kind of a private thing that he wasn’t planning on sharing with the world, but I asked afterwards if I could get his permission to share it with you guys. And luckily for me and for you and for all of us, he said yes.
And I think there’s some really powerful insights in here that will help you as you’re trying to share your message and trying to change the world in your own little way. So I’m really excited to share this voxer message I got from Bryan Bowman. Hope you love it and we’ll talk to you guys soon.
Bryan: Hey, what’s going on man? I’ve been a little radio silent for a little bit. So I just wanted to make sure I touched base with you. I’ve been doing a lot of like introspection, it’s been really interesting. I felt this weird, I thought it was burn out, but I don’t think it was. I think it was more about, I just need to clean house a little bit, in my purpose and in my focus.
I thought it was burn out, it was kind of freaking me out, because my thought was like, Man, am I burning out? Am I just too stressed? What is it? It could well be, but it felt different. It was really interesting, so I just wanted to share it with you because it was pretty cool, man.
I started whiteboarding and just really, I find when I’m whiteboarding I try to really open up and just free flow, right. To kind of tap into that subconscious a little bit. I wrote on the board, because I’ve been, I had this like conflict and I just have not had the fire, man. It’s weird. And I just can’t operate in any other state. I cannot operate in a routine, roped, “do this, do that” kind of routine. I need to be like blazing on fire, or what’s the point? Probably like so many entrepreneurs, right?I just have not been able to get there, and dude, this was so cool and I really believe it was a message.
So I wrote down, I was writing all this stuff, and then I was like, “Oh that’s good. That’s good.” And I started writing and there were two questions. And the first one was, “Do I believe in the product I’m selling? Do I believe in the product?” Not even selling. But “do I believe in my product?” And “Am I the right person to deliver it?”
When I got that out, and I’ve never thought about this or anything. But when I got that out, those two questions, it was like, I almost felt like it was right in front of me. It was so crazy man. And then I just started going down that rabbit hole, and what that led me to was really getting clear on what it is that I’m trying to do for my tribe and am I really the right person to lead them.
Just to make sure, for me it was almost like a checks and balances thing. Staying authentic to what it is I believe I can lead them on. Not doing something else, just because it could open up some opportunity. And if there’s something I believe that a product needs, and I’m the right person to deliver it, then to make sure that I master that, or that I really go down that path, because I’m the one who’s sort of called to lead them at that. That’s my obligation.
So it was really interesting and I wanted to share it with you because I thought it was pretty cool. And it really reminded me, I really believe in like, there’s a balance in things. And I think most people believe that. But I really think there’s an actual, the whole universe is built on sort of math. Like mathematical equations and I believe God is probably an amazing, obviously he’s probably pretty good at math. But I believe it’s a very, the mind of God, I don’t know, it’s a very mathematical mind. Because I believe there’s this equation, an energy.
It’s so interesting, I was thinking about your book. I was at Whole Foods and I was eating and I was like, probably people overlook I think the most important part of your Expert Secrets book is. It’s the part where you say to go do the work for free first. And that’s the part I think everyone, they probably think you’re saying it, at least this is how I interpret it, they probably think you’re saying it because it’s like, go get case studies to get proved testimonials and then that will make your pitch more effective. And I think they miss the fact that no, it’s like you’re creating a depth in the equation. You’re creating a vacuum that needs to be filled. That’s a principle of the universe, empty spaces get filled. That’s why water will go through and fill a space. You’re creating a Imbalance in the equation that has to be balanced.
So it’s so critical, everyone wants to be an expert without creating the imbalance first. The imbalance is like, you put in the hard work, you gain the expertise or you create value and then that gives you the angle, it creates the imbalance in the equation that needs to be balanced, which is you going out and being a leader and all that.
So it’s really interesting man. It’s kind of like how tithing works too. I mean everyone has their reasons. If you believe in God and you believe that’s the word of God, you’re supposed to tithe, there you go. But I mean, I think I remember you talking about once, like Dan Kennedy’s like, “I don’t know, tithing works”. He wasn’t, as far as I know, he wasn’t really religious or spiritual or anything, but he’s like, “It just works.”
Well yeah, because it’s a principle, it’s just a law. It creates an imbalance in the equation that has to be balanced. Anyway, yeah dude, I’m just ranting. This is officially the longest voxer I’ve ever left you. Maybe I just miss voxering you. Hopefully you’re good man, it was great seeing you on the live. Yeah, I was thinking about you man. Alright, talk to you soon, dude.