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Tell me about your vision for Activate Success.

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My business is as a professional speaker and executive coach.

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Our country and individuals, even around the world, are experiencing

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some of the highest stress levels ever recorded.

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So my vision with Activate Success is to help individuals and organizations

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create lower stress work environments that can ignite employee engagement,

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increased productivity, and as business owners, like increased profitability.

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Wow. Look at you.

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That was good. I like that.

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Well spoken. Very clear, too.

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I get that and I understand that, you know, although this is Visions Pros Live,

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I meet with a lot of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, business owners, etc.

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A lot of people are focusing on the lives of business people.

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And it's crazy because I feel like there has to be something

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that is consistent with the lives of those that that work.

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You know, nine to fives. I call them nine to nines now, because yes.

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If you got to be to work at 10, you're leaving at nine.

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If you get off at eight, you get to get in that home at nine.

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So it's it's where where did this vision come from?

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Well, I have worked with individuals

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in my role as a psychotherapist, as a private practice psychologist

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for almost 30 years and have seen the struggles people have had

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in their lives. And sometimes a big part of that has been work.

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But the the real root of my desire to help people

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comes from my own experience of my dad having a nearly fatal heart attack

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when he was 49 as a result of work stress.

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And I was 15 and so saw him.

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He was unable to work ever again after that heart attack and died very young at 63.

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So I've seen the real world negative effects of work stress on people.

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And have devoted my career to trying to help people to reduce them.

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Yes. So what are some of the biggest challenges you see?

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Leaders facing today, what it will.

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You're one. And so I'm sure you're facing some challenges.

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Yes.

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Well, the thing that comes to mind

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most prominently for me is a poem.

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It's going to sound rather poetic, but it's to a poem that my grandmother

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gave me by Rudyard Kipling. OK.

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I believe the title of it is if.

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And it's about it's about being a man.

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But the first line is, if you can keep your wits about you

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and those around you are losing theirs.

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And I think that's the number one challenge for a leader.

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Is with all the twists and turns that happen in business,

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is trying to remain grounded and thoughtful and and to respond

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versus react to challenges in business.

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Yes.

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But that also goes into personally, because being a leader is like being a parent.

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Which, you know, you may have experiences with both,

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but there's the commonality in that, you know,

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the kids can get frustrated and and they don't act out and be angry.

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But you as a leader have to try to remember, wait a minute, I'm the leader

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and not let their stress.

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Impact you such that you lose your cool

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and start doing and saying things you later regret.

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Absolutely.

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I think that I would just say that for leaders to not leak their stress.

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To their employees.

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I think employees are also.

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Desiring more from their employers.

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Yes. In terms of, you know, level of support

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or how much people want to be bringing themselves to work.

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Which I think has many advantages, but it's also a challenge for leaders

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to figure out how to support people.

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But where is the boundary?

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Yeah. Or supporting people versus feeling like you're having to provide therapy

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for people in the workplace where the focus gets away from the work.

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Yeah. And where's the balance?

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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 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.