1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,560 Tell me more about your vision. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,960 The vision is all about, it's not what I want to do in life, 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,840 it's more about what is God's plan for me. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,360 And I always talk about this, that sometimes we think 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,520 there's certain things that we don't want in our lives 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,840 and we have to go through those processes 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,560 because God has a bigger vision for us. 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,100 My vision was always to live a fulfilled life, 9 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,880 to have enough time to spend with my family, my kids, 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,880 to be able to do whatever I want on my own terms. 11 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:31,240 And that was my vision. 12 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:32,400 And then within that vision, 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,240 as you start achieving those goals, 14 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,080 there's other things that are starting to happen 15 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,080 and they start to come towards you. 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,920 And one of those was again, okay, 17 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,560 now go live in another country. 18 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,160 I'm living in another country, 19 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,320 start helping out entrepreneurs. 20 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,880 And at the beginning, we put this vision out there 21 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,200 and we think it's gonna be unachievable, unreachable. 22 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,120 And one of my goals was I want to inspire 23 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,240 at least 10,000 entrepreneurs into that. 24 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,660 They could do whatever they want at the same time, 25 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:01,400 talk to them about God and letting them know 26 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,940 that with faith you could achieve anything. 27 00:01:03,940 --> 00:01:06,120 And sure enough at the beginning, 28 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,760 that 10,000 entrepreneur, I seem crazy at times, 29 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,440 but now that I started to think back, 30 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,120 I spoken in so many stages 31 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,700 with hundreds and hundreds of entrepreneurs 32 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:19,920 that 10,000 vision just become very close. 33 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,040 Like in August 17, I'm gonna be speaking 34 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,400 at another event here in South America 35 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,560 where there's gonna be a thousand entrepreneurs. 36 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,800 So now that's 10% of my vision right there. 37 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,160 What's the story behind your why and your journey? 38 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,640 What's the story behind it? 39 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,520 Where did you come up with all of this at prior to 2014? 40 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,360 Prior to 2014, well, my journey, 41 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,600 it's pretty much it starts when I was a young kid, 42 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,360 coming from Ecuador, being raised by a single mother, 43 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,840 growing up on a very humble home. 44 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,860 Is that why is like, I wanna be successful, 45 00:01:57,860 --> 00:02:00,080 I wanna be rich, I wanna have money. 46 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,460 But then at the beginning, it's all about the money, 47 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:03,600 but then you start realizing 48 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,240 that it's not so much about the money, 49 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,320 especially when I made a lot of money 50 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:11,600 and then I lost everything, it became more into, 51 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:12,800 it wasn't about the money, 52 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,760 it's about what do I want to do with that money? 53 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,420 What kind of life do I want to live? 54 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:20,760 So I became more purposeful in my life 55 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,040 versus not just trying to follow the money, 56 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,420 I became more purposeful into what do I need to do 57 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:28,120 and what is the life that I wanna have 58 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,800 and the people that I wanna help out. 59 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,400 And that's gonna bring the finances along with that. 60 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,760 What would be your tips for an early entrepreneur? 61 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,960 Two tips, number one is take action, 62 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,720 stop hesitating, a lot of you want to start a business, 63 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,340 don't know how to start a business, it doesn't matter. 64 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:52,480 Take action, get started, you'll figure out along the way. 65 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,200 And number two is get a mentor, 66 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,520 get a mentor that relates to you, somebody that you like, 67 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,600 somebody has the values that you have, 68 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,100 somebody has the beliefs that you have 69 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:02,520 and somebody that you look up to 70 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,680 that you wanna be like that person 10, 20 years from now. 71 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,080 And I think that's the biggest tips 72 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,320 that I can leave you with. 73 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,680 Thank you for being here today. 74 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,160 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 75 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,800 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 76 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,080 as these episodes continue to move forward. 77 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,800 This is gonna get more and more fun, 78 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,600 we'll have more and more engagement as well. 79 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,720 We'll invite people to participate in the show 80 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,080 and thank you for giving us your time and attention. 81 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,800 Have an excellent time building out your vision 82 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:53,600 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.