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Tell me about your vision.

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I'm going to start at the point in time when I decided to enter coaching as a

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profession. This is going back about 11 years and I was an HR person for 35 years,

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30, more than 35 years in my career.

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And at that point in time, I was entering my late fifties and no designs on

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retirement. And the thought was, what do I do next if I'm not going to retire?

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So I hired a coach myself and about the third meeting I had with that person, I

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looked at him and I said, I want to do what you're doing. And that's when that

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journey launched for me. Now that I'm in it, I absolutely love it, the

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connections I make with people such as yourself and others. And so my vision

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with that is I think like many people, how can I have impact on lives? How can

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I move the bar just a little bit for people that I interact with? If I come

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across somebody who's scoring themselves as a seven on a scale of one to 10, how

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can I help them get to an eight or nine? So have impact on this earth, one person

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at a time.

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Thank you for sharing that. You kind of explained where your vision came from.

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Um, but if what would you say is of what your bias, what you do?

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I have a gift for two things, a memory, uh, which is like a steel trap, which

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can sometimes be a blessing or a curse. It can be a curse in marriage because I

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remember too many things and it's hard for me to forget. So I have to work on

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that. But when I'm developing relationships with people, uh,

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relationship is the other thing and connection comes from finding an area of

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commonality. For example, before we went live today, you mentioned you're from

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central Texas. I had gone to the vision pro website and saw that Jackson and I

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presume you were based out of new Braunfels. I've passed through new

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Braunfels many times in my life. We can talk about sleep and sleep and sleep

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my life. We can talk about slitter bomb. We can talk about the unicorns.

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There's commonality that's there. So my why is leveraging what I know about

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people and the commonality to build trust, to build relationship and to help

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that person get to where they want to be.

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Thank you for sharing that. That is powerful.

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That is so powerful. What you just mentioned here.

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So if I were to rephrase the same question and ask you again, what gets

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you out of bed

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every morning? Why do you keep doing what you do? Is it because of

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I mean, I don't want to put words in your mouth. I want to say what you want

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to say about it.

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On Monday and Wednesday mornings at five o'clock, I have a spin class to

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lead at six o'clock. So my alarm clocks getting me up to go do that for

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personal exercise. But also I get paid a little bit of money to do it. But

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again, connection with people. If I can push them hard enough and help them

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step forward as far as their exercise routine, I can do that.

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That's a success for me. And on top of that, having some fun and enjoyment

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along the way. Getting to know them, getting to know what they want. So two

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days out of the week, that's what's getting me up. The other days, is

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there a client that I need to prepare for today? Is there a client that I

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need to debrief myself about that we covered some territory the day before?

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That I want to look at again? In my third occupation that I haven't touched

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on, where I work for ESPN in the sporting world, it's getting prepared

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for an event. And I do the statistical part of it. So it goes along with

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working with the talent, the play by play, the color analysts. So what is it

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that I can add from a statistical standpoint, from knowledge to enhance

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this production, so that we interest our audience and get them excited about

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the product that we're conveying to them, which is a sporting event. So those

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are a variety of things that get me up in the morning. And every now and then,

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I get lucky enough, I can just sleep in.

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Thank you for sharing that. Let's talk about the business side that you were

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mentioning. I'm assuming, I mean, you've been doing this for about 11 years now,

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right? I decided to become a coach 11 years ago. I've been coaching for about

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eight. And how long have you been your brand and your business that you sent

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us? It's on your website. How long has that been in place?

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That was from the beginning also about eight years ago when I conveyed the

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Seed Silver Coach brand.

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So when you're helping these people and making an impact, what keeps you going?

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What I strive for with my clients is a breakthrough, an aha moment, where

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through the questions I've asked to the conversations we've had, I see

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something start to, I can see it, whether we're in person or mostly remote as

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you and I are today, I can see something happening. And I'll ask them that.

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I'll say, is something going on here right now from what we've been talking

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about? And they'll say, yes, I just discovered something about myself, what

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I want to do about a particular situation, how I want to move forward.

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And then the follow-up question is, when are you going to be able to do

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that? So the accountability aspect kicks in. But before that, the

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breakthrough, the aha moment, that's gold for me to see that and to feel

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some level of responsibility in helping to bring that about in the person.

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Thank you for sharing that. If I were to ask you, Kirk, where are you going

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with your vision? I'm writing a book currently entitled Thoughts for My Kids

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and Other People's Kids. So you'd look at the surface and say, well, that's

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about my kids and my grandkids. But we're all somebody's kids. And so the

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audience is broad. It's primarily targeted towards Zs and millennials.

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Because I can remember that time 30, 40 years ago, being at a crossroads,

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maybe being a little bit lost and wanting somebody to take me by the hand

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and help me out. And I had some people that did that for me at that time.

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But still a lot of dangerous waters for me to navigate. I want to be a

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source for not only those individuals, but anyone who's at a crossroads in

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relationships, in vocation, in life, that maybe there's a tidbit there that

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can be shared that will be helpful. So that's one vision. The other is

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to continue to build new relationships with new clients, preserve and keep

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exciting the existing ones, but also in the new ones. What have I learned in

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the past in coaching and in other aspects of my life and career that I

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can apply going forward in the new situations that I face? So it's a

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strong vision I want to share with this book. And secondly, how can I continue

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to be a better coach?

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My next question for you, Kurt, is what is your goal for being on the show?

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I want people to hear our dialogue first and maybe pick up on something that

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intrigues them, that arouses their curiosity and says to them, I'd like to

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talk to this guy a little bit more. Maybe just to get to know him. But maybe

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I've got something that I need to approach right now that I need a partner

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who can help me, who can encourage me, who can be positive and also provide

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accountability. So again, a couple of different things on that connection,

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the ability to be heard.

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My next question for you, Kurt, has two parts to it. First part is why do

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leaders hide from funding their vision? And the second part is how do leaders

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lean into funding their vision?

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I think the answer to both of them is fear. I'm afraid that it may get rejected,

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that it's a vision that people may mock and think is not genuine. And we come

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down to self-confidence, self-esteem sometimes with that. I've been burned

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before. I don't want that to happen again. I don't want to put myself out

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there. And then there's timidness that goes with that as far as funding. Is

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anybody really going to support me in doing what I'm doing? It's kind of a side

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story on that. I'm in the midst of writing my book right now. And we play

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this imposter syndrome in our own minds sometimes of I'm seeking testimonials

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for the book. And I've very carefully thought about who I would like to

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support it, have comments about it. But there's a little bit of humility in

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going to people and saying here is something I've done, a product I've put

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together. Would you say something in endorsement about it? And so that little

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devil on your shoulder says who are you to write this and to ask people to

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support this? But the better angel is there saying no son, you've got

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something to say. Ask people. And to my delight so far, Harry, so many people

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have come forward and they've had such kind and endearing things to say. I'm so

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glad I took that step forward. Testimonial being a form of funding, if

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you will. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to

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Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes

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continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have

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more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an excellent time

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building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.