Hello?
How are you?
I'm good.
Give me a second, I think.
Take a time.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you.
I just want to make sure the audience is good.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, I hear you.
Is it better?
It was pretty good before, but it's good now.
Awesome.
Sweet.
Well, well, well.
All right.
Welcome Owen.
Is that how you say it, Owen Marcus?
Yeah.
You got it.
That's an easy name.
It is.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing well.
It's a little warm here in California.
How about you?
Well, I'm doing well too.
We are in Texas and it's getting hotter.
I bet.
We're in Texas.
In San Antonio, like between San Antonio and Austin, like New Braunfels.
Do you know where that's at?
No, but I know San Antonio.
I've been there.
Austin, I've been there.
It gets hot there.
Yeah, it gets pretty hot.
And it's been on and off.
It was raining like the other day, but it's been on and off.
But it gets humid all of a sudden.
I'll just climb up so fast.
It is crazy.
All right.
So do you know how the pre-show works?
Any idea or what are we doing here?
A little, but why don't you tell me that way?
I don't have to.
You have to assume I know some.
So pretend I'm an idiot.
You are.
You're a smart man.
I'm not even allowed, but I did some research.
So this is just our way of getting some behind the scenes segments for you.
And I'm going to ask you a few questions about your vision and everything goes well.
I'm going to go over the distribution plan with you.
And then after that, I'm going to send you the link to be on the awesome experience with
Jackson and Bukeshon to be on Virgin Pro's Live.
It's like basically your way of getting two shows in one, where we'll give you a small
segment.
So every question I ask basically goes into its own segment.
You can take those segments and distribute it on your side, increase your audience side
or like, hey, this is the teaser coming out.
Great.
It is like, you know, that's just our way of distributing it for you.
Yeah.
So, and it also gets us a way of like who we want our show.
We don't want our show.
Like what value do they have to offer?
What kind of people they are?
That's what we do.
Oh yeah.
That's the whole, basically the point about it.
Well, we are already live and recording.
That is awesome.
So I'm going to go ahead and get you started.
Do you have any questions before I start with, by the way?
No, no, I'm good.
That is amazing.
All right.
So Owen, tell me about your vision.
What is your vision?
My biggest vision is that we really change what it is to be a man today in this culture.
It came out of my own experience and working with thousands of guys that we really struggle
way more than we realized because we're so used to the model and the lifestyle that we
have and no one's really to blame for this.
It's just some trauma and stress and the culture we've grown up in and over the course of these
few decades, I realized there are some secrets that we were never told that when we're exposed
to and have some experiences to practice, we can really make a big change in our life
and support each other.
And we've literally seen men tell us that doing our groups, free groups or trainings
literally saved their lives because it took them out of the state of being in a trauma
where they're setting themselves up for suicide and through connecting in an authentic way,
they ended up saving their lives.
That is amazing.
That is great impact saving one person's life, especially suicide cases.
Wow.
That is blows my mind.
We need more people like you doing that.
So tell me more about where did the vision exactly come from, Owen?
I'm 71 years old.
So right after college, I started traveling and ended up in Boulder, Colorado, just by
coincidence.
And I spent four years there really diving into the somatic psychotherapy, Rolfing, which
is a kind of physical body work that I did for decades.
And it changed my life.
I started learning and studying with the pioneers in these fields and ended up moving to Arizona.
I ended up doing a practice, integrated medical clinic near and near the end of my time there
around 1995.
I just realized that my relationships weren't really working and I was a consistent variable
and I needed to do something about it.
I'd done a lot, but it wasn't really changing my relationships.
I thought, well, maybe doing a men's group would help and I didn't want to, which is
a sign that maybe I should do it.
And the first group I did in my clinic didn't really work, but to make this longer story
short, I moved to North Idaho, near the Canadian border.
And 20 years ago, I just said, you know, I'm going to change the model for men's groups
and consequently men's work.
And I invited 11 guys.
They all said yes.
And we created the Sandpoint men's group and that group is still going on today.
I'm not there anymore.
And we've had over 400 men through that group and 60 guys now in the current group and several
groups and I'm in one of them, which is a zoom group for the expats.
And out of that, I created a couple of businesses and now I have my third business.
And what we're really doing is training men to do what I did, what I developed and what
this group does in Sandpoint and teaching them some simple skills on how to connect
to themselves and how to connect to others in ways that we're really hardwired to do,
but never had anyone showing us how to do that.
And for most of us actually had the opposite.
Okay.
There was a lot of information that you shared there.
Would you say that is also your why behind why you do what you do?
I'm a selfish kind of guy.
So my biggest why is I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction seeing these men change in
the ways that they change or helping each other change.
I mean, there's nothing more rewarding for me to see a man who's been struggling, or
maybe not even struggling, but just not having the life that they wanted and learning some
of these simple somatic body skills and abilities to connect to people, really change the relationship,
and the passion that was latent in them, but they never really pursued and ended up with
a different kind of life where they end up eventually giving back to others.
That is true.
That is right.
I mean, I know if you can have impact on one person in your life, that gives you greater
satisfaction having multiple.
That's just amazing.
I think you're on the right path there.
You're making changes amazing.
Would you say, let me ask you another question.
There's two parts to this question.
The first part is why do leaders hide essentially from funding their vision?
And the second part is how do leaders lean into funding their vision?
And you can answer it whichever way you like, or you can just throw it back in my face.
Okay, that's not me.
I can do that.
Yeah, I have a certain prejudice.
I've always been an entrepreneur.
Started out with my own painting company.
Put myself through school.
So that wasn't a real inspired thing.
It was just about making money.
But early on, I was fortunate to find something I really loved.
And I was just telling a client of mine about another client decades ago.
He was a Ralph and client of mine.
And after a few sessions, he came in with a strange look on himself on his face.
I said, what's up?
And he said, I'm quitting.
I thought he was going to quit working with me.
No, he says, I'm quitting being a doctor.
And he's like 35 at the top of his game.
He's leading the top department in the city of Phoenix.
And he says, I never wanted to be a doctor.
But it was when he relaxed and connected to his own experience, he really was able to
connect to what he wanted.
And so I think funding our vision starts with funding our own belief or willingness to connect
to that part of ourselves that really has a vision or passion and take the risk.
Because we're going to fail.
I constantly fail.
But we learn a lot from the failing.
And we get ourselves back up.
And we have a cadre of people that hopefully support us.
And we keep honing that vision.
And then eventually, the right people start connecting to it.
And that goes to the next question.
I mean, you kind of answered it, like how do leaders lead into funding?
Is there something you want to add to it?
I would just add that if you want to fund your business, you need to fund yourself and
support yourself and really have, even if you don't have the faith, because I don't
always have the faith in what I'm doing, but that desire to really take the risk and lead
through example of investing in yourself, which means a lot of things, but also investing
in this vision you have, because I don't think anyone else is going to invest in it more
than you invested in it.
That is absolutely correct.
It's your vision.
And if you're not willing to work for it, why would anyone else?
Why would anyone else want to come and do it?
That does not, yeah.
There's no reason for someone else to do it.
All right, Owen, I think I have what I need.
I think the session today was amazing.
I think we got a lot of value.
I think our listeners were all to gain a lot of value from what you've shared today.
Let me go over some of the distribution strategy with you and I'll make sure.
Do you have any questions from me, by the way, before I go into that?
No, no.
I'm good.
Perfect.
So this is basically how we started, right?
We asked about your vision and this is what we do.
These are the four segments I put it on and these are the four small videos they're going
to come from this and we're going to give you these small sections for you to advertise.
We're going to do that on our time, on our side as well.
So what we basically do is we create an audience together for you and for our people and we
build it together because obviously there's no point of having a podcast where people
are not watching it or not showing it, but we try to give immense value to our audience
and we would like your help to drive this visibility to our episode and for your specific
episode, right?
And these are some of the steps of success I would need from you.
I'm going to send you this.
I'm going to send you this in our slide deck.
Yeah, I'm going to send you in a private chat right here.
There's a link.
Can I for some reason?
Did you get it?
No, I mean, you can send it to my email.
Yeah, I'll email it to you.
Yeah, I'll send you to that.
That will just be better because I'm trying to comment it for.
There it is.
Perfect.
Did you get it?
Yeah, I see it now.
The Google Doc.
Perfect.
Yeah, so that's one of the links.
If I go here, you can look into that.
These are some of the things we would need from you.
So we announce our, you can announce that on your site, on your Facebook, Instagram,
LinkedIn.
We go live on StreamR.
It's the same link we just used today.
So that you're familiar with the platform.
And this is basically how we distribute it.
Also we give you all the rights and privileges to reproduce this on your site so you can
share it.
If you want to take off some segments that you think this is more valued to your audience,
you can take that and then post it on your way.
It's free to do so.
Highlight Realtors is good.
We also run Facebook ads for some of our people.
We're going to get high traction for them.
And I'll tell you about that in a little bit.
And if you could join our Facebook group, it's right here.
It's a very, it's a closed Facebook group, but it's awesome.
There's a lot of things that goes on there.
I think you'll get a lot of tremendous value from it.
Let me go on to that.
Would you also like me to introduce you to some podcaster that Jackson specifically has
been on Ian's light?
And you can try to be on their podcast.
You can email to them or qualify there, whatever they do, so that you can expand your influence
to them.
Would you like me to send you that?
Yeah, that'd be great.
Thank you.
Yes.
That'd be awesome.
So these are some of the people that we have for the podcast.
And feel free to promote us and feel free to, if you have more people like yourself
that have vision, that want to share and let people know about their vision.
I think that'd be a great addition to our show.
Okay.
Yeah.
Are there any particular parameters or what you would like?
Yeah.
So if you know someone who has changed your life or someone who knows changes people's
life, like if there's a mom who does like hard work, but she has a great vision for
her kids and she knows what she's doing, right?
We want them on our show.
Like we want people who want to add value to other people, right?
But what we are not looking for is entitled people or people who are trying to sell something
per se.
Like we're looking for a leader.
We're looking for great leaders.
Like even a mom can be a great leader.
Like there's a lot of types of leaders.
Like we're looking for great leaders, but with visions and value.
That's what we are looking for.
So if you have some people like that, feel free to share them and refer them to us.
We would love to have them on our show.
Right.
Do you have like a sizzle reel?
Because I sent you the document, right?
Yeah.
And you can fill that out.
Like if you have a sizzle reel, send us the note.
If you have some feedback for the sizzle reel, would you like us to give it to you in all
candidness and all honesty?
Or would you like to just keep our hands off about that?
Well right now we don't have one.
You know, because this is a fairly new company.
I mean, what I've been doing has been for decades, but I left one company that I started
to start this company.
So we don't have all our video that we used to have.
So no, we don't have that yet.
Sorry, I can't share that.
That's totally fine.
That is totally fine.
But these are some of the things we have.
In the Google Doc that I shared with you, so you have this awesome vision that you want
to share with people, right?
They will want you to link if you have a book, if you have a newsletter, if you have a website
landing pages per se, and with the keywords that goes with it per se.
If someone, okay, someone thinks, I loved Owen's message today, I want to go look him
up, right?
They're going to go click on that link if someone wants to look at your newsletter,
they're going to click on that link and per se.
So that's what we try to come up for you, then we try to distribute for you.
So if you have any questions about that, you let me know.
And if you do not, then I think we should be good to go.
Our show is actually booked out for a few months now, but let me go ahead and send you
the link so you can be on there.
Okay, so this approves you for the show.
Okay, this will introduce you to our podcasters, and I'm also going to send you a link about
Facebook ads distribution.
In that video, Jackson literally says not to invest any money on Facebook videos unless
you're willing to watch the whole video.
And I think you'll get tremendous value out of that.
I went and send it to you.
Is this, I'm guessing this is a correct email, right?
Owen at meld.community.
Yep.
Perfect.
Do you have any website or something that I could look at?
Yeah, it's meld.community.
That is your personal website?
That's my company's.
I mean, is that what you're asking for?
Yeah, so like for you, like, so this is your company, right?
Or do you have your own landing page per se?
Oh, I have my own website, which is oenmarcus.com.
But this, this is our company that we're developing.
So you know, this is what I'm promoting, I'll say.
This one right here, right?
Yeah.
And are there links?
I'm guessing so.
Perfect.
So I'm guessing you have landing pages.
This is your landing page, right?
And are there any links that go from this page to your other website?
Probably not in that website.
But there are links to the products that we saw, we saw products that we sell on that
page.
Perfect.
I think this, yeah, I've sent you already the link about all that.
So if you could fill those out, that'd be amazing.
If you need any help, if you need any help from us on that, please reach out to us.
We have some free resources from specific people with great value that we help them
build all these things, like doesn't burden you at all.
We want to make sure that our audience gets the best value out of you.
And we want to also make sure that you, as a person who comes on the show, gets the most
for your audience as well.
So feel free to reach out to our team if you need some guidance from me or anything that
you want me to help you with, you can email it to me or my team and we'll reach back to
you and schedule a time with you if you need to.
But I want to make sure you get those emails.
If for some reason you did not get those emails, please email back to me and we'll try to send
it back to you.
Because on my end, it already says that you are already, the emails have already been
sent.
Yeah.
I sent you three emails.
I haven't gotten them yet.
It might take a few minutes to get to you, but if you want to receive them by the end
of the day, please reach out to me again and I'll send them back to you.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, I'm sure I will get them.
All right.
Perfect.
Thank you, Owen.
You have a wonderful rest of your day.
You too.
And stay cool.
Yeah, you too.
You too.
I hope you have a warm and warm in California.
Yeah, well, I think it's probably hotter there.
All right.
Have a good day.
You too.
Bye-bye.