Tell me about your vision.
So I have a vision.
So I would call my vision is very similar to my purpose.
And that's to empower people to live
an amazing life in all aspects of their life.
And how I plan on doing that is through education.
And so hence the name of my business, Learn and Grow Rich.
I've been running a real estate investing community
for the last 10 plus years.
And we just started focusing on business development,
business acquisition.
And how I see this is I want to make a difference in the world.
I've had three intentions in my life.
And it's travel the world, help people, and make money.
And the helping people, the more and more I get older,
the more and more that is the priority.
And not only do I want to help people,
but I want to empower them to do it themselves.
And so my idea is to teach people how to make money,
teach people how to run businesses,
teach people how to be self-sufficient.
Specifically, I'm down here in Medellin, Colombia
right now inside of some of these communities.
It would be life-changing if I could teach one person how
to run a business, and they could hire somebody,
and then teach them how to do that.
And it becomes this process of human development.
And teach people values and principles
so that they can solve their own problems.
And so we're already doing all that.
And we're giving away all of our education.
I used to sell a very high ticket, $20,000 plus mastermind.
And I just said, you know what?
People need this.
I just started giving the information away.
And that's where we're at right now.
My idea is I can teach somebody how to run a business,
be self-sufficient, and then instill good principles
and values, moral ethics, and the world
to take care of itself if you create the right environment.
That's amazing.
Thank you for sharing that, Zach.
There's actually a saying in the church I attend
is teach people the right principles,
and they'll govern themselves.
Totally.
I mean, everything's principles, absolutely.
So that's amazing.
Thanks for sharing that.
So let me go ahead and move to the next section
and next question.
Where did your vision exactly come from, Zach?
I would say the vision that I had today
was it just kept getting brighter and brighter.
And so I would say I'm 38 years old.
I grew up in the Midwest, and I was just
instilled with the principles and values of help
your neighbor, be kind.
A lot of the stuff I see inside of religions across the world.
And so I've traveled to 24.
I've lived in 24 different countries.
And so I've got to see a lot of the world.
And I don't care what you call it, be it religion,
be it society, be it whatever.
There's a set of rules we have to abide by.
And I feel like I grew up in the Midwest
and that instilled a lot of ethics and morals.
And one of the other things was we've already
worked hard for what we had financially.
And I think everyone has the right to make money.
That doesn't mean to give them money.
And so I think teaching inside of this context of principles
and values, we have to teach people to actually bring
value to society in order to get something in return.
And if we can teach them that, they
can have whatever they want in the world.
But most people don't understand finance.
Most people don't understand business and economics
and sales and marketing.
And so they expect something for nothing.
And that's not the way the world works.
So I want to teach them that concept.
And like you said earlier, everything else
will take care of itself.
That's correct.
That's actually a very great point.
So I have these Facebook groups that I've joined.
And you see people trying to sell you things.
Like, hey, if someone eats this and someone eats that,
they try to sell you stuff.
But if they were to just change their approach from, hey,
this is what I did for my business
and these are the things that actually worked,
what do you guys think?
And people are like, OK, he's giving me some value out
of this or, hey, this is how I solved this problem today.
This is what I do this today and this
how I help this person today.
If they change to that, they'll have a better impact.
And that's the same way you were actually explaining
and talking about this.
So I think you're totally on point there.
I love it.
Thanks, man.
Yeah.
Would you say that's also your why?
I mean, you've kind of explained it already.
Do you think that's also your why of why you do this?
Yeah, and so I've been in personal development
a long time.
And my first big goal, I remember, was to get my first goal
was to get into college.
Then after college, it was to get a good job.
And then I got a great job working
for one of the best companies in the world, published author,
six figures.
And then my next goal was to get out of my job.
And it was just like this evolution.
And one day, I remember, so my goal since I was probably
16 years old was to travel the world, help people,
and make money.
And I remember I was doing that.
And I was sitting in Dominican Republic,
making great money, traveling the world full time,
and helping people.
And I was sort of depressed.
And my coach asked me, I was like, what's going on?
And what we discovered was, what's next?
What's next?
And so what I did was I created a big enough why,
a big enough vision, a big enough purpose.
I sort of put it all under the same thing,
that it could never be satisfied.
It's a lifelong mission to empower
people to live an amazing life in all aspects of their life.
And I think the reason, I've looked a lot,
I was like, why do I do this?
Why don't I just go ride motorcycles?
Because I love riding motorcycles
and traveling and adventure.
Why do I work so hard at this?
And sort of the answer that I got
was, because there's no better feeling
than helping somebody else.
I've yet to see anything that can
resonate at that level of vibration, energy, whatever
you want to call it, as helping another fellow person achieve
their goals and their dream and their vision
and seeing them either get that first job or do that first deal
or quit that job or travel the world.
I've seen people see the ocean for the first time.
And it's just like, oh, yeah, I got to be part of that.
And there's nothing that can compete against that.
And so you could call it selfishly.
It's like, I want to feel good about myself.
But I think in the right context and the right values
and the right principles, why not, man?
If that's who we are as humans, I
think, is to make a difference with somebody else.
That is an amazing point.
I cannot, I could not put it in better words
than how you just put it.
Even whatever limited knowledge I have of life,
I can testify that the most fulfilled I've felt,
and joy, that word I call joy, I've
felt in my life is when I was helping someone.
And no matter how, no matter of no amount of achieving anything
else can get you that fulfillment,
which is amazing, right?
It takes, I've looked a lot into this,
introspectively, and coaching and development.
And I've been in it for a long time.
And one of the programs I was in is
I went from being the student to being a coach in the program.
And what happens is the attention is no longer on you.
You're like, oh, I don't care about my life.
I don't care about my problems.
I don't care about my inefficiencies or deficiencies
or however you want to articulate that.
I'm only focused on that person I'm helping right now.
And there's a freedom around that,
because you don't have to deal with your own mess of life.
Because we all got things going on.
Even if we have the greatest lives in the world,
it's like we still got to deal with whatever it
is that we're dealing with.
And so it puts the focus on somebody else.
And that's a great place to be, as opposed
to in our own head sometimes.
Yeah, that's well put.
But let me ask you this.
This is off the script right here, right?
Would you consider helping someone from a position of,
I don't know, when you started, this was a financial freedom
that you had, or like passive incomes coming in,
or like some knowledge that you acquired
that you wanted to share?
What position were you in when you started helping someone?
Like, OK, now this focus is off me.
So yeah, so there was a point where
I got started in it for money, because I
wanted to help myself, right?
But in helping myself, the only way you can get paid
is by helping someone else.
Like, it's change of value, right?
Like, I have to provide a legitimate value in order
for someone to pay me.
And it went from a different dichotomy in the sense of,
yeah, hey, I need money to, yeah, I don't need money,
and I'm still going to do it anyways, right?
And then, you know, so I always had the intention
of helping other people, because that's what we're here for.
I mean, to get paid, obviously, right, in a business.
But the context changed when I didn't need to do it anymore,
right?
And now it's like more of a choice,
as opposed to like you have to, which gives some freedom.
Because there are some people I don't want to help,
because they're not ready for it, right?
Thank you for being here today.
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