Hey there everybody, it's Ben Moote with hack out funnel radio. Today we're going to talk about why I sang in the bathroom when I was three years old and I still do. So today Now - a funny story. When I was a kid like um, my mom would take me to the bathroom like at Walmart or Kmart or whatever, not Walmart at the time. One, I don't think Walmart existed, checked me like Kmart or do you know that at the grocery store target. And she would wait outside the bathroom. And once I got old enough and uh, she always knew I was fine cause I would sing at the top of my lungs, I would sing cause there was this, I don't know what it is about a bathroom, but there is something I would have asked for med. It just makes your voice sound great and I would just sing and let it out. I don't remember any of this. I was out as too young, but apparently I did it a lot. Uh, because I was, there were women who would walk by and my mom would say, yeah, yeah, that's my son. Yup. And I do it to this day and it's not something that I talk about in period, but I, uh, there was a period of my life where I didn't sing at all. Um, when I was about, uh, 11 years old, we just moved. Um, I didn't have anything that I liked that there was nothing I liked. We'd moved. I felt really insecure. I felt really awkward. I didn't really know where I fit in. And a school got out really late. I missed all of my afternoon cartoons and my whole routine was thrown off and my mother came to my dad and said, Dale, your son is really lost and you need to help him like you need you man demand kind of a thing. I mean, my dad, we got along all right. It wasn't that, it wasn't an issue. We'd done some things together. He was awkward around me. I was awkward around him. It was just kind of strange. I came home from school one day and uh, he, he was home. He'd come home early and he was going through the cds and he pulled out three dog night. He goes, have you ever heard of these guys? I'm like, no. He went over to the stereo that he bought when I was a baby. I mean, this thing has got speakers, like tall, tall freaking speakers, right. Snotting the summer. It's like two big speakers he puts in the back. They still watch TV with it this day and uh, and he turns it on as high as it could go. It was three dog night and he turned on Jeremiah was a bull frog and we listen to Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Um, one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Uh, we listened to Mama. Oh, why does that go? Ah, that ain't the way to have fun son. If you have, you know, three dog night, you'll know Kay and I would sing. I in my, I felt really awkward at the time. I does like playing this music. He's singing along, I guess this music's fun. Okay. Add music. And uh, I felt kind of awkward and he had a good time with it and he just turned to me and said, if you ever get home and you have nothing to do, you can put in any CD and sing as loud as you want. And Sunday, new years, except in like church. And so there was one day I came home and I plugged it in and I, of course I went to his CD cause I knew his CD. I plugged it in. And what did I sing? Three dog night, I Sang Jeremiah was a bull frog ma, I can't remember that song. One of the loneliest number. I sing three dog night all the time. Okay. The halls of Shambhala. I sang it to death. Nobody knew it, but I sang it and it became my thing and I held onto it. It was, it was like this breath of fresh air. And there came a point where, um, there was a choir or there was a play that was going to be on in the community. And they asked if anybody knew how to do it or wanted to be in it. And I said, I don't know why I was interested, but I've been seeing it at home. I said, hmm, might be fun. And so I went to my music teacher and I asked if she had a three dog nights, a joy to the world. And she goes, I do. She even changed the words that way. It was good for a grade school kid and she took it out and she started playing and I rocked out to she's, yes. And when she just did it. This turned into something that my s my teacher at the time, my sixth grade teacher, he loved three dog night. He was those as like his last year before he retired and he loved three dog night and suddenly I was the favorite student and it was so weird. And uh, I got the part and then my family started doing plays with me. We all started singing suddenly we were the mood family quartet during Christmas. We went Christmas caroling. We'd all sing together or asked to sing in church. And it's something that I've carried with me my whole life. But you'll see me do every once in a while I'll randomly sing and something that I treasure and it's something that I've held on to, no. Why do I talk about singing? What does singing have to do with tacking that funnel on? A lot of us were introduced to this whole marketing world and kind of the same way. Okay. We were in the right spot. We were hitting the right pain. We just, something wasn't working in our lives and we just needed a note for me. You know what that story is, if you've watched any of these previous videos or listened to the podcasts, like you know, I was working my nine to five. I worked at my corporate job. It was my first corporate job at a college and it was extremely unfulfilling. I felt like I doing nothing except playing in excel all day and it, it, it, I felt so unfulfilled. I felt lonely, I felt under utilized and I didn't know what to do. What came as a breath of fresh air? How to make money from home. Oh Gosh. That would be nice. I would love to have a legitimate business from home. I want that. Okay. And it hit me like a breath of fresh air and I've held onto it ever since. It's been one of those price things and I've spent years holding onto it. A lot of us don't get success right away, but we, hold on, why do we hold on to that? We hold onto it like it's a good song. Like that song that you've gotten in the back of your head, the one that you've known for years, it's something that you hold onto that hope that you can make something work. And for those of us who have been lucky enough to see some success, whatever or your level of success is, it's intoxicating. And every time you get those small wins, you just started growing, growing, you get those big ones, you're like, let's do it again. It's so much fun that it's literally something that hooks you for life and that's okay. But a lot of the times for the first couple of years, you suck. Kind of like I sucked when I say I was not a great singer when I was three years old, I was not there great when I started singing. Uh, that ain't the way to have fun son and one is the loneliest number. I was not that great. There was one year where my parents invested in getting me a voice teacher who I loved to death. If you're watching, I love you to pieces. Um, and got me a voice teacher and uh, and it was Christie and she, um, one year I won an award as most improved, which in truth means last year you sucked in this year you're actually pretty good. It takes years to get good at something and that's okay. What you hold onto is that song you hold onto is that hope and you keep moving. We would all like the results yesterday. Oh, I would love to sing on Broadway. It would be so much fun. I'd love seeing Carnegie Hall. Like I've done jazz. I've done, I've done classical. I've done broad. I, I love musicals, love musicals. Um, and I, I enjoy basically any music. I'm not too too crazy about anything in particular, but I love Broadway stuff and uh, I got to tell you it's something I'll never let go of. And I always want to get better at. I always, I always want to see how I can sing higher and sound better. How can I make it loud when I sing low? How do I, there's always room for improvement. It's something that hooks you in, stays the same. Is True for funnels. All right? We got this. We got an option rate. I didn't make any money, but I got it to work and now I have a list, okay, let's suppose to do something with lists. What do I do with this list? Or, okay, I made a sale. How did I make a sale? How does this work? Analytics? Oh Gosh, okay. Um, let's do analytics. All right? That's part of the game. It's something that hooks you and you just keep going because you have hope. It will work and I'm here to tell you, let that song ring. Let it keep going. Let that hope keep driving you because as you keep peek focused, as you keep going, it will come. You will be the vocalist, you will be no funnel guy. You will be that Gal who makes the difference in the world. You can be that person. I hardly believe that. The whole reason I'm in this game is because you guys change the world and I have loved these past three years as I built for clients. I've loved being able to help you change your message. It's been the most fun in anything I've done in years. And so let the song keep going. Let it keep going. Keep believing we all want things to happen yesterday we all say, I don't have the time for this. I don't have the money for this. I don't have this. Just keep moving forward. Just keep swimming. Just keep singing. Just keep funnel hacking and we'll get there. You'll learn and if you want the shortcut funnel Hackett, no joke. All right guys, thank you for being here. I'll talk to you guys later. And uh, once again, I'm preparing something really, really special for you. So watch out for that. I believe it's in the next episode. We'll see guys. So what I need you to do, keep watching. Let me give you something 100% for free. I think I have it done. So let's get it going for you. Talk to you soon. Okay, Bam. Thank you for being here. If you like this at all, it would mean so very much. 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