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about Vision Pros and what Vision Pros is going to be.

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Work right here.

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You were in the middle of publishing a book with Clay, your son, right?

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When we brought you on the show last time.

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you've now published another book yourself and Infinite Impact.

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How do you do that?

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How do you publish two amazing books, run the company that you do and do all

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the amazing things that are empowering generations of entrepreneurs and run

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your own company? What's the secret, Amber?

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Oh, my gosh, I'm Jackson.

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Let's see my secret.

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Number one is I want to be somebody like I think I asked myself,

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who would I be proud to be?

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I would be proud to be there for my son if he wants to write a book.

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whenever they need it.

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around from what other people need.

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have grown into somebody that it's not just people pleasing.

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you have this natural abundance of energy.

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Like, honestly, I have never in my life had more going on than right now.

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I was forcing and grinding and pushing.

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all day, every day, and I would go to bed so soulfully exhausted.

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have the energy for that, then does that mean as I head into my 50s that I'm just

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going to be broke or not make an impact or like what happens from here?

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other people when you are in alignment.

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in that movie Limitless, where it's like all of these things become possible.

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capabilities that are much more advanced.

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That would be my answer.

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That's awesome.

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Well, you know, the universe is super organized, right?

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strong reflection of what we are capable of, like you said, aligning with.

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I got to show this book. I got to show it off.

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Is that OK if we dive into Clay's book a little bit?

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Thank you. This is so cool.

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So I'm going to actually have more than seven thousand copies.

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And that happened so fast because it's only been out for just over six months.

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Yes. Doubled in circulation.

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Seven thousand copies sold.

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He's seven and a half, seven and a half.

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I built his website.

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And he's now in Austin near me.

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I hope someday I get to meet him and just shake his hand or give him a hug.

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If you're like, you're going to do that.

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of your website that you all built together.

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Clay is the the character in the book with mom.

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So it's like a mosquito.

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who finds us on the trail and then the squirrel and, you know,

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it just sort of came together.

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he was six at the time.

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into the winter and into the spring.

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And I had like an editor say, this is so unusual.

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Can we say it's multiple hikes?

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And I said, no, it's one hike.

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Can we make it a different name?

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And I'm like, no, it's got to be love puppy.

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So there were some challenges.

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But in the end, like this story comes about that is so rich with consciousness

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and meaning and like the way that it has helped parents and adults was the surprise.

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we've been able to donate lots of copies to Boys and Girls Club.

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And then Clay could do a book signing multiple times and watching this sea of kids

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like look up at Clay like some celebrity.

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Right. And it's the Michael Jordan now for.

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Yeah. And then like watching Clay's experience of like looking down amongst

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his peers, reading his book like I got to tell you at Proud Mom moment tears like

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it's been unbelievable and we're just getting started.

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I mean, it's incredible.

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So thank you for asking about it.

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Yeah, it's so big.

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And guys, those of you listening in, like it takes a serious amount of processes

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to pull this off. And I think a lot of you know that.

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But I'm going to show you to a little bit of the behind the scenes of where my

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children got to on this process and they need a bit of amber in them.

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I need a bit of amber in me to help finish it because I we spent a summer

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working on the process of getting the manuscripts written and the contributor

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levels and they did their video for it.

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influencers and there's contribution levels and stuff.

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necessary for it to be theirs, right, for this to be a project that they wanted to

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build. And my kids were seven, nine and 11, all going through this simultaneously.

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their legacy, so to speak, they got to finish the book, you know,

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and they've already collected from some people on the monetary side.

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I'm like, guys, you have to give back your money or you've got to finish the process.

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And they got some uphill battles

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with our our division process and our households.

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But they they're like they want to finish it.

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You know, and I'm like, look, I can't make you guys do it.

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I can't I can't do this for you.

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You're going to have to figure out how to climb these mountains.

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And so they climb back in and

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balancing that process of inspiring our children while not forcing them right.

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Not making it about us, you know, is it's an important process for maintaining peace

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in your own life.

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But I just love that you were able to pull to fruition.

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It gives me hope and it gives me a chance to look at that and say, guys, look,

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Clayville, however, was able to do this and maybe someday I will get to meet and

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collaborate with him, too.

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And, you know, he knows what it's like to try to get this from start to finish.

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And his mom's better website to me.

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But a lot of things, but still we can get this done.

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And, you know, y'all's contribution is just as valuable as it.

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So it's it's it's a lot of fun.

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Now, you've also just published a book and I've got to I got to bring Ashley into this.

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yeah, this woman is one of my absolute favorite people on Earth.

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Me too.

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Possibly top 10, you know, and so I'm sorry, family members, like she is

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incredible and she runs to Teo Publishing dot com.

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When I saw her post about your book,

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you know, I was floored by what she said because I know how honest and sincere

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she is. I know the quality of people that she works with and publishes for.

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So I'm just going to read.

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She says, Have you ever met a person

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who read a book that elevated your life in every aspect?

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That's Amberville, Howard.

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I was like, OK, here I am reading Ashley, one of my favorite mentors in life.

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Say that about you.

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I already know I'm like super obsessed with you.

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So I'm like, oh, my

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this is so big.

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And so I'm sure she has been one of my

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heroes ever since I learned about her incredible book marketing company,

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NGNG Enterprises through a client go Tony Lopes.

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We love you, too, Tony. We didn't forget about you.

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Absolutely.

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So we worked together to launch Tony's book.

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And then I followed her email news that are faithfully eating up her authentic

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down to Earth phenomenal advice.

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This woman has launched books to the top

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of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal's bestseller.

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She is a real deal.

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Then last year.

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OK, she she she I'm not going to highlight myself.

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I'm going to keep going.

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I've never aligned with another business owner in my life.

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This woman is incredible.

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Truly, she lives and breathes the things that values that she values most of most

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of life. She is dedicated and smart, experienced in law.

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She's just amazing.

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Long story short, after sending me several

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manuscript reviews and editing clients over many, many months,

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she finally reached out to me to publish her book or to help with the manuscript

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review of it and working with it was a dream.

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If you have ever thought of writing a book, you need to read this book.

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Infinite Impact. I don't know how to put enough emphasis on this.

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This book is a game changer.

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It may even change your life.

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Yeah, I was like, OK, infinite impact.

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Like, I mean, it's already grandiose and what it says.

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You've already got the marketing and the branding behind it.

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But Ashley saying that I was like, OK,

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the Entrepreneur Strategic Guide to Books and Business Success.

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This is huge. Amber, what the heck happened?

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Like, how did you pull this out of the

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Woodworks after already throwing down everything you've thrown down in life?

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Thank you. I.

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I don't know how else to describe it,

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except to say it was divine intervention, and that has happened several times

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in my life and, you know, I had hired a ghostwriter

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last August to take 30 hours of content, my story, the company story, my programs.

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And I asked her to create a book for me

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that would cement my last 17 years in business because I was in the midst

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of a model change and I just wanted something that could satisfy

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what publishers have asked me for over the years, which is like how to write

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a book about how to launch your book.

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And so I paid her a bunch of money and she said, I can absolutely do this.

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And when I I had gotten to this November

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in-person event that I host called Books and Business, where I launched Clay's book

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and I said, hey, everyone, you know, you're so excited about this event.

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Let's run it again in April.

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And by that point, my book will be out and we can do behind the scenes of the launch.

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So all these people signed up for April

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on the other side of that November event.

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I get my manuscript that the ghostwriter has been working on for months.

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And it was full of AI and none of my content.

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And I was pretty devastated.

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I was pissed. I was hurt.

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I did not appreciate that at all.

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So I thought, OK, I'll try to write it myself, even though I have like no time

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to write the book. So Christmas week came and I thought if it pours out of me,

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I'll keep going and try to get this book done before my April event that everybody's

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expecting.

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So it's Christmas week.

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I start writing.

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It was just a crash and burn disaster.

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I was not in the place to write that book.

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I was a lot of stuff was coming up for me about that process.

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And I decided January 1 just to put it to bed.

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you know, couldn't get the book done and I'm not I'm not going to pursue the book

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this year.

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So seven days later, six days later, January 7th, HIPs and

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somebody that I knew was at my November event.

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She had just lost all of her life savings.

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She was on the brink of divorce.

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Her daughter had been canceling battle or battling cancer for a long time.

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And that was sort of some challenges were flaring up again.

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So I knew that this individual was going through a lot.

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Amber, I've been praying a lot about this and I'm going to invest in your April

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event because God told me that I'm supposed to be there to celebrate the launch of your book.

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And it was just such an intense moment in the way that all of it went down.

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And I just knew deep in my gut instinct, Jackson, that I had to get this book done.

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So I reached out to my publishing contacts and I said, when is the absolute latest I

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can give you the manuscript to get books in hand for this April event?

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And she said, I would need your book to not just be done.

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I need it to be fully edited by February 27th.

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Yeah, and over the next seven weeks.

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I wrote this book.

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I was sick for three weeks, by the way.

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Oh, geez.

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Single moming, CEOing, you know, it was crazy.

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And the book that came out of me was not the book that I expected to write.

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That was the other surprise.

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And so when I started January 8th to sit down and write this book,

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I looked back and I thought, OK, what do all of the people have in common

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that I've spoken to in the last almost 20 years?

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That's thousands of people.

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And I thought, what do they all have in common?

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What do they all have in common?

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And it was like, ding,

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they're not in alignment by the time they get to you.

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And I thought alignment.

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I mean, like, seriously, I'm being so honest with you.

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And I thought, what the hell does that mean?

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And so I thought, OK, well, like, what are some of the foundational pillars

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and principles, so avatar, vision, why and values?

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That's what came out of me.

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But when I sat down to write about these,

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I was like starting to piece together decades of my process that I had never

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put into a structure before.

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It's just sort of like what I did.

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If you know what I mean, I had plenty of structure around how to launch your book

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and how to build a website and how to build your brand and how to make money

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online, all the structure in the world about that.

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But the unspoken of what I did was get people into alignment.

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And I didn't even know it because I didn't have a word.

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I didn't have a phrase for it until it

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dropped into my consciousness in January.

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So then when I'm in the process of this

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new foundational framework that gets people into alignment, it was so interesting,

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Jackson, because with Avatar, I had been teaching that for 12 years.

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That's easy. It's always a game changer for people.

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It's taught differently than what most other people teach.

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So like, that's the drop in the bucket that blows people's minds every time.

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When we get into vision, I real time was like, oh, my gosh,

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I see how out of alignment I've been in my own vision.

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So I'm innovating a part two to vision that locked it in such a cool way.

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It just was really inspiring and exciting.

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By the time I get to why, that's the one I knew nothing about.

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That was the chapter that was so confronting and so confusing and so big

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and hard and annoying, and I was so frustrated and angry.

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You had to wrestle through it.

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It was like this.

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Process was downloaded to me and like Arabic or something,

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and I'm looking at it like I don't understand what this is.

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So I had to like decode it.

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Then I would get like confronted of how out of alignment I've been my whole life

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in that way, and then I had to heal from it so that I could try to write it.

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But I had to write it objectively and not

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with my own emotion or my own experience behind it.

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Like, and keep in mind my time frame here.

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So the seven weeks to write this book had to include not just me figuring it out

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along the way and writing it and editing it, but I also had 15 beta readers go

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through it, and then I had to rearrange the whole introduction and then remove

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chapters and add chapters, and it was absolute craziness.

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But on the other side, this book pops out and it is.

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It's it's so powerful.

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She's right. It has been changing lives.

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It has saved marriages.

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It has saved lives.

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It is slightly shifting people's careers in a way where they finally feel in

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congruence, they're feeling like they can naturally do their role now instead

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of forcing and squeezing and pushing and pulling and all of that.

485
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,720
And honestly, Jackson, like it is saving

486
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,280
businesses right now at a time where there is so much disruption because of AI that

487
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,560
businesses are dropping like flies and it is actually saving businesses.

488
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,920
And so all of this has happened.

489
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:41,600
And I know that was like a lot to share, but it's happened so fast.

490
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:47,480
And I just feel so humbled and grateful that it came through me and that I get to

491
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,440
share it with the world because I really believe that I'm uniquely qualified

492
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,360
and responsible enough to make sure that this is delivered in a conscious way.

493
00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:03,600
And I believe that this book and that framework is a feeder into other businesses.

494
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:09,200
Imagine if every client you take on is in alignment from the beginning.

495
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,360
Exactly.

496
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,520
I'm actually going to color commentate on that for you.

497
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,400
Because it's huge.

498
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,840
It's big.

499
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,280
We start at first class business with vision.

500
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,520
We go from vision to culture to leadership.

501
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,400
But you have to be pre-qualified to start with vision.

502
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,240
I'm very serious about that.

503
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,720
People don't like to work with me.

504
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,200
It's not a thing.

505
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,480
Like 96% of businesses fail within 10 years.

506
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,200
4% survive.

507
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,080
So, well, yes, in today's society with AI,

508
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,640
100 years, people have sucked at business.

509
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,040
It's not something new.

510
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,320
People have been struggling to move their mountains forward.

511
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,640
And that's a hard message to deliver to people.

512
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,440
People don't exactly want to wake up and hear that every morning.

513
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:05,080
So on the flip side, because we start with vision and I'm looking at your elements

514
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,360
of vision, you've got avatar vision, why values.

515
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,960
I'm like, yep, I don't work with people until they have those.

516
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,120
They have to have those in place.

517
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,840
And everybody has values.

518
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,040
Everybody has some type of why, but they don't necessarily know how to make

519
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,560
that their center point for their life.

520
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:21,800
They don't necessarily.

521
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,280
They haven't gotten deep enough with it, is what I found.

522
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,920
Like my vision is to be, you know, impact 10 million people.

523
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:28,320
Why?

524
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,720
Because I want to help people.

525
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:37,600
And it's like, that's not why you have to get to the absolute root of why you're

526
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,040
doing what you're doing.

527
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,080
And most people don't know because it's underneath a bunch of coping.

528
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,000
Like you're doing this because we've got to find a place to steer.

529
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,200
Most people don't have that type of alignment.

530
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,800
And so we're constantly sending people

531
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,080
onward, they don't even really recognize it with our show process.

532
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,600
We just we just tell people who aren't quite in alignment.

533
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,520
Hey, look, you need to get your landing page worked on.

534
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,720
You get testimonials and you get case studies, get a scissor reel.

535
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,360
And we just kind of send them on their way

536
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,280
politely because they don't really want to hear it from me either.

537
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,720
So your program becomes one of those programs where I'm like, OK, sweet.

538
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,720
Maybe you're that resource.

539
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,360
It sounds like it actually says you are.

540
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,000
So I'm like, great, we can send people back this direction so they can go get

541
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,480
the help necessary in order to be ready to move their lives forward.

542
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,840
And we've also got Passion Pro on our side, but there's a massive gap.

543
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,000
Passion Pro is designed for people that are still trying to figure out their

544
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,320
very basic purposes in life, they're still playing video games and eating pizza.

545
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,640
And that's their passion and purpose.

546
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,760
Well, we help them align with finding out the idea that what you're talking about,

547
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,680
Infinite Impact is is possibly valuable, is something that they might have hope

548
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,360
for, but we don't personally get not the way that you're doing it,

549
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,480
not the way that this book is going about it.

550
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,520
So I've got to dive into this book myself.

551
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:02,960
I got to find a way to make some time.

552
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,280
I agree with my with my team.

553
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:12,320
And what I would recommend to anybody is like, first of all, if you get the book,

554
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,960
just flip through it and what you'll find, actually, it's a really cool book

555
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,480
because it's in full color and there's like work pages and script.

556
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,800
And I've already highlighted and underlined everything you need to know.

557
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,880
So if you only read those passages,

558
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,440
you can skip a lot of the other stuff you you won't want to, though.

559
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:37,560
It's written in a very simple, conversational, meaningful and connected tone.

560
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,440
So it's like we're having a conversation as you're reading the book.

561
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,560
But what I recommend is just just flip through it until your gut says stop.

562
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,880
And when it says stop, read that page and you'll know why,

563
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,920
what is in this book for you and then just pick up wherever you want to.

564
00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:00,560
The domain name right there in my right here.

565
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:06,200
If you go there, scroll down like 30 percent on the page and there's a gold

566
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,840
button that you can get the full PDF of the book for free.

567
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,240
There is no opt in wall and funnel and stuff.

568
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,000
Just click and get the PDF.

569
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,000
I don't even care if you buy it,

570
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,480
but it would be nice if you left an honest review because those are so hard to get.

571
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,960
And I need them to get Amazon's algorithm going.

572
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,280
But you can literally if you scroll down like 30 percent,

573
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,720
there's the flip book and just underneath the flip book right there.

574
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,920
That's the gold button.

575
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,240
You can get the full book for free right now.

576
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:43,760
So I do recommend if nothing else, you know, with the PDF,

577
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,720
you can't flip through it in the way that you could, you know, if you had it in your

578
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,520
hand, but if you go into the table of content and you're going to skip to part

579
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,320
two, the work, those are the four exercises.

580
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,560
And again, please don't make the judgment that that it's easy to make of.

581
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,000
I've already done all that.

582
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,480
I already know my vision and why and values,

583
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,880
because you need to trust that I'm teaching them differently,

584
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,680
especially that why section.

585
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,000
You will not have heard it being taught like this before.

586
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,320
And it's designed to, like I said, get to the root, but create harmony in your

587
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:27,920
business, because if your vision is how I'm in service to humanity.

588
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,200
And even that's taught in a very different way.

589
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,480
The why is how that is in service to me,

590
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:40,480
how it meets a need that I have in this lifetime that probably came from an unmet

591
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:46,120
need that I had in childhood, we travel this hero's journey of pain

592
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,440
and suffering and torture and misunderstanding and abandonment and

593
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,920
rejection and bullying or whatever your story is.

594
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:57,680
We travel that journey because there's a gift in that journey for us to be able to

595
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,320
share with the rest of the world, and you may or may not even know what

596
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:06,800
that gift is, but there's a gift wrapped in really ugly wrapping paper

597
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:13,800
in that journey and with that gift beneath the gift in the bottom of the well is this

598
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,480
need that you can fill for yourself, which gives you the natural energy to produce

599
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:26,520
in the world at levels that you won't understand until you get to the bottom of it.

600
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:30,280
So that's really the purpose behind these exercises.

601
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:36,000
And it's written in a very like let's go kind of way because I don't like wasting time.

602
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,920
So I think you'll see that it's simple.

603
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,640
It's just deep.

604
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,800
So have some courage.

605
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,400
Go through it.

606
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,320
Grab a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.

607
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:46,000
Get into it.

608
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,520
And if you want, send me your answers and I'll tell you what I see in your answers,

609
00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:54,440
because I mean, Jackson, I'm doing these like alignment sessions rarely.

610
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,080
I can get there in less than 10 minutes,

611
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,960
get somebody aligned and then use the rest of the time to inform their business strategy.

612
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:08,120
I'm now certifying guides over the next two months to be able to do those alignment

613
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,880
sessions because my work is to certify the right people to get this in companies

614
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:19,640
and communities so that more people can get aligned faster than what I could do alone.

615
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,960
So that's some of the information.

616
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,080
Do you currently have a page for that process for the guides?

617
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,960
Is that something that's under development or I am getting it?

618
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,760
It should be up within the week or two.

619
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:39,880
Next week is my last week for open enrollment for anybody that wants to become

620
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,720
a certified guide, and then I'm closing it for the next two months.

621
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,080
I certify those individuals.

622
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:53,160
And the thing is, is that I'm speaking on stage next month in front of 2000

623
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,280
entrepreneurs in person in Nashville and then in August another 2000 at a virtual

624
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,480
summit on top of I have about 30 other speaking engagements,

625
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,320
mostly virtual, that are happening over the next few months.

626
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,520
And all of those entrepreneurs and individuals that are not entrepreneurs

627
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:16,960
that are waking up and want alignment, like I have to say, here are my certified guides.

628
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,520
So this is probably the very best opportunity

629
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:26,920
for anybody because they're going to get all of that fresh, fresh lead flow.

630
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:33,080
And the most time with me and I have to prove the model and make sure that they're

631
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,640
making a lot of money and impact because then it keeps the program going.

632
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,040
So I should I'm planning on opening

633
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:44,680
enrollment for certification every quarter to once every six months,

634
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,560
depending on how I feel about it.

635
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,480
Absolutely.

636
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,000
You know, I know that it gets hyper inflated.

637
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,680
The concept of like now is the best time to do things.

638
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,720
I understand that.

639
00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:58,720
I think most of the vision pros on here understand that, too.

640
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,200
However, it doesn't it doesn't ruin the veracity of that reality.

641
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,520
Right. You got if you were to look at Facebook

642
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:07,840
stock, when was the best time to buy it?

643
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,400
It was when Facebook stock launched,

644
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,800
you know, like it was always better in the past to get started on the right things.

645
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000
But alignment of your own life has led you to this moment right now.

646
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,640
My one thing I would share in relation

647
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,640
to what Amber's up to is look at the track record of the leaders that you're

648
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,520
potentially working with and see what types of circles have they been able to put

649
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:36,080
themselves in and will that if you align and you cultivate the relationship well,

650
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,560
does that put you in, you know, in contact with similar potential people?

651
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,960
You know, Amber's helped more than a thousand authors, including names that if

652
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,520
you they're mic drop names, you just Google the name and you'll know if you

653
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,120
don't already know these people, Les Brown, Lisa Nichols, Mark Victor Hansen.

654
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,360
There are so many people that she's worked

655
00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:00,400
with who represent the type of quality of guides she's looking for,

656
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,760
the type of quality of people you will get involved with.

657
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,920
When John Rockefeller, you know, built the Transcontinental Railroad,

658
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,040
it was better to be involved before when you thought he was crazy and you were like,

659
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,400
totally, I feel a lot like John.

660
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,800
I got like I talked to him like I know I'm like we have coffee daily.

661
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,520
But, you know, it's it's like people have come along our path for first class

662
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,040
business and the first couple of years of vision pros and first classes.

663
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,280
People are like, I don't really get it.

664
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,360
I don't really see it.

665
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,760
And, you know, my my my thought was like, oh, I forget you.

666
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,920
Like, like you will get it one day.

667
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,520
You know, and I'm thinking of that Imagine Dragons song, you know, where they're

668
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,040
like, you know, they were laughing while I was scheming.

669
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,120
And then, you know, now I'm on stage and they're up in the rafters,

670
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,000
like cheering me on now.

671
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,680
And I was like, you know what?

672
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,240
I don't want to be that guy.

673
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,640
I don't want to be that guy who's who's heard about it.

674
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,720
But I realized as I was thinking like, OK, someday people can buy tickets

675
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,560
for this train at full price now, I don't want to do that to anybody.

676
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,280
I realized every single stop along the way,

677
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,080
that train station is going to need somebody to run it.

678
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,840
Right. Once it's all built, there's still going to be opportunity that exists there.

679
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:20,200
But with the opportunity of running one of those train stations be the same

680
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,880
as helping bring the entire thing to fruition.

681
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:23,680
No, it won't.

682
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,360
So if you're inspired by Amber, what you've seen and heard today,

683
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,400
if you've got kiddos that you're hoping to help build big dreams for,

684
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,960
if you are in the coaching and wellness space, I have seen that that Amber's work,

685
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,120
her alignment with the people.

686
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,600
And we've done a lot of studying on Amber's brand over the years.

687
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,760
It's been one of the brands that we've used to model and say, you know what?

688
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,880
We want to be like No Guts, No Glory when we grow up.

689
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,200
We want to have a brand like that.

690
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,200
And so I appreciate you paving the way,

691
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,080
even for those of us who are kind of at a distance with it.

692
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,680
And, you know, who knows, maybe as life moves forward,

693
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,800
our distance continues to get less and less.

694
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,840
The gaps continue to bridge.

695
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,560
And I will share one final principle on that, visionaries.

696
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:12,040
I'm a huge fan of a concept that I call the golden window of opportunity.

697
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:17,520
So Amber and I, you know, we could literally move to let's pick some are

698
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:21,760
not my favorite place in the world, Louisiana, you know, or somewhere in

699
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,160
Arizona where she's hot and dry, right.

700
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,080
Not my favorite thing.

701
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,240
We can move there and we could open a plumbing company.

702
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,360
And we are blessed.

703
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,120
We're two blessed, consistent, diligent individuals.

704
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,960
We could probably turn into a seven to eight figure plumbing company within a

705
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,800
matter of one to one to three years, maybe faster.

706
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,680
That's because opportunities are super cheap when you're blessed.

707
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,880
Right. They really are.

708
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,080
They're a dime a dozen.

709
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,880
The difference is looking at the two people and say, you know what?

710
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,120
I'd rather marinate.

711
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,600
I'd rather find the golden window and kind of wait for that and see where that

712
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,680
aligns and then at that time say, you know what?

713
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,680
OK, I see this window and it makes sense now.

714
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,960
Does it make sense to you?

715
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,040
I've been able to do that with a few business partners.

716
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,360
And each time that has been far better than just kind of rushing into things.

717
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,960
So my hope is don't let the kill your diligence.

718
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,080
Be tenacious.

719
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:19,840
We'll read the book, see how the impact of the book changes your current company,

720
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,920
your current team members, getting in front of other people and speculate over it.

721
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,480
Is this really like the why thing is why?

722
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,400
West out there, I'm a cynic.

723
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,560
There's lots of ways to find it.

724
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,360
I explore them all personally if I was at that stage where I know like I don't quite

725
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,280
get this stuff yet. This is stuff you want to get.

726
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,680
This is stuff that you really want to dive deep in.

727
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,320
So thanks for making the space for me to be on the outside fringes of things.

728
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,240
You know, even though I'm not like what you'd call like a cool drinker, I guess,

729
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,800
is like I'm in right now and have to be in fully.

730
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,320
You have that gift of just being of making space for people where they're at.

731
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:57,680
How do you do that?

732
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,600
How do I do that?

733
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,440
Well, you know what I'm talking about, right?

734
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,280
Some people are like, no, you're not in. You're not in.

735
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,920
You know, the thing is, though, like.

736
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,000
A lot of people look at me and they make assumptions, right?

737
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,160
I've got the flowers in the background.

738
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,120
I am smiling a lot.

739
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,240
I'm agreeable. I'm kind.

740
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,000
So they think that's the way it's always been.

741
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:27,200
But what people don't know is that in my first, you know, especially

742
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,400
the 17 years of life,

743
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:37,640
I rarely smiled and my light was very dumb and I didn't feel like I had value

744
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,520
in the world, I didn't have friends growing up.

745
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:43,960
My older sister did not like me.

746
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,200
My mom was gone a lot and I was alone all the time.

747
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,640
And I had a babysitter that used to put me in front of soap operas.

748
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,000
And that was how I learned about life.

749
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,240
Soap operas.

750
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,080
I suffered greatly.

751
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:04,680
I mean, when I was younger, like early teens, I started smoking cigarettes.

752
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,360
I started drinking. I started lying all the time.

753
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,120
I didn't care and nobody else seemed to care.

754
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,880
So I just kept doing more of that.

755
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,080
And it just the worthlessness was caving in on me.

756
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:23,560
And so I feel like I really have compassion for anybody in life.

757
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,360
That's why I can hold space for somebody who's homeless,

758
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,400
somebody who's an absolute asshole, somebody who is kind,

759
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,200
somebody who is struggling, somebody who's like got multiple

760
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,560
personality disorders, somebody who's an addict.

761
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,880
It's like the human experience is insane.

762
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,880
It is so hard, like, and it's such a blessing, too.

763
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:51,320
But like, I just I know who am I to be a snob?

764
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:52,800
Who am I to have the ego?

765
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,360
Like, I don't value that in other people.

766
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,400
And it's certainly not going to be a way that I'm going to live my life.

767
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,240
So even if I am not the wealthiest person

768
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:04,360
in the room and the most successful or have the most awards or the most

769
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,640
Lamborghini's, who cares?

770
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:11,480
Like, I just want to be a good person that it holds space for anybody in front of me.

771
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,560
So that's how I would answer that question.

772
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,760
That is a phenomenal answer.

773
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,000
One that I don't think most of us could have imagined being the case.

774
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,440
You know, we tend to see things for how they are in the present.

775
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,920
You know, and, you know, it's these.

776
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:34,400
There's a lot of women coaching programs out there, boss babes, goddess, etc.

777
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,880
And it's like, well, you emulate that.

778
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,720
And so it's not something that people think, well, let's pull back the layers

779
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,280
and see where somebody came from.

780
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,000
But I love that you talk about being

781
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:51,360
intentionally in tune with making space for others, and that is a

782
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,560
that's a process to exercise.

783
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,240
Right. I think there's strengths, there's

784
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,720
muscles that can be developed related to it.

785
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,240
I didn't necessarily have that my entire life.

786
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:08,680
It took a lot of intentional work to.

787
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,400
To find those strengths of myself, did

788
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,360
that come naturally to you because of your experiences or did you still have to work

789
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:14,640
at it?

790
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,880
I don't think I had to work.

791
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:18,880
I don't recall working at it.

792
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:20,800
I think

793
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,600
I just knew what it felt like to be

794
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,440
invisible and I didn't want anybody else to have to feel that way.

795
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:27,960
You know, really.

796
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:33,680
So in my college days, early college days, I got a job selling cut co-cutlery,

797
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,680
the high end kitchen knives, and I was still like, I didn't know how

798
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,640
to communicate to anybody about anything deeply insecure.

799
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:47,320
And I went through their three day training program and the trainer said

800
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,080
there are three types of people in the world.

801
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,680
There's the person who sits on the fence and watches what everybody else is doing.

802
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,160
There's the person that dips their pinky toe into the pool to test the waters.

803
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,240
And then there's the person that jumps in with both feet.

804
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,440
And I was in a hundred person training class in Arizona.

805
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:06,440
It was super hot.

806
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,280
I just remember thinking, I don't know what I'm doing here.

807
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,240
I'm not qualified to be here, but I want to be the third person that jumps in with

808
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:18,400
both feet, and I went out and launched that weekend and I did my demonstrations,

809
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,760
my practice ones, and I thought I'm a loser.

810
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,840
I don't even know if this is going to work for me.

811
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:29,360
I walk in on Monday morning to advanced training and I was surrounded by applause.

812
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:34,520
And I had no idea what was going on, but it turns out I was one of the top sales

813
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,360
people in my office that had just launched.

814
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:42,320
And that was the first moment in my life that I felt belonging.

815
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,680
And it felt so good.

816
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,680
It felt so good to have that feeling.

817
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:55,040
And that was the moment that I dedicated the rest of my life to my vision,

818
00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:59,440
which is to help individuals feel heard, seen and valued.

819
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,040
That's it. That's my vision.

820
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:05,560
It's not to impact 10 million people or two million people or the

821
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,600
individual in front of me.

822
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,960
That's it over and over and over and over and over again.

823
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,920
And I hit my vision all day long, every single day my whole life.

824
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,360
And it feels deeply fulfilling.

825
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,320
So,

826
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,800
wow, that's where it comes from.

827
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,040
That's big.

828
00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:31,080
It's so interesting to me, too, that we share dark pasts.

829
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,520
I was the lucky one, though.

830
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,200
Out of all of my siblings,

831
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:41,360
I think I had the better end of the deal than most of them.

832
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:46,320
And so I grew up with a number of siblings who were step siblings to my dad.

833
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,520
They received the brunt end of that tragic

834
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:56,280
process of just being told how garbage they were.

835
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,080
I was the protected child in that essence.

836
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:04,200
So there was a little bit of backlash from a stepmom, right, who wanted to

837
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:09,520
retaliate, but I knew that her retaliation wasn't driven by her as much as driven by,

838
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,480
like, hey, I'm trying to defend my kids in this equation.

839
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:12,840
It wasn't fun to grow up with.

840
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,600
But I always had a strong sense of belonging.

841
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,400
I always had what I needed in order.

842
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,280
Like, I had one household that absolutely

843
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,360
loved me and I had one that it was a little bit more difficult in.

844
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:31,960
But that's what led me on my side to realize I can develop empathy for that reality.

845
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,800
So it's interesting how you didn't have to

846
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,600
go through the exercises of figuring that out because you know what it's like

847
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,320
to be in that darkness fully.

848
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,680
And I'm saying on the opposite side, if you've never been through that,

849
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,320
you can develop these strengths, too.

850
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,360
So if you're a leader or visionary out there and you feel like there's certain

851
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:57,400
markets you can't connect with or certain markets that you want to overlook,

852
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,960
but you feel drawn to understand, take the time.

853
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,360
And I love your recipe for that.

854
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,400
Be there for me.

855
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:10,920
If I may, Jackson, I think that everybody at some point in their timeline has

856
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,720
some example of feeling like they didn't fit in somewhere, right?

857
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,040
At some moment.

858
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,680
So if nothing else, if you can think back

859
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:24,440
to a moment where you weren't picked on the playground or this girl didn't want

860
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:31,360
to date you or the person you proposed, you said no, or your brother didn't like

861
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:36,240
you or whatever it was, an employee that you worked with didn't pick you to go

862
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,040
to lunch that day, take a moment like that.

863
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:43,160
And just like on your cell phone where you can zoom in on a photo,

864
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:49,400
try to zoom in on that moment and look at what did that really feel like for you as

865
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,920
that outsider in that one moment and really sit in that for a moment.

866
00:49:53,920 --> 00:50:00,280
You know, what was it like seeing that everybody else saw you not get invited to

867
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,400
lunch and then that feeling grows and grows.

868
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,720
That's kind of what you're talking about, like exercising muscle.

869
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:10,600
And then all of a sudden, it's like the grinch where his heart grew.

870
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,720
It's like you can now experience that feeling fully.

871
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,680
And when you can experience that feeling

872
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:24,880
fully, it would be a quite interesting conscious choice to know that feeling

873
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:30,320
and not exercise that by inviting your co-worker to the lunch the next time you

874
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:31,560
go to lunch, for example.

875
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,520
So it becomes a treat other people the way you would want to be treated scenario.

876
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:37,160
Yeah.

877
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:41,200
And that's really you just sort of apply that forward in every moment.

878
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,760
Like when you're meeting somebody new

879
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:47,400
in a Zoom room for the first time, you carry that with you, that memory of

880
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:52,120
I want to make sure that this person feels seen by me because imagine it.

881
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,400
We're on Zoom meeting after Zooming all day long.

882
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,120
So it's so easy for us to be like, oh, hey, Jackson, how are you?

883
00:50:58,120 --> 00:50:59,200
I'm good. How are you? Cool.

884
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:00,600
OK, let's do this thing.

885
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,480
But like, hold on, pause, Jackson, you're a human being with real feelings

886
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,280
and emotions and exhaustion and excitement and worries and anxiousness

887
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,840
and children and too much to think about, like.

888
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:14,480
How are you? Right.

889
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,320
Like, just take a moment.

890
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,320
It's just awareness.

891
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,200
Exactly.

892
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,720
Then dive into all the stuff that you have to talk about.

893
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,320
So it's just it's that in every area of your life.

894
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:25,120
That's all it is.

895
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,040
Just one, two.

896
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:30,880
You kind of start with the self-awareness side of that when you talk about Avatar

897
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,800
Vision, why and values are right.

898
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:38,640
So it's my point with that, too, is that if you're 30, 40, 50, 60,

899
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,080
70, 80, right, it doesn't matter where you're at.

900
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,520
If this is new to you, the cool thing is it still applies that you can start.

901
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:46,280
And it can hurt.

902
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:52,040
I love to use the Grinch as an example, right, because my my self-awareness on that.

903
00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:56,400
Yes, all those experiences that I got dumped and I got rejected and had all

904
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:01,400
those little experiences, too, but I had so much belonging gifted to me

905
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:07,160
that I didn't learn how to pull myself up in those situations.

906
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,480
But what life has a funny way of teaching you.

907
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:15,360
So that lesson came out came at me like a wrecking ball at about 30 years old.

908
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:20,720
And I was like, oh, you got to learn to do these things not just for the right

909
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,960
reason, but the right way and really take sincere interest.

910
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:31,160
So again, I love that that formula you gave of being willing to say, OK,

911
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:36,080
in each one of my relationships, can I show up and help people feel seen,

912
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,040
feel valued and feel heard?

913
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:41,000
Am I showing up to do that for them,

914
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,800
for their sake, not just because it's a formula, not just because it's going to

915
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,080
help me manipulate a course or whatever else like you just you're just dedicating

916
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:54,200
yourself to that and there's there's extreme value that can come out of that

917
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,280
type of of change.

918
00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:00,040
And no, I don't know what your change at 80 will be like compared to somebody's

919
00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:05,520
change at 10 years old who might be hearing this, but it's beautiful and it's worth it.

920
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,480
So I hope people go after it.

921
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:14,120
Amber, before we wrap up any any specific questions that me or the audience

922
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:19,720
should be asking ourselves or asking you and anything you want to share at the end.

923
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,840
I don't know the answer to that, to be to be totally frank with you.

924
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,040
I mean, I think.

925
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:31,880
If there's a whisper

926
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:38,440
that you feel in this conversation, you know, don't mistake that for hesitancy

927
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,320
or uncertainty, it's it's a calling.

928
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:45,960
It's a it's a calling for your significance to come forward.

929
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,800
And oftentimes as entrepreneurs, we shoo it away.

930
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,120
Stop. I'm going to drink alcohol.

931
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,400
Stop. I'm going to play Netflix.

932
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:58,040
Stop pestering me.

933
00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:01,080
I got stuff to do because I don't know what

934
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,320
that is and what it means, and it's probably something I don't want to know.

935
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:09,760
Like if if there's a whisper, I wish that you would listen to that

936
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,840
because there's a message in that for you and it's not scary.

937
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,400
It's to your benefit.

938
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:21,720
I feel like we I know we are all born with an emotional guidance system.

939
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,040
And a lot of people have shut that down

940
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:28,560
because they don't want to feel bad things.

941
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,440
But you also don't get to feel a lot of good things either.

942
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,880
So there's a trade off there.

943
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:39,320
But that inside of that emotional guidance system lies your intuition.

944
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:45,520
Also, I call it gut instinct for men who don't like the word intuition because it's

945
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:52,280
too woo and for those that are more comfortable with intuition.

946
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,240
I can even say it's the voice of God,

947
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:58,800
regardless of your belief system, whether it's the God up in heaven or

948
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,360
the God of our own spirit, it's our own voice.

949
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:07,520
So whatever your belief system is, there is a third voice in us.

950
00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:09,040
It's different than your brain.

951
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,760
That's like, well, we can't do that because it doesn't make financial sense.

952
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,960
And it doesn't make sense based on the month that it is in the time of year.

953
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:20,600
You know, it's like that's your logical brain and it's not your heart either.

954
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,080
It's your intuition.

955
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,320
And it's that voice that says,

956
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,280
oh, I think I was supposed to take a right turn back there, not a left.

957
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:33,800
That voice that doesn't have evidence for why that just came to you just yet.

958
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,080
That's really your instinct.

959
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,080
So this whisper, if there's like a nudge of like this alignment thing,

960
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,040
something there was something that struck me about that.

961
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:46,840
That is a message from your intuition,

962
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,240
your emotional guidance system that's saying, hello, wake up.

963
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:51,560
You're out of alignment somewhere.

964
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,760
And if you are, just do the work.

965
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,480
Just just playfully look at the exercises and see what comes up for you.

966
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,560
There's no reason not to really if you feel a nudge inside.

967
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:06,760
And then maybe you'll find that piece that you've been searching for in the next

968
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,720
marketing company that you hired or the next course that you just bought into

969
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,440
that could make you become a better parent.

970
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:15,160
Right.

971
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,880
Have less regret in some of your parenting

972
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:23,560
decisions or a better spouse or a better friend or just better to yourself.

973
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:29,200
But I feel like now is the time on the planet where there is a lot of change

974
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,520
and it's going to get pretty gnarly for entrepreneurs.

975
00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:35,760
And I'm not a doom and gloom person, but the facts are there.

976
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:42,000
And I have a really unique vantage point because of the thousands of businesses

977
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,920
that I've had access to in the last two decades and as many industries as you can

978
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:50,200
think of and knowing the inside of those businesses.

979
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,640
So I have a pretty strong pulse on things.

980
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:57,640
And, you know, the people that are listening to that message,

981
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,760
they're getting into alignment, they are making refinements.

982
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,080
We're not asking you to blow up your life here.

983
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:08,560
It's usually small refinements is all that's needed.

984
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,320
And then everything locks into place.

985
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,360
And, you know, you'll have more of that natural abundance coming forward.

986
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:19,200
So it's more of just a reiteration of what we've already spoken about, Jackson.

987
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,720
But I just want it so desperately for people.

988
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,560
I don't get anything out of you getting into alignment.

989
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:31,080
But I just I feel it so strongly that this is the message that people really need

990
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:32,280
to pay attention to right now.

991
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,760
So I appreciate you giving me the stage to do it.

992
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:40,320
Absolutely. Those of you listening in, the word that really hit me was whisper.

993
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:41,800
The

994
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,360
comments,

995
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:49,080
we hope that you leave your whispers and the comments, those questions that are

996
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,000
that you could be asking Amber and I will do the best that we can to facilitate

997
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,000
answers of what that means to us.

998
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,600
I know, of course, the more the more likely you are to reach out to and get to know

999
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,640
Amber and ask deeper level questions, the more she can help to.

1000
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,760
It's funny that you tied that to parenting.

1001
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,000
It reminded me of this book as well,

1002
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:13,560
The Child Whisperer, which is a fantastic read for anybody who's trying to

1003
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,480
understand where your children are at.

1004
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,640
So we hope that you enjoyed this show.

1005
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,720
Again, we look forward to seeing your comments.

1006
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,200
We hope that you share this with people

1007
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,600
who could use more alignment for their lives as well.

1008
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,080
And we're going to leave on a different note today.

1009
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:32,360
We're going to put a little bit more information out about Infinite Impact.

1010
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:38,040
Go get the book on Amazon and we'll see you guys on the next episode.

1011
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,520
Thank you for being here today.

1012
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,040
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

1013
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:42,720
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move

1014
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:44,640
forward. This is going to get more and more fun.

1015
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,520
We'll have more and more engagement as well.

1016
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,560
We'll invite people to participate in the show.

1017
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,920
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

1018
00:59:50,920 --> 01:00:03,720
Have an excellent time building out your.