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Tell me where this vision came from.

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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.

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He's consulted with over a dozen of the biggest companies in the world and myself at the time

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I was in the process of selling my business. I had a small business and

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we came together and said, I said for my next venture, I would love to help small business owners

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be business owners, not business operators. So that's the journey that I had been and

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for him, he was like, I can't stand another minute in the Fortune 100

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corporate America deal because for him you go in and you make a massive change and you save companies like Nike,

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millions and millions of dollars and they don't really care because it doesn't, that's nothing to them, right?

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So we came together and said, what if we did that for small businesses? What if we helped them

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optimize their businesses, optimize their operations, make them scalable and give them

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the financial savings, the financial reward, the time savings, all that stuff.

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And we said, that's amazing. Let's focus all of our efforts there

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and help those people win in business because small businesses are the backbone of our economy too.

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So we came together, we talked about the vision and we decided within the next five years at least, we want to help

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10,000 small business owners run our business architecture,

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which focuses on doing exactly that, making more, doing less all at the same time.

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Give me some tips for early entrepreneurs that would actually see this.

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What would you say to them without giving them that full 90-day sprint?

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I'll give you two tips only because you said the social media piece. Don't do that. Like step number one, get off

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social media, stop looking at what other people's shiny objects are.

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That'll kill you really quickly, kill your morale for sure.

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So the real tip though is I received this from a mentor of mine many years ago is

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find a mentor and find someone who you can rely on, who has achieved what you want to achieve

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in a scale of at least 10 times over. So wherever you are right now, if you've started a business

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and you, or if you just started it and you want to grow it, find someone who has grown a business.

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That's step one. And as you level up, you level up your mentors too. Never stop seeking mentorship and guidance.

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I think that's one of just my core values as a human being is I don't know everything.

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I don't know anything in the grand scheme of life. Like I'm good at a couple of things,

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but I've only been married once. Why would I think that I'm the best relationship expert in my life?

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No, I'm going to go find people who have been married for 30 to 50 years and I'm going to say,

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what worked? What did you guys do that made it last this long? Same with my kids. I'm not going to,

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I have three kids, yes, but I've only have five years of experience. I'm going to go find someone

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who has raised kids who are out of the house, who are successful. They have great relationships

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with them. And I'm going to say, what did you do to make that work? So my biggest tip is always,

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it's not what you learn or it's not what you know. It's who you seek mentorship and put a lot of

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focus into that and you'll never look back. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that

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you tuned into Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes

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continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more

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engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for

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giving us your time and attention. Have an excellent time building out your vision and

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becoming a Vision Pro yourself.