Fear Almost Destroys My First Speaking Event - The DM Clips

Before I dive into the details of that, I want to rewind like way back. No, further back, further back, way back before the actual event. Because I failed to share with you guys the craziness of the whole build up and lead into the event. I mean, this was my first event. I didn't even send emails out to verify, to check if people were going to show up. Now I remember when we got to the hotel, I was already nervous about this being my first event. I, I was nervous because I didn't see the software and I was just like, I hope I don't trip going up on stage. And most importantly, I hope people actually show up. And I remember my right hand man, you know, he said, hey, we've got a meet and greet. You know, today people are registering for the event and you're supposed to go down there and meet people that was part of them getting their ticket. And I remember being terrified and I literally refused to leave the room. I mean, this went on for well over 45 minutes. I was late and finally my right hand man is like, man, you've got to go. He's like dragging me out and I finally leave. I'm so nervous because in my head no one is going to be at this event. I'm going to be staying up there. There's going to be one person in there that great, great talk, Vince. Great talk, Vince. I think if anyone has had a live event, you know that you thought about that as well. Like I'm going to have this event and nobody actually shows up. Anyhow, we get down there and I remember I'm like walking and I'm already late and I don't see really anyone. And it's crazy because this is kind of a small to medium sized hotel. And finally like all of these people kind of come around this corner at the hotel and you know, they're like, vince, what's going on? And they start coming up and they're like, man, it's so awesome. You know, we love the company. We're so excited that you had this event. And it was like 30 or 40 people. And literally at that moment my tension went from up here to down here. I was still in the middle because I still had to produce and deliver on an amazing event that I, you know, had promised. And, and also in the back of my mind was, man, is this software going to even be what I expect it to be? So the event went off. It was great. We had one of our biggest days in terms of sales with my company. The system was Running on all cylinders. It was crazy. And I remember sitting there, like, here I am at this event. And I took the VIP party's guy's advice and had this event, which I was terrified to do. You know, I took his advice in terms of, you know, things I should do with the business, and that's something that I had failed to share with you guys. There was actually, like, a secret meeting. There was a meeting that took place after I actually saw him in Vegas where he made me share the steak with him. He was actually speaking at a different event a few weeks later, and he's like, hey, come down and let's connect. So I went down to San Diego, and it was crazy. We didn't do anything. We didn't go out. There was no party scene. There was no California version of Mr. X going down. Literally for the whole entire evening, just talked business. And for whatever reason, he broke down his entire system step by step by step, because it was crazy. I remember I was thinking back, like, the entire time, like when I got back from the Vegas trip where he. When I first saw him and all the numbers and all the money he was making, and in my mind, I had an idea of what he was doing, and it was crazy. Had I not went to meet him at that secret meeting where we just talked about business and he, you know, shared all of his strategies and all of his secrets with me, I would have literally created the wrong thing. What I thought he was doing was not what he was doing at all. It took that meeting for me to really dial it in, to make it work. And here I am about to have my first live event, having the biggest sales day of my life, and, you know, people actually there ready to learn from me. It was crazy. So if you're a person that, you know, you know, feels like, you know, things are too difficult and you don't believe in certain things and you're afraid to take certain actions. I can tell you, man, on the other side of fear, you know, there's a lot of amazing things that will happen in your life. Because this entire process, even in this entire, you know, DM series, there's been a lot of fear. A lot of things like will people even like this information? And you just keep breaking down those barriers. You keep just challenging yourself and amazing things happen. But now it was time to take the stage and have the event. And now we can fast forward back to where we were, to the bad news.