Tell me about your vision in all of this.
My goal is to build a portfolio of businesses where I am not in the operations.
I'm not in the fulfillment and I can focus on the high level strategy building, uh,
and really create a lifestyle that, that I want.
Like for example, I don't go to conferences.
I do zero work travel.
I've completely eliminated it.
Sure.
I'm, I'm pretty confident I could go to a conference and get a bunch of partnerships
and leads and make it worthwhile, but I'm only interested in running a business that
doesn't require me to be anywhere or do certain things.
Even podcasts.
Like I, I've been on a thousand podcasts.
I used to do podcasts every single week.
Now I'm a little bit more picky and I do them here and there.
So I'm trying to really build a bit of portfolio businesses that run without me
for the most part with really good people that have a five star experience for our
clients.
Well, that makes all the sense in the world.
Does being a father of a one year old have anything to do with that too?
Now that you're a, you have someone chase around traveling probably isn't the
ideal thing, right?
Definitely.
I mean, when I was in my twenties, I was hustling.
If you asked me to go on a podcast, I would do five a day.
I'd go to every possible conference.
I'd work nights.
I'd work weekends.
My wife that just walked in the room.
I'm lucky she didn't break up with me at the time because I was always
working always on my phone.
Uh, but now it like three o'clock rolls around.
I'm not working anymore.
I don't take calls on weekends.
Like I'm very specific on what I do and don't get me wrong.
We put a lot of time and effort into our companies.
We care a lot about our clients and the experience that we're always
trying to improve it.
Uh, but there, there are certain limitations around that too, where it
doesn't consume every single second of my life.
Absolutely.
And it's, um, a lot of people call it the work life balance and, uh, being
able to, to manage that.
And it sounds like you've, but you've had so many companies.
Uh, is it, is it something you ended up having to learn?
Like you said, you were, you were out there and hustling back in, back
in the days or in the twenties.
Is it something you really had to learn to stop and just think about it?
Yeah.
I think every entrepreneur struggles with it.
And I mean, my advice, if you're listening, it is hustle.
When you, when you have no responsibilities, if you don't have a
wife, if you don't have kids, if you don't have lots of things that, that
require your time, like go out there, do everything it takes, but you're
going to burn out at some point.
There has to be an end game in mind, whether you're exiting your
company or whatever it is.
And when you get into your thirties and forties, if you're still hustling, if
you're still working 90 hours a week or whatever it is, like that's not where
you want to be, so when you're young, that's the time to take risks and go all
out and spend all your time on whatever you're passionate about.
I agree 100%.
So this is one of those cliche or typical question.
What's your why?
My why is you can only help other people if you're able to help yourself first.
All the people that work for any of my companies, because the company is
profitable and it's good for my business partner and I, then it's good for them
as well, and we want to build a family within our business that supports them
and helps everyone around us.
We want to create win-wins for us, for our team and for our clients.
And that's what we always look for where we're growing together.
We're all improving year after year together.
And also that just that lifestyle and freedom, like we gave our, it's a
holiday here in the U S on Monday.
We gave our team that extra day on Friday so they can rest and recharge and have
that work-life balance that we preach that we have, and we want to build, we
want to be able to help as many people as possible through that.
We want to grow businesses.
We want to make money, but we want to help a lot of people on the way doing that.
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 to the future of vision.
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.