Please, Alex, tell me about your vision.
My vision is to create a massive community, global community of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs,
people running and operating their own business.
We're all collaborating together to expand what we're doing.
I think as entrepreneurs, we feel like we have to do everything alone, but that's not
true.
There's now software and systems that really facilitate, manage, and monetize large group
collaboration across businesses, organizations, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, small business
owners globally.
That's what I'm out there doing.
I'm building a really large community.
I'm a big networker.
For me, it's all about building a big network and having a big impact.
Got you.
Whenever you first originally had this idea, how did you create this idea of creating a
global network?
Where was the start of it?
Where did it come from?
I was an international award-winning hotel manager, and I love to meet people.
I've always worked in a service-based industry where you meet a lot of people.
I worked at a movie theater, in restaurants, and at DSW, and hotels.
I ended up working in hotels.
At a hotel, you meet 200 new people every day.
I loved it.
I loved meeting new people and talking to new people.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What do you do?
How can I help?
Then the pandemic happened.
I got laid off from my hotel job.
My hotel career completely went away, and I became an entrepreneur.
I still needed my fix.
I still needed to meet new people every day.
I got online, and I started to go to these online networking groups.
I just attended them because honestly, I liked it.
Then I started hosting my own groups and suffering from a lot of the similar problems that other
entrepreneurs were suffering with.
Isolation, having to do everything all alone, having to have all the answers, wanting to
collaborate with people.
How do you do that?
Because we all have our own businesses.
We have to promote our own stuff.
We can't promote somebody else at the detriment of ourselves.
Over the last literally three years, I've not only been building the community, but
finding the tools, finding the software, creating the system to go out there and do what I set
out to do, which is everybody, I think, not everybody, but people want to run their own
business, like I said.
There's a lot of positives of that, but there's also a lot of negatives of that.
So let's talk about your why.
What keeps you going?
What gets you up in the morning and keeps you pushing forward?
What's your why behind you getting up and going?
When I was in Hawaii, I got laid off on my very first day at my brand new hotel job.
I didn't qualify for unemployment.
I moved to Hawaii on a well-made ticket with my girlfriend, got laid off on my very first
day, and didn't qualify for unemployment.
Had to figure everything out myself, so I started flipping furniture on Facebook.
I started driving food delivery.
I started just doing everything.
You can imagine to make a buck.
At one point, I was on my bed.
I had $500 in my bank account.
Rent, which was $2,000, was due in a week.
I just looked at my girlfriend and I said, if we ever get out of this, we're going to
go out there and we're going to help other people because we really need help right now.
Luckily, we got help on that month and rent was paid and everything was fine.
I remember that viscerally.
Hey, we got to help other people.
People get into a really hard place and not through a lot of fault of their own.
Yeah, we made some maybe wrong decisions and stuff, but nothing too bad.
Me and my girlfriend, we were at the height of the hospitality industry.
Number one in the industry for 2019.
Then life happens and things didn't go as planned.
Nobody was there to help us.
Not many people are in there.
There wasn't really a path.
I said, wow, I can really empathize with other people who have maybe gone through a similar
experience, done the right things in life, but then things go wrong and who do you reach
out to, who can help you?
There's not a lot of options out there.
I really want to help people and specifically in the financial area of things.
Now I have the experience of going from a hotel manager who you work all the time as
a hotel manager.
The fire alarm goes off at 2 a.m.
You go in.
Now I'm on the other side of it.
I'm an entrepreneur.
I have total time freedom, total location freedom, in some ways financial freedom at
this point too.
And it's a completely different life.
And it's a lot.
I mean, there's a lot of advantages to it.
You know, it's a lot.
I enjoyed a lot more than working at a hotel.
I still like working at hotels, but I don't know if I do it full time or really do it
as a career anymore.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is going to get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.