Tell me about your vision. Yes, so my vision right now, it's honestly continuing what I've
been doing already so far with everything, not just with my acting, with my modeling and pursuing
that as one of my main top careers at the moment, but also helping other people do the same thing,
helping other people transform their minds, helping other people transform their bodies,
and honestly continuing my journey in that with helping people just become better, become healthier,
get through obstacles, mental barriers, limiting beliefs, but also just becoming healthier, more
fit, more energetic, more confident, and honestly just healthier and happier and living a better,
more wholesome life because life is too short. Honestly, life is way too short to not enjoy
life. It is just too short to not enjoy each and every day. And so many people, they keep themselves
stuck, not always realizing that's what they're doing, but not taking care of their health and
their overall wellness or well-being. It keeps them in a trap where they can't actually release
and live out their full inner potential. So that's one of my top visions, honestly, is to continue
is to continue helping other people, just one body at a time and one person at a time, just
continuously transforming their lives, their bodies, their minds, and their overall life.
I think we can share in that moment.
Where would you say that this vision of you helping people specifically embody mind and
mindset coaching come from?
Yeah, for sure. This vision, honestly, it came from, well, for starters, I am naturally and
are a humanitarian. So me just naturally being that humanitarian inside of myself, that really
brought me to wanting to help people just as a natural instinct of mine. But beyond that,
when I was struggling to get into fitness, when I was struggling to be healthier, my better and best
self, really my top self, and to be the best that I could be, when I was struggling with that,
but then I overcame that and I saw where I was and I realized where I am now and how far I've
come, how far I've come, my why, my mission, why I wanted to do what I've been doing and with helping
people and just really creating better, healthier lives for other people. It came from honestly,
my brother lifting weights, inspiring me to get into fitness, being a humanitarian.
And then also just being that person that likes to research things, that likes to investigate
what is in our foods. All right. What are we eating? What are we drinking? Because there's so
many chemicals, so many bad artificial just nonsense, so much artificial BS that's thrown
into what we're eating and drinking just on a day-to-day daily basis. And so just a lot of that
research I've done and seeing where I used to be and where I transformed and how I changed my life,
that really led me and inspired me to want to keep going and help other people out.
So it really came from my younger brother essentially and honestly seeing some of my
other family members not live their best, healthiest self. And those things actually lit a fire inside
of me to want to help other people change their life, their bodies and transform themselves.
So when you say that other people weren't living their best life and you were seeing that,
what were you missing in your life at that time or that you realized in the future that fitness gave
you or the mindset coaching gave you or something that you didn't see and you see now? Yeah. So what
was I lacking before I got into fitness? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. What I was lacking,
I would say before I even cared about my fitness, my health, when I was eating, when I was drinking,
just what I was doing on a daily basis, what I was really lacking was honestly a combination
of several things. One of which being lack of self-discipline. Let me tell you, my self-discipline
was not high. It was a hundred percent at an all-time low. I wasn't very disciplined with
what I would eat, with what I would drink. I would almost put anything and everything in my body and
not think a single thing of it. Like I would go through a whole bag of Twizzlers. I would go
through a whole box of Sour Patch Kids if I had a box of candy of that, or I would literally just
have so many Cheez-Its and crackers and snacks that were not the healthiest, I'll just be honest.
So much salt, sodium, sugar. I would just consume and not think anything of it. And so that lack of
self-determination, that lack of discipline and consistency, and really I would also say a
combination of those things with a lack of knowledge. Not really knowing what is better for me,
how to really eat properly, what to do with workouts, and how to live a better, healthier
life with my meals. And so I would say through extensive research again, extensive research,
trial and error for sure. Trial and error and then extensive research. I started realizing what was
best for me and my body, because yes, there are healthy ways that everyone can live by,
but there are certain ways of going about it for different people. And I started seeing what was
best and what was better for myself to ultimately get me on the plan and the path that I've been on
ever since. To actually do, and finally do a 180 and turn my life around completely. But yeah,
lacking that self-confidence, lacking that self-determination, that discipline, that made
it hard to live a healthier and better life. But after I started investigating what was in my foods,
it motivated me to not keep eating the same way, not keep being the same way with my nutrition,
with not caring about workouts. So I started to actually care about my body, because I wanted to
have a better self-image. I wanted to improve my confidence. I wanted to improve my consistency,
my motivation, my energy too, because when I started working out, I noticed a huge, huge major
shift in my energy. I went from being very low, lethargic to actually just a lot better,
a lot more focused, a lot happier, and just a lot more disciplined, just from being more consistent
with the gym. And then of course, that translated into eventually taking better care of what I was
putting in my body. And again, those ingredients that I was seeing, that made me not want to keep
eating what I was eating, because I realized if I can't even pronounce the half of these things,
these ingredients, if I can't even pronounce the half of them, let alone most of them,
and there's so many of those in just one thing of bread, for example, I probably shouldn't be
putting it in my body. So I took that into heavy consideration. And then eventually,
it was not an overnight thing. Like most things, it took time, because I'll admit,
I was a heavy sugar addict. Just like my grandpa, I was a heavy, heavy sugar addict. And it was hard.
It was really difficult to just put that sugar away and to even just wean off it a little bit.
I was so addicted. But again, after gradually weaning myself off, it's just like with,
if you're smoking cigarettes, you can't go cold turkey, or at least you shouldn't,
because the moment you do, it's going to just be very, very difficult. You're probably going to
go back to smoking again if you go cold turkey. So I just gradually weaned myself off. And ever
since, I felt so much better. But I would say, yeah, those were my main lacking things, which is
not enough consistency, sure as heck not enough discipline and willpower, which I've developed
strongly since. I hardly ever have sugar. If I do, it's usually below 10 grams of added sugar a day.
And I usually now replace that added sugar with more fruits, vegetables, healthier alternatives.
Wow. What you mentioned is very powerful, but I want to keep going on that aspect. I think that
would be very helpful for our audience to see. I'm going to put two tips on there. But essentially,
if someone is in the early stages of what you started off years ago, that they addicted to sugar,
they know it's wrong, and they want to quit. But every time they've tried, they've gone back and
fallen back because of whatever habits. What tips would you give them so they can essentially start
or continue to build up on what they're starting to see? Because they know what's wrong and what's
right, but essentially just don't do it. How would you help them? Yeah, 100%. So that is a lot of it.
It's trying to know what's good and what's not. But the moment they do realize that, that's great.
But then it can be hard to always be disciplined and, of course, be even consistent from then on
at that point. So the best piece of advice, I would say my top two tips, honestly, for people that
know what's bad for them, especially with sugar, but they can't seem to get away from it, I would
say number one, the first tip is to, like I was mentioning just before, wean yourself off and be
gradual with it. Don't just cut all that sugar out right away. Because it's just like with working
out, you can't dive right in and do five, six days of workouts a week. You could, but you're
probably not going to stick with it, at least not for the long term, for the long haul. So for long
term results, you got to look at the big picture because so many people look at the small picture.
So to look at the big overall picture and scope of things and for long term success and results,
it's always good to get involved in workouts for stripping away sugar in this case, but to
gradually do that, gradually do it. Don't just go from maybe having four sodas a day to none,
have four sodas a day and then maybe cut it in half or at least take out one soda over the
course of each week. So you could have your goal to cut out one soda a week and literally just do
it slowly, do it gradually. That'll make it easier to actually get on board with that. And then from
there, the next top tip that I have to cut the sugar out or at least gradually cut it out is to
honestly replace it or gradually replace it with natural sugars such as fruits, bananas, apples,
pineapple, anything that tastes similar to what you were having. Maybe you were having some
Sour Patch Kids, you love the lemon or watermelon flavor. So you could replace that with some
watermelon. You could also sweeten your foods instead of adding sugar to like your oatmeal,
for example, like brown sugar or white sugar. You could literally replace it with honestly
just bananas, almond butter, peanut butter, healthier things that still taste amazing,
but they're not filled with sugar and they're healthier for you. They're healthier for your
body. And it makes it easier to stay disciplined, stay disciplined and still get that good tasting
food without having to substitute it, excuse me, with a bunch of sugar and just a bunch of
chemicals that can actually be in certain sugars too. 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
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