What I Learned From Chick-Fil-A...

Zach Spear (0:00)

An MLM Rebel is a new breed of network marketer, smarter, truly independent, and free. MLM Rebels wage war against the soul-sucking corporate world and against networkers who would rather preserve doctrine than helping people get results. MLM Rebels recognize when the world changes and changes with it. MLM Rebels don't believe in duplicating things that no longer work and would rather work without a safety net than within the confines of one. MLM Rebels are only involved in opportunities that give everyone an equal playing field instead of a top-heavy one.

We don't care about the sacred cows of MLM. We don't care about the industry. We do not care about the way it's always been done. We care about people following their gut. We care about people being able to quit their jobs now. We care about people being with their family instead of their boss every day. We care about people being with their family instead of their team all day. We care about people living free. We believe a truly free networker has multiple streams of income. We believe a truly free networker's creativity isn't shackled by their company's contract. We believe a truly free network marketer actually knows how to market, and that they run their business like a real business. MLM Rebels prioritize faith, family, business, sacrifice sacred cows, build their own empires, never rebel against each other, and change the world. MLM Rebels know they are not confined by doctrine, not stifled by the past, and know they are one business away. My name is Zach Spear, and welcome to MLM Rebels.

Zach Spear (1:24)

Hey, what's going on, guys?

Zach Spear (1:25)

Hope you're doing awesome.

Zach Spear (1:27)

I want to spend a few minutes with you right now, and it actually will be, hopefully, a little shorter and more compressed than average. I want to spend a few minutes with you right now just sharing a few lessons that I took away from doing a behind-the-scenes tour at Chick-Fil-A and a behind-the-scenes tour with John Maxwell, and then also going to Tyler Perry Studios. It was really, really cool. There is so many notes that I took out of this, so many lessons that I took out. I could literally fill up. I could probably do a year's worth of podcasts from just the notes that I pulled and the experiences that I had. But I probably will extrapolate some lessons over the course of the next few months and things like that. But I wanted to just get a couple of these out to you now and just let you get some value from this. So if you didn't know, and I haven't told you if you had the podcast, I've only sent out an email to our list, and I posted something on my Facebook, which I don't really do a ton on social. So really, unless you're on our email list, you probably didn't know this. And so basically, I went and was able to do a behind the scenes tour with John Maxwell and at Chick-Fil-A. Went to Chick-Fil-A, Tyler Perry Studios, and went to the Martin Luther King Junior Center, and got to hear Bernice King speak. And there's about 50 or 60 of us, grand total. So on one hand, this was really, really cool for me, because in our first network marketing company, John Maxwell would come and speak, and he'd speak to like 15,000 people at a time, right? So tons of people, and he would then go and spend personal time with the big leaders in the room. Well, I was never a big leader in that company, and so I was never even within striking distance of being able to do that. So that was a bummer. I definitely had major FOMO, right? But I mean, again, there was 15,000 people in the auditorium, and there's probably 50,000 people on that team, and only, what, I don't know, 50 of a max, husbands and wives got to go and spend that personal time with him. So that dream kind of faded long ago. Well, fast forward, and we ended up leaving that company. We do all the things that you may know. We started an agency.

We essentially build Rebels, and we go zero to seven figures in 14 months. That was years ago. And then fast forward a few more years. We joined a Christian mastermind with a seven-figure threshold. That was two years ago. And then as a part of that group, this year we were able to do what I just said, the behind-the-scenes with John Maxwell, which is really, really cool. So that's how we got here. So that was kind of like a really cool loop closed. So I actually wrote about that in that email that I sent, and I took that email and actually posted it on my Facebook. So it's actually pretty cool. Just if you want to go read that, I go into a little more detail about how that loop got closed and God still remembering that dream that I had, even though I wasn't really ever thinking about it. It was a dream that I had back then, and God closed that loop for me and Ashley, which was really, really awesome. So that's kind of the first thing, is I just want to share with you that if you've put a dream on the back burner, which I did, if you sacrificed the short term for the long term, which we did, if you prioritized something like your family, or maybe God's work, or whatever, in the name of, excuse me, you sacrificed your work, or something like that, in the name of your family, or in the name of God's works. I think I said that wrong. If you did that, I believe that God will redeem your dreams. And I think that's really, really cool. So he remembered, even though I didn't. So, let me give you a couple of just quick bullet points. And the first thing is when we did the behind-the-scenes at Chick-Fil-A, we were walking through, and the first thing is they took us to a replica of the Dwarf Diner, which, if you don't know, which I did not, the Dwarf Diner was the first Chick-Fil-A. That was the name of the restaurant before Chick-Fil-A became Chick-Fil-A. And so they took us to a replica of this, and this was essentially a small diner that Truett Cathy and his brother ran. And the first thing that I just wanted to point out, that they pointed out, is that number one, he worked in the kitchen of that diner for 19 years. Nineteen years. That's a really, really long time. Now think about the multi-billion dollar empire that Chick-Fil-A is today. Okay, awesome, right? Clearly, he was an amazing business man.