Why these things can and should move you forward as opposed to pulling you backwards. On this special replay episode of Marketing Secrets podcast, Russell talks about the inner battle entrepreneurs face with past regrets. Russell shares his own experiences and observations, including: Why the founding fathers gave us the gift of bankruptcy Why Russell spent an hour and a half on stage talking about his failures How Russell’s “failures” qualified him to work with one of the world’s top business consultants If you’ve ever gone through bankruptcy or messed up and done something stupid in your business, today’s episode is for you. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I want to welcome you back to the Marketing Secrets podcast. And today’s episode is actually going to be a little different because it’s going to be a reboot. I’m actually not going to record a new podcast episode because I’ve been here with my inner circle members for the last couple of days, I’ve been celebrating a lot of their successes. And it’s been interesting though, it feels like there’s been a theme over, recently with a couple of entrepreneurs that I worked close with, who have been struggling and things like that. And for all of them I was like, “Have you listened to the Entrepreneurial Scars podcast?” And they’re like, “No, what’s that?” and I’m like, “How have you not heard this?” And I think it’s been almost two years or so since I published that episode. But I wanted to bring it to the top because I know it’s something that so many people are struggling with and there’s so much fear and anxiety, and I wish it was something I could make everybody listen to once a week or once a month. So because of that, what I’m going to do is just do a reboot and when we come back from the theme song, I’m going to replay that episode of the podcast to hopefully help any of you guys who are in a season of struggling right now with your business, with your life, and hopefully give you guys permission that you need to move forward and to feel comfortable and be able to go back and get back to changing the world. So with that said, I’m going to queue up the theme song, and when we come back you’re going to listen to a podcast called entrepreneurial scars. Hey everyone, so I wanted to, honestly, this podcast I just wanted to hang out with you guys and talk because it’s been interesting. I’ve been working with so many entrepreneurs and recently just as I’ve been working with some people and watching people who had insane amounts of success at one time and then who had something happen. A failure, a bankruptcy, whatever, just fill in the blank. The second time around, a lot of times, they really, really struggle. I start looking and I’m like, why are they struggling? They had this huge success and it’s almost like they have fear and embarrassment like, “I failed in the past.” As I kept talking about this with some of the guys on our team it was like, it’s almost like they have entrepreneurial scars. It’s interesting, us as a person who went through the process, a failure, a lot of times there’s ups and the downs it hard. We have scars, emotional scars, but I think sometimes we feel like those scars are on our faces and other people can see them. What’s interesting is that people don’t. Those are just things that are inside of yourself. But because they’re there and you feel like they’re there and other people can see it, it keeps you from having success the next time. Because there’s so much fear around these scars, these things. And as I was talking about this, this morning, I shared a story and this will hopefully kind of tie these things together a little bit better for you. I’m not going to name names or anything. But there was a guy I know and he was a successful politician. At the top of his game, doing everything amazing and people loved him. And when you saw him in that spot, and it’s not like national politics, I don’t know anybody in national po