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Tell me about your vision. Yes, so my vision right now, it's honestly continuing what I've

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been doing already so far with everything, not just with my acting, with my modeling and pursuing

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that as one of my main top careers at the moment, but also helping other people do the same thing,

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helping other people transform their minds, helping other people transform their bodies,

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and honestly continuing my journey in that with helping people just become better, become healthier,

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get through obstacles, mental barriers, limiting beliefs, but also just becoming healthier, more

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fit, more energetic, more confident, and honestly just healthier and happier and living a better,

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more wholesome life because life is too short. Honestly, life is way too short to not enjoy

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life. It is just too short to not enjoy each and every day. And so many people, they keep themselves

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stuck, not always realizing that's what they're doing, but not taking care of their health and

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their overall wellness or well-being. It keeps them in a trap where they can't actually release

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and live out their full inner potential. So that's one of my top visions, honestly, is to continue

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is to continue helping other people, just one body at a time and one person at a time, just

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continuously transforming their lives, their bodies, their minds, and their overall life.

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I think we can share in that moment.

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Where would you say that this vision of you helping people specifically embody mind and

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mindset coaching come from?

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Yeah, for sure. This vision, honestly, it came from, well, for starters, I am naturally and

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are a humanitarian. So me just naturally being that humanitarian inside of myself, that really

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brought me to wanting to help people just as a natural instinct of mine. But beyond that,

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when I was struggling to get into fitness, when I was struggling to be healthier, my better and best

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self, really my top self, and to be the best that I could be, when I was struggling with that,

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but then I overcame that and I saw where I was and I realized where I am now and how far I've

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come, how far I've come, my why, my mission, why I wanted to do what I've been doing and with helping

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people and just really creating better, healthier lives for other people. It came from honestly,

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my brother lifting weights, inspiring me to get into fitness, being a humanitarian.

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And then also just being that person that likes to research things, that likes to investigate

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what is in our foods. All right. What are we eating? What are we drinking? Because there's so

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many chemicals, so many bad artificial just nonsense, so much artificial BS that's thrown

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into what we're eating and drinking just on a day-to-day daily basis. And so just a lot of that

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research I've done and seeing where I used to be and where I transformed and how I changed my life,

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that really led me and inspired me to want to keep going and help other people out.

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So it really came from my younger brother essentially and honestly seeing some of my

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other family members not live their best, healthiest self. And those things actually lit a fire inside

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of me to want to help other people change their life, their bodies and transform themselves.

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So when you say that other people weren't living their best life and you were seeing that,

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what were you missing in your life at that time or that you realized in the future that fitness gave

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you or the mindset coaching gave you or something that you didn't see and you see now? Yeah. So what

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was I lacking before I got into fitness? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. What I was lacking,

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I would say before I even cared about my fitness, my health, when I was eating, when I was drinking,

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just what I was doing on a daily basis, what I was really lacking was honestly a combination

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of several things. One of which being lack of self-discipline. Let me tell you, my self-discipline

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was not high. It was a hundred percent at an all-time low. I wasn't very disciplined with

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what I would eat, with what I would drink. I would almost put anything and everything in my body and

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not think a single thing of it. Like I would go through a whole bag of Twizzlers. I would go

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through a whole box of Sour Patch Kids if I had a box of candy of that, or I would literally just

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have so many Cheez-Its and crackers and snacks that were not the healthiest, I'll just be honest.

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So much salt, sodium, sugar. I would just consume and not think anything of it. And so that lack of

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self-determination, that lack of discipline and consistency, and really I would also say a

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combination of those things with a lack of knowledge. Not really knowing what is better for me,

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how to really eat properly, what to do with workouts, and how to live a better, healthier

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life with my meals. And so I would say through extensive research again, extensive research,

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trial and error for sure. Trial and error and then extensive research. I started realizing what was

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best for me and my body, because yes, there are healthy ways that everyone can live by,

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but there are certain ways of going about it for different people. And I started seeing what was

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best and what was better for myself to ultimately get me on the plan and the path that I've been on

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ever since. To actually do, and finally do a 180 and turn my life around completely. But yeah,

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lacking that self-confidence, lacking that self-determination, that discipline, that made

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it hard to live a healthier and better life. But after I started investigating what was in my foods,

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it motivated me to not keep eating the same way, not keep being the same way with my nutrition,

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with not caring about workouts. So I started to actually care about my body, because I wanted to

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have a better self-image. I wanted to improve my confidence. I wanted to improve my consistency,

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my motivation, my energy too, because when I started working out, I noticed a huge, huge major

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shift in my energy. I went from being very low, lethargic to actually just a lot better,

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a lot more focused, a lot happier, and just a lot more disciplined, just from being more consistent

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with the gym. And then of course, that translated into eventually taking better care of what I was

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putting in my body. And again, those ingredients that I was seeing, that made me not want to keep

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eating what I was eating, because I realized if I can't even pronounce the half of these things,

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these ingredients, if I can't even pronounce the half of them, let alone most of them,

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and there's so many of those in just one thing of bread, for example, I probably shouldn't be

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putting it in my body. So I took that into heavy consideration. And then eventually,

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it was not an overnight thing. Like most things, it took time, because I'll admit,

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I was a heavy sugar addict. Just like my grandpa, I was a heavy, heavy sugar addict. And it was hard.

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It was really difficult to just put that sugar away and to even just wean off it a little bit.

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I was so addicted. But again, after gradually weaning myself off, it's just like with,

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if you're smoking cigarettes, you can't go cold turkey, or at least you shouldn't,

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because the moment you do, it's going to just be very, very difficult. You're probably going to

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go back to smoking again if you go cold turkey. So I just gradually weaned myself off. And ever

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since, I felt so much better. But I would say, yeah, those were my main lacking things, which is

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not enough consistency, sure as heck not enough discipline and willpower, which I've developed

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strongly since. I hardly ever have sugar. If I do, it's usually below 10 grams of added sugar a day.

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And I usually now replace that added sugar with more fruits, vegetables, healthier alternatives.

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Wow. What you mentioned is very powerful, but I want to keep going on that aspect. I think that

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would be very helpful for our audience to see. I'm going to put two tips on there. But essentially,

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if someone is in the early stages of what you started off years ago, that they addicted to sugar,

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they know it's wrong, and they want to quit. But every time they've tried, they've gone back and

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fallen back because of whatever habits. What tips would you give them so they can essentially start

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or continue to build up on what they're starting to see? Because they know what's wrong and what's

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right, but essentially just don't do it. How would you help them? Yeah, 100%. So that is a lot of it.

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It's trying to know what's good and what's not. But the moment they do realize that, that's great.

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But then it can be hard to always be disciplined and, of course, be even consistent from then on

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at that point. So the best piece of advice, I would say my top two tips, honestly, for people that

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know what's bad for them, especially with sugar, but they can't seem to get away from it, I would

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say number one, the first tip is to, like I was mentioning just before, wean yourself off and be

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gradual with it. Don't just cut all that sugar out right away. Because it's just like with working

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out, you can't dive right in and do five, six days of workouts a week. You could, but you're

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probably not going to stick with it, at least not for the long term, for the long haul. So for long

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term results, you got to look at the big picture because so many people look at the small picture.

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So to look at the big overall picture and scope of things and for long term success and results,

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it's always good to get involved in workouts for stripping away sugar in this case, but to

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gradually do that, gradually do it. Don't just go from maybe having four sodas a day to none,

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have four sodas a day and then maybe cut it in half or at least take out one soda over the

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course of each week. So you could have your goal to cut out one soda a week and literally just do

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it slowly, do it gradually. That'll make it easier to actually get on board with that. And then from

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there, the next top tip that I have to cut the sugar out or at least gradually cut it out is to

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honestly replace it or gradually replace it with natural sugars such as fruits, bananas, apples,

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pineapple, anything that tastes similar to what you were having. Maybe you were having some

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Sour Patch Kids, you love the lemon or watermelon flavor. So you could replace that with some

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watermelon. You could also sweeten your foods instead of adding sugar to like your oatmeal,

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for example, like brown sugar or white sugar. You could literally replace it with honestly

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just bananas, almond butter, peanut butter, healthier things that still taste amazing,

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but they're not filled with sugar and they're healthier for you. They're healthier for your

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body. And it makes it easier to stay disciplined, stay disciplined and still get that good tasting

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food without having to substitute it, excuse me, with a bunch of sugar and just a bunch of

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chemicals that can actually be in certain sugars too. Thank you for being here today. I'm really

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happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these

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episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more

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engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving

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us your time and attention. Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.