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What's the story behind your vision?

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The story is anyone that feels like they are an outsider and they want to get better.

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Look, you want to get better. They're outside.

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They're always on the outside looking in, but they want to get better.

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And they want to they want to find a way to find a place in this world.

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This cliche is that may actually sound all right.

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So again, myself, I was a football guy,

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former football player who was felt the acceptance when I put the pads on.

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But as soon as I took the pads off, there was a level of always on the outside

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looking in, there wasn't any real groups of friends.

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And when it comes to why I do what I do when it comes to plus L.Y.

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constantly lifting yourself, constantly teaching people how to get better

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every single day.

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The story of a young man or a woman that has goals and has aspirations

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is just as good as everybody else.

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But it is never going to feel never going to feel supported by a group of peers,

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nor do you need to feel supported by a group of peers because it's you.

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You have the ability to go out and create things on your own.

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This is why the colors are blue, yellow and red,

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because you can make whatever color it is you want with those three colors.

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So regardless of the quote unquote support that you get from whatever,

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whoever may be your peers, there's opportunities for you to constantly improve.

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And again, as cliche as it actually may sound, but I do believe it.

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Find your place.

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Find exactly where it is you're supposed to be, where you're supposed to be,

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what you're supposed to be doing, how you're supposed to be doing,

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how frequently you're supposed to be doing all that stuff.

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So the story is just, again, figuring out how to be the outside looking.

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If you feel like the outside looking outside person outside looking in,

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then you will you'll find a place in this world.

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Thank you for showing that you mentioned about constantly improving,

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constantly going and constantly making changes.

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How do you keep that up? How do you keep that going?

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It's mindset. First of all, it's an actual mindset.

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It's an actual conditioning of your head to know where you've been.

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To know the consequences.

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You know how detrimental the actual laws, detrimental the consequences can be

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when you stop. All right.

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The consequences of you stopping and not treating every single day

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like it's an opportunity.

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That is the worst thing that you could possibly do.

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Regardless of how good of a day you had, a bad day.

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Again, you're talking to someone that has spent time sleeping out of a car.

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You spend time actually losing everything, a car that eventually got repossessed,

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lost absolutely everything.

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And it was because I stopped kind of grinding.

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I decided, look, I got so tired of this job, I wanted to go do my own thing.

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And eventually that that element burnt me when it came to the thing that I wanted

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to the results that I wanted to get.

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So when you ask me how you keep going, it's genuinely coming from a place

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genuinely where you've seen the consequences of not doing it and you don't want those

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consequences anymore.

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You don't want you don't want to live in that place that you were where when you

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stop going, this is guaranteed going to happen.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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You mentioned is that your main motivator?

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Because you have seen the consequences of not doing it until you don't want to be

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in that position again.

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That's why you keep doing what you do.

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It is OK.

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So if the main motivator was one A and one B, one A would be because of what I'm

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building and one B would be because of how detrimental the consequences were.

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So you throw up, throw one up in the air, which I know what lands first.

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That would be the main motivator.

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But you take what you've been through and then you mix it with the potential of

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what it is I want to actually be doing and the vision I have.

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The vision I have for my life, the vision I have for my business and what I'm

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doing.

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You mix those two and you get a very, very powerful, powerful force that drives me

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every single day to go and create something every single day.

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If I were to ask you where and when did you find that exact why that you're

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talking about?

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You know what I mean?

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Can you pinpoint the cage?

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Oh, my gosh, this is my wife.

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Like or or I want to use this to build this because I felt this.

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What was that moment if you could pinpoint?

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There's been several, but the one that comes off the top of my head is my

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sophomore year in high school.

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There was a lot of there's a lot of things going on.

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That year I was in a culture shock.

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I was one of the few black kids that attended the school and the majority of

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the black kids that attended that school were there to play for the football team.

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You know, that's the way we were labeled.

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And my freshman year, I didn't actually play for the freshman team.

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I play.

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I continue to play for my youth league team.

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So I was really out of touch, man, like there you're a black kid here.

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You're great suck and you don't play any sports to the knowledge of my peers.

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So I was you talk about social misfit.

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I mean, that was the definition of a social misfit.

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Right.

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So that happened year one in high school.

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I come back the fall, go off for a JV team and my teammates vote me captain.

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Captain of the football team after just spending a previous few months being

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this completely social misfit kid.

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I mean, it changed my world.

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It gave me the confidence to know your life can change in literally one moment

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if you have it in your head.

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So I've carried that feeling for my entire life.

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You know that that I then I tell former teammates that all the time.

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I talk about that all the time.

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That actually saved my life.

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It really did.

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Just knowing that me of all people, I spent a whole year being this social misfit kid.

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I had to go to summer school to become eligible to play that year.

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And I get to be the captain of this team that went undefeated and won every single game.

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Man, you don't get better than that.

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I'll always be grateful for that that year and that moment.

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That's the pin point.

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That's the why.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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If I were to ask you, where are you going with your vision?

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Mm hmm.

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The ultimate North Star, the ultimate goal and where I'll be.

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I never want to use the word content, but definitely where I'll be able to say

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this is exactly what it is I want to build is when I have the vision.

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I have my own school of sports marketing.

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I want to call it the Move Swiftly School of Sports Marketing.

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Seeing that as my first job out of college, where I was kind of the agent type guy,

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I would go and find high school athletes and try to shop into college coaches.

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I was sort of being the agent before NIL existed.

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For me to build a school in which I could train other people who want to become agents,

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but also maybe offer some insurance, offer life insurance, health insurance,

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medical, automobile, just everything that you want an agent to do, even if it's real estate.

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Having a school of sports marketing that leads with, all right,

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you're going to become a sports agent, but also you can sell other things as well.

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And being able to teach people that want to be like,

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or have an entrepreneurial mindset, but still want the structure of a solid company

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and a solid backing.

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If I could build that school to service my audience,

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to service the people that are just like me, grow up in the sports world,

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and want to come out and make some major things happen,

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that would be the ultimate.

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That's why I'm taking the vision.

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That's exactly where I'm going with it.

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So I'm speaking it into existence.

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That's happening, regardless.

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All right.

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So every day making sure that that specific school gets built.

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Thank you for sharing that, Aswan.

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Not to expect, but to aspire.

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What would your aspiration be?

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Like, when do you see that?

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When do you aspire to have that set up and how far into the future do you see it?

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That would be something that is like a five to 10 year plan.

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So I just turned 35 this year.

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So going into maybe my 40s, not maybe going into my 40s,

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there's serious like space build, even if it's something that can just start out online,

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start out, it's just a massive community.

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Maybe we could rent out the university to use their classes.

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Maybe to use their classrooms, whatever.

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That's something that's doable today to make it so we can do something to take that vision

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that I just said of having former athletes come in, teaching them how to be agents.

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And so we can start doing that within the next five years via online and then just keep

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expanding, expanding, expanding when we see the results.

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Thank you for being here today.

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

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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.