haha, gotcha… no one here is angry at all.

I started out writing a response comment to a comment on Sarah Prout’s kind blog post about our Millionaire Affair for Herrin Larkin’s blog… but instead, I got going and decided to allow this to grow into a LOOONG history post on our own blog. And if Herrin Larkin decides to include this on his own blog, then everybody wins. Traffic matters but NOT more than integrity. If he decides to get to know us, I’m POSITIVE he’ll enjoy us, even if only to silently wait for the opportunity to say “I told you so.” We welcome the scrutiny. We are completely transparent. We simply expect an abundance of prosperity because of our belief in the Law of Attraction.

Sue and I are very real people, we’re not hiding behind any cloak of anonymity whatsoever. We answer every email, blog Facebook, Youtube & Twitter comment we possibly can. We don’t know for how long we’ll be able to keep that up but we’re doing the best we can. I imagine at some point we’ll need to let go of personally answering everything. But for today, you get me and I’m going to tell you what I think, as of this moment in time. Sue is the brains behind us and she’s currently busting her butt with our helpers tightening all the nuts and bolts of our upcoming Millionaire Affair. I am the passionate, outspoken and caring coach, who is willing to say or do pretty much anything to help someone find their power. ..(click Read More below)..

We started our online presence as a kind of “fuck it, let’s do it & see what happens” to each other, but it was also a beautiful challenge that makes couples stronger. We decided to put our dreams out there for the world to see and judge.

I’d been hoping to start a “save the music business campaign” because I was watching the steady decline of CD sales, and of course all the downloading of music. I’ve been a piano player all my life, and made a decent living with music, but I always wanted to leave some kind of legacy. I really thought that was my life’s calling… to do something about helping artists sell music and become famous for it. And when this Millionaire Affair is completed, I’m getting to work on that straight away.

I had seen a few Frank Kern marketing videos because I’d been scouting around for how to create traffic. Frank has a style that really translates well to making videos. I was convinced I could make videos about helping artists sell more music. So Sue bought me a webcam. But I didn’t get going… maybe I chickened out, maybe it just wasn’t time yet… whatever.

A few months later Sue and I were talking in the kitchen and I was still procrastinating about getting started so she said, “let’s just make a video tonight.” Because of my research with making videos and internet marketing, we knew that we wanted to make a million dollars, and that the best place for us to do it was probably the internet. We announced a decision to document our progress every step of the way with short videos and our blog, then later we incorporated Facebook and Twitter as well. And that decision has become a central theme for us. We’re teaching everything we learn, as fast and as efficiently as we can. Some people think we’re trying to be overnight successes… or that we believe it should be easy for us. The truth is that we believe your success can be overnight, or it could take you decades. It’s up to you. We’re enjoying the heck out of our ride.

I have a philosophy about what is helping Sue and I become popular. We have a lot of people we are learning from and they all seem to have the same basic premise going. Learn from mentors and connect their knowledge, and their information to your own audience. Everybody wins.

Our first video is here (from November 15, 2008),

As you can tell, we didn’t really have much of a clue HOW we could make a million dollars online. Many people probably thought we were air heads when we got started, because they may think… “well who doesn’t want to be a millionaire?” In fact a lot of people probably still do, but is that something we should pay a lot of attention to? I’m writing all this out, so I can keep it around. I won’t need to write all this out again, if I can just copy and paste it eh!

As soon as Sue and I started doing videos, people started commenting on our on-camera relationship very favourably. That was cool. Then Sue started her Twitter thing and met thousands more cool people 140 charters at a time. I’d already been very active on music forums for a few years, so I also had a decent and outspoken presence going. Sue linked us up with some very cool cats from Chicago who wanted to start a weekly mastermind group call. We got Skype going with 8 or so people, and we started trading lots of stories and information. They also led us to believe that we had some special kind of charisma as well. So we kept making more videos, meeting wider circles and learning phenomenal amounts of internet marketing knowledge. Then we won a spot in a great internet marketing coaching run by a gal from here in Vancouver, who later moved to LA, Maria Andros. We kept making new friends and learning more stuff. One of the best peices of advice we got from Maria Andros was to focus on sharing the Law of Attraction.

Now even before we embraced our internet learning curve, Sue and I were studying lots of woowoo esoteric Law of Attraction stuff. We’ve both been devouring tons of authors, movies & videos and integrating those philosophies into our family life and careers. We have 3 kids who know lots about the Law of Attraction, and they’re all doing fabulously in school, sports and their social lives. I think the most important part of what Sue and I are bringing to the world is this Law of Attraction stuff, but most people tend to notice the word millionaire and have a reaction to it pretty quickly. Who can blame them? Everybody wants to be a millionaire right?

So our kids know about ALL of this, our extended families know about it, all our laundry is pretty much public. We are very much walking a line between making it easy to laugh at us, and daring you to follow us. If you follow long enough, you won’t be able to remain cynical. Or you’ll get bored and that’s Ok too.

It’s been a year now, and what started out as a very uninformed adventure has become a fabulous journey of awakening and hope for us. We’ve actually made about 240 videos and had over 100,000 views.

As time progressed, I learned that one of the most basic things I needed to be able to answer is, why should we be allowed to become millionaires? At first, I could only answer with… well someone’s gotta do it, or why not, type answers. But as we got deeper into combining our social media studies with our Law of Attraction beliefs, it has become easier to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not a truck coming at us.

About 2 months ago, I discovered just the answer I’d been looking for. Even though we’d been doing the work I hadn’t articulated why making a million dollars was an ethical goal for us. We’ve been able to feel it, but we hadn’t ever talked about it online or in videos. Then I found this cool passage in a book a friends recommended that we read called Conversations with Millionaire, which of course is very much the same concept as what Sue and I are doing with the Millionaire Affair.

Quote from page 20 of Conversations with Millionaires, by Mike Litman and Jason Omar

In this interview Jim Rohn quotes his mentor, Earl Shoaff

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it.

He said, “Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become. Do it for what you end up knowing about the marketplace, what you’ll learn about the management of time and working with people. Do it for the ability of discovering how to keep your ego in check. For what you have to learn about being benevolent. Being kind as well as being strong. What you have to learn about society and business and government and taxes and becoming an accomplished person to reach the status of millionaire.

All that you have learned and all that you’ve become to reach the status of millionaire is what’s valuable. Not the million dollars.

If you can do it that way, then once you become a millionaire, you can give all the money away. Because it’s not the money that’s really important. What’s important is the person you have become.

That was one of the best pieces of philosophy I have ever heard in my life.

Nobody ever shared it with me like that before.

Another thing he said was. “beware of what you become in pursuit of what you want. Don’t sell out. Don’t sell out your principles. Don’t compromise your values. Because you might acquire something by doing so, but it won’t taste good”

I most certainly included that on our Sue and Steve Show blog when I wrote about “Why I Want to be a Millionaire.” Because the light bulb lit up like a 10O0 watt stage light. We’re already entertaining & helping people learn new stuff and now we also get to imagine & decide what kind of philanthropy we’re going to get involved with.

Then Sue got me a book for Christmas called the One Minute Millionaire, co-written by Mark Victor Hansen (one of the millionaire authors we’ll be interviewing) & Robert G Allen. In the foreword there is a great set of thoughts about why earning a million dollars is a “worthy” goal. The answers just keep coming!

.. one can be wealthy without being rich. Still a lot of “good” people dismiss the concept of financial success as an “unworthy” goal – perhaps even morally suspect. And with a title like the One Minute Millionaire, we’re certain to raise a few eyebrows.

Money, by itself, is neither good nor bad – it’s neutral. Money us an energy tool. Like a hammer, money can be used to build or destroy. We believe that understanding money – how to ethically make it, keep it, and share it – adds a positive dimension to wealth. Our lives, our relationships, and our happiness improve when we have enough money. That’s why we wrote this book. Money properly earned and combined with enlightened intentions makes the world a better place.”

You see, we’re completely focused on assimilating everything we learn from every social media, internet marketing, and personal growth gurus. To think we’re not going to be able to sell something valuable is ludicrous now. To think we’re snake oil salesmen is to jump to a very uninformed conclusion.

We constantly help people create their own online presence, find & practice new personal growth techniques and we make the world a better place by sharing POSITIVITY. Even if there are millions of people who don’t want to hear our message, there is a huge growing audience who does want to hear us, and watch us succeed.

JUST WATCH US, because we can do this, and YOU CAN TOO.

I LOVE MY LIFE

Steve