Welcome VIP to the backstage secret.
Normally we stream this into the group, but I'm not doing it this week.
Cause I just, I want to go all in with you guys and really answer any questions
you have throughout the process, what you're learning in the training, but
then also take it to the next level.
And there's only so much that can fit in an hour.
And I have like extra training for you guys on the backstage.
So it's gonna be really fun.
And you guys are going to be able to see what I'm going to be doing.
And I'm going to be doing a lot of different things.
So I'm going to be doing a lot of different things.
I'm going to be doing a lot of different things.
So today I want to make sure you get access to some of those resources.
So you're just kind of set up for the week.
So I have a couple of things I want to hit really quick.
And then I'd love to do some Q and a, if you have questions around what we
talked about today, the, how can I mindset, the leveling up, how Amazon
works and kind of that story, happy to go in depth in that, if there's anything
that like we're going to answer more in depth later in the experience, I'll
definitely let you know, again, we're just kind of laying a foundation for
where we're going this week without getting too deep into it.
But what questions do you guys have?
What are those burning questions you guys have going into the rain games?
It could be questions about how do I set myself up to win?
How do I, you know, what's the specific thing about Amazon?
I have a question about something like that.
What are your guys' questions after hearing day one?
Okay.
Beth, Beth gets the award for the first question.
Okay.
Beth, go ahead.
What's your question?
Yeah.
I just signed up for VIP.
I'm not sure if that's the right way to say it, but I just signed up for VIP.
Knowing that it's going to go up and I wanted to get all the content I could
because I'm very, very competitive.
So how do we, like you just said, how do you, how do you set yourself up to win?
Yeah.
So, okay.
I'll give you as many secrets, VIP.
I'll give you guys as many secrets as I can.
So every day there's that daily competition.
Okay.
And it's a type form.
So it's just like a way it's like a form, right.
But on the backend, each question has different point values to it.
And they go up every day.
So today you might earn like 15 points or 18 points.
Right.
But like tomorrow you can earn like 50 points.
Right.
And like the next day it's like a hundred points.
So get further, you know, like just do them every day.
But the further you get, the more points you earn, the further you get.
Definitely do those.
I would say the kindness challenges are worth, like, I forget I, they do go up every day.
I think today's is worth at least 20 points and then they kind of go up every day.
So like, it's the, it's one of the bigger ones on there.
So if you can do those, do you have time?
I mean like five minutes and it's fun, like we're just having fun.
So do those and then pay attention.
Of course, take notes because some of them are like, you know, what was the answer to
this thing?
A lot of the stuff today, I think you guys will get, it's pretty simple, but then there
are some sneaky ones later on.
There's some sneaky ones later on that are like, what was this code word?
Or there's some bonus content you can watch this week that has some clues in it.
So we're trying to have fun with it and just kind of sneak in some fun things.
So yeah, let me think if there's any other tips for you guys.
Michelle was asking in the chat, how do we show that we did the kindness challenge?
It's going to be the honor system.
Okay.
So we're going to ask you to just be truthful.
If you want to post in the group about it, cause some of you guys might have a cool experience.
Like some of these are really fun.
Like, let me just read one of these other ones to you.
Okay.
This one, I just think is so fun.
I hope this one gets pulled.
It says go to a gas station and like ask the employee working, like what their favorite
snack is.
Like, pretend like you don't know what you're going to get and just be like, Hey, like,
what's your favorite?
And then buy whatever they suggest.
And then after you buy it, just leave it there and walk out and say it's for them.
It's like, that's so funny.
You know, it's just like, it's just, I don't know.
It's outside your comfort zone.
It's working that muscle.
Okay.
Which is good for business because business is a little scary, but stuff like that.
But stuff like that.
So if you have a funny experience or like maybe call a friend and something cool happened
post about in the group, we'd love to hear it, but it is going to be the honor system.
If you do the kindness challenges, just say I did it.
And then it will be good.
We won't be, we won't be calling your friend and checking on you.
Okay.
All right.
Nice.
All right.
Sweet.
So Beth, I think that's all the clues I'll give you for today, but I'll give you guys
more in future days.
Next up, we got Robert Torres is the name on zoom here.
So that's my husband's name, but I don't know, but I guess my question is, it's funny
that his name is here because it's about him.
The question, but basically my question is how to be successful.
If my spouse isn't on board with, you know, the challenge and financially all that.
Cause right now, I guess I'm a rainmaker mama at heart, but I fit into the box mama.
I'm homeschooling and doing all the things.
Limited, but I do have the time.
So, yeah, yeah, no, I totally get that.
And you know, of course we want to have as much unity as we can in families.
And so I'll tell you a funny story.
We had a rainmaker come into our program and she was, I think she was actually engaged
at the time.
I don't think she was married, but she wanted to launch a product, but she wanted to do
it completely in secret.
Right.
She just like, didn't want to tell her fiance.
And so she like literally had the product, like hide the product.
And so she like, literally had the product like hiding in the sock drawer.
It was like a tiny, it was a vegan floss.
So it was like, I don't know,
I didn't know floss was not vegan, but it is, I guess.
So she was launching a vegan floss
and then she would like put it out in the bathroom
and she'd be like, hey babe,
like what do you think about this new floss I got?
And she was like, just trying to like see what he thought.
And then finally she launches this product
and like tells him and it's like this day,
like, oh my gosh, this is so cool.
And he was so supportive and,
but I wouldn't recommend keeping something a secret
from your spouse ever.
I just, I believe in just shining light on everything.
And it just helps you work through some of the stuff
because sometimes your spouse will have objections
or feedback and it actually kind of helps
create resolve in yourself.
Like, oh, I actually really want to do this.
I remember a mentor of ours,
like when we knew we were going to move,
like we just moved our family from Northern California
to Southern California, big move,
moved away from both our parents, right?
Like, which is kind of scary, right?
Like, why would you move away from your parents?
You got free childcare,
but we just really felt like we're supposed to do it.
And we had a mentor, when we started to feel this,
he's like, you got to tell your family right now.
Like, he's like, just don't wait
because it could happen faster.
And when you tell your family now,
it's going to help you work
through some of those conversations.
That's going to actually help your heart
and their heart kind of like accept the thing
before it happens.
And so that was like such good advice.
I would give it to you to like, just loop them into it.
If he wants to come to the rain games, awesome.
If not, the other thing that I would recommend
just for anyone who's in a similar boat
is you got to sell yourself before you sell someone else,
on a vision.
Because if you're kind of not confident about it,
husbands, as a husband, I'll tell you,
we love our wives so much
that we will just kind of reflect what they have.
So if you come with like a lot of uncertainty
and just like, I don't know,
like maybe I'll do this business, I don't know.
He's like, I want to protect you, right?
So like, let me, this is a scam.
Let me look into this, you know?
Like, it's just like, that's just love.
Like, it's just, that's just what it is.
So, but if you come in at the end of this week
with like certainty and you're like,
babe, I got a plan.
We're doing this.
I know how to do it.
I got the software.
Look, I have five products, like ideas.
I got the system.
I have people that can train me, you know?
And you come in with confidence.
It's a totally different conversation.
And a lot of times husbands respond super well to that
because like, they're not used to it.
They're like, oh my gosh, like who is this person?
So I would recommend that too.
Sell yourself first and then bring it to them
and don't ask for permission, ask for support.
It's a slightly different change,
but you're instead being like, babe, what do you think?
Can I do this?
You're like, babe, I'm doing this and I need your support.
Cause like, I'm all in on this thing.
It's a totally different like way to show up,
but try that.
And then again, like not all family members
are going to be as like entrepreneurial.
And sometimes that's a good argument
for being in a community like this too.
Cause like a lot of our moms that are in our program,
they're like that.
Like the husband is a very logical, you know,
he's like a work on my hands guy, you know?
And this entrepreneurial thing is like,
like it's your flavor, it's your bent,
but it's actually not super fair to him
to ask him to be like crazy entrepreneur with you.
You know, sometimes you just be like, hey,
I got a group of crazy entrepreneurs over here
that I can hang out with and they can like, you know,
be crazy with me.
And then like you hold down the fort over here.
That was like me with Chelsea.
I was the crazy one.
She was like the stable, like, you know,
like I have the real job, you know, person.
And then like finally I convinced her to come over
to the entrepreneurial side, but it took a long time.
And yeah, so I hope that helps.
I hope that helps.
Yeah, definitely.
Thank you.
Cool.
Yeah.
And he's welcome to come.
Anyone who has spouses or family members
who'd be working on the same business,
you're welcome to invite them in or, you know,
watch the replays with them, you know?
Cause sometimes that's helpful too.
Just let me kind of be the one to sell them, so to say.
And then, and then it takes some of the heavy lifting
off your shoulders.
So, all right.
Ashley Brown, I think is up next.
Ashley Brown.
Thank you guys.
Can you hear me all right?
When you guys were first getting started
and sometimes even though we're super eager and driven,
well, me, myself, I get in my thoughts and I'm like,
oh, what if I'm getting in over my head?
Like the anxiety creeps in.
Like what is your best advice to kind of put that
on the back burner and say, no, we got this.
This is one day at a time.
Yeah.
I think you just said it right there.
I would say you definitely are getting in over your head.
Entrepreneurship is over most people's head
and that's the beauty of it, right?
And so you're kind of knowing that you're jumping
in a deep end and going to learn to swim.
So if you're going to jump in the deep end,
it's good to jump in a pool where there's other people
who are swimming, right?
Cause then you know, okay, it is possible to swim
in this pool, like I see other people.
And when you jump in, people are going to support you.
But entrepreneurship in general is kind of like stepping
just a little, it's going to be stepping outside
your comfort zone if you haven't run a business before.
People that have run business before, they're like,
oh yeah, I've done this before.
I've worked this muscle, but if this is new to you,
it is going to be like a little stretching and that's good.
I think.
Really the things in life worth going after always require a little bit of uncomfortability, you know
Marriage kids like these things are hard, but they're so good, you know
And so entrepreneurship is like that too
Like if you knew all the details of having kids before having kids like I think you probably still would but like this is some
Stuff you can't know until you're in it and same thing with entrepreneurship
You just kind of have to be like I'm gonna go for it
But I think what you said there is like focusing on today is really helpful
There's just famous verse that says like don't worry about tomorrow like tomorrow has enough worries of its own
And I think that's so true
Like I of course we want to plan and we want to look ahead and we'll have vision
But like if you really start to like calculate all the things you what-ifs you don't even know about it creates this unnecessary anxiety
So I do that a lot. I kind of come back into today and I'm like, what am I doing today?
You know like follow the piece like what's gonna be today that I can do today. I'm gonna watch this training
I'm gonna do the the daily competition. That's what I'm gonna do today, and I won't worry about tomorrow tomorrow
I'll cover that when I get there
So that is that helps me a lot because me and Chelsea to like, you know
you kind of get in these what-ifs negative what-ifs about the future and we tend to like go to the negative what-if instead of
The positive what-if and so I try to come back to like the now and I also go back to the I go Pat
I go to the past and I go. Okay. Well, you know that other thing felt really scary
And that other thing felt like my life was gonna end and then I did it, you know
And now I think felt like the money was not gonna be there and then somehow it was right
So I kind of I guess three things to summarize it get around other people who have have the hope right?
This community is really helpful because that raises your hope
reflect back on past wins and hopes and trials that you got there and broke through and then three just
Focus on today, right and you have grace for today. Maybe not tomorrow right now, but that's okay
we can take it one day at a time and
That's super helpful and maybe that was maybe I was meant to have that specific worry because it also is gonna be helpful
That's a personal goal. I've had lately be in the moment with my children
Stop going three four to be in this moment. They don't know about the worries or the bills four days
They just want us today
Question such a good question and like I think a lot of people are relating with that
That you gave the just to help me remind myself
We're going one day at a time and we also have each other. That's the whole purpose in the word community
Yeah, it's really guys anxieties at an all-time high, you know, and me and Chelsea are not immune from that and
This season with moving honestly has been like really intense for Chelsea and then pregnant, you know
Emotions are just super high and she's really battled with that. And honestly what you said about the kids has been such a like
You just look at your kids and it's like they don't have anxiety. I mean, especially young kids
Okay, maybe when they become teenagers, there's anxiety for sure
But as young kids think about them when they were like four and five just like there's no worries
They are not worried if there's gonna be food on the table that night, you know
Like they just are like childlike and I think there's something about that just being kind of childlike
and so that's why we like doing games like this because if you can treat entrepreneurship like a game it kind of
Releases the power of the money thing being like, oh, it's so scary money. So scary, you know, like investing money
So scary like it's it kind of like just like okay
I'm just gonna play this game
It's like see what happens and then it kind of releases the pressure of the outcome a little bit too
And honestly, that's how I play the game of entrepreneurship even at a really high level
It could be scarier now because I think now we got payroll and we got team and we got all these things
But I just have to come back to like I'm just gonna play the game and regardless of the outcome like I'm gonna grow
I'm gonna have fun and I'm gonna serve people and love people and I'll do it to the best of my ability, you know
So that's a great question. Thank you for asking that. Okay, Katie. Let's go over to you Katie McHugh
Yeah, I got you
This is really exciting because I've been following you guys for about six months and I've done a few of the
Programs, so I'm just I'm pumped to be here. I've got my Rainmaker color on
And I love you guys and I listen to your podcast as well
My question is about brands because I've watched your I've done your a few other smaller
Programs a boot camp and the media channel thing
I've sort of started the brand and you said that we're going to be starting one for this
Am I allowed to use that or this program? Yeah. Yeah, you'll be you'll just be ahead of the curve
So tomorrow will be a little bit of recap for you because we're kind of doing a hybrid experience on this one
We pull a little bit of training from the remote business boot camp that we did
I think that was last fall into tomorrow's training, but we have some other kind of nuances to it that are new and exciting
and kind of make it easier. So if you already have something created, then you're good. You're like,
kind of can just submit that one tomorrow as that'll get you points. And so yeah, anyone who's
kind of, cause I know we have all different types of people. We got people totally brand new. We got
people, I see some rainmakers in here that have been in our mastermind and stuff like that. You
might be way further in the process. So regardless, our goal is to serve you at whatever level. And
if you already have it done, great. You just save time and like, just mark that form as done,
you know, so you're good. Awesome. And bonus points for wearing the color. I feel like we
should have like bonus points for that. Okay. Terry, let's hop over to you and then Heather,
you'll be after her. Hi guys. Congratulations by the way, for the new baby coming.
Welcome. So I followed you when you guys were 2020 and I actually did FBA for a little while,
but like life got in the way and family stuff happened or whatever, but jumping right back in.
And my question is, so I never got to the part of like product development and I just want to know,
how do you go about developing your products to sell on Amazon and stuff? I remember a little bit
from back then and I brought out all my notes from back then, but this is like a total refresh.
So we'll go definitely into product selection. So anyone who's like, I have no, no idea what
product to sell. That's great. That's actually kind of better than people that come in. Like,
I really want to sell this product and they have this like dream, you know, sometimes we got to
shoot those down and go, okay, that's a good dream, but not a good fit for Amazon. Let's do
something on Amazon. Then we'll do the dream once you have some money built up. Right. So coming in
with no ideas is a great place to start. And then on day three, we'll be showing, we'll be going
into some of that software and they have some new stuff that we didn't have in 2020 that makes it
really easy to find products really quickly. So that'll help you find stuff. And then our whole
system just for everyone is we don't just sell like just copycat products. That's kind of a real,
it's a race to the bottom. You kind of saw it with the sticky hands. We don't sell sticky hands,
but like every product on the sticky hand page was the same basically. Right. It's like a sticky
hands, a sticky hand. And so it kind of becomes this price war of like who can sell the most
sticky hands for the lowest price. So then you got like the 10 pack for $5 and then you got the
20 pack for $4 and you got the 50 pack for $3. And it's just like, everyone's basically just
going like that. That's not the type of product we want to sell. We want to sell a product that
we can innovate on and kind of stand above the rest of people. And I'll definitely cover that
on day two and day three. And then the other thing that's really cool since 2020, I'm just
thinking through like how it's changed since then. There's some awesome software. It's a
software called IntelliVie. And we use this in our mastermind. And it basically allows you to like
test a product to the market before you actually invest in the product, which is really cool.
Let's just say I'm launching sticky hands, which I don't recommend. You can basically run this
simulated marketplace poll to buyers. And it's like, which one of these sticky hands would you
buy if you're interested in sticky hands? And there's like four of them. And one is yours. And
three are some of the other top sellers on Amazon. And basically, we want to see you winning that
poll, right? If you're not winning that poll, you probably shouldn't buy 500 sticky hands,
right? Just on Amazon, because you missed it, right? So it's a, it basically reduces the risk
where, you know, sometimes people are scared, like, I'm gonna buy this inventory,
it's gonna sit in my garage, and I can't sell it. If you actually go through that process of like
checking the market, which those polls are like, like $50 to run, it's not very expensive,
it can save you 1000s of dollars. Because imagine if you get thumbs up on that poll,
and you're like winning, you're like, Oh my gosh, like I have a ton of confidence to go buy this
product, because I know the marketplace is gonna buy mine over these others. There's a lot of stuff
we do like that just to kind of like all entrepreneurship is risk, right? But we want to
make our decisions as much on data as we can as much on reducing risk as we can. And you guys will
see that if you're brand new to this process, you'll see how we do that throughout it. So
welcome back. I'm excited to have you back. Thank you. 2020 was a wild year for ecommerce.
Yeah, it was crazy. Kind of crazy. Everyone got their life turned upside down and Amazon blew up.
So that was really good. But it was definitely an intense year. So I'm glad we're not in that
anymore. Heather glaze, let's go over to you. So my question is, I have been an Amazon influencer
for like a year and a half. And that's all connected to my Amazon account. Is this connected
to your personal Amazon account as well? Or will it be separate? And is it an issue that I'm
doing the influencer videos for them? Or is it does it all work together?
Yeah, a lot of members of our community do that as well. And it's totally separate. So
they're two separate programs. And so you can have, you can have like a totally different email
for like the Amazon seller side of things. And then you can keep them completely separate,
basically. So yeah, I don't think those departments even really talk to each other.
some rainmakers who are selling products and then like doing influencer videos for their products.
I had that same thought. I wondered if I could do that or if it would be like a bonus.
Might as well, right? Like, so yeah, no, that's great. That's very cool. Yeah. So keep doing that.
And then, and then this is kind of like there, there's just for everyone who's like, what the
heck, Amazon influencers, I'll explain it real quick. There is a lot of ways to make money on
Amazon. Okay. There, there is a ton of ways to make money on Amazon. It's a big ecosystem
and you can make money selling products. You can make money reviewing products. You can make money
recording audio for audio books for, you know, like audio book people or book writers, right?
Like you can make money selling digital products like books. You can make money driving trucks,
right? Like you can at least like, I could just like go on and on and on. And so just when you
approach Amazon, there's a lot of like probably even just being in this world, you're probably
getting ads for like other Amazon things. Cause there is a lot of ways to make money on Amazon.
The one that we focus on is the one that we find is the most scalable and it has the most,
we'll talk about this tomorrow, enterprise value, which means the value of the business is the
highest because being an Amazon influencer can be great for like a little bit of side hustle money,
but you can't sell the business cause you can't sell your face. Like you can't sell yourself.
So no one wants to buy an Amazon influencer business because the influencer doesn't come
with it. Right. But an Amazon business that we're going to teach you about,
you can, it's really cool cause you can make money two times. You can make money with the
business selling product, but then you can make money selling the business. And so it's kind of a
bigger vision, but let's say two, three, four years from now, you've really scaled the business up.
You can actually just sell the entire business cause it doesn't require you to be there.
And Amazon business are really hot investments. So we'll talk about that on, I believe that's day
four. We kind of paint this picture and kind of help you work your way backwards from like,
man, if I really want to build this business and then even sell the business, what could that mean
for my family? And then like, how do I look back to where I am now that kind of create the bridge
to get there? So that's why we love the style of business we'll teach you about this week. So
yeah. Exciting. All right. Let's go to Michelle. I think this will be our last question. We'll
wrap it up. So you guys have time to do the kindness challenge. Okay. Let's go to Michelle
Rose. Hey, we don't have a question, but we're, we're in mastermind already. So we had our sample
and we wanted to show people some confidence that it's real. Oh, it's awesome. The intentional
homeschool planet. Oh, that looks awesome. Yeah. Also we wanted to say, make sure you order too.
Okay. From different manufacturers because yes, are completely not the right colors.
This one blue. And this is the one that's more of a teal that we ordered,
but our bulk order is literally sitting at the factory. She told us this morning that it was
done and we were like 30 this morning. Oh my God. We weren't ready. It's it's early,
but we were just excited to share that. This is awesome. It's worth it. So
there's nothing like, I would say that moment when you finally get the actual product in your
hand, it's so cool. Cause you're like, I made this, like, I know we didn't make this cause
we're level tuning. We're using manufacturers. I designed this. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Then
we're like, it needed this spiral. Yeah. We were, we were competing against too many KDPs on that
page. So we, we put the spiral now we're only competing against like one or two people.
Okay. Man, that's awesome. Yeah. So cool. Hey, well, thank you guys for sharing that.
That's awesome. How, when did you join the mastermind last July? Okay. July 5th,
right after your wife. So we joined during her birthday thing that okay.
Going on. No, she's your, your wife's July 4th, right? Yeah. Yeah. 4th of July.
Yeah. That's for our birthday. Oh, so cool. That's awesome. That's awesome. You guys. Yeah.
What they just gave you guys, there's a little tip, right? So when you're ordering products,
this is something we teach is don't just order one sample, right? Order two samples, order one
from this person, one from that person. I've had that same thing happen where it's like one
manufacturer you think is great. And you get the sample and you're like, this is terrible.
And that's not what, that's a recipe for disaster on Amazon. You want it to be
accurate. Good. We call it the golden sample and the golden samples, like the one that you're like,
this is it. This is the one I know it's a five-star product, right? Cause at the end of the
day, the market's going to decide, is this a five-star product or not? And you've got to be
a five-star product to kind of survive right on Amazon. So way to go doing the work and following
the training. That's so cool. Awesome. All right, you guys, well, we will end it. That's day one of
the rain games tomorrow. We got a big day. We're going to launch a brand for you guys. Like, so
this is something we've never done in like a challenge experience, but we have a couple of
tools we'll show you tomorrow that make it really easy to kind of just like get it done. And so if
you haven't done that already, we're going to walk you through it. And then on the VIP session,
we're going to actually train you on some really cool stuff that.
can, let's see, I don't wanna give it away.
I'll just say build your influence, okay?
Build your influence online, okay?
Which can help your business a lot.
So, all right, that's it, you guys.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Post in the group, you know,
if you do the kindness challenge,
you guys are the VIP or the go-getter,
so rally other people to go do it.
It's gonna be an awesome experience
and we'll see you tomorrow, all right?
Bye.