Tell me about your vision.
You know, my vision is, it's crazy.
It's a crazy answer.
My vision is for everybody to realize what their own vision is and to pursue that.
I think, um, I think a lot of times there's an issue with self-confidence, self-esteem.
And the, I don't think a lot of people realize these are things that can be built
and improved on, you know, and there's certain ways we can do that.
But the reality of it is that we all have something unique.
We can offer the world.
We all have some contribution we can have here.
And we simply can't do that if we don't believe in ourselves, if we don't, if we
don't have the, the, the discipline, the self-confidence, the self-esteem to pursue
those things.
And so it's like, you know, we think that we're just a small drop in a very big ocean,
but it's like that drop is unique.
You know, that drop has something to it that not the, not the rest of the ocean
doesn't have.
And so I just, I think it's, I think it's important for us to all find out what that
is and how to pursue that path in our life.
How did you get started?
You got a podcast, you got a business as well for landscaping.
You've got, I'm sure a ton of story behind that too.
Where do you feel like it started?
You know, all this started a decade ago when really I just felt, I don't know how
other, how else to describe it other than just out of place.
You know, I had, I've always, I tell the story I've had, you know, 30, 40 plus jobs
where people around me felt like these were good jobs, warehousing, manufacturing,
construction, all this kind of thing.
And I just, but I felt like something I was supposed to be doing something else.
It just, it just was not that, you know, um, which we could go down the rabbit hole
of why that makes you feel, you know, uh, selfish and like you're doing something
wrong to pursue something else.
Um, because everybody around you, you know, like I said, to these people, these
were good jobs, they had good money, whatever, but you know, this all started
with this sort of, I don't want to use the word vision here, this sort of desire
to do something else.
And now a decade later into this thing, the business is a decade in the podcast
is just a year or so in, um, it's like, I'm trying to take the things that I've
learned, take the things I've seen and, and not only share it with other people,
but also learn from other people who have experiences that I don't, because
I've learned a lot from, uh, from this decade of being a businessman a lot, you
know, I mean, cause it started out as just me and, you know, just me myself.
And then, then we started doing commercial and there was other people involved.
We started working with companies and we started doing, you know,
involved, we started working with companies, business to business type thing.
And so there's just been a lot over this past decade.
How do leaders lean in to funding the vision?
You've done so.
So I'm assuming when you say funding here, are you talking about financially?
Are you talking about what their, with their energy, with their
mental and physical energy?
I mean, when we say funding, what are you, are you talking about
specifically financially?
Wisdom says for me to keep it big wisdom says for you to ask that question.
Um, so feel free to, uh, to guide us on this.
It's, you know, it's really for the audience.
What's going to benefit the audience most of visionaries who are maybe scared.
Um, you know, maybe they're held back by somebody else.
Maybe they don't really consider themselves a visionary or a leader.
There's a lot of things.
And I think that most people are familiar with what's holding them back.
I think they're often lost on how do you lean into it?
How do you do it?
If you're feeling that way.
I got you.
You know, I think, I think both of these questions can probably be answered
with the simple fact that there is any sort of business when you start a business,
it is a high risk, high reward operation.
I mean, you, you know, as a business owner, anybody who is a business owner,
who's, who's even thinking about this knows that everything falls on you.
I mean, I always, you know, you P P hear people say that whether or not the
company fails or succeeds, it's on you.
You know, if it succeeds, you need to give credit to your, your team, but if
it fails, it is certainly on you because you, you could have done something
differently, you could have hired person, you know, different people.
You could have spent money in different areas.
So everything falls on you.
And I think, I think that's one thing that really holds a lot of people back
from just kind of, you know, getting to the level they could get at is this.
They, they, we get to a place where we feel comfortable, you know, we get
comfortable and we've, man, we've, we've been at this thing five, you know, six,
10, 15 years, and we don't want to risk everything that we've done, but it's
just like, what happens if you put everything out there?
What happens if you just one year?
I mean, just, just one year, just go into this and you put everything on the table.
Yeah, you might.
I understand.
I understand the work that you've done before that it will risk that, but the
reward will be exponentially higher.
So I think that I think it is that, that fear, and I do, I do honestly think it's
a fear and it's, it's completely valid.
I mean, it's, it's 100%.
We talked about 96% of businesses don't even make it at this point.
So it's completely valid fear, but I think it is that fear of the risk.
It's the fear of, you know, what if I don't have what it takes?
What if I can't do this?
What if I do, what if I pull it off and I can't handle it?
You know, so there's all these, all these different things.
Well, how do we, how do we lead into funding this?
And again, here we're using funding.
You can insert whatever, whatever it works in your situation.
If we're saying financially, you say, oh, well, I got my money figured out.
Maybe you do, but there's an area that maybe you don't.
So we're going to use funding as a vague, whatever kind of fits your situation.
How do leaders fund their vision is.
Honestly, man, and this is where kind of my personal story comes into.
I think it's honestly becoming the best version of yourself that you can be.
I honestly do think that because especially as a leader, you know, if, if
you're in a, if you're in an operation where it's just you, you know, you have
a business where you're kind of doing a service for somebody or whatever.
That's a little bit, that's, that's, that's kind of a gray area maybe.
But if you're leading people, you have to be, you have to be aware of yourself.
You have to be conscious of yourself.
How do you come across?
Other people, you have to learn relationships, how to manage people.
There there's so many different things.
And I always say this too.
It's easy to say that personal growth is almost like a, it's almost
like a selfish concept in a way.
But when you think about it, if you do it the right way, everybody that's
disconnected to you will benefit.
That's your family.
That's your team.
That's your employees.
That's your clients.
Everybody will benefit from this.
And so I think the answer to that question, I honestly do think that it is to become
the best version of yourself.
And I think that's different for everybody, you know, that's different for everybody.
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 pro yourself.