Mindshare Mastermind Provides Clear Strategic Direction and High-Caliber Strategic Business Partnerships

I think it's the quality of the people who are here. So often when you go to various conferences, there'll be some people who are entrepreneurial enough to want to take on your particular product, right? But that's not going to be everyone in the room. Whereas here you'll notice that because everyone's got low-ticket items, medium-ticket items, high-ticket items, they have the bandwidth to look at how they can bring in other products and other vendors into their offerings. And therefore, I think the quality and the caliber of the clients here, potentially for a business, are higher than at other health conferences. So my name is Ashok Gupta, and I'm the founder and CEO of The Gupta Program. So I attended this Summit for the first time last year, and it was an incredible experience. I met some incredible people, and also I felt there was this energy in the room. There were people who really wanted to grow their business, make their business a success, and I want to be around those like-minded people. I'm from the UK, and not to put UK people down, but they don't have such an entrepreneurial spirit as often the Americans do. And so I really enjoyed that experience. And this year, I've come back to Mindshare again, but this time as a vendor, where I'm also exhibiting, because I saw the quality and the caliber of the people here, the offerings that they have for their patients, and thought that our concierge service, where clinicians can integrate brain retraining into their practice, would be a fantastic addition to their protocols. So, since last year, since I've been a year on the Mastermind, there has been a transformation in our business and our approach. And often, JJ talks about this idea of "A rising tide raises all boats", and so we were that boat. We were that boat before Mastermind, which had sails butwas being buffeted by the waves, in a storm. And we were just reactive, so things would happen, we would react to them rather than having a clear direction. So I think the first thing was, coming on Mindshare created a very clear direction. We set the sail so even though the storms were coming, we had a clear direction through them. And then secondly, the community. Being part of the Mindshare community has been incredible and Mastermind. You're not only getting a model of your own ship and your own boat, but all the other boats out there, how are they performing? How are they handling things and surviving? And so learning from your peers is, in fact, more important, I think, than learning from experts, because this is real practical information that you're learning. So that's the equivalent of setting your direction and having a flotilla of boats all around you, supporting you. And then finally, I think the third thing that's really made me want to come back to Mindshare has been the contacts. There's been so many amazing contacts that JJ and the team have put me in touch with, which is like suddenly discovering your boat has an engine and you can power that boat forward even faster. And there can be step changes in your business when you're just having one contact you're introduced to, that makes it all worth it. And you can't put a value on something like that. So that's been my experience over this last year with the Mastermind and Mindshare.