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Tell me about your vision.

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I got my vision and mission statement

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when I was in my early thirties.

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I was just in my kitchen working

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and three phrases came into my head

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and I had no idea what they were.

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All I knew is that they wouldn't go away.

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They were in my head.

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And so I grabbed a three by five recipe card.

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I wrote these three phrases down

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and I put them inside one of my kitchen cabinet

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cupboard doors thinking, you know,

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maybe someday this will make some sense to me.

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And it wasn't until several years later

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that I understood what mission and vision was.

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And now I teach it, but my vision is to encourage women,

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provide them with practical help

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and turn their thoughts toward Jesus.

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So that's my whole vision.

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That's awesome.

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That is very sweet and that's very precise

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and that's awesome.

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Where would you say, I mean, I know you got the words

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and you had things in your head

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that tell you to this vision,

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but where did this all come from?

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Yeah, so I think because of exactly what mine was

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and how it came, it was pretty obvious

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that it came right from Jesus for me

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because he was wanting me to promote him.

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So pretty sure it came from him.

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Very, very, very precise.

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Thank you.

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Tell me more about that.

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How did you get started on that path

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and what led you to here today?

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So I knew that there was a God

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and I heard about Jesus when I was just a little girl

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and I thought, well, if God's got a perfect heaven somewhere

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and I'm not perfect, that's not gonna work out for me.

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So I figured I better trust in Jesus to help me get there

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and that's what I did when I was tiny.

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So I started listening for God

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and knowing Jesus as a small child

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and then just grew up with him like that.

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And that saved me from a lot of unnecessary pain in my life,

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just having some very clear practical guidelines for life

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and learning that love was the most important thing

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and that forgiveness and grace were huge.

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And so I just went on from there.

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And in my early thirties, I had a couple little kids

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and then in 1996, my first book came out.

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But four years before is where that started in 1992

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about people kept asking me the same questions

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and the same question.

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And this is so funny

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because now I've done like Bible study books

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and all Christian churchy things.

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But from the beginning,

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the first book was about kitchen shortcuts.

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That was my first book, Marnie's Kitchen Shortcuts.

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And it took me four years to write it and get it published

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but it came out with St. Peters,

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or St. Martin's Press rather, I live in St. Petersburg.

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It came out with St. Martin's Press in New York City.

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And that really launched my public presence

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because people started asking me to speak about that

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and come and share with their groups and things like that.

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So then I started speaking.

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And then in 2002, I had another moment

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where I was just minding my own business

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and a blue clickable US map came into my head.

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And I didn't know why it was in my brain.

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It was this blue clickable US map.

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And so I started asking God about that.

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What's the deal with that?

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And I understood that there were speakers bureaus

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for the big Christian speaker names out there

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but there was nothing for the small churches.

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Like if you didn't have a huge budget

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and you couldn't apply somebody in,

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you just didn't know where to find a speaker

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for your upcoming event.

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And that's when in 2002, I started womenspeakers.com

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which has grown now to be the largest online directory

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of its kind in the world.

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So that's kind of how I roll.

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You're kind of getting a feel for that, right?

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Yeah, I am.

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That's awesome.

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Speakers.com, awesome.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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Then what would you say is your goal

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for being on the show, Martini?

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My goal for being on the show.

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I love to get in, it's kind of funny

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because like when I travel to speak,

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I always try to add auxiliary times

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when I can get in front of audiences.

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And my whole purpose is to encourage them

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to provide them with practical help

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and to turn their thoughts toward Jesus.

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So it's the exact same thing here.

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And what is fun for me is that

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God has given me a lot of different things

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we've owned, businesses, I've had so much trauma

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in my life, individual things that would happen to us,

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to me.

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And so it feels like to me, wherever I am,

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whoever I'm with, whoever I'm speaking to,

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there's something of value that I can add to their lives

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and that's what my goal is.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is gonna get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show

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and thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.