In Search Of Heroes Spreads Good News About Everyday, Real-Life Heroes Who Deserve Recognition For Their Good Works

John Assaraf: The heroes in my life right now are my kids and Maria, my fiancée, my family and as I mentioned this amazing Creation that we have. I don’t have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

People who are serving us, serving our country, serving other people these people are heroes. People that are really doing the best they can to serve one another are heroes to me.

T-Harv Eker: My mom is a big hero to me. She is just a very strong person and full of heart and is very family oriented and full of love so I count my mom. I count my family and my kids and my wife.

I don’t know that I have a lot of heroes. I think you have to be your own hero, let me put it that way.

Again I don’t use the word so I think you have to respect yourself and have your own confidence not to be arrogant and all but anytime your looking outside of yourself for answers you’ve got a problem because they are never outside.

Nothing is outside of you, it all filters in so that why they say life is an illusion, because it is all the way you see things or the way you project things. If you paint someone as a hero, they are a hero. If you paint someone as a bum they are a bum it has nothing to do with them, it is all about you.

I do think that that there are definitely some people making a difference in this world. I like watching a lot of the people who are doing well financially and then they help their community or help the world at large.

I like seeing the actor and actresses and singers and athletes who are helping the aides victims in Africa, Jerry Lewis or those type people who have made it for themselves and then go and put their life’s energies into helping other causes and things like that.

Everyone can do it. I don’t look at the work I do is some type of charity although we do give the first program away with the book which is pretty phenomenal, a three day intensive but I look at it like this is what I am suppose to do and this is how I can help.

We a have program called Life Directions and the big question we constantly ask is “How can you help?” Again this may be a little foo foo to some people but hey at a certain point the amount of money stops being the importance and the fulfillment of helping is the importance.

Everybody who has ever gotten rich is going to tell you that. That after a while, after your few years or couple years of toys and feeling good about the whole thing you got to look elsewhere and the only way you can do that is to fulfill. You can actually feel fulfillment. It is not going to money or love or a relationship.

Fulfillment can only be felt by filling your life mission, by fulfilling your destiny. That is one of the things we are able to do for people is help them recognize their mission and then create a vision that makes that successful in the real world because if you cant live your mission on a daily basis what is the use of it?

If you say “This is my mission” and then you have to have some crappie job that you hate to make a few bucks to earn a living what kind of life is that.

So the ultimate situation is to find out what you are suppose to be doing on this earth, live it on a daily basis, make your money from it also so it’s a win win situation for everybody and then you to will be called a hero.

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Is Frank Kern Insane, On Drugs or a Genius? is a series of posts on the Warrior Forum discussing who are the real heroes and how Frank Kern's "Reluctant Hero", "Us vs Them" and "Hometown Boy or Girl Make Good" Mass Control Marketing System gives you a huge advantage.

href="http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=228408">You can see all the posts HERE:

Frank definitely can speak from experience. Not many internet marketers have lost everything because of being sued by the government and losing everything, let alone the fear of have the all powerful government, trying to destroy your life and family. Frank experienced the fear of loss and rejection big time and still did not give up.

He has been one of the internet heroes I wanted to interview for so many years but was not able because of doing 24-7 care for both my parents for the last 3 years. You can tell a lot about a person by what they do at the lowest point in their lives. After interviewing so many of the most successful internet marketers, one of my great epiphanies is that so many of them have achieved personal significance without achieving ultimate wealth.

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Frank Deardurff: I have a couple of sports heroes. How they carried themselves on the field as well as off the field. People like Walter Payton and Mike Singletary. They had a strong faith and believed in what they did on the field.

But I also looked up to people around me, people that I worked with. There are countless. Of course my biggest hero would be my mother.

Craig Perrine: There are quite a few of them in this series you are doing and I have a lot of good friends and I have already heard their wonderful interviews. To mention some there is David Garfinkel, Michael Fortin and Joe Patalli but seriously the list is really much too long to even list here.

I really see a hero in all my friends because I choose people to be around me who are creating and building to help make life better for people. They are often eunterpurners or authors or artist or even any sphere of life. Let’s say that they are really working at becoming the best mother or the best father that they can be. For me that is a hero and I have learned a ton from folks that one might say that there is nothing particularly special about them, but there is.

I will say that in my life I have been so blessed with teachers and parents and friends, particularly friends of my family that have been great role models and have guided me through some pretty tough times.

I went through some pretty tough stuff with a divorce in my family and a lot of chaos and friends and family are really what got me through all of that and to me; I have absorbed so much of what has worked for me from my heroes.

To me a hero is someone who teaches about possibility and the unlimited human potential that we all have, people who overcome challenges and create real value for others in the world.

For me a hero, it isn’t really about money or success although I do admire achievement and excellence so if it is money or sports great but really it has more to do with their heart and their intention and the fact that they are trying to do the best they can in the world.

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Is Frank Kern INSANE, ON DRUGS or a true marketing GENIUS?

At Rich Schefren's recent Strategic Profits, Main Event Seminar, February 22-29th, 2008, Frank radically expanded the minds of the attendees, exploded their mental horizons. His long hair surfer dude persona, underachiever mentality and mass control philosophy freaked out many.

When Frank forced them to question their entire life perspective, needless to say, many people became emotionally agitated, psychologically threatened.

Was Frank just messing with their minds...manipulating their reality to sell them something? Or did he really believe in the value of what he was saying?

Was Frank just making a point on how people are like Pavlov's dogs, salivating at the sound of a bell, or was this a truly transformational moment for everyone who experienced the tsunami of feelings.

Truly, it was almost like watching a batch of slimy, hermaphroditic earthworms, writhing in agony after being thrown onto the red hot, sizzling surface of a frying pan, scorched by a pulsating, blue gas flame.

As I watched the video again and again, I couldn't believe my eyes.

The attendees reminded me of agitated, fidgeting puppets...jerked around by invisible strings controlled by a cruel, evil, manipulative and unseen demented puppet master. Many continually shifted in their seats, trying desperately to find a safe harbor of personal reality, to escape the frightening truths revealed by Frank that threatened the very core of their existence.

You could hear a audible gasp and feel the extreme tension of steel springs pulled straight by an incredibly powerful force when Frank told them that $1 million cash in the bank, a huge mansion, expensive cars, and the freedom to do whatever you want left him feeling empty, anxious and angry.

What in the world was Frank talking about? Had he suddenly gone insane? Was this the result of too many mind-altering drugs, excessive partying, oxygen-depriving, mind-numbing surfing wipe-outs or a gradual, long, drawn out process...the pathway to mental derangement?

Many were amazed...astounded when Frank said, "The world lied to me. Wealth, financial freedom and material possessions do not bring happiness."

When Frank started to talk about PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE, you could hear a pin drop.

Personal significance? What in the HELL is that anyway?

If money, material possessions and power are not the most important things in life, then what is?

Frank explained in a hushed voice, "Personal significance is doing the things that really matter on a daily basis. Spending time with family and friends, and doing what you love daily is the pathway to happiness and fulfillment. Working with people you know, love and trust, who feel the same way about you, should be the goal of every person."

What do you think? Is Frank Kern insane, a mass control manipulative monster, a drugged-out surfing, skateboarding hippy weirdo throwback to the 60s or a true visionary and Pied Piper to a new emotionally fulfilling reality?

What is your perfect 24 hour day that well bring you peace, happiness, fulfillment and joy that you would live every day for the rest of your life?

Ralph Zuranski

PS Is John Reese a co-conspirator in this effort to rock the rich, elite, super-star Internet marketers worlds?

Posted by ralph at 04:35 AM | Permalink

Is Frank Kern INSANE, ON DRUGS or a true marketing GENIUS?

At Rich Schefren's recent Strategic Profits, Main Event Seminar, February 22-29th, 2008, Frank radically expanded the minds of the attendees, exploded their mental horizons. His long hair surfer dude persona, underachiever mentality and mass control philosophy freaked out many.

When Frank forced them to question their entire life perspective, needless to say, many people became emotionally agitated, psychologically threatened.

Was Frank just messing with their minds...manipulating their reality to sell them something? Or did he really believe in the value of what he was saying?

Was Frank just making a point on how people are like Pavlov's dogs, salivating at the sound of a bell, or was this a truly transformational moment for everyone who experienced the tsunami of feelings.

Truly, it was almost like watching a batch of slimy, hermaphroditic earthworms, writhing in agony after being thrown onto the red hot, sizzling surface of a frying pan, scorched by a pulsating, blue gas flame.

As I watched the video again and again, I couldn't believe my eyes.

The attendees reminded me of agitated, fidgeting puppets...jerked around by invisible strings controlled by a cruel, evil, manipulative and unseen demented puppet master. Many continually shifted in their seats, trying desperately to find a safe harbor of personal reality, to escape the frightening truths revealed by Frank that threatened the very core of their existence.

You could hear a audible gasp and feel the extreme tension of steel springs pulled straight by an incredibly powerful force when Frank told them that $1 million cash in the bank, a huge mansion, expensive cars, and the freedom to do whatever you want left him feeling empty, anxious and angry.

What in the world was Frank talking about? Had he suddenly gone insane? Was this the result of too many mind-altering drugs, excessive partying, oxygen-depriving, mind-numbing surfing wipe-outs or a gradual, long, drawn out process...the pathway to mental derangement?

Many were amazed...astounded when Frank said, "The world lied to me. Wealth, financial freedom and material possessions do not bring happiness."

When Frank started to talk about PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE, you could hear a pin drop.

Personal significance? What in the HELL is that anyway?

If money, material possessions and power are not the most important things in life, then what is?

Frank explained in a hushed voice, "Personal significance is doing the things that really matter on a daily basis. Spending time with family and friends, and doing what you love daily is the pathway to happiness and fulfillment. Working with people you know, love and trust, who feel the same way about you, should be the goal of every person."

What do you think? Is Frank Kern insane, a mass control manipulative monster, a drugged-out surfing, skateboarding hippy weirdo throwback to the 60s or a true visionary and Pied Piper to a new emotionally fulfilling reality?

What is your perfect 24 hour day that well bring you peace, happiness, fulfillment and joy that you would live every day for the rest of your life?

Ralph Zuranski

PS Is John Reese a co-conspirator in this effort to rock the rich, elite, super-star Internet marketers worlds?

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Paul Colligan: Well, historically, I think the biblical character of the apostle Paul is an amazing one, because this guy did what he thought he was supposed to be doing 110%.

And then, he had a change in his life and he believed he completely saw the error of his ways. He completely turned around and did 110% change. But always with fervor, always with excitement, always with complete dedication and I really appreciate that.

I like to think that if this all goes to pot one day, that that part of me won’t change. And historically that’s one that I look to. Everybody loves to talk about what he did after the fact.

I think he made a decision on the right side of things, but the fact of the matter was it is part of who he was from the very beginning…to really pursue what he believed in.

And I think that’s important.

It’s a reminder for me too that if something changes radically, one of the big things I try to do with my business, if you look at Colligan.com, we’ve have a mission statement. One of the big things there is, I want to be willing to change everything if the technology dictates it.

Right now you talked at the beginning about my e-commerce sites that I partner with. I truly believe that those are the best e-commerce options on the planet. I truly believe that.

Is it possible that one day a better e-commerce solution could pop up? Yes. Could I, will I lose money if a better e-commerce engine pops up? Yes.

But, am I going to hold on to my system and not let anyone know about this new system because I want to keep the revenues? I hope I’m not going to do that.

So that’s one hero. There is a flip side of it.

I just think of what is happening overseas, the soldiers over there, what they are going through and what they’re doing. A lot of them don’t necessarily, 100% believe in what’s going on. But they believe in the higher call and I just applaud that. I just cannot comprehend the courage that goes on over there.

You know, we were in Germany and my dad actually was a teacher for the dependent kids. He was in the military before I was born. We had it easy. There was good beer, good sausage and friendly people.

These people are in the desert and people want to kill them. It’s a whole different world. So the soldiers right now, I just cannot think enough of them in every way.

And then my family…my daughters are so gorgeous because they have no sense of the inability to do anything. Now, they’re five and two, so they haven’t gone bitter on me.

You know, my daughter will look at me and say, “I’ve got a plan, I need two boxes, some wire and some paint” and I just want to pursue that to the fullest. For her 4th birthday, she told me one day, she said, “I want to do a lemonade stand”. I said “Why?” and she said, “To make money like you do!” It was awesome.

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Happiness is not numbing yourself from pain. It the opposite. It is opening yourself to feeling all that you are. It is pursuing your deeper self and living More. Judith Wright]

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Randy Charach: My wife, my children, my parents. I look at a lot of public figures who I think are very, very -- doing a great job for humanity and for others. I’d rather not mention who they are. A lot of them are commonly acknowledged; some aren’t.

None of them are evil, that’s for sure. Well, I will give you a hint of where I am going. You know, I happen to think Elton John is a hero, and that’s why I kind of want to avoid not naming people because people would go, what? I look at the way he -- well, certain things stand in my mind. I will use him as an example and then you can just imagine what other sort of quirky examples are in my mind.

There was like a musical award program, it was within the last couple of years, and Eminem, the rapper who was on it and he had been widely criticized for anti-gay lyrics in his songs. Of course, Elton John is homosexual and is quite open about it.

They were performing together, which was really, really nice to see. Whatever the reasons for it, whether it’s for someone to prove a point or not, it doesn’t matter, I don’t even think about that stuff. The fact that they would work together on this I attribute the heroism in that respect mostly to Elton John and not so much to Eminem. Not that I am saying anything negative about Eminem.

Then when they came out for their applause, which was plentiful, Eminem stuck both hands out, gave the finger to the audience. Elton John went to hug Eminem. Eminem kind of like shrugged him away. But Elton John didn’t react negatively to any of that. He instead was probably coming from a place of compassion to this Eminem guy.

Let me give you one more similar example in case this one, people don’t -- some people are wondering what I am talking about. There is a fellow who is a Canadian well-known business man named Jimmy [Patterson]. I have happened to actually met him many times. I know him. Every time I’ve met him, he’s been a really nice man. I’ve only heard things about him that, other than nice, which are just things him about being eccentric. Nothing really bad, right?

But where he really gained my respect, not so much with my personal interactions with him, but during 1986 in Vancouver, he led -- he was like CO of Expo 86 -- that may not be 100 percent; maybe he wasn’t CO, but he was huge, definitely right up there in organizing it or a figurehead for it. Somebody actually, some sort of a protester or whatever, threw an egg at his head.

You know, this guy is worth, I don’t know, billions or hundreds of millions or whatever. He is one of the richest men in Canada. He didn’t even flinch. All he did was just, nothing. I don’t even think he took his hand and wiped it off. He just kept going. It wasn’t important. What was important was the task at hand and what he was there to do, whatever it was, cutting a ribbon or something.

Again, same idea; same concept. They are doing what’s important to them, they’re doing what they think is right. They are not taking things personally. They are not letting other people’s problems -- they’re not making those other people’s problems their own.

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The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities. Norman Vincent Peale

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Yanik Silver: Well, definitely my mom and dad. The other heroes in my life have been some of the mentors who I’ve learned a tremendous amount from. They’ve kind of shown me the way, really. I’ve been talking about Earl Nightingale a bunch of times, so he’s definitely up there on the list.

Dan Kennedy, who’s a direct marketing giant, and who I’m fortunate enough to know. It’s interesting how things come full circle. I remember reading all his newsletters and just being blown away and very excited to meet him; I would love to have the opportunity to even work with him. And now I’m running Dan Kennedy’s affiliate program. I even have a page in his monthly newsletter.

So it’s exciting when someone you look up to as a hero, and has influenced your life so much, and when you’re able to now stand on a relatively equal footing.

Some of the other heroes are pretty much the unsung heroes, like entrepreneurs. I think any entrepreneur is a hero to me. Anyone who has the gumption to start their own business and to really decide to go out there and make a go out of it, even if they fail at their business, is a hero to me.

They are providing something of value back to society, or else they’re going to be out of business pretty soon. They’re providing jobs. Our whole economy, or a lot of it, is based on small entrepreneurs. So to me, those people are really deserving of the title of hero.

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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Helen Keller: Author, activist and lecturer

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Mike Filsaime: The teachers and the pastors and the kids that are working with the youths in the YMCA and the Big Brother Program and things like that. Those are the real heroes out there today.

One thing I really want to talk about is those people that are serving this country over seas. Some of them are so young they don’t even realize how important they are or even what the cause is that they are fighting for, but they are real heroes.

As a mastermind unit together they build up and defend the strongest country in the world and give us the freedom we might take for granted.

Paulie Sabol: The people who are the real heroes who are not getting the recognition they deserve are the people who are speaking out boldly and with their conscious. They are concerned about wars of aggression and rumors of additional wars. They are very concerned about your privacy and your rights being eroded, besmirched and generally trampled upon.

They are worried about a system of government and a system of elections that can be flawed and tampered with and can be frankly stolen. These are people who are speaking a truth that we are even afraid to hear and they continue to do it boldly.

They are using the Internet, and they’re making Internet videos, and they are educating. They are going directly to the people. Those are the heroes. Not only are they not getting the recognition that they deserve, quite often and quite frankly, they are being torn apart, torn down, and chewed up by the system that usually has the power and all the methods and means of communication and mediation.

Donna Fox: We could be here a long time for this list. It would include teachers, parents, teenagers, mothers, single mothers, single fathers, and children. There are amazing heroes who are children out there that don’t get the attention they deserve.

Now because sometimes being a hero is really just about moving forward and doing something for others and even doing something for you in the process, every child that lends a hand to another child and children can be pretty cruel. A child that is kind is a hero.

Nobody rewards them. We don’t reward our police officers and our firemen, the people who are saving our lives, nearly as much as we should be. Or the pilots and the stewardesses that make airplane travel great.
Or the staffs in hotels that keep the bathrooms clean for us, or the ticket taker in the subway station, or the people who keep the roads clean. Everyone does something to help us.

We don’t realize how many people touch us all day long. There aren’t nearly enough sung heroes in this world. There are far too many unsung heroes. There are just far too many.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
- Will Rogers

Tom Beal: Oh boy. The heroes would be the firemen, police, teachers and all those people are creating so much impact. The military are in some cases taking a lot of heat yet they are protecting the freedoms we embrace. Also those teaching the kids proper things whether its teachers, firemen, police officers, those people I feel are a little under appreciated.

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Stephen Pierce: I probably couldn’t give them recognition right now because I probably don’t even know who they are. Most of the time people recognize those who reach some kind of public status. They did something that was worthy of being put into the public’s eye, but if you count how many people are tracked by the media as “celebrities,” it pales in comparison to the number of people that aren’t tracked. So you would have to think that the number of people who’s lives are impacting other people’s lives, far out number the number of people who maybe are making some kind of impact, maybe on television or in print or something like that.

So I would think that for every one person that you know about there’s probably 100 that we don’t.

Sharif Khan: Many of the teachers, many of the coaches, many people who are training and teaching young entrepreneurs, these people are not getting the recognition they deserve because we are all focused on the celebrities or the actors or the sports heroes that we tend to forget our friends and families and the people around us who are making a small difference in people’s lives on a daily basis.

Debra Berg: I really believe they are the civic entrepreneurs I’ve written about. The reason being that the social ills of poverty, at-risk youth, neighborhood decay, housing shortages and a host of others were escalating and not being addressed in an effective way by our large institutions.

Otherwise, these problems would have been solved long ago. The civic entrepreneur in our society is having much greater success at solving these tough issues at a fraction of the cost of government programs. They’re doing it in such a way that is more compassionate, inclusive, and engaging of people in the community (to become volunteers and donors).

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
- Victor Hugo

Jason James: Teachers are a group that comes to mind. Teachers get paid like crap. Let’s be honest. Where would we be without education and teachers? They dedicate their lives to teaching others. Also, going back to the military, people that serve in the military, while there is a lot done to recognize people in the military I don’t think it’s enough. The sacrifices that some of these kids, especially, make, I don’t think they are getting recognized enough because they really are heroes.

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"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord." Earl Nightingale: Author, The Strangest Secret, Lead the Field

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Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. Sidney Lovett

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Michel Fortin: Absolutely, but you know, those who are the real heroes are people who don’t seek recognition in the first place. They’re not heroes for the sake of recognition. They’re heroes because they’re heroes.

You know, to answer your question by very blunt answer, yes of course there are heroes out there today in today’s world that do deserve more recognition but you ask them that question, what do you think they’ll say? I don’t care. I do what I feel is right, point, period. You know? And that’s the more important thing about that.

Chuck Daniel: We do have a lot of people who are heroes and they are very public heroes, but there a lot of people that work in the background, like the 9/11 folks.

Some of them were on TV and some of them did get coverage, but there were a whole lot of folks who were there and were also helping and they weren’t getting coverage, but they were heroes nevertheless.

People, like I said, people can be different heroes in different ways. I think the ability to be a successful role model for someone else is a way to be a hero as well, but, there are lots of people that you never hear about. Like you were mentioning, maybe the ability to point out to people, just look around in your neighborhood or indirectly at other people who are doing these types of things and get to know what they do and use that as a role model.

Carl Turner: I feel the entrepreneurs are because they make things happen, and sure they work long hours, but they give - and by giving they get so much back. So I think they are the unsung heroes of our society today.

My grandfather had all the stores with all of the cotton gins and saw mills and farms, yet he didn’t do most of the work to run them; He found other people to do it for him.

He had the vision and he had the strength of being able to pull everything together.

My grandmother, she did a lot of the things herself as far as helping neighbors and things, but the fact that she gave to them allowed them to enjoy a better life and really appreciate it.

Heroes are the people who really believe in themselves. See, you can’t give something you don’t have. If you don’t have love for yourself, you can’t give it to someone else. If you don’t have the belief in yourself, you can’t give it to someone else.

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Frank Garon: I have a friend whose mom is dying and dad is elderly and infirmed himself, but he’s busy taking care of her and trying to keep her home. I mean, it’s inevitable she’s going to go to a hospice or nursing home. It’s just to the point where she really should’ve been in a while ago.

This seventy or eighty year old guy that can barely move himself is keeping his wife home and he’s hurting himself physically and draining himself mentally just to keep his wedding vows. When she goes in somewhere, they're going to take the last fifteen thousand of his money.

That’s going to be it. To me, hey, that guy’s a bigger hero than I am right now. Yet he’s not recognized. He can't get aid, he can't get help, and he can't get support. What’s wrong with this picture?

Craig Garber: You don’t want to see them on the T.V. I would like to but it won’t sell, or maybe it will sell as a tail end of a show; “Tonight’s closing story we have grandma Essy, who is 97 years old and takes care of fifteen kids”. I think that’s too mundane and people discount it.

I think that people don’t acknowledge that that’s the way the world goes round. Whether you have different opinions or similar opinions, that’s the thing that makes the world a great place to live in. It’s to mundane, people want to see sensational stuff. They’re not going to stop and consider stuff like that.

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
- Edmund Hillary

Troy White: There are a lot of them, and a lot of them are educators. We’ve all had one teacher in our lives, be it at school or a friend or a family friend of something, and it’s funny how all it can take is just one little thing that will stay with you for the rest of your life and drive you to achieve great things.

I had a teacher in university that taught me the power of preparation and visualization and it was because of her that I got a job at Hewlett Packard. I was up against 500 people in the first round and I made it to the final two and got hired. It was because of what she taught me on how to be prepared and then how to visualize that final agreement when they hired me.

It’s people like that who are the true heroes in our lives and it doesn’t take a lot for them to inspire and lead you and take with you the rest of your life. I wish there was some way to get more credit to those people because there’s lots of them out there who have done amazing things for kids.

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Those who love deeply never grow old- they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. Leo Buscaglia

In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats

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Robert Channing: The mothers, the teachers. Teachers are phenomenal. They are teaching how to have a job, and to go in the world and work for somebody else, but I think the Heroes program that you are working on now is going to bring a different dimension, a different philosophy to the schools and to kids that don’t work for somebody else.

Although it’s a great opportunity, try to work for yourself and try to teach yourself to rely on yourself. For example, you can rent a lifestyle, meaning you can have a job at IBM making $100,000 a year, have a beautiful home, a BMW, a car, two children and all of a sudden IBM lays you off.

Who are you working for? Now you are scraping, trying to find a job, minimum wage, a lot less than you made, but when you work for yourself, you have investments; you invest in yourself in your mind, and your opportunities.
Meaning real estate, your business meaning when you go out and work, you are being compensated for your own mind, not by working for somebody else to make them a millionaire. Work for yourself to make yourself get ahead in this life.

Even if you have job and you are in the job right now, and you are sitting and working for somebody else, that’s okay. You can be wealthy, and have a comfortable lifestyle.

I think it’s a great lifestyle sometime, because my friends are teachers and they make a comfortable living. They have summers off, but also what you want to do with your time off. When you go to work, that’s your time to work but that’s your living.

When you come home, if you are going to work every day, that’s when you make your life. That’s why Robert Kiyosaki says, that’s when you go out and you find real estate, or you find your business that you can open. You can have the best of both worlds.

I’m not putting down going to work for somebody else because 95% of the people in this country do that. The top 10% of people, entrepreneurs, they are working for themselves and providing these wonderful experiences and jobs for people, but you can do both, that’s what I’m saying. I’m not putting them down, I’m giving the opportunity to open your mind that if you work for somebody else on your off time, when you go home instead of watching television or doing something not productive, go and look at a property. Invest in a property, invest in real estate. Study commodities; study how to be a marketing person for internet products. So that’s my point with that.

All things are becoming to good people.
- Proverb

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. --Mark Twain

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Remember, any step toward consciousness counts. Every step is a victory and every step enhances the quality of your life. Judith Wright

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"Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention." Larry Winget: Speaker, Author and television host

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Heather Seitz: I’m sure that many of your people have said this, but I think that teachers are huge, because they’re out there every day. I’ve taught some pre-school in a past life and just some of the things they have to handle because parents aren’t parenting properly or are not giving the kids the love and affection that they need. We know that there’s a crisis with the education system, but I really do think that teachers need to be more recognized without a doubt.

Then as far as other people, you know you look at one of my partners with Next Level, Robin. I think that his dedication and commitment, if you talk about people that aren’t recognized enough. He is absolutely dedicated to the Boys and Girls Club and is out there doing so much, giving so much time and money and effort to help them. The people that are doing that that nobody ever even knows exist. I think that they need to be recognized.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.
- Unknown Source

Kevin Hurley: I think you get any community, especially in America, and find heroes. Volunteers, I’d like to see some more people volunteer for literacy. It really is one of my favorite things to do and it’s almost a sarcastic or cynical thing.

When I go to a town, what I like to do is to watch their local news. I just see crappy production value and scare tactics. It seems like that’s what gets ratings now in the media. We’ve got to scare them. We’ve got to show some negativity, somebody got shot, something is going wrong, this or that.

Would it really kill them to do five minutes a day on the positive things that are happening?

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

[ Warren Bennis ]

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton

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Ted Nicholas: The first ones that come to mind, since we were just talking about children, are sports heroes. I think sports heroes are tremendous for children. The people that are setting records, breaking homeruns, for example or people that are coming close to it like Sammy Sosa, and others who came here as immigrants. He seems to be a very kind and good person and a good parent. I remember the retired John Elway, the former NFL quarterback and "Hall of Famer." I think he is tremendous.

I have had on occasion a chance to do some things for the Make a Wish Foundation that he was very much a part of and supporting them. He is a terrific hero to look up to as a great NFL Champion. I think the tennis players, some of the top ones, are wonderful heroes like the current number one, Roger Federer and Andrea Agassi who has just been a terrific influence on so many kids, so many young people. So, many of the sports legends I feel are great heroes.

Michael Jordon has of course influenced so many people from lower income backgrounds, because lower income kids tend to play a lot of basketball in neighborhoods and so forth. He is a tremendous hero, but then I think, also of authors again, who I think are terrific heroes.

I think to be a children's author means that you are a special hero, because what I like about children and authors that write for children, like Rowling and others, is that you have to be a person of special integrity. Kids can see through dishonesty better than adults. There's like a dishonesty filter and we adults can be more easily influenced by someone who may not have great integrity, but kids seem to see that.

So the children's writers are terrific heroes for children, I feel. Then of course, the entrepreneurs that are very good in the world are also very good examples in our lives. Individuals who are thinkers along their own path and people who influence so many people are heroes, like Bill Gates for example, Richard Branson, and the publisher heroes that may not be as well known in celebrity status, but, people like my friend Bill Bonner of Agora Publishing, he publishes pro-freedom and pro-entrepreneurial work.

Tom Phillips of Phillips Publishing and Bill Bonner are tremendous heroes who are helping to spread ideas. So the idea spreaders, if you will, are tremendous heroes. Just to name a few that I think are terrific are the people on the stage, who talk from the stage, who influence a lot of people, such as Peter Lowe, who is a seminar attendee of mine.

He does the biggest seminars in America right now. He is the promoter of Zig Ziggler and he is a very good speaker himself. They are terrific heroes bringing heroes like retired General Schwarzkopf, for example to speak at his seminars. I just think those people are tremendous heroes.

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Ray Edwards: I think there are plenty of them and I think that those are the people who are servants. Our society holds up as heroes the movie stars and rock stars and athletes.

There is nothing wrong with that. I think that in each of those categories there are people that deserve the title of being a hero. I think there are a lot fewer than the media would have us believe and certainly for different reasons than the media would have us believe.

The people that I think are really heroes that don’t get the recognition they deserve are the servants. I’m talking about the people who take care of the sick and the elderly, the people who minister both spiritually and very physically in a real way the poor and the handicapped, those who roll up their sleeves and go into a place like New Orleans after that tragedy there and go to work.

I’m going to be the first to admit that is not me. I don’t do those kinds of things. One of my goals in life is to get to that place. I have all kinds of excuses why I don’t do it.

I don’t have enough money. I can’t stop working yet. Those are things that I’ve got to work through. I realize that because we each have the ability to do I believe what we are willing to do.

We’ve got to sort out what we are meant to do too. Not everybody was meant for every kind of service. Also, I admire people who stand up for unpopular values that I think are important to the fabric of our country.
I don’t want to get off into a political rant or a deep, deep religious discussion but there are things that are happening in our country that I think are reprehensible. I am proud of and I am in admiration of the people who stand up and say, “This is not right, these kinds of injustices or endorsing this kind of behavior.”

There are unsung heroes everywhere and most of them are servants.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius

DJ Dave Bernstein: There's one gentleman that I had an opportunity to meet during the past summer, his name is Orrin Hudson, he actually teaches intercity youth how to play chess and he does this to relieve them of a lot of the problems and crimes that they are exposed to on a daily basis. I'm going, Wow, that's amazing, I mean, to get gang members, and disadvantaged children to play chess, to not only learn how to escape problems but to experience positive things in their lives.

That's incredible, and, all the teachers that are out there, maybe are making minimum teaching wages, and are teaching the kids, second graders, third graders, fourth graders, I'm dating a third grade teacher right now, and she's an incredible hero to me, and I don't think she even knows it, but she is changing the lives of children. I think that anybody pretty much that is changing the lives of the future of America, the children, they're absolutely heroes in my eyes.

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Dear Internet Marketers,

I need your help to determine which is the easiest to use and fastest to duplicate membership site software for the "In Search Of Heroes Program." I have been working with the three primary membership site software scripts:
1. Butterfly Marketing
2. Amember
3. Membergate

The more I work with each one, the more confused I get regarding which payment gateway to use:
1. Paypal
2. Authorize.net

Should I use Wordpress, Blogger or Movabletype blogs?

Should I just eliminate the forum option as Frank Kern suggests in his Mass Control educational series that it is only a place for whiners and complainers?

How do I integrate them into the membership sites to facilitate as much social interaction as possible?

My goal is to have separate membership sites for all the major areas of life where heroes are making a positive difference in their:
1. Families
2. Churches
3. Communities
4. Businesses
5. Local governments

It is time to spread GOOD NEWS about the awesome role models that are all around us in our:
1. Families
2. Schools
3. Churches
4. Businesses
5. The military

I am so sick and tired of politicians and business leaders saying one thing and doing another. Personal conduct does matter? Dishonest and covert activities do affect your business life...no matter what those who have been caught doing wrong say.

Young people need good role models who are honest, courageous and have personal integrity...where their words match their actions.

The goal of the heroes program has always been to help students learn how to sell their ideas and products to make money for themselves, family and community through copywriting and the sale of digital products.

Now that many families are experiencing financial challenges because of the increases in the cost of living, including gas, education and basic necessities and job losses, etc., NOW, more than ever, the entire family needs to work together to generate income and pool their resources. Working together, they can create the life of their dreams.

The Internet is a perfect vehicle for the family to work together to generate much needed income.

After interviewing so many successful Internet marketers and business leaders, I had an epiphany recently.

Two of my economic Heroes, who like Frank Kern, were sued by greedy government officials, opened my eyes to how the world really works.

They speak from personal experience. Their $350,000,000.00 company was severely damaged by the government's unbridled efforts to steal the money, destroy their company and slander their good names.

These economic heroes, for over 33 years, taught doctors, business executives and individuals how to legally:
1. Pay only their fair share of taxes
2. Protect their assets from greedy, litigious criminals
3. Create foundations to permanently endow their family members
4. Set up fully endowed, self-directed, non-profit foundations to perpetuate the social and spiritual values they felt were important...while they were still alive.

After fighting the governmental forces, with its unlimited resources and army of brain-washed foot soldiers, for 4 years to a standstill, they finally proved their innocence and the righteousness of their cause.

But at what cost...the crippling of their business, loss of income and the emotional pain and distress caused by the disintegration of their personal and business relationships. Few of their friends or business associates could afford to stand with them against the unbridled threats of prosecution and unmitigated slander of their good names by out-of-control governmental officials.

Still, like Frank Kern, they refused to give up on their own dreams. They are working hard to do what they love, restore their good names and replenish their depleted bank accounts.

They are using this financial, social and emotional catastrophe to motivate them to achieve even greater levels of success.

They told me there is no satisfaction in witnessing the fall from grace of those that unjustly persecuted them. There is no consolation when the public officials, at the highest levels of government, that abused their power and betrayed the confidence of those who voted them into office, lose their jobs. There is no joy when the wrong-doers descend into the ignominy of so many "disgraced public official HELL!"

These incredible men have been valuable mentors and a source of real inspiration. I hope they will allow me to tell their story and share their amazing heroes' interviews...even now as they consider suing the government and the guilty government officials and their attorneys who attempted to destroy their lives and company.

They deserve to recover their financial losses and restore their good names.

It is a testament to the indomitable human spirit that they still continue to teach individuals, business executives and directors of non-profits how to achieve financial independence and personal significance.

Everyone needs to know how to legitimately save money by paying the exact amount of taxes required by law, protect their assets from people who make a living stealing the hard earned assets of others and set up endowed, fully-funded foundations to permanently provide for their families and perpetuate their beliefs.

They told me in strict confidence, "The only way to create social change is to first make a lot of money. Then, give the politicians and government officials some of it so they will protect their cash cow and implement legislation that will create the social changes you desire."

"Nothing happens until you have the financial resources to pay others who are only interested in wealth and power to implement social change and protect you from the opposing forces who want to steal your money for themselves. Why do you think politicians spend millions of dollars to get a job that pays $50,000 to $200,000 a year?"

After working on the "In Search Of Heroes Program" for 16 years, I am again firmly convicted that students and families need to make money so they can pay for food, clothing, shelter and transportation, education and health care before they can implement local social changes. They need financial resources to fund local projects that are desperate for funding.

Let us work together to end the begging and hopeful, watchful, waiting for money from the government and philanthropic organizations. It is time for real social heroes, that are forging the destiny of their own lives, families and communities to have the financial resources to help themselves and others in their community.

The best membership site model is critical to the success of local "In Search Of Heroes" programs. The membership sites are going to be the primary vehicle I believe will make the largest difference in each community.

When everyone works together to generate desperately needed income that can be used intelligently by those intimately familiar with local problems and needs, everyone benefits.

Through the promotion of local heroes and their businesses, by the students who learn copywriting and online and offline marketing, the business owners who deserve to make the most money will become wealthy. They deserve to be recognize as local heroes because they provide the best services and invest back into their local community.

Local business heroes should have a definite marketing advantage over those interested only in ripping off their customers. "Angie's List" is a good example of the social involvement when friends and neighbors identify the individuals who deserve your business.

All the most reliable marketers suggest we create multiple, integrated membership sites. I am taking their advice, but, the membership software is so diverse and complicated.

What is the most intuitive, simple and cost-effective membership site software for generating money from the sale of digital products and online and offline services.

What are your suggestions? Which one should I use? What are the benefits of each?

I appreciate your help. I am getting ready to launch the "In Search Of Heroes" membership site where I will share the Internet marketing, asset protection and personal significance wisdom of all the Internet, social, economic, military, copywriting and business Heroes I have interviewed.

I would love to hear your thoughts on any of the membership site software programs you are familiar with and have used yourself.

Sincerely yours,
Ralph Zuranski

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Happiness is not numbing yourself from pain. It the opposite. It is opening yourself to feeling all that you are. It is pursuing your deeper self and living more. Judith Wright

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same
way, you learn to love by loving. St. Francis De Sales

Keep your face to the sunshine, and you will not see the shadows. Helen Keller

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Willie Crawford: Schoolteachers, there are so many schoolteachers who are in really, really dangerous situations who are getting paid next to nothing. They’re not getting any respect and yet they’re shaping the next generation of our country. So I think schoolteachers.

I want to say soldiers because I was a soldier, and because when America transitioned force what that meant was, the rich could then say well I don’t want my son to go into military so I’m going to hire you instead to go.
Risk your life to defend me and my rights and my privileges and someone who you know once you raise your hand and say I’ll follow orders and do whatever I’m told to do, you’ve basically volunteered to sacrifice your life if necessary.

While everybody says a soldier is a hero probably, most don’t realize that they have basically given up all their rights. I spent 20 years where if you told me to charge up that hill with a rock it was my job to do that, and even if I saw the guy in front of me getting shot it’s my job to do that.

So when a country has an all-volunteer force, you’re finding people to step out and volunteer to risk their lives and their health to defend your way of life and to me a soldier is a big hero.

Nobody, again nobody just wants to run out and get shot but a soldier is defending your freedom, your ability your right to think whatever you want to, but its often somebody who, who has less choices as to other things to do. So because they don’t have a lot of other options they choose to go into the military and they’re off in Eroc or in whatever country. They are in the demilitarized known in Korea.

The war ended in Korea in the 50’s, the countries have been at war over almost 60 years, and there are soldiers on the front lines everyday right now.

So to me a soldier, a young man who at 18 gets married and marries his high school sweetheart, and then goes off and leaves her maybe pregnant, and gets a picture of his child being born while he is off in some other country, to me that’s a tremendous, tremendous sacrifice, and anybody listening or reading this interview, I beg you to show your support for somebody like that.

You don’t have to agree with the politics of your country, but what you have to realize is that the soldiers don’t have to agree with the politics of the country, they do what they are told to do.

I have often said, the old men set around and make decisions, and send the young men out to get shot. Those young men have no choice. They volunteered to do a job, and then they have to trust their leaders to make good decisions, and decisions aren’t always good, but they do what they’re told to do, so to me a soldier is a tremendous, tremendous hero.

Fireman, policeman, very tough jobs, they do things to protect us and we often don’t appreciate them. We all should appreciate fireman. Policeman… you know I’m driving down the freeway and my wife sees a police car and she brakes or wha