11: The Hidden MLM Hurdle (new recruits beware) ...

What's going on everyone, this is Steve Larsen and you are listening to Secret MLM Hacks radio. Here's the real mystery: how do real MLMers like us who didn't cheat and only bug family members and friends, who want to grow a profitable home business, how do we recruit A players into our down lines and create extra incomes yet still have plenty of time for the rest of our lives? That's the glaring question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Secret MLM Hacks radio.   All right. How's it going everyone? I grew up in Denver Colorado, if you guys didn't know that about me, I love Colorado, I love the outdoors, I love anything- it's funny, I didn't really play that many sports in high school or college or anything like that but I did a lot of individual sports, I guess you'd call them. I did a lot of backpacking, did a ton of skiing and I love it a lot.   I remember there was this time where we were backpacking, we actually went on this three week backpacking trip. Three weeks, I mean, that's a long time. Three days is a long time, we went for three weeks. I don't know how many miles we went, I don't know the elevation change we went, we were all over the place so everywhere from across the continental divide, beautiful beautiful high high altitude backpacking, way above tree line, way above 11000 feet, and we'd take our food with us and we'd find water along the way at pre-planned water points and we saw some really cool stuff while we were doing that. As a youth it was very shaping for me to go through those experiences, it was really really awesome. I remember we would go super super high above these, we'd start really low but we'd climb every single step along the way.   What was funny is, before the trip there was always this huge moment of, or period I should say, of excitement. We're like, oh my gosh, I get to go do this really cool thing, and I get to go and I wonder what it's going to be like. There's all this anticipation, and there's all these awesome feelings of you know, you're getting all the gear together, you're getting all these things prepared, looking at the maps and making sure you got, you know, you're safe about it at the same time. It's exciting, it's really exciting. You go and you start getting on this trip and it's so funny, about a mile in, the same thing always happened every single time. Same thing always happened every time. You start walking, you're like, woo, hey, this is going to be awesome. Usually your up at 3 or 4 in the morning, starting to walking, sometimes we would put headlamps on and walk in the dark because we'd get started for an early part of the day. The same thing always happened, though. About a mile in, there was always this feeling of, crap. Why did I start this? What did I get myself into? I'm going to be doing this for the next while and if we're all sucking wind and we're all trying to breathe, I'm just going to be left to me and my thoughts. This is the activity for a while.   It was so funny because for about a mile in, that would start, and the legs would burn and your lungs would start burning and you start playing the mind games, you know, you can do this, you got this, this is going to be great. I always enjoyed that, though, and after I had done it enough times, we backpacked a lot, after I'd done it enough times I actually looked forward to that moment because I knew as soon as I got through it my legs, more blood was going to go into the muscles. My red blood cell count was going to go up through the roof and I was going to be able to capture more oxygen per breath, literally, especially as we go really really high up I'd be breathing hard but I wouldn't be in any more pain. It's very very interesting.   I remember there was this particular hike that I was on. This totally relates, okay, just follow with me to your MLM. I remember there was this particular hike we were on, it was a three week backpacking trip, three weeks long and technically it was three and a half but we went and it was, I think it was the last two days of the last week. I mean, we'd been going a long way. We'd go for several days, we would resupply somewhere and immediately just keep going and resupply several days later and keep going. Food is heavy. Water is heavy, so you know, we couldn't carry three weeks obviously on our backs in one shot. We'd go resupply and we'd just keep going. Resupply and keep going at strategic little mountain places throughout in the Rocky Mountains. It was so fun, oh my gosh, but there was this horrifying thing that happened one day. We were resupplying on water as we went. Well, one day two or three days prior to being done for the whole trip, we actually get to this creek that we were supposed to get more water from. You're working really hard, you're working out hard, obviously the whole day for extended periods of time, you drink a lot of water. There's nothing quite so fresh and crisp, delicious as mountain water that you just filtered. Oh my gosh, it is so good. I'm craving it right now just remembering it.   What was so funny, it's funny now but then it actually kind of serious. We got to this creek we were supposed to resupply at and the creek was completely dried up. It was completely dried up and we had no way to get water. All we had was the water that was remaining in our canteens, in our Nalgene bottles, just the ones we had on us. We were like, oh my gosh, without water, you don't eat because you need water to digest it so okay, now we can't eat for the last little bit here. All right, now we can't do this and we can't do this, we can't take little baths or whatever. Play in the water, whatever it was. Without water it gets pretty serious pretty quick, especially at high elevation there's altitude sickness that starts to set in under certain conditions, especially if you're not being hydrated enough, weird things can start to happen in your brain because there's a lot less oxygen you're bringing in as well.   It got kind of serious pretty fast, and so we took all of our water that we did have and we put it all in this big pile and we were like, okay, and we just started rationing out our water. It actually, I'm not going to lie, it was actually pretty freaky, in the middle of the night, I remember waking up and it was actually painful the kind of dehydration pain is so much worse than hunger pain and I remember being in physical pain, I mean, it was- anyway, it wasn't a very good experience for that last little bit but we were trying to stay in high spirits, okay, we're only 36 hours away but I mean, we don't have that much water left, like, you know, in those types of scenarios it can get pretty serious, right?   I remember a lot of the leaders that we were with, because I was a youth at the time, right, they started going through different options. You know, like, okay, what are we going to do? Should we call some emergency line? should we stop this and go figure out what's going to, you know what I mean, and we figured out that literally the shortest way for us to be safe was to complete what we were already doing. There was no other way. We were at really high altitude, there was no other way for us to go get water, there was nothing. We had to keep going and guys were kind of freaking out just a little bit but silently, we were all trying to keep our cool a little bit, we'd been going for weeks and only to come at the very end and like, have no water left.   Now, there's a huge lesson with this, guys, oh my gosh, that taught me so many things. So many things. Recently, I don't know what the deal has been but I've got this other MLM product, I haven't really told you guys that much about it yet, I'd love to but you know, just figure you guys will find out about it if you want to but it sells like hot...