Please Red, tell me about your vision.
Well, first off, thank you for reaching out to me.
I think your team reached out to me to be on the podcast.
Donner, always enjoy and feel privileged when I'm a guest because a podcaster myself.
It's always a pleasure to be on the other side and be putting the hot seat a little bit,
you could say. But but the question, tell me about my vision.
So what is my vision?
Well, my name is Red Wallace.
And I my mission is to help men see themselves the way that God sees them.
And and I'm a big in my face.
I'm a believer in Jesus.
So that's going to be coming throughout all of my content and what I do,
not in a way of pushing something or forcing something on someone.
But truly, I believe that we were created to be creative.
I believe that we were created for greater than just sucking air and die.
Like, I really feel like we all have this mission, this vision in life.
That's why I love this idea of Vision Pros podcast,
because I feel like my my vision and my mission in life is to help men
really capture their true purpose, capture their true essence and really run with it.
And that comes through many things I mentioned earlier.
I podcast, I create content, but I also do one on one and group coaching as well.
And ultimately, it all boils down to this idea of I really want to serve people
and help people that have been in a shoe similar to mine,
because my story was hopefully my there we go.
I had a little bit of a lag on my camera.
Sorry. But with that, yeah.
So that people in a shoe similar to mine, which my story briefly,
not to get too deep into it, we might get into it later.
But I grew up most of my life feeling like I identify as a high performer,
high achiever, but to an unhealthy degree.
I found myself in sports, finding my identity in what I do, how I perform,
how I can earn and seek approval and acceptance and love and worth.
And all this is great until that becomes your whole identity.
And then something happens drastically where the thing that you thought
you were called to do, which for me at the time,
I had a 10 year rap career, and that was kind of a pivotal moment for me
when I realized, oh, maybe God's not calling me to be a rapper.
And then I was like, who am I if I'm not rapping?
And I started that journey back in 2018.
And so now I've really found this idea of we're human beings, not human doings.
And if I can help other men see that, then I've already won.
But the vision is huge, but I feel like that's a good place to start.
So why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?
That's good. I feel like there's a few things.
I feel like a lot of times.
It's it's that imposter syndrome that we hear a lot about,
and I would encourage people because I know everybody in their dog
and in the self help space will be like, this is how you overcome imposter syndrome.
But I always try to flip that and challenge people.
I always try to flip that and challenge that because I feel like a lot of times
when we feel like we're a fraud, when we feel like we're not qualified for what we're doing,
I feel like that's what we're supposed to be,
because I feel like there's a lot of resistance in our life.
Everything that we see around us is telling us to live an average subpar life.
But it's it's facing that resistance that really makes us
who we're called and created to be.
And I feel like leaders hide from their funding because partially it's that that's that imposter syndrome.
And I feel like, too, it's that idea of they they're afraid of failing.
Like it's a few different things.
I feel like it's that idea of they're afraid of failing because there are some leaders
that really are afraid of failing because they they lean into that idea of being perfect,
having everything together.
And if they fail at something, if they put all this funding into a vision or trying to get all this funding
into a vision, because I look at it from a space of if you're looking at investors, angel investors,
those type of things, then all of a sudden that vision needs to come to life, essentially.
And you get into that space of but what if I let people down?
And I feel like there's that space that they get into.
But also, there's the flip side of there are some leaders out there that they're afraid of success.
Because sometimes when when we get successful, we change as people.
And whether that's changing for the better or the worse, sometimes it can be the worst.
And we've seen some people get a level of success and they fall in faster than they rose to that level.
And I feel like a lot of people get stuck in that space of this because it's it's very easy to.
Think of all the what ifs. And I've been studying cognitive behavioral therapy and there's these things
called cognitive distortions. And basically, it's a big fancy term to say that our brain's job is to keep us alive.
So therefore, when things aren't the same and things aren't congruent with one another,
then we think it's bad and we think it's going to kill us.
So if you've lived a certain way as a leader and you've gotten to a certain level of success for so long that this seems normal.
But in order to fund a new vision, in order to fund something bigger, then it's going to take a different a different you.
You're going to step into a different space and it's going to be new.
So then there's this cognitive distortion. There's this disconnect.
There's this incongruency. And I feel like that's a lot of what is holding leaders back from funding their vision.
And you started to get into the second part of this question, which is how do leaders lean into that funding?
You talked about stepping into a new you. And you go further into detail about that.
Definitely. So to lean into this funding, it's giving yourself permission to fail is one.
And going back to that aspect of that idea, if your fear is failing and that's why you're not funding your vision,
then I want to encourage you to give yourself permission to fail and understand that.
It's not up to you when it comes to letting someone else down, because because it may seem counterintuitive,
but essentially people were believing enough or you're believing enough in your vision to fund it.
And therefore, if you don't believe enough in your vision, how do you expect anyone else to?
And it's kind of getting shifting out of that mindset of that doubt and disbelief.
And even like you mentioned, mentioned that I mentioned before, it's really becoming the person that that you need to be.
And I take I even take that to a different approach, because I truly believe that the person that we've been created to be is already inside of us.
But unfortunately, the life up until now has really shaped us to see ourselves the wrong way.
We're living I love Myron Goldin said it, a lie identity instead of an identity.
And I would love to take credit for that, but I can't Myron is a genius when it comes to that idea.
But it's that idea and I look at it as a story like I'm sure you and your your your audience may may know who Michelangelo is.
I would hope so. He's one of the amazing artists, painters, sculptors that are out there.
And I always think back to when he made the statue, the sculpture of David, he literally took a huge hunk of rock and turned it into this masterpiece of this strong biblical character.
And I remember there was a story where these this guy was asking him, how in the world did you take nothing, essentially just a big old hunk of rock and somehow see the masterpiece of this sculpture in it?
And he said, it's simple. I just chiseled away the parts that weren't David.
And I and I feel like that's that's what we need, what we as leaders should do in our life, whether it's getting a coach or a mentor like myself that can help you not only see the blind spots,
but see the strengths and what you're doing to help you fly and chisel away those stories that have been told over you over over me even that that we believed all our lives.
And if we can chisel away those stories and what's left is the person that we are and the person we've been created to be.
So so when we're becoming the person we're created to be, a lot of it is unbecoming the things that we've been told we have to be.
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.