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Please, Rick, tell me about your vision.

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Hello.

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OK, well, here's the vision.

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I mean, the vision, right?

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There's always the vision.

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So I wrote this is going to sound like a marketing moment.

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It's not. But I do.

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I didn't write a book that's vision based.

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It's called Playing Your Game.

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And it's a Hay House published book.

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So did pretty well. It took me around the globe.

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It's taken me around the globe now for about the last 15 years of my life.

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Very blessed. Speak and train and teach and corporate and nonprofit and the whole deal.

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But its philosophy is is very vision based.

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It the thinking is you want to pick something that's mission based in your life.

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That's bigger than you know how to do.

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And you will then grow and expand your your talents, your consciousness, your desire,

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your sort of living at this level of difference making.

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You've all heard that term that pulls and grows me.

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Instead of getting through life in a constant sort of I figure this out and I just sort of exist

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because the vision I have for people and the vision I want from my clients and everybody I work with

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is that there's a constant state of expansion.

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Like I'm constantly expanding, I'm having to learn new things.

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I mean, I'm 65 years old.

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I mean, in the U.S. it's sort of like you should be on your way down.

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I'm actually, no, there's like three more books of me.

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Who knows what's going to happen.

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There's a movie in me.

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Yeah, right.

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It's that kind of like, okay, what's next?

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What's next? What's next?

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All under the umbrella of we're here as human creatures to create things.

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This is my ultimate philosophy of life.

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We are here to create.

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We create families.

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We create recipes.

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We create businesses.

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We create technologies.

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Humans are here to create stuff.

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And that's the ultimate goal of Bigger Game.

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What am I creating?

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I mean, I'm looking at a logo on your screen here, the water project, a classic.

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I make up example of a bigger game.

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Right.

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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.

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Exactly. That's exactly what it is.

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You nailed it.

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I mean, it's not that complicated, right?

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But oh my God, how complex that is as a project.

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But it's here you are sponsoring.

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Here I am talking.

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Like that is pointing you and having you probably ask for money and fundraisers and right.

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And getting people on board with this mission base, because I think when we're mission based, we wake up every day and go,

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that's a day I want to create, you know, versus a get through life model.

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So I come out of the life coaching industry.

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I come out of the leadership development space.

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But when people operate with that philosophy, life is an endless game of expansion.

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Wow.

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But make sense.

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Yeah, very broad, very big vision.

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But to help create and to help others to create and keep expanding on that is incredible.

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Yeah, you're doing it.

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You're doing it right here.

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Yes.

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You are a very committed.

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You're using all the technologies of the world as best as you can.

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Thank God for you.

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I'm hanging on by a thread with the technology.

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No, you're doing great.

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I mean, I get it.

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All of your shows across the countries.

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I read over 20 countries that you visited to speak in.

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I mean, you're doing just fine yourself with all of the technology, it seems.

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Yeah, no, I but you're a voice of like, oh, we have all this technology.

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I want to I want to use a podcast.

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I want to get people's I want to activate people's creative juices, get them inspired.

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You know, you're in the inspiration information game.

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That is true.

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Right.

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And oh, my God, thank God for you so that I can lean in and tell what people what I'm up to

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because it's all just concentric circles of influencing all expanding.

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Wow, it's crazy how much you and me link together and we just happened upon the podcast this morning.

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But I'm going to get a little spiritual.

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There's never coincidences.

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I hear that a lot, especially in business.

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Yeah, it's not a coincidence.

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I don't know of you.

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I knew of you from my person who found you.

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And but you show up a lot in the world.

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And that's the other thing is to like, how do we be found?

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How do we be discovered?

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I mean, you know, right now we're in a political campaign.

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I'm not going to get political.

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But like, how do we how do we get to know this person better?

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I got to know them better to then want to vote for them.

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Classic, right?

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You know, to be known better and seen better.

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So then we're purchased or, you know, our voice and our message and our mission can get into the world.

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Absolutely. And a lot of times that means getting on a podcast.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Curious.

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Whenever you first set out on this large vision that you have of helping everyone grow,

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where did that start?

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How did you where did it come from?

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Such a I know, right?

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There's probably multiple places.

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OK, I mean, it go all the way back to when I was about 10.

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And I don't know why I remember this, but I was obsessed with successful musicians when I discovered music.

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This is going to go way before your time.

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But I was a 70s music kid.

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OK, so there was this group called the Carpenters.

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And it was this whole I sort of and I became obsessed with their success.

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And I was like it was like, I mean, her voice, there's all that, you know, the sound at the time and everything.

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I just remember falling in love with that sound, falling in love with music.

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But behind the curtain, I was like, OK, how are they getting their music into the world?

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Like, I was obsessed with how it was happening.

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It's a little bit like today's world is fascinated with Taylor Swift.

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Like, how did that happen?

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Right. I mean, she started doing OK.

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And then, you know, she's and then all of a sudden, it just reaches a level.

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And so this this phenomenon of of reach and impact, I became fascinated by.

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And some people say, well, that's just about becoming famous.

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I said, no, it's actually about the impact from the fame.

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Yeah. And if anybody's doing it well right now, and I think in the musical or the entertainment business,

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Taylor Swift, as we all are aware of, is playing the impact and inspiration and,

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you know, music game at a level that's beyond our wildest imaginations.

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And then she gives back one hundred thousand dollars to the drivers.

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And we all know it's all planned, beautiful, but it's all impact oriented.

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So that's a long answer. But I remember thinking,

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I don't remember like in my teens, I was like, how are they having that impact?

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How was that impact happening?

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How was that voice getting into my living room in 1973?

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So it was literally about the speakers, about the record where I bought it.

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How did it get made?

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I became obsessed with turning something that doesn't exist into something that I can experience.

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How does that happen? And then Steve Jobs came along in my life

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and changed the game for me completely. And I've never turned back.

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I'm an Apple freak. I'm going to be a little bit of that guy.

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That man obviously, you know, put it on its head.

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Yeah. You know, and as we all know, we're on that on we're all now in the expansion of his,

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by the way, consciousness of I believe I can make something out of nothing

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that's never been invented before. Right.

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I mean, he literally like this iPhone thing. Like, how does that how to like?

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I remember him being interviewed and goes, I don't want any tools.

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The tool is the finger. Go figure it out.

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It's literally the conversation he had with the engineers. Figure this out.

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And there was technology being made on when you touch this thing.

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And we all know that that's remarkable to take some dream of something that we know.

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What came to him like it comes like a download. I want this to be in the world.

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How do I make it real? I became obsessed with that conversation still am.

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How do I make it real? So that kind of segues into my last two questions, really.

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I normally have a bunch of details that I want to go into these questions,

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but you're knocking them all out.

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I could talk. I can over talk.

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No, it's phenomenal. I love it.

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I'm curious for the upcoming leaders and the people trying to start their entrepreneurial journey.

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Why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?

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You know, this is an inside job.

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This is about coming out about this vision you have for the world.

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Because I think the biggest challenge is the world is going to vote about your vision.

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And I don't even say judge anymore. They're just going to vote about it.

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Yeah, I want to give to that. No, I don't want to give that.

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You're crazy. Water for everybody. That's nuts.

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Who's going to know? But I, you know, right?

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It's exactly right. The world is doing this every single day.

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And we all want this. I'm going to get a little psychological on us for a second.

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We all want I need every human being to love everything I say every second.

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Is that going to happen?

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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.

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I love that you because we're doing it.

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And then they gave us the tool to do it.

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Yeah. Thank you. Apple.

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Right. Like, oh, my God.

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Because it's vulnerable, it takes courage, it takes commitment.

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It's the year where you I mean, my when I first came out of the great gate,

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putting bigger game into the world, I did a big conference.

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I lost thirty five thousand dollars that year.

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I had the willingness to lose for the sake of the game winning.

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Most people don't want to do that. I invested a huge amount of money.

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You've probably invested huge amounts of money to get this going.

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Good on you. Right.

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And, you know, and of course, how do you make money in the back end?

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You guys are all figuring that out. You're helping me figure that out.

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I don't like how does this happen? How do I make money?

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A lot of cats just doesn't even happen. Right.

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And, you know, I love learning from people like you.

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How does this happen? So I can feel funded. And so that's that's maybe a long answer.

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But the but the speaking it and I want to link one story to it.

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It's a little more vulnerable.

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I hope your audience is OK with this, but I'm out about it.

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You know, so I was a closeted gay man. OK.

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From like whenever you discover like I was 12 and I kind of went, I think I might be.

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This is the years, by the way, when it was not normal.

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This is the 70s. Right. You know, this is not cool.

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My church turned on me. My family kind of turned on me.

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It didn't go well. But I moved to California. Classic.

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You know, I lived in the East Coast, moved to the West Coast,

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get far away from everything that I knew, discovered myself, became an actor,

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got in some movies, started to speak, wrote like it started to work.

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Right. Then, of course, as I started to be successful, people started to come back my way.

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The point of this story is the volume of judgment that came at me saying

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you're not allowed to be the way you're being. Freed me up.

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It actually frees you when there's that much judgment coming at you. Interesting.

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It just frees you up because it's like, what have I got to lose?

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I'm already burning in hell from half the country. So what?

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OK. You see, it sort of actually frees it. Like, OK, got it.

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You think I'm you should I, you know, just give me the same rights

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that I get to vote and I get to pay my taxes and I get to visit my partner in the hospital.

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There's a whole issues here, but just give me the same rights.

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But in terms of moral, if you think I'm burning, not you,

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if anybody's thinking burning in hell, fantastic, have at it.

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You know, it doesn't have any bearing on me anymore.

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So that's the when you come out, this is the out part.

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When you come out with your vision, it's sort of like you're trying to avoid all that judgment

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and you actually have to go towards creating more judgment.

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Wow. Your vision does create something.

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It just does. And so it's all about coming out about it louder.

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And I'm going to be so classically like a gay parade, louder and browder.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.