Courage Night 2009

Take all my vicious words and turn them into something good.

Take all my preconceptions and let the truth truth be understood.

Take all my prized possessions Leave only what I need.

Take all my pieces of doubt and let me be what's underneath Carriage when you're afraid but you keep on moving anyway Girl branches when you're in pain but you keep on living anyway.

We all have excuses while living in fear Something in the skies.

Like a bird with broken wings it's not how high he flies but the sky song he sing.

When you.

Keep on moving any way c.

Will me.

That you keep on living in the way you keep on living in.

It's not how many times you've been out.

Courageous when you've lost your way but you find yourself strength anyway Come and change.

Come and change when it all.

Seem.

When you make a change and you keep on living in me way. You keep on moving in me way Keep on giving in me.

Keep.

Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you.

But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales.

I like to imagine what I hear came from my mother and father.

Maybe the notes I hear are the same ones they heard the night they met.

Maybe that's how they found each other.

Maybe that's how they'll find me.

I believe that once upon a time.

Long ago.

They heard the music.

And followed it.

Sam it.

I break.

I borrow.

I live.

I lose.

I pray.

I follow.

I'm there.

Confused.

I'll find you.

What is love Once I fall I'm stuck outside an open door no one's.

Come to get me yet I never.

Got a second bed. Welcome to your fantasy. If only she was make believers oh, what is love and what so far?

I'll take me back and do me.

More Will take me back and do me more I praise.

I borrow.

I live.

I lose.

I praise.

I hallelujah.

I live. Eureka. And so do each and every one of you. Tonight is about possibility. Tonight is about living your forever ever dreams. When we were children, we had those inspired dreams. And nobody told us no. So it's time to dig down deep and remember who was it that I wanted to be when I was a child. Do kids have lots of dreams? Yes. Does anybody tell you that you can't do them? No, not very often. Just sometimes when you get into the cookie jar a little too often. But tonight is about possibility. And I am so proud that to be in this theater that the Arkleys heard the music and they took the time to have the dream and to live the life that we get to enjoy here in Eureka, California. So thank you so much, Robin, Sherry. So many times they're told no.

But they heard the music and they pressed on. Each and every one of you have a song that's written in your heart. And tonight, as we listen to videos, as we listen to inspiring speakers, is to get in touch with that dream and that possibility. Because sometimes when life gets in the way, John Lennon once said, when we get busy being busy, life just happens. And life happens and we get busy and we don't take care of care of ourselves. I've always prided myself on this little quote that says, life's challenges aren't supposed to paralyze you. They're supposed to make you stronger and discover who you are. But I had to reflect on that recently as I was asked to write a chapter that was coming out in a book next month with Mark Victor Hansen. Like, how did you do that? And it was on standing up and taking charge of your health. Because one of the things that I realized when I got busy being busy in Supporting my family 28 years ago, my husband was accidentally shot in a hunting accident, and we got to revisit ground zero last year with his graph being broke. Sometimes you get so busy about taking care of all the responsibilities of taking care of a family, opening a business, and doing everything that you need to do that you overlook taking care of yourself. I had to learn the hard way. I had cancer once and was pregnant with my third child. Had a biopsy every single month. And it made me realize it was like, oh, I guess I better wake up and take care of me. So that was my possibility, reality, and thinking about, what can I do? And I realized that tonight is about sharing stories and opportunities. Everybody's been given a story in their life, and when you share the information, it opens up other opportunities for other people to be inspired to take care of themselves, to stand up and take charge. At that point was when we brought the Look Good, Feel Better program into Eureka and had great contacts working with St. Joe all through the years, working and helping develop as a community. And what could we do on our side just to help people? Then six years later, being struck with an aggressive breast cancer, I realized that, wow, number two, really, now, just as we had the opportunity and we'd grown in a business and had the wonderful opportunity to have that nice little spa down on the water, but God had another lesson. It was to stand up and take charge of your health. And the story that we're going to talk about in just a moment was I've heard the music. I remember after my fourth surgery in three weeks, and I remember getting Lori Watson Stone on the phone, and I said, you know what? We need to do a little bit more. I think there's some other opportunities that we can share with people. And because of the sharing stories between Laurie and Mary, who shared a story when she heard that I had cancer for the second time, she jumped out from around the side of the chair when my daughter was cutting her hair, and she said, sue, I want you to go get a binder. And what I want you to do is I want you to tab it with lab reports, path reports, surgery notes. You need to get your information because you're going to be going back and forth between here and San Francisco, and you need to have all of that information. It will give you control over your whole life. And it was. It was the most powerful thing that I could do. But as I was visiting that journey, I realized that a young woman that was 37 years old that got caught up in her life taking care of her children, lost her life. And it is the music that I hear and it is my inspiring story to let Teresa's life live as a legacy from Eureka, California, to start. Well, I'm from Crescent City. I'm the comeback town girl. I live through the tidal wave. So Humboldt County. I would love to start a ripple effect that we stand up, take charge of our health care. We're in the 21st century, and it's the only thing that we haven't taken charge of. We have charge of our transcripts from high school. We have in charge of our medical records. Not yet. We have our credit records, our financial records. It's about time that we create a partnership with our healthcare community, especially as we move into a revelation of reform. And where we're gonna start it is by sharing Teresa's story. Mary shared it with me, and I'm gonna share it with you tonight. Her legacy lives on, and I am proud to carry the torch because we shared a story. Her life has a purpose and will live on. Inspire others to stand up and take charge of their life. So, Teresa, this is for you.

So courage Knight actually started out living beyond cancer. And after the first year, we realized it really didn't matter whether you had cancer. The loss of a loved one, one, the kids just spilling the milk. It takes courage to get up every single day. And I have put myself into such an inspirational place all of my life with inspirational living because I don't see how you can get on without it. By listening to inspirational music, listening to inspirational speakers, and I'm bringing some of my mentors that I have just been so inspired by. We'll be bringing back to the stage in just a moment. Suzy Carter and her mentor, Bernie. Dormant. But I really have always felt that if you put your place in a special place and you keep yourself surrounded with your dreams and your goals, that anything is possible. So take a moment and tell the person next to you. What was it that you wanted to be when you were a child?

Can you remember that far back?

What was it that you want to be, Missy?

I don't know.

If you did know what it would.

Be.

You want to be a dental hygienist just like your mommy.

So it's kind of fun to get caught in your childhood dreams and decide where you want to be. So tonight is about possibilities. It's touching into finding out where that dream and that goal is because it's there. God, a story. Inspiration has given you some inspiration along the way. And as I've learned from my dear friend Lisa Nichols, out of your greatest weaknesses come your greatest strength. So sometimes the struggles in life will become the pearls of life. Sometimes we don't know why and we don't know what for, but they come forth. So this next little video is going to talk about impossibilities and so how you can break through it as we bring our dynamic team up. So just pay attention and watch this. Come on, kids.

I'm too weak. I'm too weak.

Too big.

Ate too much for breakfast. Got a headache. It's raining. My dog is sick.

I can't right now.

Not inspired. Makes me smell bad. I'm allergic to stuff. I'm fat. I'm thin.

It's too hot.

I'm not right.

I've got shin splints, headache. I'm distracted. I'm exerting myself too much. I'd love to, really, but I can't. I just can't. My favorite show is on. I got a case of the Monday, the Tuesday, Wednesday. I don't want to do this. I'll do something else after New Year's next week. Might make a mistake. Got homework. I feel bloated. I have gas.

I got a hot date.

Coach hate me. Mom won't let me. I bruise these days. It's too dark. Oh, my blisters. This is dangerous. Sorry I don't have the price. I think you eat enough sleep. It's not in my jeans. I Don't want to look all tired out. I need a better coach. I don't like getting tackled. I have a stomach. It's not the athletic type. I have better things to do. I don't want to slow you down. I have to. As soon as I get a promotion, I think I'll sit this one out.

My feet hurt.

And my feet hurt.

Not just from my standpoint, but from the entire learning scope of. Some of the best trainers in the whole world are at this event. There's three things that determine success. Mindset, skill sets and environments. Right now you're in an environment, probably the most highly designed learning environment you.

Could possibly ever put yourself into.

Sa.

There's nobody set up to think this.

Level except people who come to CEO's base.

Are you with me?

How many of you are ready to go to the next level of success in your lives?

On my book tour alone, I went to 47 cities. I spoke in front of 185,000 people and I autographed over 10,500 books. And it all started here. It all started here.

Sing closely.

You will get so much further faster.

By getting in the game and doing it and correcting along the way than sitting there thinking about it forever.

Is it on yet? There we go. There we go. So thank you again for showing up tonight and I just wanted to bring you my possibility Team Susie Carter who is the secret secret? She's actually Lisa Nichols, which we're getting a little surprise visit from in just a little bit. But anyway, Susie has been my mentor for the the last six years and I couldn't have done it without her because when you have an aspired living, sometimes those of us that are at the top, we don't have anybody mentoring us to help give us or kick us in the hiney. I should say actually give us the motivation and tell us what their expectations are. I went into a classroom six years ago and I heard this woman speak and I came out of there. Now I'm the kind of educator that takes a audiotape, two or three of them, stick them in two or three rooms because I don't want to miss anything, stick my daughter in one, stick a son in law on another one and say what did you learn and who had the best class? I don't care if it wasn't any good. You figured out something. You always learn from a bad class. What should we not do in the next class? When I came out of Susie's class, I was in tears and Julie said what is the matter with you. I said. She said something that just hit my heart, and she said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over. And if you really want to get off that habit trail, you have to take the time and not let your team see this and turn around and open up your arms, and you have to teach them what it is about your inspired living. What turned around my team and grew my business to the next level to not only be recognized as one of the top 200 salons and spas in the nation for the last three years, but also to be recognized as an international salon leader was because we together took on a vision and a mission. When I allowed them to give the voice and give me the words of who they wanted to be and what it was like for them, that's when it made the change. And it all made this change changed because Susie said, you're doing it all, but you can't do it all. So without further ado, Susie Carter, my little cheerleader in my life.

Welcome back to Eureka, darlin. Thank you.

As she was.

Mumbling that they won the global salon, so in the world, she's the top 1% in the world. So please give her a big round of app.

I think that, you know, and that's the one thing that my voice has wanted to speak for Eureka. And we've talked about that with Bernie and Suzy here for the last couple days, and there are so many amazing businesses and here. And again, out of Lisa's little thing, out of your greatest weaknesses come your greatest strength, because we don't know that we can't. And we have to. Sometimes when you're in such a big area. Oh, okay. I thought, what's she doing now?

When you are told that you have everything you need, you don't have to search. But because we don't have a lid put over us, we can do anything. We literally, in God's country, we don't have a lot of amenities. It takes us three hours to get anywhere. So, you know, it really doesn't matter. We're going to do whatever it takes. How many of you have gone to conferences and you listen to people and it's like, we've been doing that for 10 years, you know, and that's who we are as Eureka. So we're pretty cutting edge.

Let me have the house lights up.

Just a tad so I can see you. How many of you were here last.

Year, the year before? How many are like, you've drank the.

Kool Aid that it. It's Here. Me too.

So, wow. Welcome.

Yeah.

A little bit about me. I'm an author, written nine books. I don't have a formal education. My education was bootstrapping, you know. You know, bootstrapping. How many are business owners? You make a little money, you put. Put a little money in. Didn't go to college to be a writer. I wanted to just give back to my community. And from giving back to my community, this whole career birthed. And I didn't always love to speak. Yes, I was always a ham, but speaking wasn't the thing that came natural. It was the feeling I got on the other side of changing a person's life. And the thing that I saw about sue was that she cares so much and that every person makes a difference. And so tonight is about you as much. It's about courage. What do you want? What's your dream? Where's that dream that you left behind? You know, because when you look back in your life, are you going to think, oh, I should have worked more.

Not so much. You should have went to Italy and bought the shoes. That's what I'm thinking.

So think about tonight when you meet the people that we bring to you and their stories, because we bring real people that have big hearts and are committed to making change, changing the world, and changing the industry. And so that's my goal, is how do I help business people, business women take their business to the next level. And. And sue has kind of coined me the Secret Secret. And so I'm a business coach for several speaker teachers. And they got there because they were humble enough to ask for help, and then I was humble enough to work with them, you know, because when the first one happened, I'm like, really? You want me to teach you?

I'm a hairdresser.

Okay.

You know, that's what. Courage in one hand, fear in the other, and just jump. And along the way, I've had some amazing mentors. And when sue was talking about Courage Night, she said, why don't you come back and speak? And I'm like, you know, they saw me. I'm fun and all, but I really want to bring him someone juicy. Do you want someone juicy?

Say yes.

So let me tell you about this man.

He is.

A gift from God.

He has helped more entrepreneurs live their dreams. He has given up everything that he needed for himself so we would win. When I went to his event 10 years ago, I had a training company. We were doing several million dollars a year, but I wanted to play bigger, and I didn't know How. How many of you know that? Feeling like, I want to play bigger, I want to do something, but I don't really know how. And you don't really have the community around you. Do you have naysayers around you? You know those people that go, you want to do what?

And so when I met this man, he took my dream and my goal and said, that's not big enough. I'm like, what do you mean it's not big enough? You know, I wanted to make a global impact. I wanted to help salons and spas. He's like, salons and spas? But that's just a little market entrepreneurs.

Look who you could be.

I'm like, it's not about me. It's about them. No, but you have to throw yourself out there. And in less than a year, he taught me how to raise money. I raised about a million dollars. Had no idea how to do it when I started. Had no idea about security exchange, had no idea about the legalities of it. And through his organization, step by step by step by step. Was I scared? Absolutely. Go to VC meetings, shaking in my shoes, pretend I know what I'm talking about. I'm cute, I'm smart.

And so he's been like a brother to me. He's been a mentor to me. He won't quit till you win. And when you hear him, you'll get it. The man is brilliant.

He has.

Spoken with the top leaders in the world, shared the stages with the top leaders in the world. So I'm humbled that he's here as our guest to share with you his secrets. So please welcome Bernie Dorman.

I know your Piney's cute and all.

He's had an amazing day. You know how it is. Traveling to Eureka, California.

Well. Well, let's see. We were to the airport four or five times last night, and they circled.

Well, let me tell you about the courage, because I speak in a day or so to about a thousand people at the Napoleon Hill Conference in Orange County. And as I get ready to go down there, and I'm introducing Bob Proctor and Harv and some of these players you've seen. And speaking myself, because I'm the only one there that knew Napoleon Hill. So there's a lot of people that are there, but they didn't send on his lap. So that's the.

Bernie grew up with him.

So I thought I'd be there in my clothes.

But I came to Eureka first. Now, to get to Eureka, I just got back from Romania, where I was meeting with the government leaders over there. And I have discovered having grown up here, so I know this area so well and I, I knew it was going to be like this, but it was 12 and a half hours from 10 to Eureka.

And three flights. And so when the bags didn't come in, I explained my speaking schedule on how many places I have to be and that I really required them. And so they assured me we'd be fine. So American Airlines had indicated they put them on the flight to get here in the morning, but they didn't come because the flight of course was cancelled because of fog.

That's when the problems really began. And then there was these fights between American and United that went on even in conference calls between them. And they tell me that my bags will be in while I'm on stage tonight.

So this is what, depending on weather, this is shared.

I look like someone else's husband right now.

Which is the only reason I'm not in the clothes I've been wearing for three days.

I have courage to wear someone else's clothes.

And he himself, they were clean.

So Bernie, you've been named this change agent. What does that mean?

Well.

You know, I work in coaching with a lot of privilege to work with Tony Robbins or to work with these major trainers that are the people that are advising the people in the beltway and the people in governments all over the world. And in trying to peel the onion, you've all been reading and studying and going from the secret to many other things, trying to find out what is at core to the messages we're coming up with here. One of the messages, messages we found out here is that how we put ourselves in the way of our own experience affects our health. And one group can with control and with guidance and with support have a journey of returning to wellness because they won't manifest. I had one of the great leaders of this group say to me why was I manifesting that unwellness.

And change their frequency and energy to change their wellness. Working with the trainer you know so well, Dr. Lee Poulos. Now, you know, most of our Group doesn't remember Dr. Lee Poulos, but he's got the chair of clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia and he's a best selling author, older now, one of the best mind books and he's been studying recently health and he's been taking fatal MD doctors. He's one of the top hypnotists in the world. I mean he's flown all over the world for that. And he regresses them and he scans their body. While he's doing this, he has a scanning device and his technology group, young kids are all scanning and they have determined that when you get natural resonance out of the body, it all plays through computer programs they have as music. And when it hits.

Non resonance cells, it plays as noise. It's not now musical. And they've taken the noise frequencies and made that algorithm for determining that that is a specific.

Pathological liver cancer or colon cancer and so forth. They've got over 1200 illnesses now documented through the scans. So they think they're going to be able to accurately scan and tell you what it is without misdiagnosing. But then they take these fatal MDs and they regress them until they go to sometimes 15, sometimes 7. And they return their memory.

To.

Whatever age that is. Say it's 15 year old girl. And the child in the trance is asked and asks the adult, could the adult give permission for the child inside.

Them.

To retrain them on what the healthy liver should sound like in music.

And they restore the memory of the music. And he has 100% remission. And he's telling me that going, it's all frequency. It's what we always thought. It's all frequency. It's just frequency. We can change our frequencies. And you know, I thought how amazing that kind of change is that part going on. And as so many of us have been working on, what's the ultimate, you know, you try to get to the core neutron, the quantum level. What. Why do we all go to these improve our lives things? We all have the same divorce and the same, you know, used shoes and the cars haven't upgraded and we're in our same life kind of thing. I mean, we can't seem to get that control of prediction and control to get just what we want, how we want it. Where is the breakdown? And what we found is it's more fundamental than you might think we believe the last 20 years, what we've been working on is that competition as a theory of living is the most toxic soup you could place yourself into. In competition in the form of a family, a man and a woman relationship or your lifestyle relationship. A.

Competition of organizing groups into corporations or institutes or political environments. The city, the county, the community in general. Certainly the state of California.

California, we're organizing that competitively with the harshest and the most ruthless and the most.

I mean, brutal, tribal. Think of yourselves as angels. You know, I'm looking up at the balcony above and everybody here and you're Going to make a sonnet for the Lord in all your faith, faiths and beliefs outside the door. And we're all seraphim floating here. And we're going to do that how? In brutal, personally cruel, individually mean competitive processes. Because that'll give us the better quality.

And we'll have that faster for the Lord and we'll make a better product. And we live in that. And we get sick from it. And we certainly don't have our environments and our businesses and our practices for achievement work better, whether we're an artist or whether we're doing services or technologies or any kind of adventure commercially. So how we exploit our lives comes down to the core of competitive operating theories and mechanisms of living your life, or cooperative, collaborative operating mechanisms. What we're trying to do is change governments, we're trying to change laws and create environments of cooperative, if you will, capitalism in which the first generation of human change was putting a seed to ground. Because the kids all know we didn't have to travel so much and run around. We could stay by a stream and we could plant things and grow our cattle. But then we had a kind of brutal competitive process called feudalism. City states. And for 5,000 years, who, you know, size matters in city states. And if mine was bigger than yours, I tried to take yours over. And we did that for 5,000 years. We tried to take each other over, whoever had the bigger stuff and that. I mean, the War of the Roses between France and England went on for 400 years. And when we got into the Industrial revolution, we had a big change because the divine right of kings and nobles, we didn't have a situation anymore where, you know, just a guy with a cog and a wheel could make as much money as generational wealth had done in 500 years, and they could do it in a year. And they did so as all these agricultural moves into cities started happening in the industrial revolution, a 17th century economist made up a series of models that competition was good because they were transitioning from feudal competitiveness to capitalism in its competitive form. And the idea was that that would always create better goods and services for all the rest of us, faster. And it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. And by the time the 1800s came around, Karl Marx had seen it wasn't true. And he was saying this is a very bad distribution of wealth and it's going to create a lack of full partnership for the world. And it's too restrictive. We have to have a better system. So he came up With a dream for a better distribution. But he created competitive bureaucracy and we ended up with communism. And that was a competitive socialistic, bureaucratic. And competitive bureaucracy is worse than competitive capitalism. At the top is the perfected model, which is if you learn from those two, which we don't. We just saw that from the greed meltdown we just went through. You just have seen this whole crash, totally unnecessary. It's all because of competitive capitalism. If you don't change the system, you'll never change it. Let me give you two sobering numbers for courage in our country and the world. And you look at the world. We're the wealthiest country in the world. The world's starving to death during the recession. A billion two are going to die this year. What's the main body that tries to help save them from starvation?

Yeah, well, take America out. What else? Who's feeding more of the starving people than any other agency?

The Red Cross.

The United nations and its various agencies of moving food. But the problem is the United nations, from what it was promised, it was told it was going to be a cutback this year. And they were, they were, were underfunded from the cutback. So they said, here's your reduced budget, but they have not funded that by 6 billion. And the estimate is that over 2 million will die just because of that by the end of this year. Two million that could have been saved if they just funded their budget while that went on in your country. 34 billion was spent from January to July. 34 billion by the banking and hedge fund lobby alone to not regulate them. And they caused it.

And they successfully have had no new laws proposed or passed to regulate them. What if 6 billion of that were used to save 2 million for food? The competitive system is what creates that. How do you get cooperative capitalism in place? What does it deliver? Delivers total transparency, total reportability, total accountability. And there are no secrets. How's yours working? And would you like that? Would that be a system for your children that you'd be proud of worldwide if it were global? And we could have a new way of distributing full partnership to the peoples of the world. We have enough food in silos to feed all the people on the planet. And we subsidize it in western countries for years and then we plow it in the ocean when it rots to make room for more. And while that's going on, we could distribute it with what we spend in Iraq for a month.

Why do we let 1.2 billion Mozarts, bill Gates, unbelievable talents die? And then get to the medicines on your side that are the same. They silo them and they go extra expired and they plow them back into recycling. Why don't we redistribute those? We won't even give it away. We let it rot and expire and then we recycle it and say, what kind of system does that? Well, it's a system that's insane. And so we just declare it that way and say, how do you change it? Well, we're working with Romania and the United nations directly. I just worked with the President of the General assembly of the United Nations. We spent two weeks in the United nations on cooperative capitalism. So it's not something that is a. They're terrifically debating, I mean, the amount of intensity going on in the discussion because everyone knows the system has to change, but they don't know what to or how it looks. And so we're giving them modeling and showing them. For 20 years, we've taken companies at the largest level in the world, changed them to cooperative models, and they've gone up the fortune ladder by five or six points. And their earnings have excelled over everyone's earnings, including during the recession. And they're on videotape saying, we did that because we made cooperative changes in our management structure. Do people like to go to work in a cooperative company? Yes, because it's not fear and punishment based with exploitation in the middle. And so if we're going to create a new world, we have to do it now. Part of that new world would be giving an example if we cooperate. And I'm going to do a commercial for mom over here, because I know what you don't, which is a cost over 20,000 to put this on, which is the. And that's with all of us waiving our fees. And I'll give you examples of cooperation. I'll give you my part of it, you know, and it's commercially based, but it's also a legitimate cooperation, which is how do we make sure she can get this out so a million patients have the opportunity to get into better control of their records. How does she lobby at state level and federal level for changes of regulations that give the controls in a better way? Well, she's got some web support now, so she decided, I'm going to go to this thing that Susie's talked to her about. So she went to the thing you saw the film on, and now she's got here from Florida helping put on the conference. The person that is so excited, I was walking with him in Here. And while I'm walking in, is he talking about how we can get this out to the world, how important it is? No, he's talking about that his father just got diagnosed with prostate cancer.

And we talked about pathologies and treatment. And I put him onto the number one doc. I know it's been on Oprah six times in the last seven years that you know so well. Doris. And I had him talking to Doris out in the sidewalk, who brought him two of the top specialists that will give him some other options that they didn't have because that was what was important before this meeting started and we got into these chairs. But that person is totally dedicated to making sure the web footprint and presence is going to be dramatic and that we can get an option for people, once they know about it, to be able to use it. How do you get people to know about it? They have to be educated. It takes multiple impressions and lots of work to get you from busy lives all over the world alone. One country to know this option exists and how to use it, because it's all countries need it. And when you go abroad, it's worse. You need it in India more than you need it here. So you need to control and walk around when you're traveling, especially outside your home country. Have your records and have that as part of your dialogue with your family and your children. And children should be raised knowing this and having this ability. Well, there are two ways to help. Everybody could write a check and say there's $1,000 and you got 20,000 or 20 of you, and she was totally in the block and she didn't have to lose money, money putting on an event. Over time, donations could come in and you could talk about it and you could be advocates that would help her. Another option would be because it's of interest to some of you, is if I knew I could help her and it wouldn't cost me anything, I'd do that.

Well, that would be good. How would you do that? What if I made an offer from my end and I said, you know that thing you just looked at, it's very expensive to come to it. It's been going on for 20 years. It operates in 140 countries, and there are graduates that are famous and wealthy that you know their names, and when you go there, you get mentors and coaches that stay with you for the next two years and you change your income and your future dramatically. Because we don't work on all the stuff. We just work on your financial side of your life and it's an ongoing process. You have a lifetime membership when you go, what if I took the price? Because for everybody to go, all of you Individually, it's $7,500 to get a lifetime membership. It's very expensive. What if I made for your group a deal where I said. And I was thinking backstage, how could I do it? I thought. And I was talking to my vice president's been with me since 1990, and I want to honor her because she's up here supporting. She's a dear friend of Susie's. Cheryl Brenner is my kind of partner in running all this. And I said, would this work if I did this? And she said, yeah, I wouldn't want to make it open ended forever. And I said, okay, because we'd never done it. So I said, just backstage I was saying it to her and I was going through the numbers and I said, what if I took and said we would make the price to come come 2000, less 5500, but we would let you group up.

So that you could bring for 5502 people free. So in pairs of three and get to know the person next to you. If you three come, you could all share the price equally and then you'd all have lifetime members.

Okay, wait, you gotta say, wow, because when I first.

Wait, wait, just. Yeah, wait a second. And then we guarantee you're going to get that back. You're not clear on that. That's in writing. We guarantee or your money back. You're going to get your money back. And then I take all of the money that we would normally make as profit, 100%, and I give it to her. And it's more than if you wrote a check for $1,000.

And I thought you have two ways then you can, all of you who can do it, make a check for a thousand. If 20 do it, she's home free. Or some of you pair up and decide to come to my place. My next program's our largest of any year we have. Our largest is a December 15th. Why? Because people want to have a last chance to save on their taxes. Because when you go to our place, it's tax deductible too. So it's totally deductible if you give her $1,000 because it's not for profit. But it's also deductible if you go to a trade show for your business, any business, even if you're in transition. And so when you come there, all I can promise you, if you come and talk to us and get to know us. We'll make you a lot of money. You'll make money. That's what we do. I've been doing it 20 years.

We have a little special guest that wants to slip in. She was very much planning on being here at Courage Night, but. But she's kind of your baby girl. She's grown up in your arena, and I think she'd like to give Eureka a little special welcome. So let's honor one of your own.

Who is it? Which one?

We had many to choose from. They were all lining up in the halls last time to talk to you.

Courage is not something that's someone else can give you. Courage is not something that you can download from the Internet. Courage is not something you can or need to go and find in a shop or store. Courage is in you. Courage is a decision. Courage is a decision to say, I am going to get through this circumstance no matter what. Courage is taking every other option off the. The table. You know that option that says, I have to make this work, this needs to work. You know, in my life.

I found myself having courage when I didn't know I had it. I found myself accessing a piece of courage in myself when I needed it most. I found myself looking in the face of a challenge or a situation, and no one or nothing could get me through but me. And so I realized that when we. When you and I, when we tap into that greatness that's within us, we tap into that resiliency, we tap into that tenacity, we tap into that fortitude. We tap into that determination. We tap into that God spirit in us that says we have everything we need. That you have everything you need already. You woke up with it. You went to bed with it last night. You grew up with it as a little girl or a little boy. You have everything. The big news is just that you gotta get it. That you have to know you are enough. You're smart enough, you're pretty enough. You're wise enough. You're strong enough. You're enough. Like when I got that. When I got that, I can't be a beauty queen. I'm not Miss America. I'm not, you know, six foot tall. I'm not. I'm not that. But they don't get to be me either. I'm me. And no one can do me like me. No one can do you like you. Have the courage. Have the courage to play inside your possibility. That means not inside your limiting thoughts. What you think you might be able to do but what you know you've been born to do. Have the courage to dream big. Dream so big that it makes your knees knock and it makes your teeth chatter. Dream that big. Have the courage to play full out. To risk it all. To gain it all.

All.

Have the courage to surprise yourself with what you're able to do. Have the courage to love again like you've never, ever been hurt. To love again. Like.

Like you knew you would one day when you were really young. To love again like that. Have the courage to look at the mirror. Look. Have the courage to look in the mirror at you with no clothes on and embrace every inch, every ounce, every pound of you because you are magnificent. Have the courage. Have the courage to let us really see you. To see your genius, to see your beauty, to see your vulnerability.

Have the courage to allow us to love your imperfections.

I think my life has been.

Mustering up enough courage each day to do something that surprised even me.

I'm that little girl from South Central LA who didn't think she was good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough.

And I think I'm here today with my life transformed to the point where I can barely recognize it. Not because I did one huge leap into this different world, but because I took one step after another after another. And I didn't get the courage to do the whole race. I got the courage to make the next step.

Some of my best memories from 22 years ago.

Wasn'T Humboldt.

When I got the courage to travel by myself.

Not quite knowing what I was doing in Eureka. I danced a lot in Eureka. Rika. I dance with y'.

All.

I think we get to dance the whole journey. So I think overall it would just be. Life is about having the courage to say yes no matter what. I'm your sister friend in prosperity and possibility. And I'm excited. I'm excited about Courage Night. And I'm excited to let you know these three words. I love you.

And she does. Lisa has the biggest heart. And she will sit there and Bernie and I were talking about that earlier when we had lunch. And she's the kind that she'll look at you and you'll say something and she goes, that's not what's on. Going, going on. She will sit there until you bring it up and she will help bring the possibilities and the dreams and the realities, no matter what. Because there's no excuses. Because out of your biggest fears and come your greatest dreams and your greatest realities. And I know that Bernie's team has a special place for you and Lisa, that's what you met.

Did you. Do you all know who Lisa is? Did anybody not know who she was? Just don't. Who did? So a bunch of you don't. She's the star of the Secret with Bob Proctor. So she's in the Secret, which you've seen around or you've heard about. She is the head of Motivating the Teen Spirit, which we put together at this place a decade ago, which is the number one teen training teen program on earth today. We do it ourselves five times a year, which we do in December for teens. She is just this year done no matter what, what you see outside in a book. It's the first woman to get a million dollar advance before the book was released since Hillary Clinton. And she's been on Oprah numerous times, Larry King numerous times. She's an absolute superstar. Speaks with Donald Trump and Tony Robbins on the Annex tours and has her own television show and is behind Les Brown, who's also on faculty at our place, the number one really rising Tony Robbins talent, black talent in the world today world, not here. Been with Mandela twice. And so she is a superstar celebrity. And you just got a very great treat because she is, as you know and heard, special.

So kind of tell the story like when she came to you, because that's fun.

She came just like you're here and I don't know, something moves you at some point to come. And she was in, she was pretty much in tears most of the time. You know, she was like.

Well, I can't raise money, I can't do this, I can't do that. Oh yeah, you're going to be able to do it. There's a film if you go to our website, which is CEO Space.com, there's a 10 minute film. It's very powerful film of her right on the COVID page this year talking about her no matter what journey. She gave me the first book when it was first released and she talks about her story and she tells you how she was in tears and how she raised her first money and how we held vision for her. She didn't have each step of the way because we brought her to Chicken Soup and Chicken Soup started at our place. So Chicken Soup is another victory of our Place. The first Chicken Soup book came out at our place and you know, they ended up splitting $5 million a month each for two years at the peak and they sold it for 68 million. I was the first phone call when they sold it and they were grateful.

I Told you he was juicy.

Yeah. September said, where's the check?

And they. But we've had a lot of success. I mean, a lot of big things like that that go on. And we're proud of all of them equally. I mean, everyone. But you know, we're kind of getting through different parts of our world. And I want to stay on, on topic and so I'll get personal with you on my story, you know, because I. What's brought up for me tonight, what I was thinking about most was my father.

And.

You know, you're all about the courage to change your life. And my father trained Napoleon Hill. The reason he came over to the house was to be with my dad for training. My dad was one of the most famous trainers alive in corporate America and in mentoring as a, as a coach's coach in the 50s and 60s and 70s. Some of the most famous names ever to hit the pavement. Walt Disney, Jack Kennedy. Just major players that were, you know, would. Nine children raised at the house of this kind of elf man who was a great trainer and teacher, very humble guy. And I can remember out of all nine kids going to visit him in this nursing home. He was outside after his cancer had eaten half his body. He had such a huge tumor that they, when they did surgery, he didn't to want. Want them to do it. He wanted to go. He wanted us to let him go. And he said before the surgery, I'm staying and I won't be the same, but I'm staying because you're not ready to let me go. So I'm going to stay for you kids. But remember what you think of as your dad. This is your last time with him. I never forgot that. And now I'm sitting with this man strapped in to his chair out in the sunlight in Greenbrae, California, in Marin county, with tears streaming down his face with piercing blue eyes. Can't do much for himself now.

And I said, what, dad? I'm just sitting out with him and the tears are just flowing. He goes, my worst fear.

Is with nine children, with the life I've led, that I'll die alone in this nursing home.

And it hit me so hard and I said, dad.

You'Ll be in your own bed tonight.

Now.

He had during that day, the story that came to me was when we were young kids and we all got on blankets because we did that after dinner. And we always had candles which he would blow out, you know, for us. And he had, he always made things. So he had made up this set that when he took the stuff off of it was like the mountains up here, really, the mountains in the Sierra. And it was because we went there all the time. We went to Yosemite and all that sort of thing. And so he. My grandfather built the Ahwahnee Hotel. And so we had the.

Mountains with these two lakes. And he had it set, which was really interesting because later he'd use an eyedropper to show us. And he took these figures and walked them up and went through a big walk. And I'm going to give you this short version of it, but he said these two lakes are at the. The same altitude. They have the same exact amount of water. And as you can see, they both put streams that come down, but when the streams come together, they go down with more velocity and they end up where they flow. The little water wheel that he had down at the bottom, he said, the water wheel is your life. And that wheel is going to turn and be powered all of your life and create everything your life. And I try to teach the adults this one lesson all of my life, and I often never get it done. But what they want is for that water wheel to turn forward so they can have their dreams in their life just the way they're thinking and hoping for them. But other things go on inside them, mostly from people they don't know, no longer remember that have put programs inside that create these other things. Because what they don't want is for that wheel to flow backwards.

And have them trapped, to live their past over and over and never get forward to what they want in their lives. And they squander.

Their lives. They squander their lives.

And he said, what I try to teach them. And that's when he got the.

Eyedropper.

And he said, for children. And he knelt down and he said, one of the lakes is the Great Lake of Fear.

And the other is the more powerful Lake of Courage.

But which lake controls that water wheel called life. For it to flow backwards or forwards depends entirely on the choice that only an individual can make as they stand here between the two lakes.

For if they shed one drop, whether it's a tear or a perspiration, one drop.

Of courage.

That is greater than their fear. You put the drop in and it came down and the water wheel flowed because it was just like a siphon effect. And the way he had it set up with, I'm sure people both before we got there, he had it just perfect. He loved doing this kind of thing in the 50s. That was super teaching. That was Very advanced, you know, or which was magical to us because when that ran down.

One drop of fear greater than your courage, which will always hold you back. I was six years old and I never forgot the feeling of that water wheel flowing backwards. And the full weight of it came on me to watch my father crying after his cancer surgery outside that nursing home.

I went to my stepmom and I said, you know, as wealthy this family is, as much as you have, there's nine of the children. If you don't bring him home to his bed tonight, which I'll pay for, and he'll have all of the care and round the clock nursing, he's over at my house tonight. So you decide how you're going to do it. And I reminded her of the story.

And she had her water wheel going forward by the end of that night. And dad was home, and he passed in his own home with his children all around him. And.

That'S another story, Bernie.

You know, so many people have dreams and hopes and goals, and they come to their mind sometime I think, oh, I can't do that. What do you say to them when. When something keeps coming up and inspiring them? It's like, I want to do that someday. What do you think it takes to just do it? Or what do you think stops them?

This is very frustrating. Regarding the program that we talk about, having your children come to. I have children that are the age of these children that come through our program. We have nine year olds that have raised $150,000 in 72 hours. And it's all software. It's all software. We live in what age? We live in the age of the entrepreneur. That doesn't mean you have to be a business person in the sense of how you're thinking about it. It means that you have to be a bridal master. You can outsource anything. You can do everything with the Internet and phone calls and these BlackBerry devices today. So you don't have to be or need to become any master at anything, but you have to have a conversation with those that are. And you have to control the buttons and the wires to reach them. And the software you were given taught you as you grew up to be pretty competent at memorizing a lot of old war dates. And we're still teaching our children this. We teach them to memorize all 50 state capitals. Ask the kids. We teach them to memorize 1492, when was the Magna Carta signed? And you can tell we're preparing them to get into the entrepreneur age because there's going to be a job interview later where they say, you know, the senior partners, Bob, have pretty much decided that your. You're in. We've gone through the five weeks of interviews and this is the final one. And all of us are here now around the conference table. Capital of North Dakota, Wyoming, Mississippi. And of course this doesn't come up too often. And we teach the children my favorite like to memorize the periodic table of elements to get prepared for the entrepreneurial age. As if when you know, when's the last time you used what was the symbol for malignalum? And I'm saying my son came up with the phrase but dad, that's why God invented search.

I don't know why the teachers aren't listening. And I'm saying, do we teach any of these adults in the room anything about how to own the restaurant rather than work it ever? How to own the service business, how to operate entrepreneur. We never teach anything about it. And so that's a little bit about what's different. We're not a seminar workshop. We're $100 million of cash real money to make a curriculum that's licensed to the university that does all the SAT tests for the United States government and all of our schools. They also do all of capital and distance learning, which is owned by the Washington post worldwide in 100 countries. And they're coming out with an entrepreneurial four year degree, an actual master of entrepreneurialism and a doctorate degree of entrepreneurialism not built on an MBA platform for middle management in a big company built on real entrepreneurial principles all the way through proven to create more wealth and freedom for people than anything that's ever been out. And they're offering it by license to universities all over the world all at once next year. And we're very proud of that because that's our 1200 modules. And so it will change the world. And so that's already done and coming out at you. But that software is what holds you back. You're not aware of the perspective and how powerful and how fast and how immediate putting. And there's only one sentence that creates your having all the freedom you ever wanted while you're in Eureka to influence a lot more people than you're influencing now. Financial freedom is about how many people benefit from your life, period. Your life should be in your achievement area about joy. And you should be doing things because it's so joyful for you to see other people benefit from what you're doing. If you're in the worker Support yourself making living modes. You need to switch into these rules. If you don't own it, don't do it. You don't have to own it all, but you've got to own something. 20%, 10%. You've got to have an ownership stake. And you should be on the board of directors. You should be on a real board with what you're doing. If you don't own it and you're not in a controlling board position with it, don't do it. And pick something that thrills you and pick associations that resonate with you. You. So you have high resonancy and it thrills you. Then your life thrills you. And you always affect more people in a week than you're doing now. If you own it all, put a team around you that also supports you in that way, resonates with you and is thrilled by what you're doing. And can you have plenty of people that you don't have now benefiting from what you do? Yes. And what creates that? The one sentence. Better plans, better teams and the resources to implement. The thing that holds everyone back is weak plans. Weak teams, no plans. Weak plans, weak teams, no teams and lack of resources to implement. And you can overcome those at any level. We take lots of businesses that are quite successful at a large level and build them up to the next level. So we help single mom with a charity starting out in an apartment. And we help a Panamanian resort project at $500 million in March. So whether it's a single 500 million dollar function or whether it's a strategic alignment of Fortune companies working together, we.

Never end with their desire to see their plans become more effective and their teams become higher performing and their resources become richer than they were previously. And we switched the model. In the cooperative model, it's all about not making money for irrational reasons. It's for the freedom to increase over a lifetime. Your charity, the authority for wealth is really divine when it comes with an appetite to ever increase your charity. And then you're in your proper association. Your life is always a game. You're always increasing how you're affecting other people. And I have found so many people that have had the courage to play this game. I have a woman and I said, are you sure you want to come? She's got massive treatments going on, her hair's off, she doesn't want to have the wigs, she's going through all of that. And she said, of course I'm coming. And I said, it's intense. Will you have the strength while you're in the fifth protocol of chemo. And she said chemo has nothing to do with my life.

I'm accepting the lesson of this to teach others. And I said, what are you going to teach them? I'm going to teach them that chemo has nothing to do with my life.

And she has raised a lot of money, built up a business dynamic that's, you know, just been amazing. And the doctors can't understand that they can't find any cancer at all. And I believe it isn't the chemo. I believe it's how much her thrill is now taken away, whatever was the cause. Because I believe almost every, all those causes really are not genetic. And at our I believe we're frequency and I believe we get vibratorily off and we forget to even look at that. And I believe by changing our frequency we can get vibratorily back on. And I think all of us have the power to influence another to switch back on. And we should do more of that than we do because we created could do so much more of that.

Bernie, Les wants to tell us a little bit about that changing that frequency. Here's a very special friend of Bernie's that he just got back from the United Nation. But this man is powerful, speaks to groups of people, 80,000 at a time. But he talks about how you resonate and get that power so that it changes your life, changes your health. Change is a possibility. So let's, let's share.

Hello, my name is Les Brown, Mrs. Mamie Brown's baby boy. You know, we talk a great deal about courage. And one of the definitions I like about courage is courage is not the outcome of fear. Courage is the willingness to act in spite of the fear. It takes a great deal of courage to live life. And most people has been said that go through life and die at age 25 and don't get buried until they're 65 because they allow fear to hold them back. Whatever your goals and dreams are, continue to be of good courage. Continue to fall forward. Don't be afraid to failed. You will fail your way to success. You will have challenges in life and it's not personal. Don't ask, why does this have to happen to me? Why not you?

Who would you suggest?

I remember when I was told you have cancer. Those are three words no one ever want to hear spoken to them. Cancer is the most feared word in seven different languages. He said you have cancer. And I was given a two to three year proctor. Well, two things I want to say? I asked him. I said, well, can you give me a second opinion? He said, and you ugly, too.

And one of the things I believe that doctors should never tell someone they're terminally ill. What they should say is, my knowledge and ability to help you has terminated. And now you need to do something else. And I want you to know that. I wish I could tell you, oh, I handled it. I had a positive mental attitude. I was enthusiastic, but no, I was depressed. I was frightened. I was really disconnected from my personal power. I had to be motivated. I had to be encouraged. The words of inspiration and encouragement I gave others, now I had to receive those things myself. And one of the things I encourage you to do if you're going through a challenge is ask for help. That's what I did. Ask for help not because you're weak, but because you want to remain strong and have the courage to keep on keeping on. A lot of people, because of ego, won't ask for help. Ego means edging God out because of pride. Pride cometh before fall. So this is Mrs. Mamie Brown's baby boy saying, be of good courage. You have greatness within you, and God bless the day you were born.

So true. Just to have that courage, just to do whatever it takes, no matter what. And I'm sure a lot of you are starting to think about some things that maybe are just coming up from the bottom, because sometimes in that busy life, we've just kind of put those dreams and goals aside. I know the one thing that's just been so inspiring through when. Since Susie was here last year, when I would always talk about when I would go to her events and salon Training International and ybn. I said, where did you get those speakers? And she said, CEO Space ibi. It's like, man, I gotta go to that place someday. And it's just been so amazing to see possibility because so often, especially this year, all we hear is, oh, it'll never work and the economy is bad and this and that. And then I found a space where Bernie was at, and that was nothing but possibility. And all I know is my daughter wanted to shut me up every time I came back because it was just so inspiring to see so many people with so many dreams, so many goals, everything from water restoration.

But was it specific in getting plans that you didn't have now, teams you didn't have now and a. In other words, if you walked in, would it be fair to say you had a CD of business skill sets that would hold 54? You know, MP3 files and we put in a Blu ray, double sided.

Oh, you put a Blu ray. Yes, that's my daughter. So you said she wants to tune it off every once in a while.

30,000 MP3 files now. But your references to business have changed. Dramatic. I mean it's a practical, not a motivation. I'm saying in your case, you've watched how many years, 10 years now, so, and you can't count them now, the people you've seen who have gone and win the awards in their industry or be, you know, companies for merger, acquisition and so forth like yours. I mean Susie is a powerful woman, has not only learned to raise millions, build up a successful employment based company international and global, but she sold the company for a number. I'm probably not allowed to say, but it would inspire all of you and it is, you know, and I think also there's a big courage. It's not just because you get your price and your money and it gives you freedom. But she had other things she wanted to do. But there's a lot of courage to take something you built up and it's your dynasty and you're going to sell that, you're selling that and letting it go, you know what I'm saying? Because on one day she's snapping her fingers and people are jumping all around and the next there's nobody jumping around, she's by the pool, she's got Bert, but she's.

Got a big, she's got a big deposit. And of course then you, you had already though decided that you were going to do something even bigger. And that's what gets really exciting is when you can see that that was one plateau but you could now leverage that to levels that people, you even couldn't imagine when you started that it would be going up to another level is like just almost breathing now.

No, to be able to, you know, build one business successfully and sell it and then build another business successfully and to keep repeating that. And hey, Bernie said, you know, you meet these amazing people and he said two years. But I say for life it's been 10 years. They don't go away and they're huge players in the world and you come and you're just, you know, bright eyed and bushy tailed and like, wow, these amazing people and so generous and giving and giving them their time and their knowledge and their expertise and you're like, what do you want? Nothing. Just to see you win. You're like, yeah, you know, how much does that cost? Nothing.

I just want to see that's our hardest part. Even when we give a money back guarantee, then people think, what's the gimmick?

What's the gimmick?

But you know, what a price on someone inspiring you. Because you know, when you. Somewhere along the line we turn it off. We either get tired and resigned and cynical and exhausted and you're doing all this stuff and then I'm inspired. Why did I come here again? She inspires me. She inspires me. She doesn't know what she's doing.

Right and she just does it.

I love that.

She's like a bumblebee, you know, aerodynamically. A bumblebee is not supposed to fly, but do bumblebees fly?

Yes, that's Sue Sanche.

Well, and I like the fact that, you know, when you go to these things, you see people and they get out as soon as they. And you don't see it because. I see it because I work with the most famous trainers in the world and I have trainers, you know, I don't want to name them. And they'll come in, they'll be backstage and they'll say to me, how are you going to protect me from them?

And I'll think, well, they won't be back.

And then I have trainers say that someone of Susie's stature has come through. She's already successful running a multimillion dollar business, builds something up and sells it for tens of millions and makes fortunes and comes back as a very wealthy, successful person who lectures all over the world. And when she's at my place, she has very short time to train you on something. And she has to train on subjects she didn't normally train on. She has to train on business subjects that now.

Are university level. Then she has to go and be at breakfast, lunch and dinner with you and coach you individually, go up to your rooms and coach you, meet you by the pools and coach you from seven to midnight. And when she comes.

It'S, you know, she'll call that fun. And she's with 50 other unbelievable mentors like Les is at the tables, you're sitting with them. That's the difference. It's because he can't help you lecture and it's general, he has to help you individually, what's your business? Get the Rolodex out, get the contacts you need to phone, so and so, really help you start making it happen. That's what we're doing. And for those of you successful and you have good mentors, advantages, you're doing that too. I had a person coming that is developing a $50 million next funding for their business. And they wanted to assure that we had the capacity for that level of funding. So I sent them to some films where there had been fundings of 300, 500 and a billion two so he could see those. And just the last couple years, just.

Out of curiosity, when we asked the question a little while ago, what did you want to do with your childhood dream? How many of you are actually doing what you thought you were going to do when your children.

Wow.

I wanted to be Flash Gordon.

You know, dreams can be as small as making a list and wanting to go up to the lost coast or taking the time to take a drive through the redwoods. But it takes a plan. It takes a plan in everything that we do. Because instead of saying someday I'm gonna and someday I wanna and someday I shoulda, Today is about creating that bucket list and starting to think and starting your dreams, maybe not big, but small, and growing them bigger and bigger and bigger. In your envelopes you have an intention card. And we're gonna play a little piece. We're gonna think about what's the not possible with impossibility when people tell you no because you may have a dream that you think that no, I don't think I shoulda, I don't think I coulda, I don't think I wanna. But look at some of the people that didn't think they woulda, shoulda, couldn't wanna. And it's happened for them. So get those little cards out. There's gonna be two of them. You get to take one home with you and one's gonna be sealed in a vessel. So when you come back next year, you're going to be able to create that bucket list, that list of intention and live intentionally and don't dream too small. What's the great quote? Is your dream good enough? Big enough? Are you big enough for your dream? Sometimes we start off way too small. So let's look at that little piece clip.

If you need an intention card, raise your hand because they're coming around with the basket. There's a couple up front.

Dismissed from drama school with a note that read wasting her time, she's too shy to put her best foot forward.

Turned down by the Decca recording company who said we don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.

A failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent. At 38 years old, he went to work for his father as a handyman.

Cut from the high school basketball team. He went home, locked himself in his room and cried.

A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything and he should go into a field where he might. Might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination and had no original ideas, his fiance died. He failed in business twice. He had a nervous breakdown, and he was defeated in eight elections.

If you've never failed, you've never lived.

I have a couple of extra little things. Susie's staying around for a couple days, and we're going to talk about putting your courage in action. Because it's one thing to write the dream and write the goal, but what does that mean? Bernie's mentioned a little bit about creating the plan and breaking it down, and it's all about executing it and how to create that five levels of success and then breaking it down into the milestone. Your 30 day, your 60 day, your 90 day.

I have a brother that's coming to our next class, and the brother is a movie producer you know so well. And he told me the story about how his brother was told by his father over and over again. He's a stepbrother, grounded more than any other thing to give up his dream, give up his music, and to be an electrician, and did everything to get him to go in to be an electrician. But something at 16 moved him to move out of the house and to really proceed to do his music, he just had to do it. And that's Elvis Presley's brother.

But his dad could never see the music.

Yeah, it's just listening to that song that's within you and dreaming it and listening to it and following your heart. So we're going to talk about a little bit about following the heart. I think that God doesn't give us a story that we share. And I know that just with some of the obstacles that I've had in my life, I've had passion for people to stand up and be in charge and take charge of their health care. It was the most humbling and honoring thing that I realized that once I got the information and the control in my hands. When Mary shared that story that one day, and she said, sue, I want you to go get a binder, and I want you to tab it, and I don't want you just to do it for you, but I want you to do it for your two daughters. Because we have not taken the responsibility of creating that family legacy. We do so much in scrapbooking and taking charge of getting all the pictures together of all of our family. And we've done really well at keeping all the records so that we know that our kids had those great little report cards, but do we have the records that are going to talk to our families that we know that Uncle John had diabetes and Grandma Jean had a heart condition and somebody else had a liver condition? And sometimes when we get there to our team of physicians and they start asking these questions, we don't even know. I find it amazing that we're in the 21st century and we haven't taken the responsibility. So I really want to start this movement to start to take charge and control of our health and that we start this grassroots movement knowing that we can. And we have a community that wants to do it together, and together we can do it. So we're going to talk the little piece, and here's some community leaders that have come together and they want us to be on their team. I remember talking to Sasha Ashmani. I said, so I remember doing colors back in the 80s, and I created quite a nightmare when you'd have to run around and it was those color swatches. And you can't wear this because it's not this and it's not that. It's how is asking for my health records going to be the same way? She goes, are you kidding? If you can take the story out of the story, I can have all those records there all at one time. I don't have to send you home. I can read what the other physicians have said. It's going to save you time. Me time cost the insurance companies less money. All from a simple thing of every time you go to the doctor, say, can I have a copy of that, please? Can I have a copy of that, please? So with that, let's just watch.

Healthcare is in trouble today, and if we don't watch out for it, nobody else is going as much. In my opinion, you could probably eliminate about 25% of the tests that are done today, number one. Number two, people would be healthier because they wouldn't be prescribed improper medication and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and there would be no duplication of tests. I think that we could see a substantial drop in the cost of health care. A lot of times we know more about our own health than the party that we're speaking with, simply because they don't follow us around 24 hours a day. So we need to be more proactive for our own health. We've had another echo, and Those echoes are $2,600. He didn't need it. Well, if we hadn't had that, I would have said, oh, I was probably two or three years old, we probably need it. It was written down. She opened up her book and it's an absolute diary now. Why not whenever you go, go to the doctor, write it down what test you had and what you were supposed to do. Because they're going to walk through that front door, they're not going to remember, and you're probably not going to remember. And this book could be part of that record.

Organizers are very nice because they're kind of like a chart. You know, they're organized and you can find what you need fairly easily mentioned. It's just important to know about your health. You know, if you move, if you change doctors, your doctor retires, you know, then there's the worry, well, what about my chart? Where's my information? You know, you've got it all. You're taking care of yourself as a physician. Get into a situation like that with a patient and then repeat a lot of tests that should not be repeated because they're there and they weren't going to change in that period of time. So I see that as a way of saving some of those health care dollars.

This gave control back to me.

And.

It helped me put order back into my life.

It's very important doctors move away, retire.

Those records could be lost, you know, forever in self isolation as well as locally.

And faxes wouldn't make it up here.

A lot of times.

But I had a copy of everything I picked up.

All the healthcare providers were wonderful.

You know, they always gave me a copy of her lab's prescriptions. It's a win, win situation. And the other thing I've noticed too in talking with breast cancer survivors is that all of us philosophically have to make sense out of the suffering and the maladies we have in our lives. And it's my feeling that most of us think that if what we've experienced can benefit anybody else in any way, that's a huge contribution. And this gives people who are even survivors of breast cancer the ability to put their data into a place where it won't just sit in some dusty basement of a hospital, but someplace where it can be used dynamically to help both them other current patients, their children.

It is. If you use this and keep it up, it will give information for years to come.

You know, even your kids would be able to use it if you kept your book up and had some of your records in there. As things are genetic, you can actually pass that to your kids.

I Don't know what happened to my.

Grandparents, several friends that are single family members and friends.

We've also talked about this about, you know, as a family member, I have no idea what my brother's health history is. And he's a single guy, so if he has this in the house, if he gets sick, there is a place to go for information. I wouldn't even be able to tell you what kind of insurance he has.

Yeah, it's all part of it, you.

Know, keeping your own records.

Three years ago, I stood on the stage and made a record to our community, and we had kind of a driven vision to create this binder. Last year, we were able to create the fruition of the binder. And Mary, would you and your family please come up here?

I do believe that God gives every single one of us challenges in our lives to be able to share the stories so that other people don't have to suffer and take on those.

Tragedies in our life. And I am committed to taking the story that Mary shared with me that day. Teresa was a teacher, and she loved sharing information. She loved giving people knowledge. She believed in paying it forward. She believed in helping somebody else. And her words so inspired me that I heard the music, and my music is going to follow with them. Each and every one of us has a commitment and a responsibility to your dream, no matter whether it's personal, financial, with your family. But the dream goes on. And I am committed to this family that the torch and the loss of Teresa's life will never be gone. I'm making a commitment to you, to my community, to not let it just be here, that we as a community have a voice and that we become a grassroots effort to let every home in America be able to reduce health care costs. It's like recycling. If we start at home, taking responsibility for what we've learned, then we can help another one be able to afford so that we're not wasting our money in overages. And so many different opportunities and different programs and maybe a test that hasn't been run to create the peace of mind, understanding that if there is a disease within our family, that we need to take care of ourselves so that we can stop our busy lives and make sure that we're getting the proper health care that we need. Because you so chose to tell a story, Mary, and to share the inspiration of your sister, the world will know about Teresa, and her life will not be for nothing. It's Teresa's story that's already out on the web that has inspired so many that now has been shown on nasdaq. The movement has started. And I am committed to taking Teresa's life to another level. I know when that video came, I sat and I watched it over and over, and my heart cried. And I thought, I know. Tonight, Teresa is dancing in heaven. And I was so inspired to know that because we just shared a story, just over a haircut. And Mary told me to get those records for my children that I live because you shared a story.

And the commitment. And each and every one of us has a story within their family. Share the stories. Tell your stories. Tell people to stand up and take charge of their health. It's crazy. We're in the 21st century. We need to create a team with our healthcare professionals. Stand up, tell your stories. Be victorious, and we love you and honor you with Teresa's story and her legacy will live on forever.

I have a request.

I said courage Night actually started as a celebration of life living beyond life's challenges. And so many times we do everything to raise money for the cause, but there's never tonight that it's just to celebrate your Tuden List. I want you to think through your life as Lisa was talking and Les was talking, and think about those accomplishments that you've had in life and celebrate them. Tonight is about a victory to celebrate life. And in Teresa's honor, we live.

But her life will live on. Tell people, tell your neighbors, tell your friends to stand up, take charge of their health. Pay it forward. And the first way we can pay it forward is by purchasing a binder and giving it to your loved ones. Sit around the Thanksgiving table and start talking about the stories and sharing and finding out what was going on in your health. Family who had diabetes, who had a heart attack, what kind of medications are you taking that will make such a big difference when you go to the doctor next time, take it a step further. Find out from your grandmother, from your great uncle, and share those stories. And we're asking for help so that we can inspire other people in America. We would appreciate a tax contribution donation so that we can get Teresa's message not just beyond the confines of Humboldt County. Because if we're going to go into health reform and if we truly want to be able to provide healthcare for every American, it starts at home. It starts with recycling. It starts with taking and cutting the cost down so that the no Child Left behind, it's the no Family Left Behind. And it all starts by knowing what you're dealing with. So start by tomorrow making a list of all those medications that you're on. We had a dear friend that we spoke at at Kiwanis last year, and he said, boy, if I would have taken the time to have written that down. He's paralyzed on one side because he didn't know that he needed to share that information with his doctor. It's so important. So I just want to let everybody in Humboldt county know that you are part of a grassroots revelation that we are planning to take across America to let people know that Teresa's life counts and that she lives on. We hold the torch for her. Thank you.

I just want to thank each and every one of you for having the courage to live the life that you're living and maybe play a little bit bigger at the way that you want to live your next life. Maybe not listen to so many things that they're telling you in the news day by day. Take some time to share that inspiration. Inspiration. And take the time to have a good conversation with a friend. Have a good conversation with your family. Take a great vacation. I'll never forget, in fact, it was somebody that worked at St. Joe last year that told me she goes, you know, Sue, Christmas doesn't really matter about the presents. It's always about the times and the events that you share with your family. Creating experiences, creating memories, taking those times to do the things that you really enjoy. Looking at the plans that you can do. We get so great with our teams and creating our business plans, but take some time in your life plan to kind of do that. So we have a couple of opportunities for you to spend some time with Susie on Saturday where she's going to teach you how to create your life plan. We also have some fun things to look at on the back call. She's got a girls night out. She's got some fun things that she's brought back up from LA about how those models are looking better than they normally look. So you can check that out. If those of you haven't taken the opportunity, we're having a special little reception after this event to meet the speaker and Bernie's glad to spend as much time. For those of you that got the opportunity to meet him at lunch today, he has some inspirational, wonderful stories to be able to share with each other and every one of you and your intention cards, make sure that you take one out for you and tuck it away so there's some place that you can kind of see where you're going to run into it about every day. Your intention. I create the possibility to whatever that might be. Put it in your wallet. The other one needs to be sealed in the envelope and we will keep it for you next year to find out how you're doing with your possibility list. Those of you that haven't picked up your intention card from last year, they are on a table out there. And I just wanted to let you know that courage is not the absence of fear. It's just the ability and the moment to hang on just a moment longer. I want to thank you for playing Impossibility and thank you for being here again. And we just want to honor you with your dreams and your goals and your vision. And there's more to come, so we will be having a nice little reception afterwards, and we'll enjoy seeing you there.

Oh, I'm alive.

When you call me.

When I hear.

You breath.

I can't wait to fly I feel that I'm alive.

When you look at me.

I can.

Know that I'm alive.

When you blast the day.

I just breathed away.

All my world is that I'm glad that I'm alive.

Set my heart on fire.

Fill me with love Made me a woman.

That I'll be the one standing by through good and through trying times.

I'm gonna be gone I can't wait for the rest of my life.

When you call on me when you call on me when you reach for me when you reach my feet.

Sa.