Testimonial-style YouTube video featuring Mariana and Ivan Polic (based in Yorba Linda, California) describing a three-day intensive facilitated by Mike Koenigs and his team that clarified their business story, offer, and go-to-market assets. They report compressing what would have taken 8–10 years into three days, leaving with clarity on message, system, model, tools, a masterclass, blueprint and book, plus both tangible deliverables and mindset shifts. They cite ~200 hours of prior original content and approximately $1.5M invested over 15 years in their growth, and endorse Mike and the team as highly effective.
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Yorba Linda, California.
About 200 hours of original content.
Approximately $1.5 million.
The program took three full days; they estimated it would have taken 8–10 years on their own.
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We can stand fully in our truth, who we are, and show up authentically in the world. Now we can just fully go out there and live our story, use it to help other people.
We feel like nobody can compete with us in this space. I want to tell you that if you have it in you and you can't get it out, this is the place for that to happen.
We gave birth.
I'm famous for being pregnant.
I finally feel a lot lighter.
We are Mariana and Ivan Polic. We live in Yorba Linda, California, and.
We help businesses grow, scale, and exit, and create freedom for their business owners. Hard to believe that this amount of work could be done in three days. And also it's a substantial investment. So we were like, wow, you know, could it be possible that we could get all this done?
The number one benefit we experienced so far is taking a look at our body of work, our story, and being proud of it. What Mike and his team enable us to do is look at our story as such a great, great, amazing journey. How it's already impacting other people, but on a larger scale.
To me, it's compressing time, the brain damage of coming up with the coherent story and structure to actually convey the value of what we do and how we do it. That piece is incredibly valuable, and we could have done this, but I would estimate between 8 and 10 years it would take us, and we did that in three days. The whirlwind of what just happened was incredible. The insight, precision, mastery of the facilitation of this process. Mike and the team was breathtaking. The results are really inspiring. The promise was huge, and I think the delivery exceeded it.
What was really interesting is that it is three full days of work. We were actually energized and proud, and we couldn't wait to get back to work the next day. We are walking away with clarity. Clarity on our message, clarity on our system, our model, our tools, our bonuses. We know what to do. Like, we can literally hit the ground running tomorrow.
We have a business that's really suited for us, for our story, for our lifestyle, for the contribution we want to make, for the uniqueness of what we do and differentiates us completely in the marketplace. And that's a huge win. We have the offer how to sell, sell it, how to convey the value. We have a masterclass. We have the blueprint. We have a book. We have an incredible amount of things, a complete future mapped out. We're really excited for more people finding out about the magic we create.
The tangibles are obviously listed, but there's also intangibles, the feeling and the mindset, the excitement. What was impossible, which now is possible.
We had a big vision. We knew we had it in us. But from having it in us to having it actually materialize in front of us, that's the magic of what is happening here. We thought we needed the fancy presentation, but what we got instead was a confirmation of the genius that we already have. When you come do this, it may feel uncomfortable or we don't know exactly where we're going. Many times you're gonna lean into the expertise, the mastery, the facilitation of the team and Mike and all the super talented people here. At the end of it, you emerge fully into the light. It feels amazing.
Even though my very first profession was a journalist and sports TV reporter telling other people's stories, I felt like I needed to feature myself and feature us, and that was a stretch for me. You waited long enough. You probably invested a lot of money into some promises that Ando delivered. For whatever reason you have, you know, get over it.
We have maybe 200 hours of original content across multiple niches with multiple dimensions and multiple different things that we could do. And out of all that chaos emerged one beacon of a message, a way to feature our genius that is completely unique and really powerful. I'm pretty sure that whatever situation you're in, you can emerge as well. Your genius can shine, and we're completely flowing what actually happened.
We have been through enough programs to know and understand what works and what doesn't. We did a lot of due diligence, and if you will, we did it for you. Mike, he's the real deal, and his team of experts are just incredible people.
Over the last 15 years, we probably invested $1.5 million. A tremendous amount of investment went into the growth. The best teachers, the best mentors, the best practices process is the best of best of everything. I think that this particular investment, these three days, probably is the pinnacle of what is possible and cutting edge of what can happen in such a short time. To condense time and space after making many investments, I think this is one of our best ones.
