First blog post of 2025!

Welcome back 🤩 

I'm holidaying with my family and friends in Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩 and wanted to share an important message with you.

2025 can be you best year yet, and I am here to help you make it happen.

To set the tone, I created a brand-new video.

Watch it here

In short: to live fully, you need a ticket to "the game".

If you don't understand, watch my video 👆 to find out what I mean.

In my next email, I'll share 18 ways to create abundance in your life so that "the game" you play is an enjoyable and inspiring one.

For now, decide that 2025 is going to be your best year yet. 🎯 

Then, commit to taking the actions required to succeed in a way you haven't done before. 💪 

All change starts with you.

-- Bram

This is my last blog for 2024.

We better make it count.

I figured to end it with a BANG, talking about a topic that can be controversial.

Money.

Some call it "the root of all evil", think of it as "dirty" and associate it with "greed".

It can trigger intense emotions too.

Kings used to fight for power that only silver and gold could provide.

More importantly, as my podcast guest mentions, there are 3 core skills to it:

1. How to make money 💰 
2. How to manage money 💵 
3. How to multiply money 🏦 

It's a topic that we will expand on next year.

Until then, let's learn more about Money Mastery with Marshy.

👀 Watch the interview here

🎧 Listen to the interview here

Happy festive season and see you in 2025!

-- Bram

O no!

We painted the website black.

At least one page with no less than 8 great reasons to have a sneak peak! 

Knowing how little margin authors have on books, a 30% saving AND postage included is a terrific deal at the entry level.

You can choose between developing positive relationships with other people or growing your business.

If you're ready to take your mindset and skills to the next level, you will love ❤️ our self-study courses "The Science Behind Confidence" and "Speak Up Clean Up" with 50% off. 

While the former helps you to use psychology to "psych yourself into confidence" in ANY situation, the latter shows you how to network for business, speak in front of groups, and present your value proposition so that people buy your offering.

But drum rolls 🥁 please! 

For the first time ever, you can gain access to our #1 word-wide best-selling Communication Mastery 2.0 selfstudy course with 60% off.

This is unheard of! Chances are that you will never see it like this again...

Remember when you went to school and certain subjects were boring?

Then there were teachers that just knew how to tell stories to make it engaging.

If you are not in the space of Enterprise Architecture or Digital Transformation, this could be such a topic.

But not when the person talking about it is Glenn Smyth.

Glenn is the founder and CEO of Fragile To Agile, a consulting firm that has rapidly grown to 50 staff. 

I never fully understood what they do until my recent podcast with him.

We delved into the world of AI, digital transformation, leadership, staff retention and organisational culture seen through the eyes from a seasoned professional that has worked on some of the largest and most successful digital transformation projects around.

Think about $1 billion as a price tag...

Working with well known brands in the Middle East, USA, Europe and Australia.

We can learn a thing or two from the man who is gradually moving into the role of CE: Chief Evangelist.

Listen 🎧 to th...

Picture someone who didn't finish school and started toying around in the shed in his back yard, not knowing where life would take him.

Thirty years later, his business employs over 700 people across Australia and India.

The organisation includes some of the biggest brands amongst its clients.

Annual revenues exceed $216M.

Phenomenal growth year on year.

And this is only the starting point.

Who is this person?

What did it take to become successful?

What where their struggles?

What did they learn along the way?

Find out in my latest "Energize With Bram" podcast.

Listen 🎧 to it here

Watch 📺 it here

To your success,

-- Bram Lagrou

When a self-made multi-billionaire shares his story, you pay attention.

Jack Cowin, Founder of the iconic Hungry Jacks, shared the following with us at the Forbes Icons and Investors Summit in Sydney:

• Jack started his remarkable entrepreneurial journey at age 25 when he got 30 Canadian people to lend him $10,000 each to buy his first franchise.
• That same $10,000 is worth $45 million today.
• Leverage the 3 Ps: People, Passion, Perseverance.
• Be prepared to take risks (if they don't kill you).
• Test your ideas.
• Take failure as a learning experience.
• Have the courage to change if it's not working.
• It's a team effort. You don't do it on your own.
• Recognise the talent of people that can work together.
• As an entrepreneur, figure out what you are good at and hire great people that can do the rest.
• Make sure you ENJOY what you do. "Life is an adventure".
• Keep being curious. (Jack spent the whole day with us and took notes ferociously even at 82 years of age and billions behind him)
...

Working as a trusted advisor to businesses for the past 19 years, it has become obvious to me that most businesses get stuck in a model that generates $180K revenue per staff per annum.

A good business generates $250K revenue per staff per annum.

A better business generates $440K revenue per staff per annum.

And finally, the unicorn amongst them all: the best business generates a staggering $1M+ revenue per staff per annum.

The question now is: where does your business sit?

Two ways we can help you grow profitably and expand the easy way:

1. Register for our FREE webinar here
2. Apply for The Edge retreat for entrepreneurs, innovative CEOs and difference makers here

Nothing changes until you change.

To your success,

Bram Lagrou

Writing a book is one thing.

Publishing a book is quite another.

I cannot remember how many revisions, edits, and updates we have gone through.

People often joke that a book is not written once. It is a lengthy process of rewriting.

Lucky enough, we got to the end of the tunnel.

"How To Communicate & Feel Great" is finally in print!

It means that you can expect a SIGNED copy in your letterbox soon.

That is... if you pre-ordered one from the first, limited edition.

It's not too late yet to grab a limited edition copy for you here.

So heartwarming that several organisations made a volume purchase to inspire their team. 

If you would like to order 10, 20, 50, 100 or more, just hit REPLY with the desired quantity and postal address.

Either way, I appreciate your support. It's for motivated people like you that I get up every day and keep creating. Thank you from the bottom of my ❤️ 🤩 

What is my second reason to be excited? you may wonder.

Well... Whilst my second book is bein...

"You are too expensive"

"I have to think about it"

"Let me sleep over it"

"Leave it with me; I'll get back to you"

Have you heard these before?

These objections are feedback from your customers and prospects that you haven't proven VALUE to them. 

In the absence of perceived value in the eye of legitimate buyers, by default, you sell on price.

Price is always a race to the bottom. 

You sacrifice profit, which bites you in the bum when providing service.

Selling on price cuts your lunch as a business owner.

It attracts a raft of difficult customers that always want more for less.

When you drop your pants, you erode your confidence and self-esteem. 

None of that is good.

So how do we sell VALUE instead?

Learn 10 proven ways to sell VALUE over price here

You could be leaving money on the table with any of these 10 items or others. That is profit and income.

Is it time to work smarter, Sam?

Apply for Business Development Accelerator today

We're starting 16th May.

-Bram L...

Great news:

The "Whole Food Medicine Man", cowboy 🤠 Don Tolman, is back!

I interviewed him last week in Bali (Indonesia) after he recovered from a horrific car accident for over a year.

At age 77, Don still looks amazing. 

He has a great sense of humour, albeit cheeky (ask my wife).

More than ever, Don's teachings about the Ancients and healthy living has merit today.

In video 1, we start off reflecting on the actual car accident, how it affected him, and his experience with doctors and Big Pharma.

In video 2, Don shares how he recovered the natural way - even though 7 doctors tried to convince him to do extensive surgery and take medication.

In video 3, Don talks about healers, the 7 healing principles and public schools.

In video 4, you will learn about Don's research into vaccinations, the natural principles of expansion and contraction, and cardiovascular problems.

Finally, in video 5, Don shares his views on water and food, killing animals and the number one cause of can...