1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 on. Do you do some presentations before as well? You get on stage much? 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,640 Oh, I sing. I've been in the studio recording. So yes. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:10,280 Awesome. What do you sing? 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,520 I've been on TV, contemporary Christian ballads. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,880 What else? Yeah, I did musicals and all that. So yeah. 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,280 All right. And still making time with it. 7 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,200 You take time for it even as the CEO, COO and... 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,200 Yes, I was at my parents event a couple of weeks ago and sing a couple of times 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,400 and perform there. So I love it. 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,440 Awesome. What do you think is 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,280 one or two of the most important things people might get out of today's show? 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,160 Is if you are an innovator, 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,040 a startup or someone looking to do a business, 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,640 if is a nonprofit that can educate you, support you and help you get funded 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,920 for C pledge partners that are looking to put money into startups 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,160 and don't want the risk and losing all their money. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,760 We actually create a partnership with you to curate your pipeline of startups. 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,160 Nice. And what's number two? 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:04,960 Oh, that was one and two. 20 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:07,480 I got one. Well, the way here I am. 21 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,960 Not looking at the combination, but you're right. Those are two separate. 22 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,400 All right. Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Calame. 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,400 I'm your show host. 24 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,160 We'll be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,160 who are building fantastic visions out there. 26 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,680 Hey, what's up and welcome in a Vision Pros Live. 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,520 I'm your show host, Jackson Calame, founder and CEO of First Class Business. 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,560 And we've got Diane Tucker on today. 29 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,160 She's got a heck of a story. 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,080 She's overcome some great, great challenges and adversities, 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,880 and she's turned her life into a career of giving as well as 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,960 a very effective CEO and CEO for multiple companies. 33 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,360 So we'll be looking at that from different angles as we explore her vision 34 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,480 with her nonprofit that she runs that could help you find funding for your startup 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,760 and get yourself positioned to be able to maximize that. 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,240 So before we dive in with Diane, a little shout out to our sponsors. 37 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,160 We've got ColdClick. ColdClick is what we use for our LinkedIn automation. 38 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:17,480 And so as we get information, we get our messages set up to attract a new audience. 39 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,120 That system helps me connect with as many people as possible 40 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:26,960 on a day to day basis in order to attract people for this very show and experience. 41 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,200 In addition to that, it also allows me to change the message anytime 42 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,320 if I want to promote something that we have going on special for our business. 43 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,640 I'd also like to give a shout out to Tap Mental and David Goodall 44 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:43,480 on what he's done to create a business that helps entrepreneurs with their mindset. 45 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,280 And ultimately, he calls it putting the helping them with their business 46 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,000 and putting some of their psychology in order to create the systems that they need 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,640 in order to break free from their business. 48 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:58,800 And he works specifically with blue collar business owners, construction, 49 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,280 think general contractors, people who might end up roofing, 50 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,800 you know, your service provider, your local service providers would be great. 51 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,560 I recommend going to tapmental.io and checking out some of his case studies. 52 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,640 They've impressed me tremendously. 53 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:18,400 They've impressed me as a friend and as a father, as a human being. 54 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,200 I do recommend Dave, but by all means, check out the case studies. 55 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,600 They really speak for themselves without without going on too far, though. 56 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,800 I want to talk about the water project. 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,680 So I'm sure Diane can appreciate this if she's not already a supporter. 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,480 The water project allows us as individuals to contribute to providing water 59 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,720 to those who have a severe dire need for it and their communities. 60 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,680 And, you know, it's it's important to me because these these young children, 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,280 the parents, the communities, they have to walk for miles to get access to water 62 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,440 that's not even necessarily clean just to be able to survive. 63 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,960 And you can imagine the impact that would have on a community over a 10 year period 64 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,680 with all the time that would be saved if people just had the opportunity 65 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,160 to get water from their house, just like we do. 66 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,120 This brings them what's called a borehole well to their community, 67 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,280 or they create this sand dam. 68 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,640 It's really neat to see how the different projects work out. 69 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,520 But you can actually choose which project you want to help. 70 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:23,080 And then they're going to send you email updates of the project status as it moves along. 71 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,920 So you can see the impact that you had. 72 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,280 You also get to see the education that the local people get 73 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,880 in relation to their project and how they go about maintaining 74 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,880 their living with, you know, more, 75 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,680 I guess, more healthy water, more health training as well. 76 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,160 I'm trying to the sanitation training that they get of of maintaining that, 77 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,120 creating soap, things that are nutritious. 78 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,240 It's really cool. I love that. I love the adventure. 79 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:53,520 So if if you know of a cause that you'd like us to promote and give to, 80 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,600 don't hesitate to drop that in the comments as well. 81 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,280 We're open to looking at other causes that we could support. 82 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,440 We're all just very blessed for listening to this. 83 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,080 Right now, you yourself are extremely blessed. 84 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,360 And it makes sense to take a little bit of time to help other people 85 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,800 also achieve great blessings in their life. 86 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,160 So without further ado, we're going to bring Diane Tucker on board. 87 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,080 And, Diane, I'm so excited to have you on the show today. 88 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Thanks for being here. 89 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,080 Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. 90 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,920 Absolutely. So before we dive in too much into the nonprofit itself, 91 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,240 you have quite the backstory of adversities that you had to overcome. 92 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,080 In order to make sure that you could operate the way that you are now. 93 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,440 And that included a brain surgery that included losing your vision 94 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:37,680 for a number of months. 95 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,760 And I'm sure there's other health challenges beyond that, too. 96 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,640 Real quick, do you mind quantifying some of those those steps, 97 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:51,320 those milestones that you pass through on your way to to launching your venture? 98 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,320 Definitely. So in 2005, I was 24 at the time. 99 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:56,600 That's when I had brain surgery. 100 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,720 The doctor said I had a pineal cyst on my brain that was putting pressure 101 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,960 on the brain and causing headaches, that if we remove the cyst, I would be better. 102 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,720 Unfortunately, surgery caused more problems than it fixed. 103 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,520 Vision was not one of the risks they had mentioned. 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,560 Double vision was so bad, I couldn't see or make out who was in front of me. 105 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,960 It was just light. I had to go around like this with the eye patch for about three months 106 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,920 and my eyes closed for them to heal and link back up. 107 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,960 So if I look at you, you're not going to be able to see 108 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,160 what's going on in your vision. 109 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,880 So if I look at you straight ahead, I see one. 110 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,160 If I turn my head or start looking at the room, you'll see my eyes start doing this. 111 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,000 I see two. So still to this day, I deal with double vision. 112 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,160 My eyes don't really contract the light, even though I'm inside a building. 113 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,400 I don't have my glasses on, but I usually have shades on 24 7 114 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,640 so that I can make out who's around me. 115 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:52,680 And to this day, still dealing with after that, I developed too much fluid on the brain. 116 00:06:52,680 --> 00:07:00,280 I have IH, but that is when too much fluid is on the brain and it acts as a tumor that's invisible. 117 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:07,000 And so doctors and all that, but being on the permanent disability 118 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,200 and things coming to a screeching halt, I was full time in school, 119 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,520 full time in ministry, full time in work and things came to screeching halt. 120 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,000 But it allowed me to utilize my skill sets. 121 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,120 I'm a computer techie, taught myself to code at nine years old. 122 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:26,840 I learned how to code DOS at nine. And so I've always been a techie, 123 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,600 but I paid my way through college with accounting and office management. 124 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,920 So I love numbers. So I had all these skill sets and I would help people 125 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,360 that I knew who had their own business. They'd have a box of receipts and like, 126 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,680 I have to file taxes in two months. Can you help me? 127 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,160 And I would organize all their business and financials. 128 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,760 And from there, I just started helping people with their companies and their vision. 129 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,200 If you tell me your business idea, as long as I can see it, 130 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,920 I can map it out and build it. Departments, personnel, financials, 131 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,480 three-year performer, marketing plan, you name it. 132 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,880 And so after a while I was like, I'm helping everybody else with their dreams 133 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,120 and visions. What about things, dreams and aspirations that I have? 134 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:11,240 And so in 2011, I launched my first company, Diane means Divine. 135 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,880 So anything you see with my name, you'll see Divine associated with a lot of times. 136 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,520 So my first company is Divine Movement Making Successful Individuals. 137 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,760 And it's the Dmissy for short. That's my K-12 virtual education platform. 138 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:28,440 And so over the years, I've been able to launch several ventures. 139 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:35,560 I currently am the founder and CEO of Four. I also run Three in Massachusetts as the COO, 140 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:39,480 doing agrovoltaics, which is solar panels about 10 feet high and farming underneath. 141 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:47,560 And but I've worked with a lot of global minds, a lot of experts in the UK and Belgium and Africa 142 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:52,360 and Canada. And along the way, we've launched the Black Technology Mentorship Program, 143 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:59,320 which is a global aspect and having all these minds with these amazing impact ventures that 144 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,840 were viable, but couldn't get them funded. And then also being on a TV show where we 145 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,640 have four days to solve a social issue. They took CEOs from all over the world and put us 146 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,920 on different teams. I was placed on climate change. I was one of three teams who won. 147 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:22,520 And we were supposed to get funded. They said we had four days to save the world, 148 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:27,960 but with TV filming, it was two and a half. So we came up with a business, a pitch deck, 149 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:33,160 five year performer, how it would work on ways to really impact climate change in one. 150 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:39,320 But unfortunately never got funded. And so I'm dealing with all this and I was like, you know what? 151 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,800 I want to do something about it. I want to be the change that the world needs. 152 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,360 And that's when I started my nonprofit Impact Innovation Foundation last year. 153 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Wow. I'm so happy and glad that I let you tell that story because I don't think anybody can 154 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:00,440 tell that. But I could be your emcee in the event, but you would need an event where you have multiple 155 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:07,320 speaking sessions so we could really unpack that in a way that helps people quantify and realize 156 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:14,920 these aren't just buzzwords. You got the experience. You really get in the trenches of what you do. 157 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:21,640 That is amazing. So Impact Innovation Foundation. I'm looking forward to asking some deep questions 158 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,960 about it and what types of people could benefit the most. With that said, you've covered some of 159 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,800 this already. I mean, I think most of the audience knows that they should be able to in right now. 160 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:38,040 But who would you say would be like the top listeners right now, the people who are really 161 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,680 going to benefit from knowing your story, knowing what you can provide. Why should they listen to 162 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:49,000 you beyond the obvious that we just heard? And then we'll go into your vision from there. 163 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:56,040 Okay, definitely. So who should listen? Entrepreneurs, innovators, startups, and also 164 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:01,960 VC, angel investors, corporate investors that look to actually put money into the startup and 165 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:07,080 get a return on their investment. Why they should listen is to learn about what it is doing on a 166 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:14,040 global scale, how we are changing the way donations are received and given, how we're mixing 167 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:19,800 philanthropy with investments. And then what are they going to get out of it? How they can sign up 168 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:25,080 for the startups and entrepreneurs, how they can sign up, get involved, take our programs, 169 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:31,960 and really take their ideas out of their mind to in the market, building traction, having a research 170 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:37,480 team around them. And then the investors, how they can be able to learn how to get a curated pipeline 171 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:43,720 of tested and tried startups that mitigate risks. That's fantastic. Well, I've got two investors, 172 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:50,040 the name drop for you who are recently on this show. One is Lance Cottrell. I recommend that we 173 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:55,240 get you connected to Lance. I'd love to see what comes of you guys meeting. And the other one I 174 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:00,520 just hosted this week, that's Bernard Chong. And so we'll have to make that happen because they're 175 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,880 both like amazing people. They're both, one of them is an angel investor. The other one 176 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:11,480 has been more involved in the venture capital level, but they, I don't think levels matter too 177 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:17,720 much when you get to that stage. You're usually either just, you know, you're a shark that's 178 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:24,040 hungry or you're out to make a lot of a difference or somewhere in between. In between. So they're the, 179 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:31,880 to me, they both seem like great people who, who are very much, begin to impact driven opportunities, 180 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:38,360 which is what you're, what I keep, I keep getting on the tongue, the tongue twisting on the impact 181 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:43,880 innovation. You can call us if. Innovation foundation, if, got it. We can, we can also 182 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,440 use that pointing the, the acronym. Good stuff. Well, let's hear about this. What's your vision 183 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:55,480 for those that you serve? Diane, what, what is their pathway look like over the two, three, 184 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,880 five years they start working? Definitely. Yes. So impact innovation foundation is the public 501c3. 185 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:07,880 And so what we do is we work with social impact startups. As long as you align with one of our 186 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:14,600 five social issues, which is climate change, education, health such as med tech and first 187 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:21,320 responders, then mental health for youth. And then the last fifth one is technology for human 188 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,840 betterment. As long as you're a startup that fits within one of those five, which it's pretty hard 189 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:35,800 to not, we educate, provide mentorship, fellowship and early stage funding for you to be able to 190 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:41,080 build that traction, test your product. We also wrap a research team around you so that we can 191 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,520 measure the impact made, measure what has been going on so we can pull that data that the VCs 192 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:51,800 are going to need to see down the road. So like I said, we educate, we have the business fellowship, 193 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:59,080 we help you with pre-launch and startup funding. And then we work with you to put you in front of 194 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,880 our VC pledge partners once you build that traction, tested your model and actually have 195 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:10,760 acquired customers. I love that. Cynthia, we're going to stay right here for a minute on this part 196 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:17,640 of the page. And I wanted to ask you about that. So one of the, probably one of the harder questions 197 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,960 I'm going to ask when it comes to, for those who complete the education and business fellowship 198 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:28,200 program, they may apply for the capital. Do you have enough students in this program yet to where 199 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:37,480 you have a percentage of students who actually receive capital? So we are in pre-stage funding. 200 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:45,080 We're building out our 300 million HCI, which is human capital initiative fund. So we're building 201 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:51,720 that out right now. And so our goal is to officially launch in the spring of 2024 with our 202 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:57,720 education program. But we have pre-registered startups that are trickling in as we speak. 203 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:02,440 They're already in the health industries, in technology industry, and also in the climate 204 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:08,440 industry. And so those are coming through right now. Okay. Awesome. And that reminds me, I don't 205 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:14,360 want to forget this. The other person I want to connect you to is Harut Markarian of Markobonics. 206 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:23,480 He's got a robot that will help millions of disabled people throughout the world. And he's 207 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:29,000 also, he's got Jeff Hoffman as a founding partner with him, the Priceline guy. So they've got a 208 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:35,240 pretty good foundation set, but you know how that goes. There's so much to be done to make it all 209 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:43,480 come to fruition. So do you have a projection as far as whether that's a goal or it's an estimate 210 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:50,440 of how many of the incubated startups will likely get funded? We all played with that. 211 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,560 Yes, we have definitely played with that. So those that who go through the education, 212 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:01,720 that's a 12-week program, they can apply for our $25,000 pre-launch grant to actually just get 213 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:08,120 things rolling. And our education program is actually our filter as to who's ready to move 214 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,520 forward to the fellowship. So you have to take the education program before you can take the fellowship. 215 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,760 And that's how we curate and filter who's ready to move forward, who's actually ready to start 216 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:22,520 building and creating. Because when they move into the business fellowship program, our VC pledge 217 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:30,760 partners are also allowed to mentor them and actually feed into and help prepare them for how 218 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:36,760 they need that investment to go. And so in regards to the numbers on how many startups we're looking, 219 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:42,600 we can, we do our education program four times a year. And that's, we're starting out with 25 220 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,800 startups at once. So in the first year, we're looking at about 75 startups that will go through 221 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,480 just the education program alone. Our fellowship program is a six-month intensive, intensive 222 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,800 fellowship. And that one we're starting next year, we're only going to do one next year, 223 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:04,280 and that will be 25 startups that go through that. Those that finish and be able to launch 224 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:09,000 their program, they'll be able to get the funding and apply for that. So funding is anywhere from 225 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:17,400 50,000 to a million for that pre-startup funding to be able to go through that. And so next year, 226 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,680 we're only doing one, but then in 2025, we're looking into two and then scale from that. 227 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,800 And instead of just maxing out at 25 scale, test out, refine what's working, what's not working, 228 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,640 what do we need to tweak before we move up to the larger amount of startups? 229 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:35,080 I love that. I believe in that process. I call it cinching the hose. 230 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,560 And there aren't a lot of... I mean, everybody wants to scale so fast. Everybody wants to be 231 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:46,520 viral on TikTok. Everybody wants just explosive, nonstop growth. And it's funny that everybody's 232 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:54,120 at a 96% or worse failure rate. So as loud as that is, I appreciate these quieter groups that 233 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:59,560 are practical about how things will unfold. So are you saying that out of the 75 who go into 234 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:05,720 the education program, the anticipation is that 25 will graduate to the fellowship program? Is 235 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:12,840 that correct? Correct. I like that. It's so funny. We have extreme similarities in our visions. 236 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,040 You're a bit further along than I am. Really? 237 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:21,960 Yes. The Academy of First Class Business is very much built out, the foundation's laid. 238 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:28,520 The process of how we would support people is not as well laid out, which is why I don't 239 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:34,120 work with entrepreneurs. I don't work with the younger stage startups. I work with businesses 240 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:39,400 that have three or more years of experience underneath their belt. But with the way that 241 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,440 you've built this, it seems like a very attractive model for me to send people towards and say, 242 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,200 Diane Tucker's laid something out amazing here over with IF, the Innovation Foundation. I'm ready. 243 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,960 Most definitely. I love it. You're like, I'm locking it in. 244 00:18:53,960 --> 00:19:04,520 I am. So, gracias, Cynthia. So perfect. That's just amazing. I can ask for yourself then. What's 245 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:10,680 your vision for you, Diane? In five, 10, 15, yeah, however far you want to put it, I'm going to ask 246 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,880 you, Diane, in five, 10, 15, yeah, however far you want to project, what do you see for yourself in 247 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:23,800 life? Oh man, for me myself, I know I'm only one person and I have a huge vision of making an 248 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:30,600 impact in K-12 students are my heart. That's why I launched Demissy first. And one, making sure that 249 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:37,880 Demissy can be incorporated inside of schools, K-12 or homeschool, because it is too cool to have 250 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:42,200 books, but everybody's got their cell phone. Everybody's walking on with that. We have a 251 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:49,000 digital library that's built into the cell phones. And my impact is to in five years time, I really 252 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:55,800 want to close that gap, that learning gap for reading, writing, and math and that core foundation. 253 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:01,720 Not only that, I want to bring families back into the parents back into the lives and then the 254 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,680 control of their students learning. Great. We've got Common Core and all that, which are all of 255 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,840 our programs aligned with that. But now parents can get back into it and be like, okay, that's 256 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,400 what your teacher signed today, but this is what we're also going to make sure that you do. And so 257 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:21,320 that, and not only that, the program includes mentorship and tutoring. And so you've got a lot 258 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,480 of mental issues that students are going through with doubt in their mind. Like I've gone through 259 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,520 class, but I'm getting bullied or I don't think I can do it. And what, what, what is there for me 260 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,400 in life and being able to have a mentor that's saying, oh, well you like sports or you like music, 261 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:41,560 you can turn that into a pathway to doing this. So you have some encouragement to move forward. So 262 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,040 we're, we're doing the closing the learning gap. We're including the parents and the family back 263 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:51,480 into their students education. And then we also provide the mentorship. So improving education, 264 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:58,680 not only in the States, but then going global with the Missy. And then also with IF and my partners, 265 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,600 IF has three lead nonprofits. So IF is the main one. You're Immersive is the second one. Exergy 266 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,800 over in Portugal is the other one who works in Africa. So if it's not just the United States 267 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:15,640 nonprofit, it is a global nonprofit. We are working with visionaries all over the world. 268 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:22,760 And my vision is to be able to impact the communities, the economic development, 269 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:29,640 the accessibility, the lives of people worldwide by this global community that I'm putting together. 270 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:36,600 And so being able to touch lives and improve them. My model is anything and everything I do 271 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:43,000 is to help others reach their own level of success. Each and every person has their own version of 272 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,160 success. Me just saying, I'm going to help you reach success. I can say what I think success is, 273 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:53,400 but that's not necessarily Jackson's level of success. So then how can I help me each person 274 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,480 at their level, no matter where they're at in the world and help them reach their next level of 275 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:03,960 success? And so for me, my vision is to connect with amazing minds, amazing businesses, amazing 276 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:09,640 governments and officials that can say, okay, let's work together to make an impact around the world. 277 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:16,680 That's awesome. Okay. So I'm going to put a couple of seeds planted then for 278 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:24,120 that vision. One, as your education program, I mean, I don't know if it's developed yet or not 279 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:29,720 and what you're ready to talk to, but I will say my sister's a principal of a high school in Midland, 280 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,520 Texas. So if you have a program or you have something, whenever you're at that stage where 281 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,040 you've got something that they benefit from that you want to see, just let me know. 282 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,880 We tested it for about two to three years. It's on the shelves right now until it gets funded 283 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,880 and it's ready to go. Cool. That's awesome. So yeah, let me know about that. And then I have 284 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:57,240 another company I recommend in relation to helping children with their reading. I haven't seen 285 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:07,480 that it really stuck in my heart as much as when I met Jen and Christina of this book called Critter 286 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:15,800 Crew. So this is designed for kids who are of the ages of between three and nine. And it's got 287 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:21,640 songs that come with it. I'll just show a CD for now, but of course you can download this online. 288 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:28,680 But the songs, they focus on one letter and they focus on how to pronounce that letter through the 289 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:37,160 songs. I love it. You learn the phonetics as you fall in love with these different songs. They're 290 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:42,920 super good musicians. Christine's a super great musician too. I love it. Amazing. You know, I 291 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:48,520 love music. So when you pull in that heart string and I'm just like, good. Well, and I'm excited. 292 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:56,680 And they're Christian women who, that book that I just put over there is a near 15 year old copy. 293 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,360 It looks brand new. It is brand new. They launched this business almost 15 years ago. 294 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,400 They ended up focusing on their families and raising their own children, putting it aside. 295 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:12,200 And a few months ago they decided to start bringing it back. They're ready to go. They're 296 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:18,920 back. They're ready to help it, you know, take off. And I just, I can't wait to see that resource 297 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,880 in the hands of millions of children and parents because I've never seen anything in the market 298 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,360 like it. That's amazing. Yeah. And they have studies. They have studies too of how well the 299 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:34,440 kids have done with the program itself. I have to get you guys in touch and see where that goes. 300 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:41,240 There might be a great startup to work with Impact Innovation Foundation, but that material, 301 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,960 we got to get that in the hands of kids. We can get kids connected to the letters faster. I mean, 302 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,520 they, they, they claim that with that book, kids would be going into kindergarten reading. 303 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:56,520 So yeah, it'd be huge. So, all right. Yes. Thank you for that. 304 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,280 So I got to ask, you've been in business a lot. It means you've had your ups and downs. Let's go 305 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:11,880 into some of the darker side of it. So what's your worst business experience ever? I have to pick one. 306 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,920 Yeah. This is a common question for a lot of entrepreneurs. 307 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:23,560 Let's see. I think this is about back when I was first starting out helping people launch their 308 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:29,800 official business. And I had been on disabilities for about a year or two. I was down in like the, 309 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:35,320 Temecula area. And there was a gentleman, older gentleman, I think he's about in his 60s, 310 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:40,760 wanting to launch this business. And I came on board to help him build out his programs, his plans. 311 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,960 And at the time I didn't have anything else going on. So this was pretty, a disability was pretty 312 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:51,400 much my only income and what have you. And it got to the point where he started talking down on me, 313 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:58,520 even though I was helping build out his platform, coding it from scratch, the operations procedures 314 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:04,280 of what he needed done. And so I'm trying to work with him. Okay. So how are we going to get paid? 315 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,640 How is this going to be, how are we getting invested? So we can get our return on investment. 316 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,600 We can pay our employees and move on. And he pretty much told me he was doing me an opportunity 317 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,640 of giving me an opportunity to work on this project with him. So I wouldn't be sitting at 318 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:23,080 home watching Oprah and just wasting my time and that I should be grateful. I would say that would 319 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:30,200 be one of the worst experience I've had the spark to take. And I was just like, huh, okay. 320 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,120 I've learned tough skin over the years and don't let things like, 321 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:41,080 to some people with the dick it in the corner and it's, it's got to mess things up, but it makes me 322 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:48,040 stronger. And I was like, evidently my knee, my service is no longer needed for you. Thank you. 323 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:55,320 I'm glad you had the healthy boundary to know like, I'm not doing this. How long were you working 324 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,800 with him before that happened? It was about six to eight months. Oh my goodness. I'm not too sure. 325 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:08,040 Yeah, it was around that. Wow. Oh, okay. Yeah. So anybody who's been burned by a provider, 326 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:16,360 oh, I mean, I'll like, that's, that's a, that's just disgusting what he did and said. So, yeah, 327 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:22,360 let's make sure we choose the people we work with wisely. Make sure they got our best interests at 328 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:27,640 heart moving forward. You know, you know, and, and you preach it because a lot of people get 329 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:34,440 themselves in that situation where they provide and, and don't end up having somebody looking out 330 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,320 for their best interests. So we might, we might recircle back to that. And we talked about the 331 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,800 powerful lesson, but let's go, let's dive into your best experience and business on the flip side. 332 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:51,160 What's your best experience been so far? Best experience. I'm not so much, this is my best 333 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,520 experience, but right now it's my most rewarding is to see a transformation. I do a lot of business 334 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:03,880 consulting and speak and give into other people's lives. And so I am the fractional COO for a gentleman 335 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,440 who has three companies in Massachusetts. He started doing his business as a sole, 336 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:13,880 businesses as a sole proprietor, doing everything on a yellow meat, no pet. I mean everything. 337 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:21,960 And so it is now four years to date. He has one LLC, two C corporations out of those three 338 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,800 sole proprietors, full staff. And one of them, he is the industry leader in the nation because 339 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:33,560 it's a brand new industry working with state officials on how helping to create the policies 340 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:41,000 on how this new industry can be mapped across the States and being able to see his transformation 341 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,800 from, I don't know how to time manage. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just a farmer. I can't 342 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:51,160 do this to, okay, Diane, I'm a CEO of three companies. This is how we're going to run things. 343 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,680 The confidence that he has, the growth that we've made these businesses and building out 344 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:04,440 the operations and the processes. And so it would be like the pride of being able to see such a huge 345 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,960 transformation in one person that has three amazing industries that are life-changing in 346 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,960 agriculture, renewable energy, and agriculture consulting. And so I would say that right now is 347 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:23,480 just one that's at the top of my list. Absolutely. That's awesome. That's a heck of a transformation 348 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:31,480 too. There's not too many transformations that get bigger than that reality. My apologies to everybody. 349 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:40,040 That is my prayer alarm. We won't take a break for it, but my little bell there reminds me that 350 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:47,000 it's time to say prayer of gratitude, be in the mindset. That gong that you hear is the Taco Bell 351 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:54,520 gong though. It worked. It was the best gong I could find. I love it, but no, that's the priority 352 00:29:54,520 --> 00:30:02,520 to keep at the top, that prayer life. I love it. That is perfect. Absolutely. So with those two 353 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:08,520 things, now that we've accomplished both those, I'd love to know what powerful lesson that you 354 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:15,320 can share with other visionaries. Let's circle back to the one about choosing who we work with 355 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:21,000 and making sure that we have people who appreciate us. But let's open the door a little bit further 356 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,600 for now. What's a powerful lesson you would share with visionaries that they can learn from your 357 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:30,520 experience so far? One, do not doubt yourself. You're dealing with someone who's gone through 358 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,360 brain surgery, who's gone through some days crawling around on the floor, can't move. And so 359 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:40,600 who am I to make a global impact when I need help to get off the floor on a day? And so that self 360 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:46,440 doubt, you need to get rid of that right away. And I know you said go a bit broader, but what I was 361 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,040 going to talk on is surrounding yourself with people who encourage you and speak into your life, 362 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:58,600 whether that's family members, friends, advisors, coworkers, peers, those that can feed into what 363 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,040 you're doing rather than you sharing something and people are like, oh, why are you doing that? 364 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,040 That's never going to work. Rather than negative people that are just going to drain from you. 365 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,200 If you've got enough doubt in your mind, you don't need added onto it from someone else. 366 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:15,720 So that mindset is huge before you even start one iota of your business. 367 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,520 Oh, I love that. I love it so much. So this is one of the most common themes that I hear over and 368 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,800 over from successful people. I want to circle back to something I said, because people might 369 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:31,800 take it wrong. And I said, so far, I want to put into context that then you got more years of 370 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:37,480 experience than me in the business world. So when I was saying so far, the reason why I project that 371 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,120 is because I know that you've got a few decades ahead of amazing things that you're going to be 372 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,120 doing, which is certainly going to influence the amount of powerful lessons, the types of lessons 373 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:53,800 you'll be teaching to others. Gary Vanderchuck was one of the first people on YouTube. I'd heard it 374 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,880 before with like the highly effective, seven highly effective habits. Thank you, Stephen Covey. But 375 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,840 Gary said it in a way where it just kind of hit me a little bit harder about surrounding yourself 376 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,360 with five people, you know, that really build you up. And Taylor Welch came along and he shared the 377 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:16,840 concept of making sure that you do not share your goals with random people. Like share your goals 378 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:22,040 with people who are going to support you. Not everybody, because people will come at you, 379 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,880 like you said, and they'll tear it down. And so if you already have a little bit of self doubt 380 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,480 with that goal, and you go share with somebody else, well, why do you think that you can do that? 381 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:37,800 Yeah. Yeah, very rarely do I feel a sense of resilience when somebody comes at me like that. 382 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:45,720 Very rarely. It reminds me of a friend in high school who said, I told her where I applied for 383 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,600 college and she said, she said, you're not going to get in there. I didn't even get in there. 384 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,480 In fact, I told her I was going to apply. I didn't apply. He hadn't applied yet. I didn't apply. 385 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:04,440 I didn't do it. But guess what? By some act of God, he sent me an acceptance letter. 386 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:14,040 Oh, that's cool. I'll take it. She was so mad. But it did. It completely deterred me 387 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,520 from moving forward with that dream of an entire. And so it would have been better off shutting my 388 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:26,280 mouth and selecting better friends at the time that would support me on my ambitions. So thank 389 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:31,960 you for that. You're welcome. Keep that in mind. All right. Circling back to choosing those types 390 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:38,600 of people, you mentioned one qualifier, which was looking for people who, when you make a statement 391 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,400 about something you want to do, their thought process is like, hey, that's awesome. They're 392 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,560 supportive. That's a really great character trait to look for. What else should we be looking for 393 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:53,240 as we're looking for healthy relationships who will support us on our ventures? People that have 394 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:59,960 actually gone through what we've gone through. So that mentor type of person that someone who 395 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,000 has experience in the field connecting with networks that are in the industry you're looking 396 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,040 to work with. And there's a lot of communities out there where you can just do Zoom meeting with 30 397 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,720 people and then learn from their experiences. And like, I've gone through this. Don't do that. It 398 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:17,880 didn't work. And so you can glean information. And sometimes you can build good one-on-one 399 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:23,080 relationships with people that they can actually be a mentor for you and guide you along your path. 400 00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:29,400 So that would be one. I like that. Let's combine the formulas too. So kind of like a filtered 401 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,440 system for those of you techies out there. For those who aren't, let's water that down a little 402 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:41,640 bit. So for instance, I might want to choose to select five people in my life who have 10 to 15 403 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:48,040 to 20 years experience or more having done what I'm trying to do. But to further filter that, 404 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:55,560 I go talk to 10 people. And one of them takes a condescending approach to telling me, hey, man, 405 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:01,160 you're never going to succeed with that plan. You need to do it this way. I see a lot of people say, 406 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,640 oh, man, he must be right. Jackson said go talk to that person who's had the experience. 407 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:10,520 Then you get another one who comes in and says, hey, you're really onto something. And I look 408 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,240 forward to seeing where your business model goes from here. And they give you some feedback, 409 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:21,160 but they do it in a healthy fashion. I would recommend going with the person who was healthy 410 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:27,080 and productive in addition to having the knowledge. It's not enough to just look for that one care 411 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,400 without stacking them together. What else you got to add to that, Diane? 412 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:38,920 And also even if they have the positive, like, oh, that's a great idea. And they're like, can I 413 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,640 assist you or here's some things to look into to kind of expand upon it. If they're coming in with 414 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:49,960 positivity and believe in you, but they may be a little off on what your idea is meaning. Let's 415 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:55,560 say you come up with something that has nothing to do with an industry and you're trying to force 416 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,880 it into there. A lot of businesses fail because they haven't tested out the market or done the 417 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,920 research on it. They might be giving you a good aspect as to, okay, we know that's not going to 418 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:12,360 work, but do look at it from this angle, but still stay along your path. So being able to receive 419 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:19,240 not so much criticism, but critique on how you can model it. But if it's in a healthy manner, 420 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:23,720 it's in a positive manner. There are some ways to learn from some things, whether then it's like, 421 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,920 oh, they didn't say I was on point 100%. I love this. You're filtering the value back and forth. 422 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,160 So let's take the person who's critical as well. And let's filter that further. And so you know 423 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:38,040 what? I don't necessarily want that person in my life as a best friend or as a constant advisor, 424 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:45,720 but did they gift me information that is valuable for my next steps? So if they're like, dude, 425 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:50,360 Jackson, you're an idiot. You should have called 300 people before you even got started. I have 426 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:55,640 to be able to say, you know what? It's okay if they feel I'm an idiot. They are right that I 427 00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:02,600 should have called 300 people. I can go call 300 people and I can look for a mentor who's going 428 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,480 to be nicer to me about the process or going to continue to look out for me and guide me that way. 429 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:13,240 But I'm not stuck with somebody who's going to be toxic towards me. And that's that law of abundance 430 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:17,560 at play, realizing that just because you have an opportunity in front of you right now does not 431 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:23,080 mean that's your last source of oxygen. There are lots of other people you can turn to in order to 432 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:29,640 get help. Diane, we can continue on that path, but is there any other powerful lesson, aspects of 433 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,720 impact innovation foundation or your vision that you'd like to discuss since we got about five 434 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:39,560 minutes left? Yes, definitely. I want to touch on the part of why VC pledge partners or VC investors, 435 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,800 angel investors, any type of investors would want to work with the impact innovation foundation. 436 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,040 Okay. So investors who want to work with innovation, impact innovation foundation, 437 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:54,920 and that could be accredited investors. That could be angel investors, people, first time investors, 438 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,320 anything, any of the spectrum, correct? Correct. Really for specific types. No, we're not looking 439 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:06,360 for specific types. Okay. Any of those are good. Go ahead. Yes. So last year alone in 2022, $590 440 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:13,240 billion was invested into tech startups alone. And then out of the data from, I believe it's called 441 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:22,040 exploding topics, only 63% of techs, not only, but 63% of tech startups fail within the first 442 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:27,720 five years. So out of that $590 billion that was invested last year, they're going to lose about 443 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:36,520 371.7 billion over the next five years and not get any of their returns. If 1% of that was to come to 444 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:43,000 if for human impact innovation that we're doing, that'd be 5.9 billion. If you broke that down to 445 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:55,000 1% of 1%, let's say of that 590 million came to if for the work we're doing. And so that's an average 446 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:03,320 of about VC capitals, VCs see about a thousand pitch decks per year. And so if we have VC pledge 447 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,720 partners, we just call VC pledge partners, but any pledge investment pledge partners that come in and 448 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:14,600 say, I want to invest a minimum or pledge a minimum of $15 million over the course of the next three 449 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:22,120 years at the impact innovation foundation, human capital initiative. So like I said, we're 450 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:28,680 transitioning the traditional way of giving. Most places would say give that full 15 million to if 451 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:34,600 you get a tax deductible donation. We're not doing that. We're saying pledge $15 million over the 452 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:41,800 course of three years. 20% of that comes to if as a tax deductible donation, but that tax deductible 453 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:50,360 donation is now you investing into the startups or the education of the startup, should I say. 454 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:55,480 So you're kickstarting the acceleration of innovation because that 20% allows us to provide 455 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,440 our education program, allows us to provide the business fellowship program and allows us to work 456 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,360 with these startups with that pre-traction funding to start and launch and test out. 457 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:11,960 And so that 20% of their donation is furthering their investments. It's they're putting into 458 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,920 being able to have a return on investments. So we're the first nonprofit that is returning 459 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:23,720 a return on a donation. The other remaining 80% never comes to if we don't touch it. We don't say 460 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:30,360 a penny of it. The other 80% of their pledge is what they allocate over the next three years to 461 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:35,640 directly invest into social impact startups that have finished our program, that have tested out 462 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,760 their model and that have gone through. We put research around it. We put the news crew because 463 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:45,560 we have a gather verse news crew as well. So we put our news crew around it showing the story. 464 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:51,960 So now when the startups go through the fellowship, why we say it's a pledge partner is because now 465 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:57,400 they're a partner. They can say, okay, who's the cohorts that are going through this fellowship? 466 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,520 Now they can do their bespoke mentorship and say, we're going to craft. I see three startups that I 467 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,600 like. Now we can craft these startups as they're going through the fellowship and we can mentor 468 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,760 them while they're going through your program so we can craft our investments. So once they build 469 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:17,560 traction and test and they've gone through and tested and tried everything to true and say, 470 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:23,000 okay, these are the risks we had. This is how we overcame them. Here's our model. Here's how we 471 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:30,120 built traction. We have revenue coming in and now they can go and they're prepared for VCs to invest 472 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:36,760 into them. So that's how we're transcending and mixing philanthropy with investments. 473 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:43,960 That's great. That's awesome. I'm excited to see that process visually explained. That would be my 474 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,320 invitation and challenge to you to add to it. It reminds me a little bit in a very different way, 475 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:56,760 but we had a company in Canada that I own a very small percentage of, and we were helping the 476 00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:02,280 entrepreneur gain grant funding through grants that were often overlooked and the money wouldn't 477 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:09,800 have even been used, but our company had built a secondary nonprofit in order to apply for the 478 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:18,520 grant funding legally and on behalf of the client and allow them to get 36,000 in government grant 479 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:25,160 funding for a $9,000 commitment that they also got back from it as well. So they ended up with 480 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:31,400 quite the financial investment in their marketing efforts. And you've now created a system as well 481 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:37,240 that is just being smart with moving the money and how the money is being moved in order to help 482 00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:43,080 entrepreneurs bring their visions to life. Most definitely. I don't know if you're able to show, 483 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:49,000 but that link I just shared is actually our VC pledge partner deck that we send out to those. 484 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:56,600 And that visually describes that pathway of investing into the innovation, then the fellowship, 485 00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:02,440 then building their traction, and then when they're ready for investments. Cool. Let me take a little 486 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:08,520 extra minute on that. I think it's well worth the time. So if anybody wants access to this afterwards, 487 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,280 I'm sure you can get in touch with Diane. And again, that you should see this on your screen. 488 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:17,800 So you mind if I flip through this? Is that okay? Oh, go right ahead. So that roadmap right there 489 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:23,480 showed that very much pathway. And then that next page shows how we're transitioning traditional 490 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:29,000 giving. Nice. And anybody who's watching right now, I would challenge you to just pause the screen, 491 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,240 pause the video and take a look through this. I don't want to waste anybody's live air time, 492 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,800 but you'll be able to see this right after we finish the recording and you'll be able to flip 493 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:45,160 right through it. So way to be well prepared, Diane. This is awesome. How do you recommend 494 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:53,240 people reach out to you and get in touch? At info at impactinnovationfoundation.org 495 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:57,240 or they can just go to the website, impactinnovation.org and fill out the contact form. 496 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,160 Awesome. How about social media? Is there, we should catch up with you on social media? 497 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:10,920 I am on LinkedIn under my own name, Diane N Tucker. I am on Instagram. You can look up the Divine CEO. 498 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,520 I told you I use Divine in a lot. And those are my two main social platforms that I use. 499 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:23,080 Awesome. Well, we should have those in the show notes everybody. Thanks for tuning in to Vision 500 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,320 Pros Live. Dan, it's been a pleasure to have you. I look forward to catching up with you and seeing 501 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:32,200 how we might also benefit from what you're doing over at Impact Innovation Foundation with First 502 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:37,320 Class Business, Passion Pro and Opratianes de Trabajo para Latinos. We got a couple of different 503 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,640 ventures that may make sense to explore it. So thanks for all you do. You've built a wonderful 504 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:46,600 vision. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Everybody, you guys follow us if you 505 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:51,400 want to subscribe in. If you have any comments, questions for Diane, don't hesitate to leave them 506 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,160 in the platform that you're viewing from. We'll make sure she gets those. Everybody have a fantastic 507 00:44:55,160 --> 00:45:00,520 day. And if we don't see you before then, enjoy your Halloween too. Bye. Thank you for being here 508 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,400 today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your 509 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:10,120 reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. 510 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,960 We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show. 511 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:21,880 And thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an awesome day.