Just Say Yes

February 20, 2010 by wendi
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The movie The Difference

February 17, 2010 by wendi
Filed under Wendi's Words

I am going to take a deep breath first.

Now- I have to make a tough decision about whether I am to be careful about what I say, or if I tell the absolute truth.

Yesterday I drove 2 hours to San Diego for an opportunity that was offered to me to be part of a movie called The Difference.

In their email and phone call to me they described the opportunity- perhaps vaguely- to be in the movie and that they are looking for people to be involved in the movie. Did I misinterpret the offer, or follow the carrot when they discussed their movie being produced as similar to the Secret and What the Bleep?
Sounded like a good opportunity, worth a drive to San Diego.

They also assured me that I had been carefully chosen for this.

I arrived at the room, there were about 7 other women.
Jaqueline assured everyone that they had been carefully chosen, that they were there because the staff had researched their work on their website and liked what they saw.
After the website comment 3 or 4 of the women said they don’t have a website, and 3 of them don’t even use a computer.

CLUE #1
No one was chosen. More likely is a boiler room calling a list of therapists- massage therapists, counselors, hypnotherapists, etc.

The offering, the emails, the phone call— no mention of it being any type of a sales presentation or offering to invest or buy anything. The set up was that it was to be “in the movie”.

Jacqueline began her speech by talking about her vision, her dream, her mission to open the hearts of all the people in the world.

She asked us how many people there are in the USA (she is from Australia) and apparently had no clue about the number of people- I was the only one who had a remote clue, at 300,000,000.

CLUE #2
A project of this proportion with a person doing a world tour to find her participants in the movie has no clue how many people are in the USA, even though she is planning to reach 6 billion people with her movie.

She drew some circles on some paper and showed that this would certainly affect the lives and open the hearts of 6 billion people. Hmmm.

“What is this movie about?” I asked several times.

Her answer was consistently, “I don’t know yet”

“What is the concept?” I queried.

“We won’t know that until it is made”, she replied.

Hmmm. Ok, well so far we have air. Nothing but air. And some circles on a paper on an easel.

At this point my spidey sense was tingling and I decided to make the most of this and pay attention. Nothing had been mentioned about money, this was obviously not an investment opportunity (there are disclosure laws about that) and so far it didn’t feel like a ponzi scheme.

Heads were bobbing up and down. Yes, yes, yes.

People were really on board, feeling the need to be part of something that does not exist, but will certainly open the hearts of 6 billion people in some magical way.

CLUE #3
Excuse the hell out of me, but if this is a business you better have a plan. What is your product? What is the content? Why does this have potential? What possible reason is there for the impact this movie will have on humanity?
Zippo.

Heads are still bobbing which is getting annoying to me. One woman in the room is a shill I am pretty sure. She just adds all the right words and enthusiasm.

I know, better than most, that people want to be part of something.
I get it.
And I know how easy it is to get excited about something that hits your hot button.

By choosing people (women) who are therapists and new age types, she has found a group that has a similar hot button. She has the key to their lock.

In addition to movie you will have the opportunity to make a 6 minute video that will go on a website that will be seen by billions of people. This was a big part of her presentation. You will be exposed to millions or billions and your 6 minute video will make you wildly successful.

CLUE #4
Big claims for a business a product that does not exist, a website that has a lot of blank pages and no track record in internet marketing, film production or websites that have performed well in the past.
You can’t just say it and make it true.
Saying that you will expose people to millions of viewers is simply lying to them.

Putting a video on youtube is exposing it to millions of viewers. Last time I checked that is free and you can do that today. Not in 3 years from now.

My curiosity is building.

She is going to ask for money soon… she is stirring the pot.

Heads are still bobbing up and down in agreement with everything she is saying. Why does this bother me so much?

I am a business person.
I’ve created and run a business from the ground up, 3 times. Each one very successful, my current one successful in doing millions in sales annually. I know my stuff.

I am not so much a skeptic as I am realistic.

She says she has 750 people in Australia who are already signed up as collaborators.

To cut to the chase-
She wants $2000 for you to participate as a collaborator.
For this you get a nice list of things, like the right to use the logo, an online training class to help you make your 6 minute video, some teleseminars.

Of course each of these things shows a price attached to it with an exact (and ridiculous value) like the online training class to learn to make your video, worth $3028.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT- that is such an interesting number it must be true!

And your six minute video being posted on their site, is worth….
wait for it…

$1540 (and to think… I can put a video anywhere on the internet for free)

And you get your profile on The Difference website, and that is a value of….

$434 Another spectacular number. How did she come up with this? Not $433, not $435, but Four Hundred thirty four dollars. It must have taken weeks to crunch the costs to arrive at this number.

After all… this woman stated she was an accountant.

But here is an interesting comment from the accountant-

“I am going to give 10% of the money… ummm, from the amount that is ummm… before taxes… what do you call that… (she puts her head down and thinks for a moment) … the gross, I think that is what it is… that will be given to…”

(whatever the fuck she said at this point was lost on me. Charity, new shoes, number crunching fees, markers for drawing her 6 circles…?)

Hello! Ladies in the chairs, please stop bobbing your heads up and down.

If you give her $2000 you will get to share 10% of the profit of this non existent movie with 6000 people.
But then in a another sentence she said something about keeping 50% of the money for herself (called it future projects) and the remainder would go to produce the movie, and your 10% that you share with others comes from that.

MATH- do the MATH.
She is an accountant?

OK, quick math-

700 people so far = 1,400,000

My calculator is about to blow a gasket. Right after I do.

6000 people she is recruiting? = 12,000,000

REMEMBER- she is offering you 10% of the profit of the movie, NOT of the money she is taking in from you!

Well, this should be some kind of movie!
You get ONE stake in the investment scheme for your $2000.
BUT WAIT, you can earn another stake if you…

wait for it…

wait….

yes….

if you RECRUIT your friends!

Oh wait, the math. This means that there are more than 6000 stakes. hmmm. Accountant girl, something does not add up.
Forgive me for being so blunt, but if each 6000 of your warm, fuzzy recruits, finds 1 more person, that is 18,000 stakes, and those lucky girls get to split 10% of the profits, of which you keep half, and produce a movie with the rest and then offer 10% of the profit left.

Hell to the Yeah!

(and you can get more stakes by working for her for free as well. Yippee!)

Remember- not the profit of this VENTURE, the profit of the movie- oh wait there is no movie. There is air. I’m sorry.

But that is ok, because she has a refund policy.

refund- http://thedifference.tv/refund-policy

OOPS, that page is blank.
Made over 700 people pay you $2000, but that page is “coming soon”

Also coming soon (blank pages) include, well, most of them:

http://thedifference.tv/blog
http://thedifference.tv/the-community
http://thedifference.tv/faq
http://thedifference.tv/media-room
http://thedifference.tv/media-room/make-the-difference-8482-cards

EXCEPT THE ROBUST SCHEDULE that apparently there is time and money for, and at each presentation she will get 2-3 people to fork over their credit cards to invest in AIR.

http://thedifference.tv/project-briefings

6 meetings in each city- how is she getting so many people to come to these meetings?
Even if she only has 8-12 people at each one, and sells only 2-3 people out of that, it is still a daunting task to email and call enough people to recruit the butts that land in the seats.

There are other teams, by the way, doing these presentations in other cities.

OOOOhhhhoooooohhhhhh. I got it!
I just remembered- if you donate 10 hours of your time, you get another share in the profit.
Holy shit- the people who just paid her $2000 are now doing the phone calls to the lists to get people into the presentations.

WAKE UP PEOPLE.
Please do not buy into something that does not exist.

The SEC will shut this project down in a heartbeat.
By the time you decide to pull out, your credit card time limit for a chargeback will have long since passed.

Jacqueline- I am very sorry if this is truly your dream, your vision, your passion and your mission.
I am sorry if this is your way of opening hearts and you honestly believe you are going to make a movie.

***************
It costs less than $50,000 to make a simple docu-drama in the style of The Secret.
***************

GO MAKE YOUR MOVIE, get millions of visitors to your website, show how much this has benefited your recruits with their 6 minute video.
THEN let people invest in something real.

Oh, and remember to get your Securities and Exchange Commission filings done. I am sure you thought of that already, since this is an investment that requires full disclosure and a lot of paperwork.

But your refund policy is clearly stated. Oops, that page is blank.
(Cooling off period is 3 days, not 48 hours as you stated on your paper you handed out. Whoops, must the the accountant brain working again)

I know that you are aware of the potential for this project to make you millions of dollars, and if you are ummm, an accountant, you have also done the math to see that your recruits are simply out $2000.

Seriously? This is going to change humanity?

As a business, it doesn’t fly.

As a scam, it is brilliant and you obviously have an aggressive schedule.
But I actually do want to help humanity.

And for me to NOT stand up and speak my mind about this, would be as big a crime as yours.

Wendi Friesen

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Find Love

February 12, 2010 by wendi
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You’ve got needs.
You are searching for love.
I have an idea.

The big new amazing thing that might just change your love life.
Got 7 days?
I’ve got you covered.

And here is a 3 minute Hypno-Quickie to start your Valentine Weekend.
Watch the video

Wendi Friesen

I made that hypno-quickie while I was in bed this morning, so it is extra warm and snuggly. Won’t you join me?

For all of you who are in the snow, just don’t know what to say. Over here in Southern California we are starting a heat wave. I think it will be 80 degrees this weekend. So sorry. I will send it your way to melt the snow.

The love of your life program is something I feel really good about, and I think you will too. It has a lot of healing and instead of just a bunch of sessions it is a daily journey with healing and inspiration and big change every day.

For my newsletter readers you get it for $30 off.
Please promise me that you will keep in touch as you go through each day of the program.

I really do care about you and what you experience.

On the last day, if you send me an honest testimonial I will send you an additional session that is filled with even more love.

Let’s get started.

Love of Your Life

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Rachel Ray show-

One of my Hypnosis programs was on the show last week. They do this thing called the Human lab and they test products. Here are my comments about the show and their results.

I am not sure if you can read them if you are not on facebook. Let me know and I will post them on the blog instead.

Rachel Ray showNotes

Find the Love of Your Life.
Your Soulmate Search starts NOW!

There is nothing else like it.
Seven days of exploration, soul searching, releasing and manifesting.

Can you really Manifest the Love of Your Life?
Perhaps.

But even more important is what you might be doing to resist love, to push it away or sabotage a new relationship.

Let’s look at this.

Maybe you are trying to protect yourself from hurt.

It could be that you are still angry about a difficult breakup.

Perhaps you believe that you are unlovable.

Or deep down you just don’t feel worthy of being loved.

I am ready to change this with you.

Lenore came to my office hoping to find out why she was without a man in her life. During our sessions she saw her future soulmate in a vision- and said he was only 3 months away. She imagined what he looked like, smelled like, sounded like and how it felt to touch him.
(hopefully the “smelled like” part worked out ok)

One of the things she realized- that as much as she wanted love, she also had a deep resistance to having love. And when she resolved it, and then was able to feel free to have love and did her soulmate manifesting.

She called me 3 months later and was so excited on the phone I could hardly understand her. I suspect she was jumping up and down at the time.
“I found him, I really did! He is the man I saw in my vision and here he is!”

She knew it was love at first site.
And just yesterday she sent me an instant message on Facebook. She just wanted to remind me about how happy they are.
And, that they have been married 11 years now.

Laura was longing for love.

She had given up and thought she would never find anyone. Her story will stun you. It is just weird that it worked out like it did.

She found her love and it happened just like she imagined it after listening to my CDs. You have to read her story. It is a little eerie. (link is below)

Why did Laura find her soulmate so fast?

I have no idea why this soulmate manifesting works.
It defies logic.
But love is not logical so we don’t have to figure that out.
And seriously, I don’t care why it works. I have seen it happen too many times to wonder why or how.

Here’s what I think.
Maybe love is all around us, everywhere.
Maybe there are opportunities for us to embrace a new love that are right in front of us.

But- we won’t recognize them or even be the least bit open to them if our beliefs are negative, we feel hopeless, we believe that there are no good men/women left, that love equals pain, and so on.

I am sure you hear me loud and clear.
And you are saying to yourself “Yup, but what the hell do I do about it”?

What you think about expands.

If you secretly think about love meaning pain and relationships bringing hurt or you are still resentful about a breakup, that is what will expand.

I want your brain! And your heart and soul.
Just for a week.

I want to shake it up. I want to change what you THINK about so I can help you expand your feelings about being worthy and lovable. But not only that, I also want to EXPAND your THINKING about being a fantastic lover and a beautiful sharing and giving soulmate.

I want you to oooze with joy that will make you magnetic and irresistible.
I already know I can do this for you.

All I need is you.

Your search for love better start here, bucko.

This is not some stupid list you’ll write about what you want, and it is not a bunch of tips on how to attract a mate. It is definitely not a 20 minute plan to make you feel pretty.

This is a full body and mind overhaul in the love shack of your heart.

This is a soul train that is leaving the station with you on board headed to Lover’s Lane. (good and corny, I know)

Let me show you what I mean.

www.Wendi.com/LoveOfYourLife

NOW- Please do this:

Put your arms out to each side
Reach straight out
Now cross your arms in front of you
Keep going until each arm is on the other side
Now wrap them around your body
Try to touch your back
Now squeeeeeeeze
And say
“I love you”

I love you,

Wendi

Love Of Your Life
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Save $30, and transform your search for love.
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Hot and Juicy

February 2, 2010 by wendi
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Are you happy and in love? Are you lonely and struggling? Is your relationship driving you crazy?

Maybe you are in a great relationship but your not feeling the passion anymore.
When I first started doing hypnosis I had so many emails from people (mostly men) who wanted me to help them hypnotize their wife/girlfriend/lover to do new things.

And there were emails from a lot of women who just wanted to get the passion back in their marriage and want to enjoy making love again.

Do you have needs? Can I be of assistance?

So many of us have needs that are not being met.
Yesterday on the show I kicked off our Love and S3x week. (sorry, have to disguise that naughty little word for the spam filters)

This week and next I will be telling you what I think about making your relationship work, getting out of toxic relationships, bringing back the hot and juicy (if Wendy’s hamburgers can say it, so can I), and open your heart and mind.

In any relationship the first place you have to go is to the deep, dark places in your mind.

Here is a start! You can watch the show from yesterday. WARNING, Adults only.

This show I did yesterday got a little graphic. So if you choose to watch the replay or you are going to participate in today’s show, please remember to keep an open mind.

MONDAY SHOW- Recording
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4379004
Watch live TODAY- Right now.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wendi.tv
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
12 noon Pacific
3 pm Eastern

Find your local time here
http://www.Wendi.TV

It is almost Valentine’s day.
Shall we make this one hypnotically good?
This is super SECRET surprise package.

I am not telling what is in it.
You do like surprises, don’t you?

Check this out:
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Over $150 value for only $39.
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Share it with your lover.

This one is smokin’ hot.
Your fingers will tremble as you tear the tape off the
purple box… your heart rate will quicken as you
hold your CDs in your sweaty palms,
and your mind will race with anticipation at
the quivering joy that awaits your discovery.
Aaaaah, relax.
A box of sexy pleasures is about to come your way.
And every one of them will touch you in a
special way.

This is a collection of my best sensual and
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Over $150 value, only $39!

Check it out. You will be glad you did.
YES, I must have this NOW!

Give them for gifts to your honey, or use these together, or just enjoy them as bedtime stories.

NO coupons allowed.
If you use them, we will remove them.

Remember, I love you,

Wendi Friesen

877.68.HAPPY

916.933.0700

Wendi Friesen, CHT

For the first time ever I had a B-12 shot. Maybe it is just the placebo affect kicking in here, but I feel really good. There are a lot of people who do this weekly and they swear by it.

The first day I felt ok, but the second day something must have kicked in cause I just felt such great energy and happiness. Tomorrow I will get another one.

I have heard that a lot of people are deficient, so maybe this is just what is needed. I just wanted to share this with you because it is something I never would have thought of doing. And so far it is pretty frikken good.

The injection of B-12 is very different than just taking the vitamin. Check into it. You might like it.

See you on the show, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Yesterday’s show has a nice hypno session for being more magnetic and irresistible and loving yourself more. Check it out. Link is on the left.

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