Tell me about your vision for Activate Success.
My business is as a professional speaker and executive coach.
Our country and individuals, even around the world, are experiencing
some of the highest stress levels ever recorded.
So my vision with Activate Success is to help individuals and organizations
create lower stress work environments that can ignite employee engagement,
increased productivity, and as business owners, like increased profitability.
Wow. Look at you.
That was good. I like that.
Well spoken. Very clear, too.
I get that and I understand that, you know, although this is Visions Pros Live,
I meet with a lot of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, business owners, etc.
A lot of people are focusing on the lives of business people.
And it's crazy because I feel like there has to be something
that is consistent with the lives of those that that work.
You know, nine to fives. I call them nine to nines now, because yes.
If you got to be to work at 10, you're leaving at nine.
If you get off at eight, you get to get in that home at nine.
So it's it's where where did this vision come from?
Well, I have worked with individuals
in my role as a psychotherapist, as a private practice psychologist
for almost 30 years and have seen the struggles people have had
in their lives. And sometimes a big part of that has been work.
But the the real root of my desire to help people
comes from my own experience of my dad having a nearly fatal heart attack
when he was 49 as a result of work stress.
And I was 15 and so saw him.
He was unable to work ever again after that heart attack and died very young at 63.
So I've seen the real world negative effects of work stress on people.
And have devoted my career to trying to help people to reduce them.
Yes. So what are some of the biggest challenges you see?
Leaders facing today, what it will.
You're one. And so I'm sure you're facing some challenges.
Yes.
Well, the thing that comes to mind
most prominently for me is a poem.
It's going to sound rather poetic, but it's to a poem that my grandmother
gave me by Rudyard Kipling. OK.
I believe the title of it is if.
And it's about it's about being a man.
But the first line is, if you can keep your wits about you
and those around you are losing theirs.
And I think that's the number one challenge for a leader.
Is with all the twists and turns that happen in business,
is trying to remain grounded and thoughtful and and to respond
versus react to challenges in business.
Yes.
But that also goes into personally, because being a leader is like being a parent.
Which, you know, you may have experiences with both,
but there's the commonality in that, you know,
the kids can get frustrated and and they don't act out and be angry.
But you as a leader have to try to remember, wait a minute, I'm the leader
and not let their stress.
Impact you such that you lose your cool
and start doing and saying things you later regret.
Absolutely.
I think that I would just say that for leaders to not leak their stress.
To their employees.
I think employees are also.
Desiring more from their employers.
Yes. In terms of, you know, level of support
or how much people want to be bringing themselves to work.
Which I think has many advantages, but it's also a challenge for leaders
to figure out how to support people.
But where is the boundary?
Yeah. Or supporting people versus feeling like you're having to provide therapy
for people in the workplace where the focus gets away from the work.
Yeah. And where's the balance?
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to 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.