Two guys joined our “Inner Circle” on the same day, one quit. Where are they at now, 12 months later?… On today’s episode Russell tells a story about a friend of his, Mike Stazyk, who took a risk and how it paid off. He also talks about why taking risks is important for growing your business and how to set Lead or Gold deadlines. Here are some interesting things you’ll hear in this episode: How Mike Stazyk took a risk by spending his college tuition on something that could make or break his business. Why Mike’s friend who didn’t take the same risk is still struggling with his own business. And why setting Lead or Gold deadlines is important for growing your business. So listen below to hear an interesting story about a kid who went from knowing nothing about marketing to making it big by taking some risks. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone! It’s Russell and it’s literally three in the morning right now. I’m driving home, and this is another very special, exciting episode of Marketing in Your Car. All right, so I guess it’s three a.m., I’ve just dropped someone off at the Hyatt place, and I wanted to tell you a story about him. So his name is Mike Stanzic. Some of you guys may know him. If not, you should get to know him, he’s amazing. But Mike, he’s here in town because we’re trying to film a kind of promotional video with him, talking about our coaching program, and just kind of hang out with him and have a good time and it’s been really cool, and I wanted to tell you guys a story about him because it’s pretty impressive. Actually, I’m going to tell you two stories, and these two stories are going to illustrate why he is successful, and why — if you’re struggling, if you’re struggling to be successful right now at this time in your life — you need to look at what he’s doing, and it’ll help you understand what you need to do to get where you want to be. So Mike was a college kid. He had dropped out of college and was like trying to figure out what he wanted to do. I think he said he had like $23,000 in his bank account that was meant — that he had saved up for his college tuition. He went to this Tony Robbins event, and at the Tony Robbins he met this guy, and they kind of became friends and stuff, and Mike didn’t know anything about Internet marketing. He was involved in a network marketing program but didn’t know anything about Internet marketing, and this other guy was big, like had been studying Internet marketing. And so after the Tony event, they were driving home, and they were just kind of talking, and this guy was telling Mike all about Internet marketing and how it worked and all these cool things, and Mike was like, “Well, I could use that for my Internet marketing business.” And anyway, his friend basically said, “Hey, there’s this guy. His name is Russell Brunson, and I wanted to join his coaching program. It’s really expensive, but it’s going to change my whole life, and I think you should join it, too. We should join it together. It would be awesome!” And so Mike got excited, and said, “Okay, let’s do it. Let’s join this thing together,” and so they joined. And so, anyway, so this is the next Monday, so next Monday we get a phone call at our office from the buddy, and he signs up for our $25,000 Inner Circle Program, and then like four hours later Mike calls up and signs up for the $25,000 Inner Circle Program. And I guess what happened, you know, Mike told me the story now, is that his buddy was like, “Hey man, I’m going to do it! I’m going to do it!” And he’s like, then he called Mike, “Hey, I did it! I sent the check in. The money is going, like I’m in, and you need get in, too.” So Mike is like, “All right, I’m in,” so he went in and actually did it. Wrote a check, sent it in. Got involved in the program, and basically, yeah, he got in the program. And then, Mike called the guy back like later on that day or maybe it was the next day and to talk about it, and the guy was like, “Aw! I couldn’t afford it.” Mike