How focusing on your real connections with people can help lead to success
This week’s guest is a dear friend, someone you will fall in love with listening to because of his soul, wisdom, and heart. Scott Aaron not only serves people but solves their problems and truly transforms their lives. He provides so much value and knowledge on network marketing, how to make networking more authentic, and the steps you need to take in order to get there.
Listen to this episode to hear how to turn obstacles into your greatest strengths, how to look inward to find your core motivations and truths, and how to organically connect with likeminded people on LinkedIn and in person to drive your business forward.
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Recognizing the good that can come from the bad
Scott and I open this conversation by discussing his childhood and how it shaped his mentality, outlook, and drive. He shares his need of being liked over respected, how he was bullied throughout school, and how his fathers’ entrepreneurial businesses wound up changing his life forever. He describes the challenges, pressures, and learning curve when he had to take over his father’s business at 18, how he built a fitness empire, and lost everything three years later.
LinkedIn as a networking platform, not a social platform
He sheds light on the importance of getting back up after every hardship, how interpersonal work and focus on yourself can uncover your motivation, core values, and drive, and how to use that to be the most authentic version of yourself. When this is accomplished, you can truly live in peace.
Scott shares the secret behind network marketing, how to use LinkedIn to your advantage, and how his coaching program formed out of solving a problem for those around him.
Seeing, hearing, and understanding those around you
Scott is passionate about taking the time to really hear, listen, and connect with people. There is no easy button to get there, or shortcut to create conversations, just the time it takes to talk to people around you. In order to build a business, you need other people, and he shares how to make long lasting connections that drive to success. Because after all, you can’t automate human connection, you have to create human connection.
Scott Aaron
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning network marketer, author, podcaster and speaker, Scott Aaron, is the go-to specialist when it comes to converting traffic, establishing connections, creating residual income using Linked Leads Generation®, and building personal brands. Scott is passionate about helping fellow network marketers achieve success while building their own network organically and without complicated and costly marketing tactics. His program has helped thousands of network marketers, entrepreneurs and individuals experience explosive growth following his program, Linkedin® accelerator. People-focused and result-driven, Scotts strategic approach to teaching others how to create wealth online and organic traffic is the game changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.
Quotes:
“You [Scott] have chosen to use those hard things as lessons and ‘blessons’ to actually grow you into who you are today.” 6:22
“Because I had this desire to be liked instead of respected, I ended up getting bullied and picked on a lot as a kid.” -Scott 7:24
“Just like you have spoken many, many times on stages is Becoming Bulletproof, and coming to work or showing up every day with that armor, every time something happened, I would get back up and I would fight harder, and I would get stronger and stronger.” -Scott 12:18
“Les Brown actually says it best he says ‘you may get knocked down but if you can look up, you can get up.’” -Scott 12:37
“He [Eckhart Tolle] talks about the 3 types of people that exist in the world: there’s people that live in anxiety, there’s people that live in fear, and there’s people that live in peace.” -Scott 17:47
“You’re sadly mistaken if you think that there’s gonna be an opportune time, the right time—sometimes you need to take action and you need to make shifts in your life at the worst possible moments.” -Scott 19:58
“Every single day, every single experience, every single lesson or blessing as you’ve mentioned happens on purpose, happens for a reason. It’s preparing you for something else.” -Scott 20:49
“Our ego loves it when we find the sweet spot and we get really really really f*cking good at something, and when we stay really really really good at something and don’t challenge ourselves outside of it, we stop growing.” 22:00
“I truly live by the 51:49 Rule—I can’t believe in you 51% and you believe in yourself 49%, it has to be the other way around.” -Scott 32:06
“You are one conversation away from that right person, from a speaking engagement.” -Scott 38:55
“I’m gonna go back to Les Brown, ‘those who take the easiest road will create and live the hardest life, but those that are willing to take the hardest road possible will create and live the easiest life they can imagine.’” -Scott 39:34
“You can’t automate human connection, you have to create human connection, and in my humble opinion, if you’re gonna want to create more connection, you’re gonna want to create more relationships with other human beings who see what you see and feel what you feel, you have to be on the right platform that supports that, and in my humbled and honest opinion, Linkedin is best for that if that’s what you’re looking for.” -Scott 40:05
“The one thing that has helped me is getting as crystal clear with my vision as possible.” -Scott 43:24
“You don’t earn the right to sell or pitch anyone until you make the connection with them first.” -Scott 44:25
Anything who has done anything gritty and great has been through some shit. 6:00 Tracy
I had this desire to be liked instead of respected and I ended up getting bullied and picked on as a kid. 7:22 - Scott
Sometimes you have to fight back and let people know, “No you can’t do that.” - Scott 8:55
I look back and I feel like maybe if i was raised differently, or if i would of experienced things differently when i was younger, it wouldn’t have prepared me how to push through. 14:41 - Scott
When you don’t know any better, you just intuitively and instinctively just do things. 15:00 -Scott
I got so enveloped with personal training, I became addicted to being busy, because the busier you’re the less time you have to focus on all these things going on. 16:00 - scott
Sometimes you need to take action and you need to make shifts in your life at the worst possible moments. 20:00 Scott
Every single day, every single experience, every single lesson or blesson as you mentioned, happens on purpose. 20:45
Our ego likes it when we find our sweet spot and we get really really good at something and when we stay really really good at something, we don't challenge ourselves outside of it, we stop growing. 22:00 tracy
I found a problem that I had a solution for. 26:43 - scott
I owe everything to network marketing but i wasn’t passionate about it anymore. 28:45 - Scott
I can’t believe in you 51% and you believe in yourself 49%, it has to be the other way around. You have to believe in what you’re doing. 32:10 - Scott
You always have to want it more for yourself than anyone else. 32:22 - scott
All of a sudden people became too busy and too disconnected to actually talk to another human being. 36:40 - scott
The people that listen the most often are typically the ones that grow the best businesses. 37:40 - scott
You can’t automate human connection, you have to create human connection. 40:00 - scott
You don’t earn the right to sell or pitch anyone until you make the connection with them first. 44:25- Scott
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