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Neel Forward event

  • Intro
    • The shift in the last 5 years is going to be the shift is going to happen again the next 5 years
    • You have to be willing to put out the shity version first
    • Start today because the only way he had videos to show of the past is because he started
    • Build in public
    • If you’re not into it, either go big or get out
    • This is about the community
    • People aren’t as busy as they say
    • Mall tweaks = big leaps
    • Goals
      • 3 ideas
        • You will have more than that, but filter it down
      • Meet 2 new people
      • Get out of comfort zone
    • Home life
      • Don’t poke holes in the ideas
      • Don’t include uncertainty
      • When you are locked in with your spouse, no one can fuck with you
      • there will be times when you will be out of balance
    • When you greet people, give them your locked in best
  • Sharran Srivatsaa
    • our best clients come from our best client
    • People expect you to be continuously doing a better job
    • How you prepare, shows just how much you care
    • How do you future proof your business without AI
      • 1 We need a plan
      • 2  10/10/ forever
        • What 10 relationships can I invite for the next 10 years so we can be partners forever
        • the broke agent educate and entertains
        • 5 rules for investing in a relationship
          • No scorecard rule
            • don’t ask for something back when someone does good
            • If you keep score you have all ready lost
          • go overboard and do epic shit
          • Be extremely generous and expect nothing in return
          • Share the assets platforms and connections
          • Stay yes to every request
        • what’s the 10 relationships you are working on
      • 3 sharrahs law hyper local
        • Quality
        • Hyper Local
          • Be the news anchor in your town
          • be the nes
          • hit the right phase
          • what is the shareability
            • People share so they look good
            • make it about news
            • make it different
              • Could be about the floor plan
            • Jason Cassity
              • Makes videos specifically to the individual
              • Makes specific windows
      • 4 the world is full of one trick ponies
        • When you spend time working on your weaknesses, you develop a bunch of really strong weaknesses
        • Eric Simon – the broke agent
        • How to be an ultr-loved unicorn
      • 5 community
        • you can not solve a problem with the way you look at it. Eureka Problems are solved quicker with community
        •  
  • Next speaker
    • Your in the room and now your in the position, Stay in the room
      • Stay in the room
      • Only 25% of people get it.
  • Neil
    • One to many not one to one
      • Invite more people and see who shows up
    • One to many selling secrets
      • Don’t sell your service
        • Give them the blueprint
        • everyone loves DIY until they get the box home from IKEA
        • How do you give it away without it being about you
        • call to action
      • Webinars
        • Talk about the outcome, not the thing
        • sell the outcome
        • “The new way to {to get the desired outcome in (year)}
        • “Even if you (disqualifier)
          • Even if you think you can’t afford it
          • “The new way to buy before you sell in 2025”
          • The new way to unlock the equity in your home
        • Specialist get paid, generalist do busy work
        • Don’t chase, attract
          • With or without you energy
          • If it feels like people need it, it repels
          • Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd
          • Use high quality footage
          • Create fomo
          • Send personal invites
          • Scale the unscaleable
      • How much value each our creates, not how many hours you work
      • Life rewards those who act, not those who just plan
      • If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die”
      • Visibility beats ability
      • LRC
        • Learn
        • Run
        • Customize
      • Drowning in advice
        • You’re not lazy, you lack clarity
        • Everything is easier when you know good people
  • Dan Martell
    • Buying back your time is about making the life you want to live
    • I will not grow into pain
    • What am I pretending not to know?
    • The grass is greener is greener because it’s fake
    • Buyback principle
      • Don’t hire to grow your business
      • Hire to buyback Time
    • buyback loop
      • How to create a new buyback loop
        • What brings you pain
        • What brings you joy
        • How expensive is it
          • $1 to $4
        • Create an empire you never need to retire from
          • When you do it right, it’s just fun
          • Your bank account is a reflection of your beliefs
          • What do you do to be successful
            • Don’t drink or gamble
    • Replacement ladder
      • Richard Branson
    • People buy your standards, not your presence
    • 3 1-3-1 Rule
      • One specific challenge
      • 3 viable options
      • One recommendation
    • your biggest expense is not doing the thing that makes you the most money
    • 2 things to feel fulfilled
      • Focus on becoming the 10.0 version of yourself
        • Who did I need most when I was in my darkest time
        • Share yourself with your world
  • Shades Zahari
    • To sabotage someone’s success and happiness, plant a seed of self-doubt. The mind will do the rest.
    •  
    • Four things
      • Acceptance
        • Am I enough as I am
          • Work is contingent on validation
        • what is my metaphoric hairpiece
        • What am I clinging to for validation that is actually holding me back?
        • focus on the process
        •  
      • Agency
        • Can I do it?
          • The better you get at something, the more invisible your skills become
        • autonomy
          • Do i have power or control
      • Adaptablility
        • Can I handle it
        •  
    • Expectation bias
        • Self-image: The mental blueprint you carry about who you are
          • What belief is shaping how you walk into a room
          •  
  • It’s becoming an increasingly having less
    • If they can do that, then why not you
    • Courage to be disliked
    • How are you meaningfully different
  • 7 core differences
    • Don’t chase new
    • Find something you do, and do it really well
    • Chasing new is an external pursuit
    • Be different
      • Be good and different
    •  
  • Brand assets
    • Name
    • Voice
    • Identity
    • Packaging
  • brand focuses on meaning
  • Ryan
    • What’s it like to be on th either side of you ?
    • How do you know?
    • Inch of application
      • Leave with the next step
      • Awareness without action is just observation
    • inch of intentionality
      • Do you have any trash?
    • Inch of potential
      • I’m willing to fail at something most people are afraid to try.
      • Is it crazy or it’s what’s required for me to become what I want to be
  • Day 2
    • Cody
      • Take aways
        • Personal brand isn’t about ego, it’s about distribution
        • Becoming a walking ad platform
        • Tornado strategy
          • Don’t talk about your product, talk about the benefit
        • lower ad cost by being a personal brand
        • 3 things
          • What are you good at
          • What are you obsessed with
        • Pre-production is the pain but worth it
        • The editor is the last story teller
        • The greats have a system is system that is sustainable over time
        • Don’t pretend to be who you are not
        • Anyone going viral consistently are thinking a lot about the content
        • WATCH The growth rate of the bigger players online
        • Two oars
          • Quantitative
          • Qualitative
          • This makes sure you don’t paddle in circles
        • rule of 3
          • Anything you touch more than 3 times
            • Start it,
            • Document it
            • Shouldn’t have to be talked about again
        • Community is the new advantage
          • Accountable with execution
        • dreams go to die in a zoom
        • The big deal podcast
          • 5 favorite tools
            • Whisper flow
              • Doesn’t use keyboard anymore
              • Keyboards will be obsolete
              • Rams new AI
              • Perplexity replaced analyst
              • Anyone not using AI will be left behind
  • Brian
    • Struggling at first
      • People didn’t know how to talk about his tricks
      • If people do not know how to talk about what you do, the will not talk about what you do
      • He now runs a message design company
    • We want our ideas to spread
      • 2 major things
        • Dramatic decrease in trust
        • Way more noise
      • people can only see the block of marbles
        • People don’t know why they are handling it
      • we need to
        • What we do
        • How we do it
        • Who we do it for
      • the key is actually what is the customers problem
      • People don’t care about what you do until they figure out that you help them with their problem
      • What do I want to say to what to they need to hear?
      • The AFA principle
        • Audience first always
          • not only understand, the customer needs to feel understood
    • what do you do
      • Worlds worst question
        • Most people don’t know how to answer it
    • the filter framework
      • For audience to achieve impact by action
    • Who is your work for?
      • I help people and families become homeowners in a proven and effective way
      • Audience
        • People buying a home
      • Action
        • Buying a home
      • Impact
        • Navigate the complexities of financing a home
      • Formula
        • So, you know how….(problem)
        • Will I’m a (title)
        • I help by ….
      • clear is not boring
      • Ideas do not speak for themselves
      • When you confuse you lose
    • Great to have you
    • Good design and humor are inviting
  • Last day stage convo with Iman Obohu
    •  
  • Moments are the difference
    • Not a problem, it’s an opportunity
    • See the opportunity
    • It’s not about being the best in the world, its about being the best for the world
  • Four types of managers
    • Standards and connections
      • Removed
        • L & L
      • buddy
        • L H
  • 5 c;’s
    • Confidence
    • Credibility
    • Competence
    • Candor
    • Care
  • 1) Spark the possibility
    • Potential – growth
    • Worth – Recognition
  • 2) KISS
    • To don’t list
    • Time affluence
  • 3) communicate to collaborate
    • Everyone who follows you has a status
    • Status determines treatment
    • Repeat
    • status interview
      • Begin with vocal praise
      • Ask these 3 questions
        • What can i do to keep you here
        • What is getting in the way of success at work
        • What can i do to help you get here
  • 4) listen wisely
    • Great mentors are always being mentored

••leaders are an average of the 3 other managers they listen to

Neel Forward event

  • Intro
    • The shift in the last 5 years is going to be the shift is going to happen again the next 5 years
    • You have to be willing to put out the shity version first
    • Start today because the only way he had videos to show of the past is because he started
    • Build in public
    • If you’re not into it, either go big or get out
    • This is about the community
    • People aren’t as busy as they say
    • Mall tweaks = big leaps
    • Goals
      • 3 ideas
        • You will have more than that, but filter it down
      • Meet 2 new people
      • Get out of comfort zone
    • Home life
      • Don’t poke holes in the ideas
      • Don’t include uncertainty
      • When you are locked in with your spouse, no one can fuck with you
      • there will be times when you will be out of balance
    • When you greet people, give them your locked in best

 

  • Sharran Srivatsaa
    • our best clients come from our best client
    • People expect you to be continuously doing a better job
    • How you prepare, shows just how much you care
    • How do you future proof your business without AI
      • 1 We need a plan
      • 2  10/10/ forever
        • What 10 relationships can I invite for the next 10 years so we can be partners forever
        • the broke agent educate and entertains
        • 5 rules for investing in a relationship
          • No scorecard rule
            • don’t ask for something back when someone does good
            • If you keep score you have all ready lost
          • go overboard and do epic shit
          • Be extremely generous and expect nothing in return
          • Share the assets platforms and connections
          • Stay yes to every request
        • what’s the 10 relationships you are working on
      • 3 sharrahs law hyper local
        • Quality
        • Hyper Local
          • Be the news anchor in your town
          • be the nes
          • hit the right phase
          • what is the shareability
            • People share so they look good
            • make it about news
            • make it different
              • Could be about the floor plan
            • Jason Cassity
              • Makes videos specifically to the individual
              • Makes specific windows
      • 4 the world is full of one trick ponies
        • When you spend time working on your weaknesses, you develop a bunch of really strong weaknesses
        • Eric Simon – the broke agent
        • How to be an ultr-loved unicorn
      • 5 community
        • you can not solve a problem with the way you look at it. Eureka Problems are solved quicker with community

 

  • Neil
    • One to many not one to one
      • Invite more people and see who shows up
    • One to many selling secrets
      • Don’t sell your service
        • Give them the blueprint
        • everyone loves DIY until they get the box home from IKEA
        • How do you give it away without it being about you
        • call to action
      • Webinars
        • Talk about the outcome, not the thing
        • sell the outcome
        • “The new way to {to get the desired outcome in (year)}
        • “Even if you (disqualifier)
          • Even if you think you can’t afford it
          • “The new way to buy before you sell in 2025”
          • The new way to unlock the equity in your home
        • Specialist get paid, generalist do busy work
        • Don’t chase, attract
          • With or without you energy
          • If it feels like people need it, it repels
          • Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd
          • Use high quality footage
          • Create fomo
          • Send personal invites
          • Scale the unscaleable
      • How much value each our creates, not how many hours you work
      • Life rewards those who act, not those who just plan
      • If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die”
      • Visibility beats ability
      • LRC
        • Learn
        • Run
        • Customize
      • Drowning in advice
        • You’re not lazy, you lack clarity
        • Everything is easier when you know good people
  • Dan Martell
    • Buying back your time is about making the life you want to live
    • I will not grow into pain
    • What am I pretending not to know?
    • The grass is greener is greener because it’s fake
    • Buyback principle
      • Don’t hire to grow your business
      • Hire to buyback Time
    • buyback loop
      • How to create a new buyback loop
        • What brings you pain
        • What brings you joy
        • How expensive is it
          • $1 to $4
        • Create an empire you never need to retire from
          • When you do it right, it’s just fun
          • Your bank account is a reflection of your beliefs
          • What do you do to be successful
            • Don’t drink or gamble
    • Replacement ladder
      • Richard Branson
    • People buy your standards, not your presence
    • 3 1-3-1 Rule
      • One specific challenge
      • 3 viable options
      • One recommendation
    • your biggest expense is not doing the thing that makes you the most money
    • 2 things to feel fulfilled
      • Focus on becoming the 10.0 version of yourself
        • Who did I need most when I was in my darkest time
        • Share yourself with your world
  • Shades Zahari
    • To sabotage someone’s success and happiness, plant a seed of self-doubt. The mind will do the rest.
    •  
    • Four things
      • Acceptance
        • Am I enough as I am
          • Work is contingent on validation
        • what is my metaphoric hairpiece
        • What am I clinging to for validation that is actually holding me back?
        • focus on the process
        •  
      • Agency
        • Can I do it?
          • The better you get at something, the more invisible your skills become
        • autonomy
          • Do i have power or control
      • Adaptablility
        • Can I handle it
        •  
    • Expectation bias
        • Self-image: The mental blueprint you carry about who you are
          • What belief is shaping how you walk into a room
          •  
  • It’s becoming an increasingly having less
    • If they can do that, then why not you
    • Courage to be disliked
    • How are you meaningfully different
  • 7 core differences
    • Don’t chase new
    • Find something you do, and do it really well
    • Chasing new is an external pursuit
    • Be different
      • Be good and different
    •  
  • Brand assets
    • Name
    • Voice
    • Identity
    • Packaging
  • brand focuses on meaning
  • Ryan
    • What’s it like to be on th either side of you ?
    • How do you know?
    • Inch of application
      • Leave with the next step
      • Awareness without action is just observation
    • inch of intentionality
      • Do you have any trash?
    • Inch of potential
      • I’m willing to fail at something most people are afraid to try.
      • Is it crazy or it’s what’s required for me to become what I want to be
  • Day 2
    • Cody
      • Take aways
        • Personal brand isn’t about ego, it’s about distribution
        • Becoming a walking ad platform
        • Tornado strategy
          • Don’t talk about your product, talk about the benefit
        • lower ad cost by being a personal brand
        • 3 things
          • What are you good at
          • What are you obsessed with
        • Pre-production is the pain but worth it
        • The editor is the last story teller
        • The greats have a system is system that is sustainable over time
        • Don’t pretend to be who you are not
        • Anyone going viral consistently are thinking a lot about the content
        • WATCH The growth rate of the bigger players online
        • Two oars
          • Quantitative
          • Qualitative
          • This makes sure you don’t paddle in circles
        • rule of 3
          • Anything you touch more than 3 times
            • Start it,
            • Document it
            • Shouldn’t have to be talked about again
        • Community is the new advantage
          • Accountable with execution
        • dreams go to die in a zoom
        • The big deal podcast
          • 5 favorite tools
            • Whisper flow
              • Doesn’t use keyboard anymore
              • Keyboards will be obsolete
              • Rams new AI
              • Perplexity replaced analyst
              • Anyone not using AI will be left behind
  • Brian
    • Struggling at first
      • People didn’t know how to talk about his tricks
      • If people do not know how to talk about what you do, the will not talk about what you do
      • He now runs a message design company
    • We want our ideas to spread
      • 2 major things
        • Dramatic decrease in trust
        • Way more noise
      • people can only see the block of marbles
        • People don’t know why they are handling it
      • we need to
        • What we do
        • How we do it
        • Who we do it for
      • the key is actually what is the customers problem
      • People don’t care about what you do until they figure out that you help them with their problem
      • What do I want to say to what to they need to hear?
      • The AFA principle
        • Audience first always
          • not only understand, the customer needs to feel understood
    • what do you do
      • Worlds worst question
        • Most people don’t know how to answer it
    • the filter framework
      • For audience to achieve impact by action
    • Who is your work for?
      • I help people and families become homeowners in a proven and effective way
      • Audience
        • People buying a home
      • Action
        • Buying a home
      • Impact
        • Navigate the complexities of financing a home
      • Formula
        • So, you know how….(problem)
        • Will I’m a (title)
        • I help by ….
      • clear is not boring
      • Ideas do not speak for themselves
      • When you confuse you lose
    • Great to have you
    • Good design and humor are inviting
  • Last day stage convo with Iman Obohu
    •  
  • Moments are the difference
    • Not a problem, it’s an opportunity
    • See the opportunity
    • It’s not about being the best in the world, its about being the best for the world
  • Four types of managers
    • Standards and connections
      • Removed
        • L & L
      • buddy
        • L H
  • 5 c;’s
    • Confidence
    • Credibility
    • Competence
    • Candor
    • Care
  • 1) Spark the possibility
    • Potential – growth
    • Worth – Recognition
  • 2) KISS
    • To don’t list
    • Time affluence
  • 3) communicate to collaborate
    • Everyone who follows you has a status
    • Status determines treatment
    • Repeat
    • status interview
      • Begin with vocal praise
      • Ask these 3 questions
        • What can i do to keep you here
        • What is getting in the way of success at work
        • What can i do to help you get here
  • 4) listen wisely
    • Great mentors are always being mentored

••leaders are an average of the 3 other managers they listen to

  • Ryan Leak
    • What’s it like to be on th either side of you ?
    • How do you know?
    • Inch of application
      • Leave with the next step
      • Awareness without action is just observation
    • inch of intentionality
      • Do you have any trash?
    • Inch of potential
      • I’m willing to fail at something most people are afraid to try.
      • Is it crazy or it’s what’s required for me to become what I want to be

 

    •  
    • Codie Sanchez
      • Take aways
        • Personal brand isn’t about ego, it’s about distribution
        • Becoming a walking ad platform
        • Tornado strategy
          • Don’t talk about your product, talk about the benefit
        • lower ad cost by being a personal brand
        • 3 things
          • What are you good at
          • What are you obsessed with
        • Pre-production is the pain but worth it
        • The editor is the last story teller 
        • The greats have a system is system that is sustainable over time 
        • Don’t pretend to be who you are not
        • Anyone going viral consistently are thinking a lot about the content 
        • WATCH The growth rate of the bigger players online
        • Two oars
          • Quantitative 
          • Qualitative
          • This makes sure you don’t paddle in circles
        • rule of 3
          • Anything you touch more than 3 times 
            • Start it, 
            • Document it
            • Shouldn’t have to be talked about again
        • Community is the new advantage
          • Accountable with execution
        • dreams go to die in a zoom
        • The big deal podcast
          • 5 favorite tools
            • Whisper flow
              • Doesn’t use keyboard anymore
              • Keyboards will be obsolete 
              • Rams new AI
              • Perplexity replaced analyst 
              • Anyone not using AI will be left behind
  • Brian
    • Struggling at first
      • People didn’t know how to talk about his tricks
      • If people do not know how to talk about what you do, the will not talk about what you do
      • He now runs a message design company
    • We want our ideas to spread
      • 2 major things
        • Dramatic decrease in trust 
        • Way more noise
      • people can only see the block of marbles
        • People don’t know why they are handling it
      • we need to
        • What we do
        • How we do it
        • Who we do it for
      • the key is actually what is the customers problem
      • People don’t care about what you do until they figure out that you help them with their problem
      • What do I want to say to what to they need to hear?
      • The AFA principle
        • Audience first always
          • not only understand, the customer needs to feel understood
    • what do you do 
      • Worlds worst question
        • Most people don’t know how to answer it
    • the filter framework
      • For audience to achieve impact by action
    • Who is your work for?
      • I help people and families become homeowners in a proven and effective way
      • Audience
        • People buying a home
      • Action
        • Buying a home
      • Impact
        • Navigate the complexities of financing a home
      • Formula
        • So, you know how….(problem)
        • Will I’m a (title)
        • I help by ….
      • clear is not boring
      • Ideas do not speak for themselves
      • When you confuse you lose
    • Great to have you 
    • Good design and humor are inviting
  • Last day stage convo with Iman Obohu
  • Moments are the difference 
    • Not a problem, it’s an opportunity
    • See the opportunity
    • It’s not about being the best in the world, its about being the best for the world
  • Four types of managers
    • Standards and connections 
      • Removed
        • L & L
      • buddy
        • L H
  • 5 c;’s 
    • Confidence
    • Credibility
    • Competence
    • Candor
    • Care
  • 1) Spark the possibility
    • Potential – growth
    • Worth – Recognition
  • 2) KISS
    • To don’t list 
    • Time affluence 
  • 3) communicate to collaborate
    • Everyone who follows you has a status 
    • Status determines treatment
    • Repeat
    • status interview
      • Begin with vocal praise 
      • Ask these 3 questions
        • What can i do to keep you here
        • What is getting in the way of success at work
        • What can i do to help you get here
  • 4) listen wisely 
    • Great mentors are always being mentored 

••leaders are an average of the 3 other managers they listen to

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