Last updated on August 6th, 2026 at 02:37 am
Myles Clifford spent his first year at ClickFunnels taking out the trash and running everyone’s lunch orders. These days, he’s the one deciding what Funnel Hacking Live looks like. And this September’s version is unlike any that’s come before it. Here’s how he went from the guy nobody noticed to the one shaping the whole event, and what’s different about the version he built this time.
How He Got In the Room
Myles spent seven years at a network marketing company, and for most of it, he didn’t love the job. What kept him going were the two events the company ran each year, since the travel and the chance to meet new people were the only parts that felt worth showing up for.
Then he watched Russell Brunson’s Perfect Webinar training, the one about making $17,592 in a day from a single lead funnel, and it stuck with him. ClickFunnels’ office was just down the road, so when a friend mentioned he’d be doing some work there, Myles asked to tag along, hoping for any kind of introduction. He got one, mentioned his project management background to one of the partners, and walked out with a job offer that same day, even though it meant a pay cut.
That first year was the hardest of his career. He went from managing projects to taking out the trash and running lunch orders. His old company circled back with a better offer, and he came close to taking it, until his wife reminded him why he’d left in the first place.
He stayed, and the turning point came in 2018 while he was working behind the scenes on logistics for Grant Cardone’s 10X event, the same event where Russell would go on to make $3.2 million in ninety minutes on stage. During a meeting to plan the event, nobody in the room could answer Russell’s questions, so they called Myles in, and he could. He’d been the one handling the details all along, and that was the moment the team realized he was capable of a lot more than restocking a fridge.
Since then, he’s been the one running events for ClickFunnels, including the one he’s most known for.
Why Funnel Hacking Live Came Back
After Funnel Hacking Live went away, Myles kept running into the same question wherever he went. People would find out he worked for ClickFunnels and ask when it was coming back, and he’d tell them it was done. But he heard that question so often it became impossible to ignore, so Myles became one of the people pushing the hardest to bring it back.
The demand wasn’t the only thing driving the decision, though. Russell and Todd wanted this one to look nothing like the events people remembered, and Myles had a hand in shaping what that meant. Instead of chasing the biggest ballroom they could find and building an entire production from scratch, the plan was to find something that already had the energy built in.
That idea came from a conversation between Russell and Dan Usher, who handles video for ClickFunnels, and floated the idea of a gala in a theater. Myles wasn’t sold on the gala part right away, since half the ClickFunnels crowd shows up in shorts and flip flops, and a black tie affair felt like the wrong fit for a room full of entrepreneurs. But the theater part of the idea stuck, so that’s what they decided on instead, an actual theater with the energy already built in, no formalwear required.
And that search is where the real story starts, and it’s the reason this year’s event looks almost nothing like the ones before it.
The Room They Almost Didn’t Find
Once the decision was made to bring Funnel Hacking Live back in a completely different format, Myles and the team started touring theaters. Theaters aren’t built often anymore, and most of the ones still standing went up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, so a lot of the options they toured just weren’t the right fit.
Then Myles remembered a theater his wife had taken him to for a concert, one with no bad seat in the house and the kind of comfortable, dialed-in feel that stuck with him. He brought the idea to their lawyer, who took it to Todd and Russell, and once they saw it, the decision was easy.
That venue is the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, and it already does the job a ballroom never could. It hosts concerts for artists like Post Malone and Keith Urban and runs March Madness watch parties, so the production and sound system are already built in instead of something the team has to construct from scratch every year.
This year’s event runs September 21st through 23rd at that same venue, capped at 1,940 seats. Every seat is assigned through Ticketmaster, so there’s no sprint for a front row spot once the doors open. It’s also shorter than what people are used to, two and a half days instead of the three and a half or four and a half days of past years. Tickets are available now at funnelhackinglive.com/CFR.
What Happens Once You’re In the Room
Myles has seen people walk into Funnel Hacking Live expecting a standard conference and walk out with a business partner, a mentor, or a completely different direction for their company.
Take McCall Jones. She went to Funnel Hacking Live just to see her sister-in-law speak. While she was there, she overheard another attendee struggling to figure out why her engagement wasn’t higher, and she knew the answer. It was that single conversation that pulled her into teaching and consulting, and she and her husband Tanner have been running with it ever since.
Eileen Wilder went to Funnel Hacking Live while her husband worked ride share and delivery gigs just to make ends meet. Something she heard on stage rewired what she believed was possible for herself, and she’s since built a business that pays her well without demanding all her time.
Then there’s the connection ClickFunnels Radio Host, Dante, made himself. A woman attending Funnel Hacking Live worked up the courage to ask him a question, worried she’d get pitched something in return. Instead, he walked her across the room and introduced her to a friend who had the exact answer she needed. The two of them formed a business partnership that night, and by the next year, they’d built a company together worth over a million dollars.
None of that happens from a couch at home. It happens because Russell and Todd attract people who are themselves, and that same energy carries down to the attendees in the room, so nobody has to perform to get help.
And none of those people planned for the exact outcome they got. They just showed up, and the room did the rest. The bigger question for most people isn’t whether that happens once they’re there, it’s whether they can get there in the first place, and that comes down to time and money.
What It Costs to Be There
Time and money are the two things people bring up most when they’re on the fence. Travel usually isn’t the hard part, since Las Vegas has direct flights from most major cities, so getting there rarely takes more than a few hours. On the money side, here’s what it looks like.
Tickets start at $997. Rooms for this event, when you book through the block ClickFunnels reserved, run $169 a night, which is well under what the Fontainebleau normally charges on its own.
Money can still feel like the bigger hurdle for some people, and Steve Larsen, a former ClickFunnels employee and two-time Two Comma Club winner, is proof it doesn’t have to be one. Back at Funnel Hacking Live 2016, he didn’t have the money to attend, so he found another way to earn his spot instead of just paying for it outright.
That’s just the kind of resourcefulness Steve brought to it. He didn’t have the money, so he made it happen anyway, and it worked out for him. Not everyone’s path looks the same, but his is proof that a tight budget doesn’t have to be the end of the conversation.
Choosing Your Hard
Myles has a line he comes back to, borrowed from a previous Funnel Hacking Live speaker: success is hard on the front end and easy on the back end, and failure is the opposite. You don’t get to skip the hard part. You only get to choose which one you’re willing to deal with.
That’s exactly the choice that got him here. He took a pay cut to join ClickFunnels, then spent a year in a role that felt like a step back before it ever felt worth it. Comfort would have meant staying at his old job and never finding out what came next. He chose the harder version instead, and everything he’s built since started with that one decision.
That’s the same choice sitting in front of anyone deciding whether to buy a ticket to Funnel Hacking Live this September.
Every year, once the event wraps, the internet fills up with recaps and photos, and every year there’s a group of people saying they wish they’d gone. Most of them don’t show up the next time either. Something else always gets in the way, and the same regret just repeats itself.
But it doesn’t have to go that way. Because what happens in that room this September is still unwritten, and now you get to decide if you’re going to be a part of it.
Ready to join us?
Funnel Hacking Live runs September 21st through 23rd at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas NV.