Peter Diamandis credits Joe Polish and Genius Network with launching his bestselling book Abundance, building his first mailing list, and connecting him to Dan Sullivan, which led to Abundance360 and significant wealth. Polish explains his mission is connecting high-impact entrepreneurs while focusing on addiction and human connection.
Chapters
Joe, I met you back in 2011, and honestly, you rocked my world. You changed my world. You brought me from a point of, you know, having a job to creating tremendous wealth for myself, right? So it's 2011. I had just published my first book. You invited me to come to the Genius Network, into the family, to your 25k event, and you put me in the hot seat, and you introduced me to this group of superheroes out there. And you said to the group, let's help Peter make Abundance a New York Times bestseller. And it went from literally bouncing off the floor to a best seller. We hit number two in the New York Times bestseller list. You introduced me to everybody on how to promote this thing in YouTube direct mail campaigns. I mean, I actually. You actually helped me create my first list ever. From zero to that point, 40,000 people who joined my list. And, you know, amazing people like Mike Klein and like Dean Graciosi, like Brendan Bouchard. You introduced me to all of these individuals. So Abundance did well. And then you introduced me to Dan Sullivan, right? And you said, you come up to me. I was at the Genius Network event, which I love, which I go to every year. I bring my entire team to Genius Network because in those three days, it is like this. Just. It's like your brain goes to a new level of thinking, and you get so excited about all these different ideas. I think you raised the question, peter, you're not scared about the future, and most people are. And that led to a conversation that had me join Dan's 10X program and then gave birth to Abundance360, my mastermind, which has. Has created tens of millions of dollars of wealth for me. And I just want to say thank you.
Yes.
It's not only created wealth for me, it's helped me actually create a platform to change the world. Right. Su and Xprize have been amazing platforms, but A360 and A360 Digital are platforms that I know it's my pure play on helping people change the world. And so I love at the beginning of every A360 program in Beverly Hills in January, where we have these amazing rock stars in the room running 10 million to $10 billion companies or on stage with me, the first thing I say is, I want to thank two people, Joe Polish and Dunn Sullivan, for helping create this. And so, you know, I know that you have made this incredible impact in my life. People who don't know you, who just think about genius network or 25k and think about marketing. And who is this guy? This is a guy who cares. And this is a guy who can introduce you to people who can help you change the world. This is a guy who can help you think not 10x but 100x bigger. And you've changed my life. And as someone who wants to change the world, you, through me, and the hundreds of other or thousands of people that you're touching are changing the world. And I just want to say thank you.
Thank you. I mean, I really appreciate that. And, you know, the biggest joy I get from what I do with just connecting people is taking really brilliant, ambitious people that are moving the dial, that have incredible capabilities, that are really doing stuff that helps humanity and what Dan Sullivan calls industry, Transformers and putting these rock stars together and create a tribe of tribal leaders. Because a lot of people have networks, a lot of people have, you know, thousands, hundreds, tens of thousands, maybe millions of fans. But you only need a few total rock stars in your inner circle and in your world and be able to get together and face to face, talk to these individuals, meet the individuals. And that just simply is not only going to make you better, it's going to make you feel better. And it develops really deep relationships with incredible people. And I think, you know, now my main focus, which is a lot has come out of our relationship with the work I'm doing with addiction. You know, the opposite of addiction is connection. And my biggest joy is to connect incredibly great people.
