Bob Baran: Renaissance Man
Bob Baran is an artist, philosopher, composer, author, performer, producer and engineer...
Bob Baran is also a "philosopher King"...Because he is a recognized expert in every area of interest his passion has taken him.
It's difficult to reconcile a man who had, for example, at the age of twenty-three worked on an automotive assembly line, walked off that job and directly into selling Encyclopedia Britannica (door to door) without any previous experience (Where he soon won a four state sales contest) and then auditioned for and was accepted into The Indiana University School of Music in jazz studies ...All within a six month period!
By the time he was 27 years old he had developed the most consistently successful downline organization in a nutrition based mlm company (which he started working on part-time while still in college) and was hired to design and author one of the first cassette format "non manipulative" training systems in the industry... (That was also the year he bought five new cars and a new house!).
Then he launched his first professional recording studio and production company in 1979 ...Which has continuously operated to this day as Baran Productions
Still widely sought after for his network marketing expertise, Baran soon discovered a man named Don Failla whose "Ten Napkin Presentations" revolutionized training in the network marketing industry ...Producing Don's famous audio cassette and securing the audio production and manufacturing rights to his training system.
Recognizing that it was time for a radically different approach to understanding and teaching the fundamentals of network marketing success, Baran created a new company, Instructional Media Institute and authored a book Amway of Australia called "The Bible of Multi-Level-Marketing"..."Multi-Level Mastery".
It was the first book of it's type in the industry to focus primarily on the direct integration of the universal principles of success. His enlightened approach stressing self-growth as an integral part of building a successful long-term business has since become the model for the direct marketing industry. His self-published book sold over 33,000 copies!
Bob Baran always used his business and marketing expertise to support his passion for music... He moved from Indiana to Montana at the end of 1984 because he wanted be in an "inspiring environment" to more fully explore his interest in composing music.
This didn't happen right away as he was sought out to author oem training materials and hired as a direct marketing consultant on several projects...But by 1987 he decided it was time to put his full attention on his deepest passion: Music. That decision caused a radical change in the direction of his life.
Within six weeks he was awarded a grant to compose, perform and produce his first album of original music by a local arts foundation (The Helena Film Society) which was the largest single grant awarded (before or since) to an artist. In 1988 his first album "The Birds of Selenia" was released.
Thus began a period where Bob Baran, was able to focus his attention on refining his composing and production abilities...
It's interesting to note that Baran built a new recording studio facility in Downtown Helena, Montana near the end of '87. By the time the construction was completed it was December. He had only enough capital to pay the bills for one month...
Two years later his determination and success enabled him to buy his own building!...quite an accomplishment in a small town in Montana with a population of less than 30,000 people!
The combination of Bob Baran's skill as a marketer, artist, composer and producer soon gained him national recognition... This resulted in the National Association of Broadcasters placing him on the prestigious "Radio Advertising Bureau's List of Recommended Creative Resources"
Positioning him as one of the top 50 radio producers in the United States!
Bob Baran Productions' clients quickly became the "who's who" of local, regional and national businesses ...Including such diverse clientele as America's largest food retailer, The Kroger Co. and National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition"... But his love of music wasn't being placed on the back burner...
After going though a divorce in 1997, he was determined to discover what the process was that seemed to give him a charmed life... What was it that put him in the right place at the right time in so many situations? Could that same process also bring him what (he came to realize) was the most important experience he wanted to have... True love?
Thus began what Bob Baran has described as his "great spiritual awakening".
"I had to systematically strip away layer upon layer of ego, attitudes, opinions and beliefs... which I discovered through a lot of trial, error and pain was preventing me from experiencing the very thing I wanted most ...Love."
Baran claims that it was the momentum created by his personal journey into self-growth, which enabled him to understand and put into practice many of the principles and concepts which are now a part of "The Intentional Prosperity™ System".
"I found myself and then I found Gwen, the woman of my dreams."
Joining forces as husband and wife in 2000 they set their sites on systematically manifesting each other's most cherished life long dreams ...Building their dream house on the side of a mountain ...Launching Gathering Wave LLC their record label and publishing company which has to date released seven of Bob's CD's... and "Intentional Prosperity™ ... Are just a small example of their creative journey together.
Rapidly achieving national and international distribution of the music of Bob Baran, and the ongoing series of good things that continued to appear in their lives resulted in a magical epiphany... which came to pass in 2006 when Bob composed a pure quantum consciousness solo piano album that went on to qualify for the Grammy ballot in four categories. He sat down and played not knowing what the first or last note was going to be. Creating instantaneous real-time original music that was recognized as an original style of music and grated it's own registered trademark: (Escape Music®) by the United States Patent and Trademark office in early 2007.
"This was another turning point in my life. I had very quickly accomplished my life-long dream of getting my music out to the world and realized that the conscious process Gwen and I used to make things happen had itself evolved and had become refined to the point where it was manifesting a series of magical moments in our lives...
We recognized that we had successfully laid the ground work for the greatest life-long dream we both shared...
Creating a teachable virtual operating system for the human mind!
Both of us recognized that the advances in online technology had reached the point where it was now feasible to create an immersive interactive online self-help learning system. One that would teach people how to find their passion, follow their passion and create a lifestyle of prosperity and abundance... All this being possible because the process works as the direct result of doing good things and reinforced by the personal experience of joy and fulfillment!
We named it "The Intentional Prosperity™ System."
As with any Renaissance Man we've only touched upon a few highlights of Bob Baran's amazing story. His most recent creative endeavor was creating "The Intentional Prosperity™ System" with his wife, Gwen. The System is THE Operating Manual for Your Life that will guide you through the steps necessary to find your passion, follow your passion and create a lifestyle of prosperity and abundance.
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