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Professional
   
Quote:  
“You Attract What You Are.”
Acknowledgements:  Leader of #1 searched team of mortgage protection pioneers National Agents Alliance
Top 1% Retail Sales Nationwide Countrywide Investment Services
Top 1% Retail Sales Nationwide Bank One
Most Proud of:
  • Wrote course that teaches anybody how to become a leader by implementing the 9 steps to creation and effortlessly attract relationships into their life.
  • Created James-Blackburn.com to and the Personal Growth Test to aid people in focusing on the area they desire change in the most.
  • Created Personal Growth Forum to bring leaders from around the world together in one place where people can go for guidance.
Education:   
Michigan State University 
  • Bachelors Degree Criminal Law
The American College      
  • Completed 100% of the coursework required to become a Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
National Association of Financial Planning
  • Certified Estate Advisor (CEA)
Networks:  
LinkedIn.com, SelfGrowth.com, Business Network International (BNI), NAFEP
Timeline
1996-1997
Captain of high school wrestling team and all state qualifier
1997-2001
Michigan State University
  • Discovered that criminal law did not interest me after 4 years
  • Learned to speak conversational Spanish
  • Studied democracy for 4 months in Ukraine as an exchange student
2001-2002
Investment Advisor                                Securian Financial Services Inc.
  • Obtained Life and Health License   
  • Obtained Series 7 Securities License   
   
  • Made hundreds of cold calls to friends and family in the first 2 months
  • Spent the next 10 months dialing thousands of random numbers from the white pages and walking into random businesses
  • Earned a grand total of $6,000 for the year in commission
2002-2003
Relationship Banker                                    Bank One (Michigan)
2003-2004
  • Moved to Chicago to earn over 10 times my 1st year income
  • Top 1% in retalil sales nationwide
2004-2007
Financial Consultant                           Countrywide Investment Services     
  • Top 1% in retail sales nationwide                    
 
  • Rewarded with Hawaii vacation
   
Nov-2007
  • Attended personal growth and financial development retreat costing $15,000
  • Wrote over 1,000 pages in rough draft related to the failures and success in the last 10 years of my life
   
2007-2008
  • Spent thousands of hours studying technology and its power to connect people from all over the world.  
   
2008 - 2009
  • Built automated attraction marketing and branding systems.
Summary
  • Amassed a library of 500 personal growth books and audios over the last 10 years
  • Combined these insights with the intense study of technology with 10 years of unique personal experience and createda 500 page course that teaches anyone how to achieve everything they want by developing themselves into a leader and using technology to attract people into their life.
  • I want to meet ambitious and motivated people who want to become leaders and create their life.