1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,760 My vision, my goal is for more people, 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:09,760 more leaders to be positive influences on others, 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,400 on people in particular in their organization. 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:18,400 And this starts early in life when you've fixed, 5 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:24,960 your parents can be a positive influence on you. 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 Sometimes they're a negative influence. 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,320 And we meet throughout our lives, 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:33,120 people who are, we hope that many more people 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,680 are positive influences, but sometimes they're negative. 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,320 And we learn how to cope with those people. 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,320 And in the first book, we had a section on 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,700 how do you cope with a negative person, 13 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:52,600 a negative influence in your life. 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,240 But in this case, how do people deal with the stress? 15 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,880 What did they learn about that? 16 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,200 What did they learn about themselves? 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,720 How have they changed as a result of that experience? 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,680 Because if you learn something, 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,260 you ought to implement it and change as a result of it. 20 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:16,680 So don't ask me any questions 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,880 because I could keep going on and on. 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,880 So, but it's your show, I'm trying to be helpful. 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,880 And so we'll, I'll follow your lead. 24 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,080 Glenn, where did this vision of positive influence 25 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,920 and great leadership come from? 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,040 I want to, we're not recording yet, are we? 27 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,320 We are recording, we're just not live. 28 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:55,480 Okay, I just wanted to mute my phone. 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,480 Well, it started, I had an experience 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,080 that where a gentleman who was a client of mine, 31 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,720 and as often happens, if you work for someone 32 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,720 for a period of time, they sometimes, 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,380 and I've had some very good experiences 34 00:02:17,380 --> 00:02:19,580 where they've become personal friends. 35 00:02:19,580 --> 00:02:21,880 And that's what happened with this gentleman. 36 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,360 And he became ill and I one day get an email 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,840 from someone who had worked for him 38 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,160 that said he had passed away 39 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,760 and it was going to be a memorial for him. 40 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,600 And would I like to come? 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:43,720 And I said, of course. 42 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,720 So at during that time, I began to think about him 43 00:02:51,180 --> 00:02:53,180 and his influence on me. 44 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:56,780 And I realized that he had been a really big 45 00:02:56,780 --> 00:02:59,100 positive influence on me. 46 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:03,220 And I started to think about some of those incidents 47 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:07,580 and I'd be glad to share some of those examples with you 48 00:03:10,180 --> 00:03:11,760 because they were pretty profound 49 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,220 and certainly profound for me. 50 00:03:14,220 --> 00:03:19,220 And I realized I can't be the only person in the world 51 00:03:19,260 --> 00:03:21,100 that's had someone in their life 52 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:23,560 that's been a positive influence. 53 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,860 And I got shortly thereafter, 54 00:03:27,860 --> 00:03:30,160 I think actually later that day, 55 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,420 I went to the memorial and met many of the people 56 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:36,580 that I knew very well that I had worked with 57 00:03:36,580 --> 00:03:38,340 in his organization. 58 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:41,300 And also several of them who had become personal friends 59 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:45,760 and still are by the way, I still meet up with them. 60 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,460 And they had similar experience. 61 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:53,460 Later that day, I called my son who is a leader 62 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:58,460 and a senior manager in the financial services industry. 63 00:03:58,460 --> 00:04:00,300 And I told him the story and I said, 64 00:04:01,380 --> 00:04:02,900 I said, I think there's a book there 65 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:04,220 because I wanna write about this 66 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:06,860 because I think this, if it impacted me, 67 00:04:06,860 --> 00:04:07,860 I said, what about you? 68 00:04:07,860 --> 00:04:11,140 He said, I have had the same experience 69 00:04:11,140 --> 00:04:13,980 and if you write that book, I'd read it. 70 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:16,900 Well, he's one of my biggest critics. 71 00:04:16,900 --> 00:04:18,940 So I figured if he would read the book, 72 00:04:18,940 --> 00:04:20,580 that would be good. 73 00:04:20,580 --> 00:04:22,500 I said to him, well, how'd you like to write it with me? 74 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:24,220 He said, I would love it dad. 75 00:04:24,220 --> 00:04:27,900 And so we wrote the first two books together. 76 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,140 And so that was also a profound experience. 77 00:04:33,060 --> 00:04:37,500 But if you like, I can tell you a couple of the experiences 78 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,140 that made him a positive influence on me. 79 00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:44,440 That what would you say Glenn is your why as well? 80 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:46,260 As my what? 81 00:04:46,260 --> 00:04:47,580 Yes, yes. 82 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:51,900 I think that that I would say that's my why. 83 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:56,900 That's my passion right now is I wanna get this word out 84 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:03,540 to people and we're doing it in different ways. 85 00:05:03,540 --> 00:05:08,540 I told you we were about to release the first book 86 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:12,620 and COVID hit and we didn't do it for six months. 87 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:14,620 And then my son says to me, dad, 88 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:17,460 because we'd always thought we'd do a second book 89 00:05:17,460 --> 00:05:20,820 on positive influence because we really felt 90 00:05:20,820 --> 00:05:22,820 like there was more to it. 91 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:25,140 And he said, dad, the subjects sitting right there 92 00:05:25,140 --> 00:05:30,140 and on our plate, it's this crisis, this coronavirus crisis. 93 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:32,540 So that's how we did that book. 94 00:05:32,540 --> 00:05:36,700 We're starting on the third book now about people 95 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:40,140 who teach other people what they need to know 96 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:41,920 in order to be successful. 97 00:05:43,620 --> 00:05:46,420 And I'm seriously looking for people 98 00:05:47,780 --> 00:05:50,220 who don't necessarily carry the title of teacher 99 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:55,220 or professor, but they teach us things like podcast hosts. 100 00:05:57,500 --> 00:05:58,860 Yeah. 101 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:03,860 Or like I've already done some interviewing on this. 102 00:06:04,540 --> 00:06:05,940 For example, a nurse. 103 00:06:07,980 --> 00:06:10,500 Nurses teaches all kinds of things 104 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,460 that are important for our health. 105 00:06:12,460 --> 00:06:14,000 They don't carry the title. 106 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,360 You wouldn't think initially of a nurse as a teacher, 107 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,500 but they do. 108 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:21,800 And I interviewed her and boy, a big part of our job 109 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,820 is teaching patients how to be healthy, 110 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:29,580 how to get the resources they need, so on. 111 00:06:29,580 --> 00:06:34,580 I'm going to interview a pastor, a minister with a church 112 00:06:35,820 --> 00:06:37,820 because they have all kinds of things. 113 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:39,100 They counsel people. 114 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:43,860 They teach them how to live a better life, 115 00:06:43,860 --> 00:06:46,120 a happier life and the like. 116 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,440 So I'm going down that road now 117 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,420 because I think it's really important. 118 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,120 And it's kind of an homage to my mother, by the way, 119 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,620 who was a teacher and a school teacher 120 00:06:57,620 --> 00:07:01,260 and influenced to a considerable extent 121 00:07:01,260 --> 00:07:04,220 why I'm doing what I'm doing. 122 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:05,580 Thank you for being here today. 123 00:07:05,580 --> 00:07:08,060 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 124 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:10,720 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 125 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,980 as these episodes continue to move forward. 126 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:14,700 This is going to get more and more fun. 127 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:16,540 We'll have more and more engagement as well. 128 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:18,620 We'll invite people to participate in the show 129 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:20,980 and thank you for giving us your time and attention. 130 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:23,700 Have an excellent time building out your vision 131 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:25,460 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.