 Hey, what's up guys? It's Coach Ben from Soccer Entrepreneur. I know I haven't created a video in a really long time. It's probably been at least six weeks. What I've been doing is I've been spending a lot of time over the phone with trainers from all over the world who've been listening to our podcast. And I know I talked about in the last video about how we have a podcast that we do once a week. And that's something that you can check out on iTunes. I'm going to post a link below this video and this way you can start listening to that. But I made the decision this year of kind of going over and beyond of what I thought I was going to do. I thought I was just going to do the podcast once a week. But what I want to do is have a video version of that and that's what today is. So today I'm going to show you a video of what's going to be on the podcast. So if you want to listen to it in your car or when you're walking or whatever, that's what the podcast is for. And if you want more video, that's what this is. So we're going to use the podcast just to take the audio from these videos. And that is something that I would recommend that you start doing with the players you train is start creating more videos. This way there's more visual training that they can do on their own. And that's something I'm huge on with the players that we train. And that's something that I feel like you could really benefit from. If you just put a camera at your session or if you want to show a couple of drills that players could do on their own, that is going to be very powerful for you. And today I want to talk very specifically about one thing. So 2017 just started. I have just been bombarded with emails from coaches who have great ideas about starting this year. They want this year to be the year that they start their academy and they have a bunch of great ideas. And I've never really made a video or a podcast about this, but I feel like this is the best time to do it because the year just started. Lots of guys and girls have great ideas. But very few people actually take action on those ideas. For example, I got a ton of emails over the last couple of weeks, especially around Christmas time. I sent out an email to all the coaches saying that I have an opportunity to work with people privately. I'm working with four coaches. It's called the Soccer Academy Mastermind where I'm going to be walking through what's worked for me. And we're going to install that straight into your academy this way. You can do this full time. You can take the idea that you have and make it a reality. Not just think about it anymore. I want to help people actually take action and start training players privately and have their academy set up in a way that it's going to be sustainable for the years to come. And that's why I'm here. That's why I create this free content. But we have actual programs where I will help you personally be able to do that. And if you're interested in that, I want you to shoot me an email at start my or sorry, start your soccer academy at gmail.com. Reach out to me there and I can talk to you more about that. But in this video, I want to talk about taking the idea and making it real because there's so many people out there and myself included when I started training players. I was so fearful about doing this as a full time thing because I didn't know the potential of it. There was no one in my town that was doing this at a high level. A lot of people that were doing it were just doing it for fun. And I never realized the potential of this until I actually jumped off the ledge and started doing this. And I had to sacrifice other job opportunities to be able to do this. But I knew it was the right decision because I wanted to train players. And if you're watching this video, you're probably the same as me. You want to train players. You want this to work. You want to make this a business. But you might just not know how to put it together. You might not know how to package it together. But the thing is is you have to be willing to take the risk and take the steps to do this full time or to at least do this part time to where you are spending a lot of time putting things together. And that's the thing is, you know, I get all the time, I get messages from people who have these awesome ideas. But at the end of the day, they're just watching one of these videos or they're going to YouTube, watching some business video, trying to figure out how to do this. But they're not taking the actual steps that are being talked about in the videos. And a great example, and I'm very willing to share this through this video is I have a book called The Startup Soccer Academy. There's hundreds of coaches who've read that now, which is awesome. And I'm really excited that a lot of people have gone through it. But very few people who read it actually go through these steps that are that we talk about about how to set your business up, about what you need to do, what you need to avoid, how to structure things. And the ones who do, if you go to my website right now, you can go look at the people who have done it that are doing this full time. I mean, it's very simple, but you have to be the type of person that's actually going to take the action and you have to execute the idea. And that's why I want to create this video early on this year, because you could have the best idea in the world, but that's not going to matter until you actually go after it. So if you're wanting to start a soccer academy, you're in the right spot. I'm willing to give away great information to you about how it works for me. What we're doing now, and really my goal these days is to help other trainers just like you who need help in the beginning stages. And if they feel like they're stuck, if they feel like they're stuck and they need to go to the next level, that's why I'm here. I want to help you out as much as I can. So there's two things that I want you to do. Number one, if you're brand new watching this video, hit the subscribe button. I'm going to be having these types of videos that are going to be walking you through the process on how to start. And I'm going to be answering a lot of questions in these videos as well. But hit the subscribe button so you can stay up to date with all the newest videos that I'm going to be posting. There's going to be one every week. And if you rather have the audio version of this, just go to iTunes and type in soccer entrepreneur and you'll be able to find that there. It's also on SoundCloud. You can stream it there. That's free. And if you're interested in taking additional steps and you want my personal help, go to my website. It's called soccer entrepreneur dot com. There you'll be able to read more info about me and how I can actually help out. We have books. We have different types of resources. We have group masterminds, whatever you need help with. This is very specific. It's only for soccer trainers. I could open this up and do this for other sports. I don't want to do that, though, because I know soccer. That's what's worked for me. And if you're a trainer who needs help setting up your academy and you want this year to be the year you actually do it. I would highly recommend reaching out to me. I already have like 10 to I think 12 different phone calls set up over the next couple of days. We're going to be talking to trainers about what they need help with. So if you need help, seriously, just reach out to me. This is why I'm here. I want to help you figure this thing out and reach out to me at start your soccer academy at gmail.com. And remember the purpose of this video is for you to execute. Take action. Don't just watch these videos. Don't just listen to the podcast and think that everything's good because it's not until you actually take the required steps that you need to take. All right, I'm out and remember contact me if you have any questions. I'll see you later.