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Agents for Life! — 336 episodes

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#336: What I learned in 10 Minutes Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk

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#335: Five New Ways to Turbocharge your Mindset

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#334: Your Journey as a Life Insurance Agency Builder

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#333: Five Stages of Lead Flow

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#332: The Three Hurdles of a Life Insurance Sale

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#331: Who Wants a Million Dollar Life Insurance Policy?

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#330: From $125 to a Billion-Dollar Brand

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#329: Why Trying to Sell Is Costing You Sales

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#328: Compressing Timelines and the Law of the Harvest

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#327: Insane Debt 2 Capital Case #2

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#326: What ROI, ROT and ROA Have to do With Life Insurance

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#325: Your Lead Strategy- the Lifeblood of Your Business

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#324: What are You Tolerating? And Why You Shouldn't...

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#323: Selling Life Insurance with Logic or Emotion?

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#322: Sick, Broke, Seasoned and Stupid

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#321: Is Quitting an Option?

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#320: How to Make a Six Figure Income (The Better Way)

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#319: How to Make a Six-Figure Income in 2026 with Life Insurance

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#318: Leveraging your MOST Valuable Asset as a Life Insurance Agent

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#317: Wrapping up the Year / Life Dial Example: Already Have Coverage

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#316: What Life Insurance IS vs. What it DOES

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#315: The Five Things Holding You Back

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#314: What the SHELL are you Thinking

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#313: Train to Failure in Life Insurance

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#312: The Three Phases of Your Career in Life Insurance

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#311: How to Eliminate Worry and Fear

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#310: Four Value Building Statements for your Next Life Insurance Conversation

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#309: What's at the Core of Everything we Sell?

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#308: Final Expense for... Young Healthy People? Say what?!!

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#307: The Five Ps of the Perfect Business Model

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#306: A Simple Way to Understand Cash Value Life Insurance

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#305: Three Questions to Ask Yourself at the End of Each Day

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#304: How Much Does "Which Policy" Truly Matter?

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#303: Four Opportunities for Making a Sale in a Life Insurance Appointment

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#302: Carrying the Torch of Freedom (my take on the Charlie Kirk tragedy)

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#301: How to Muster up Confidence

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#300: The Gestation Period of Success in Insurance

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#299: Is Whole Life Insurance Worth it?

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#298: Six Things to Cut in Order to Grow

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#297: Children's Policies- Good, Better, Best

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#296: Come as You Are

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#295 A Framework for Making Big Decisions

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#294: Understanding Underwriting Principles

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#293: How to Have Enough Money for Leads

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#292: How to Have Enough Time

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#291: Hang in There Long Enough!

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#290: The First Half vs. the Second Half of a Life Insurance Appointment

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#289: How to Build a Relentless Mindset

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#288: Carrier Rundown: The Good and the Bad

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#287: Let's Put Risk and Fear in Their Place!

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#286: The Psychology of Money

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#285: There's an Answer to Your Problem!

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#284: Estate Planning to Help Fund Your Lead Bill

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#283: The Gameplan for 3K in 30 days as a Life Insurance Agent

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#282 (sales): How to Get More Prospects Showing up to Your Appointment

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#281 The Third Trajectory

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#280: How a Halfhearted Commitment Guarantees Failure

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#279 (sales): The Anatomy of a Virtual Life Insurance Appointment

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#278: You're Never Going to "Feel" Like it

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#277: The Recipe for Success in Life Insurance

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#276: Fight for the Future that's Available to You

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#275: How to Avoid the Chargeback Fairy

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#274: Why you Should Stop Avoiding the Hard Things

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#273: It's Time to Build Your Life Insurance Agency

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#272: Four Situations Where you Should Never Give a Quote in Life Insurance

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#271: A Mindset Hack that Can Change Lives (Especially Your Own)

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#270: The Most Important Question You can Ask in a Life Insurance Appointment

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#269: The Three Contracts You Must Keep as a Life Insurance Agent

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#268: How to Conduct an Agent Interview

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#267: What the Compound Effect has to do with Life Insurance

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#266: The 2025 Equis Opportunity Overview for Life Insurance Agents

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#265: Year End Report & 2024 Numbers

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#264: How to do a Proper Life Insurance Appointment Intake

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#263: Our 2025 Comp & Bonus Program, plus Other Nuggets from Conference

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#262: Which One Costs Less: Term or Whole Life Insurance?

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#261: Are You Desperate Enough?

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#260: Core Value #6: Attitude

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#259: Core Value #5: Toughness!

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#258: Core Value #4: Humility

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#257: Core Value #3: Relationships

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#256: Core Value #2: Ownership

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#255: Core Value #1: Respect

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#254: How to Overcome Fear and Move Forward in Spite of it

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#253: Who Wants to Get Lucky in Life Insurance?

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#252: The Four Secrets of a Successful Life Insurance Agent

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#251: Four Core Beliefs that will Change your Perception

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#250 (Sales): Mastering the Art of the Pivot

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#249 (sales): Lots of Small yes’s Lead to the one BIG YES

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#248: Selling Life Insurance to Military & Vets: VGLI vs. Civilian Coverage

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#247 (sales): How to Relax and Have an Awesome Dial Session

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#246: The Power of Spread

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#245 (sales): Three Solid Questions to ask During Your Life Insurance Appointment

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#244: IUL isn't for Everyone

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#243: Seven Questions to Ask When your Life Insurance Business isn't Going How You Want

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#242: Five Top Reasons People Fail

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#241: What is the Cost of Not Hitting your Goals?

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#240: FREEDOM!

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#239 : My 19 Failures Before Becoming a Life Insurance Agent

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#238: Focus on What Matters Most

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#237 (sales): Setting the Table, Part II (before the pricing)

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#236: The Importance of Placement and Persistency...and How to Fix Them

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#235: Secrets of a Millionaire Mind- Recap Part 2

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#234: Secrets of a Millionaire Mind- Recap Part 1

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#233: How to Look Past the Bugs in your Life

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#232 (sales): How to Get Started Properly in Your Life Insurance Career

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#231: The Crazy Thing About Momentum in Life Insurance Sales

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#230 (sales): The Three Strategies of a Mortgage Protection Insurance Appointment

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#229: How to be a Solid Life Insurance Mentee

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#228: Comparing the Life Insurance Model with the Traditional Work Model

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#227: Why Equis Financial?

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#226: Plugging into the Equis System

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#225: The Secret of Success in Life (or Life Insurance)

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#224 (sales): Setting the Table for a Life Insurance Appointment

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#223 (sales): How to Work With $1M Life Insurance Cases

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#222: The Equis Opportunity for Independent Life Insurance Agents

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#221 (sales): Understanding IUL vs. UL in Life Insurance

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#220: Rolling out Equis Financial's new Comp Plan (and what it means to you)

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#216: Tomorrow Starts Tonight (try this five-minute planning tip)

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#217: An Insane Debt-Free for Life Case

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#219: Six Non-Negotiables for New Life Insurance Agents

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#218 (sales): When to Possibly Replace a Life Insurance Policy

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#215: Revolutionize Your Life Insurance Business in 2024

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#214: The Most Valuable Asset a Life Insurance Agent Owns

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#213: Life Insurance Agents are not Just Quote Machines

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#212: The One Degree Difference in a Life Insurance Agent's Career

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#211 (sales): The First 90 Days- Getting Started as a Life Insurance Agent

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#210: Virtual vs. Face to Face Models for Life Insurance Agents

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#209: The Man You've Never Heard of Who Defied All Odds

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#208: The Dog Ate My Prospect

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#207: Five Things Life Insurance Agents Should STOP Doing

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#206 (sales): The Jeopardy Approach to Selling Life Insurance

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#205 (sales): The Five Hurdles of Any Life Insurance Appointment

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#204: The Life Insurance Gameplan for Making Six Figures and Beyond

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#203: How to do a Life Insurance Policy Review

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#202: The Value of Showing Up as a Life Insurance Agent

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#201 (sales): Delivery is King

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#200: The Basic Steps for Success

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#199: What do You HAVE to do?

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#198: A Rundown of my Favorite Carriers, When to Use Them and What to Use

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#197: Is There a Recession Going on in your Mind?

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#196: Case Study with Terry & Leslie

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#195 (Sales): Think of the Children!

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#194: Taking That First Step of Faith

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#193 (Sales): How to Make Your Appointments Flow

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#192: Get Your Energy Bus Going!

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#191: Leveraging the DF4L Opportunity

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#190 (Sales): How to Approach People About What you do

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#189: The One and Only Way to Fail

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#188: Obstacles, Challenges & Excuses

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#187: The Thing About Fear

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#186: What is your ROI (Return on Inactivity)?

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#185: The Six Figure Income Game Plan

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#184: How and When Change Happens

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#183 (Sales): Key Elements of a Presentation

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#182: Execution is More Important than Goals

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#181: What is your Magic Number?

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#180: Setting up and Introducing on an Appointment

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#179: Self Administered Checkup from the Neck up (15 critical questions to ask yourself)

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#178 (Product): How Level, Graded, ROP and Guaranteed Issue Pay Out

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#177: Just Love and Serve People

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#176: What Kind of House are you Building?

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#175: Victory is Messy

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#174: Put Yourself in a Position to WIN

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#173: Three Underwriting Lessons Learned this Week

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#172: The Parable of the Vehicle

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#171: Recap of the Dallas Convention

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#170: A Fresh Perspective on Success

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#169 (Product): The Ins and Outs of Universal Life

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#168 (sales): Turn a Thinkaboutit into a Client

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#167: The Price of Freedom

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#166 (sales): Selling Ethos: Keep your Presentations Simple

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#165: Why Goals Matter

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#164: The Year Trust Died and Why it Matters to You

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#163: 2022 Numbers, Insights and the Wonky Math of Consistent Activity

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#162: Tools for your 2023 Game Plan

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#161: How much of a Hurry are you in?

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#160 (Sales): Finding Referrals for RYD, IULs and Annuities

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#159: Get Your Big Picture

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#158: The World's Greatest Superpower

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#157: Five Sales Scenarios to Look For on an Appointment

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#156 (Sales): Turning a NO into a YES

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#155: Dallas Training Recap- Prosperity and Ethos

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#154: Law of Love

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#153: Your Three-Step Journey to Success

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#152: Six Ways to Increase your Profitability

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#151: How to Guarantee You'll Fail as a Life Insurance Agent

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#150: Beautiful Excuses

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#149: What to Recommend and When

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#148: JUMP!

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#147: The Top Five Mistakes New Agents Make

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#146: Establishing a Daily Routine

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#145: Writing Your First App with CFG

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#144: Your Five Problems

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#143: Everything Starts with a Decision

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#142: What's the BEST That can Happen?

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#141: Five Ways to Build Rapport

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#140: Five Steps to Reprogram your Brain

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#139: Think FROM Your Goals

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#138: What Does a Dog Have to do With it?

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#137: Key Takeaways from the Orlando Leadership Conference

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#136: Seven Probing Questions (borrowed from Jeremy Miner)

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#135: My Best Advice for New Agents

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#134: Are You Selling Half-Brained?

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#133: Exactly What to Say (part 2 of 2)

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#132: Exactly What to Say (part 1 of 2)

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#131: The Equis Opportunity

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#130: Your Five Biggest Problems

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#129: Underwriting 101

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#128: What's All This Chatter About D34L (AKA infinite banking)?

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#127: Business Compound Interest

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#126: Three Powerful Principles of Selling: Awareness, Herd and Permission

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#125: The Sale is Located Right Behind the Problem

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#124: Key Takeaways from the Spring Showcase Event

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#123: How to Maximize Profitability from Every Lead

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#122: Your Decision Moment can Make or Break your Success

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#121: Tumbleweeds and Sailboats

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#120: Pro's and Con's of our Most Common Carriers

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#119: Relentless Commitment

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#118: Nourish Your Wealth Mentality

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#117: Maybe it's Time

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#116: Three Reasons to Use American Amicable

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#115: Highlights from Atomic Habits

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#114: Why do you Eat?

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#113: Systems and Habits Over Goals

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#112: Key Spreadsheets for your Business

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#111: Breakdown of my 2021 Numbers

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#110: Get in the Wheelbarrow

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#109: Your Five Best Friends for 2022

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#108: My 5 Key Areas to Work on

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#107: Ramp up for 2022 in 8 Steps

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#106: Gotta Love Those Benefits

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#105: "Dead" is not a Four-Letter Word

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#104: The Basics of this Business

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#103: Taxes and Finances

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#102: Windows and Mirrors

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#101: How to Sell Ice to an Eskimo

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#100: You Are an Asset Protector

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#099: Killer Questions for your Presentation

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#098: My Facebook Live Strategy

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#097: Three Sales Tips

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#096: What Are You Willing to Sacrifice?

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#095: Now's Not the Time

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#094: Finding the Pain with Rob Jones

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#093: You're Being Built

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#092: ANNOUNCING a New Resource to Grow Your Business: MyAgentBuilder.com

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#091: The Four Hurdles of an In-Home Presentation

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#090: (sales) Quote vs. Offer

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#089: Calendar is KING

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#088: How to Overcome the Number One Misconception

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#087: Greatest Rejection Hits, Volume 1

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#086: (sales) Indexed Universal Life

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#085: From Disappointment to That Appointment

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#084: How Much Are You Leaving on the Table?

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#083: Lessons From My Journey to the Top of Arizona

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#082: Eliminate the NOISE!

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#081: Take the Reins

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#080: Nobody Cares About You or Your Products

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#079: (sales) A New Strategy for your GI Clients

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#078: Gaining Clarity

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#077: (sales) Accidental Death, AKA Traditional Mortgage Protection

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#076: Respectable Excuses

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#075: You Thought this Would be Easy?

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#074: We're in the Software Business

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#073: That Tenth Rep

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#072: My Top Three Takeaways from the Lynchburg Leadership Conference

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#071: Bring your WHY and Let's go Fly

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#070: How are you Being Peopled?

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#069: Become Familiar with the Unfamiliar

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#068: (sales) Case Study on Listening

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#067: Lessons from a Lemon Tree

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#066: The Three Most Detrimental Mental Health Conditions

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#065: (sales) Implementing the Layering Strategy

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#064: (sales) Problems are Gold- Become a Problem Finder

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#063: Intentional Discomfort

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#062: Water Doesn't Boil at 211 Degrees

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#061: Two Steps to Success: Act and Sustain

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#060: My Interviewing Format and Script

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#059 Peeling Back my 2020 Numbers

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#058 Preparing for 2021

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#057: Questionnaires

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#056: What's Your Tipping Point?

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#055: Carrier Spotlight- Foresters Financial

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#054: The Power of Gratitude

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#053: Four Steps to Move from Fear to Faith

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#052 (product): Universal Life

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#051: Are You in the 1%?

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#050: Rehearse Your Ultimate Goal

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#049: Seeds of Greatness

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#048 (sales): Build it Messy

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#047: Everything is Going Along Swimmingly

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#046: Kindness is Free!

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#045 (sales): The Most Important Thing You Can Do

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#044: Decision Time!

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#043 (product): Your Foundational Five

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#042 (sales): Full, Partial or Critical Period?

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#041 (sales): Building Rapport and Trust

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#040 (sales): Your First Appointment

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#039 (sales): Your First Dial Session

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#038 (sales): Risk Assessments

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#037: Interest-Free Loans

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#036 (sales): Best Advice Starting Out

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#035: Staying Future Focused

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#034 (sales): Living Benefits

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#033 (sales): Work Insurance

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#032: The Perfect Storm

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#031 (sales): Dialing is the Key

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#030 (sales): Medical vs. Non-Medical

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#029 (sales): What is Mortgage Protection Anyway?

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#028: Let's Get After it!

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#027: You Just Need to Acclimate

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#026: You Have a MYT4U Card!

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#025: What the (bleep) are you Thinking?

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#024: Is This a Side Hustle or a Calling?

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#023: It Doesn't get any Better Than NOW!

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#022: You've won the Lottery!

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#021: Get in your Judgment-Free Zone

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#020: Everyday Heroes

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#019: Welcome to Life

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#018: The Mental Pandemic

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#017: Who do you Think you ARE?

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#016: It's the Why, not the How

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#015: Bumpy Roads

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#014: A Fly, a Sneeze and Your Business

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#013: How You See Everything is Everything

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#012: Are You Willing or Wanting?

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#011: Cast a Little Sunshine

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#010: Three Tiers of Fulfillment

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#009: The Only Way is Through

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#008: Go all in on YOU!

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#007: Make Room for Hello

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#006: Saying Goodbye

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#005: You are a Freaking Miracle

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#004: Mental Inventory

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#003: Genuine Love

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#002: At the Heart of Commitment

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#001: Welcome and kickoff