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What is one story or the story behind your why of what you do?

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Yeah, that's a great question. So the story for me has always been like, I remember as being a kid

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and always wanting to help people, right? That's like why I'm in the business I am in right now.

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I just didn't know at the time when I was a kid or when I was a teenager, you know, I just knew

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I wanted to help people somehow some way. I didn't know exactly how I was going to do it.

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And eventually as I grew older, my teenage years, my adulthood, that's when I went through,

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you know, a lot of mental setbacks, dealt with depression, suicide. And when I overcame that,

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my why got so much stronger. So I think it's just my own personal, you know, story,

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really, right? So it's one thing to say, I want to help people because I see these

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different things in the world. That's amazing. But when you kind of find yourself at that rock

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bottom, so to speak, and then you kind of find your way out, I think it kind of increases this

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fire, this fuel in you more. It makes you want to help people even more. It's what fulfills you even

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more when you actually do it. You know, so my story comes from being able to go from depression,

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suicide to all of a sudden finding the beauty, right? Finding the purpose. And then when I had

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that moment, it was like, I had this light bulb go off. It was like, God, the universe, the higher

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self, right? It was communicating with me. It was saying, hey, this is how you're going to help

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people. This is what you're meant to do. So let's get to work, right? And that's kind of like a brief

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story of why I do what I do. You know, it started from childhood, but then eventually I feel like

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I was meant to kind of go through these trials and tribulations. And then from the other side,

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it kind of just fueled even more and just put more passion behind service.

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Thank you for sharing that. If I were to ask you, Carlo,

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where do you think you're going with your vision?

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Yeah. So I've had this like manifesto, right? I've had this master plan in my head over the last,

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I don't know, four or five years. And my whole objective is I just want to help people in the

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best way possible in like all areas of life, right? Because I come from a personal training

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background and I knew that a part of being a personal trainer required a lot of mindset work

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for the clients I helped, right? Because there are so many psychological issues or things holding

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people back that in a sense kind of resulted in their weight gain, right? That's why they're

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unfit. That's why they're so unhealthy. So I realized that there was a lot of mindset work

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that needed to be done when I was a personal trainer at the time. And then just made me think

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more and more and more just about people in general, about help, about mental health,

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about physical health, about everything. So my end game, so to speak, is I want to build a platform

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where people can go, people can subscribe to, people can become members of, essentially like

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better help, but expanding that philosophy, expanding how we can help people. So two things

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really came to my mind really. The first thing was I understood that people thrive in community.

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People thrive when they're part of a tribe. That's just how civilization started, right? When we were

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cavemen by ourselves, fending for ourselves, obviously we weren't doing the best, but as we

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kind of built civilizations throughout history, that's where we started to thrive. And now,

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civilization's at its peak because so many advancements have kind of happened throughout

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the years. So I took that lesson to heart. I learned that in like sophomore year history.

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And for some reason, it just stuck with me that people are stronger when they're together.

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So I took that and I kind of wanted to combine it with the second thing I wanted to mention

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is the different areas of life that people can definitely use help on that can help them live

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a better quality of life, right? So I think everyone should be seen to a therapist. I think

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everyone needs a personal trainer. I think everyone needs some type of life coach, fulfillment coach,

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peak performance coach, whatever you want to call them. And I thought to myself, what if I just kind

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of combine these two concepts together? And what if a client, a subscriber, a member had a team

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specifically working for them, dedicated to them, dedicated to their goals, help them improve their

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mental health, help them improve their physical health, help them achieve the goals they want to

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achieve in their lives, whether it be, you know, start a business or find the dream job, or just

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kind of discover more about themselves, what they really want to do, what really fulfills them.

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And that's kind of, you know, where I'm taking my business in the future is how can I build a

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platform where I can help people in every area of their life? That is amazing.

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That's true. I thought about it for a little bit.

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You talked about people thriving community. What is your community?

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My community is my family, you know, so it's really funny because I'm not somebody who has a lot of

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friends, you know, as maybe surprising as it may seem, you know, my fiance tells me I'm a very

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social butterfly, which I am, I'm very extroverted, but she's like, you know, you don't really have a

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whole lot of friends. I'm like, honestly, I like it that way. You know, I don't need a million

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friends. You know, I have three solid friends, but I have my family. You know, I have my brothers,

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I have my sisters, I have the dog, my fiance, like I just, my parents, I just have everybody.

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And this is like, that's just how I grew up. You know, everything I did, of course, I would hang out

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with friends here and there, but I spent so much time with my brothers and sister when I was growing

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up, you know, and I grew up in my family's restaurant business and I was always surrounded by them.

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And that was just this community that we kind of had under one roof and we did everything together

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and I loved it. So as the family started to grow, you know, my brother got married, my sister got

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married, I'm about to get married, you know, and then kids are coming to the picture, you know,

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I'm an uncle and it's just so fun to see this family grow and just see this community grow,

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but us still staying so united, so close and just having so much fun with each other, you know, so

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I can see what community really does on a smaller level, right, in one household when you grow up

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and then eventually when your family grows. Just imagine what that would be like on steroids,

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you know, so the initial community for me is my family and those few very, very close friends I have.

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Thank you for sharing that. Something you don't know about me, I'm actually born and raised in

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India and if you know much about India, there's a sense of community or a family that stays together

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quite a bit, like you can find generations of people living under the same roof in a big house,

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etc. That's very common in India, but that comes with two sides of the story. That comes with if

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that community or your family is there to support and help you, that will help you, but if they are

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not there to help you or not encourage you or not be those pillars that you can go to, it's going to

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be detrimental to you and I commend you for choosing the right people in your life to surround

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yourself with those people. I come into the United States, I've longed for that, I've built that

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around my wife and my family. I'm fortunate enough that my sister lives pretty close by from my house,

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like she lives like a mile down the road with my niece and my brother-in-law and we talk pretty often

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and my in-laws, they live across the freeway of the town, so like five minutes or 10 minutes from here.

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But my parents though, I wish I, I think that's something that would include in my community per

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se, would be in a new country, they're in India still. So yeah, that's, I think that's your on point

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with that or if you have the right community of people, you don't need to be a social butterfly,

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you don't need to do all these things, you will have that people in place that you can rely on.

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my answer was family, but I've been very blessed to have a very supportive family, a very tight-knit

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group, right, but like you mentioned, there's some families out there that might be very

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discouraging, you know, those who one might call toxic, right, and aren't very supportive. One thing

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that I know that can help people thrive or kind of crumble is within their environment, you know,

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and that also includes the people you hang out with and you surround yourself with people that

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also includes the people you hang out with and you surround yourself with because I'm a firm believer

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that you are the average of the five people you hang out with, just like Jim Rohn would say,

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and I'm sure you know that as well. So if you are in that situation where, you know, your family may

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not be super supportive, they may be quote unquote toxic and not very helpful to you, your goals or

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what you see for your life, and they're always trying to kind of mold you in their vision and

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what they want you to do, even though it's probably out of love because they probably fear the unknown

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and they're probably doing it out of love, even though it may not seem like it's from our perspective,

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but if it is truly toxic, truly harmful, you can choose your family, you can choose your community,

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you can choose who you hang out with to elevate yourself. I think that's a very important point

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that people should be aware of. Thank you for sharing that. I think you're absolutely on point

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with that. My next question for you, Carlo.

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If you have any tips for early entrepreneurs. Yeah. Oh God, there's like so many, like there's

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so many, a book can be written. I'm sure there are plenty of books about this, but

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I would say the number one thing is that understand you're in this for the long haul,

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right? And that may be a cliche answer, but sometimes the cliches are true, is don't think

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about, I've had problems with this myself, you know, obviously I've learned from it, but it's like,

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don't think of it as, okay, in one year, I'm gonna hit all of my goals, right?

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You should really think about, okay, what am I gonna be able to sustain this 10 years from now?

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Do I want to sustain this 10 years from now? Do I want to be doing this 10 years from now?

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If your answer is no, or you feel hesitant to even answer that question, then I'm not saying

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entrepreneurship may not be for you, but that particular business may not be for you,

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right? So I remember when I started early in my entrepreneurial journey, you know, before I became

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a personal trainer, coach, started that business, you know, that's when I kind of got bit by the

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entrepreneur bug, and I saw everything, I saw, oh, make money from Amazon FBA, you know, make money

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from, you know, what's the word, like transcribing, you know, make money from that, you know, do

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Shopify, do real estate, like do all these things. And I was spreading myself so thin, because all I

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wanted was entrepreneurship, money, freedom, right? But I was getting into things that, you know,

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it seemed cool at the time, but it's like, it fizzled for a little bit. So what I would say

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mainly is do what you love, obviously, because that is going to sustain you for the long haul,

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but also, just because you're not getting the results you want immediately, doesn't mean you

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failed, doesn't mean that entrepreneurship isn't meant for you. It just means that it's going to

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take longer than you want it to take. So I'm not saying that entrepreneurship is meant for you,

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but it's going to take longer than you anticipated, right? Of course, there are those success stories

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that people make, you know, six figures in a year. That does happen, but at the same time,

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that doesn't happen for every entrepreneur. But if you can start and stay persistent and endure

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the loneliness of entrepreneurship, because that does happen, the hardship, the celebrity beliefs

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you have about yourself, oh, am I good at this? Should I even be doing this? If you can endure,

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sustain, overcome those obstacles, stay in it for the long haul, because you will thank yourself

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later. And eventually, when you are on this mountaintop, you're going to look back at the

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road you traveled, at the journey you kind of went through. You're going to not only thank yourself,

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you're going to be grateful for it. You're going to be much smarter, because one thing I've

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understood as an entrepreneur is every step I take, when I look back, I learn something from it.

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And I make sure everything that happens in my life, not just entrepreneurship, I try to find

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the blessing in it. I try to find the learning lesson in it, because that's just how I program

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and rewire my brain, is if I can look for something positive in it, if I can look for something that

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I can grow from, that's only going to help me in personal life or in entrepreneurship. So that is

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kind of like a long-winded answer to the question, but kind of to boil it down, to put it in a summary

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in a nutshell, is just keep going, right? It's a marathon, not a sprint. Thank you for being here

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today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing

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your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show,

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and thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an excellent time building

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out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.