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Tell me about your vision. So, Harry, first of all, what is vision, right? And a lot of times,

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we don't understand what that is. Especially as entrepreneurs, we lose track of our mission,

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vision, as we move forward, because we get caught up in looking at social media,

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all those type of things. So a lot of times, when we take a look at who we are,

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what we are, and our why, we have to recalibrate every so often. So right now, my vision is to

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impact a million lives. That's my goal, because I think I have a lot of information that can help

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individuals, and I'm connected to a lot of people that can do that. And so not just from what I

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bring, but from what others bring, because a lot of times, especially from this podcast space,

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we meet people that normally we don't have the opportunities to have in other cases or places.

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So I think utilizing this platform of podcasting from using the platform of using streaming

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opportunities, we can touch those million lives. So I try to use everything to my advantage to

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to make a difference in transforming lives. I you kind of cut out, it might have been my internet

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or yours. I don't know. Okay, but I you cut out for the last 10 seconds. Can you repeat that part?

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Yeah, sure. You know, I think they're just utilizing all the technology that we have available to us,

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we can change lives, you know, so whether it's streaming, whether it's podcasting, you know,

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and we don't have to worry about using fancy technology to do it to get it done. Just as long

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as we stay true to who we are, and get the information out there. That's awesome. That's

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absolutely right. So what is your vision? If you were to put it? What is my vision? Yeah.

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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.

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And so the best version is not to copy someone else, not to be anybody else, just to be who I

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am to be my authentic self. So if I had to say my vision statement, be authentic.

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Because that's who I am. That's awesome. That's that's that is authentic and is an authentic

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statement. So being yourself, Maurice, where did this vision come from? So

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when you're in corporate America, you have supervisors and mentors and things like that.

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And a lot of times I know for myself, I've heard the statement, why don't you be like me?

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Why don't you duplicate what I'm doing? And if you do what I do, if you copy what I do,

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then you can grow within the organization or you could do whatever you want to do.

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Well, unfortunately, back in 2008, I had got really, really sick. To the point where I had to,

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I had surgery and I had gone to the hospitals and emergency in and out the emergency room,

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I had a persistent cough that when I died, like it just it kept going. So but I didn't realize

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what was really underneath all of that was stress. I was too caught up in being someone else,

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and not being true to who I am. So I think that's the one thing that I learned was to stay true to

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who I am being authentic being the laughing, jokey individual that I can be, you know, but I'm also

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serious, you know, anything that we talk about, you know, I understand, we can communicate,

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I respect everyone that I come across. Because in order for me to learn from you, and you learn

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from me, we have to have mutual respect, you know, so understand that where my vision comes from,

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comes from a place of respect, and understanding the individual, at least trying to understand

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the individual and being in ultimately understanding myself in that space, and how I can continue to

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grow. So as long as I be authentic, stay true to who I am, laugh and smile and give my customer

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service space, you know, and just create an environment that can touch myself ultimately,

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you know, because I'm still growing as anyone else is. What would you say Maurice

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gets you out of bed every morning, apart from obviously providing for yourself and family? Like

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what is your deep why, if you have figured it out? So my deep why, like you said, besides

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providing for my wife and my children, besides providing for my mother and my father, you know,

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you just want to make sure that your family is okay. But ultimately, I believe that it's helping

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out my brother or sister on the other side of me. Because I want to see everyone succeed. There's

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enough out there for everyone to get a little piece of the pie. You know, and, you know, and

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sometimes we don't understand that we have that vehicle to do that. So what gets me up in the

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morning is to make sure that, all right, Harry, what you want to do today, you want to learn how

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to ride a bike, you know, that type of thing, you know, so it's about making sure that the person

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next to me understand that they have the resources to achieve their goals and their dreams. In the

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meantime, I'm achieving mine as well, by helping you out by educating, by empowering, you know,

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for all of us to impact the world one way or another. That's a great insight. Now I want to

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take a little deep dive into I got started. It's very obvious that when you want to help people

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do something, you would have to have the knowledge of doing something yourself. That could be

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anything that you're trying to help people with. So what's your journey? And what do you specialize

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in? And how did you get here today? So funny. I was a church administrator. I'm a church boy at

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heart. So I was a church administrator. And at that particular time, I start to realize and talk

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to other churches and pastors and ministers, things like that, that a lot of churches did not

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have websites and logos and things like that. So I started from my business perspective. Hey,

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how can I help these churches build their brand? Right? It wasn't branding at that particular time,

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but we didn't call it branding at that time, but build their brand. But from an advertising

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perspective, because they didn't always understand what the community thought of them. So that grew

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over a period of time. So once I started with them with the website and the logo, because they felt

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like that's what was important to them. And then start talking to them about, Hey, what does the

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community think of you? How do you help the community? What is your brand? You know, what are

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you known for? How are you helping? How are you achieving? How are you expanding? So it started

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off by being a church administrator, starting my company in 2012, helping them understanding the

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the marketing and advertising aspect of branding, but then building along. So eventually I started

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really consulting small businesses, being concentrating more on religious and nonprofit

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organizations, and now really starting to transition into individuals, because now

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individuals really want to grow and become better in their industry. Not everyone wants to be an

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entrepreneur. And we all understand that everyone's not built out to be that way. But

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understand that no matter where you are, there is value. And understanding what other people think

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of you and feel about you. So encourages you to move forward. A lot of times we don't understand

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that we have value and some and we need those that feedback loop to understand, Hey, let's keep it

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moving. That's awesome. I had to ask the the logo you have behind. Yeah. That's a very, very

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interesting logo. I would love to know what who came up with that and what's the story behind that.

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So if you really take a look at the logo, that will never work. It's really the letters inverted

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kind of played around with right. And at the end is an equalizer to some degree. So but if you take

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a look at it, right, the W's, right, they almost look like dials. So, you know, it's the idea of

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being on the radio is a podcast idea, but it's just the letters inverted around. So, you know,

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you see the end right behind my head. You have the W's on the T. So that's so just a play around

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with the letters in a visual aspect. And what I really do by being on the radio. So the equalizer.

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So that's really where that had come from and the aspiration. Thank you for being here today. I'm

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

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

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

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

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Pro yourself.