This saying needs to be modernized, however, because many who can, do – and then they go on to teach.

Frank Corbin

Such was the case with my last guest on Kevin and the Giant Peach, Frank Corbin. When Frank was very young, he had a “hunger”, as he put it, to become wealthy. After moving from Ghana to New York City, he watched his mother constantly struggle to pay the bills. Frank was determined not to get into this same situation. Frank was determined to become wealthy and eliminate money as an issue in his life.

As a teenager, Frank worked many different jobs. After graduating from high school, he attended DeVry Institue in Toronto – which loaded him up with student loans and other debts.

In addition to his studies at DeVry, Frank also purchased every real estate course and real estate investment book he could get his hands on. As a result, Frank became convinced that purchasing and holding real estate was the easiest and quickest way to become wealthy.

At the age of 21, Frank purchased his first property – a $241,000 home in Toronto which he picked up for no money down, received $20,000 at closing and the property ended up providing him with $900 per month of positive cash flow. One year later, Frank had attained 4 more properties and was financially free.

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Frank saw people struggling financially. He couldn’t understand why people weren’t doing what he was able to do so easily. So he went about creating a course, the Remic Wealth Institute, in which teaches his methods for finding and investing in real estate.

While putting together the courses within Remic Wealth Institute, Frank identified another need people had that he new he could satisfy – obtaining credit despite having a poor credit history. “The 8 Strategies to Highly Effective Credit” was thus born and is now offered at www.gethec.com

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Fortunately for her family, her father had been able to hold on to his research job at Alcoa and retire after 25 years. Even though Samantha’s father had preached to Samantha and her brothers that they should go to college, get good grades and get good jobs with big companies, he still obviously understood the importance of developing an income on the side through business ownership. He partnered in a venture as a tavern owner and worked there for several years after retirement.

Many people who work in large corporations understand, deep down, that pinning your future and your hopes on that job is precarious – and not secure by any means. They look outside the company’s walls and wonder if they could make it on their own. The answer is, “Absolutely! Yes, you can.” In fact, a large, increasing number of people are doing just that – cutting the umbilical cord with their company and starting new businesses.

These days, many people have no other choice. The mistake a lot of unemployed people are making these days is that they are out looking for the job that they had just lost. They have not come to the realization that those jobs do not exist anymore.

The only way to survive this and the future economic changes is to update your skills in sales and marketing. These skills serve anyone in any position in any organization or business.

As Samantha Gardner points out, one of the best ways to do this is through a training program called “Renegade Professional”, a joint venture between Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler. In fact, Samantha is a superguide and coach for the Renegade Professional program.

In the next post, I’ll explain more about what the Renegade Professional is.

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Jaime Cevallos client list includes 10 major league baseball players. And that list is growing as word is traveling about how Jaime has helped them improve their batting swings. This is the middle of the story, though.

Jamie Cevallos’ story actually began with that first major league client. But how did he meet that first client? Well it actually happened because he’d applied one of the lessons of Tim Ferriss’ “The 4-Hour Workweek”.

In a subchapter titled, “Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic”, Tim Ferriss offers this insight:

“It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy- consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8’s.”

And, then, a few paragraphs down he offers the “why” this is true: “Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.”

What Jaime did with his batting swing training program was NOT what most people would have done which is starting with training average baseball players. He took Tim Ferriss’ advice and sought the BEST baseball players in the world to train. He did not go mediocre. He swung for the fences – pun intended. And he hit that homer.

What was his risk in doing this? Absolutely nothing.

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” I think that what we’ve got going on now is probably, as we look back at it when we get years down the road, we will see this as the time the pendulum shifted, that it shifted the other way and small business is going to come back into the forefront of the business community. We went into the big business in the ’80s and now, I think, as it’s shifting because with the economy, I think you’re going to have more localized type business. So, therefore, you’re going to have more people sprouting up businesses and getting in business for themselves to make it, just because it’s a necessity. There’s a saying ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. So, I think as people start looking for jobs that they can’t find, they’re going to have to bring forth some new skills, and talents, and tools and abilities that they’ve been kind of complacent about. And they’re going to have to get out here and take a little risk, and make it happen.”

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So, I’ll explain it here because I believe that it is a great example of why, if someone is serious about becoming financially independent, they should not dismiss network marketing as a viable means to those ends.

What Brad used to do was divide the room – which consisted of approximately 200 people – into two halves. One half represented Wal-Mart and the other half represented the network marketing company Brad represents. Brad would then address the first 5 people in the front row of the “Wal-Mart half” and ask them to stand up. He then pointed out that those 5 people represented the sum total of millionaires that Wal-Mart had produced. (The real life Wal-Mart millionaires are members of the Sam Walton family, by the way.)

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He then would address the second half of the room and ask them all to stand up. They represented the number of people who had earned over $1,000,000 in commissions from Brad’s network marketing company compensation to that point. (I believe the number is over 200, now.)

So, the visual is this: on the Wal-Mart side of the room, there were 5 people standing at this point. On the network marketing company side of the room, there were approximately 100 people standing.

The question to the audience was this, which compensation plan gave you a better shot at becoming financially independent? The Wal-Mart plan – which, by the way, can be substituted for by any large corporation’s compensation play – or the network marketing company’s compensation plan?

The visual contrast made it clear as to the answer.

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