#1373- WE ARE BACK!!!!

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  What's going on squad? Welcome to another episode of the Change Lives Make Money Podcast. It is your host, Brian Mark, and I'm excited to announce that we are back. We're fucking back. Dude, you know how fucking much I missed podcasting? I don't think you guys understand how much I actually missed podcasting. I, I can't even speak right now. I'm so excited. So right now, I'm sitting in my car, in my Airbnb in Miami, and we came out here for a week to basically get away from the smoke and cologne. My family's sleeping. I got my live streaming back as of today. So I'm live streaming with a podcast mic in the car because I literally could not fucking wait

• 0:39Speaker 00

  for the moment that I was able to go back on live and start doing podcasts again because I'm that fucking excited. Now, if you're new to my audience, you might not know this, but my podcast, The Change Lives Make Money Online Trainer Podcast, was what built my entire business. I was doing five podcast episodes a week. I would go live on my Instagram every single day, and I would just share insights, knowledge, like how I was growing my business, and I would just communicate with my audience on a daily fucking basis. And that's what built the entire business. Like, this is what allowed me to rebuild from scratch instantly when my Instagram account got disabled in 2021. It was like, it was the podcast. Like, I had a podcast that I was getting 100,000 downloads a month.

• 1:21Speaker 00

  Now, I was going live every day to record a podcast episode, and last year, August 20th, 2025, I shared one of my client results on my social media. This client invested, I'm not even gonna say what happened, but in terms of the specifics, but I'm just gonna say, a client invested a certain amount of money in me. I posted that he invested that money in me. I posted how much money he made back, and then Meta did not like that, okay? So as soon as I posted that video, bam, my like live streaming and I got shadow banned for six months. And so my live stream was gone for an entire year. I submitted the Meta approvals. I like, I showed the evidence that this client actually like generated this revenue. This wasn't a scam. Meta was like, nope, sorry, nothing we can do, like banned for a year.

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  I tried everything to get my live streaming back, by the way. Like, I paid a lot of people a lot of money because they said they could get it back. Long story short, it obviously didn't fucking come back for a year. And so I've been low-key kind of depressed for a year, okay? Low-key depressed. And the reason I say that is because one of the things that I got the most fulfillment of, the most enjoyment of, was going live for my Instagram audience every day to share insight, knowledge, skill sets, all of it. Because like, dude, like, there's only so much value that I can give out in short-form content. Like, I can't sit here and give you my energy in short-form content because sitting there and giving you energy, my short, like, short-form content is like fucking ADD content, you know?

• 2:45Speaker 00

  It's content where you're just like, like, I'm a dancing monkey for you and I give you value very quickly. But it's like, short-form content for me lacks the substance and lacks the depth that I think is necessary for me to build a genuine connection to my audience. So, I just didn't fucking podcast because, like, I realized in this timeframe that like, it's not just that I love podcasting, it's that I love podcasting and I love doing it with my live audience. Like, that's what I love. Like, I love podcasting with an audience, like, present with me. And it like, it's such a fucking relief to literally be on here on this pod. You have no idea. Such a relief. So, where have I been for the last year? And what the fuck's going on? And what are we even doing here?

• 3:26Speaker 00

  And what is life? You know, like, who are we? Like, are we just specks of dust floating around the fucking universe? Yes, yes, we are. For the last year, once I, once the live stream got disabled, I basically was like, okay, well, I'm just like, I tried to continue on with the podcast doing five a week, and I realized how fucking bored I was talking to myself. So I was like, yeah, we're not doing that no more. Like, we're not, we're not doing that. So I stopped doing that. And then after, I would say, six months, I was kind of going through some like weird shit where I was feeling really disconnected with my content. Because again, with short-form content, the, uh, the short-form content again is like very ADD content. So I was creating it, but I wasn't like in love with my own content. So what I did is I started doing Youtubes.

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  And I would like just, and for those of you guys who have been following my YouTube, by the way, shameless plug, go follow me on YouTube at TheRealBrianMark. I was doing Youtubes, and I was doing one YouTube video a day where I would just like record myself talking about, you know, whatever was going on my mind. And so that's where I've been at for like the last like six months. And that's been going great, like, in terms of like me reconnecting to my content and reconnecting to myself. It's been going awesome. But again, with YouTube, for me, I feel like there's something missing. And the reason I feel like there's something missing is because like, I love that there's people literally live right now as I'm recording this video. Like, I love that I can literally see people commenting on this video and interacting live. Like, I love that there's people that are like, Jay Daylin, just Jay Dean, what's up? You know, people are tuning in right now and watching from around the world. Like, that to me is just the coolest fucking thing.

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  And you just don't get that with YouTube. Like, with YouTube, you get one video where you're like recording it, and then you upload it, and that's it. Whereas with podcasting, I get the opportunity to go live on my Instagram and communicate with my audience. And then from that, I'm literally in my car with my podcast mic, recording this on Zoom. So now I get a podcast audio that lives on the feed forever, and I'm also getting a live stream where I get to communicate with my audience. And so for me, like, podcasting is like by far the GOAT when it comes to how I'd want to communicate my long-form message with the audience. And I just, I felt crippled in my ability to do it because I realized that it's, I don't love podcasting. I love live streaming and podcasting. That's like a different thing altogether.

• 5:36Speaker 00

  What's going on, fam? It's your boy Brian Mark. If you didn't know, we just launched the $10 million Instagram funnel blueprint. We came a three-time national bestseller within the first week of us launching. You can get the book, The $10 Million Instagram Funnel Blueprint. That is my literal start-to-finish complete guide on how to make money with your social media account on amazon.com. So search up The $10 Million Instagram Funnel Blueprint by Brian Mark and get your copy. Guarantee you, best purchase you've ever made.

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  I got a side story, okay? This is a side note, and this is part of the reason that I'm so fucking excited to launch this. I had, uh, I had this guy that I was gonna do this collab with, right? And, uh, lives, I'm not gonna say where he lives because I don't want to put him on blast. Long story short, we're gonna do a collab. We've got the exact same amount of Instagram followers. And, uh, we got on the phone and, uh, he pitched me and he was like, yeah, it's gonna be 5K. I was like, fucking 5K? I was like, you're baked. He's like, yeah, well, 5K and we'll, you know, we'll sit down for like, and, you know, an hour and we'll do a podcast, and then we'll do some Instagram content together. And I thought to myself, I was like, dude, like, me sitting down for an hour doing a podcast with somebody else literally makes me want to like fucking jump off the closest bridge. Like, I don't like sitting down and doing podcasts and just talking when there's nobody there.

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  Like, that literally is so fucking boring for me. Like, I'm like, cool, let's just talk about the same story I've talked about a thousand fucking times. Like, no thanks. But when I'm sitting down and there's a live audience interacting, and there's people tuning in from Melbourne, Australia, Indy, what's up, Natalia? 1413 over here, morning from Vancouver, right? It's like, when I'm doing that, like, that to me is fucking fun as shit, you know? Like, I'm like, I'm all about that life. So that's, uh, that's a quick little recap and update on where, where I've been. So I've been building my business without live streams and podcasts, which fucking sucked, okay?

• 7:19Speaker 00

  It sucked because I liked doing them so much, you know? Like, I literally, this is gonna sound weird. I went to bed excited to wake up this morning to do a live stream. Like, that's how, that's how like, that's how much I love it. Like, I was like, I was like thinking about what I was gonna say. And then I was like, I don't know what I'm gonna say tomorrow, but I, I'm gonna go live as soon as I can. And then I got to my car with my little podcast mic, and I went to like press the record button, and it said, you're not eligible for live. I literally just did a YouTube video bitching about it for 10 minutes. And then I was like, fuck it, whatever. I'm like, God has a plan. And I went inside, and I was like, I'm just gonna forget about it. And then, uh, five minutes later, I tried to go live and it went live. And I was like, oh, okay, all right, I'm good. So, let's shift gears and talk about my intention now, moving forward with, uh, with the podcast. If you guys noticed, all right, you guys noticed, I rebranded the podcast.

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  Which, by the way, if you guys can do me a favor and go subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and buy, leave me a rating, you know? And it used to be called The Change Lives Make Money Online Trainer Podcast. And I rebranded it, you know, I rebranded it because it's like, dude, I've like had that podcast name forever, and it was the same podcast forever, but I like, I'm not the same person that I was when I first started the podcast. Like, I'm, I'm a completely different person. Like, in the last like eight years, since I've started the podcast, we've done over 50 million in sales, and like, the stuff that I used to talk about on the podcast, which was like, how to sign your first client, stuff like that. Like, dude, that stuff doesn't necessarily resonate with me as much anymore, you know?

• 8:44Speaker 00

  Like, what resonates with me more now is like, I want to share like how I'm building my business with you guys. Like, I want to share like insider shit on like what I'm doing as a founder of my company. Like, I want to share stuff that is like working for me as a business owner that is, that has grown my Instagram account to 700,000 followers in the last few years, that has grown my business to over 12,000 plus clients. Like, I want to share that kind of stuff. And so for me, the name, The Change Lives Make Money Online Trainer Podcast, didn't fully capture what I want to be communicating about on the podcast. And so I'm completely rebranding it. And if you guys, again, go subscribe, Apple, Spotify, iTunes, et cetera, and leave me a rating, by the way. I'm rebranding it because just change lives make money for business owners that want to grow and sell on social media.

• 9:29Speaker 00

  Because that still speaks to my clients that have trusted me with their business at PT Domination because I'm gonna be speaking about how to grow on social media, how to sign more clients from social media, how to like generate leads from social media, et cetera. But I also get to speak on shit that I like deeply resonate with, which is like, how I built my company, what I'm doing to build my company, some of the moves that I'm making with like the closers in my company or the setters in my company, or like, you know, strategic hires that I make. Like, I want to start talking about that stuff. And I can only really start talking about that stuff if I open up the net in which I'm speaking to on the podcast. And so moving forward, the plan is that I'm gonna be doing five live streams a week, just like this, on my Instagram. And then I'm gonna be recording five podcast episodes a week for my podcast.

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  And it's, I would say, most of my energy now is gonna be going into rebuilding The Change Lives Make Money Podcast. We got the podcast to a point, I just checked yesterday, because I haven't checked the podcast ads in forever. We got the podcast to a point where we were doing 100,000 downloads a month. I checked yesterday and we were down to 14,000 downloads a month. So, it drops substantially when you're not promoting it, you know? Oh, surprise, surprise. You don't focus on something and it drops. So now it's like my focus is to rebuild. We're back, baby. We're back. I want to rebuild the, uh, the podcast, and I want to re-get the, re-engage the audience and continue to give, give value. And for me, again, I can't tell you guys how many of my clients have joined my coaching program and then told me that they literally have binged on my podcast episodes.

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  And the podcast is what helped them, you know, get their business off the ground, get their business started, grow their business, and then they came to me. And so for me to not have that vehicle for the last year because it just was something that I lost touch with or lost passion for, fucking sucked. But for me to be sitting in this car right now at 8:19 in the morning in Miami, uh, doing a podcast episode in my car while going live, like, yo, it is like the best feeling in the fucking world, all right? It is the best feeling in the world. So, uh, my intention is to share my heart with you guys on this podcast and to share with you guys not only how to grow and sell on social media, but also to, like, I want to share what I'm going through, my, like, what I'm learning, the mindset lessons along the way, and my continued like growth and expansion.

• 11:40Speaker 00

  That is the ultimate goals. I just want to continue to grow and expand and share with you guys what I'm learning along the way. So today, for those of you guys that are tuning in, just want to let you guys know that today we are doing a virtual event. So, there's gonna be a virtual event for business owners that want to grow and sell on social media. I just checked, we have 1,850 people registered. I'd like to get to 2,000, and I would like to get to 500 people on the Zoom. So if you guys want to come to the virtual, just send me a DM and let me know that you want to come to the virtual. I'm more than happy to do that. And if you are new to the podcast, make sure you hit the subscribe button. And if you're tuning in live right now, what I would love for you guys to do is do me a favor, go to my podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It's called Change Lives Make Money. Subscribe because this is the start of something special.

• 12:21Speaker 00

  Peace, love, protein. I hope you guys have the best day of your entire life, and I look forward to being in your ears tomorrow for the next episode of The Change Lives Make Money Podcast. Talk to you guys soon. Deuces.

• 12:33Speaker 00

  Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. Hopefully you got some value. If you did, and you want to learn more about how me and my team can help you scale your online fitness business to $10,000 a month, DM me 10K on Instagram, at TheRealBrianMark for more information, and I'll reach out to you to see if I can help you grow an online coaching business.