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In Memory of Karl Bessey

This past Sunday my phone/email started lighting up, with people asking if I had heard that Karl Bessey had passed away. I was, I remain, in shock. I have heard from a great many that feel the same way. Please allow me a few minut ...

Posted On August 18, 20186 MIN Read

This past Sunday my phone/email started lighting up, with people asking if I had heard that Karl Bessey had passed away.
I was, I remain, in shock. I have heard from a great many that feel the same way. Please allow me a few minutes to honor my friend.
Karl and I met in 2000 at an event in Cancun. Karl was a leading, direct marketing superstar in a company called IGP, who was putting 2000 people in the seats at back to back events, with world-renowned freedom speakers like Ron Paul and G. Edward Griffin, wrapped around a business model for entrepreneurs. IGP would serve as an early model for the company that Karl and I would start together, in 2005, Wealth Masters International. WMI would go on to have many thousands of members globally with the business taking Karl and I around the world. Karl built the marketing side…I built the product side…and we had an 8 year run that was an absolute whirlwind of a blast. We met and worked with so many wonderful people, many that b...

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