The Bristol Adventure

Some of you may already know that I was in Bristol for LFMpire workshop by Robert Puddy and Donna Fox. I would have posted about going there at the first place but it wasn’t something I had planned till 2 days before the workshop.

The event had many Big Guns as speakers and some of the biggest names in the Internet Marketing industry came down to socialize and network. The speakers were Donna Fox and Robert Puddy [hosts] and Omar Martin, Martin Avis, Simon leong, Jonny Andrews, Amber Hamid,  Sterling Valentine and Jani G.

Ok so you are probably wondering why I would call it an ‘Adventure’.  Well I was gonna call it a nightmare but in the end, it all worked out well and it was all well worth it. If you are reading this and you were at the workshop, you already know where I am getting at

Before I get into the Adventure part, I must tell you that I’ve decided to split this post about ‘what happened at the workshop into two because If I write all about it, you will be here reading for days. So this post is going to be about the ordeal and why I call it ‘The Adventure’ and the next is going to be what actually happened there with some pictures I managed to take there.

Ok so here are some things you may wanna know first:

• I had to get to Bristol from Middlesbrough.
• It is a 6 hours Drive.
• I was flying there from New Castle Airport.
• It took me 16 hours to get there.

The most common question I got asked at the workshop was, ‘How the Heck do you miss 2 flights in a row?’ but that is less embarassing compared to when I was called upon stage during the workshop and got presented a T-Shirt for having the longest journey, now I don’t know whether it was sympathy, taking the mick, just being humourous or was it a prize for my courage and commitment.

When I say commitment, I say commitment. I almost changed my mind about going to the workshop around 10 times, paid twice as much and missed 2 flights. Hey did I tell you I even ended up at the wrong hotel? or that I missed the first day of the workshop?

Anyways, I set off at 6.00am and got to the ‘right’ hotel at around 11:55pm so you know when I say adventure, I mean adventure. It wasn’t a nightmare though because at the end of the day it all worked on in my favour in a funny kind of way.

When I got to Bristol City centre, I phoned my friend Mark Lyford to let him know that I was finally there and had missed 2 flights. By the time I got to the hotel, pretty much everyone in the hotel lounge at the time knew about it.

I soon got some attention from people who didn’t know me. Met some friends that I already knew and was glad to see them such as Matt Garrett, Randy Smith, John Reed and others [sorry if I missed your name].

By the next day, pretty much everyone was pointing at me and I could hear whispers like ‘hey thats the guy who took 16 hours to get here’ and ‘ hey dude, this guy missed 2 flights in a row’. At first, I wasn’t really happy about it but like I’ve mentioned before, this things worked out in my favor.

2nd day of the event, I went to check out Jonny Andrews presentation and right before he was about to start and Donna Fox is standing at the stage about to invite Jonny on stage and I had literally just got into the room, Robert Puddy comes to me, put his hand on my shoulder and announces  ’How about we give it to the most deserving person in the room’ and everyone turn around looking at me, standing at the back of the room. I personally had no idea what was going on and then Robert goes on to say ‘The person who took the longest, suffered the most and has a bit of a story to tell about how we got here’ and thats when I noticed Donna has a T-Shirt and she was giving that away.

So I am standing there, Gobsmacked that people are looking at me and I don’t know whats gonna happen next. The workshop attendees at that point have no idea about the whole ordeal of me missing two flights in a row and ending up in the wrong hotel before actually getting to the workshop.

Donna announces ‘Maddi why don’t you come up here on stage’ and I am like Nooooo

This is the brief conversation we had when I was on stage with Donna:

Donna Fox:  Hey Maddi, just briefly tell everyone How long is the drive to Bristol from where you were coming?

Maddi: 6 hours max.

Donna Fox : How long did it take you to get here?

Maddi: 16 hours

* The audience laughed*

Donna Fox: How did you get here Maddi?

Maddi: I took a plane which is a 1 hour flight.

* The audience had a confused look for a second and then erupted into a big laughter*

With that Donna Fox thanked me and gave me an LFMpire T-Shirt to be proud of because it was well deserved and Jonny Andrews stood next to the stage giggling at my rigmarole journey.

Moral: At first I wasn’t really happy about it and that it was funny but not really good for my profile if you know what I mean. But it soon dawned upon me, that it actually boost my profile and people who didn’t know me, knew me. It got on me on quite a few people’s radar and now they remember me by name. I remember Chris Johnson said to me during the workshop that ‘Maddi, being different is good. Being average is not’.

I am a full time Internet Marketer, but I still have a long way to go and this actually turned to be in my favor and Big Marketers who probably go to these events all over the world, will remember me if you know what I mean

This post is getting quite long now and I hope it hasn’t been boring and that you got something out of it. Not only it was a test of commitment for me to get there at any cost but it actually helped me to get to know great people and make some awesome friends. I look forward to attending as many of these events as possible but hopefully not missing flights this time.

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Maddi Murtaza

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