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Hey I’m Rich

And This Is My Story…

Hey I’m Richard Guzman but you can call me “Rich”.Glad you stopped by to get to know me more before we start working together, I would be doing the same if I was inyour shoes. I can tell you so much about my life and how much success I have had as an internet marketer it willblow your mind. You know I didn’t become an internet marketer because of the company I was a representative with,the products or the money.

I had one goal and my goal was to travel across the country and see the sunsets of the most beautiful beaches in theworld. My heart was filled with joy every time I thought about going to visit Ibiza, Spain, it’s documented that Ibiza hasthe largest and most remarkable sunset in all of the earth and people (Sunset People) go party there just to see it inperson. Pretty powerful!

Image Credit: Flickr-Simon Thomas Ibiza 2010

Most people get involved in a business venture because they want to make some money and get out of debt, I canunderstand that but speaking the truth here as a coach its got to be more than just about making money. You gottaask yourself what is it I am passionate about? What do I want to do with the rest of the time I have on this planet?Who do I want to help? What do I want to change right now in my life if money was not an option? Now let’s talk aboutmy story…

My Passion For Music

My journey began when I was a teenager living with my mom and two sisters in Massachusetts. I always had apassion for wanting to learn how to play a guitar but never really had anyone to teach me how to learn the skill ofplaying such an incredible instrument. I believed that if I were able to play a guitar and grow up to be a Rock Star thatI would be rich and famous living the life man. Well it wasn’t like that at all, in fact life was pretty tough growing upwith this dream inside of me and I wanted to be in a real rock band.

I started creating the habit of visiting my local music store every single day non-stop after school and you know why?That’s right because the guitars. The store owner and I became great friends and he would allow me to stop in themusic store whenever I wanted so I can play with the instruments and get to know the different guitars. He also wouldspend time with me and share stories with me about his journey and how much he loved his favorite music artists. Icontinued to visit the music store consistently every day for an entire year straight, but what happened next really wasnothing short of amazing.

My First Guitar

I never had anyone to teach me how to play an instrument especially a guitar, hell I couldn’t pluck a note right if mylife depended on it. Amazingly though this one day out of the blue I received a surprise gift by one of my closestfriends, I was presented with a Guild electric guitar. This guitar was mine to have and I was going to take very special

care of it and make a promise to myself to learn how to play it. Over the next few years I ended up continuing to playas a guitarist in several different small scale bands to increase my experience. I was getting better and better with allof this practice I would one day be the best guitarist.

The Story of CLIP

Fast forward to the year 1999, I was hanging out with one of my friends that I grew up with and he asked me if I wouldbe interested in playing guitar in this band known as “CLIP”. This was the opportunity I been dreaming of and ofcourse I answered Yes! Even though my only experience was playing in a few bands for a few years. I didn’t care Itook this opportunity and I ran with it, I felt this was it this is the moment I been waiting for where I can now play liveon stage in front of hundreds of people.

I met with the band members and we all just clicked man it was awesome, they appointed me lead guitarist in “CLIP”and we practiced together at least 3-4 times a week practicing. When the band members got word that we wouldpotentially be recording our own record CD for the first time we all was freaking excited, me and the guys allcelebrated together that we were getting ready to cut our first CD Album together.

Here are some pictures from our photoshoot taken in Massachusetts:

Our band was getting hot and we had a uniquesound that got a lot of club owners interested inbooking gigs simply because they loved ourmusic and style. It was fun while it lasted and Itoured with the CLIP a few times a weektraveling back and forth from Connecticut toRhode Island.

CLIP ALBUM (If you like your owncopy of CLIP Epidemic CD I have alimited quantity available $5) Emailme at aceandrich@gmail.com

You can listen to sample of our song “We All Fall”

There I was on stage rocking it out with bad ass my electric guitar fulfilling my dream of being a metal rock star.

Love Turns Into A Frozen Heart

During the time I was involved in the rock band CLIP I was in a relationship with my girlfriend for over four years. Ithought I was so in love with her, I thought I knew what type of person she was but until that dreadful day about aweek after Valentines Day was when the girl who I thought was my everything abandoned me.

I never in my life ever felt so frozen and crushed, I thought everything was going great for us but she actually took allof her stuff out of the apartment and left without a trace. For days I tried to look for her and ask her family where is sheand if she was alright.

Being abandoned is not something I wish on anyone to go through because that feeling really brought on so muchpain, hurt, and loneliness that my heart became frozen and numb towards finding love again. No matter whom I datedafter that I was numb and if someone said to me they love me I would feel it.

Pretty messed up right? It gets worse before it gets better.

So that’s what happened to me and it caused me to slow things down with my performance as an electric guitarist, mycareer in the rock band was starting not to be fun anymore and depression took over my life for a whole year. I lockedmyself up in my room and I would just hang out with my rottweiler puppy Daimon, he kept me laughing and happywhenever I came home.

Hey Doctors What’s Wrong With Me?

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I always been a guy who worked out at the gym and would scarf down whole grinders and be full. I had a very goodappetite and active lifestyle, working a job at Best Buy Geek Squad fixing computers and touring with CLIP. Suddenlyone night I remember I had to go to the bathroom and I was so hung over that I pushed really hard (Sorry to grossyou out dude) and I felt this electrical sensation run up my leg it was strange.

The following day I had to perform on stage with the band and I remember feeling not right, I started feeling dizzy andI almost passed out. My friend rushed me to the Emergency room and the doctors didn’t know what was going onand sent me home with a diagnosis of a stomach flu.

I started to lose a lot of weight and my stomach got worse, even to the point where I had to travel to over 5 different

doctors and stomach specialists to find out what is wrong with me. Present day still the doctors put me through somany medical tests that they are stumped yet I am still dealing with these stomach issues.

So sometimes when I am working and I feel the symptoms I tend to just meditate with the discomfort and pain layingin my office chair. No one understands where or how this is happening and it’s effected me so much I can’t gainweight or eat like I used to. My friends were compassionate enough and expressed their concerns, but there isnothing else they can do but support me during this difficult time with my stomach issues.

[Update September 2014: I am happy to report I do have a clean bill of health from my current physical but mystomach issues haven't been resolved yet by the doctors. I will keep you posted]

Rest In Peace Daimon Eros Guzman

I wasn’t sure how to add this into telling you my story but since you want to know more about me I’ll tell you what how Ilost Daimon. Daimon had to be put down because he was suffering from tumors and the day he was dying he hadmultiple seizures and I was there the whole time. I had Daimon as a puppy and he was the most lovable and amazingwell trained rottweiler I ever had as a pet. I named him Daimon Guzman because he was apart of my family, he willbe forever missed. Here is the last video he was in with me when I was first getting started in video marketing.

My Awakening With Video Marketing

On a positive note, let’s talk about what happened after a couple years later because there’s more interesting eventsthat happened. Things started growing with the band and I was headed back in the studio with a real producer torecord the second album “EPIDEMIC”. The next level of my rock star career was starting to come together as I

wanted it to so I thought.

Now whenever you are in a band there is always a power trip and for some reason band members who used to getalong just don’t anymore. What happened next was just that, the band was falling apart, no one wanted to worktogether as a team anymore. I became frustrated and during the night of mix down I ended up walking out of theband resigning as a band member.

In 2008, I became interested in finding a new career, a better way to make money and travel the world without havingto work for a boss. I went online and discovered some YouTube videos by a woman named MariaAndros “The Video Marketing Queen”. I was interested in more of how happy she was recording videos of her lifeand her journey as an online marketer. I got inspired to want to go outside and record my own videos and inspireothers as much as she inspired me towards video marketing.

Therefore, I made the ultimate sacrifice and sold all my music and stage gear and joined my first online business. Yousee here is the thing, one of the reasons I wanted to get involved in online marketing as I said in the beginning wasbecause I wanted to travel to Spain and see the country. Once I learned the correct skills of online marketing andvideo marketing by learning through different courses by MLSP and Carbon Copy Pro it took my income from zero to$187,000 in less than six months after.

I accomplished this success goal during the time I was hungry and was willing to do these boring tasks on aconsistent daily basis. I worked from my dads house, my sisters house, the bedroom with my laptop and headphonesfrom a neighbours house, and even the alley way where I could get free WiFi internet service. Once I made that muchmoney in the online business I was involved in and generating great monthly income I managed to walk away frommy job and travel.

You can see all my travel videos on my YouTube channel at Dream It Become It

I bought a plane ticket and flew out to my first event for the company and finally got to meet all the video marketingleaders I been watching on YouTube in person. The best part wasn’t just meeting them it was the fact that they knewwho I was because the been watching my videos too! See even when you think your just recording videos and doingvideo marketing is boring, don’t forget someone is always watching and studying you.

I went to an event with a company called LGN International and thinking that I was going there to be a guest out ofnowhere I was approached by the host of the event. Guess who? The host was non other than multiple 7-figureearner Dwayne Golden man and he recognized who I was and wanted me to coach on stage about internetmarketing.

In the audience there were about 1000 people and to my surprise my first reaction was like “Oh My God should I dothis or shouldn’t I ?” because I been on stage before to play just metal music but to speak and coach professionallythat was a whole different ball of wax. Needless to say after I shared my success with online marketing and videomarketing people applauded and wanted to connect after the event for more.

Dwayne Golden and Rich Guzman, Las Vegas LGN Event

This was my first coaching experience and I was grateful to have this chance to speak live on stage in Las Vegas infront of that many people and it totally changed my life. From this point forward a lot of new doors opened for me andI started getting to know many more people from around the world internationally in business. I taken my businessfrom a 5-figure business to a 6-figure income business from the ground up successfully and was qualified to coachothers with my strategies in internet marketing to duplicate the same in their businesses. I still wanted to learn moreand become a much effective leader in the online business industry so while I was at this event I met a wonderful andpowerful speaker and trainer by the name of Jeffery Combs.

I flew out to California to be mentored at a program called, “Breakthroughs To Success” with Jeffery Combs and ittotally helped me to not just learn about making money but how to be a serious professional entrepreneur.

Rich Guzman With Jeffery Combs

A Divine Intervention of True Love

Even though all this was happening and it started out pretty bad it got better because to took the time to work throughall of the sickness and depression by doing things that made me happy. Now here I am on the most beautiful beachout in Puerto Rico and I should be the happiest man alive right? Well not exactly because in the midst of all thissuccess I was missing that something, I didn’t have anyone I could share my experiences with and was single. Itwasn’t until one night I received a Skype call from my friend Robert Irrizzary in Ponce, Puerto Rico to meet thisfriend who was having a Skype conference and he wanted me to join in and listen to what she had to say.

After attending that conference call I was like man this girl got a lot of energy and got a lot to say where she is makinga whole lot of sense…I just got to meet this girl. The following day Anastacia Skype me on a video call and wanted totalk some more about business and marketing tips where we just got along so great. Several nights we were up latetalking on the Skype and there were times she was being so tired her and her baby would begin to doze off but we stillkept talking.

One day I was just coming back from a business trip because I was a way for a few days and arrived home only torun into an argument with one of roommates. Fortunately, Anastacia and I spoken that day about the situation andshe invited me to come and visit her in New Jersey just so I could hang with her and her family. Here is a video of theentire experience, oh yeah she recorded it all.

Photo Credit: Rich Guzman Photography

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The rest is history because my once brokenheart became renewed and filled with laughterand love once again. Ace and I just connectedso well that we fell for eachother in the mostdivine way is the best way I can describe it. Socurrently we been happily together for 4wonderful years and together we been growingan online coaching consulting business justhelping other people become skilled in internetmarketing and advertising. Not only did I end upwith a great and wonderful girlfriend but alsohave a wonderful step-son whom I love as if hewas my own child.

Photo Credit: Anastacia Hauldridge

In closing, I just want to say to you that if you are just sitting there thinking while reading this , “that will never happento me” or “I can’t be successful” well you are what you think remember that. Therefore shift your mindset and workharder on yourself as Jim Rohn says, it’s important to the success of your life. I can honestly say that everything inlife happens for a reason, without risk there is no reward.

Make a decision to get the help and coaching you need to learn the skills of online marketing and get laser focused forone year. Do everything you are supposed to do even if your not perfect and you fail more than once that is theprocess. You must crawl before you ever walk, therefore I believe in you and you can succeed in anything you putyour mind to. I am living proof of that and me and Anastacia will be here to help you every step of the way.

I want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my story, it certainly has been interesting. Now that youknow as much as you need to know about me, there is only one thing left to do. Let’s get connected!

See you on the other side!

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