 The dude that was homeless that's now got more money than he knows what to do with my good buddy. Mr. Marlin Faulkner Come on now this dude. It doesn't get much better than Marlin What's up? What's up 8% nation? Freaking energy let's go listen motion creates emotion baby. That's what you taught me, isn't it? Listen, I've got a bonus with you because you had me come up to Springfield to your office And I thought we were friends and we're just gonna hang out and I was a little you know I my hair wasn't cut. I wasn't good and you said hey look at that. There's a studio. Let's go in there Marlin It's how I walk in the studio and I'm looking around and you go. Oh look there's some chairs Let's sit down and we sat down and recorded one of the most incredible that video has changed my life The number of people that have reached out to me that want to work with me because of you man You were an influencer and I'm just glad to know you and glad to be a part of this thing, man Oh Everybody knows Marlin Faulkner man that the interview that changed the industry forever You'd go homeless to making hundreds of thousands of dollars and he is absolutely crushing it The interview is a homeless to a hundred K a month. You can find it on YouTube I think we've got like 30,000 agents that have seen that over the course of last year and It's all you man I mean did you know that you would have such an impact when you jumped on it just started talking about your story? I didn't and I didn't know why because it's my story. So a lot of times People don't like the adversity in because they don't know it's that's part of their story When I was homeless, I didn't know that I would be sharing that story And so if I were to complain to stop so no, I didn't think it was I didn't think my life was that impactful I just knew I didn't want to stay where I was at and The fact that we got it out there and listen it's gonna continue to get out there and working with coach Michael Burt now and Starting to work on a book with him and just starting to do stuff with you brother. It has opened my eyes that people That they love the rags of riches toy, but sometimes they don't want to live it people want to heaven They don't want the hell so I didn't know Whoo I think you can jump on anytime anywhere with anyone and change people's life. That's what I think Well, I think I'm the best kept secret in America. Come on now And and it ain't bad and what's funny is those votes listening like if you don't think that about yourself That's a problem. You should man and Marlon now does which is incredible What are you most excited about Friday and Saturday this 8% virtual conference because you are gonna be on the event Dropping it like it's hot and freaking bringing it bro. I'm bringing it for sure But I'm excited just about hearing you've sat down with the legends When I you know, I always heard Cody that you were like the five friends that are closest to you and the five people around you That's who you like well when I was homeless when I when I moved back into my house I started listening to Eric Thomas less brown Tony Robbins, you know, I started listening all these guys So you've got some heavy hitters on And so I'm excited just to hear from not just a Brian Tracy, which I can't wait to hear Not just a less brown who's one of my all-time favorites not just in the the bomb calm I think the best in the in the universe because I heard there's a guy on Mars that speaks I think Eric Thomas can beat him too And so I'm just excited about hearing from everybody because this is what I love about you Cody You put together something where people can get more Like my mom always told me there's givers and takers and buddy you're a giver And so I'm just excited about watching what you put together for free like a free conference Like 10,000 asians. I'm mad. We don't have 100,000 on like we can't get 10,000. Listen, I'm giving 101 dollars I'm giving 101. Tell me where to send it whoever doing something post something Come on now. Let's go. Listen to tomorrow's a new day, but today is the day Today is the only time we happen today And I get up. I get I heard Nate offer. That's why I jumped on I looked up and Nate offer I'm like, why is Nate on it? I'm not on and what that man did for my life He changed my life because he picked up a phone and called me That's right What if what if right now someone can pick up a phone and call somebody and it changes their life? Maybe they're not homeless. What if what if they're making money that costs too much What if they're a job that they can't leave that they hate? Yeah, what if there's someone that you need to pick up the phone and call that that has you know Some medical issues or family or man. Come on. Let's pick up the phone Yes, I love it. Dude. That's what it's all about. Well, here's here's what we can do. You really want to give away a hundred bucks? Yeah Okay, why don't we have you? Um, let's see if we can like I'm about to drink some soup by the way When you said that I was like, I haven't eaten either. I thought about leaving and you said this is influence people I was like, well landing's on and someone else. I'm gonna go get some meat and you said I'm not eat I'm not eating. I'm like, dang it. I can't eat because of kodi. Let's go influence. Oh, baby The paper's not taken. We're giving that's it. How about how about someone? that Actually goes to a percent. How about the person that goes to 8% virtual.com and registers The most amount of people don't even don't even doesn't and then tells them Hey, I registered you for you for this because you need to hear it. That's good 100 bucks How crazy is that the person that does that and they can prove with the list Okay, so take a picture of the list send it to kassidy at kodiaskins after you do it Manually go register them report it back to kassidy that you did it and we will choose The person that registered the most people. Thank you. Kelly by the way For 8% virtual.com because that that's that's marlin's way of giving back. So thank you for continuing to give back uh Pretty much every time I see you man. You just give back Oh man, you've got this incredible team. I loren and the team you guys just heard from land and they gave you a virtual tour Which means I got a night to the office But you guys give so much you guys and we're it's almost blast off Like you guys are down to the last to the this is this is cutting time. I'll just say it that way Uh, this is cutting time We want to make sure stuff goes and the staff that you have and what you're putting together so incredible How can people not get signed up? Just coming What are you gonna do watch watch basketball? You watch madness watch watch kids shoot a basketball, which is great. I'm gonna watch it too, but not during 8% nation That's right That they say man make make the barrier to entry so low That you do a you do your part to help everyone be successful absolutely and You've always done that man, you know Oh man, I I want to be with the fires hot man That's why I like sticking around you and just watching you win watching what you're doing next. I asked you last time My wife and I were talking like I caught because you were somewhere you're always somewhere I can't believe you're at home. I didn't know why you bought the new home I'm gonna come live in your new home because you're never there, but But when I got the phone with you my wife said I said man, he makes me feel better about myself Hmm How many people do you guys know that when you get off the phone with them you feel better about yourself? That's cody askins. That's 8% nation. That's what we're trying to do here You're always lifting man. You're giving and taking and brother you've given so much I want to give back by speaking. I want to give back by donating 100 bucks I want to do whatever I can to help people realize that they need this That they need this They do man. How did how did marlin falter become Marlin freaking falter Well, let me close my door. Yes, I get too much excitement. Everybody They got quite Why I became marlin falter because my mom and that I'm just teasing Um, that's that's how I originally started, but um, I became marlin falter because Uh, a mandate offer picked up the phone and called me and said you're worth more than you are Yep, you don't even know how good you are I became marlin falter because I got around Uh, a company in symmetry financial group and got around a guy like an edward pritchett or brand matt smith the guys that were better than me See, I was taught the first thing the the biggest thing that the most expensive thing you own is your ego And I got to be around men that didn't have egos They had what I wanted and they allowed me the opportunity to come in and follow them and make mistakes and screw it up And fall down and and keep going My buddy brian delaney told me this the other day. He said when my son began to walk He said he said, you know why most people fail at life Because when they fall down people overreact He said when my son was learning how to walk when he would fall down We would clap and cheer I became marlin falting because every time I fell down I had men that didn't overreact in my life But they clapped and cheer and they said that's good. You're getting closer. You're getting better Oh Oh, that's good. Sorry you get me going dude. We're now we're now going to charge for this anybody's watching for three please Into the machine. It's gonna go to marlin. Not me. He's gonna we're gonna collect money from marlin today because of how incredible He is and I'm a golden gold. He's dropping man. Um Chelsea on fit. Chelsea baker said hey, I work with him did she Hey, Chelsea, what's going on sis? 8% nation You when the first time listen. No, you let me talk. Let me ask a question You're eating you eat. Let me ask the question dang it I met you and I said why 8% nation and you said I have a dream To help every insurance agent in america And you're a kid man It's it wasn't about you. It was about what you could do for other people That's why 8% nation That's why there's a marlin faulkner because there's people like cody askings They care more about others than they do themselves So to answer your question How did I become marlin faulkner because I met men that cared more about me than they did themselves I met a cody askings. I met a coach michael burk that cares more about me than he does himself That's good, man. Jeez Jeez, I'm ready to I'm fired up. Are you guys firing up man? Who's ready to run through the wall? Who's gonna invite 8,000 people on their own to this? Like marlin's talking like this for free. Can you imagine what he's gonna talk about? On a virtual conference. This is just impromptu imagine when he's prepped and ready Fired up brother fired up. I'm just so fired up to be a part of listen I don't like busy people like busy people, but you know what important people like important people What am I mean by important? I mean that cody askings is doing something coach burton is always doing something Nate offers always doing something We're always brad hannah always doing something Like I don't want to just sit around and live life anymore. I gotta go. I only get one life You know, you don't get me because Michael burton says you this ain't no practice life You don't get a second life. What are you waiting for? Eric tom is my favorite video. He said what are you waiting for? Find out what you want and get up and go make sure every day that you're going after that thing The why aren't you inviting people to 8% nation? Exactly Here's why cody because there's two kind of pains in life Are you seeing my my text by the way? Yeah, I got you. Yeah, you're good Here's here's what I know in life that I learned that there are two two types of pain There's a pain of discipline and the pain of regret And when I was homeless most of my life When I when I was homeless and most of my life all I did was focus on the pain of regret I wish I had done this Well, I knew such and such before he did this And I remember when she did that And and I could have been that good There's only two pains in life the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Listen the pain of the pain of discipline weighs ounces The pain of regret weighs tons And I didn't want to regret I was scared when they'd offer called me and said hey I want you to join this this this insurance company. I was scared to death. I wasn't living at home But I was tired of regretting. I was tired of it. Are you tired of regretting? When I got when I got to symmetry financial group and I started working the pain of discipline hurt I wasn't used to having a schedule. I wasn't used to reading books. I wasn't used to waking up early I wasn't used to meditating But the pain of discipline weighs that it was so worth it See, I was always taught don't ask don't ask what's gonna cost. That's what it's worth I love my life. We'll go shopping and and when I was when we were broke and we were on food stamps We always look at the price like what's it gonna cost? We don't do that anymore So how much is this worth to us? What is this worth? What's it worth you to get 10 people to 8 nation? What's it worth that the company you're at and what you're doing? What's it worth? Not how much is it gonna cost you is it gonna cost you time Is it gonna cost you energy? Is it gonna cost you effort? We're bringing fire. He's got some he's got some heavyweights lined up. Listen. It's not about speaking on the stage I don't care. I don't need to speak. I want to listen. I still have things to learn. I still got room to grow But I don't want the pain of regret I'm inviting people to 8% nationwide because it may change their life How selfish would I be if I didn't invite someone to something that potentially could change their life like my life was changed It ain't about me It's just not It's not It's about the lives that we're trying to change a free event What if one person's life Is worth changing Because I know I was that one person and they'd offered He called a bunch of people but I answered He said a bunch of things, but I listened He told me what to do and I heard them It's time to go to the next level It's time to level up If you're tired of doing what you've been doing, let's do something new Let's go new places. Let's dream bigger. Let's have more. Let's do more. Let's be more I don't know why cody's let me talk. I feel I love it I think it's the first live event I've ever spoken on. I don't think I've ever spoken on a live event before I could go my buddy told me the other day. He said listen He said before you he said before you learn to walk you got to learn to crawl He said before you learn to run you got to learn to walk Well, this is my buddy Brian Delaney. He said but before you learn to fly Before you got to learn how to run And he said here's the reality most people never take off in life and fly because they got too much baggage He said last time I went to the airport. They only let me check two To see cody before I became marlin faulkner. I had all kind of I had I had chicago airport full of baggage Wondered why I couldn't take off Why can't I be like cody askings? Why can't I be like a less brown? I had too much baggage And it was an event like this that I went to a symmetry financial I went to an event and I had to hear something to change my life And I realized I got to start laying down baggage. I can't live the way I used to live I got to do something different And man, I started flying So maybe if where you're at maybe it's not doing more. Maybe it's letting go of what you haven't let go of See we always on January 1st. We want to do more be more have more But if your cups full, how do you get more? Maybe you got to pour some stuff out. Maybe an 8% nation You're gonna hear something that lets you know. Hey, it's okay to pour this out Dude, you got to let me go. You got to get me off of here. I'm about to start preaching And I just got to give you the mic and and get out of the way Man, I love it Like when we play basketball together and we're on the same team You give me the ball if you get out of the way When we speak, I'm gonna just give you the mic and I'm gonna get out of the way I'm not gonna make this public rikoni ask us and I do have a bet when we play basketball When I was a football player we play basketball There's a there's a bet we might have to youtube live this event because I've I've got a lot of pride I started working out. Listen before I was talking about working out, bro. I'm 60 pounds down I'm ready for you I'm not gonna take into consideration that I'm older That you know I'm not gonna use that excuse. I'm not gonna use excuse. I'm a football player I'm just gonna make it happen because that listen you taught me that I just got to go to work And so when we play basketball, I'm gonna go to work on you and I know you're good But listen Dude, I was born for challenges. I was like I was like pizza dough every time you turn up the heat I rise brother. Let's go. That's the new one. God. I gotta write that down. I just thought of that I played I played Sunday night And the longer we played the better I got. I mean that was I really good guys on the other team and I had some scrubs and we won every game We went like seven games in a row. I played for three hours on Sunday night Like Eric Thomas said you got that dog in you buddy Got it. I love the challenge Listen, if you score on me once you might listen, you might you scored once you may not score good If you score again, um, listen, I'm built to wake up and get up That's it. You're built to fall down. I'm I'm built to fall down and get up That's what less brown says. He said if you can fall in your back, that's good because if you can look up You can get up. Don't get me started on my guys Who are you most excited to listen to this weekend? Um I listen Eric Thomas every day Yeah, I listen to less brown three or four times a week I really am interested. I've never heard Brian Tracy. I read his books I've never heard from him and some of the stuff he said was fired Um, so I'm excited to listen to that one of the greats in the industry Oh, it's freaking ridiculous. Yeah The knowledge in the house. I'm just you know what Cody? I'm not gonna pick. I'm just excited Number one. I'm excited for you and what you're doing in a world where COVID is is taking people out of the game You rose up like dope. Do I keep rising up? You're doing a free event That's it. I'm just well. I'm just excited. I'm not I'm just excited. Can't you tell I'm excited I'm excited, baby. Whoo. I could I could tell you're excited dude. The key the key. I'm noticing man is is uh To helping people Go give Brian Tracy a bunch of money and then give it away for free Everybody's like dude, why the heck are you not charging for this you could bring in you know 10 000 people at 100 bucks, you know and bring in 100 grand a million bucks. Maybe, you know, I'm like, well I don't know. That's I just that's just It's not what this is. This one's about, you know So will you please tell the story about when you're going to work? That's my favorite story I it's the best you guys listen. This is the best story I tell this story and then I say by the way, it was cody asking. It's not me But I tell the story. Will you please tell the story? It's my favorite story You're a better storyteller than me, but I'll do my best. Yes, please do please do I was when I was 16 years old I was working at a little grocery store called apple market in rogersville, missouri And I was supposed to go to work on a saturday from four o'clock to ten o'clock. I was part-time I was 16 years old. I was like, uh, I was getting carts out of the parking lot I was filling the shelves. I was mopping the floor like I did all that And you know full putting the boxes in the box Breaker downer in the back whatever it was called if I wouldn't call back and I went I was it was a saturday. It was about three o'clock. So let's go to work in an hour And I was throwing up Didn't feel well tummy ache and actually puking And I go to my dad and I'm like, hey, uh, I'm Not feeling real well. I'm not going to go to work today And he looked at me And said And I still hear this today every time I don't want to do something He said you do whatever you want to do But you know what I would do And so I will I went to work because I've never seen him miss a day of work. Okay He's been very healthy. He's been very fortunate. I've never seen him miss a day of work in 31 years Here's why I love that story. I'm trying to get emotional Man because I don't have a dad to tell me that Like I think about who could I have been if I had a man In my life that I looked up to that spoke to me like that That's how I felt for most of my life, but you know how I feel now That's the story I told my sons See sometimes if you if you don't get what you want out of life, you have to become what you want out of life That's right So I never had someone tell me that If I didn't want to go to work, I just didn't go and I lived most of my life on food stamps Not able to take care of my wife and four kids But now that I know now that I've heard the story You do what you want to do, but you know what I'd do That's it Brother come on dude. I might be That that his competitiveness came out in that statement, didn't he? I mean he came out It came out You do what you want to do, but you know what I did Oh I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna jump to My buddy Ali in a second. Um, what's got you uh, what's got you so for those that maybe somebody's on the fence Um about registering themselves registering their entire company their entire, you know, everybody they know they've ever known Why should they do so and show up friday and saturday? hmm What if the life that you're living is not the life you're supposed to be living I mean all the dreams that you've ever dreamed Are minute compared to the dreams that you're supposed to be living. What if The charity you're supposed to be able to give to What if your kids are supposed to have more what if you're supposed to do more what if you're supposed to be more What if you find that at eight percent nation? or Go on living life just the way you have um I don't know what you do, but I know what I'd do Come on now You do what you want to do You know what I'm gonna do boom I'm excited to hear you, uh Drop it like it's hot on on this weekend man. Thank you for being a part of it Thank you for coming in spending a few minutes with us You're an unbelievable dude and everybody needs to get to know mr. Marlon Faulkner I appreciate you. I love you and your wife. I love what you're building I love that I learned that it's not just about me It's about so many more and we've heard it said a million times, but nobody does it but you did mr. Askins If you want To get what you want in life help enough people get what they want out of life I mean you're a living example of that and I'll forever stay hits to your wagon brother. I appreciate you. Thank you so much See you guys at eight percent nation. Let's go Appreciate you buddy. Thank you marl. Hey make sure you guys go to a percent virtual.com to register to get a part of this thing To get leveled up if you don't quit you can't fail. Hey if you enjoyed this I got another one. You're gonna love it's right there. Click on it See you in there. So on today's show the five tips to become the best sales person Ever on planet earth period boom. There you go. Let's do that. Come on now. Let's do it man Let's hit it. What do you got for us kody? Let's do it. Well. Thank you for having me man I love the show. Love you guys