Tell us about your vision.
You know, my vision is honestly to empower the visionaries that we have in this world.
And I'll put the asterisk on there that they're selling or doing or providing a quality product or service that is good for the world.
It's really about helping them potentially start, definitely grow and maybe scale whatever it is that their dream is.
A lot of people go out there and they're not really sure what that might look like.
They just have a passion for something.
I came into business being a personal trainer, starting a personal training business, and I was, it was built on passion and it worked.
But like the moment there was growth and scale, it didn't work anymore.
And I had to learn business and leadership and marketing and operations and just all of these other skills that life doesn't really teach you.
And I want to speed that up for everybody else.
I loved all my businesses and my brick and mortars and that service business, but accidentally stumbled upon solving a problem for a couple of franchisees in a franchise system.
People were like, Steve, you've literally changed my life and made it so that way I'm not afraid to invest my life savings or my house.
And now I want to go do this.
And it was that just throwing into consulting, I'll call it coaching, if you will, that really I fell in love with opening that opportunity for other people and going along in the ride with them.
So in a nutshell, I want to help people with a vision, really start scale grow that vision.
I love that.
I mean, obviously our podcast is all about vision, so we're already got the bromance.
I'm sitting here going like I'm totally using the word vision way too much, but it is it is it is my like I use the word a lot.
So it's not it's not scripted, but I'm like, man, I just feel like, yeah, vision.
You got this guy on the same vision 40 times.
What's your why?
We know how it got started.
Um, but what's the why behind all of this?
And there might be many, but focusing on some of those deeper ones.
Yeah, I would say it.
It's funny.
I hear a lot of gurus and coaches say certain things and it's like, it just rubs me the wrong way kind of.
So I'm going to go against the grain.
And, and I had a lot of ups and downs in my first nine, 10 years of owning businesses as an adult.
Right.
And my first year, it was just easy.
Like it just happened.
And then the moment I got my second business all the way to the 17th, like it was ups and downs and I learned a lot of lessons.
And I feel like everybody goes out there with I'm predicting, I don't make mistakes.
And here's how I created all this massive success.
And I didn't have a really cool framework or tagline or thing until I slowed down and really looked back.
And when somebody asked me, why, why are you running into these struggles?
I didn't have the answer.
And the answer that I kind of gave was, well, it's that reason.
It's those reasons.
It's one of those things over there and never once did I point the finger at myself.
It was always things external to me.
And it was a big growing moment.
It hurt, it hurt a lot, but it was a really big growing moment.
And I really slowed down for a minute to really look back.
The pluses, the negatives, what things did I do, whether it was intentional or not?
Cause a lot of them weren't, they just happened on accident to help ultimately save me and get me out of like this thing's not going to work.
And through that really looking back, it is what today is the freedom framework.
And we have this big dream in America, in the world where everybody is free and they have freedom.
But I don't think anybody really thinks about it other than my day to day.
I get to kind of do what I want to do.
But I mean, man, if you want to not have to work to earn money at 45 years old, why aren't you working towards that?
And who here is going to empower somebody to do that?
I'm not saying quit your nine to five, quit your job, but maybe get a side hustle and go make an extra $2,000 a month, simple and easy.
But then there's that person that's not simple and easy.
That's a lot.
And it's in the nicest way possible.
It is simple and easy if you just go do it.
But we weren't taught that we weren't given those skills through life, through school, through college, if you went through whatever.
So the freedom framework just was really, hey, what did I intentionally or accidentally do over the past 10 years to get me here?
And putting those into steps where we can really break down the three big things, which is figure out what you need to work on,
learn about how you can solve the problem and go do it.
Right.
Let's not over complicate this.
Let's get it done.
And that freedom framework is really about making sure those big things can happen.
Based on your experience, how can leaders lean into funding the vision?
Yeah, I like that actually as a combination, because I think that there's I'll probably talk about the slice right down the middle.
But it ultimately really leans into the idea of certainty.
If you are uncertain about something, usually your plan and the ability to execute and create the outcome, you're probably less likely to fund it.
And I'll take funding in a in a monetary, but also a time commitment and a and a taking away from other things in life mentality there.
But if you're certain and you absolutely believe it in a steadfast fashion and there's there's almost no way you can fail,
then it's just a simple math equation that's a no brainer to spend the time, take away from family, put the money and put the risk in.
And a lot of times we go through this.
You have to have a business plan and a business plan on paper in Excel.
Like, I get it. And I understand.
And at some point in time, in order for somebody to support you, give you money, whatever it is that that is,
I don't want to say important because I disagree with that.
Helpful, relevant. Can be can be.
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 when 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 Pro yourself.