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Tell me about your vision.

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Yeah, thanks Harry.

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Thanks for having me on the show here today.

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I guess a little bit about my vision.

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I was recently reading a really good book

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by Ryan Holiday called, Right Thing Right Now.

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It's all about living a just life

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and what does that mean for each one of us?

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And it's really got me doing some searching on my own.

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And one of the things that I've been saying for years

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is part of my vision is, it's gonna sound a little cliche,

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but you know, having an impact

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and leaving the world in a better place

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than when you found it, when you came into it.

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And when I was reading Ryan's book, it came up again.

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And he talks a lot about how we need more of that.

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We need more folks that are, you know,

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climbing bigger mountains with their craft, with their work,

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but leaving the world in a good place

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through the work that they do

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and the actions that they take along the way,

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whether that's looking at social justice,

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whether that's looking at, you know, the words you write,

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whatever that might be,

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I think is really, really important.

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So it's kind of resurfaced for me.

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And then that, I guess at the end of the day,

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my vision is to do that, to leave an impact,

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whether it's with a reader, a client, with work,

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and to just leave the world in a better place.

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That is amazing.

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Tell me more about that when you,

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when you mean believing the world a better place,

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what exactly is it that you do?

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Yeah, so a great example,

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when I published my second book called Your Best Decade,

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really what I was trying to do was just, you know,

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there was a lot out there around life hacks

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and, you know, live your best day, live your best hour,

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but there was really nothing looking at the time horizon

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of 10 years of that decade.

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And so I kind of looked at that and zoomed in

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on that decade of time.

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And what I wanted to do with the reader there

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was just leave them feel inspired

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to either make a change in their life

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that would improve their lives,

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or just leave them maybe thinking about some of the things

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that they may need to do in the future

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to make their lives a little bit better for themselves,

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for their family, within their work, and all of that.

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And so when I published that book,

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that was just really my goal.

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My goal was just to meet readers where they're at

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and to leave them in a better place.

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And if it's through my book that that happens, amazing,

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but if it's through another book, that's amazing too.

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And I really do believe in the power of books

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to do that for people.

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And I've often said that, you know,

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the best books are not always necessarily

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the ones that are just on the New York Times bestseller.

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They're the ones that meet you where,

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they're the ones that meet you where you're at

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when you need them the most.

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And that to me is, yeah,

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it's kind of why I continue to write

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and why I continue to share ideas out there

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just to make people's lives a little bit better

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and to leave a bit of an impact there.

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That is awesome.

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So, Ryan, where would you say,

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or what would you say is your why?

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I know you mentioned is leaving the world a better place.

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Is there something other than that

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that's make you started on this path of your why?

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Yeah, great question.

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So this goes back to when I was 12 years old.

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So when I was 12 years old, I was actually diagnosed

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with chronic migraines.

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And long story short, medications were not working.

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They were not getting rid of these migraines.

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So as part of this study,

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just looking at kind of lifestyle intervention treatment.

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And basically what I was told to do was just journal,

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journal everything, journal what you eat,

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you know, days you're active,

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what that physical activity is, all of that.

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And so what they ended up finding out in the study

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and what I ended up finding out about myself

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is that the days that I was active, I ate better,

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I slept better, and that I was not getting these migraines

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on days I was physically active.

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And so 12 years old,

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that really was a foundational shift for me to realize,

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okay, if I wanna be well and I wanna feel good,

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I need to move every day.

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And so that really took me on this path

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of looking at wellbeing,

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looking at personal growth and development.

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How do I continue to improve that?

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And what does that look like for me?

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And it's really been a thread that's been woven

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into everything that I do, you know,

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when I really look at the pursuit of wellbeing,

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what does that look like in our work?

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What does that look like in our relationships,

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in our personal lives,

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and in our physical fitness as examples?

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And that's really, really my why.

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You know, I love the writing side of that

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when writing in the wellness space.

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I love speaking in that space,

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but I also love working with schools

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and in the education space to improve school environments

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so that they can be healthy and well for all children.

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So I guess that's a little bit about my why.

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And it's been great to be able to make a career out of that

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and just to be aligned with, you know,

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what you do and who you are and what you really stand for.

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So it's been good.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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It was very insightful.

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Brian, what would you say is your goal for being on the show?

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Yeah, I mean, as folks know,

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the show is called Vision Pros.

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And I, you know, for me,

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when I was kind of jumping into entrepreneurship

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and jumping into writing,

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you know, I had these ideas

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and I had, you know, the creative kind of juices there.

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But I didn't really have a lot of outside inspiration

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and outside of role models and thought leaders.

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I could lean into their messages,

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lean into their stories

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and try to emulate that a little bit

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and try to maybe follow those breadcrumbs for myself,

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for my own success.

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So my goal here is, you know, if someone here is listening,

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hopefully they'll even aspire to, you know,

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take their own jump, their own journey,

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whether that's writing, whether that's speaking,

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whether that's hosting a podcast.

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But just to not be scared to cast that vision

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and to surround yourself with content like this,

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with mentors and different folks

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that can help you along the way.

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So if someone out there is inspired,

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then I hope I've done my job.

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Are there any services or things that you do,

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you provide for our audience?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So one of the things that I do is I coach authors

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that are looking to publish their book.

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A lot of times these are authors that are very new

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in their author journey.

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So they, you know, they're not quite there.

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And with authorship having gone through that,

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it's a bit of an identity shift from,

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okay, now I'm a published author, what does that mean?

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And how do I step into that identity?

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And so I really work with authors

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to help them step into that with confidence

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and to have success in the market right away.

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And so that's one of the things that I do.

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One of the other things that I do as well,

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back to my why, is I do a lot of workshops,

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both online and in person and consulting around wellness.

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So, you know, supporting organizations

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and individuals with that.

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So what does well-being look like for each one of us?

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And how do we take tangible steps

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in order to improve our lives

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and to improve our overall well-being?

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And so I support people in that area as well.

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Thank you for being here today.

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

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is gonna 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 support.

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For giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.