Tell me where this vision came from.
So we actually, me and my business partner came together a couple of years ago at this point and he was consulting with the Fortune 100.
He's consulted with over a dozen of the biggest companies in the world and myself at the time
I was in the process of selling my business. I had a small business and
we came together and said, I said for my next venture, I would love to help small business owners
be business owners, not business operators. So that's the journey that I had been and
for him, he was like, I can't stand another minute in the Fortune 100
corporate America deal because for him you go in and you make a massive change and you save companies like Nike,
millions and millions of dollars and they don't really care because it doesn't, that's nothing to them, right?
So we came together and said, what if we did that for small businesses? What if we helped them
optimize their businesses, optimize their operations, make them scalable and give them
the financial savings, the financial reward, the time savings, all that stuff.
And we said, that's amazing. Let's focus all of our efforts there
and help those people win in business because small businesses are the backbone of our economy too.
So we came together, we talked about the vision and we decided within the next five years at least, we want to help
10,000 small business owners run our business architecture,
which focuses on doing exactly that, making more, doing less all at the same time.
Give me some tips for early entrepreneurs that would actually see this.
What would you say to them without giving them that full 90-day sprint?
I'll give you two tips only because you said the social media piece. Don't do that. Like step number one, get off
social media, stop looking at what other people's shiny objects are.
That'll kill you really quickly, kill your morale for sure.
So the real tip though is I received this from a mentor of mine many years ago is
find a mentor and find someone who you can rely on, who has achieved what you want to achieve
in a scale of at least 10 times over. So wherever you are right now, if you've started a business
and you, or if you just started it and you want to grow it, find someone who has grown a business.
That's step one. And as you level up, you level up your mentors too. Never stop seeking mentorship and guidance.
I think that's one of just my core values as a human being is I don't know everything.
I don't know anything in the grand scheme of life. Like I'm good at a couple of things,
but I've only been married once. Why would I think that I'm the best relationship expert in my life?
No, I'm going to go find people who have been married for 30 to 50 years and I'm going to say,
what worked? What did you guys do that made it last this long? Same with my kids. I'm not going to,
I have three kids, yes, but I've only have five years of experience. I'm going to go find someone
who has raised kids who are out of the house, who are successful. They have great relationships
with them. And I'm going to say, what did you do to make that work? So my biggest tip is always,
it's not what you learn or it's not what you know. It's who you seek mentorship and put a lot of
focus into that and you'll never look back. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that
you tuned into 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.