1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Are you a musician yourself too? 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:03,360 I am not. 3 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,360 My business partner, Richie, is. 4 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,440 I am not a musician. 5 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,840 I've been around the music world my whole life. 6 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:10,840 I had a record label. 7 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:11,840 I managed singers. 8 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:18,360 I did insurance for athletes and entertainers, but I myself have no musical ability other 9 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,240 than I think I can sing very well by myself in the car or shower. 10 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,440 Yeah, so you are a musician. 11 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,200 You're just a closet musician. 12 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:27,200 I got it. 13 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,200 I hear you. 14 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,200 I understand. 15 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,200 I appreciate that. 16 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:31,200 That's so cool. 17 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,200 Yes, and yeah, you're all about the music industry. 18 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,200 That's fun. 19 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,720 All right, so as we get ready to dive in, before we go in and talk about the keys to 20 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:44,640 fortitude and strength and what you do and how your whole vision works, you've got such 21 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,640 a great track record. 22 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:52,800 One of your YouTube channels, 33,000 subscribers on it too, and you got some great depths to 23 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:53,800 you. 24 00:00:53,800 --> 00:01:00,880 Are there any music engineers who are newer to the process or they're still humble enough 25 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,720 to recognize that working on the fundamentals matters? 26 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,240 What are three books or resources that you recommend? 27 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,600 Three books or resources. 28 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:18,400 The book that I have based a lot of everything I've thought of for the last 26, 27 years 29 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,800 on and the book that I bought more of and given away is called The Law of Attraction 30 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,280 by Esther and Jerry Hicks. 31 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:34,000 That's something that I've just lived by, reread every few years and recommend everybody 32 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,320 read at least once. 33 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:47,840 In addition to that, on that same wavelength is I've personally been to about 23 Tony Robbins 34 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,840 UPW Unleashed the Power of The Inns. 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,440 I made an employee benefit. 36 00:01:53,440 --> 00:02:00,000 I brought over 200 plus of our recovery and plug employees and I stopped counting, but 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,040 some of my friends that have been with Tony for as long as I have, have told me that I've 38 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:10,400 perfectly brought over a thousand people in the last 23 years to UPW. 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:17,440 I've done 19 fire walks personally and I like to joke that prior to my accident, I was in 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,840 an accident, I was in an explosion and I was in a fire. 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:27,760 But I like to say that fire walking is safe and empowering and the barbecue tank that 42 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,320 exploded on me is dangerous. 43 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,120 So barbecuing can be dangerous and fire walking is safe. 44 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,200 That's my view of the world. 45 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,000 Yeah it sounds like you have experience on both sides of that. 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,080 So that makes sense. 47 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,720 So are we going with those two or did you have a third you wanted to drop? 48 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:50,720 So I have a third, I was fortunate enough last December to get to meet and spend a little 49 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:58,160 time with Sylvester Stallone and we talked about how throughout my life as I was growing 50 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:05,600 up, as I was building my businesses and especially when I was in the ICU in the burn unit, Rocky 51 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,920 1 through 6. 52 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:15,920 At this point in my life, Rocky 6 is my favorite movie for many reasons of inspiration. 53 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:20,960 It ain't how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. 54 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:27,360 I have that on my wall, I have it signed by Sly for me when I was growing up and prior 55 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:37,720 to that, Rocky 4 was my favorite for multiple reasons of the idea that overcoming obstacles 56 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:45,880 no matter how big they are physically, metaphorically, psychologically and also knowing that one 57 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,880 thing about all the Rockies, people can call it cheesy, but there's always a montage. 58 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,000 But the montage represents the work. 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,360 You don't just get to hold up the trophy, you don't just get to win, you actually have 60 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,520 to do the work and I think that that's extremely important that a lot of people may have forgotten 61 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:10,080 in the social media world that we live in today where you may just see a result but 62 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,600 not what it took to get there. 63 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,320 Well said and I love that because it doesn't condemn the fact that people highlight their 64 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,320 results. 65 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,320 That's called gratitude. 66 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,920 At the same time, it can feel like, man, I'm worthless. 67 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,160 Man, I'm not accomplishing anything. 68 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,000 Look at how easy they were able to do X, Y or Z. We play games with ourselves and I love 69 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,240 that you mentioned a movie as one of your resources. 70 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,400 I'm a huge fan of movies and in fact, it was probably three months ago now. 71 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:45,200 Three months ago, I watched the Rocky series. 72 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,280 I was looking for it. 73 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:49,520 Again, I was like, man, I'm ready to... 74 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,520 One reason why is Netflix was pulling it off on Netflix. 75 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,320 That's always my inspiration too for getting into the movies I want. 76 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:57,320 But part of it was because of the... 77 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,600 Only kids who have watched him since they were little. 78 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,120 I got videos of when my boys were younger and now my daughter as well. 79 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:12,280 Then I was fortunate that when I got to meet Sly, my son, long story, make it short, he 80 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,720 got to ask in a room full of people that some were professional journalists. 81 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,840 He got to ask some questions which were recorded and then used. 82 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,240 He was only 14 at the time, 15 now. 83 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,960 It was pretty amazing to see that. 84 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:28,960 That's amazing. 85 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:34,420 Again, there's so much power when you can see how the principle or the virtue or the 86 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:38,320 integrity of the hard work is applied in somebody else's life. 87 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,240 It becomes a little bit easier to be able to apply it in your own life. 88 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:46,360 I'm a big fan of learning through all sorts of different experiences. 89 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,600 Vision Pros, write those resources down, maybe look them up and we're going to go to a break. 90 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,080 We'll be right back with Andrew Sossin's Vision. 91 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,080 All right. 92 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,200 Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Calame. 93 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,200 I'm your show host. 94 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,880 We will be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building 95 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,320 fantastic visions out there. 96 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,920 What's up? 97 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,120 Welcome into another episode of Vision Pros Live. 98 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,720 I'm your show host, Jackson Calame, founder and CEO of First Class Business. 99 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,200 I am stoked to have Andrew Sossin on the show today. 100 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,240 He runs a program called Recovery Unplugged. 101 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,840 We'll get to that in just a minute. 102 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:32,320 The mindset skills that he has, the abilities to help people overcome their challenges and 103 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:39,240 pursue greatness, the ability to touch both sides of life is a superpower that I rarely 104 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,000 come across in terms of leadership development. 105 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,200 Usually the leader has overcome something and moved into something greater, but they 106 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:54,680 may be focused on either how to get to the greatness or how to overcome. 107 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,560 He's got that unique gift of being able to teach, talk about and expound on both realities, 108 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,040 which makes him very universally applicable in terms of being a mentor. 109 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,320 So I'm very excited for our session. 110 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,560 I'm going to hurry through the sponsors because of that. 111 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,360 Even though they're great tools, I really want to make sure I maximize my time with 112 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,360 him. 113 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,000 So there is Sean Lechuga from The Wellness Shop. 114 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,580 Just go check his episode out. 115 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:20,280 If I've given goodness to you and value to you, I highly recommend going and listening 116 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:25,800 to him talk about what he does or catching what I talk about in other shows about how 117 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,960 great his vision is and company when it comes to holistic wellness. 118 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,000 We're going to move over to Melissa Gray in the Law Spot. 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,100 Same thing. 120 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:37,120 She also came through and was on this show and what she's doing to help businesses of 121 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,180 illegal matters tremendously. 122 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:40,840 If you're already protected, fantastic. 123 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:41,840 Move on. 124 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,680 If you have not protected yourself, you don't have legal counsel, consider giving her a 125 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,200 call or checking out our episode and seeing if she might be the person to help you. 126 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,760 We're going to move right into the water project, though I will never forget or slow down when 127 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,840 it comes to talking about the water project. 128 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,120 There are millions of people who do not have access to clean drinking water and I have 129 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,200 it in my other room. 130 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,600 I have it right here beside me. 131 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,440 It didn't take me hours or miles of walking to go get it. 132 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:11,840 There's people in Africa who the water project supports and they are walking three, four, 133 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:18,920 five miles just to get to an unsafe drinking or sorry unsafe. 134 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:19,920 What am I trying to say here? 135 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:20,920 I'm so excited. 136 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,520 A source of water that could hurt their family, not help or their school and they're missing 137 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,760 their education, they're missing work because of it, et cetera. 138 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:35,040 We are able to create, help them create a borehole well or a sand dam in order to help 139 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,920 them have access to drinking water. 140 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,440 It can have a generational impact on these individuals. 141 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,140 So if you're not in the position to financially give to the water project, my hope and I hope 142 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:50,360 to inspire you to share this with others, to consider sharing the link, all more to 143 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,000 consider tagging a friend on their page, not on mine. 144 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Go and give. 145 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,280 There's 8 billion people in this world to help and I feel like as long as I have the 146 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,440 privilege of talking to this microphone, I need to do my best to try to make impact on 147 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:07,180 those who are less fortunate than I am in terms of their resources. 148 00:09:07,180 --> 00:09:11,280 So if you know of a cause too that you'd rather hear us talk about or that you'd rather see 149 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,420 us promote, just drop that in the comments. 150 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:16,140 Let us know what you would like us to contribute to. 151 00:09:16,140 --> 00:09:23,720 Maybe it's a family's crowdfunding due to a physical or a health element. 152 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,200 Maybe it's something going on in one of these other countries that is experiencing turmoil 153 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,900 right now. 154 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:34,160 Whatever we can do to support each other on helping the 8 billion, I'm all for it. 155 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,480 So send it our way, please. 156 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,840 Now without further ado, I'm going to bring Andrew on stage. 157 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,320 You guys can go and look at the landing page. 158 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,920 You can go and check out his story on LinkedIn and see his career history and all the past 159 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:46,920 stuff. 160 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,480 But I really want to talk to him about the vision today because we got to maximize our 161 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:51,480 time with him. 162 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,080 So Andrew, I'm honored to have you here. 163 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,480 Thank you for all that you do on behalf of everybody who's looking for greatness and 164 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,800 who's looking for hope in terms of recovery. 165 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,480 I love your mission, man. 166 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,480 Thank you. 167 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,280 I greatly appreciate the opportunity to be here. 168 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:07,600 Yes, sir. 169 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,040 Diving right in, what is the vision? 170 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,240 What is your vision for those who serve? 171 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:23,080 So for the people that we serve from day one, it's always been not just to help people through 172 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,080 recovery. 173 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:25,080 That's obvious. 174 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:34,320 But it's to do it in a way that's both revolutionary, high quality experience that will provide 175 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,880 a long lasting positive change for those that are seeking it. 176 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,320 And it took a little while to understand what we actually were just doing. 177 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,200 But that's my vision. 178 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,760 And that's the vision of Recovery Unplugged is not just to help people, which we do. 179 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:52,760 That's obvious. 180 00:10:52,760 --> 00:11:00,360 But it's to do it on a level that's going to be both different and long lasting because 181 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,520 recovery is for life, whether it's mental health or addiction. 182 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,060 And it's not an all or nothing. 183 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:12,400 So the idea is to have that positive change that can be built upon. 184 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,680 And it's just a stepping stone. 185 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,360 There is no cure or silver bullet to anything. 186 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,360 Yes. 187 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,600 I love that you mentioned the word experience. 188 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,640 And most visionaries forget the reality that they can create an experience. 189 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:31,520 I can put socks on my hands, draw a smiley face and call it the Muppets. 190 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:38,000 But it's not going to have the same effect or the same experience as when you watch the 191 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:44,000 actual Muppets movie and the comedians that get involved in that and the depth of, again, 192 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,220 it's not just about the activity. 193 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:51,020 It's about the thought process, the virtues, the whole creation of the process that goes 194 00:11:51,020 --> 00:11:52,240 along with it. 195 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,100 And I'll be picking your brain a little bit about that soon. 196 00:11:55,100 --> 00:12:00,940 But before we go into that, what is your vision for you? 197 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:07,560 My vision for myself has always been to be involved in whatever is going to help people 198 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,360 do more and be more for what that means. 199 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:16,160 And so for the last 10 years of my life, that's been with Recovery Unplugged. 200 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:21,960 Prior to that, I've been involved in different businesses, but also from an individual perspective, 201 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,600 just always being there for people. 202 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,440 And there's a reason why I've helped over a thousand people go through Tony Robbins' 203 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,440 UPW. 204 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:34,920 There's a reason why I've personally given out over my last check, give or take, 300 205 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:40,800 plus copies of the Law of Attraction, because the obviousness is somebody that comes that 206 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,000 needs help right now with recovery. 207 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,480 But the other part is just people that are going through life that want and are looking 208 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,640 for ways to do more and be more. 209 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,080 And that means different things for different people. 210 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,040 So my vision for myself is always how can I help assist in that? 211 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,080 Meaning that just because I believe something is right doesn't make it right. 212 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,880 But if I can share the resources that have helped me with others, then it could potentially 213 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,880 help them. 214 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,560 Absolutely. 215 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,120 Tony Robbins has I Am Not Your Guru on Netflix, right? 216 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:19,860 And it's about there's a new opportunity for him with people like yourself have been so 217 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:20,860 many times. 218 00:13:20,860 --> 00:13:26,300 There's like a whole documentary opportunity with you and all the things that you've learned 219 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:33,080 by being involved and around that culture from personal development to recovery to the 220 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,520 personal training that goes on, the business training that goes on. 221 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,160 There's so much depth there. 222 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,160 I can only imagine. 223 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:40,160 I'm just going to hint at that. 224 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,400 I'm going to leave it right where it's at. 225 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:42,400 I hope. 226 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:48,720 It's also led to if I just look at the straight line or the indirect lines of how I ended 227 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,720 up here today, right? 228 00:13:51,720 --> 00:14:00,200 Because from the Tony world, I met Dr. Peter Diamantis, ended up at A360, sat next to Justin, 229 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,120 who introduced me to you, right? 230 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:10,200 I can tie into look, there are always good, bad and questionable people and thoughts in 231 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,840 every single environment. 232 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:16,440 I would say that the good is definitely outweighed the not as good in what I've met, who I've 233 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,600 met over the last two plus decades in that world. 234 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:28,040 My personal coach, Sean Callagy from Unblinded, I met also at the UPW. 235 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,880 I've been able to assist with that. 236 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:35,200 I've also had some pretty outrageously crazy people and things that I've met with as well 237 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,040 over the last two decades. 238 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,000 That's part of life, which I experienced. 239 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Absolutely. 240 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:48,040 With that said, again, I think there's a great opportunity for them to do a docu-series and 241 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:53,840 the people who've gone and gone and gone and gone again, that reflect what's there. 242 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,560 I also want people to realize that you've been around so many leaders, you've been around 243 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,360 so many different mindsets, we are actually going to dive into that darker side first. 244 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:10,720 What is the worst leadership experience that you've ever experienced? 245 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:20,000 My realization that for a minute, longer than a minute, maybe even a year's period of time, 246 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:29,960 it was the thought and expectation that those that work for me had the same vision as I 247 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,960 did. 248 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:31,960 And not realizing, right? 249 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,960 It was naive, right? 250 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:33,960 It was naive. 251 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:34,960 Yes. 252 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,840 I've now done this twice, but now at least I recognize it. 253 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,880 Probably in the call center that I helped build and now, you know, Recover and Plugged 254 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:52,120 in the early stages was that, you know, me and my co-founders' vision, right? 255 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:58,360 Other people are amazing, they're great, but they're doing what they're doing because it's 256 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,040 part of their job. 257 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,000 And so not understanding the difference, which I understand now and I have for the last several 258 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,800 years, but in the beginning, it was getting frustrated with, you know, just because I 259 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,240 may want to work 70 hours a week, well, I'm building something, you know, that I own a 260 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:16,240 piece of. 261 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,040 And even when you're making a positive difference in people's lives, the expectation that other 262 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,960 people would have the same enthusiasm 24-7, 365 is me. 263 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,760 And that caused some challenges. 264 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:28,760 I've now done that twice. 265 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:35,400 And now I know and recognize it for the last several years, understand how much goes into 266 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,800 what we do on a daily basis, dealing with saving people's lives and enhancing it, but 267 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:45,720 also knowing that, you know, we now, you know, we built this from 20 people when we started 268 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:54,440 to I believe it was 431 when I asked this week because I always get like a weekly total 269 00:16:54,440 --> 00:17:00,360 of how many team members we have and knowing that, you know, they're all incredible, amazing 270 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,160 people that are doing everything they can. 271 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:09,700 But it's a different perspective than what I or my co-founders would have. 272 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:10,760 I love that. 273 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,480 And I love that you attribute it to naivety. 274 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,640 You know, and I would agree. 275 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:22,760 It's so hard to remember the path of growth, the learning curves that we've had in life, 276 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,200 right, that led us to our dedication. 277 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,680 And so, you know, if I think back to when I worked at Sonic, you know, I have to remember 278 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:31,960 like why did I work at Sonic? 279 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,280 Did I work at Sonic because I wanted Sonic to be the best company in the world? 280 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,520 No, I worked at Sonic because I wanted to date the car hops. 281 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,520 That was it. 282 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,720 That's the only reason I applied to work there. 283 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:47,240 You know, that was my 16-year-old mentality motivation to get the job at Sonic. 284 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:52,920 And so, when people come into my company, if I expect them to have, you know, the same 285 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,600 exact vision that I have for growth, then you're right. 286 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,940 We end up setting ourselves up for failure, in essence. 287 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:03,800 With those relationships, we also end up kind of disrespecting the relationship itself by 288 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,800 not finding out what's your vision for being involved here. 289 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,720 You know, why is it that you want to work with us and what's your vision for your life? 290 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,560 Those are very important parts of first-class business when we bring people in. 291 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,520 And we don't have 431, but there is something else you said that I want to highlight for 292 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,080 the visionaries, and that was that you get this weekly report of those who are working 293 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,120 with you of the, you know, they have 430 team members, 431. 294 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:29,320 You care about them individually. 295 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,520 You know they're valuable as human beings. 296 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,920 Dr. Seth Yates, who works with me, he said, Jackson, how do you find these amazing virtual 297 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,800 assistants? 298 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,960 And I said, well, I do find amazing people. 299 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,960 They're not amazing virtual assistants. 300 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,880 When I find them, we do lots of training to help them learn the skills so that they become 301 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,000 amazing virtual assistants. 302 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,120 But yes, they are amazing people. 303 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:57,520 And it took me years of messing that up and not knowing how to show up for people and 304 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,520 not knowing how to respect what people want to give and where they're at in order to overcome 305 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:02,520 it. 306 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:07,240 And I know you and I are not the only visionaries who have our blinders on, you know, initially, 307 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:13,040 and don't see over that hilltop and realize the opportunity there is to change. 308 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,320 Let's move into the best leadership experience. 309 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,800 If you want to come back to that, we will. 310 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,400 But do you want to move into best leadership or do you want to double down on what we were 311 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,400 just talking about? 312 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,200 I think it goes hand in hand actually for me. 313 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,800 Best leadership experience comes from the worst leadership experience that I've learned. 314 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:37,640 And so there's, I have two answers to this question, one personally and one professionally. 315 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,720 So I'll tie in the professional one first. 316 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:49,720 After realizing what I realized and having challenges earlier on, I turned that into 317 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:56,200 a figuring out what those around me in the company, what their vision was specifically, 318 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:04,120 right, which is different than mine on why they were working and turn that into identifying 319 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:11,840 several individuals that the world, their family, everyone had given up on and they 320 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:17,120 were ready to make a positive change, didn't know how to not just like go through recovery 321 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,200 and staying clean and sober, but both professionally as well. 322 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,720 And so the best leadership experience for me over the last couple of years, if I look 323 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,720 at our team today and I look at my leadership team, I look at the top of my leadership team, 324 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:40,680 there are three people that nine and 10 years ago were in my program that are now leaders 325 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,680 of this company. 326 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:49,560 And it is absolutely incredible because it's not like they got clean and got a job. 327 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:56,600 These are people that are now running divisions with dozens of people under them responsible 328 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:03,080 for seven figures of bottom line that everyone had given up on. 329 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,880 And it wasn't that we just took them to a seminar and empowered them, right? 330 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:16,160 It took many years, but they literally have now built a career, a reputation, a positive 331 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:21,960 one and systems that they were able to learn and develop themselves. 332 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:28,600 And again, 10 years ago, you would have just walked by them and maybe dropped a dollar 333 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:35,840 when they were on the street and now they're married, children, just amazing. 334 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,840 They're executives. 335 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,680 I mean, you've described executive behaviors. 336 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,440 Oh, completely. 337 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:49,240 But both personally and professionally, I'm most proud of what we've been able to do there 338 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:58,040 because and look, and I'm also cognizant that not everybody that we've helped is still working 339 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,040 with us right now because they got better opportunities and get them and God bless them. 340 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,040 And I'm there to support them. 341 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,720 I've always I've said that since day one. 342 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,800 If you want to be on this journey with us, God bless you. 343 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:10,800 I'm with you. 344 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,160 And if there's something different that you want to do, God bless you. 345 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,960 I'm still with you. 346 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,560 So that's what I would say. 347 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:22,160 I learned that and was able to do that only because of the challenges and frustration 348 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:28,920 that I dealt with not understanding where people's vision was versus mine. 349 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,680 The other side of that would be, I would just say personally, there was an opportunity. 350 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:41,040 I remember how years ago, a bunch of years ago, was at a seminar, Tony Robbins seminar. 351 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:47,640 I was volunteering on the crew and there was a situation where Tony grabbed amazing gentleman 352 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:53,560 named Steve Linder, who owns Neuro Strategies and helped me personally in certain situations 353 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,560 with LLP. 354 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,960 And he looked over at me and he goes, Andrew, I need your help right now. 355 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,640 You're in charge of these 300 people that are about to walk on fire right now. 356 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:09,400 Literally, I mean, you know, you're in charge of 300 people that are on fire. 357 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:15,840 It was one of those experiences that you literally had to, again, I'd been around, I had training, 358 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,880 but I'd never done that before. 359 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,440 And so I was thrown into a leadership position. 360 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:22,440 You know, I was young. 361 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,680 I mean, this is, I'm 40. 362 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,680 I wasn't even 30 yet. 363 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,040 So I was probably 50, 16 years ago. 364 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,640 And so I just, I'll never forget that moment because it wasn't like I didn't know what 365 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:33,640 I was doing. 366 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,600 I'd been around the world for already, you know, eight or nine years. 367 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,440 But when I was thrust into that right now, it wasn't like in an hour from now, it was 368 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,600 like you have 10 seconds to walk over here. 369 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,920 They're going to say, go, you're in charge of these people. 370 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,200 Make sure everything works out well. 371 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:57,120 And so personally for me, it was, it was the understanding that had I not had I just showed 372 00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:59,560 up that would have gone horrible. 373 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:00,880 But I had been around that. 374 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:01,880 I had been learning. 375 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:02,960 I had been to many seminars. 376 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:08,280 I had listened to the training of if in this really less than 1% situation, you are asked 377 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,520 to do somebody else's position, learn all the positions, right? 378 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,400 That was the training at the time I was able to do it. 379 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:19,560 And so from a, from a leadership perspective, you know, it showed me that what proper planning 380 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:25,680 and training, you know, having that here, you know, got thrown to the front right away. 381 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:31,680 So that was the personal and professional leadership experience that I love those. 382 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,400 We're going to expand a little bit on those. 383 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,960 In fact, it reminds me of a resource from a friend of mine named Craig Henley. 384 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:47,800 Craig runs a fortune 500 company and he wrote a book called hired to quit inspired to stay. 385 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:53,400 And that the concept of that book, which I just misspelled on the post, it happens is 386 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,460 very much in line with what you're talking about. 387 00:24:55,460 --> 00:24:56,840 It's that mindset of abundance. 388 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,480 It's Tony Robbins train all these people knowing that he does not have to control the 389 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,280 extent to which they're, you know, they go out in the world and do things. 390 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,320 You know, you're not an employee. 391 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,880 You're not somebody who he felt like he needed to have as an independent contractor to do 392 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:11,880 that. 393 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,360 He gave you an opportunity. 394 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,160 You seize the opportunity. 395 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,360 It probably enhanced y'all's relationship even further. 396 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:23,360 And he continues to build his dynasty by respecting people in that fashion, giving people opportunities 397 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,440 to belong, participate. 398 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:30,920 And you in the same, same token, when you talked about recognizing that when it's time 399 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,440 for somebody to move on, you can still love them. 400 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,440 You can. 401 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,640 In fact, there's an opportunity there to love them. 402 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,280 There's an opportunity to help them on that transition even. 403 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,000 And then you've taken people who imagine if every business owner in the world had the 404 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,800 skill set to teach, to have the patience, to have the understanding, to have the systems 405 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:58,840 in place to take all the people who are in between a rock and a hard place and turn them 406 00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840 into executives. 407 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,640 That would happen to our economy. 408 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,520 It would grow immensely. 409 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,780 And also the concept of even wanting to do that for others. 410 00:26:10,780 --> 00:26:14,280 Some people want, oh, well, I looked at this and they don't have these skills. 411 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,960 Well, look, you have to have a basic knowledge of skill. 412 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,680 You can't just have nothing. 413 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:25,720 But in different situations, one of the things that took us several years and a lot of money 414 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,680 is putting the systems and policies and procedures in place that we were able to do this correctly. 415 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,680 Yeah. 416 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,640 I'm glad you mentioned the policies. 417 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,320 We overlooked that as visionaries. 418 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,320 Go ahead. 419 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:43,120 It just had reached like, you know, in our first three years of existence, doing what 420 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:46,720 we did in our last three years, it would have failed miserably. 421 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,080 It would just have worked, right? 422 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,920 We were still figuring it out. 423 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,200 We were, you know, we hadn't set everything up that we needed to. 424 00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:00,100 Once we had policies, procedures, standards that we're always checking on, I was able 425 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,080 to then take certain individuals. 426 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,120 Okay, you're going to train with this person. 427 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,320 You're going to train with that person. 428 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,280 I'm going to do some outside management consulting training for you. 429 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,440 You're going to learn these things. 430 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,960 But we can only do that because we had other things in place at the time. 431 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:16,960 Right. 432 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,960 Yep. 433 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:18,960 Skill, infrastructure, all of that. 434 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,320 You can be great at gathering apples, right? 435 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:26,920 But if you try to put 10,000 apples on top of each other in a bin, the bottom apples 436 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,440 are going to get crushed, smushed. 437 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,000 You got apple sauce without containers. 438 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,680 And they say one bad apple ruins the bunch. 439 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:44,000 And so having a system in place to orchestrate the protection and the health of each individual 440 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,120 becomes extremely valuable and important. 441 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:53,160 And you don't build the 430 people overnight and usually have any type of sustainability 442 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,320 involved unless you're Elon Musk. 443 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,280 Then he's got superpowers I don't. 444 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,280 So yeah, people can get lost. 445 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,320 And again, out of eight billion people in the world, there's going to be a couple that 446 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,840 are able to do super human things that don't seem logical. 447 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,680 And I think it's important. 448 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:10,680 I appreciate that. 449 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,560 But I think it's important for people to realize the difference, right? 450 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,440 I've heard and had thoughts and everybody has, right? 451 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,240 You see what somebody else can do. 452 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,560 And that's inspiring, right? 453 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,800 You also need to understand there are certain reasons, situations, and things that you may 454 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,480 not know of how that happened, what they had to do to get there, what they sacrificed to 455 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,480 get there. 456 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,920 And I think that just something that I see over and over again and I hear about over 457 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:42,120 and over again, especially with younger people today and even any age of people, oh, well, 458 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,480 so and so is able to do this. 459 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,480 OK, great. 460 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,840 So you read an article, you heard something. 461 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:54,040 What did they go through for the last decade or 20 years or 30 years to actually obtain 462 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,320 what they've been able to do? 463 00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:00,160 So I think it's just important to understand that I know that anything is possible. 464 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,400 I'm a walking example of things that have happened that I shouldn't be here, I should 465 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,400 even be alive, right? 466 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,560 I was literally blown up. 467 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,560 So I'm grateful to God and to the ability to be here. 468 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,360 But I also know that there are a lot of things that people have accomplished that you read 469 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,360 this snippet. 470 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:23,160 But there's a lot of things that will have to have happened for that to work. 471 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,160 Absolutely. 472 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,400 Reading biographies of those types of individuals or I like to watch the movies about those 473 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,320 types of individuals as well. 474 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,200 It helps you gain some further insight into what they went through. 475 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:39,920 And you still don't know the depths of pain and challenges they probably went through. 476 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,920 You mentioned, go ahead. 477 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:47,120 Well, as I say on that, I watched the documentary of Richard Branson last year. 478 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:54,000 And then I got to literally go spend four days with him on Necker Island in March of 479 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,280 last year. 480 00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:00,080 And so yeah, the documentary was great, but getting to sit and talk to him for hours, 481 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,040 which is one of the most incredible things I've ever done over several days, you get 482 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,000 to hear again, the documentary is a documentary. 483 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,880 It can only fit so much in a couple of hours. 484 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:16,120 Then you get to hear what really was going on when the visionary and the person that's 485 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:21,600 created so much that he has, when he was up all night long worrying about losing everything, 486 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:27,040 they don't always add that part of how close to the drink some people get. 487 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,640 Yes, absolutely. 488 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,680 Another documentary that I watched, or actually it's just a movie based on a true story, it's 489 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,320 called A Twelve Year Night. 490 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:41,520 I highly recommend watching it if you're listening right now, because it's about one of the presidents 491 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:48,400 of Uruguay and how he had to go, they went to prison because they were resistance fighters 492 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,720 trying to fight for democracy. 493 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,920 And the challenges they went through in that prison before finally, it's very much a Nelson 494 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,400 Mandela level story, but one that almost nobody's heard of. 495 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:03,680 Phenomenal, phenomenal lessons to learn about leadership and dedication, which I'm sure 496 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,800 you got a lot of those from Richard Branson when you met him and got to talk to him. 497 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:13,280 My question for you right now, Andrew, is if this were your absolute last chance in 498 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,840 life to share a powerful lesson with visionaries about from your experience, what would the 499 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,240 last lesson be? 500 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,880 The words that come to my mind is just keep moving forward. 501 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:31,120 And I'll expand upon that, that there is no straight line. 502 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,920 I have never met anyone that's had the straight line up. 503 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:40,600 And the idea is, and it's a hard idea, right? 504 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:46,000 It's understanding that whatever you're doing right now, that nothing is permanent. 505 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,240 Success is impermanent, failure is impermanent, but moving forward is. 506 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,980 And some people get stuck. 507 00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:52,480 A lot of people get stuck. 508 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:53,480 Visionaries get stuck. 509 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:54,480 Entrepreneurs get stuck. 510 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,080 You get stuck in the daily grind. 511 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,080 You get stuck with finance. 512 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,720 You get stuck with whatever it is. 513 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:05,280 And the concept that I've always adhered to most of my life, and then I have to remind 514 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:10,240 myself twice a day, literally, is to keep moving forward. 515 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:18,600 Because when things are great, it is your obligation, in my opinion, to celebrate them, 516 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,260 but not assume they're going to go on. 517 00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:24,040 And when things aren't going well, it's your obligation to know that you'll get through 518 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,820 it, even when it doesn't seem like you will. 519 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:33,160 So the reason why I've been able to do what I've done, go where I've gone, and help where 520 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,760 I've helped is because I just keep moving forward. 521 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:43,920 It's an easy few words to say, but living it and doing it can be challenging. 522 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:51,200 So that's why every morning, every night, I listen to different incantations, different 523 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,200 people. 524 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,200 Not a lot. 525 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,200 Five minutes, less than. 526 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,080 Three to five minutes every morning, every night. 527 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:01,600 I write my gratitude journal, but everything is geared towards the forward movement of 528 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,320 everything. 529 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,640 I'm going to let that mic drop, sit there. 530 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,640 Keep moving forward. 531 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:10,640 Fantastic. 532 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,640 Brilliant. 533 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:19,480 I love that you tie it to the reality that we're in a constant state of change. 534 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,760 The success won't be permanent. 535 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,160 The failures won't be permanent. 536 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:28,600 And yet the opportunity to move forward can be something that we can gravitate towards. 537 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,560 And I like that you talk about it's not linear. 538 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:36,680 Point A to point B sounds so linear that it's easy to forget that if you jump in your car 539 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:42,040 to get from point A to point B, you're going to have all sorts of stops, turnarounds, left 540 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,360 and right turns, whoops, lots of things that can happen. 541 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:52,540 Well, the same is true when you're trying to move your vision forward with a world that's 542 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:53,540 resistant. 543 00:33:53,540 --> 00:33:57,720 I find and builds our greatest strengths. 544 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:03,040 And sometimes it's hard to recognize and appreciate, but the more we can align with that, usually 545 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,000 the happier or using more peace we can have in life. 546 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,960 That's what I found. 547 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,960 So thank you for the thought. 548 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,800 I want to know keys to fortitude and strength. 549 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,840 That's the topic that we named the show today. 550 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,840 I want to ask you about that. 551 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,480 I do want to give some context. 552 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:26,600 So recovery unplugged for those who are listening is a drug and alcohol addiction treatment 553 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:34,540 program that has both in-person locations in addition to online treatment strategies. 554 00:34:34,540 --> 00:34:36,560 You're based out of Austin, correct? 555 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,560 You are. 556 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:43,480 So we have facilities in Austin, Nashville, DC Metro, and I'm based in Fort Lauderdale. 557 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:44,480 Fort Lauderdale. 558 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,480 So we have our headquarters. 559 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,200 You got Lake Worth, you got Northern Virginia as well. 560 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,200 Yep. 561 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,720 So we have the DC Metro, Northern Virginia area. 562 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:56,920 And then as of March 1st, we will be opening in Charleston, South Carolina, and also Southern 563 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,760 New Jersey. 564 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,680 Those are our inpatient facilities for people that are in need of detox or residential treatment 565 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,240 for drug or alcohol substance abuse. 566 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,880 And then we have our online program. 567 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,480 So one of the best things that's ever occurred since COVID, COVID was horrible. 568 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,480 A lot of bad things happened. 569 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,640 One of the greatest things that came out of it was the ability to help people remotely. 570 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:26,320 So when somebody comes to our program or other programs, if they had to get a DUI, got detox, 571 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,440 they could come to our online program anywhere. 572 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,560 We have people throughout the state of Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, they come to 573 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,600 our online programs on a daily basis. 574 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:44,320 And then I'm very excited that also next month we are opening our first inpatient mental 575 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,480 health facility here in South Florida. 576 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,680 And then we'll do the same elsewhere because we have so many people that are battling anxiety, 577 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:58,360 depression, and PTSD without using drugs or alcohol that our program, which is now 10 578 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:04,480 years, 14,000 people whose lives we've helped and a seven year outcome study from Nova Southeastern 579 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:09,840 University showing why we're doing this working better. 580 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,920 There is no cure or silver bullet, but increasing the chances of success is what we do. 581 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,560 And as you're scrolling through here, I think the two things that I think is important to 582 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:24,080 highlight is we believe in meeting people where they're at. 583 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,360 And so there used to be this argument about medical MAT. 584 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,720 And I've always believed in both MATs. 585 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:35,760 And we're the only people that do both MATs, medication assisted treatment and music assisted 586 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:41,720 treatment, which we came up with because they both work together. 587 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:46,200 And we created the first pet friendly treatment center in America. 588 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,960 So we have dog parks at every one of our facilities. 589 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:56,820 I ironically came up with the idea and I'm allergic, severely allergic to drugs and gas. 590 00:36:56,820 --> 00:36:59,680 So I now can't even walk into our facilities. 591 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,840 I was at our facility yesterday for more than five minutes without having an asthma attack, 592 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:10,920 but I was able to understand and see how beneficial it is for people to come to treatment with 593 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:11,920 their pets. 594 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,800 And if that's what's going to work, and it has, and we've got a lot of data behind that, 595 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,800 then we'll do it. 596 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,800 Yeah. 597 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,760 So that's the, you know, we went from just recovery unplugged treatment centers to now 598 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,600 recovery unplugged behavioral health. 599 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,480 And we're really doing a lot more work on both the mental health and addiction side 600 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,400 because we see what is working. 601 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,280 It's so amazing. 602 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:40,000 And yes, I do see that, you know, it's funny, you get great Popovich or I can think of name 603 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,280 him his, oh, his assistant who's Bud. 604 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:48,740 I think he's still, I think he's still the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. 605 00:37:48,740 --> 00:37:53,940 These individuals that are amazing coaches are the most elite, elite athletes. 606 00:37:53,940 --> 00:38:00,040 And you put them in the room with a child and they're still some of the most amazing 607 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,320 coaches. 608 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,240 And they have this ability to transition the way that they go about it. 609 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,840 They have this super passion and knowledge for how to go about influence at different 610 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,180 levels. 611 00:38:10,180 --> 00:38:15,800 And that is to me what represents such the opportunity for those who are listening in, 612 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:22,560 you not only know how to teach people who are recovering and who are in great need, 613 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,920 I would say in many cases, probably desperate need for hope and help. 614 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:33,000 And you also have the unique ability to apply that at the highest levels of visionaries 615 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,600 too. 616 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,920 How much of that can we credit Tony Robbins and his organization for over those 23 years? 617 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,360 I got to ask. 618 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,640 I mean, it's invaluable. 619 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,040 You know, I'll take it a step back real quick and just acknowledge, you know, my first mentor, 620 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,200 still my mentor, Steve Einhorn, my best friend's father, who when I was 14, you know, brought 621 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,320 me to here, Zig Ziglar gave me the tapes, then Les Brown when I was 16. 622 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,420 And he's the one that brought me to my first Tony Robbins seminar when I was in college. 623 00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:08,600 And so it was the starting point when I was a teenager of the idea of personal development 624 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,760 that he gave me my first book, Thinking Grow Rich. 625 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,640 You know, that's where it started. 626 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,160 And then through the Tony Robbins world, I've been able to build upon it with Tony Robbins 627 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,720 world and the Steve Linder world and now with Sean and the Unblinded Mastery world. 628 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,840 You know, it's been it's been absolutely incredible. 629 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:30,040 And just on the basketball analogy, over the last couple of years, I've become good friends 630 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,840 with Vin Baker, who has an amazing book, God and Starbucks. 631 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,240 You know, he went from an NBA All-Star to living under a bridge. 632 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,920 He's now assistant coach in Milwaukee Bucks. 633 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,800 And he's, you know, working with Giannis and working with Willard. 634 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,400 And he's also got the Bouncing Back Foundation and works with us. 635 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,120 So so he sends people to us, you know, every month that need help. 636 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,800 And he's opening his own outpatient place in Milwaukee. 637 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,880 And he's able to take what he's done on the basketball court, helping the top, you know, 638 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,880 basketball players in the world right now. 639 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,840 And when he's not doing that, he's helping people in recovery at night. 640 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,000 So you know, just thought that'd be amazing. 641 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:11,080 No, I'm so glad and to all these references, all these names, they all have stories. 642 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,520 Most of them have documentaries and have systems that we can go learn from and pick up what 643 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,280 you're putting down for us as a path and foundation. 644 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,120 And even though we probably can't access your original Rich Dad, not that you necessarily 645 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,000 had a poor dad, but it's that Rich Dad, Poor Dad story of you, the best friend's dad who 646 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,560 was able to help put you on a. 647 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,240 I will say I talk to my dad every day. 648 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:33,240 I love my dad. 649 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:37,620 My dad was had the school of thought, go to school, get an education, get a good job. 650 00:40:37,620 --> 00:40:41,160 And Steve was don't worry about school, build who you are. 651 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,760 It sounds like Rich Dad, Poor Dad. 652 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:43,760 It was direct. 653 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,240 I mean, I literally almost I dropped out of college three times. 654 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:50,040 And my wife, who was my friend at the time, kept re-enrolling me. 655 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,320 I have a degree, but I mean, she really got it. 656 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:59,120 So I ran different businesses, always worked, commissioned only things because Steve's got 657 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,960 me on the mindset that if anything was going to be created, I would have to create it. 658 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,640 I was not going to work my way into success. 659 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,800 I would work my way into success working for myself or building something myself. 660 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:17,360 And so, you know, it's been it's been fantastic to have both my dad, Bob and Steve, you know, 661 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,080 because my dad is also very logical and I'm not. 662 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,720 So it's amazing to have him in my life every day. 663 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:27,300 That grounding is necessary because you could get, you know. 664 00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:31,160 That's a key to fortitude and strength, I would say is the grounding. 665 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,640 And we're not all born and blessed with it. 666 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:34,640 I love my dad. 667 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,440 A lot of a lot of great. 668 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,680 If I am being dad at my best. 669 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,600 I am scratching the surface of how my dad was at his best. 670 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,320 Yeah, phenomenal. 671 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:53,680 And most people know the know me know that my dad is the darkest of the blackest of black 672 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,840 sheep in the family. 673 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,160 And you know, but there's so much good that can be learned from both experiences. 674 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:05,280 There's honor to be had in that process as well. 675 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:10,320 Those of those of you out there who didn't have a dad, I don't have a dad. 676 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,320 Find one now. 677 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,040 I mean, I hope you're 60. 678 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,120 Find one now. 679 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,800 Go find those mentors. 680 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,840 Go find that tribe that's willing to help you go to Andrew. 681 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:20,840 Call me up. 682 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,800 You know, ask me who's been on the show that you want to connect with. 683 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,760 Incredibly important to know that men and I love that I learned this image that poor 684 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,680 dad, I think I knew it. 685 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,960 But like it was like, oh, now it's obvious. 686 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:38,360 And Robert Kisaki said, mentors love to mentor. 687 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,360 They're ready. 688 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,240 They're just waiting for you to call them. 689 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:45,860 If you call somebody who you want mentorship with their leadership from, they're going 690 00:42:45,860 --> 00:42:46,860 to give it to you. 691 00:42:46,860 --> 00:42:51,520 And I also love that he said and and you know, go pay for their dinner. 692 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,320 You know, take them out to lunch. 693 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,800 They're going to want to pay for the probably beat you to it. 694 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:02,200 But do the things that help them understand you value them in your life. 695 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,240 Give to their charities. 696 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:06,920 That's another thing I've heard to do is make sure to support their charities. 697 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:11,600 It's amazing what can happen when you show up to give and you show up to give with the 698 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:12,600 right people. 699 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:17,560 But anyway, we're going to go back to recovery unplugged and what's there and people being 700 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:18,560 able to go. 701 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,680 And so the online treatment, but I'm not going to call it a facility, the online treatment 702 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,680 process. 703 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:24,680 What does that look like? 704 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,360 How are you guys going about delivering that? 705 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,080 How do people sign up? 706 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:34,480 So we have 24 hour life saving center, amazing people, 24 7, 365, we're open on Christmas, 707 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,200 we're open always. 708 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,800 So if anybody needs help, I'm old. 709 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,880 So I talk to people, people can call at any time. 710 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,460 But we also have live chat. 711 00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:47,040 You know, we're on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, people can reach recovery unplugged at 712 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,280 recovery unplugged on any one of the social media platforms or recovery unplugged dot 713 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,280 com. 714 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,200 And we have people 24 hours doctors that can do an assessment. 715 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,160 If someone needs help, whether it's you know, they're struggling with mental health and 716 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,480 just feel like they need more or they're struggling with alcohol or substances or a family member 717 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,920 is, they call us and we figure out how we can help them. 718 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,120 And if we can't help them, we find someone that will. 719 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,560 And that's one of the things we try ourselves on. 720 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,560 Always have always will. 721 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:19,400 Oh, you know, I think 70% of the people that call us, we can't help right there in a different 722 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,080 state, you know, or whatever it may be. 723 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:27,840 But one of the things I will mention is as of 2024, most of 2324, we now are in network 724 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:33,200 with every major insurance company, as well as TRICARE for the active military, VA for 725 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,560 veterans and Medicaid. 726 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,600 So you know, it took me several years to be able to do that. 727 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,640 But the goal is to be able to help everybody where they're at. 728 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,560 And I never wanted money to get in the way of somebody getting help. 729 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,360 So we do give out scholarships as well. 730 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:50,520 But we take every single insurance that's available, as well as with the military and 731 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,120 the government offers. 732 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,800 I love that a lot. 733 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,720 I love to extend our conversation about potential partnership with some of our programs as well 734 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:01,120 and what's there. 735 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,680 I'm a big fan. 736 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:09,260 When I was in the medical co-op program studying to be a pediatrician in high school, my teacher 737 00:45:09,260 --> 00:45:12,860 told me I would never be able to be a doctor. 738 00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:15,600 And he said it would love he said, Jackson, you love people too much. 739 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,600 I know you wouldn't be able to handle this. 740 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,640 You wouldn't be able to do what was needed when a dad comes in and says his daughter 741 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:26,240 fell on the stairs, but she's got a ring imprint on her face that matches the ring on his. 742 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:27,240 I was like, you're right. 743 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:28,240 I'm telling you. 744 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:29,240 I was like, OK. 745 00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:33,640 But I started thinking about therapy too and like being a psychologist. 746 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,280 And I had the same realization for me. 747 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,760 I realized I don't want people to feel like that to pay me to talk to me. 748 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,600 And so I then decided I want to be a teacher like he was, like the guy I was learning from. 749 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:45,600 And I was like, well, I can be a teacher. 750 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,640 Then I can be there for people outside of my teaching hours, not charge of anything. 751 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,320 Anyway, all that process has led to where I'm at with first class business and building 752 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,680 passion pro and our different programs for Latinos. 753 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,300 And I've been through many therapy programs myself. 754 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:01,880 We need one that I can refer people to. 755 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:02,880 Go ahead. 756 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,380 Yes, I want to add. 757 00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:10,720 Thank you for reminding me so much amazing things going on that we just launched our 758 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,720 program in Spanish. 759 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:14,800 First language. 760 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:15,800 It is live. 761 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,280 We have two programs, one for people battling drugs or alcohol and one for people just for 762 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:26,920 mental health, 100 percent in Spanish, virtually in any state that we're in, all covered by 763 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,920 insurance. 764 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,800 So that is live as of yesterday. 765 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,800 Oh, wow. 766 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:32,800 Cool. 767 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:33,800 What timing. 768 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:34,800 That's awesome. 769 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:40,320 And my 14 year vision for Latinos and finding work that I've been building for a long time 770 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,440 went live three weeks ago. 771 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,600 So what a weird, cool set of timing. 772 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:46,600 God is good. 773 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,600 Yes. 774 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:48,600 I'll say that. 775 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,520 And the so what I hear about Recovery Unplugged 2 is it reminds me a lot of which I believe 776 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,000 there's more room for in the world. 777 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,480 Reminds me a lot of better help. 778 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,200 You know, that type of program that people can go to and get help from is, is there some 779 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,920 alignment and harmony with that type of a program and therapy? 780 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,160 That's the Spanish version. 781 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,160 Sorry. 782 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:17,440 So, you know, we we offer again, our virtual offering and our online offering is in the 783 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,760 last year. 784 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,280 That's the direction that we're going into. 785 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:28,360 Yes, we're offering our focus is intensive outpatient therapy, where their focus is just 786 00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:29,840 individual therapists. 787 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:30,840 Right. 788 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,240 You call therapy, spend 45 minutes with them, whatever it may be. 789 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:39,320 We're offering is what you would do in a group therapy session, intensive outpatient, three 790 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:45,200 hours, three days a week, and then separately having that one on one with the therapist. 791 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:50,080 But that's what we're taking everything that we've been successful with people coming in, 792 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,440 you know, on the outpatient side and doing that online as well. 793 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:54,440 Nice. 794 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:55,440 That's awesome. 795 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,000 And while I'm really excited to see the vision continue to expand, we'll be happy to do everything 796 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,040 that we can to support the growth of what you're up to. 797 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,160 Andrew connections, anything visionaries who are listening in. 798 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,880 If you have the desire to connect, of course, on the landing pages, use those. 799 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,240 I'm sure you can connect to Andrew on LinkedIn. 800 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:16,240 Also subscribe on YouTube to their channel. 801 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:22,240 And if you're in need or you have a family member who's in need, then I'm actually curious 802 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,680 if somebody is a family member that's in need, Andrew, do you guys have like a recommended 803 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:33,040 starting point introduction of like how to ease people into that reality and experience? 804 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,960 Well, I was that family member, right? 805 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,880 I took several family members to rehab many times, didn't know what I didn't know at the 806 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:40,880 time. 807 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,200 So my whole thing is always, you know, that's what we do. 808 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,720 That's what our 24 hour life saving center does. 809 00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:51,080 We have trained interventionists, amazing people that also work directly for recovery 810 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,680 unplugged, that will go out and do those as well. 811 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,620 It's need be. 812 00:48:56,620 --> 00:49:00,600 So just call us and have the conversation of what's going on. 813 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:01,600 Everybody's got a different story. 814 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,160 There's no do this or do that. 815 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:08,000 It's in other words, I can call you guys and ask, like if I have somebody in my life who 816 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,920 needs help, but they're just not willing to seek it. 817 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,640 I call and ask you guys how I can go about that. 818 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:19,360 Nobody wakes up that I've met in 10 years and says, I want to go to rehab today. 819 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,060 We nobody's not showing up and be like, I'm here, right? 820 00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:25,960 There's always a situation, conversation, intervention. 821 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:30,560 There's always something that will need to occur for that individual to take the next 822 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:31,560 step. 823 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,200 And a lot of times it's just a phone conversation where somebody calls up and they'd say, I 824 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:36,200 get it all the time. 825 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,200 People call me, Andrew, I know you've been through this. 826 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,200 My mom, dad, sister, brother, husband, wife, kid, whatever, name it. 827 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:43,200 What do I do? 828 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:48,920 And then I call one of our trained, amazing interventionists and they do a phone call. 829 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,640 And then the next day, we're helping that person. 830 00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:53,640 That's awesome. 831 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,920 That's really, really helpful to know. 832 00:49:55,920 --> 00:50:02,320 I wasn't sure if like, what if you had a spouse, for instance, and you just kind of left recovery 833 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:07,280 unplugged open on the computer so they might see it when they go in. 834 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:08,280 I don't know. 835 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,600 I'm not an interventionist, but that's also why I wouldn't follow what I just said. 836 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:17,480 If I were in a position where I had somebody that I wanted to go through that, then calling 837 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:21,380 and working with somebody who's an expert and can help me know how to navigate that 838 00:50:21,380 --> 00:50:23,240 would be really helpful. 839 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:30,560 And visionaries, a lot of us have gone through addictions or have addictive personalities. 840 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,360 And this is not something to shy away from because when we can resolve whatever inner 841 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:40,360 turmoil we have, and if you listen to some of the greatest coaches of all time, mindset 842 00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:46,600 is one of the most important things to be able to control is what's going on internally 843 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,720 so you can get the external results that you're also hoping for. 844 00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:54,040 Last thing, visionaries, if you want to be on the show, if you've got a vision to share 845 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,040 in the top right corner, you'll see a button that says, be our guest. 846 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,880 That's your opportunity to apply to be on the show. 847 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:06,000 Feel free to leave your questions and comments as well in the comments section so that Andrew 848 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,680 and I can get back to you if you have any feedback, any insights. 849 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,000 Also, if you have feedback for the show, we're always open to feedback. 850 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,680 Andrew, this is an absolute honor, man. 851 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:14,680 Thanks for taking the time. 852 00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:15,680 Thank you so much. 853 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,680 I really appreciate the opportunity. 854 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:18,680 Absolutely. 855 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,120 Everybody, we'll see you on the next episode. 856 00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,360 Thank you for being here today. 857 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,840 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 858 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:28,640 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. 859 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,280 This is going to get more and more fun. 860 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,280 We'll have more and more engagement as well. 861 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,040 We'll invite people to participate in the show, and thank you for giving us your time 862 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,040 and attention. 863 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:50,560 I hope you have an excellent time building out your vision.