Eric: Hey! I'm Eric Couch from Dallas, Texas, and I’m the CEO of ProVision Brokerage.

Clint: Alright – and how was the whole trip down from the USA to Mexico?

Eric: It was pretty good! It was uneventful: we flew from Dallas to Mexico – México City! – and from Mexico City to Acapulco, and they picked us up in a suburban and brought us straight here. It was awesome. I mean, the guy’s holding the sign, it’s got my name on it, so… pretty no-brainer.

Clint: How was the accommodations?

Eric: AWESOME! Yeah, we hit the jackpot on the room. But this place is… it's beyond, BEYOND over the top. I mean … it speaks for itself.

Clint: Cool. How about the food? How was the food this week?

Eric: We had a chef! And yeah -- we're in Acapulco, Mexico, so the food's going to be really good, and it's gonna be Spanish. But this … this wasn't like we're eating enchiladas, and, you know raise the flag, ponchos every night. No. We had lobster, we had a sea bass … we ate like KINGS. Breakfast, lunch and dinner: EVERYTHING was sugar-free, everything was made in-house, including the salad dressings, and … you don't have any crap. You don't have any of the preservatives. Like when we had fish, it was fish. When we had veggies, we had veggies. It wasn't out of a can, it was all handmade.

Clint: Cool. How about the quality of the attendees? What did you think of your fellow mastermind attendees?

Eric: They're awesome. How often does a financial guy get to spend an entire week, and be the only financial guy, much less EVERY single other person is a doctor?

Clint: How about the quality of the materials delivered by the seminar leader? What did you think about that?

Eric: I filled up an entire book, I took lots of notes. The material was fantastic! Some of it I’d heard before, some of it I hadn't, but the reality is, you've GOT to hear it in order for it to sink in. It doesn't sink in the first time -- at least not with me, right? I'm hard-headed. But there was a ton of new information. It gives you a different twist. But the information was fantastic, especially telling our stories -- and I can't say mastering it, because that takes a long time -- but definitely getting started, and wherever anybody was in their process, they're now multiple levels further along. So yeah.

Clint: Compared to other mastermind groups you've gone to or participated in, how did this rank up?

Eric: So other mastermind groups, I’ll tell you: as a whole, I don't go to mastermind groups, because I think most of them are full of crap! I don't put a lot of weight in a lot of groups, because I don't see a lot of value, and I’ve seen so many scams.

I KNEW this would be beneficial. I've been to other stuff that Clint has done. I knew specifically this was going to be helpful, because one of the things I’m focused on is learning to better tell my story -- and that's exactly what this was about. So I KNEW I was going to get benefit before I showed up. And that's EXACTLY what I found, and a lot more!

Clint: Fantastic. There have been a lot of travel advisories from the U.S. State Department for Americans traveling abroad into Mexico. Was there ever a time when you felt unsafe?

Eric: Unsafe? No! We did get some concerning news in advance about friends saying you had to have a COVID test before you showed up -- and come to find out THEY did, because they were going to Guatemala or something. But when I checked online, we didn't have to have that. So there is misinformation. The flight that we were flying from, they ended up canceling that flight. That airline did it; had nothing to do with this event! And we had to make some changes, but everything worked out fine.

I'll tell you, there's going to be stuff that tries to get in your way. That's life! Especially when you're about to move to a different level, there's GOING to be things that get in your way!

You NEED to get here.

Clint: What would you say to a person who's on the fence about participating in one of these masterminds?

Eric: You owe it to yourself. Nobody's going to invest in you. if you're not willing to invest in yourself, you know, as Ice-T told us, and Carnegie told me, nobody wakes up with your dream! You've got to chase it. You've got to go for it, and the benefit of something like this -- because I have done counseling, I’ve done marriage counseling, we've taught it, we've mentored others in that … it's so much EASIER in life when you're not trying to do something by yourself, but when you're in an environment like this, when everybody's on the same page, they're all going in the same direction at the same time and cheering each other on, and we're giving high fives … it's so much easier, much less when you get out of your usual environment, and you know, you turn off your phones, and you’re present. I would encourage you to be present!

But if you're on the fence, man, you're never going to get further than where you're at right now if you're not willing to do more than what you're doing right now. So you just need to take the jump. But you got to believe in yourself!