Please, Rick, tell me about your vision.
Hello.
OK, well, here's the vision.
I mean, the vision, right?
There's always the vision.
So I wrote this is going to sound like a marketing moment.
It's not. But I do.
I didn't write a book that's vision based.
It's called Playing Your Game.
And it's a Hay House published book.
So did pretty well. It took me around the globe.
It's taken me around the globe now for about the last 15 years of my life.
Very blessed. Speak and train and teach and corporate and nonprofit and the whole deal.
But its philosophy is is very vision based.
It the thinking is you want to pick something that's mission based in your life.
That's bigger than you know how to do.
And you will then grow and expand your your talents, your consciousness, your desire,
your sort of living at this level of difference making.
You've all heard that term that pulls and grows me.
Instead of getting through life in a constant sort of I figure this out and I just sort of exist
because the vision I have for people and the vision I want from my clients and everybody I work with
is that there's a constant state of expansion.
Like I'm constantly expanding, I'm having to learn new things.
I mean, I'm 65 years old.
I mean, in the U.S. it's sort of like you should be on your way down.
I'm actually, no, there's like three more books of me.
Who knows what's going to happen.
There's a movie in me.
Yeah, right.
It's that kind of like, okay, what's next?
What's next? What's next?
All under the umbrella of we're here as human creatures to create things.
This is my ultimate philosophy of life.
We are here to create.
We create families.
We create recipes.
We create businesses.
We create technologies.
Humans are here to create stuff.
And that's the ultimate goal of Bigger Game.
What am I creating?
I mean, I'm looking at a logo on your screen here, the water project, a classic.
I make up example of a bigger game.
Right.
Bringing water to, I don't know exactly what it is, but I make up it's bringing water to almost every human on the planet.
Exactly. That's exactly what it is.
You nailed it.
I mean, it's not that complicated, right?
But oh my God, how complex that is as a project.
But it's here you are sponsoring.
Here I am talking.
Like that is pointing you and having you probably ask for money and fundraisers and right.
And getting people on board with this mission base, because I think when we're mission based, we wake up every day and go,
that's a day I want to create, you know, versus a get through life model.
So I come out of the life coaching industry.
I come out of the leadership development space.
But when people operate with that philosophy, life is an endless game of expansion.
Wow.
But make sense.
Yeah, very broad, very big vision.
But to help create and to help others to create and keep expanding on that is incredible.
Yeah, you're doing it.
You're doing it right here.
Yes.
You are a very committed.
You're using all the technologies of the world as best as you can.
Thank God for you.
I'm hanging on by a thread with the technology.
No, you're doing great.
I mean, I get it.
All of your shows across the countries.
I read over 20 countries that you visited to speak in.
I mean, you're doing just fine yourself with all of the technology, it seems.
Yeah, no, I but you're a voice of like, oh, we have all this technology.
I want to I want to use a podcast.
I want to get people's I want to activate people's creative juices, get them inspired.
You know, you're in the inspiration information game.
That is true.
Right.
And oh, my God, thank God for you so that I can lean in and tell what people what I'm up to
because it's all just concentric circles of influencing all expanding.
Wow, it's crazy how much you and me link together and we just happened upon the podcast this morning.
But I'm going to get a little spiritual.
There's never coincidences.
I hear that a lot, especially in business.
Yeah, it's not a coincidence.
I don't know of you.
I knew of you from my person who found you.
And but you show up a lot in the world.
And that's the other thing is to like, how do we be found?
How do we be discovered?
I mean, you know, right now we're in a political campaign.
I'm not going to get political.
But like, how do we how do we get to know this person better?
I got to know them better to then want to vote for them.
Classic, right?
You know, to be known better and seen better.
So then we're purchased or, you know, our voice and our message and our mission can get into the world.
Absolutely. And a lot of times that means getting on a podcast.
There you go.
Curious.
Whenever you first set out on this large vision that you have of helping everyone grow,
where did that start?
How did you where did it come from?
Such a I know, right?
There's probably multiple places.
OK, I mean, it go all the way back to when I was about 10.
And I don't know why I remember this, but I was obsessed with successful musicians when I discovered music.
This is going to go way before your time.
But I was a 70s music kid.
OK, so there was this group called the Carpenters.
And it was this whole I sort of and I became obsessed with their success.
And I was like it was like, I mean, her voice, there's all that, you know, the sound at the time and everything.
I just remember falling in love with that sound, falling in love with music.
But behind the curtain, I was like, OK, how are they getting their music into the world?
Like, I was obsessed with how it was happening.
It's a little bit like today's world is fascinated with Taylor Swift.
Like, how did that happen?
Right. I mean, she started doing OK.
And then, you know, she's and then all of a sudden, it just reaches a level.
And so this this phenomenon of of reach and impact, I became fascinated by.
And some people say, well, that's just about becoming famous.
I said, no, it's actually about the impact from the fame.
Yeah. And if anybody's doing it well right now, and I think in the musical or the entertainment business,
Taylor Swift, as we all are aware of, is playing the impact and inspiration and,
you know, music game at a level that's beyond our wildest imaginations.
And then she gives back one hundred thousand dollars to the drivers.
And we all know it's all planned, beautiful, but it's all impact oriented.
So that's a long answer. But I remember thinking,
I don't remember like in my teens, I was like, how are they having that impact?
How was that impact happening?
How was that voice getting into my living room in 1973?
So it was literally about the speakers, about the record where I bought it.
How did it get made?
I became obsessed with turning something that doesn't exist into something that I can experience.
How does that happen? And then Steve Jobs came along in my life
and changed the game for me completely. And I've never turned back.
I'm an Apple freak. I'm going to be a little bit of that guy.
That man obviously, you know, put it on its head.
Yeah. You know, and as we all know, we're on that on we're all now in the expansion of his,
by the way, consciousness of I believe I can make something out of nothing
that's never been invented before. Right.
I mean, he literally like this iPhone thing. Like, how does that how to like?
I remember him being interviewed and goes, I don't want any tools.
The tool is the finger. Go figure it out.
It's literally the conversation he had with the engineers. Figure this out.
And there was technology being made on when you touch this thing.
And we all know that that's remarkable to take some dream of something that we know.
What came to him like it comes like a download. I want this to be in the world.
How do I make it real? I became obsessed with that conversation still am.
How do I make it real? So that kind of segues into my last two questions, really.
I normally have a bunch of details that I want to go into these questions,
but you're knocking them all out.
I could talk. I can over talk.
No, it's phenomenal. I love it.
I'm curious for the upcoming leaders and the people trying to start their entrepreneurial journey.
Why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?
You know, this is an inside job.
This is about coming out about this vision you have for the world.
Because I think the biggest challenge is the world is going to vote about your vision.
And I don't even say judge anymore. They're just going to vote about it.
Yeah, I want to give to that. No, I don't want to give that.
You're crazy. Water for everybody. That's nuts.
Who's going to know? But I, you know, right?
It's exactly right. The world is doing this every single day.
And we all want this. I'm going to get a little psychological on us for a second.
We all want I need every human being to love everything I say every second.
Is that going to happen?
So so it's the ability to go, oh, I just need two thumbs up and I need then there might be four thumbs down.
I love that you because we're doing it.
And then they gave us the tool to do it.
Yeah. Thank you. Apple.
Right. Like, oh, my God.
Because it's vulnerable, it takes courage, it takes commitment.
It's the year where you I mean, my when I first came out of the great gate,
putting bigger game into the world, I did a big conference.
I lost thirty five thousand dollars that year.
I had the willingness to lose for the sake of the game winning.
Most people don't want to do that. I invested a huge amount of money.
You've probably invested huge amounts of money to get this going.
Good on you. Right.
And, you know, and of course, how do you make money in the back end?
You guys are all figuring that out. You're helping me figure that out.
I don't like how does this happen? How do I make money?
A lot of cats just doesn't even happen. Right.
And, you know, I love learning from people like you.
How does this happen? So I can feel funded. And so that's that's maybe a long answer.
But the but the speaking it and I want to link one story to it.
It's a little more vulnerable.
I hope your audience is OK with this, but I'm out about it.
You know, so I was a closeted gay man. OK.
From like whenever you discover like I was 12 and I kind of went, I think I might be.
This is the years, by the way, when it was not normal.
This is the 70s. Right. You know, this is not cool.
My church turned on me. My family kind of turned on me.
It didn't go well. But I moved to California. Classic.
You know, I lived in the East Coast, moved to the West Coast,
get far away from everything that I knew, discovered myself, became an actor,
got in some movies, started to speak, wrote like it started to work.
Right. Then, of course, as I started to be successful, people started to come back my way.
The point of this story is the volume of judgment that came at me saying
you're not allowed to be the way you're being. Freed me up.
It actually frees you when there's that much judgment coming at you. Interesting.
It just frees you up because it's like, what have I got to lose?
I'm already burning in hell from half the country. So what?
OK. You see, it sort of actually frees it. Like, OK, got it.
You think I'm you should I, you know, just give me the same rights
that I get to vote and I get to pay my taxes and I get to visit my partner in the hospital.
There's a whole issues here, but just give me the same rights.
But in terms of moral, if you think I'm burning, not you,
if anybody's thinking burning in hell, fantastic, have at it.
You know, it doesn't have any bearing on me anymore.
So that's the when you come out, this is the out part.
When you come out with your vision, it's sort of like you're trying to avoid all that judgment
and you actually have to go towards creating more judgment.
Wow. Your vision does create something.
It just does. And so it's all about coming out about it louder.
And I'm going to be so classically like a gay parade, louder and browder.
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