My vision, my goal is for more people,
more leaders to be positive influences on others,
on people in particular in their organization.
And this starts early in life when you've fixed,
your parents can be a positive influence on you.
Sometimes they're a negative influence.
And we meet throughout our lives,
people who are, we hope that many more people
are positive influences, but sometimes they're negative.
And we learn how to cope with those people.
And in the first book, we had a section on
how do you cope with a negative person,
a negative influence in your life.
But in this case, how do people deal with the stress?
What did they learn about that?
What did they learn about themselves?
How have they changed as a result of that experience?
Because if you learn something,
you ought to implement it and change as a result of it.
So don't ask me any questions
because I could keep going on and on.
So, but it's your show, I'm trying to be helpful.
And so we'll, I'll follow your lead.
Glenn, where did this vision of positive influence
and great leadership come from?
I want to, we're not recording yet, are we?
We are recording, we're just not live.
Okay, I just wanted to mute my phone.
Well, it started, I had an experience
that where a gentleman who was a client of mine,
and as often happens, if you work for someone
for a period of time, they sometimes,
and I've had some very good experiences
where they've become personal friends.
And that's what happened with this gentleman.
And he became ill and I one day get an email
from someone who had worked for him
that said he had passed away
and it was going to be a memorial for him.
And would I like to come?
And I said, of course.
So at during that time, I began to think about him
and his influence on me.
And I realized that he had been a really big
positive influence on me.
And I started to think about some of those incidents
and I'd be glad to share some of those examples with you
because they were pretty profound
and certainly profound for me.
And I realized I can't be the only person in the world
that's had someone in their life
that's been a positive influence.
And I got shortly thereafter,
I think actually later that day,
I went to the memorial and met many of the people
that I knew very well that I had worked with
in his organization.
And also several of them who had become personal friends
and still are by the way, I still meet up with them.
And they had similar experience.
Later that day, I called my son who is a leader
and a senior manager in the financial services industry.
And I told him the story and I said,
I said, I think there's a book there
because I wanna write about this
because I think this, if it impacted me,
I said, what about you?
He said, I have had the same experience
and if you write that book, I'd read it.
Well, he's one of my biggest critics.
So I figured if he would read the book,
that would be good.
I said to him, well, how'd you like to write it with me?
He said, I would love it dad.
And so we wrote the first two books together.
And so that was also a profound experience.
But if you like, I can tell you a couple of the experiences
that made him a positive influence on me.
That what would you say Glenn is your why as well?
As my what?
Yes, yes.
I think that that I would say that's my why.
That's my passion right now is I wanna get this word out
to people and we're doing it in different ways.
I told you we were about to release the first book
and COVID hit and we didn't do it for six months.
And then my son says to me, dad,
because we'd always thought we'd do a second book
on positive influence because we really felt
like there was more to it.
And he said, dad, the subjects sitting right there
and on our plate, it's this crisis, this coronavirus crisis.
So that's how we did that book.
We're starting on the third book now about people
who teach other people what they need to know
in order to be successful.
And I'm seriously looking for people
who don't necessarily carry the title of teacher
or professor, but they teach us things like podcast hosts.
Yeah.
Or like I've already done some interviewing on this.
For example, a nurse.
Nurses teaches all kinds of things
that are important for our health.
They don't carry the title.
You wouldn't think initially of a nurse as a teacher,
but they do.
And I interviewed her and boy, a big part of our job
is teaching patients how to be healthy,
how to get the resources they need, so on.
I'm going to interview a pastor, a minister with a church
because they have all kinds of things.
They counsel people.
They teach them how to live a better life,
a happier life and the like.
So I'm going down that road now
because I think it's really important.
And it's kind of an homage to my mother, by the way,
who was a teacher and a school teacher
and influenced to a considerable extent
why I'm doing what I'm doing.
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.