Meet Anthony J. Amyx of Raging Rebel

Today we’d like to introduce you to Anthony J. Amyx.

Anthony, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
It’s been quite the journey. I’ve played music professionally in a band I helped co-found called Trade Cities. We were offered two record deals and we decided to call it quits in October of 2009. During this time I read a book called the 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. After reading that book I thought to myself, if Tim can create a business where he can work from any place in the world, I can too. I didn’t know what that would look like or how but I knew that was what my soul was longing for. This lead me to learn about the online marketing world.

In 2010/2011 I bought an eLearning program from Mike Koenigs called Social Media Marketing Machines. It was a business-in-a-box training system for running social media marketing campaigns for small businesses. I was aware at the time, this was going to be the next big thing and in the town I lived in, no one knew anything about this. So I bought the course for $3,000. At the time I didn’t have $3,000 but that offered a 6 payment plan for $500 a month. I thought to myself, I buy this and can’t make more than $500 a month, I’m an idiot. So I bought the course.

The skill sets I learned from that course lead me to start a social media marketing company called A New Way to Market. I grew that company to a place where I had 23 clients on monthly retainers and I got burned out because I didn’t realize how to hire and delegate things. Then in 2012, I looked at my vision board one day and it said, “The highest achievers have always relied on the great mentors.” That day something clicked for me and I said to myself, “I need a mentor.” The first person who came to my mind at that moment was a guy named Garrett J. White.

I met Garrett at one of Brendon Burchard’s event in New York City in the Spring of 2011. I don’t know why he came into my mind, but I hopped on Facebook, looked him up and saw the type of business he was running was what I wanted to experience. So I sent him a private message telling him I was on the verge of burning my existing business to the ground because I hated it and told him the type of business I wanted to experience. He asked me if I had ever thought about teaching what I know and I said, “No but that sounds awesome.”

He told me I should be making like $20,000 a month with the current skill sets I had at the time, so I hired Garrett as my first coach. That was one of the best investments I’ve ever made into myself. I’m so grateful for Garrett and trusting myself to make that investment. Since 2012, I’ve been committed to leveling up what I know about modern-day marketing and sales. And I’ve supported a lot of business owners, coaches, consultants, marketers and several of Forbes Top Social Media Influencers in adding 6-Figures to their business while taking 6-8 weeks off to do the things they’ve always wanted to do.

After doing this for a while, I’ve noticed many people hit 6-Figures or get really close and then get stuck right before adding an additional 6-Figures and it’s like no matter how hard they work, they can’t seem to break through that nebulous 6-Figure ceiling. And many of them feel like their business is running them, rather than having the time freedom to travel to cool places and hang out with the people they love, even though that’s why they started their business in the first place.

And often times, the clients they have to tend to be a pain in the ass, who seem to continually take up more and more of their precious time, even if they do everything in their power to over-deliver for them. But then again, there are certain individuals, I like to call these people Raging Rebels, who are able to transmute their desire to change into living their life with more passion, purpose, and prosperity while having the time freedom to take 2 months off. They even have a marriage that is thriving.

They’re going on weekly date nights and other adventures together, they go out to the movies, they have a ton of fun and are not stuck in being a raging workaholic. They are even practicing the art of what I like to call – work-life balancing. So I started questioning everything I had been told by the internet marketing industry. I started to ask myself what are these Raging Rebels doing to add 6-Figures to their business while having the lifestyle they’ve always dreamed of? What’s the secret?

While the majority of marketers, coaches and consultants seem to always be hustling and struggling to make the money they feel they deserve… what’s allowing these Raging Rebels to be a leading Influencer in their industry while taking 6-8 weeks off a year? And what I found is they follow a very simple 4 part framework, that most aren’t. I was so surprised by how simple the framework was that I decided to integrate and embody the map into my own life and I broke through the 6-Figure ceiling, while working less, getting married, traveling to cool places like Paris, Romania, and Chile, attending a 10 Day Silent Meditation Retreat and other cool shit I’ve wanted to do for years.

Then after seeing the results in my own life, I started teaching my elite clients and they started adding $8,000 a month to their coaching business while diving back into Jiu-Jitsu. It leads me to create an awesome business that allows me to work from anywhere I want, work with amazing entrepreneurs all around the world, be featured in CNN, Business Insider and teaches more than 10,000 people at CreativeLive.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Fuck no. Everyone wants a smooth road. Yet, the reality is a smooth read to freedom and success doesn’t exist. Even the most perfect roads on the planet require maintenance due to wear and tear. We humans and our journeys are no different. The band I helped Co-Found decided to split up in October of 2009 after receiving two record offers, playing shows with our heroes and being on the verge of getting our “break.” I’ve had loves of my life break up with me.

My parents told me and my brother and sister they were getting divorced on my 25th birthday. That sucked. They had been married for 25 years. That will fuck you up if you’re not careful (no matter what age you are). I’ve had my father not attend my wedding. My mother has fallen and broken her back. She’s okay. 🙂 I’ve had business deals not work. I’ve had clients not pay me. I’ve had times when I couldn’t pay rent. I’ve had times when I was driving down the road and thought about not making the turn.

This is the game of being Human. Every single person on this planet encounters shit. It’s not the shit that defines you. Rather, it’s how you respond to the shit. Thankfully, I’ve chosen to always ask what good can come from this.

Maybe I’m stubborn, but I refuse to accept anything but good into my life. This doesn’t mean that it’s always rainbows and unicorns. The majority of the time my life is awesome. Yet when things get hard, I only accept to receive the lesson Life is trying to give me to help me expand my capacity to experience love and happiness on this planet. I hunt down the gift because I know within every challenge there is a gift.

Despite what some may believe, challenges are a beautiful thing, really. Most people don’t want to see challenges like this, but without them, how could you have any reference to what awesome and happiness are?

You couldn’t because without the contrast you’d only know one way of being. And that is what being Human is not about. Being Human is about experiencing all 5 of the CORE Emotions — Anger, Sadness, Sexuality/Creative Expression, Fear, and Joy. The 5 CORE Emotions are messengers. We are here to learn to recognize what message they have for us and how to respond to their calls for love for ourselves. Then from this place of understanding, we can take new actions to express our innate divine nature.

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Raging Rebel – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Raging Rebel is a personal and business development company for seekers and entrepreneurs who want to add 6-Figures to their business while taking 6-8 weeks off. We specialize in helping people expand their passion, purpose, and prosperity without selling their soul.

We’re known for our 1-3 Day Intensive Experiences and our 12 weeks online, eLearning program that helps people collapse time, make more money and Thrive in all areas of their lives. We’re able to help people finally see the real missing piece that’s keeping them stuck in their business.

Most companies, influencers and guru’s want to sell you some tactic or tool to change your life and business. I used to be one of them. I got into this online game because I thought if I mastered the game of modern day marketing and sales, then my business would blow up and I’d have lots of money.

I’ve found marketing and sales are very important, yet there is a deeper piece (my team and I call this CORE Power) that actually fuels your results and desires. When this root is handled, you’ll finally bear different fruit.

This is what sets Raging Rebel apart from other coaching and training companies in the world. I say the world because we’ve worked with people across the globe — From Washington D.C to Toronto, From the UK to Australia and even smaller countries like Bulgaria.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
To allow Life to happen through me. Some may call this God, Universe, Spirit or whatever other names that have for it. My goal in this life is to model what it means to live as the Soul in Control and to teach those who are ready to learn how to do the same.

In the near future, I’m feeling this is writing a book, sharing my message on more podcasts and Television, hosting more lectures and continuing to host 1-3 Day Intensive Learning Experiences with my team here in Dallas and expanding the reach of my team and I’s online eLearning program.

There are so many big changes. I’m constantly committed to this game of expansion. Every day, my soul is telling me what it wants to experience next. So I get to tune into that, listen and trust in what to do. This doesn’t mean I wake up every day with no plans. I’m Human just like you. I bleed red and put my pants on one leg at a time, too!. 😉 I still make plans and projections for my future.

Yet, I don’t have to buy into what society and culture say has to be. Instead, I get to tap in and see what wants to express through me and I get to BE that here and now. My wife and I will be having our first child in November. That will be a huge change. It wasn’t planned, but we are very excited about it. We want to go live in Europe and explore living in a different Air BnB every month or two in various countries.

Even with our child. 🙂 There are so many beautiful places here in America, we both want to experience as well. So for big changes, the way we live life is one big constant change compared to what most experience.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ajamyx.com
• Phone: 325-370-7206
• Email: aj@ajamyx.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/ajamyx
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/ajamyx
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/ajamyx

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