Tell me about your vision. So, Harry, first of all, what is vision, right? And a lot of times,
we don't understand what that is. Especially as entrepreneurs, we lose track of our mission,
vision, as we move forward, because we get caught up in looking at social media,
all those type of things. So a lot of times, when we take a look at who we are,
what we are, and our why, we have to recalibrate every so often. So right now, my vision is to
impact a million lives. That's my goal, because I think I have a lot of information that can help
individuals, and I'm connected to a lot of people that can do that. And so not just from what I
bring, but from what others bring, because a lot of times, especially from this podcast space,
we meet people that normally we don't have the opportunities to have in other cases or places.
So I think utilizing this platform of podcasting from using the platform of using streaming
opportunities, we can touch those million lives. So I try to use everything to my advantage to
to make a difference in transforming lives. I you kind of cut out, it might have been my internet
or yours. I don't know. Okay, but I you cut out for the last 10 seconds. Can you repeat that part?
Yeah, sure. You know, I think they're just utilizing all the technology that we have available to us,
we can change lives, you know, so whether it's streaming, whether it's podcasting, you know,
and we don't have to worry about using fancy technology to do it to get it done. Just as long
as we stay true to who we are, and get the information out there. That's awesome. That's
absolutely right. So what is your vision? If you were to put it? What is my vision? Yeah.
To be the best version of me. Like if I had to say who I am, I want to be the best version of me.
And so the best version is not to copy someone else, not to be anybody else, just to be who I
am to be my authentic self. So if I had to say my vision statement, be authentic.
Because that's who I am. That's awesome. That's that's that is authentic and is an authentic
statement. So being yourself, Maurice, where did this vision come from? So
when you're in corporate America, you have supervisors and mentors and things like that.
And a lot of times I know for myself, I've heard the statement, why don't you be like me?
Why don't you duplicate what I'm doing? And if you do what I do, if you copy what I do,
then you can grow within the organization or you could do whatever you want to do.
Well, unfortunately, back in 2008, I had got really, really sick. To the point where I had to,
I had surgery and I had gone to the hospitals and emergency in and out the emergency room,
I had a persistent cough that when I died, like it just it kept going. So but I didn't realize
what was really underneath all of that was stress. I was too caught up in being someone else,
and not being true to who I am. So I think that's the one thing that I learned was to stay true to
who I am being authentic being the laughing, jokey individual that I can be, you know, but I'm also
serious, you know, anything that we talk about, you know, I understand, we can communicate,
I respect everyone that I come across. Because in order for me to learn from you, and you learn
from me, we have to have mutual respect, you know, so understand that where my vision comes from,
comes from a place of respect, and understanding the individual, at least trying to understand
the individual and being in ultimately understanding myself in that space, and how I can continue to
grow. So as long as I be authentic, stay true to who I am, laugh and smile and give my customer
service space, you know, and just create an environment that can touch myself ultimately,
you know, because I'm still growing as anyone else is. What would you say Maurice
gets you out of bed every morning, apart from obviously providing for yourself and family? Like
what is your deep why, if you have figured it out? So my deep why, like you said, besides
providing for my wife and my children, besides providing for my mother and my father, you know,
you just want to make sure that your family is okay. But ultimately, I believe that it's helping
out my brother or sister on the other side of me. Because I want to see everyone succeed. There's
enough out there for everyone to get a little piece of the pie. You know, and, you know, and
sometimes we don't understand that we have that vehicle to do that. So what gets me up in the
morning is to make sure that, all right, Harry, what you want to do today, you want to learn how
to ride a bike, you know, that type of thing, you know, so it's about making sure that the person
next to me understand that they have the resources to achieve their goals and their dreams. In the
meantime, I'm achieving mine as well, by helping you out by educating, by empowering, you know,
for all of us to impact the world one way or another. That's a great insight. Now I want to
take a little deep dive into I got started. It's very obvious that when you want to help people
do something, you would have to have the knowledge of doing something yourself. That could be
anything that you're trying to help people with. So what's your journey? And what do you specialize
in? And how did you get here today? So funny. I was a church administrator. I'm a church boy at
heart. So I was a church administrator. And at that particular time, I start to realize and talk
to other churches and pastors and ministers, things like that, that a lot of churches did not
have websites and logos and things like that. So I started from my business perspective. Hey,
how can I help these churches build their brand? Right? It wasn't branding at that particular time,
but we didn't call it branding at that time, but build their brand. But from an advertising
perspective, because they didn't always understand what the community thought of them. So that grew
over a period of time. So once I started with them with the website and the logo, because they felt
like that's what was important to them. And then start talking to them about, Hey, what does the
community think of you? How do you help the community? What is your brand? You know, what are
you known for? How are you helping? How are you achieving? How are you expanding? So it started
off by being a church administrator, starting my company in 2012, helping them understanding the
the marketing and advertising aspect of branding, but then building along. So eventually I started
really consulting small businesses, being concentrating more on religious and nonprofit
organizations, and now really starting to transition into individuals, because now
individuals really want to grow and become better in their industry. Not everyone wants to be an
entrepreneur. And we all understand that everyone's not built out to be that way. But
understand that no matter where you are, there is value. And understanding what other people think
of you and feel about you. So encourages you to move forward. A lot of times we don't understand
that we have value and some and we need those that feedback loop to understand, Hey, let's keep it
moving. That's awesome. I had to ask the the logo you have behind. Yeah. That's a very, very
interesting logo. I would love to know what who came up with that and what's the story behind that.
So if you really take a look at the logo, that will never work. It's really the letters inverted
kind of played around with right. And at the end is an equalizer to some degree. So but if you take
a look at it, right, the W's, right, they almost look like dials. So, you know, it's the idea of
being on the radio is a podcast idea, but it's just the letters inverted around. So, you know,
you see the end right behind my head. You have the W's on the T. So that's so just a play around
with the letters in a visual aspect. And what I really do by being on the radio. So the equalizer.
So that's really where that had come from and the aspiration. Thank you for being here today. I'm
really happy that you tuned into 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.