Where did your vision come from, Jacqueline?
So my vision came from,
it's my years working in corporate
and things that evolved
and things that I felt that were,
for lack of a better word, missing.
So when I got out of college, I'll start there,
I went to an amazing university,
I had great internships,
I decided, I knew what I wanted to do when I left college
and I got into magazine publishing, consumer marketing,
it was like my dream job.
But then it was the then what, right?
Like now I'm here and I knew,
like I had an idea that I wanted to keep moving up
in magazine publishing and get that,
reach this thing that I thought was the pinnacle,
like, oh, I wanna be this title.
It was the title that I was after not,
it wasn't my passion,
I was, so the two weren't together.
So I kept searching for something
and I kept thinking there's,
as I was going through my career in magazine publishing,
I always felt there was something missing.
And then when I went and I like,
I can transform into do anything,
like I can decide tomorrow that I wanna,
go sell boats or something, whatever I wanted to do.
And I switched and I changed, I went into radio sales
and then I went and did recruiting.
But all along the way, there was something that was missing
and there were pieces that were missing in what I was doing.
I had ideas about what I wanted to do,
but nobody was my right-hand person
really helping me to define it.
And not that we can't do that on our own,
but there are so many times when,
if we just had a third party or outside person,
not your mother or your father, your sister,
your brother or your best friend,
but somebody else that was listening
to what you really wanted to do
and where you wanted to go and where you could go
that could believe in you
and that could help you map your and define your path.
That would make things so much better.
And I kept thinking, this is what I wanna do.
And when I, in each place and each time,
each career and job or where I went into,
it solidified my vision of helping people in their life
really find their true path and passion.
Whether you've got a business already going
so that you're doing great in your business,
but sometimes we just need that extra oom to say,
okay, we need to keep going here,
or maybe we've gotten stagnant in our business
and we need that extra push,
or we've taken a job or a career
and we just wake up every day
and we're doing the same thing.
And somebody else is driving us,
we're not driving ourselves.
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
So I guess you already covered your why.
And let's get to this one.
Is that how you also got started?
Is that where the vision got started?
Because you was missing something in life
and then you decided,
like what was the point where you're like, okay,
this is where my vision started.
I know this is my vision
and I wanna move forward with this.
So there's a couple of different places.
So I love to share that I had this experience,
I had two different experiences.
One experience was,
and they were right around the same time
that I was in this career
and I was having this conversation
with somebody else at my office.
And she said something to,
there was three of us that were sitting there.
And she said something to my coworker
that was actually my team member.
And she said something about,
that might not be great for your career,
maybe you wanna shift.
And all of a sudden I was like, oh my God, career.
I haven't thought about the word career in a long time.
I was going through the motions.
And then I probably think within that same week,
I remember I was driving my kids to school
and I used to love the drive.
And it was,
I was just like in this,
it was like somebody else's drive in the car, not me.
And Katy Perry's song, Roar came on.
And it was like this snap or light bulb that went off.
And I just said, something has to change.
Like I'm existing, I'm not living.
And it was in that moment that I was like,
this is why I'm doing this.
Like I need to take this vision that I've had
of helping other people and do the same thing for myself
and forge my own path and recreate my existence
and how I was living so that I can go from existing
to living and have more passion
in everything that I was doing.
And that was the, I guess you could say
the light bulb moment that I said, okay,
I need to go in a different direction.
And that's when I actually hired,
I was working with a coach and I said,
this is what we're doing.
And my life changed dramatically within six months.
I like moved my family across the country.
We changed our environment.
I switched businesses.
I became a coach.
Like I got my certifications.
Like, you know, and it was sort of like took off.
Yeah, it's interesting how when we take out like money
and not even much the desires per se,
but we take out worldly aspirations per se
from our equation and we put service in our life, right?
And we put that as a goal, right?
How things can be very different
and how we can take them very different.
And we realize, oh my gosh,
and we're missing out on so much.
Because from my experience,
what I've learned is we don't really crave that position.
We don't really crave that level
of what are we trying to achieve.
We crave the feeling we're gonna get
when we achieve that, right?
We're trying to get to the feeling,
oh, that's gonna feel great when I hit that mark
or if I hit these many sales this year,
I'm just gonna feel awesome about myself, right?
We create that feeling, right?
So yeah, I totally understand.
That was amazing what you shared.
But I wanna share one thing about that too,
because it's what you just said about service is so true
because you could have this goal,
and I know it's happened to a lot of people.
You have this goal that you wanna reach X,
but the service is not necessarily tied
or it's not necessarily tied to your heart
or what your true passion is.
So when you reach it, you're just like, okay, now what?
Right?
I mean, I don't know if you have an experience like I did,
I reached this level and I was like, I got the title,
I got this where I want it to be,
where I thought I wanted to be.
And then I'm like, okay, now what do I do?
Right?
Yeah, I understand that.
I understand that.
It wasn't as fulfilling.
I mean, it was a fleeting feeling.
It didn't last.
And then it was like, okay, well now what's what?
Because it wasn't really tied to my heart,
but what was tied to it was the service
that I was giving to the people.
Like how many people can I affect
and have a positive impact on?
And I almost feel like that's where,
what I love to do is working with other people
and businesses to really hone in on what their mission is,
because it's about what they wanted,
what's the greater impact that you wanna have
to the people that you're serving?
Whether you're, when I think about lots of big companies,
it's not their mission isn't,
I'll take serious accent
because this is what's coming to my head.
Their mission is not giving radio to everybody
or giving music to everybody.
There's something else behind that, right?
You know, there's a passion and a feeling
that they should or want to exude.
I personally think they need some help there,
but when you have that passion and that feeling
about what you wanna give to your clients
and the people that you're serving, you just rise up.
How do leaders lean into funding?
What can they do?
I mean, not going into specifics, but generally.
So one of the biggest things is really to like,
spend the time really crafting your vision, right?
Spend that time crafting your vision and your mission,
and then really writing it out.
And then the biggest thing that I would like write it,
make sure it's really written out
and that you have a way
that you can actually share that with others.
And then to really go and fund it,
we have to have a plan.
And that plan is looking at other resources,
you know, what is it going to take to do that?
Speak with people that you've either done it before
or have been in that place and ask people,
don't be afraid to ask for help.
And then start looking at
and doing the research on resources that are available
because there are so many resources.
But it's going to start with writing out what you want
and sharing it with others
because as you share what you want with others,
it will come to you.
People will actually be there to support you
and find your tribe who will be there to support you.
And I always love to say this,
the people that support you
are probably going to be the people that you least expect.
Your family, your parents are probably not gonna be the ones
that may be the ones that are gonna jump in,
but it's other people who are going to see your vision.
Because a lot of times, you know, your family
or people that, and I'm gonna say your family
and your best friends might be like,
oh no, you want something that's a steady eddy,
you want that because they're afraid of risk.
So if you find the tribe outside of those people
that are there to support you,
you can really flourish.
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 gonna 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.