Tell me about your vision.
I'll tell you that.
That's such a fabulous question.
And I started thinking about it and
I thought, no, you know what?
Vision. I mean, so let's go
big on this. I mean, if you really want to know my vision
and it's not something I'm
going to achieve, but it's still
a goal is to see
a world where people could
be their own best self.
Where they're not having to listen
to other signals or pressures
and could be very
happy and
content in the decisions they're making.
And so that requires a decision
making process that allows them
to build on,
like I said, their own good
self. And right now
there's just too many, too much noise.
Yes.
So, and that goes
back to the name of your busy
business, Busy Minds.
And so is that where that comes
from is just too much noise
and...
Yeah, and I think that it comes
from the fact that as well that I
was often challenged early on in my
career was to pick a lane.
You know, what is your topic? What is your topic?
What is your topic? And I realized that
it's bigger than that. I don't have
one thing. And that's why you
can read me talking about
Gen Z. It'll tie back into
ethics. My main focus
is around ethics, but boy, there's
all sorts of facets of that.
And every time I start to explore one, I
get interested. And so
rather than being too scattered,
I try to bring that together. But that's
sort of where that all comes from.
So where did this vision come
from? I know it's a big audacious
vision, but where did it come from?
It started
as all these things do. You know,
it's a journey. And
I started working in public accounting.
That was my first professional job
was in public accounting. I am an accountant.
And I realized
that I was working with good people
in a heavily regulated industry
with lots of rules and regulations.
And we had a
mandate from the professional
perspective and also from my company's perspective,
you know, protecting the public, doing
what was good for people. But
the behaviors didn't always
in my mind align.
And this is back, I'm talking back when I was
young. And so I was looking for guidance. I
was looking for people to mentor
me and to tell me, you know,
how to behave, but how to think about how to
behave. And I got conflicting
signals. And it was frustrating.
And I found that it felt
to me that sometimes I had to be
dishonest.
And then I discovered
that I didn't have language. And this is
where it started. How do I explain this to people?
I'm not trying to be holier than
thou or, you know,
you're all wrong. No, no, I just need
clarity.
What are the greatest joys
of what you do?
You know, this is actually going to be
easy. This type of exchange.
I just love connecting
with people, seeing
them say, OK, yeah,
I see that, you know,
that I'm following you, Michelle.
This makes sense to me. And then providing
some tools that they can perhaps
solidify that a little bit
so that at the end of the day, they can feel
they're making decisions they can live with. And that
brings me a lot of joy. 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.