I'm John Crestani. I'm going to show you how you can create a mastermind to help
solve any problem that you're currently facing. Your personal life or in your
business career. And I'll be showing you four simple steps that you can take to
make that happen. Let's do it.
So now, starting a mastermind is such an important thing for whatever you're
doing or whatever you're passionate about in life. Now, I run a multi-million
dollar per year business. I live in Malibu California. Just give you context
about me if you've never met me before. But creating a big business has been
really important to me and really solving these future problems that I see
in self-employment and whatnot has been a really big passion mine. But to do big
things in my life, I've needed to surround myself with really smart people
because I'm not some standout, naturally intelligent person. I
wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've been able to create success
for myself by surrounding myself with really smart people. And moving forward
as a team. And just to give you some history about myself. I've always been a
soccer player. I've always been athlete throughout school. And that team dynamic
has been something that's really pushed me forward in life and helped me excel.
Now, being an entrepreneur being in a relationship where the only person you
have to talk to is sometimes the one you're fighting with is a hard place to
be. Which is why I highly recommend creating a mastermind can be just an
unbelievable way to solve problems in your life. Now, there's four simple steps
that I can give you to creating a mastermind. And I'm just going to sit down
here for a second and kind of go over these. But the 4 simple steps. The
first are you want to define what is it that you're passionate about? What is it
you want to solve? Is that you want to start a business is
it that you want to be better in your relationship? Is it that you want to grow
your business to new heights? Or maybe you want to do something for your
community? You want to solve homelessness? Whatever that is.
Write it down. Write it down. Have an idea in your mind. A lot of you probably
already know what that is. Whether you want your relationship to be better. You
want more money or you want to do something better for the community. The
second step you'll want to do is you'll want to interact with diverse groups of
people that are all around whatever problem you want to solve. Now, for me, the
problem that I've wanted to solve is I want to grow my business, okay? I've
wanted to grow my business so badly and I want to become super rich. I want to
have a helipad in my backyard in Malibu. I don't have big enough lot for a
helipad yet but I'm learning to fly a helicopter and I'll be buying a
helicopter soon. Hopefully I'll get the land soon to create that. But what I did
to interact with diverse groups of people is I go to different business
conferences, I've joined different networking organizations such as
entrepreneurs organization. And I also go to different meetups. And I interact with
people from a few different worlds. I interact with entrepreneurs, okay? Just
kind of as a broad category. I interact with affiliate marketers. I interact with
online business owners. And I also interact with business startups. And also
interact with investors. I'm involved in some angel investing groups. Now, I have
all these different broad business categories of people that I interact
with. So, that gives me a foundation to bring diversity. And a diverse set of
viewpoints to any situation. I like networking, okay? Starting a mastermind is
all about networking. So, I just wanted to let you know from a basis. This has got
to be something you're interested in is actually interacting with people. Now, the
third step is you want to invite people together. Bring them together in a
central place. Now, if you are trying to do everything digitally, you could be a
member of different forums and you could combine everybody from these
different groups into a single skype group. We could combine him on a single
email thread. But you want to invite people together again under that what
you defined this mastermind was going to be about. You invite everybody together.
You say, "Hey, I'm having a dinner." And that sounds great. And what I would do is I'd
invite a bunch of people to come hang out in a Jacuzzi with me. Have wine and
have cheese and discuss how we can bring our businesses higher. And I would just
tell everybody that I say, "Hey, we're doing this Friday night. If you want to
hang out, come hang out. But this is going to be the discussion topic. This is going to be
what the night's about." I don't say, "Hey, let's come out, drink wine and eat cheese
in a Jacuzzi." Okay? That's not what I do. I say this night is specifically for
discussing this topic. We're going to figure out homelessness or whatever. And you
invite people from diverse groups of viewpoints. And then the final step is
you get together. You get everybody together. You know, the invitation was
very clear and people will come or people won't come. But if you can bring
together diverse groups of people like what I said. Now, I have friends who run
manufacturing businesses. I have friends who are affiliate marketers. My friends
who are you know run software companies. I friends who have raised tens
of millions of dollars for their startup. And you bring these people together in
one room to discuss one topic. The topic links them together even though
everybody's from a wide range of businesses. The topic brings people
together and you can have really great meaningful discussions and you can
become what I call a super connector. You can even create a business off of this.
Tony Robbins and Dean are our recently releasing a whole product about how you
can charge people thousands of dollars to be a part of a mastermind. Just
connecting people to discuss topics. Connecting different people with
interesting and well-versed few points. Now, I hope you learned a lot about
starting masterminds and creating those connections that are the spice of life.
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