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When I first heard of how the IDSTC founders, Chris Kent and Ian Cordell teamed up with Billion Dollar Numismatic Salesman Mike Mezak to create what is known today as “The Numis Network”, I said the same thing that you’re probably thinking right now…
“What the heck is Numis, and why should I care?”
Then, as I sat back and thought about the ridiculous amounts of money that people are making in this industry – selling gold and silver coins…I thought to myself – “hey, maybe this is something I should take a closer look at.”
What I found out blew my mind.
Numis is creating wealth for people all around the world by teaching them the secrets of making money by accumulating wealth – not by selling the latest and greatest ‘widget’, or by ‘recruiting people’, but by helping people understand the value of collecting precious metals, and how by doing so – they can have not just financial independence, but financial security for the rest of their life.
Then I looked deeper and started to learn about the real secret to creating wealth…
And this is where the bear comes in.
In the winter of 2009, I was walking through the mountains of Northern Utah, minding my own business when suddenly I heard a noise in the woods – I turned around, and standing right behind me was the biggest, meanest looking bear I had ever seen…
What happened next was pretty amazing…
The Numis Network is teaching people how to not only protect their financial future but how to create wealth that will last for generations. And to do that, you need to be aware of what’s happening around you – you need to be prepared.
Because just like I was caught off guard by that bear, you don’t want to be caught off guard by what’s happening in the economy – you need to take action now to secure your financial future.
P.S. Leave me your thoughts, comments and questions below!
In prosperity,
David Wood
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This is one of those things that takes people a while to get. In fact, some people never get it, they just like getting shiny objects in the mail every month.
Years ago there was a comedian (I can’t remember his name) He would tell a joke and pretend he was tossing a grenade into the audience. A “Joke Grenade”. It took a few seconds for the audience to “get it”.
You definitely want to be positioned when everyone else “get’s it”. The “Numis Grenade effect”.
Aki Wood, September 4
I think you should have mated with the bear.
Kurtis B., August 30
This post really hit home for me! I’ve always been interested in wealth creation, and the way you’ve tied it to real-world experiences makes it so relatable. Keep up the fantastic work!
Janelle S., August 28
I’m a bit skeptical about the claims made here. Could you provide some evidence or examples of how people have achieved financial security through the methods discussed? It sounds intriguing, but I need more convincing.
Lawrence P., August 27
You mentioned the value of collecting precious metals as a means to secure financial independence. Can you explain more about how one would start with this, especially if they’re new to the concept?
Monica L., August 26
While I find the content of your post interesting, I think there could have been more emphasis on the potential risks involved in such investments. It’s important to present a balanced view.
Rico H., August 25
This post reminded me of a time when I, too, had a close call with an unexpected situation. Although it wasn’t with a bear, the financial lessons you share are just as applicable. Let’s catch up soon!
Karen M., August 24
There’s a tool I’ve used called GoldSilver, which helps in purchasing and managing precious metals. It’s been really useful, and I think it complements the advice in your post well.
Brent A., August 23
This post really opened my eyes to the importance of being proactive about financial security. I had never considered precious metals before, but now I’m seriously thinking about it. Thank you for the insightful information!
Lena G., August 22
I appreciate the knowledge you’ve shared here. It’s made me rethink my approach to financial independence, and I feel more prepared to take the next steps. Thanks for educating us!
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The post says this works by teaching people to value metals, ‘not by recruiting people.’ In a town of four thousand, everyone I could show that to is already someone I buy hay from or sit next to in church. Same list of names, different word for it.
Looked twice for an actual process — sign-up flow, follow-up sequence, anything scriptable. There isn’t one. Just a bear story and a metaphor.
Trina’s right that there’s no system in the text, but the bear story is doing rhetorical work anyway — it’s an analogy substituting for missing evidence. ‘Caught off guard by the economy’ isn’t a mechanism connecting coin collecting to being prepared, it’s a scary image standing in for one. Worth noticing what claim the story is actually asked to carry.
Raj’s point about the analogy matches what I ran into a few years ago with a post almost exactly like this one from a different company. I spent about a week trying to find the actual mechanism behind the big claim before I gave up and just asked the person who’d sent it to me directly. She couldn’t answer it either. The story was the whole pitch.
Sorry if this is a silly question but is the bear story even supposed to be literal, because I read it twice and I genuinely cannot tell if something actually happened to him in the mountains or if it’s just a way of talking about being caught off guard, and either way I’m not sure what it proves about coins.
What’s actually useful underneath the bear story is the idea of being prepared before the moment arrives, not during it. The exercise I’d give a client here: write down the one thing that would genuinely catch you off guard financially this year, then write down the single next step you could take on it this week. What’s yours?
This whole piece runs on adrenaline — a bear appears, so act now on your finances. I don’t make big decisions framed as fight-or-flight.
The best case against Anneke’s read: fear appeals aren’t automatically bad framing, they’re just a bad substitute for a plan. If the bear story got even one reader to actually open a spreadsheet and look at what they have saved, it did more than a calm paragraph about diversification would have. The problem isn’t the adrenaline, it’s that nothing here tells you what to do once your heart rate drops.
Anneke’s adrenaline point lands for me in a very specific way. Twenty-two years in a regional insurer taught me that anything pitched as urgent and framed around a near-miss story was almost always a change-management exercise dressed up as an emergency — ‘the market shifted, we must act now’ meetings that were really just someone’s project needing approval by Friday. This bear story reads exactly like one of those slides, minus the slide. Precious metals as a category might be worth a calm hour of research. They don’t need a mauling in Utah to justify that hour, and the fact that this post reaches for one tells me the actual case for coins wasn’t strong enough to stand on its own.