I received a message from Paul Hutchings this morning, one of the co-founders of the Home Business Academy.
If you've been following me for a while, you know that I've never been prouder to be a part of any community before in my life.
I wanted to share Paul's email with you so that maybe you can get a better idea about why I love this place so much, and why I'm so proud to be here.
Here's Paul's message... I'm hopefully that, after reading it, you'll have a better understanding about what we are actually up to in the HBA.
==Begin Forwarded Message==
Hey Good morning and happy Saturday ,
I haven't sent you a personalized email in a week or so and I apologize for not staying in closer touch.
We've been working hard behind the scenes of The HBA, implementing some important pieces to our infrastructure that will allow us to scale even bigger and faster than we have been so we can support the flood of new customers and affiliates that our recent trends show are on the way.
It truly amazes me to see where we're at and even more so to have a glimpse of where it looks like we're doing.
I've long believed the quote from Margaret Meade that says...
'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.'
Anyway the point of this email is that I wanted to pass along a quick leadership nugget that I picked up in my studies of our Book of the Month..
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
In describing the early days of SpaceX, author Ashlee Vance writes...
"The engineering corps flew into a rage every time they caught Musk in the press claiming to have designed the falcon rocket more or less by himself. Musk also hired a documentary crew to follow him around for a while. This audacious gesture really grated on the people toiling away in the Space X Factory.. "
One of the many things I love about Elon Musk is that he accepts feedback and changes and if you've seen any of his many public interviews over the last few years, you'll notice him giving away all of the credit for achievements and claiming little to none for himself.
He learned.
Regardless of how big a genius, asset, and leader he truly is... people don't want to hear him talking about that.
They want to hear him talking about the great things they're doing and the TEAM that makes this possible.
This is a huge lesson for those of us who are working on inducing groups of people to co-operate harmoniously together.
It really is more about WE than it is about ME.
This is a lesson I'm learning on a deeper level with what we're doing in The Home Business Academy.
There are SOOOO Many things and people who have combined, almost magically, to make what we're doing and the amazing growth we're seeing possible.
In the midst of what some are calling the worst economic downturn in history,
...we are experiencing record breaking growth.
From march to June we've increased the # of affiliates getting paid by
7.46%, 45.83% and 16.9% respectively.
We're paying out over 70 affiliates each and every Friday and it feels there is no end in sight to where that number is growing.
HOW ARE WE DOING THIS?
A team of people, unified behind a mission, and pouring the best of their hearts, minds, brains and experience into this project.
For Example:
The development team who has worked tirelessly to create and continues to work tirelessly to create our our low cost, high quality and mass market product.
This product is part of what's attracting so many people to our company and neither myself, nor my partner are programmers.
We needed other people for this.
Our Go To Programmer who is helping us to automate a HUGE amount of our behind the scenes processes so we can greatly reduce the amount of support costs typically associated with companies like ours so we can be lean and mean and pay the highest amount of commissions possible.
Our affiliate software and tracking company - you can't have the ability to pay affiliates without tracking links, and sales, and commissions and there is an awesome company we use to do this called Samcart. We couldn't do what we do without them.
Our customers and Affiliates (the REAL heart and soul of what we do)...
We have so many amazing, heart centered customers and affiliates who believe in and champion what we are trying to create in the world and guess what...
We wouldn't have a company without them.
One of our affiliates does a Live training webinar every single Wednesday to train for free and help people make sales...
Her name is Amy Starr Allen and she's AMAZING.
Our company wouldn't be what it is without her.
We have another affiliate named Nick Bramble, who created The 30 Minute Workday™ System which helps to give people an easy way to promote our products so they can have success building an income.
A big chunk of our recent growth has come from Nick's high converting system and his tireless efforts to support people in the background.
None of this does he have to do by the way, as he has the ability to earn a great income totally outside of the home business space - but he does what he does because his vision aligns with ours.
I could go on, and on and on listing the names of other affiliates who show up, and contribute daily, weekly and monthly...
On and on and on...
To help make our business model possible...
But the BIG FAT BOTTOM Line is this ....
As a co-founder of this company - the part I play in it's success is just that.
A part.
And there are many other important parts, that must be in place for any of this to work the way it's supposed to work.
And that's the point.
I'm so thankful for all the parts played in the freedom journey... inside and outside of our company.
I believe people should be free and I'm so thankful to continue to try and do my best to help freedom emerge from the hearts and minds of those who are willing to work for it.
I hope this little leadership lesson has inspired you and brought a little value to your life today.
I believe in you and wish you all the best that life and future have to offer.
You're friend in Idaho.
Paul Hutchings
==End Forwarded Message==
Anyway, I know many of you have reached out to me with a curiosity about the Home Business Academy and who we are and what we are up to.
I thought Paul's email might shed some light on that for you.
He posted the message on Facebook as well, inside of our private community which made me cry, and generated a ton of replies from grateful members of the community. Here are a few of the responses:
As always, let me know if you have any questions or if I can help you in any way.
Be the change you want to see in the world...
Love,
Amy
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