SFR 47: Entrepreneurial Cleanse

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The beginning stages of entrepreneurship carry a certain sanctification that I miss... Rough, but extreme growth.

Hey, what's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio.

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Hey, how you doing? You know what's funny is, I was listening to Russel's stuff, and I actually went through and I've been indexing all of his videos and going through and indexing him and saying like, "Okay. This little clip from this section to this section. And this second to this second is about this, and it's the best version of him teaching it.

And then I'll watch more video and it's kind of on like two or three times speed, which in Russel time is like 10x speed, it's so fast. Most people do not talk that fast. Then ... Index this and index this, it's been super super fun and I just noticed that he starts everybody with, "Hey everybody how's it goin?"

I don't know why but ... the beginning of every of my podcasts if you listen to is probably like, "What's up everyone this is Steve Larsen and-" You know it's like, it's the same thing every time but I'm like I should probably switch that out.

The other thing too is I kinda want to switch out my intro and outro jingle, like, I like it a lot, I made it by hand which is awesome. But man ... Yeah, I dunno, I'm all about variety so I kinda want to switch it up a little bit.

Hey you guys it's been really cool these last few weeks. There's been so much going on. My brother just got married, so cool, I'm the oldest of six kids. I got four ... three brothers, and two sisters. And we're all really close to be honest.

My siblings and I were actually really close which is rare, and it's cool, we're actually all buddies and friends and we all kind of just cheer each other on with what we're doing.

I got a brother who's really into coding, he's very very good at it. Got a brother who's actually a phlebotomist, which is amazing, that's so cool.

My sister actually started working at ClickFunnels which is awesome. She's still in college, she's actually my assistant, she's the one that goes in and does all my podcast stuff and she's really enjoyed it. She's actually also getting into e-commerce which is cool.

Then I got two young siblings as well which is super awesome and fun and also my parents, and we have a lot of fun together.

I guess the only reason I'm telling you guys that is that you guys know ... So my brother just got married ... We always go do like these crazy bachelor parties, always, it's so fun. And I'm Mormon, you guys know that probably right? Russel is, mostly everyone in the ClickFunnels office there is. I don't think that was on purpose, most of us are right.

So we don't have like the normal, typical bachelor party that you see on Hollywood, like it's not that way at all where people are like hiring strippers and drinking and stuff like that, it's not like that at all. What my brothers and I do are tradition now because the older three boys, we're all married now. I'm an uncle a couple times now which is awesome, And so, what we always do though is we try and have like man trips, something that's so ridiculous over the top masculine.

Something that's just kinda crazy and out there, but only a group of guys with no supervision would do. Because I'm a kid at heart and I will be forever and I don't care.

So my other brother when he got married we're like, "Dude what if we floated a river." I'm like yeah that'd be cool. We're like, "What if we actually made our own boats?" We're like, "Yeah, that'd be cool. What if we made our own boats out of cardboard and floated the Snake River? What-" And it was such a, "Yeah, that's manly right."

And we went and we built this massive fire and had food by the fire right next to the river. And while it was all cooking and stuff like that, we literally took pieces of cardboard and we taped it all together. And we go like two of us per cardboard boat, and we actually constructed them really really well. I actually didn't think they'd do as well as they did.

The problem was that they worked so well, and the current was so strong that they actually ended up taking us a mile down the river before they capsized. And we were not planning on going that far. We were laughing our faces getting into them because we were sure they would capsize immediately. And it's a deep, fast river, I think it was the Snake I'm not sure. But regardless, it was a very deep, very fast and big river.

And we get in this thing, we're floating down the river ... Anyway, it was super super awesome. And the water was freezing, freezing, it was just after winter time. This is like two years ago actually. And they start capsizing, it's cardboard, you know you're in water. And there's holes punching through it and all of a sudden we jump out into the river and we swim to the shore.

But what we weren't expecting was how far it actually took us and we didn't bring shoes, and there was nothing but thorns and thickets all around us, so we spent the next hour and a half gingerly placing each step all the way back to a road where we walked barefoot back all the way. And it was super fun, yeah.

To me there's not enough of that kind of activity in ... Especially men, or boys or teenagers anymore, there's not enough masculinity. Anyways, personal opinion on that. But man, freakin rub your face in some dirt, be a man, you know what I mean, it's okay to be masculine, it's okay for women to be feminine.

That's my personal opinion on that, I don't know why I told you all that...

So what we did for my other brother's bachelor party is, we were like, "Okay, well we gotta do something crazy, this is some feat of manhood." Once together we all went and we climbed the Tetons which is near-death experience. We did it in the middle of a blizzard. We didn't really plan that well but it was really fun. Like hanging on the side of these rock faces with like a thousand feet drop behind us is slightly stupid but really fun.

Anyways, so for my brother's bachelor party, the other brother...

What we did is we're like, "Okay, we gotta involve fire somehow, there's gotta be some food. We'll hang out a little bit but what are we gonna go do that's kind of insane and extreme?" So what we did is we went out to some sand dunes and we soaked these t-shirts in gasoline.

We tied strings around them and we went at night time and lit them on fire and we literally played golf on the sand dunes at night. We had hula hoops that we were lighting on fire and those were the holes. It was super fun.

And I was like, "Oh that's awesome, what else can we do that's crazy and extreme?" This is no joke sometimes how I create projects for marketing too by the way. Sit back and, Russel and I do this, and we'll sit back and go, "What else is like cool? What's so insane that makes this offer insatiable?"

And we'll add that in. I guess there's the marketing tie for right now.

So what we did though i...