Island time, tell me what your vision is.
So the vision is to help as many people as I possibly can
create the life that they want, which really is,
they care about family, they care about clients,
and they care about community.
And it's to have an impact at all levels for that.
Tell me more about that.
So it goes back to when I first worked with
one of my mentors and my coaches
is to understand that to get to places
that we want to get to, which is the vision,
we have to have some goals to get us there.
And not always do we understand
how that even gets put together.
But I also recognized early on is that
if we break down our vision and our goals,
it's really about having experiences and growth.
And the first time that I worked with
one of my mentors and coaches,
it dramatically changed our family.
And it's to have that ability
to see that happen in other families,
because it's a ripple effect.
Thank you for sharing that.
You mentioned that the first time you worked with a coach,
it dramatically changed your experience.
I see a story come in there,
so would you like to share some of that story?
Yeah, well, we're just a bunch of stories, Harry, so always.
But I always like to explain it like this.
It's at some point in our life,
we might recognize that
I don't understand the playground anymore,
and I don't understand the rules anymore.
And I don't have the information
that's going to help me get to a different level.
And it transpired when we relocated
from the Midwest to Georgia,
working for the first time
for a company based out of New York.
And I say this with the utmost respect,
they do play by different rules,
and every region is a little bit different.
And it was right time, right place.
I met my mentor, and it just clicked.
And I thought, he understands something that I don't know.
And that's really what we're looking for,
is we're looking for the people
who have the information that we need.
And I worked with him for a year.
I had tremendous results.
And it changed the direction of our family.
So we're a family of, we have five children.
Three of those children came after I worked with him,
because we adopted and brought them from another country.
And so when I say ripple effect,
it's the change that we got to see in their life,
the impact that they're now having on the other families
that they're part of.
And the youngest is a functional neurology chiropractor
who's going to cure migraines.
So I didn't work with a coach or mentor in the beginning
and understand it can have a huge impact
on who you are and how you show up.
It wouldn't have impacted their lives.
Wow.
It sounds like your kids are some of the people
we want to have on our show.
It sounds like those people.
They're all amazing, all amazing.
They're just examples of,
it really is environment and opportunity.
Wow.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing that.
Ellen, would you say that that is your vibe
as what you do, what gets you out of bed in the morning?
Oh, always.
And I'll just expand a little bit.
I always knew, I come from a line of entrepreneurs.
So I always knew that I was going to want
to learn something new and be curious
and all of that that goes with it.
I just thought for a long time
it was going to be in my former career
because I was in financial services
and it was serving people in that way.
But it was just the opportunity to work
with my mentor one-on-one that dramatically changed
why I wanted to do this.
And it was just piecing that all together
because when I hired him the first time, as I said
I also wasn't the brightest person
because I didn't rehire him.
But that was the journey I needed to take
because when I get to work with clients
I tell them I'm shortening the gap for you
to always understand whether we're reading,
doing a course, working with mentors,
working with accountability, that it's the journey
and that really becomes the why.
You mentioned that you had a coach
and you hired him first time
and then you failed to hire him again
and you didn't realize what was that blind spot
that kept you from hiring a coach again.
So I don't think it was a blind spot.
I think it is, so I always explain it this way.
I'm a science math nerd.
Like my major in college was nuclear medicine.
So it's kind of check the box
and everything has to line up and all.
Everything has to add up across the line
that when I did work with him
I did everything he asked me to do.
So it was check the box
and move on.
It wasn't until a while later
that I did have the realization,
well, two things, goals are always happening
whether we think they are or not.
And just because I worked with one person at one time
doesn't mean that I'm done
because nobody is ever done learning.
And I think that was a really important aspect
to understand coaches are never done.
Coaches hire coaches and that if we're all growing
there's always going to be experiences
and growth that we need to have
and we need help in getting it.
You're absolutely right in that.
And it takes a humble leader to accept that I need help.
I don't know this and I don't know all the answers
and I need to be humble enough to find people
who are able to help me.
And the other side of that situation
is people get taken advantage of by people who don't know.
Right.
And my favorite, I often get asked Harry
when they're interviewing coaches and I think they should
but I also give the disclaimer
my background coming from the financial world
is very analytical.
Said first and foremost, I want to ask that coach
who they work with, who are they hiring?
Because I want to get a clear understanding
that they accept that they need to grow.
And then I want to understand what their process is.
I want to understand why their process
is going to make sense for me to learn.
And I'll say this is, well, I don't have,
I don't want somebody who just woke up
in the middle of the night
and thinks that they have a process.
I want them to be a product of the product.
Thank you for being here today.
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Have an excellent time building out your vision
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