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Tell me about your vision.

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My vision, um,

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really has to do with this one moment where I decided to quit my job and become

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a coach. It was pretty scary to consider that.

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I just met the person who ended up becoming my husband, but, um,

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I didn't want to lose relationships and I, it was kind of a difficult thing.

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And so I remember that my background was,

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I was the VP of marketing sales and client experience for a publishing company.

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And the one thing I was in charge of was managing the businesses business plan.

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And I decided to create one for myself before I left.

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And what that ended up was a lot,

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but I remember things started to fall apart,

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which is what kind of got me to move on.

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And I think a lot of people have that where their health starts getting weird.

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They start having weird conflicts at the job and they want to leave.

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And they're like, how do I do this?

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And you get a lot of signs that it's probably time to go. Um,

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but you kind of feel trapped because you don't know how to mitigate the risk of

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launching a coaching practice. And so, um,

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I ended up creating the plan. I executed the plan. And, um,

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I would say that that's the single most important thing that I did because all

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of my worries and all of the major decisions about the business were already

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made before I left. I knew where I was going.

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I was not confused and I launched my first business and got that to six figures

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and then I ended up pivoting with the same strategy only because people asked me

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I was a panic attack coach first.

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And then I started teaching my modality to folks and they were like, wait,

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wait, wait, could you just teach me how you did the business part?

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Because we all know what we're doing over here. And I was like,

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I'm very happy to walk you through that process.

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And then the birth of the life coach business schools came, came to be.

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So my vision is really to help coaches get there because it can just be scary.

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And from someone who didn't have any formal business,

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business training before I got into like management, um,

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there was just so many things that I didn't know that I now know.

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And I just kind of walk my clients through and the vision is to help them.

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That's awesome. What does it mean to you to keep your eyes open for mentors?

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Yeah, well, it comes from,

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well, I have a background in teaching.

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So first it comes strictly from me knowing there's so many learning styles out

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there. Um, you know, I remember when we're being trained as,

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as a teacher, as a teacher,

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I was a professor in college, uh,

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adjunct professor teaching micro before I had a cool, fun spiritual awakening.

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That's a long story for another time. Um, but I remember you,

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there's so many people taking information in different ways. So,

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I mean that first pretty literally, like there are people who,

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who you might resonate with because they just simply could explain things in a

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way that they couldn't have done before. And that could be the linchpin into a

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marketing problem or a sales problem or a business problem for a coach.

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And then the second has to do with personality. Um,

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sometimes, sometimes like what I consider myself an empathic person and some

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folks are not.

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And so if you don't have a good relationship from the person you're learning for,

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from, um, it could be a limiting factor in how well you do. Um,

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a lot of times coaches I find are getting blamed for their mindset for not being

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successful business owners,

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but there's many factors that affect your success with a coach.

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And it's not always your mindset.

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Sometimes it's the strategy, the way it's presented,

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the way you learn and the way you gel with your coach.

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So that is what I meant by that sentence.

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How can leaders lean into funding the vision? How do you,

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how do they overcome whatever it is that's preventing them from doing?

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So if I'm wrong and you don't see that happening, then by all means,

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feel free to hit it hard.

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And I'm just,

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I'm always excited to hear what visionaries who have funded their visions are

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getting after it. How you go?

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Well, first of all, I think the root of this question, um,

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rather, I think this taps in on the root of a problem,

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which is everyone's always looking to mitigate risk.

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And so people will reduce risk if they see value in what they're investing,

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or they'll perceive less risk if they perceive more value in what they're

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investing.

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So things that affect someone's perception of value has to do with decreasing the

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time to get some kind of outcome.

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They will always perceive that as more valuable, or if they,

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um, if how closely is the outcome that said,

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you know,

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situation is going to get them to the thing they want.

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So let's say someone wants to lose 10 pounds.

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If you're going to invest in a vision,

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you better be pretty close to getting that 10 pounds loss if that's your vision.

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Right. Um,

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so things that affect, um, likelihood of achievement of a goal are always

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perceived as more valuable.

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So if you increase the value in something that someone's going to invest in to

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fund their vision,

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then the risk will seem a lot lower and they were more likely to invest.

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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 continue to move

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forward. 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 giving us your

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time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro

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yourself.