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Just wanted to let you know about one of my absolute favorite websites called www.selfgrowth.com. It has one of the most comprehensive libraries of motivational and self-help articles, videos, websites, and more, and it is a great place to spend a few minutes early in the morning before the work day. If you are a fan of the site, let me know by hitting the LIKE button above.

I know this is going to offend some of you in our group, but here is a forward of an email that my friend, Tom Antion, sent me this morning.  I totally agree with his conclusion…

. . . you be the judge.

Dear Doug,

I am formally and publicly withdrawing all endorsement of James
Malinchak and James Malinchak International.

I actually did this nearly two years ago when I sent James a
letter outlining the fact that I was appalled at his business
practices that are in NO WAY in alignment with mine.

To those of you diehard fans I feel sorry for you. Some things
you learn starting today and in the coming weeks I feel will be
very disappointing to you.

To those of you who have put your stellar reputations on the line
promoting James Malinchak . . . don’t feel bad. I did too for
many years and now I totally regret it. I’m suspecting you will
feel the same way if you don’t already.

To get you started on your path to discovery I suggest
you start following an extremely tough consumer advocate called
“The Salty Droid”. WARNING: This guy pulls no punches and the
language can be “R” rated.

Some examples of his writing are below:

“My research into scamming scammer scam face James Malinchak has
lasted more than a year.”

“James Malinchak is a scammer. A dark :: horrible :: lying ::
scheming :: life destroying :: money stealing :: back stabbing ::
a**hole scammer.”

“Pretending to be charitable can be profitable :: as long as your
a sociopath* willing do whatever it takes on the backend.”

*For your convenience I am including links to some plain
language profiles of a “sociopath” which the Salty Droid refers
to.

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
http://www.youmeworks.com/sociopaths.html

“James Malinchak is taking vulnerable folks of massive five
figure sums. We’re talking fat stacks :: like in the $50,000 a
pop type range. In return for these wads :: customers …can
expect … well … nothing it seems like. The Droid has taken
multiple crazy reports from sympathetic five figure victims ::
nothing but shadows and dodges in return for their money.

No value :: no service :: no refunds :: no nothing.”

The comment below refers to the many references to James
Malinchak that are tied to the terms “scam” and “ripoff”

“There are also hundreds of websites devoted exclusively to the
exciting subject of how totally not a scammer James Malinchak
isn’t”
“. . . this kind of spam based reputation management is unethical
and/or illegal. Like :: just as a for instance :: the FTC . . . ”

“James Malinchak wants to :: and will :: take your f***ing money.
But he hasn’t thought it out much past that.”

You can read and follow the entire thread at:

http://saltydroid.info/secret-millionaire-secrets-revealed/

I know some of you who James Malinchak has treated nicely will be
very upset with this email and with what the consumer advocate
above has to say. Please just reserve your ire and judgement
until you see all the evidence.

Much more to come.

Tom Antion

http://saltydroid.info/secret-millionaire-secrets-revealed/

Antion & Associates

Box 9558
Virginia Beach, VA
23450
US



Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of your friends at The Leader’s Institute®!

2010 was an exciting year filled with exciting new workshops and programs, thousands of children helped through our philanthropic team building events, and fantastic new and existing clients.  We have an awful lot to be thankful for, but here are some of the highlights from 2010!

Personal Notes from our Family

Sophie Olivia Gordon – In 2010, we had a number of wonderful additions to the Leader’s Institute®.  By far the absolute cutest was Sophie Olivia Gordon who was born to our Dallas instructor Anne-Marie Gordon in mid-2010.  Anne-Marie was semi-retired for a lot of 2010 enjoying little Sophie, but is looking forward to jumping back in and teaching a few local classes in early 2011. (For those of you who are students from Anne-Marie’s classes, make sure and friend her on Facebook so you can see more of the baby pictures!) Mom, Dad, and Sophie are still very tired but having an absolute blast.

Stuck in Europe — Remember that volcano eruption in Iceland that shut down air traffic in Europe earlier in the year? I sure do. While overseas teaching a Fearless Presentations class in Germany, I got stranded in Frankfurt for an extra week while the skies cleared. (I know, “Poor me,” right?) I actually had a lot of fun exploring a number of cities in Germany and France, but it did get a little scary after a few days, though. I was scheduled to leave on Friday morning about 45 minutes after they closed down Frankfurt airport, so I was first in line for rescheduling and got a flight on Sunday. When the Sunday flight got canceled, they booked me on a Wednesday flight. When Wednesday got canceled, they booked me on the following Monday. I did finally get home, but I missed a few classes while stuck in Europe. I used to time to make a number of instructional videos about presentation skills and leadership development based on the trip. One of the videos is re-posted here.

Rick Gets “Winged” — Our vice-president and senior instructor out of Orlando, Rick Highsmith, decided to pull an Evel Kineivel on his Harley about six months ago and ended up braking his collar-bone. He was in a tremendous amount of pain and had months of rehab, so he had to totally eliminate his travel and teaching for a few months. He returned to teaching full-time in late 2010 equiped with a lot of new “conversation starter” stories about his experience. In fact, I helped him out with his first couple of classes back (he was still on a lot of pain killers, lol), and every once in a while he’d forget and try to raise his arm up over his head. Glad to have you back, Rick!

Philanthropic Team Building Events

• We conducted 133 Charity Team Building Events in 2010
• The Build-A-Bike® Team Building Event was responsible for 1,931 kids receiving a brand-new bike this year.
• Because of the Rescue Bear® Team Building Event, 14 Fire Stations around the country received 753 Stuffed Animals decked out in Fire Fighter Uniforms for kids who have been through a traumatic event like a car accident or fire.
• Hundreds of Soldiers received care packages and cash donations through the Hero Quest program.
• All total, the philanthropic team building events donated over $260,000 to charity!
• To view just some of the success stories from these events, visit these blog categories: http://www.leadersinstituteteambuilding.com/category/build-a-bike, http://www.leadersinstituteteambuilding.com/category/rescue-bear

Classroom Programs and Seminars

• We had almost 500 people attend the Fearless Presentations® this year which is still way less than the 1000 or so who attended in 2007 and again in 2008, but sharply higher than the 2009 total that occurred during the depths of the recession.  Fearless Presentations® has helped over 7500 people eliminate public speaking fear since 2003.  To see some of our Presentation class successes, visit http://www.leadersinstitute.com/category/public-speaking-classes/
• The Leadership Boot Camp got off to a fantastic start this year and continues to grow and grow.  We had about 100 people attend the first couple Boot Camps, and we already have 10 more events scheduled in 2011 (with more to come)!
• We had another 400+ people attend our leadership and public speaking workshops in 2010!
• In 2010, we began to conduct more free webinars, and we also created a number of Home Study Courses to help people who can’t attend a seminar in person receive the content from our programs.  We publish our free webinars through this newsletter, so if you’d like to know about upcoming webinars, make sure and subscribe at http://www.leadersinstitute.com/free_newsletter.html

Looking forward to a FANTASTIC 2011!

Had a fun interview with a BBC reporter this morning about, of all things, a personality conflict between a star Footballer (Soccer player) for Manchester United and his manager. It’s a pretty good piece posted at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11574334

My part is under the title “Feeling Undervalued”.

So what have we learned…? In case of volcano, pack lots of extra socks and underwear.

#stuckineurope – The Frankfurt airport closed an hour and a half before my flight Friday morning. What’s really funny is that I was supposed to come home Thursday, but decided to stick around an extra day to sight-see. I got re-booked for Sunday morning, but now that flight has been canceled. The airline is really working with us, though.  I’m re-booked for Wednesday morning.  Hopefully, I’ll be back in the States soon. — Doug Staneart

I’m teaching a sales course on Monday in Salt Lake for Uintas Brewery, and one of the sessions is about using technology to get customers to come to your salespeople versus cold-calling. So I thought I’d experiment by creating a brand new website to see how long it would take us to corner the long-tail phrase “Best Super Bowl Party” as a test.

To do it, I wrote an article and published it to a number of article databases and used Traffic Geyser to distribute a how-to video about Super Bowl Parties. If you want a laugh, here is the video…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qnHIP4pdjU]

I know, those Food Network chefs have nothing to worry about, but hopefully, we’ll have that phrase captured in search engines by the Monday class. Enjoy.

One of our instructors, Ann-Marie Gordon, sent this video to me on Facebook (she actually went to the college where the kids filmed this video,) and I bet that I’ve showed it to about a dozen people already.  It’s just one of those videos that once you see it, you say, “How in the world did all of those people organize this?” (Or possible, “These people have way too much time on their hands.”)  Enjoy it.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcOFN_VBVo]

Doug Staneart is a keynote speaker and trainer for The Leader’s Institute in Dallas, TX.

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It’s been a nice couple of weeks. I recently got to meet one of my heroes (and one of America’s heroes) Col. Olliver North. One of Col. North’s pet projects is sending kids of fallen soldiers to college. I got to meet a few of these great young people too. They are all great Americans.

Doug Staneart, President & CEO The Leader’s Institute® 1-800-872-7830 x100 US & Canada Cell 214-766-2313 doug@leadersinstitute.com www.leadersinstitute.com

Just finished a great week with a Fearless Presentations class in San Francisco that Ann-Marie taught which was wonderful. (Great job Ann-Marie!) Then I spent the weekend in Las Vegas at a speakers convention where I got to meet a number of great people like motivational speaker Les Brown and CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, who just sold his company to Amazon last week for almost a Billion dollars. It was a great week. Looking forward to getting home and spending time with my wife and two crumb crunchers, though.

Doug Staneart, President & CEO The Leader’s Institute® 1-800-872-7830 x100 US & Canada Cell 214-766-2313 doug@leadersinstitute.com www.leadersinstitute.com