Tell me about your vision.
Yeah, so I run a nonprofit that's called C4 Leaders.
So this is a, I'll try and get to answer your question
in a roundabout way a little bit.
But these four C's are how I live my life
and it's my moral compass and their communication, chemistry,
consistency, and creativity.
And right before COVID, I've decided
to change kind of the focus of my nonprofit
still to use those four C's.
Because again, that's how I live my life.
But I wanted to take the world's number one food, which is pizza,
and to infuse leadership and team building development using
pizza and wood-fired pizza oven.
And so to answer your question, my vision
is to create space for all people to be seen, heard,
and loved.
And we do that sitting around the fire.
We do that touching sourdough pizza,
tangible processes to allow people to figure out, hey,
what's essential in their life?
And I think when we can create space for all people
to feel like they're seen, heard, and loved,
it just makes this world a little bit better.
What a neat way.
To all people that comes to this leadership conference,
is it all in person that you do?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
We have a pizza truck.
We travel the country.
We work with sports teams, businesses, churches, schools,
other nonprofits, anybody that's looking to come together,
work together, and rise together.
And so it's so cool.
And the pizza oven was built by this company in Napa, Forno,
Pionbo.
And it is a work of art.
It's like a mosaic.
It's 3,000 pounds on the back of a Chevy dually truck.
And we travel all over the place.
So we bring the table to you.
And it's actually hands on.
People are going to make their own pizza.
They're going to share a slice of their pizza.
They're going to figure out, hey, what
is essential in their life?
And I think any time you break bread together,
and again, allow people to get out of their own way,
it allows them to focus on creating their vision,
since that's the title of this episode.
And that's what we're trying to do.
That is amazing.
So Jeff, where did this vision of breaking bread together
come from?
Yeah, definitely my family.
I grew up in Campbell, California.
And I have eight brothers and sisters, including me.
And I didn't realize it at the time.
But my four C's were infused into my life at an early age.
And you're just kind of forced to work together
when you have that big of a family.
And there's only 10 and 1 1
between the youngest and the oldest.
And so, yeah, I just realized it's all about working together.
It's all about communication.
It's all about consistently working hard.
And I don't swear, but I do drop this one word.
And I don't know if I'm allowed to do that on your show.
But my definition of consistency is, one, to consistently
BTA, which is bust that ass.
If you want to be good at anything,
you've got to be willing to work hard at it.
And then on the flip side of that,
to consistently challenge your thoughts and perspectives.
And then the creativity just comes from overcoming fear,
to be willing to share your God-given gift.
And so my parents and my brothers and sisters
kind of instilled that in me.
And as I became an adult, I just realized
that I had these kind of ingredients so much,
I had this vision inside me that I
wanted to share with the world.
That is amazing.
You mentioned, if you're not good at something,
you better be wanting to work hard.
I see a story coming there.
Did you have any instances in your life
where, like, hey, I'm not good at this,
but I want to get better at it, so I should work hard?
And what did you learn from it?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, you can't tell, but I'm really tall, 6'8",
and not that you have to play basketball if you're tall,
but I played basketball.
And I'm the youngest boy, so I had all my older brothers
to kind of beat me up a little bit, so to say, on the court.
And so I wanted to be better.
I wanted to be better than them.
And so I needed to figure out, hey, how can I work hard?
How can I work smart?
How can I work efficient to be the best that I can be?
And I think it just feels good to work hard.
It feels good to not be good at something,
get some help from somebody that's better than you,
and then to enhance your skill set based upon them
kind of guiding you.
And I think that's not to mix things up,
but I think so many times we have a scarcity mentality.
It's like, hey, I have to get mine.
Not really.
There's plenty of slices for everybody
if we mix it back into the pizza.
And that's been a big part of my life,
is trying to help people take that step to overcome and get
better at something that maybe they weren't so good at
and to give them some guidance along the way,
then hopefully to have them pass it on
and to enhance somebody else's life that way.
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.