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So Sherman, tell me about your vision. My vision in regard to business, right?

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Whatever you like to share. All right, my vision for me is to be able to impact the world and after

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you leave a strong legacy behind. I want to be able to be remembered for actually, you know,

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making a change. Yeah. Tell me more about that. So I see when I go to the funerals,

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I've been to a couple of funerals these past few years and, you know, I feel like when people

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actually impacted others, it's more of a powerful thing, you know what I mean? Like say if someone

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passed away and, you know, no disrespect to the dead, but if their impact wasn't that great,

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you could kind of like tell as far as like the crowd and the emotion and everything like that.

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And so I was thinking about it. I was like, man, when I pass, you know, I want to be able to impact

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the people that will be celebrating my life, you know, like, you know, at my funeral, I want them

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to see that like, man, Sherman really made a difference in my life. He impacted me. He

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told me this and he changed this and he did that. And so with that, I started my own podcast. I

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wrote a book, I'm out of a blog now, and I've just been more so expressing myself and leaving my

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digital footprint, you know, in the world. So my kids and, you know, my grandkids and future

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great grandkids will be able to look me up and see, you know, certain things about me that

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they'll learn about me because I left my thoughts and my wisdom and my, you know, everything just

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behind. Awesome. What do you do? I'm a life. So in these like in the book and in the podcast,

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what do you share? I share mental health, so perseverance, dedication, motivation, stuff like

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that. And so, you know, the reason why I'm credible for even speaking about those things is because

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of like where I came from, what I went through, where I'm at now, and also me being into physical

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fitness. So physical fitness is all mental toughness to me. And I can attest to that because

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I put myself in Spartan races, different, like say different files, you know, just to be able

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to say that I did it, you know what I mean? So it's like, I'm actually paying people to put me

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through something so I can say, okay, I achieved this goal. So I always test my mental strength,

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like weekly, just like going to the gym or running or doing something of that sort. So with that,

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I was like, you know, I'm going to just go ahead and tell people my strategies, which is what I

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actually listed in my book called, from great to greatness, harnessing the five pillars of the

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militant grind. And so I talk about love, honor, strength, discipline, and wisdom. And so those are

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my five pillars. And within those five pillars, actually just like explain, you know, what is love,

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self-love, how to deal with love, and then also like don't love yourself too much that you're

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oblivious to what's actually going on in the world, you know, so you're not overly ego inflated and

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things like that. Well, you mentioned that you pay people to have you go through experiences and

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tough experiences. Why do you do that? Because I feel like I always need some type of mental

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challenge. You know, like I say, not pay people, but like play the Spartan races, you know, stuff

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like that. So it's like, you know, like say even taking a course or going through a class or

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something like that, it's basically you challenging yourself to be better each and every day. So I

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have like certificates on different programs that I went through. Also doing different races around

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Southern California and things like that as well. That could attest to my mental toughness. Yeah,

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but my question is why? So Mike, you're saying that you do test your mental toughness, but once

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you've already tested your mental toughness once or twice, you know, you're mentally tough, but why

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do you keep doing it? That's why I'm kind of... Oh, because you always have to stay fresh on it.

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You know, it's like the new iPhone has to have a software upgrade. You have to upgrade your

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own software within your body. You know what I mean? And in order to stay afloat, you have to

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be continuous. And that actually is a great question because there's some people that will say,

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oh, okay, I did a certain workout five years ago and I don't need to do it again. And they're out

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of shape today. Or they'll look at me and be physically and say, well, you know, 15, 20 years

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ago, I was your size and I was fit and I was this and I was that, but I'm looking at them now

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and their stomach is fat. You know what I'm saying? Or they're looking out of their way out of shape.

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So to me, it's kind of like, I mean, I hear what you say, but what I see is something different,

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you know, and it's kind of like, you know, I know you're probably trying to size me up or something

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like that, but at the end of the day, the only way you could impact others is by what you see and

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also by what they know what you say and also by what they see. You know what I'm saying? So

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that's the way I look at it. It's like you have to continuously sharpen yourself until you possibly

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can't do it anymore.

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That is awesome. What keeps you going in all this? What keeps you going to be

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that tough and putting your body through that strain? One way I look at it, someone just gets

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joy out of doing all that, like to you doing that, just happiness that you get some happiness out of

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the other way I look at it, you might have something at the end of the tunnel that you see.

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What makes you going through all that grind? Me knowing that I have children and I want the best

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for my children. So the thing for me is that I know that children always watch what we do,

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not what you say. You know, let's say if I was to call my daughter right now and she'll hear that

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I'm outside, her first assumption is that is daddy going to be there? And I'm like,

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is daddy at the gym? Or if I leave, daddy already going to the gym. So they're seeing my

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positive habits that could possibly propel them to go look forward. And then I said,

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I took my oldest daughter to the gym and she was in love. She was like, oh, now I'm at the place

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where my daddy has been going since I was born. Now I get to see it. Now I get to work out.

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And so I feel like I'm a firm leader and lead by example. And the best way to do it is for your

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children to actually see you doing it. Like you can't tell them how to do something that you're

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not really doing or give people advice on how to do something that you're not doing at all.

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You know, as I say, I can't, I can't come up to a software engineer and tell them, well, you should

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probably do this with the code. And I'm like, I've never coded in my life. So why would I even think

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that I have the capabilities of telling them anything? But if I was like a master coder,

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and then I gave them advice, then they'll probably be okay. Well, maybe I should listen,

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you know, but what habits are, are people seeing that you do that could actually like help them?

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Cause people are looking at you all day, you know, and your habits are actually a,

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a reflection of how you look and how you are and how you think.

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So that's really my why lead by example is the biggest why in the world for me.

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Okay. Wow. Thank you for sharing that. You're speaking my language now.

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There's an author, his name is Henry John Bishop. Have you heard of him?

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No, I haven't. He's, he talks about being a great parent and in his,

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I can't remember the exact title of the book, but he's pretty famous.

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I think it's like how to, maybe I can find it for you.

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Yeah, it's called becoming the parents your kids deserve grow up by Gary John Bishop,

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not Henry, Gary John Bishop. I read it a while ago and essentially it comes down to what you said

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exactly that you can't talk the talk. You have to walk the talk. Your kids will see you, they'll

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see you. Your kids will see through your hip, like if you're a hypocrite, if you tell kids to do

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something you don't do yourself, your kids will see it through. At the end of the day, you can't,

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you can't control your kids. When they come, when they come the age of accountability,

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when they come to when they're 18, they make their own decisions per se and they're out of the house.

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You can only aspire and the only way to aspire them is to do things up.

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And there's a lot of things you can do before they get out of the house to control a lot of things

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they do so they don't do anything very stupid as a parent should. But essentially what you all can do

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is to be an example. Right. And you hit it right on the head. So thank you for sharing that.

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Oh, you're very welcome. Where are you going with your vision?

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Where I'm going. I really, that one is pretty hard for me to answer because I look at life like this.

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I really, you really have to be optimistic about where you're going, like wherever you're going to

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go, hopefully it's like the best option for you. But then it's more so like, what am I doing with

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my vision? You know, which is doing a podcast, writing, I just wrote a journal, I'm writing a

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script for a movie, you know, all kinds of things, just to be able to impact people and spread the

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message even further. So with that, I don't know, maybe movies, maybe more brand sponsorships,

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things like that. But I think that's the way to go. I think that's the way to go.

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I'm more so focused on the like, okay, if I chip away every day at something, something is going to

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come about it. You know, thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision

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forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll

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invite people to participate in the show. And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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and thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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