Okay, what's up Inner Circle?
Steven here.
Megan's on with me as well.
Say what's up, Megan.
What's up, guys?
All right.
So, we wanted to make a quick video, kind of doing a State of the Union for Inner Circle,
like what's the current state of Inner Circle, what's next in the future, and in this video,
we are also going to go over a decision you got to make about Inner Circle, and hopefully
making that soon.
Making it soon will give you some savings.
So, as you know, most everyone in the group is coming up on a potential renewal of Inner
Circle come August.
So, August of this year, you're going to make the decision to either go forward with us
in Inner Circle, or graduate back into the Mastermind, or whatever's next for you.
You're either in your current Inner Circle membership, or you might be on a trial of
Inner Circle, and also, we have a four-day business castle retreat coming up in October,
and we have limited rooms.
And so, we are kind of coming to you with a little bit time-sensitive thing on the castle,
but I know you had some questions, you need some clarity.
So, this video is really just about to give you clarity on what's next for Inner Circle,
what we're excited about, what's changing, what's staying the same, and so you can hopefully
make that decision.
So, Megan, I'm going to pass it to you, because you can kind of frame up what led to some
of these decisions.
Yeah.
So, first of all, I want to thank all of you guys so much.
I've had so many conversations with a large majority of you.
So, those of you who are currently in Inner Circle membership, who've been running with
us for a while, I've had conversations with you in person, on Zoom, you've been DMing,
sharing your thoughts, sharing your feedback.
So, so appreciate that.
So appreciate just hearing you guys, what you are experiencing, and what you're loving,
what you want to see more of.
And I've also talked to a lot of the recent Inner Circle Accelerator graduates, who are
trying to make this decision about whether or not they want to be an Inner Circle membership,
and what does that mean for me, and do I really need this, and etc, etc.
And so just talking to you guys, it's really like been super helpful, as we like really
figure out, okay, what, what do we want to build this to be?
How do we build this in a way that is serving everyone and leveling this up and also kind
of taking it to the vision where we want to take it to?
And so I think you guys are really going to get a lot of answers through this and be excited
to hear about like the vision of where we're going.
So I'm gonna let Steven share a little bit more on that, but just want to thank you guys
so much for all the conversations and honest feedback.
We really appreciate you guys.
Yeah, so the vision of Inner Circle and kind of where we sense that is going is, you know,
if you've seen the State of the Union, I did in the Mastermind, as a business, like we're
going through some intensity right now.
And honestly, over the last year, it's been it's been intense.
And I believe, like that you're never left empty handed in business.
That's what we teach, right?
The how can I mindset, there's no problems without opportunities attached to them.
And so in kind of this season, we've been really asking the question, like, what's in
our hand?
Right?
That's a really great question to ask when you hit these walls, when you hit things that
are like, what's going on here.
And when we asked what's in our hand, you know, there's two prominent things that kind
of just were jumping in my in my spirit, right?
One is our people, like, this room is full of amazing people.
It was so awesome hanging out with a lot of you in person, like there's so much synergy
and momentum and just like, acceleration that happens when we get in person.
And two, not just the community people, but like our team, you know, and if you know the
story, like our team has been with us through thick and thin.
And right now, it's been a little thin, but our team is like here, they're with us.
People like Megan who love you guys are here, like out of, you know, even a personal sacrifice,
you know, in a season like this.
And so I know that no matter what we go through, no matter what the future holds, the people
are going to be part of it.
You know, the other thing that I believe we have some gold in is this program, right?
The Inner Circle Accelerator and the Inner Circle Membership.
And, you know, in this last season, really, we have dialed in so much more of our business
systems in a lot of different domains.
And you know, we have, you know, really an expert team of leaders leading Rainmakers
right now.
We have a lot of these people you might know, right, Jeff, a lot of you met him in person.
He's like a sales expert, right?
He just knows a lot about sales, running sales teams, even like the sales process, making
your thing convert at a higher level.
We have you, Clyde, who's like social media expert, built an Instagram with 2 million
followers, marketing expert.
We have team Megan, right?
You know, one of the Megan, some of you might know the other Megan on our team really focused
on customer journey and branding and success pathways, right?
We have Jay, who's like our finance expert, has worked for way bigger companies than our
is, but he just knows finances in and out. We have Kimberly, who, you know,
who's run workshops with you guys on operations and systems and buying back
your time. Right. And of course you have me and Chelsea. Right. And so we were
really like, man, what if we could infuse inner circle with more of that?
Right. That's definitely something we're confident is going to be a part of this
next season. And so we actually thought about, um, inviting other business
owners, uh, like six and seven figure business owners into this inner circle
program. You know, not every business owner is gonna want to jump into our
mastermind program. That's more for people who want to start a business.
Right. But inner circle accelerator, what we do here is so valuable. We've
seen it be so valuable for businesses at all levels. And so our vision for
inner circle accelerator and inner circle membership is that we start to
actually bring in six and seven figure business owners into this community.
We'll probably change the name cause it might just, it might feel a little
weird to come in and just be like, what's this inner circle thing that makes
sense when you come up from the mastermind. But for these, we'll probably
call it like online business accelerator or something like that. Um, or, uh, you
know, I don't know. We're still coming with the names, but I just want to be
real with you guys. Like this is, I believe going to be a major upgrade to
this program because we're not just going to have the expertise in the room
with you guys and what you're going through with e-commerce, but we're going
to start to bring in other industries and niches and other six and seven
figure family first entrepreneurs who want to grow together. And that's how
it's going to start shifting over this next season. And I know like, um, a lot
of you had questions for Megan. Like we were kind of going over some of the
questions you had about like, what's the format, like who's going to be there.
And so, um, Megan, um, tell them what you kind of came up with when it comes
to like the weekly calls and like what's going on in that area.
Yeah. So we're really looking at like, how do we, how do we level up what we've
already created and just really take this community and the value that inner
circle membership provides to the next level. And like Steven mentioned, I
think, you know, bringing in other six and seven figure business owners, even
from different industries in itself is going to be a huge level up to this
community because it's a place where everyone can really learn from each
other. You're going to learn from people with experience in other industries who
have been running businesses who have teams. Um, that's the vision where we're
going. And so kind of like on our side of that, we want to couple that with, we
want to bring like these incredibly talented and experienced people on the
Rainmaker leadership team and be pouring in to the people in this inner circle
membership and really just like leveling up that, um, the kind of like
training and, um, knowledge and experience that you're getting from
people who like Steven mentioned, have been involved not only with the
Rainmaker team, but with teams much bigger, much bigger companies in this
and have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with you guys. So
what we're envisioning is those same people that Steven just mentioned on
the leadership team, like Jeff, you, Clyde's team, Megan, which is like
myself and Megan green, who is another Megan on our team, Jay, Kimberly,
Steven, and Chelsea. Um, some other, some other people may come in there as
well, but we were going to have like these people come in like every month
and provide trainings on, on the topics and in the areas that they are experts
in that they have experienced in. And so you guys know that the inner circle
accelerator is kind of like, uh, structured with all these different
topics. Like we hit, um, like vision brand foundations, like that's my
favorite thing. You guys know this, we hit, you know, financial foundation,
super important piece. We're hitting teams, operations systems, like how to
replace yourself. We're hitting marketing, we're hitting funnels, we're
hitting sales. Um, all these people on our team, like are experienced and
experts in these areas. And so we're going to make the membership kind of a
deeper dive on these topics throughout the year, bringing in those, those
experts, those are leadership team members experience in those areas to
actually teach you, uh, like from their own experience, how to do these things,
how to build it in your business. Um, so we're really excited about that
because it's just, it's going to provide a really, um, like a higher
level weekly support that you're, that you're getting and kind of a more
format where we can just go like deep, like deep dive on specific topics
throughout the year. We might do like every month we focus on one of these
topics or we might switch that up, but we're going to kind of like rotate our
leadership team coming in and providing that like one to one to small group
teaching experience with you. And, um, uh, Steven, I don't know if you want
to share, like there's kind of a couple of this, but this is going to be
yeah. I mean, this will be a huge piece of inner circle.
in the future, right?
Even our in-person events, our castle event coming up,
it's gonna be this, it's gonna be our team
like pouring in wisdom into your business
in all these different areas,
but led more from our team, our leadership team.
You know, I think the first time we really saw
the impact of this was two, three years ago,
we went to Mexico, maybe it was two years ago at this point.
And we had basically stations for our inner circle.
We did an extra day for inner circle there.
And we just had stations where you just go sit
with Kimberly, you know, and just talk ops, right?
And then you go sit with, you know, me
and talk vision and marketing,
and then you'd go sit with the finance, right?
And we just rotated around.
And it was like, literally in one day,
it was like we saw transformation and plans being rolled out
and vision being expanded.
And it was such a powerful, like, just like, man,
we've been through this stuff.
Why can't we just share it with you?
You know, we've been through a lot of ups and downs
and hard things and pivots and all the stuff
in our business.
We would love to just do that with installing
kind of our team's brains into your team
just by getting around you more.
And like Megan said, we do have
even higher priced product.
You know, I'm air quoting that product that we've created
where, you know, seven and eight figure business owners
are actually gonna be hiring our team to do this with them
over just a week long period.
And so those businesses will be paying anywhere
from 50 to $75,000 just to have access
to the same team for one week.
Like those do a day with me, a day with Jay,
a day with Kimberly.
And, you know, we know in this room,
that's probably a price point that makes it unaccessible.
So we're like, how could we do this with the same team,
with the same, you know, wisdom and juice
that you can squeeze out of us
in a more affordable and accessible format?
Let's do it through this inner circle membership,
the business with you guys,
but also the businesses we're bringing in.
Does that make sense?
So that's really the vision of like how we're gonna shift
is like we're bringing in outside industries in,
we're bringing in our mastermind in.
And I think the combo of that's gonna be incredible.
And then we're shifting the weekly rhythm
to be led by more of our team experts
on our leadership team.
Now there's a couple of other things that are changing.
We're going to replace the like the second I sessions,
the unlimited second I sessions
with this higher level weekly support.
You know, we really believe in, you know,
quality over quantity, right?
And so really leaning in in the weekly times
instead of just a lot of, you know,
second I sessions that are kind of random here and there.
And then we also want to have success coaches
come and pair with you guys
to be involved in some sort of monthly one-on-one check-in
that's more of a one-on-one time.
You know, the weekly is typically group
because we see a lot of impact in a community group setting,
learning from even other people's questions,
but then a success coach comes in to walk with you,
do some accountability, do some one-on-one check-ins.
And then also like,
they're kind of like our ears on the ground too
with things you need, you know,
and that helps guide like the workshops we bring in
and the trainings we bring and even the in-person events.
Now, I guess we should talk about
the in-person events, Megan.
We are really thinking to the in-person events
will be a big focal point of the Inner Circle program
because every time we do them,
we see just such a big impact.
And me and Chelsea like honestly avoided in-person events
for a long time because the season of life we're in,
I get it, like you guys are in a similar season.
It can be hard to travel, you know, with young kids,
you gotta figure stuff out, but it's so powerful.
Just like two, three, sometimes four days away,
even just getting away from your normal routine
is so powerful within itself.
I always get downloads and visions
and like upgrades in my business when I do this.
Not only that, getting around this community
and building the relationships.
And I just get the sense that
with the way the internet is going,
with AI and artificial intelligence
and artificial everything, like I feel like
there's gonna be a major desire for in-person stuff.
There's gonna be a major like draw
and you've probably seen that too.
Like you've been like anytime I've gotten in-person,
it's been life-changing, you know?
And so we are gonna really shift focus
to doing a lot of like leaning in
during those in-person events.
As of this point, we have two events per year
that we're planning, but as this grows,
it could even go up to once a quarter.
And as a Inner Circle member,
you'll get access to those events.
Like included with the cost of Inner Circle,
you'll get access to those events,
whether it's two a year, which is what we're doing now,
or eventually once a quarter at some point.
Did I miss anything on the event front, Megan?
Yeah, I just wanna address like,
I have gotten a couple of questions
from just a couple of you who are like,
okay, what if I either don't want to
or I can't go to in-person events?
Like, is there an option for Inner Circle membership
like without in-person events at like a lower rate?
Cause I wanna like be.
around for the for the weekly thing and I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you guys like we really
like we wrestled with this question because it was like okay what's what makes sense like
what's the right thing to do and the answer that we came to on this is there is no inner circle
membership without in-person events and I know for some of you that's going to be like that's
that's not what I was hoping to hear um let me explain their reasoning on this okay like like
Stephen mentioned and there's there is something very impactful that happens on in-person events
that you just cannot replicate outside of it you there's just like a something that you kind of
miss if you're not there and if you just went to sell or something like you know exactly what I'm
talking about if you were at the castle last year like you know what I'm talking about there's just
something that we can't capture and we really feel like what we want to create with the inner
circle membership and just like the the high levelness that we're going for and the amount
of support the community like we cannot achieve that without in-person events and so if you want
to be an inner circle member and you still want to like join and not go to the in-person events like
you can like you can you can do that but we feel like you're going to be missing a big part of it
and you know some of you are going to be like one but not but not both or like maybe if someday we
do three or four you'll go to one or two that's totally fine like i'm not saying you need to be
able like add everything all the time like you've got kids you've got families like i i totally get
it um but we're not like offering a like this is inner circle membership without inner circle
without in-person events and this is it with we just we really want to encourage people to um
like make the commitment because we do feel like it's really worth it and so we're i'm not saying
you can't do inner circle membership if you don't plan on going i'm just saying there isn't a
different price for that so just know that if that's like a uh like a deal breaker for you
like i want you to have a clear answer on that yeah and the in-person stuff it's something that
we're committed to invest in like the castle we've already invested in booking the castle you have to
book those like i think we booked in like february this year you know in faith being like we're going
to do this thing we're going to have this many people go um and and so um with like kind of
knowing we're doing in-person events knowing we're already doing in-person events um the price
of inner circle does need to go up okay so uh being an inner circle member like simply like
literally just to cover time and cost um the new price of inner circle membership is going to be
seventy eight hundred dollars a year so seven thousand eight hundred dollars a year that'll
be our inner circle membership that'll include you know what we just talked about weekly support from
our c-suite team you know um to act two times you know in-person events uh covered um at minimum and
all the other like inner circle goodies i won't go through all the stuff um but yeah seven eight
hundred dollars is going to be the price um however i know like this group is unique and like um you
are really our our founder founding members of this inner circle membership um and so um megan
you know more nuances of where people are at um but we we have an idea to to make it right for you
guys and not just be like hey guess what the price is now seventy eight hundred dollars like you know
sorry you know um and like that's probably what we should be charging to cover time and team and
and the castle and all the things um but yeah megan's like i don't feel good just pumping it
without letting people know um so um megan's gonna explain some of the pricing yeah shifts
yeah yeah so like just like you know maybe like a month ago or whatever it was that we talked about
inner circle membership we were like hey if you want to jump in at inner circle membership it's
44.88 a year and a couple of you did jump in so like don't worry nothing's changing for you
um a couple of you did jump in and the rest of you were kind of like i don't know like you know
you're all in like these unique scenarios because you have vip coaching and like all these things
and so we're like you know what we're going to talk about this we're going to think through this
how do we like make this right for everyone considering everyone's situations like all those
kinds of things and so what i don't want to do is like come to you now and be like hey we're giving
you like a short trial and then we'll come back to you with like another offer and then the other
offer is like even more than what we just said and so that doesn't like that's not that's not
how we're going to do this okay so we are still going to give everyone a chance like whether you
are og inner circle member and and you're on some other payment plan right now or you need to renew
in august or you're on a temporary free trial like this is for everyone we're going to offer everyone
the chance to jump in for one more year of inner circle membership at 4480 okay and like just to
be really real with you guys like there is no way we can go lower than that because
that is a break-even price for us, like that is a break-even price for us, including in-person
events. So like when I'm saying including in-person events, I'm saying like the castle
that we're going to in October, like your accommodations are included, your meals are
included, like it is, it's all included. And that's kind of a unique in-person event,
because most of the time like you go to an in-person event, there's like a ticket cost,
and then you pay for your accommodations. The castle is unique because we're renting like,
we're renting the rooms, we're renting the space, like we're doing everything. So that's a part of
the reason why like, you know, that's just the hard cost. So and that's like two events for the
year. So that really is just like a break-even price for us, you guys, like we just can't go
lower than that. But, and that's the reason why it's going up as well to 7,800, because
eventually we're going to have to charge more for this. But we don't want to like come to you guys
and be like, sorry, you have to pay this now. You had your chance a month ago, but like now it's
this. So you still have a chance to jump in on that. But just know that this is going to be the
last time that we're going to do this at this price. Like after this, after, you know, whoever
signs up for this, after this, like Inner Circle membership is going to be 7,800 for everyone,
like moving forward, because we can't like operate at a break-even price forever. I mean,
I know you guys get that, like you have businesses and products, like you understand.
So just want you guys to know that you can jump in at 4,480. And the caveat to that is,
we have very real like timelines going on. And so if you're going to jump in, we need your yes
on that by Monday. We need your yes by Monday. I'm going to talk about what that means.
But just to explain, like we are actively selling tickets to the castle, okay, the castle retreat.
And we have very limited spots on that. We've got like 30 rooms. A couple of those are already
taken. And then our new Inner Circle Accelerator students that are going to be doing this next
accelerator like in August, they're going to get a spot as well. So in reality, we have like 10
to 15 spots available for that, which we could be going and selling to Mastermind students right
now. But we want to give you first chance because we already like promised you that you could go if
you want to join Inner Circle membership. So this is why we're asking you to let us know by Monday,
because we need to know how many spots we have available to go sell to the Mastermind,
because we will be selling tickets to Mastermind students to attend this event.
The Mastermind tickets for this event are $2,700 just for this event, like just for the castle
event. And Inner Circle members are getting an extra day, like you guys get to be there for
four days, you're going to have a whole day where you're just with like the leadership team,
like very small group one on one with all of us. And then Mastermind members are getting three
days. So you guys are getting an extra day. And you can get it included with the cost of
Inner Circle membership for $4,480, whereas Mastermind students are paying for a ticket
for $2,700 to go to this event. So it's a really good option, like if you're at all considering it.
Let me go back to what I mean by we need your yes by Monday. So we do have really limited spots. So
we need to know how many of those spots we're going to have available after we set aside any
for you guys. Okay, if you tell us I'm definitely in Megan, save me a spot, we will. But we need a
deposit from you. I'm not saying you need to pay the $4,480 like by Monday, if you want to, like
that would be super helpful for us, like by all means go for it. But at the very least, we need
a $1,000 non refundable deposit to save your spot. Okay, like we're already like paying for the castle
event. And we need to know like, this spot is actually taken. Otherwise, we're going to go
sell it for $2,700 in the mastermind. So if you want to spot non refundable $1,000 deposit by
Monday end of day, that's what we're asking for, for you to be like, yes, I'm in, I want to lock
in my inner circle membership for the next year. And I want to save my spot at the castle,
you can pay the remainder of the $4,480. So if you pay $1,000 on Monday, there'll be $3,480 left,
you can pay the remainder of that by your renewal date in August, like you normally would, that's
going to be for for all of you, it's going to be like early to mid August. So you'll pay the
remainder of that in August. If you're like, you know what, I don't want to renew inner circle
membership, like I've already made up my mind on this, like no action needed from you at all,
you're like, nothing's going to change. Until August, you're free to like stay and hang out
and like soak up all the inner circle membership goodie stuff through August. And then at that
time, you can go back into the mastermind. Or if you want to rejoin inner circle later again,
you can but it'll be at the new rate, it'll be at the new rate of 7800. So
I just want like that to be clear for everyone. Did I miss
Anything on that, Steven?
Like, does that all make sense?
I think you got it.
Yeah, I think you got it.
So thank you guys like for, um, partnering with us and like
making a decision on this.
It just, again, with us already financially committed to castle.
Um, it's like, we're selling those seats regardless if you're in or not,
but I'd rather you be in.
And so that's what we're giving you first shot on it.
Like we love this group.
We want to keep doing life with this group and, um, you can get in with just
that thousand dollar deposit by Monday sometime, um, we'll reach out to
everyone and, and, and get your yes or no.
Um, and, um, there was something else I was going to say on that.
And then the remainder is due on in August.
And then you're like, you're done for the year and you're getting
inner circle at like a $3,000 discount.
Then what it will be for people like actively going through it, even
at the same time as you, you know?
So, um, yeah, I think that's all the details.
We'll like, we'll lay it out, but I kind of just want to end the video.
I know it's been a long video, so thank you for watching this.
Um, by just, you know, just kind of sharing my heart.
Um, you know, I, I know we've heard from some, some members of the community.
Hey, I'm kind of hesitant to like jump into stuff you're doing right now.
Cause I'm just not sure what's happening with the business.
I know I came on and I shared very real and vulnerably with the community,
you know, kind of the, like what's going on in our world as a business
owner, uh, or as, as business owners.
And, um, you know, if you've been around me or Rainmakers any length of time,
you know, that like, we don't just tell you to say, how can I and tell you to
like smash through walls somehow, like we walk it out, you know?
And so we're doing that actively right now.
You will see us doing that.
And this whole thing with even offering inner circle to business owners is
one of our, how can I ideas?
We have many, you know, that we're walking out and I just want you to
know that like, we're not going away.
We're not going to leave you hanging.
You're not going to buy something and then it not be fulfilled.
If anything, we're finding ways to do things better and in upgraded ways.
And you have my word on that.
And so we're, we're committed to the castle.
We're committed to the year.
And I honestly, the leadership team who will be the main team who's really
leaning in with you, um, on these events, like if they were going to go away, they
would have already gone away, but these are ride or die people that love you.
They love the mission and what we're doing here.
They love this community.
I love you and I'm for you.
And, um, we're going to do everything, um, to be there with
you through whatever's next, you know?
And so you just have my word on that.
And I just want to kind of like allay your fears a little bit around that.
Cause I, we've heard some stirrings around that.
And, um, um, uh, I'm really hopeful for this next season.
You know, um, I've been learning to be more transparent and vulnerable with
people, and sometimes the downside of that is we lose a little bit of trust,
you know?
Um, and, and I totally get, get that.
If you saw that video and you're like, Oh no, like what's going on, you know,
but just know that like, I'm not afraid of where we're at.
I know like what the future looks like and it's going to be good, you know?
And if you want to be around a community that believes like that for you, um,
people who will support you through thick and thin, like stick around in this
community and, um, you get to see the goodness that's, that's ahead.
Okay.
So yeah, I just wanted you to hear my heart as we end the video.
Thanks for watching this.
Um, we do want to hear back from you.
You know, if you have questions, um, we're going to reach out to you.
So just like, ask your questions.
We're happy to have conversations, help you make a powerful decision, whether
it's a yes, whether it's a, a not, not now, like whatever it is, we love you.
It's all good.
And, um, we hope to see you though at the castle.
It's going to be a good event.
It's gonna be awesome.
Love you guys.