Seven in total, but we just let three.
Seven, seven bedrooms, but we only let three.
Seven bedrooms for the castle.
It's two stories. Three. Three stories.
In Scotland. Where in Scotland? In Dalbeaty.
Dalbeaty. OK, so for those who know, my my brother's been.
It was like one of his like super, super big childhood dreams was to go to Scotland.
And he's got the red hair and then everything for it, you know.
So that's cool. I have to ask him if he went there or knows where that's at.
OK, and so you just hosted a retreat this weekend for four women
who came out. What did you guys do at the retreat?
And well, I give them a project to do so.
They they have a specific project that they pick out of three while they're here.
And they paint a brick in my garden wall to leave their mark on the place.
And then they choose the types of creativity.
They also create a four foot mind map
for their plan and their vision and go away with a 12 week plan.
I love that. It was so fun talking to you in the pre show.
It's been what, two months now? One month? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it'll be about that.
It's like two weeks ago, but you know, life just doing so many great things.
But yeah, that's OK.
And I remember seeing pictures.
I hope we make sure to do it justice and show exactly like what's going on
in the castle, how you're going about helping people with their visions.
I was I was just fascinated with how you brought your own story to life.
So we'll dive into that in a minute for the visionaries who are listening here early.
What are three resources that you recommend
visionaries or entrepreneurs, leaders pick up?
This could be a book. This could be a movie.
This could be your own resources.
What are three you recommend?
I would recommend.
Well, first of all, one of the earliest things I watched and studied
was The Magnificent Seven, the film, and the leadership in there
is fascinating and the relationships.
And I always kind of felt that was really inspiring for me.
Yes, The Magnificent Seven.
Magnificent Seven. Yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen it.
So now I got to see it.
It's an old film, but it's literally it's one of the best examples of of leadership.
I love it.
And, you know, the older, the better.
Yeah. And, you know, I'm a bit of a geek as well.
And I absolutely love Star Trek in every way, shape or form.
But I love Jane Wiley, Voyager.
And I think she is a fantastic leader.
And for female visionaries and leaders, I think
Star Trek Voyager is great.
Yes. Yeah, that's awesome.
That's another good reference, because there's there's so many things
you can visually learn, right?
And the tone, the cadence, the way they interact and the stress
and pressure involved in those story type dynamic.
That's great. What else?
Yeah. What's the thing?
I think what I would also I mean, I would love to recommend
one of my resources because I do an annual vision and goal setting workshop,
which is free.
It then runs as a freebie for a year.
So that's on my website, mandynickelson.co.uk.
Excellent.
We might take some time later on to actually dive in deeper on that,
ask some questions about it.
I'd love to learn more, you know, and see what what we can anticipate
from the backside of that.
But we're going to put that link in the action steps.
In fact, if you want to just drop it in the comments or the private chat,
we can put that live on the show right now.
We'll work on that.
While we set while we jump into the break for just a minute, everybody.
And stick around.
We've got Mandy Nicholson on who literally bought a castle in Scotland
and runs creative retreats.
Like this is one of the most unique visions we've ever had.
So we'll be right back.
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?
Welcome in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm your show host, Jackson Calame, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
And I'm excited to have Mandy Nicholson on on today.
We've got a castle owner.
She has a three story castle in Scotland.
And that is just fascinating to me and amazing.
It's we're going to talk about how she got there.
She's got a three story castle in Scotland.
And she's got a three story castle in Scotland.
It's we're going to talk about how she got there.
You know, why? Why would you like it?
Well, of course, like who wouldn't buy a castle if you had the opportunity to?
So just again, I'm fascinated by.
I'm also fascinated with how she's utilizing that to help other visionaries
move their visions forward.
That's what the show's all about for crying out loud.
So with before we dive into Mandy's story fully
and we hear about her leadership skills and more than learn more from the
we already got out of the three resources.
I want to talk about some resources that have been a big, huge help to me.
And then I know we're helping the world out there, too.
One of them is the last spot with Melissa Gray.
So Melissa Gray and I'm I'm super honest about this.
I almost didn't do the show with Melissa because I didn't want a lawyer on my show.
It's like, man, attorneys are always
pretentious and they're always like, they kind of send it you and you never feel
good after talking to them. And that was an overgeneralization.
And I'm so glad that we made space for
Melissa to come on because she's a nurturer who understands that legal does
not have to be complicated and since moving into well, since being on our show,
she then became a client and then she became such a great client.
We became strategic partners and as strategic partners, I call her my silo now.
And I didn't know what that was before.
I was like, wow, that was a chief legal officer position.
Like, man, I hadn't considered the fact that businesses need that.
Duh.
And I say duh, because that is like the nature of entrepreneurship.
When you reach the wisdom of understand entrepreneurship is hard and there's a
lot of moving elements every day, it kind of becomes like, wow, I didn't know.
I didn't know that either.
And you never run out of those opportunities as we grow.
So if you don't have legal counsel,
I highly recommend that you start interviewing people to see who is going
to be there to protect your brand when you face twenty thousand dollar trademark
lawsuit like I did. We won that.
But we also lost twenty thousand trying to win it.
So those those are, again, elements that I don't want any of you to go through.
But I also know in this world, you will face challenges as you build your brand.
Then there's recovery unplugged.
They're not a client.
Never paid me anything for the sponsorship.
I just love what Andrew Sosin has built with recovery unplugged because I know
how many people out there struggle with addictions.
And I know what it feels like to not feel like I belong.
And that's one of the big reasons why people end up escaping life,
looking for substances that fill in the gaps and bridge the gap.
So if you know somebody who is struggling with an addiction,
I highly recommend calling their hotline and getting some professional advice
on how to help that person while we're going about building our visions and doing
all the fun things in life.
I think we should also take time to look at how can we help and support those who
are in our life, as well as for some of those entrepreneurs out there who are
very much dealing with addictive habits of their own.
We do have those vices as entrepreneurs.
None of us are too good to get help.
So there's there's that program.
Then there's the water project.
I will never run the show without talking about something like the water project.
Why? Because I've never had to worry about where I was going to get my next cup
of water in my life.
I've been thirsty, but not for very long.
There are millions of people in this world who do not even have access to that
basic resource. And while that's that can be heartbreaking,
it's also an opportunity for us to step up and help.
What I love about the water project is when you donate to one of those causes,
you actually get to see the outcome.
You get to see the fulfillment of what it was that you gave.
And seeing kids and families celebrate water like my kids celebrate Christmas.
Once again, while it can be a very emotional
experience, it can also be one that you can choose to allow to uplift you,
knowing that you just made an impact that is probably going to affect and help
generations of individuals.
If you're not in the position to give back financially, that's OK.
You know, you might be you might know somebody that could give back to this or
you might just share this with your friends in general and say, you know what?
Maybe we could all do a little bit more in relation to helping the world.
If somebody particular came to mind,
I'm telling you that is a very important prompting somebody that you can tag.
And you never know.
They may just have a ripple effect of sharing it.
It may not impact them in a way that's tangible at all.
But those types of promptings that you receive are important in life.
And I do hope that you share that project because again, there are people with much
greater needs than you and I have who don't even have the ability to listen to
this show, but do have the need for water.
So as we move further, I'm going to bring Mandy back on stage.
We're going to dive right into her vision.
Mandy, it is my honor to have you here.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you for having me.
Absolutely.
I got it right in.
What is the vision for those that you serve?
The vision for those that I serve is to get themselves off the poverty line and be
taken seriously as artists and creatives because we have that undercurrent,
that underlying belief that the poor artists are starving artists in society.
And their vision isn't millionaire or it's just to earn enough.
Yes. So getting them, that is their vision, you said, is to earn enough.
And you're wanting to take them where?
Let's dive into the further side of that,
because I'm glad you set the base because it's hard to move to where we want to go
if we don't know where we're at right now.
Well, exactly. And a lot of the ladies that come my way struggle to see further than
I just want to earn this.
And it's my job to help them to think bigger.
And that is an awesome thing to see and watch happening right in front of your eyes.
That's huge.
I'm so glad you mentioned that.
I love plant analogies of science, right?
Because I can predict the result of most scientific realities.
So imagine giving your plant just enough water not to kill it.
That's not farming.
That's not what you do.
You need to give it more, not drown it.
But you need to give it more than it needs so that you don't risk killing that plant.
That's not a green thumb strategy.
So we do that to ourselves.
The exact way that you said it, we were saying, well, I just need this.
And we get so addicted to the need that we limit ourselves from accepting what's beyond that.
So let's dive even further down that path.
So somebody who's moving from, you know, I just need this to, you know, OK, there's more for me.
Where do we go from there?
It's funny because I had an example of that this very weekend with one of my ladies who just who helped herself
through her mental health struggles by finding creativity and then wanted to help other people.
And that's when she came to me.
And we got to set up with a community interest company, which is, you know,
charity based, but also can earn income.
And she got that to a really good place in a year.
And then she's come on a retreat here.
And I've said, right, OK, what's next?
What's bigger than this?
What's bigger than what you're doing that you can't even imagine at the moment that we can get you leaving here with?
And she's left with a much bigger vision of like, how big is community?
How can I go bigger? What steps can I take?
Can I get the big lottery fund here?
And she's, you know, she's already had ten thousand pounds from the lottery.
I said, what about the big lottery fund?
What about something really, really big?
So that's what she's gone away with.
So it's pushing the boundaries of what when we think we're there.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, I love that.
And we're going to dive in because you have that nurturing nature where you're
making space for those who are figuring it out.
And what drives me crazy and what drives me absolutely crazy is the inferior coach.
And I'm talking about some really big leaders.
I'm talking and I'm not talking about coaches.
I'm talking about consultants.
I'm talking about therapists, et cetera.
And there's so many leaders out there right now.
I'm telling you, if you meet a leader tomorrow or today or if you're guilty of
doing this, the good news is you can change right away.
You're that one who's saying, you know, oh, there's all these super young life
coaches out in the market. What do they know about life?
You know, or they say, oh, you know,
there's so many coaches flooding the market that don't know what they're doing.
What what you're revealing is your own inferiority complex that you feel unsafe,
that you're in your or you're taking advantage of a market because trying to
trying to propose that this false sense of authority that you are the qualified
and they are not like we're all learning along this path.
So I love that you acknowledge that she was, you know,
she was going through something difficult, therefore solved her problem.
She solved the opportunity to learn how to help others.
That's leadership to me at its absolute best.
Do you mind you feel free to combat what I said about inferiority complex and elite
coaches, elites that act like that or double down?
No, I think there's always questionable people in every single area of life, isn't
there, but it's only questionable based on your perception of the world.
If you accept that everybody's got something to offer.
I have worked with a coach who really
couldn't even get me, but still taught me how I didn't want to do things.
And you've got to be able to accept that and be able to learn from that.
Haven't you?
I have an opportunity to, you know, and that's the big reality there.
So I would rather I wish that more leaders,
instead of burning people who are learning along the way and condescending at those
who are working on becoming great, would be more inviting like you to create
a stage for others to to find success and to build up.
So let's dive into your vision, Mandy.
What do you see for yourself on the horizon?
Um, yeah, that's a big question because I've done so much in the last few years
with actually getting here, so I see I see me just cementing what I'm
doing and continuing to help people at the minute.
I don't see anything other than what am I doing for retirement?
Do I want a little cottage on the side of a lot where I write books and I paint and
I, you know, really take some time for me and I travel the world.
And I've got a bucket list, very long
bucket list of all the art galleries I still haven't seen.
So there's kind of that now that's appearing on my vision.
I'm not frightened to change my vision, not frightened to completely.
Who knows what's going to come up in the next couple of years?
If there's one thing I've learned over the last 10 years is vision changes.
That's right. That's right.
It doesn't matter. Like if I'm looking at you, I have one vision,
literally again, back to the science.
And if I turn around, I'm looking to live on James and a guitar.
Right. So vision is that malleable and we get to choose.
We can be intentional about choosing where do we focus our vision?
What do we want? And it is not wrong.
In fact, everything is right about positive change.
So that's that's beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that.
Let's dive into a darker subject.
What is the worst leadership experience that you've ever had?
Worst leadership experience.
I suppose that was when I was starting out as a young manager in retail.
I was the only female manager.
And then I became the best in the company.
And then I was the only female divisional executive.
And the worst leadership experience,
I would say, that sticks in my memory was coming back from maternity leave.
And I was still breastfeeding my baby.
And my line manager asked me how much longer I would be doing that for,
because I would need to stop away for meetings and things.
And that for me was probably it sticks so much in my memory of, you know what?
I'm the only female divisional executive here.
I was the only female manager for a decade.
And what about cadence and tone baked into that, though?
You know, there wasn't like a nurturing like, hey, I understand.
It was very like it was how long are you going to be doing this for?
It's an irritant. Yeah.
It's a long way.
Yeah.
You know, it's not the there are extremes, of course.
You know, there's violence on the opposite path of like, whoa,
this is horrific leadership, which is really just horrific force.
I don't think there's leadership involved in that.
Usually, like you talked about, the worst
leadership is the subtle mistake of revealing
that true dark character of like, I'm not actually here for the right reasons.
I'm not actually doing things in a way that honors the people that I serve.
We at First Class Business, we are rally cry now as a full appreciation
for family and personal well-being in the workplace.
And that preposition is very intentional, like in not outside of not.
Oh, yeah, my kids are separate, but if they walk in, I'm going to freak out and panic.
You know, no, no, no.
Like, my kids are welcome in my business.
Your kids are welcome in my business.
Your well-being, Matt, like that that type of full appreciation.
It's it's sorely missing in the world of business, even even today.
And there are a lot of great leaders who are working on that.
So I appreciate you sharing that because a lot of people are going to benefit from.
Knowing that even just knowing the story and realizing like, oh, wow, you know,
maybe I haven't made space for that yet or thought about it.
Very powerful.
What is your best leadership experience that you've ever had?
And I suppose my best leadership experience would be
one of my one of my direct managers called Alan Rowe.
He was amazing. He was my division executive.
He brought me from Scotland to England as a store manager and gave me took a real
risk on me, I suppose, and his leadership was subtle and encouraging and humorous.
You know, he brought me into his office once and said, sit down.
And I was like, OK.
And he said, I thought you said you were good with stock results.
You know, you sold yourself to me and I said, I am.
He said, well, I've got your stock results in front of me.
I was like, OK.
And he said, it's it's the best in the country.
So
he just had that about him and he taught me so much and he taught me
to believe in myself because I was working in a place of misogyny.
And, you know, he he just didn't like that.
And he supported me 100 percent.
And he's the reason I suppose I am the leader I am today.
Oh, that's amazing.
And that positive reinforcement, you know, there's I guess there's people out there
who aren't in tune with the love language of affirmations.
Right. And that's not their love language.
They don't. My mom hates it, actually.
She she doesn't want to hear it.
She wants to see it.
You know, that's that's how she is.
And I'm the opposite.
I got to hear it.
Or like, you know, the service doesn't do it for me.
And I'm like, like, bad people do things for people all the time.
I'm like, you know, there's there's an important reality there that if we don't
as leaders take the time to recognize how our team members feel appreciated,
feel understood, feel valued, then we can often miss out on the opportunity
to even level them up and help them understand, like, whoa, I am appreciated
here and that usually leads to even better results.
And so you are a testament of that for Alan's sake.
The hardest question I ask, if this were the last opportunity,
you didn't have any opportunities after this to share a powerful lesson
with the world, specifically with visionaries.
What powerful lesson can other visionaries learn from your experience?
That no matter how bad you think it is, there is always a way.
And that's kind of the origin of my story where I was this great leader and successful
in retail and earning six figures and company car.
And then within months, I wasn't.
I was at rock bottom, a single mom living in social housing with no money.
And you have a choice.
You choose to accept your lot in life and not do anything or you choose to change it.
And you can change anything any time.
Wow. And I love that there's a reflection of your quote there that also applies.
And you acknowledge that, too.
So no matter how bad you think it is, there's always a way.
And no matter how good it is, it can also all be stripped away.
We don't control the external outcomes as much as we love to think we do.
It scares me for people who think they've got that figured out.
That extra outcome, you know, I'm like, go ahead.
Yeah, because I think we make decisions all the time, don't we?
And we you know, you've got to live and die by your decisions.
And I made decisions to help people I loved and who I thought loved me.
And that was my downfall.
The very thing that most of us do all the time can be our downfall.
And it sneaks up on you.
Absolutely.
So as we get ready to dive in to.
Buying the Scottish Castle, running these creative retreats and what?
Let's talk about that origin story.
Where did the desire come from?
How did you do it?
And what happened along the way?
Because that story, you know, it.
Yeah, it's a good story.
Hold on to your seats.
Yeah, so in 2009, I did lose everything.
It started with a car crash and over 12 months I had an experienced a series of
unfortunate events that later on became the content for my first book, The Life I
Won, but in that year, it was all those things on that list of the top 10 worst
things that can happen to you all in 12 months.
All of them happened to me.
And.
It just seemed relentless.
I'm shedding a little light. What were some of those things that happened?
So it started with a car crash, which gave me a lot of physical injuries.
And because I wasn't in my six figure job, because I was injured and in the
hospital and off for a while, you are no longer of value when you are not there.
So I lost my job, found out my husband was having an affair.
My marriage ended.
My son was diagnosed with autism.
My dad died, diagnosed with cancer and died within 47 days.
So it was my sister had been struggling
with a mental health and got the business that we were joint partners in into so
much debt, over one hundred thousand pounds of the debt that we had to go
bankrupt. So it was coming up to Christmas and I was a bankrupt single mom, lost my
dad, lost my job and my landlord came and made me homeless.
And I was literally given 60 days notice to move.
So it just ended up the year.
It's hilarious, really, when I look back at it.
But it's it wasn't at the time.
So I ended up in social housing with 30
pounds in my bank account and nothing but what I had in my brain.
And that's enough.
And I think that was that was 2009.
And I very, very quickly created a cleaning business.
I was in Northumberland in the UK and it's a high holiday destination.
I just created a cleaning business because I could do it with nothing but my Hoover,
a few cloths and a bit of cleaning material.
And within three days, I had three clients.
Within three weeks, I was fully booked.
And within three months, I was hiring.
And that was from someone who was at rock bottom.
And you can always do something.
I can clean houses.
I was not too proud to go and clean somebody else's toilet for you.
And that cleaning business led me to other things along the way.
And in 2019, 10 years later, along the way, I've met my soulmate, Gary, who was
wonderful, both sold on and done two more businesses.
And we were ready to buy our dream home.
And he kind of just said to me, stop talking about your creative business and just do it,
Mandy. So I had to seriously put some effort into creating this business that I'd
believed could never make any money.
And he pushed me towards that.
So by the end of 2019, I'd written a book,
launched my creative business and bought our dream home.
Cash. So I'd gone from 30 pounds a month to buy.
I got a standing ovation for a minute.
Go ahead.
Did that come from? Right.
Yeah. So we bought the dream home for cash.
And it was coming into 2020.
We were very happy there.
And then COVID hit in March, didn't it?
My business was doing well, but COVID hit.
And Gary was a sick man.
He had had a lung transplant about 10 years earlier because he was born with cystic
fibrosis and his immune system was really compromised.
So when COVID hit, it was really risky time for him.
And I lost him at the end of April 2020.
He died on the 29th of April.
I was with him.
I'm very grateful for being there when he died and passed away.
But when we'd moved into the dream home, I'd kind of gone, what's next?
Let's put a castle on my vision board
because I'd love to have a castle in Scotland and I'd love to run creative
retreats. And that's the next big vision.
Now we've got all of this.
That's the next big vision.
I didn't know at that point I was going to lose Gary.
I thought we were doing it together.
So there was probably about 10 months of us healing as a family,
me and my two children.
And then I thought, you know what?
I should just move to Scotland and make that dream happen.
Let's just move to Scotland, buy a house and I'll get the money for the castle.
And as we were viewing properties, the universe, something put this in front
of me, this miniature version of the castle that I had on my vision board.
It wasn't a little bit like it.
It was a lot like it, but a miniature version.
The castle on my vision board was in
on the other side of the country and it was three million pounds.
And I didn't have three million pounds,
but I had some money and I'd sold the house.
So, yeah, this is an ex bank and it looks a bit castle like.
So I call it my mini castle over three floors.
The bank manager used to live here,
which is quite a grand was quite a grand position in the community in Scotland
at one point. Yeah.
And it was a wreck and I've renovated it.
So it gave me purpose.
I had a project.
It was almost like it was put in front of me for all those reasons.
And I said, yes, let's do it.
So that's what we did.
We lived in a little flat along the high street for about six months while I
renovated the property and I opened the doors for retreats in March 2021.
Wow, that's amazing.
That is
I'm amazed and excited and appreciating the ending of that story.
And at the same time, like,
like, what a what an amazing amount of of difficult sacrifices to that could
have derailed you, could have stopped you, could have could have been easy excuses
to not to not do this to not move forward.
And yet you did.
What's the secret to that?
I suppose, you know, when I look back at it, I almost look at those series of
unfortunate events as a lesson I needed to learn to ready myself for that next big
lesson. So when I lost Gary,
I knew there was going to be a way to come back from that because I'd come back
from all of that previously.
So it's almost like the worst happened once so that I could cope with it
the second time.
And it is about always saying, Gary would have hated me to have not
continued to live my life.
He would have been disappointed in me.
So I owed it to him as well as myself to keep on going.
Absolutely.
That's and all the women out there that needed me.
And I knew they were there.
That too. So you had your purpose.
You had to drive you in tune with it.
You're living it. And that is it is a superpower.
I have a very irreverent version of a ever.
This is almost embarrassing to admit to, but story along that path.
When the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, right when he died.
Yeah. And that's I loved his show.
So did I absolutely loved watching his show.
And it's like, I feel like I really knew his personality.
You know, I was probably 17 at the time and there was a Halloween party.
So I was a giant stingray and I convinced a friend to be Steve.
And we were and I knew that if Steve is
watching, he would be so happy and so grateful that I honored his.
And oh, my goodness, people.
We did win most creative costume,
but I probably offended more people in the process of creating that and doing
that than that I inspired.
But Steve, he's got to be with me on that, you know, and that's it.
What it's about. It's about honoring that memory.
I do hope same thing when it's time for me to go.
I hope my loved ones celebrate what I left behind.
You know, I hope they're grateful for the times that we got.
Not not sad for my next door.
I know I know where I'm going.
I know what I'm getting.
And so I don't want people to feel negative or depressed.
They crash there.
They're like you. You didn't you have honored him in such a big way.
I love it. I want to hear about these retreats because
can men go or is this like a woman only thing?
No, no, it's for everybody.
I generally get women here, but I have had a couple of couples here
because they have come and had a couple of retreats, which is lovely.
So, yeah, it's just we have three rooms, one of two of them.
You can get two people in, so we can take up to five on the retreats.
I've renovated the castle from top to bottom.
So it's it's been like a giant canvas for me as an artist.
That's just been like so brilliant and experimental.
I've done all the interior design myself.
The three rooms that we do let out.
We've got a Van Gogh room, a Monet room and a Picasso room.
And I've decorated them in the style of the artist and the feel of the artist.
I think I was sharing the wrong pages. I've got them now, right?
Yeah, that's the Monet room.
And you can see the water lilies and
each room I've done a mural on one of the walls.
Yeah, it's that's very calm in the Monet room.
And I built each one with its own purpose.
There's a Picasso room. It's got Cubist furniture.
It's very colorful.
And then the Van Gogh room, we've got Starry Night and
some flowers in there, so it's a room of contrasts.
So, yeah, there's a feel to each room, I suppose.
And I usually match the people that are
coming with the room that I think is best for them.
That's so sweet. Yeah.
So they come here for four days.
I do four day retreats and seven day
retreats, and we are going to open a can of worms and get them doing things
that they never thought they could do creatively.
That's awesome.
So and that's it reminds me of
like the topic of like play learning, you know, like play like that.
I forget what they call it in the corporate world.
But, you know, when we do play, when we
play experience, it's just amazing how much we can learn when we get outside of
the logic of it all. And I think you probably do.
I can tell you incorporate the logic into it.
But what does it take to intuitively,
you know, dive into the frou frou, so to speak, or the woo woo, as some people
would say, like, and and also.
Progress at the same time, is that a fair question?
Yeah, I think it is a really fair question.
And I think what you've got to bear in mind here, the mind of a creative is made
to be expanded very different from the sort of pure linear thinkers.
If you don't understand the creative
and you're a linear thinker, you never will, because we're weird.
We're the weirdos in the room.
We're difficult. We're difficult to live with.
We're up and down.
We're light and dark. We're night and day.
We're very intuitive.
We're very, but we also connect the dots really, really quickly in lots of abstract
ways. And I think when you can learn to embrace all of those things about the
creative mind, then actually you can make bigger
connections than you ever believe possible.
And that's what I do here.
That's fantastic.
That reminds me of one of my distant mentors.
He doesn't know me, but I love a lot about his videos, his style.
It's gone political and I don't do the political thing, but J.P. Sears,
the redhead that does all the controversial videos on.
And he just makes him so funny, makes fun of every niche that exists.
But his story, if those who don't know, is all about finding that confidence
to be that, to be himself, to make that happen.
And it was a huge stepping stone for me, his story, to realize,
I need to, I owe it to myself to dive further into that.
And it has made so many wonderful changes in my life for the sake of the relationships
who really care about me as a person.
Yeah, that has also impacted and influenced the power of the visions that we create.
I've seen the results create new levels of success, not just for my brand,
but also the clients that we serve to, and that's the byproduct of authenticity
beyond the dictionary definition that's so popular right now.
So, any anything you'd like to add before we wrap up?
Because I, of course, want to maximize the opportunity to just extract the wisdom
from your soul and get it out into the world.
And of course, we're going to be putting the action steps on the page.
That way, any of you who are listening, we'll put the retreat link on there.
We'll put the link on there for the event that's coming up,
the programs that Mandy has created.
And there's also a button on that page.
You're listening right now and you're like, I want to be on the stage.
I want to share my vision.
Then click the button that says, be our guest.
Apply. Come on to our show and we'll be
happy to host you just like we hosted Mandy. But before we officially wrap up,
any final thoughts that you have, Mandy?
Yeah, I think so.
If you're, you know, if anybody, if you're
listening and you're the creative and you're the one that people don't get,
it's not you. It's everybody else in the world.
I want you to think about this.
You're the normal one and they're the weirdos.
And it's OK for you to do things your way.
In fact, your way is often the right way.
I love that. Absolutely.
We are not designed to be sheeple.
You know, we are designed to be ourself.
And you've done an excellent job of
empowering me with so many ways that I can step into that even further.
And I thank you for that.
Vision Pros, I hope you enjoyed this episode.
We look forward to seeing you on the next one.
And everybody have a fantastic rest of your week.
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