Yeah, it doesn't feel like that. I just feel like that.
I know it's dead easy to say that flippantly, but vision is everything for me.
It has been for many decades now,
and I've always been working towards one vision or another.
And it was it was my late husband that pushed me towards my creative business.
And he was the one who said, stop talking about it and just do it.
I like that. And you you liked it, too.
You didn't get mad at him about it. And maybe you did. But no.
So no, I didn't know.
You win it. That's so cool.
Yeah. Well, we had been bankrupt and lost everything in 2009,
which is where the book came from.
So the life I won was what I won when I lost everything,
because I learned how to bounce back from rock bottom and rebuild.
And I did that with vision boards.
And we made my kids set a vision board up in 2009 for the house,
our dream house. And that's the house I bought in 2019 for cash.
And I'd met my dream man along the way.
And, you know, life was wonderful.
And we bought the dream home. I launched my business.
I launched my book. Everything was going fine.
Then the pandemic hit and I lost everything.
It and I lost him.
But having been to rock bottom before, I thought, you know what?
Now I'm going to put the biggest vision I can think of up there,
which was the castle.
And yeah, and I'm not living in a castle.
When I say a mini version, it's a bank.
It's an ex bank over three floors.
But it was almost exactly like the castle on my vision board.
The same red brick, sandstone brick.
Yeah. So it's been I'm kind of living what I said I was going to do now.
So I'm a big fan of the vision board as like concept,
the implementation of it, how to do it.
And also I've had the same type of experience with visions.
One, I saw my daughter at three years old before I was a dad.
And it was really, you know, it was one of those things where that's something
you got to that stage.
I was like, wow, like it was you, you know, like that was so powerful.
And then before that, my business partner, he we were we ran restaurant
connect together. He's still running that.
And he had an opportunity to move to Miami where he was going to live on the beach.
And he's like, you know what?
Like I pulled out his vision board from old.
He literally moved to the building in the photo on the beach there.
And it's like, wow, this is too uncanny.
I've seen that with other people who have strong visions and pursue it and go
after it, like you and your husband said.
That's just that's just amazing.
So and right now we're actually doing something pretty funny.
We're diving in without you even knowing that we're diving into it, but you're so
leader that you're ready for it.
We're this is all behind the scenes materials if we want to use it to help
others see how do we get prepared to share our vision, how do we get ready to
go on vision pros?
And I usually ask people to tell me about their vision.
We do a couple of segments and then after we're done, you know, take a couple
of minutes, we will go through the rest of the process of how do we then
distribute this vision to the world on both sides?
Are you cool with that?
Are you cool if we use this?
Of course.
Yeah, no problem.
Super great.
Awesome.
Wonderful.
So with that said, I said it in the words that I read, but I'd love to hear
through your mouth to what tell me about your vision.
Tell me about where you're headed with all this.
I think for me, I thought this would be a stepping stone towards the castle,
still keeping my vision big.
But actually, when I got here, I discovered a wonderful little town with
fantastic people and the guests that I've had, I'm into the third year of
retreats this year and I've already sold the first three fully booked.
And I love it here.
And I think sometimes you get to where you get to and you think, right, that's
it, so what can I do next?
And it is, you know, for me now, it's about, I'm working with the book that
I've got, I've got two more books planned.
I want to hit that best-selling author status.
Because I love writing.
So my vision slightly changed a bit and I think it's okay to change things along
the way.
I hope so.
I'm a big fan of changing things along the way, you know, especially when life
hits you, right?
COVID shifted a lot of things for a lot of people.
I think that's one of the scariest realities I see for so many people who
want to step in their best.
It's like you find somebody who gains the value of confidence, you know,
the value of confidence or the idea that you should present yourself as confident.
But if you haven't had time to develop your own self-awareness and you haven't
had time to find what you actually love, sometimes you end up moving into being
confident and something you're not meant to do.
Yes.
I don't know if other people see it, but I see a lot of people confidently rowing
their boats down a path that doesn't seem to align with who they want to be.
And so there's a shift there.
Go ahead. I would love to hear your thoughts on that.
Well, that's exactly why I fixed out.
That's exactly why I'm doing what I'm doing now, because who I want to help is
the version of me from 10 years ago that was not doing what she really wanted to
do. And I wanted to see the women that felt like I did realize in their dreams.
So that's why I'm so passionate about it.
I love that. And that's that story behind it too as well.
Like, OK, there's a recognition and it's, you know, a lot of therapists get made
fun of because they went into therapy because they need a therapy themselves.
That's honorable.
There's nothing to make fun of there.
I hope that they've figured out it's again, it crosses the line of, well, there's
also therapists who still badly need therapy and they're kind of hiding under
the guise of being a therapist and they're not getting the attention or the
results they need themselves.
That imposter syndrome really sets in hard.
But that's a personal choice we all have to decide are we going to step into it or
not. I wanted nothing more, nothing more.
One, than to be a dad since I was nine.
Two, I meant I wanted a happy family.
Right. That was the goal.
I'm twice divorced.
You know, so my vision board has absolutely had shifts.
What what mean?
What does my future look like?
And how do I pursue that and find the best version of life for me, which to me comes
from being my best self.
And so you're doing these retreats.
What what are the retreats entail?
Well, the retreats, it's so interlinked with my coaching business because I've got
my two 12 month programs where I help creative women and the retreats were almost
like the cherry on the cake of that of come and spend the time with me here in
this wonderful location, because I've not just bought this place and it was ready.
I've completely renovated it.
I've got three guest rooms themed on artists.
I've got a Van Gogh room, a Monet room and a Picasso room.
So the whole house is like a giant canvas.
I have decorated and done all the interior design myself and it's a walk through
gallery. I display art here.
But when people come here, it's like stepping out of their lives for four days
or seven days.
And I'm going to push them outside the comfort zone of creativity and get them
doing things they never imagined they could do.
Yeah.
I love it, too.
I am digging into it.
Your websites.
Yeah.
And these are just some of the ladies.
You do it?
Yeah.
No, no, no, I didn't do the website.
No, I'm not techie.
I can paint on a wall.
I can paint on a canvas.
I can't do a website.
That's my art studio.
So I have.
OK, that makes sense.
But it's so it's very well done.
I like the the elements of the brand.
My computer is struggling to load it right now.
It's not your site.
It's actually my computer.
But let me let me pull up one more time to these because I saw these images and I was
like, man, what a neat place.
Oh, it really is.
So fun.
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 for yourself.