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more than one mission in my life, they all feed into the same thing. As Rick Warren wrote in that great book “The Purpose Driven Life”, trying to be purpose driven in everything, intentional in everything, and how it ties together. If something is off-purpose then it needs to be off my schedule. The mission is too important and there is too much work to do. So we’re on that mission, but the word “Freedom” is our actual company mission. We’re helping people achieve financial freedom, because for most people in the world that is their number one problem that they want to solve. Our ultimate goal is to help people experience freedom in every area of life. Family is a huge value for us, we have an inner- circle program. We had a live event last year, and this is a testimony from this couple who came, they said, “We thought we were going to learn YouTube, and you changed our marriage.” It was like, wow, but it’s because we’re weaving in our faith and our values into everything we do. I really believe there is a leadership crisis around the world. We need leaders more than ever before and a lot of people in my industry are maybe good at what they do but are not always maybe the greatest people in terms of the values they stand for. I’m not here to even judge them, I’ve learned that you don’t change culture by cursing culture, you change Benji Travis + Sean culture by creating culture. You need to step in the game and create something different, from a workweek type of mentality is that we years ago if it was just about me. But, I was what good is blogging about so and so who is don’t believe that were on this planet to set challenged by God that it’s not just about me. saying one thing, why don’t you build influence up some kind of optimized business and then It’s about the team I’m supposed to build, the like they have so that you have the voice and go on vacation forever. You can still set up an people I’m called to impact. So, the vision is the authority to say something different? optimized business, with a four-hour workweek to help 10,000 people to find financial freedom business with a whole bunch of extra hours, so and make a difference with online video and We believe in marriage, we believe in Biblical you can volunteer at your church. If you set up social media. But then as they go deeper with values, so as a company we want to raise up a highly profitable business, you can then give us through our training and transformation, and leaders. You come in because you want to as much money away to missions as you want. over the next ten or twenty years we want to learn YouTube, but then what you discover is That’s what I think is so powerful about building build influence and say, “Hey, we’d love to share that we’re about leadership and about family influence and building income, we want to help freedom with you, and the ultimate freedom we and faith. Then at the highest level that people people experience that freedom, so they can want you to experience is freedom in Christ.” would experience financial freedom, business do what God has called them to do. And by the So, freedom is at the center of our mission, we freedom, and what we would say is the dream way, if they just want to sit on the beach and sip want to help humans experience freedom in all is time freedom, which you could do what you iced tea… then great. areas of life, and ultimately spiritual freedom. want, when you want, with the people that matter most to you. Where we’re different That is our mission. I could have retired already, I could have settled November 2019 Subscribe for Free... 173