But we are going to make it to Bogota and possibly Paso.
So we'll see.
Motorcycling clubs in Colombia starting this weekend.
Oh, that's fun.
Yeah.
I take it you have experience on motorcycles, Ruben?
Yes, I've my last motorcycle I've had since 1998.
And I had the privilege of teaching my 18, 19 year old son that was in diapers at the
time that I got it.
I got to teach him how to ride it on that particular motorcycle.
So yeah, much experience.
Yeah, about, I don't know, 47 years.
Yep.
You know, I'm guaranteeing you that your experience of you teaching your father, your son how
to ride a motorcycle was 10 billion times safer and better than my dad teaching me when
I was 17 years old.
That was one of the scariest, most horrific experiences of my life.
And I am not somebody who gets scared of anything.
But when the guy says, here's the clutch, here's the brake.
It's like riding a bike.
Get on.
Let's go.
Yeah.
That was my.
Yeah.
Laying down my stepmother's motorcycle was not a great way to continue to bond an already
very fractured family relation.
So I'm glad you did it better.
There is a method to his madness.
He wanted to show you the worst first.
That's right.
Yes.
That story of our 36 year relationship.
Well, if you survive that, then you still wanted to ride a motorcycle.
Then welcome to the club.
I like jet skis.
I'm good with jet.
I can fall in the water.
I'm a little too dangerous for a motorcycle.
I'm going to own that.
You know, I like to take chances and you can't take chances on a motorcycle as an amateur
especially.
So, nope, I don't touch motorcycles.
Got to know your limits.
Self-awareness, right?
Well, maybe.
Absolutely.
And that's paramount.
But maybe that was his teaching all along was not for you to get on with.
Maybe there is probably a lot of wisdom in there.
Claiming leadership, claiming the leadership that we are all called to.
We're going to get into that in just a little bit.
First, what books or resources do the two of you recommend for the visionaries listening
in?
Well, the one that I personally have and I only have one recently is Wayne Dyer, Dr.
Wayne Dyer.
It's called The Power of Intention basically.
And so just basically trying to live a mindset of always surrounding yourselves with positive
thoughts and the positive surroundings around you.
And that, you know, we can call it God, Jesus, depending on what you have.
That's going to actually manifest itself in just about everything that you do.
And so it's called The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer.
Power of Intention.
You got two more?
No, the other ones are a little bit far away from it was just on sales when I used to sell
new homes, but it was basically sales techniques.
And right now I'm blanking out on that, but that would be my way.
A movie.
No, not a movie.
Oh, there's some good ones out there.
All right.
Well, we'll leave it at two for now.
Vision Pros will be right back and we'll be diving in to Ruben and Claudia Correa's vision
and get rolling with the show.
All right.
Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Calame.
I'm your show host.
We'll be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building fantastic
visions out there.
Hey, what's up everybody?
Welcome into another episode of Vision Pros Live.
I'm your show host, Jackson Calame, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
I'm excited to have a power couple on stage with me today, Ruben and Claudia Correa.
I got to meet them personally at a business mixer in San Antonio.
It's honor Mark Ebinger of Let's Talk Business radio in San Antonio.
For those of you who want to be on his show, you got to be local to San Antonio or the
San Antonio area in order to be on that show.
His mixer was phenomenal.
In fact, Samantha Guajardo, who helped him on that event, is now helping us plan an event
in Austin, sorry, not Austin, in Dallas on April 16th.
Jennifer, March?
April.
That's correct.
Okay.
I'm going to have to get back to my fingers here.
If you're interested in being part of physical events, of course, feel free to reach out
to us and let us know that you're interested in attending those.
We love to get together with other entrepreneurs.
I'm also going to have Ruben and Claudia talk about their business as well.
They're travel agents and they assist with people's travels and really making the most
of this life.
We might dive into that too after we talk about claiming the leadership again that we're
called to.
I mean, very simply.
Before we go into the conversation with them, I also want to give a shout out to some sponsors
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What is super reassuring is knowing when you're facing those types of opportunities, not racing
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Connected where we lost $20,000 in the process of protecting our name.
I give this as a resource so you guys can do your own research and figure out who you
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I highly recommend checking out Melissa.
In addition to that, Andrew Sosin of Recovery Unplugged has built an amazing program for
entrepreneurs, not just entrepreneurs, it's really for anybody who may have addictive
habits.
Andrew came in, probably one of the best visionaries out of the 200 that we've interviewed now.
He's got a team of over 400 people.
He's in multiple states and locations with this.
One of the things that really strikes me about Andrew is his consistency.
He's been to the Tony Robbins program as an attendee and of course growing into leadership
with that over time, but as a separate entity for more than 22 years straight now.
He's taken over a thousand people there.
COVID gave them the unique opportunity to start looking at, okay, how do we provide
these services to help people in a virtual aspect?
Now they've got an addiction treatment program that can allow people to get help and get
access in the online world.
I highly recommend checking out how him and other doctors and great leaders in the world
have thought through how do we help people the most possible and how does music and music
therapy relate to helping people?
So if you know somebody who needs help, this is again an opportunity, not necessarily saying
that you need the help, but maybe you want to call and get help on behalf of somebody
else.
I just know a lot more people out there suffer with addictions than you even realize.
Addiction can come in the form of Instagram, social media, Netflix, sports, and of course
the traditional components of drug, alcohol, pornography, or other things like that.
So I just, I really love what he's built.
I've come from a family that has been afflicted by many such realities in life.
So I couldn't help but put that on there.
Then there's the water project.
Right now I don't have my water bottle on me.
I usually like to have that for this, but the real reason why we put this up here and
talk about it is because I never want to forget that I'm so lucky I can go downstairs to my
kitchen and get fresh water.
And there's millions of people in this world who do not have the capacity and the ability
to do that.
They don't even have access to it.
They have to walk miles.
Sometimes these kids have to leave school to go get it for the school itself.
Sometimes the parents have to probably skip work, I imagine, to go find water and they
don't even know if the water they find is safe.
We have the opportunity to work with the water project, not meaning my company, you and I
have the opportunity as individuals to say, you know what, looking at these communities,
we can see exactly how much they need to fulfill the project.
And what's really cool is the water project, when you donate, it shows you the community
update of that project coming to fruition.
So you actually get to see the impact that your dollar made.
And to see these children celebrating water like it's Christmas day reminds me of like,
wow, like how blessed we are to be able to run a podcast, listen to a podcast on our
drive home, you know, while we're trying to get work done as well.
Point being, if you have the ability, capacity to help, please do.
If you don't, my request is that you just share this with somebody who might be able
to or if you know of a need that is bigger than this or one that is just more near and
dear to your heart, do us a favor, drop that need as a comment in the episode and give
us a chance to participate and give back to the causes that mean something to you.
At the end of the day, we've got eight billion people in this world that we could help and
support and I feel a responsibility and opportunity to be able to do just that.
So without further ado, we're going to bring Ruben and Claudia on stage and dive right
into their vision.
Thanks for being here, you guys.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you, Jackson.
We're glad to be here as well.
Absolutely.
So I know Ruben's going to rock the mic and Claudia is going to color commentate at times.
I'm going to make sure that we get some dynamics out of both of you today and we'll see how
we, I don't want to say tandem, this is like a three person bike.
Is that so called a tandem bike?
I don't know.
It's not a tricycle, but I'm getting closer.
Anyway, going right into the important content.
What is your vision for those that you serve?
To feel about travel the way that we do.
For them to enjoy, for them to experience.
You know, you were just talking a little bit ago about the water project.
We tend to think about traveling and a lot of cases, leisure and relaxation and all that
stuff.
But what we don't count on is all the positive experiences that depending on the traveling
that you take that bring to mind that you could never think of.
How other people live, how other customs, not only the food and the obvious things that
we go try for beaches, mountains, snow or water or what have you.
But what makes a lot of the difference in most of us that love to travel is the people
that are, that we are visiting, whether it's in the United States or everywhere else.
We love being together.
We like, and this is one of the main reasons why we chose this.
We've worked together for almost 10 years.
We loved it.
We wanted to continue doing it.
And so our passion was traveling and if we can impart that on other people to basically
feel about traveling the way that we do is going to enrich their lives tremendously.
And we like to be part of that.
As we say, and then I'll be quiet after this is basically we like to assist you in making
travel very pleasant memories for you.
I love that.
I'm a big, big fan of traveling.
I've been doing it my entire life.
So I take for granted sometimes the reality that there are others who don't have that
opportunity, but there's also ways to amplify the experience, right?
And making sure that you have somebody who helps you think through the process.
I've been on good trips and I've been on horrendous trips.
Claudia, what about you?
What is your vision for those that you serve in this process?
Is definitely to create memories for them and their families.
And every single trip is going to bring you a lot of fun emotions, hopefully a lot of
joy.
And that's the main purpose of a trip when it's done for vacation or enjoyment.
But it's definitely to give the people a peace of mind when they are traveling that they
have everything covered and that we are able to serve them.
I love that.
The peace of mind is definitely a great thing, especially when you're traveling.
And I would ask what's your vision.
We were talking about motorcycles right before this because you guys are headed to Columbia
for a month.
You said that's awesome.
And if you want to talk about the vision of that particular trip, please do.
If you want to talk about the broader vision of what you're up to, the choice is yours.
Well thank you.
We are obviously we're very blessed by God and also being in this wonderful country to
give us opportunities to do what we're doing.
We're going to go and visit our family in Medellin, Columbia.
And that's the primary purpose, obviously reconnect with them after a while of not being
there about eight or nine months that we haven't seen them.
And so that's the primary purpose is reconnect and so forth.
Of course, getting used to some of the food, different air, different water and all of
that.
And my personal goal is trying to convince my lovely lady Claudia to hop on a motorcycle
and go in different parts of Columbia.
Of course, there's always the stereotypical things that come along with saying something
like that.
And so that's why we're going to be assessing this situation, possibly, hopefully, purchasing
a motorcycle and joining the correct riding group so we can experience Columbia that way.
Yeah.
See, I appreciate that.
We all know in our own hearts and minds what's appropriate for our situation and what that
looks like.
And had I told people under the context like, oh, I'm going backpacking in Uruguay for two
years even though I don't speak the language and I don't know what...
It would kind of sound irresponsible and dangerous to some people who are like, what?
Why would you do that?
And at the same time, framing that as, well, I was a missionary for two years during that
time, there was an infrastructure behind it too.
It's easy to jump to conclusions sometimes and kind of judge somebody else's experience
for good or for bad rather than realizing we as visionaries, we have our own opportunities
to figure out what we want to experience in life.
So we might come back to that with the travel concept in just a little bit.
We're going to shift gears completely right now and we're going to dive into a darker
subject.
In relation to growth, business, this could be military, there could be so many different
things.
What is the worst leadership experience that you guys have ever had witnessed, been a part
of, seen, heard about?
For me, that has actually touched my life in a professional, personal, I don't know
if I was personally, it started as professional, but it ended up being extremely personal,
is making sure at an early age, thank God, that the people around you and how they take
care of you and you take care of them is basically going to dictate the treatment and everything
in the rest of your life.
I was in a situation where I was responsible for the only hot meal in four days and those
of us that have been in the woods for a while know what a hot meal means and I was responsible
for the only hot meal in three to four days and I screwed it up.
I sent the wrong coordinates to the people that were responsible for feeding us that
night and they ended up on a different rich line.
Had it not been for the team that basically saved my career, not only the hot meal for
that night for those 162 people, I don't know what would have happened after that.
And so it was me making a mistake and other people making sure that that mistake was not
going to be detrimental to all concerned.
So that was one of the negative leadership things, a mistake that I made, that I ended
up learning a very positive thing, the importance of the people around you and how your success
only depends on the people that you surround yourself with.
Well, Ruben, that is powerful.
So certainly the surrounding yourself with the right people then becomes, of course,
an amazing component of wisdom for growth.
And especially when you aren't sure what if you had done that for 160 people without having
that backup in place, it could have been a far worse leadership experience, it sounds
like.
What else did you take away from that?
I'm curious.
A lot of humility, a lot of modesty, learning your limits, checking, double checking, triple
checking in some cases, and to know that just because you have a rank doesn't mean that
you know what's going on and that you are just human.
And so that humble experience that I believe God put in place basically helped me set the
tone for the additional 40 years in my life.
Wow.
How old were you?
I was 25.
Okay.
Yeah.
Still a kid.
I'm 36 and I still feel like I'm a kid.
I've got a lot to learn and grow.
So Claudia, how about yourself?
Do you have a worst leadership experience ever that you want to talk about?
I think we all do.
For me, I was managing in a company many different assessors for a time and just trying to keep
them fulfilling all the requirements for the company.
It was a difficult part of managing people for me.
I needed to learn a lot of lessons with that and not trying to cover them all the time.
That was my mistake.
I was trying to cover the people around me.
I was going and doing the work for them and then trying to be good with the company.
So it was learning that I needed to correct that from the beginning and not just cover
it and let it go.
Well said.
I think that's a great lesson on accountability and that everyone involved in a process, everyone
that's supposed to be productive needs to be productive.
That's sometimes hard to learn how you address it, especially when it's not happening and
there's deadlines and things that need to go.
So thank you.
That is a great experience.
I think as entrepreneurs, we sometimes visionaries, one, I think we're most guilty as visionaries
of not being accountable ourselves for what we do and then two, whether we're trying to
save face for our team or we're trying to justify an experience for somebody else, we
still fall in that same reality because we don't as people.
We don't like conflict.
Conflict can hurt.
But let's shift gears into the best leadership experience.
And I want to start with Claudia on this one.
So Claudia, what's your best leadership experience?
That one I don't know.
I will defer to Ruben for now.
Let's give her a little bit of time.
She's analytical and that's what makes us very successful in what we do.
And basically, I don't lose an opportunity to talk, which is some things that I have
to learn.
Okay.
And so basically for me was unfortunately a few years later after that experience with
the food on Hilltop that I personally call is basically I was, I want to say I earned,
but I was given the privilege to command a company of training combat medics in the U.S.
Army.
And so it was a very long days, very long weeks, very long months, but a very fast two
years.
And so being part of something that was significant and a lot bigger than myself and being responsible
for the proper training of combat medics, people that are going to go into the battlefield
and try to save their own soldiers lives and so forth was extremely meaningful.
And of course, at an early age, it impacted the rest of my life because in a training
environment you can count on every single soldier having three different concerns, a
professional, a personal, and a financial one.
And of course they all have families and that comes with it.
And so that's why it was very long days, very long weeks, very long months.
But I look at that now at 64 years of age as very, very, very significant in my life.
All I can say is thank you for your service.
I think that's the only words I have for it.
It wasn't easy, but it was a pleasure now that I'm over.
Yes, yes.
Those are usually, that's usually the story of our marathons that we run.
So Claudia, it's okay if you don't have one you want to share at this time because you
want to think about it, it's fine.
If you are ready, feel free to.
Yes, I do have some that are world related, but just listening to my husband, I will say
that the most fulfilling experience as a leadership was with the Red Cross.
I was volunteered for over 20 years in Columbia and definitely leading teams to be able to
help people there, to be able to manage different resources for people that were in need.
For me, that is the best experience I had in my life in that regard.
So I will say that.
That's amazing.
And I love how you guys have turned this towards your travel agency.
I can see, I can recognize already those experiences that you had in both capacities prepared you
all tremendously well for thinking through the realities of creating a fun, safe travel
experience.
So now it's like you are getting to use the service activities that you did in your younger
years as well in your new younger years to help people travel and enjoy this world.
All right.
So the next question, either one of you can step up first on this one.
This was your last chance to share a powerful lesson with other visionaries.
What would the lesson be that they can learn from your experience?
The biggest one I can say and that it would be in just about any endeavor or any personal
circumstance that you have is basically learn to embrace the unexpected.
Learning to embrace the unexpected is extremely difficult to do, especially if you're very
set in your ways.
If you have been indoctrinated and structured and all that good stuff, embracing the unexpected
and allowing you to give or to have adaptability to a changing environment is paramount.
Very easy to say.
We get stoked, piped into our different areas, personal or otherwise, and change, which is,
by the way, the only absolute constant in this life, is very difficult for us depending
on who we are.
So embracing the unexpected, not being shocked by it when it does happen is a heck of a skill
that we all try to improve.
So God has blessed me with a few years on this planet, and I continue to work on that
every day to do that.
I love that.
I'm going to wait to comment on it though.
Claudia, how about yourself?
Definitely to get out of your comfort zone.
It means a lot.
For me, it's very difficult.
By now, this is part of that, and it's why I'm saying it.
But it will open many, many, many doors for you.
So I think that it's very important.
If you want to succeed in something, you need to get out of your comfort zone.
Wow.
I love that.
I know firsthand how hard it is to do what you're doing right now, going live in your
second language as well, and you are rocking it.
You're just absolutely phenomenal.
I know that if we get the chance for this to someday be seen by millions and millions
and millions of people, then there's so many out there who don't have the confidence yet
to step into their zone, step out of their zone of comfort, rather, and to move forward.
Again, if we got this in front of millions and millions of people, I know there's people
who would see it and say, because of her, I can do it.
So I'm super grateful for you for being willing to step up.
I got a whole team of Latinos as well, specifically, that are going to say, wow, she's doing this.
I can do this.
So thank you for sharing that.
Ruben, too, with your lesson.
Learn to embrace the unexpected.
A society that wants to predict the future and control the here and now and is often
so focused on the destination of a lot of people who cite the value of the journey itself
and the realities that the car is going to have a flat tire at some point.
The door is going to not lock at some point for some reason.
Or the lights are going to go out.
We least expect it.
What a true thought of wisdom, in my opinion.
Learn to embrace it rather than just accept it.
Good word choice.
Anything else you all want to add before we go into claiming the leadership that we're
called to?
No, it's just in addition to that, basically, is not knowing, unfortunately, by choice or
not of how wonderfully blessed we all are, especially in where we are on this earth,
is an amazing thing.
You were talking about missionary work or talking about different traveling and different
services in different parts of the world.
It is amazing and unfortunate in this information age how totally ignorant we are of everything
else that's going on in this world because we don't take the time to actually learn about
everything else.
We actually in such a small and big world at the same time, we stay close to where we
live and that's it.
That's our comfort zone.
Yep, absolutely.
That is part of that traveling.
I don't think I'll ever on this earth have a day where I don't.
I might lose sight of my blessings for a minute, but in the grand scheme of things, when I
look back on my life, remember my time in Uruguay, I remember the lady I talked to whose
mother doused herself in gasoline and killed herself.
I remember, well, I haven't had to deal with anything like that ever.
That's one of many experiences and one of many conversations I had over that two-year
period where it's like, wow, my life is really so, so good and blessed.
It's not a matter of cockiness or arrogance.
It's not a matter of saying we're better than.
It's a matter of appreciation and realizing we have so many opportunities to help others
that sometimes it's best to lose ourselves, lose sight of our own selfishness and go to
work helping other people.
I love that your travel empowers that possibility and that they all are motivated by that while
also of course helping people prepare for their travels.
When I was reading your vision about claiming the leadership that we're called to, who wrote
that?
Which one of you?
What does that mean to you?
Was that Claudia who wrote it?
Okay.
Let's talk about that.
Claiming our leadership that we're called to.
What leadership are we called to or how do we find that out?
That's my first question.
For us is basically, it starts with you being as the example.
It's very easy to point and very easy to do other things, but are you leading by the example
that you are?
Are you living the life that you want to show other people not how to live, but that it
is possible?
You have to first be and do before you can actually share with and part of the sharing
part is being the example.
Maybe inspire other people from that.
When I tell my 25-year-old son now that is 25 and I say, son, when your work speaks for
you, just be quiet.
If it doesn't speak for you, it doesn't matter what you say.
Your work, you mentioned that too.
You use a very particular order.
You were intentional going back to the book that you're reading.
You said be and then do.
We come into existence as beings and then we focus so much of our life on the doing.
I need to learn how to crawl.
I need to learn how to roll over.
I need to learn how to walk.
I need to learn how to run.
I need to learn how to sleep.
You learn how to do almost everything.
We stay so focused on that.
See to lose sight of being who we're meant to be.
I think I was 23 or 24 when that first clicked in my brain.
I'm like, oh, it is about becoming whole with the virtues, not just doing the virtue, the
mechanics.
A robot can do the virtue.
It can emulate the virtue, but becoming it, making it a part of who you want to show up
as, that's harder to do.
I appreciate that you said that.
Any further thoughts on claiming your leadership that we're called to?
Or do you want to talk about travel?
Thank you.
I think those are both in the segue to that.
They both go together.
I agree with that.
I agree with that 100%.
They both go together.
We want to make sure that we come across, obviously, as one of the things that we say
in a weekly meeting in a group that we're part of is we want to earn your trust one
traveled mile at a time.
By showing that we are who we are and that we do what we say we're going to do, hopefully
we'll develop the confidence and the trust in people looking, when they're looking for
traveling or any of those experiences, that we are somebody that they can consider.
Are we going to have all the answers?
Absolutely not.
Are we attempting to do so?
Absolutely not.
We will stick with what we know.
We will find out what we don't know and we'll give you the information that we can in the
best way that we can.
The decision is obviously ultimate for the person.
Some of the things that we say to people, like for instance, Jackson, if you say, hey,
I want to go to Bogota again or I want to go to Uraba to the Darien Gap, one of the
questions we're going to ask, are you doing that for tourism, adventure or history?
What is it that you're going through?
Finding out what the person is, that in some cases they don't even understand sometimes,
we're trying to get you the best experience.
That's awesome.
You and I, when we first talked about this, when your sincerity, you just came through
instantly and we were talking, I walked up to you and you had a Ferrero Rocher, a little
chocolate and I made some witty comment and you gave it to me.
Right away I was like, man, this guy, he's ready to serve.
This is cool.
A little thing, but you could have just had a witty comment back.
There's a thousand opportunities for what you could do in that situation and you chose
to serve.
That meant a lot to me that that was your instinct.
Now, go ahead.
You got something.
I can see your lips.
Thank you for the opportunity.
You made the comment about it and you made it in such a way.
It wasn't that I assessed that you were hungry or that you even wanted the chocolate.
It wasn't any of that.
It's just that you made the comment about it and so forth and I said, at this particular
point, I think this would be something that he would appreciate to at least have right
now because of the commentary.
Yes, I picked it up, but I did not know five minutes earlier that that was going to be
the purpose of that little chocolate bowl.
Here's the expecting of the unexpected.
Here's the embracing of it.
I thought it was going to be for the following day.
I thought it was going to be something else and then in less than five minutes, that chocolate
thing had a different purpose.
So trying to recognize situations like that in our lives.
I wish I would have given you 10 because you have given me so much mileage out of that
little thing that it has become something meaningful between the two of us and I don't
think I will ever meet you again in person without having that with me.
I got to come to your house every day now.
I thought for sure I'm going to take it up one more notch.
I thought for sure you were going to say I didn't know that that was the last one in
the room, but no, that wasn't where we went.
Let's go forward.
So back to this travel concept.
I want you all to play a little bit hardball with me about my potential travel plans as
a business because when we're talking about travel and travel agencies, I think right
now we're talking four visionaries.
So visionaries have people to plan trips for.
You got events coming up.
You might have virtual assistants that you want to bring stateside.
You might want to do conferences internationally as well.
I think the temptation of visionaries and smaller organizations is we can handle this.
We got this.
I probably could pull it off.
We pulled off some pretty great trips and stuff.
But let's be honest, real and open.
What are some of the hassles and the constraints that that creates?
And what are some of the things that if you overlook, like providing a hot meal to people
for the first time in three to four days, what are some of the dangers that we accidentally
create with that reality?
I don't want to scare people into travel, but I do want people to think through.
Why would we include CNR Travel 22 on helping us with the travel plans?
Teach me.
We're going to make sure that whatever your interest and it all starts with a curiosity
or it starts with an interest.
Where's that interest from?
What is the purpose of accomplishing what you want to accomplish in wherever it is that
you're going to do?
We're going to advise you with the best way that we can as to how that is going to be
done.
Are you on track or are you not on track?
Is it for us to determine whether that is or it isn't?
No, but it is for us to light up the pathway for you to know exactly what you're getting
into.
For you to also understand that if something does not go right, which is probably not everything
is going to go according to plan, that there is a resource and that we are standing behind
what we have and what we have provided for you.
When you are at the certain location and something does go wrong, you know that we're going to
be there with you if you can communicate with us.
We make it a habit of communicating with our people, whether they're traveling or not,
almost on a daily basis, especially if they're traveling.
So, texting, email, or what have you on the follow-up is very important.
Not only do we plan it, we help you execute it, and then we follow you through the rest
of the process.
And obviously, we're going to get what we call an after-action review afterwards.
How did it go?
What could we have done better?
So, you're not alone in the process.
We're not going to try to intervene or try to violate any privacy, but at least you do
know that you have a team behind you.
That's huge.
Okay.
So, it's not just somebody to book the trip or book the planes, but you guys are getting
involved in the planning, the execution, the after-action.
Let's just pretend that we, as a company, we've got a retreat.
We all get in for the airport.
We go to Machu Picchu.
We get there to the airport, and the charter bus is nowhere to be found.
I guess that might be your fault in that case.
But maybe we said we had a better deal, so we found something.
Would y'all be flexible on that occasion and let us book our own charter bus, or would
you not, because you don't want that to happen?
We are definitely flexible.
We try to provide all the resources for the trip, and we coordinate them to be able to
serve you in that case.
Because if you did that reservation yourself, we don't have communication with that person
or with that service provider that you choose.
So it will be easier for us to manage the whole trip.
It doesn't have to be booked all with us, but we can give you the peace of mind, like
I said before, if something happens, that we will contact the company, or we will have
something as a backup, or we will do the research there for you if something happens.
So we will be involved in every step of the way with you when we schedule or plan all
the trip.
The other part of that as well is, you know, you were talking about the flexibility, is
we're going to light up the path for you.
We're also going to inform you of other paths that are also available, and also what the
risks are, okay, in choosing something else.
A lot of time is scheduling, most of the time is going to be monetary.
We're going to inform you of A, B, and C, and depending on your comfort zone and your
risk factors, then that you're going to make the choices accordingly.
We don't try to say it's our way and it's the only way.
It is based on the resources that we have, the people that are backing us and we're providing
this information, this may cost a few cents more, but it gives you more peace of mind.
If you choose something else, just be aware that this is that and the other.
And in some cases, there is going to be the opportunity where we say, hey, listen, in
our way, this is going to be this.
However, there is another avenue.
It's going to cost you less.
It's going to be very similar to it.
And so we're not tied to a specific stovepipe only, but we have the flexibility to go in
different places and navigate it in such a way where it does meet your needs and your
budget.
Okay, very good.
And in less than 15 to 20 seconds, as far as travel goes, I know that you help with
international travel.
Do you all also help with travel within the United States and travel locally even?
I shouldn't say locally, not neighborhoods, but between cities perhaps?
Okay.
Awesome.
Well, the technical side, you have crossed, I've checked a lot of boxes where I'm like,
okay, cool.
I'm really happy to hear all that.
And the next component, I want to go back real fast to how travel is, what other ways
is travel impacting or does it give a visionary the opportunity to be impacted so that they
can claim their leadership?
You know, I can see it now.
Again, I'm going back through all my travel history now that you even said it, and I'm
starting to see, wow, yes, like every trip has had an interesting impact on how I relate
to people and connect.
What else would you guys add about that?
What else does traveling do for your ability to lead?
It, the very key thing for my opinion is basically it broadens your horizons in your mind.
It also gives you nutrition for your heart and it gives you nutrition for your soul.
You never know what you're going to see in a corner in La Paz than you're going to see
in New York and New Delhi, India or somewhere else.
So all those experiences are going to be with you.
Once you see it, once you experience it, they become a part of you.
They become what you are going to carry forward, whether it is a bad experience, a challenging
one or a terrific one.
Okay.
Claudia and I as immigrants are extremely blessed that our lives have brought us here
because we recognize the different struggles and the different things that are here in
the United States and also somewhere else.
Just because you live in the United States doesn't mean that you don't have struggles.
There's a lot of different struggles and there's a lot of different societies, but having the
ability to broaden your mind, it is going to end those experiences.
I think it just, it cannot help but make you a better human being and you more aware of
where you actually live and your importance and the importance of others.
I love that.
I'm bringing the world together.
And at the end of the day, like you said, which broadens your own heart and mind tremendously.
So thank you both for sharing everything that you shared.
Visionaries, I hope that you got some amazing notes written out of that and action steps.
If you want to connect with Ruben and Claudia Correa, we will have those links on the landing
page for this show.
You can also of course comment.
There's a couple of people who've commented in saying hello, Cindy Mustafa here, the most
inspirational and driven couple.
I love them.
So you got some super fans in the commentaries.
And we also want to invite any of you that are listening in, if you have a vision that
you'd like to share, in the top right corner of our landing page, it says be our guest.
And we want to invite you to step out of your comfort zone and come and share that vision
with us.
You may not be Patrick Mahomes who just won the Super Bowl.
You may not be Ed Sheeran on tour right now.
Maybe you're Jane Doe or you feel that way.
And if your vision is holistic and it's designed to help others and you feel called to bring
it on stage, apply.
I'd love to meet you.
I'd love to hear what that is.
And we'll do our best to honor it and put it out there.
But Patrick and Ed, if you guys heard that, we'd love to have you on the show as well.
So Ruben, Claudia, thank you for being here today.
And Vision Pros, everybody have an excellent time building your visions out and we'll see
on the next episode.
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Have an excellent time building out your vision.