Tell me about your vision.
I got my vision and mission statement
when I was in my early thirties.
I was just in my kitchen working
and three phrases came into my head
and I had no idea what they were.
All I knew is that they wouldn't go away.
They were in my head.
And so I grabbed a three by five recipe card.
I wrote these three phrases down
and I put them inside one of my kitchen cabinet
cupboard doors thinking, you know,
maybe someday this will make some sense to me.
And it wasn't until several years later
that I understood what mission and vision was.
And now I teach it, but my vision is to encourage women,
provide them with practical help
and turn their thoughts toward Jesus.
So that's my whole vision.
That's awesome.
That is very sweet and that's very precise
and that's awesome.
Where would you say, I mean, I know you got the words
and you had things in your head
that tell you to this vision,
but where did this all come from?
Yeah, so I think because of exactly what mine was
and how it came, it was pretty obvious
that it came right from Jesus for me
because he was wanting me to promote him.
So pretty sure it came from him.
Very, very, very precise.
Thank you.
Tell me more about that.
How did you get started on that path
and what led you to here today?
So I knew that there was a God
and I heard about Jesus when I was just a little girl
and I thought, well, if God's got a perfect heaven somewhere
and I'm not perfect, that's not gonna work out for me.
So I figured I better trust in Jesus to help me get there
and that's what I did when I was tiny.
So I started listening for God
and knowing Jesus as a small child
and then just grew up with him like that.
And that saved me from a lot of unnecessary pain in my life,
just having some very clear practical guidelines for life
and learning that love was the most important thing
and that forgiveness and grace were huge.
And so I just went on from there.
And in my early thirties, I had a couple little kids
and then in 1996, my first book came out.
But four years before is where that started in 1992
about people kept asking me the same questions
and the same question.
And this is so funny
because now I've done like Bible study books
and all Christian churchy things.
But from the beginning,
the first book was about kitchen shortcuts.
That was my first book, Marnie's Kitchen Shortcuts.
And it took me four years to write it and get it published
but it came out with St. Peters,
or St. Martin's Press rather, I live in St. Petersburg.
It came out with St. Martin's Press in New York City.
And that really launched my public presence
because people started asking me to speak about that
and come and share with their groups and things like that.
So then I started speaking.
And then in 2002, I had another moment
where I was just minding my own business
and a blue clickable US map came into my head.
And I didn't know why it was in my brain.
It was this blue clickable US map.
And so I started asking God about that.
What's the deal with that?
And I understood that there were speakers bureaus
for the big Christian speaker names out there
but there was nothing for the small churches.
Like if you didn't have a huge budget
and you couldn't apply somebody in,
you just didn't know where to find a speaker
for your upcoming event.
And that's when in 2002, I started womenspeakers.com
which has grown now to be the largest online directory
of its kind in the world.
So that's kind of how I roll.
You're kind of getting a feel for that, right?
Yeah, I am.
That's awesome.
Speakers.com, awesome.
Thank you for sharing that.
Then what would you say is your goal
for being on the show, Martini?
My goal for being on the show.
I love to get in, it's kind of funny
because like when I travel to speak,
I always try to add auxiliary times
when I can get in front of audiences.
And my whole purpose is to encourage them
to provide them with practical help
and to turn their thoughts toward Jesus.
So it's the exact same thing here.
And what is fun for me is that
God has given me a lot of different things
we've owned, businesses, I've had so much trauma
in my life, individual things that would happen to us,
to me.
And so it feels like to me, wherever I am,
whoever I'm with, whoever I'm speaking to,
there's something of value that I can add to their lives
and that's what my goal is.
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 gonna 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.