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Tell me about your vision.

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You know, it sounds so crazy, even as you said that.

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I'm like, wait, it's such a.

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A pertinent question, right?

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And the first thing I'm such an intuitive spiritual person.

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When I think about my vision, I really think about the former me.

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I am first generation born American, first generation entrepreneur.

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And when I think about my vision, that vision of helping the first to be the first,

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it can be scary to go on there by yourself and do do the thing, do the thing

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when no one has done it before in your circle, in your family, in your friends.

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And that vision, my vision as a first gen American, first gen entrepreneur

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is just to say, you know what, let's do it anyway.

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And we'll figure it out at the end of the day for me, helping first generation

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entrepreneurs to figure out the how to close the gaps, to, to really step into

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who they are, who they're becoming, that discovery, that spiritual side of,

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of building your business is, is really where my vision is and where it shines.

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It's easy for me to go logistics and say, Oh, and I help you to do X and Y and Z.

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Right.

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But really that word vision to me is more about passion.

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It's about fulfillment.

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It's about.

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You know, I laugh at myself, stereotypical millennial, like leaving impression.

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What are we doing to fulfill our lives?

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What does that look like?

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Right.

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And vision is a part of that for me.

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I love that.

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So I do want to dive into the how a little bit.

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I love, I love everything that you just said, and I want to find

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out how did you get started?

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Hmm.

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So let me just share a long story long, long story long.

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So, uh, as I shared a first generation born here and my dad is, is first

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generation college and they had the American dream for me.

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I am Hmong American.

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And so for my family, my parents are like, just go to college, get a four

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year degree, get into a nine to five job that's like, you know, you're

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in a nine to five job that pays you.

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Well, get a house, get a nice car, fill your home with some kiddos.

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You're you're golden.

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Right.

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And, uh, I was, um, I am the, the eldest of all this, a five.

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And I did what my parents said.

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I did the thing, climb the corporate ladder, got all the way to the top.

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And I'm like, okay, wait, okay.

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But like, is this it?

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And it was way more glamorized or less than, than I thought it would be.

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And it was, it was almost like this.

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Yeah.

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It just didn't, it didn't fit for me.

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And, um, one day, one of my colleagues actually said to me, if you were to take

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your expertise and your energy and you bottled it up as an energy drink, I

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would buy your drink every single day.

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And I said, really?

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Would you really absolutely.

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And that at that point, never in a million years did I ever think that

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entrepreneurship was ever going to be a part of my journey, a part of my identity,

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like my future, that was a no.

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And when he said that, I was like, okay, we'll see kind of just played around with

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it, just, you know, just to see.

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But, uh, it was that beingness of who I was becoming was I, I was able to

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understand more about who I was authentically when I started my business.

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And I realized that again, no, no shade to corporate, but for me,

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corporate was censorship.

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I had to show up as a type of person.

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I had to hit all of the things on my job description was handed to me.

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And I didn't want that.

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I wanted rediscovery.

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I wanted the ability to reinvent myself.

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And so, uh, all of this started all of the today that you see the me today is

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really because I had a colleague just tell me that he would purchase an

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energy drink if I was to make it.

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If it was you, if it gave him the feeling of being you, that's so cool.

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That's such a fun concept.

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Oh man, that's amazing.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned into vision pros live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes

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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 and thank you for

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giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a

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vision pro yourself.