SFR 34: "The Maestro - A 21st Century Entrepreneur"

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Good morning everyone. This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio.

Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio where you learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now, here's your host Steve Larsen.

All right you guys, how's it going? It's been a little while since I've recorded a podcast. Things have been so busy, so busy. I'm actually driving over to our brand new office. We got a really cool event going on. We got most of Russell's inner circle over here. We're going to go for the next three days through some cool material to help them launch, but I don't know if I'm supposed to talk about it yet.

How's that for a cliffhanger?...

If you guys go to Funnel Hacking Live, you'll find out more about what it is. You guys are going to like it. It's really, really cool. I don't see anyone else doing what we're doing here.

Anyway, hey it's been a while since I've done a podcast. Again, I just want to apologize for that. I always try and do at least two of them a week. That's my goal. I always try and do it with an awesome microphone. Just like the last one I did, guys I'm in the car again. Sorry about that.

I'm obsessed with the sound quality like I said before, but whatever...

The message today I think is kind of cool. I think it was only two weeks ago, so I've been traveling a lot. We're going all over the place and we're switching offices. I haven't really had a chance to sit down with my microphone and actually do an actual podcast. Just barely we got our security cards to go into the new building.

We got all stuff. For a long time I couldn't get to my stuff. That's what I'm saying. I couldn't get to my equipment and actually do a podcast for you guys. Anyway, enough blabbering on that.

Just about a couple of weeks ago, I was flying back. I was in Vegas on a trip for Russell. I don't even know how to talk about this. I was feeling kind of down on myself for ... I'll admit. I was feeling a little bit down. I was like, "Crap, like there's all these things I wish I had up and running." There's all these things that I wish I had going. I have like six sales funnels right now that are at the 90% level.

I just got to spend another couple extra hours on each room to get them launched. I know a lot of you guys are going to hear that. You'll be surprised by that and go, "Wait a second, this is all you do." Yes, but for other people. I have a lot of my own funnels already running and make great fantastic money.

They're totally on autopilot and I absolutely love it...

I guess it was just ... I don't know how to say it. I was feeling down on myself. I was like, "Oh crap. I just wish that there are these things going. It must be because I had to push harder. It must be because I have to do this or do that." I was looking on a lot of external things. I was walking through the airport thinking about this and that's kind of my nature to be honest. I'm naturally hard on myself, not unlike the bad way but in the incredibly self-motivating way.

Otherwise I won't be where I am and same with a lot of you guys who listen to this podcast. I was walking to the airport. I was listening to some cool audio books and I was like, "All right, like gearing up. Okay, here it comes. I'm feeling the stress."

Some guy taught a long time ago that when you start to feel stressed, it's actually your body preparing to be able to do what you're thinking about doing.

Don't always push off stress...

Stress can be a good thing...

There's good stress and bad stress...

I think I've talked about that before like, "Welcome to stress." Your body's prepping to go handle and take on whatever challenge you're thinking about. I was walking to the airport.

I was feeling this. I was thinking this...

I was in my own world man. I feel like I was one of those like the horses with eye blinders on. I was looking right kind ... I wasn't looking at the ground. I was kind of looking right in front of me. I was just pacing. My flight didn't take off for a few more hours. I got there kind of early.

I kind of came up to the spot where there's tons of terminals all over the place, meaning it's almost like the equivalent of a cul-de-sac. There was terminals kind of this huge ring and the people sitting. It was massive, people everywhere. I was walking and all of a sudden I hear this thud, the boom.

I hear the sliding sound and this pair of sunglasses comes flying in front of me...

They land and stopped about right in front of me where I am. It kind of come off guard. I looked down and I looked over at the thud. There was an old gentleman who had passed out laying on his back in the middle of the terminal. A lot of us heard it. He was like may be 10 feet from me.

His wife was standing right there. She turns around and she notices him. She goes something ... I can't remember the name but she was calling his name. "Are you okay? Are you okay? Hello, oh my gosh!" She starts freaking out understandably. I just kind of walked over to him and his eyes were wide open.

He was lying down on the floor. I'm not trying to get gruesome but I just want you to kind of feel what I felt. There was a little bit of blood coming from his head. He wasn't breathing. His tongue is kind of out a little bit. He basically, I don't know if it's a seizure or stroke. Also we realized there were no paramedics around. We were going to have to try and save this guy.

I'm not going, I was in shock. I was in such a stupor because of what I was previously thinking about. I'm thinking about, all of a sudden these are the things. I was like, "I wish I had this going. I wish I had this going. I wish I had this going." I was in such a stupor that it shocked me that that situation was in front of me right there, right then. I was not able to even really react the way that I would be able to.

I mean we train for this stuff all time. I'm in the army. We trained for that kind of crap all the time. This other guy just like snapped right into gear. He went and he got a defibrillator. We were shocking his heart while he's on the floor. I was yelling at a lady with a radio saying like get people over here, and another lady was grabbing him. A guy started doing CPR on.

It was really intense. We went probably like five minutes without him actually breathing. Now somebody saw his chest rise just a little bit on his own and everyone clapped in the whole terminal. We're all cheering and stuff.

I was really heavy and I don't even know, but that was the only breath that I saw him take. I think like the paramedics came in, but it took them forever. I wanted to yell at them. I saw them coming down terminal and they were walking. I was, "Oh my gosh, that pissed me off so much." I was like, "You guys ..." I'm pretty sure the guy died. His wife was right there screaming.

It was an awful experien...