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Tell me about your vision.

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You know, my vision is, it's crazy.

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It's a crazy answer.

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My vision is for everybody to realize what their own vision is and to pursue that.

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I think, um, I think a lot of times there's an issue with self-confidence, self-esteem.

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And the, I don't think a lot of people realize these are things that can be built

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and improved on, you know, and there's certain ways we can do that.

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But the reality of it is that we all have something unique.

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We can offer the world.

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We all have some contribution we can have here.

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And we simply can't do that if we don't believe in ourselves, if we don't, if we

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don't have the, the, the discipline, the self-confidence, the self-esteem to pursue

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those things.

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And so it's like, you know, we think that we're just a small drop in a very big ocean,

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but it's like that drop is unique.

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You know, that drop has something to it that not the, not the rest of the ocean

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doesn't have.

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And so I just, I think it's, I think it's important for us to all find out what that

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is and how to pursue that path in our life.

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How did you get started?

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You got a podcast, you got a business as well for landscaping.

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You've got, I'm sure a ton of story behind that too.

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Where do you feel like it started?

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You know, all this started a decade ago when really I just felt, I don't know how

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other, how else to describe it other than just out of place.

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You know, I had, I've always, I tell the story I've had, you know, 30, 40 plus jobs

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where people around me felt like these were good jobs, warehousing, manufacturing,

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construction, all this kind of thing.

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And I just, but I felt like something I was supposed to be doing something else.

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It just, it just was not that, you know, um, which we could go down the rabbit hole

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of why that makes you feel, you know, uh, selfish and like you're doing something

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wrong to pursue something else.

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Um, because everybody around you, you know, like I said, to these people, these

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were good jobs, they had good money, whatever, but you know, this all started

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with this sort of, I don't want to use the word vision here, this sort of desire

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to do something else.

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And now a decade later into this thing, the business is a decade in the podcast

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is just a year or so in, um, it's like, I'm trying to take the things that I've

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learned, take the things I've seen and, and not only share it with other people,

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but also learn from other people who have experiences that I don't, because

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I've learned a lot from, uh, from this decade of being a businessman a lot, you

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know, I mean, cause it started out as just me and, you know, just me myself.

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And then, then we started doing commercial and there was other people involved.

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We started working with companies and we started doing, you know,

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involved, we started working with companies, business to business type thing.

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And so there's just been a lot over this past decade.

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How do leaders lean in to funding the vision?

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You've done so.

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So I'm assuming when you say funding here, are you talking about financially?

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Are you talking about what their, with their energy, with their

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mental and physical energy?

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I mean, when we say funding, what are you, are you talking about

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specifically financially?

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Wisdom says for me to keep it big wisdom says for you to ask that question.

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Um, so feel free to, uh, to guide us on this.

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It's, you know, it's really for the audience.

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What's going to benefit the audience most of visionaries who are maybe scared.

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Um, you know, maybe they're held back by somebody else.

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Maybe they don't really consider themselves a visionary or a leader.

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There's a lot of things.

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And I think that most people are familiar with what's holding them back.

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I think they're often lost on how do you lean into it?

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How do you do it?

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If you're feeling that way.

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I got you.

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You know, I think, I think both of these questions can probably be answered

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with the simple fact that there is any sort of business when you start a business,

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it is a high risk, high reward operation.

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I mean, you, you know, as a business owner, anybody who is a business owner,

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who's, who's even thinking about this knows that everything falls on you.

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I mean, I always, you know, you P P hear people say that whether or not the

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company fails or succeeds, it's on you.

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You know, if it succeeds, you need to give credit to your, your team, but if

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it fails, it is certainly on you because you, you could have done something

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differently, you could have hired person, you know, different people.

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You could have spent money in different areas.

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So everything falls on you.

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And I think, I think that's one thing that really holds a lot of people back

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from just kind of, you know, getting to the level they could get at is this.

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They, they, we get to a place where we feel comfortable, you know, we get

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comfortable and we've, man, we've, we've been at this thing five, you know, six,

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10, 15 years, and we don't want to risk everything that we've done, but it's

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just like, what happens if you put everything out there?

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What happens if you just one year?

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I mean, just, just one year, just go into this and you put everything on the table.

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Yeah, you might.

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I understand.

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I understand the work that you've done before that it will risk that, but the

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reward will be exponentially higher.

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So I think that I think it is that, that fear, and I do, I do honestly think it's

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a fear and it's, it's completely valid.

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I mean, it's, it's 100%.

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We talked about 96% of businesses don't even make it at this point.

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So it's completely valid fear, but I think it is that fear of the risk.

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It's the fear of, you know, what if I don't have what it takes?

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What if I can't do this?

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What if I do, what if I pull it off and I can't handle it?

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You know, so there's all these, all these different things.

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Well, how do we, how do we lead into funding this?

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And again, here we're using funding.

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You can insert whatever, whatever it works in your situation.

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If we're saying financially, you say, oh, well, I got my money figured out.

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Maybe you do, but there's an area that maybe you don't.

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So we're going to use funding as a vague, whatever kind of fits your situation.

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How do leaders fund their vision is.

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Honestly, man, and this is where kind of my personal story comes into.

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I think it's honestly becoming the best version of yourself that you can be.

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I honestly do think that because especially as a leader, you know, if, if

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you're in a, if you're in an operation where it's just you, you know, you have

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a business where you're kind of doing a service for somebody or whatever.

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That's a little bit, that's, that's, that's kind of a gray area maybe.

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But if you're leading people, you have to be, you have to be aware of yourself.

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You have to be conscious of yourself.

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How do you come across?

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Other people, you have to learn relationships, how to manage people.

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There there's so many different things.

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And I always say this too.

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It's easy to say that personal growth is almost like a, it's almost

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like a selfish concept in a way.

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But when you think about it, if you do it the right way, everybody that's

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disconnected to you will benefit.

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That's your family.

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That's your team.

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That's your employees.

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That's your clients.

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Everybody will benefit from this.

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And so I think the answer to that question, I honestly do think that it is to become

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the best version of yourself.

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And I think that's different for everybody, you know, that's different for everybody.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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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 time

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and attention, have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a

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vision pro yourself.