Tell me about your vision.
Hey, Harry.
My vision,
I work as a business coach
and what I find is so many businesses or business owners,
they work so hard and they never get to
enjoy the fruits of their labor, right?
And I think one of the things we spoke about
just before we done this podcast,
imagine someone says to you,
go and build a shed in your back garden,
but you didn't have a picture of that shed.
How would you build the shed?
I'm not a DIY man.
I need to see the picture of it
before I can create a plan to achieve that vision.
I think that's the same with all business owners
and that's a space that I work in.
You know, you had a dream when you started your business,
you know what you wanted it to look like,
but as business goes on, you know,
two, three months down the line after you've started,
if you aren't generating business,
our motivation starts to wane.
It gets a little bit less at your sight of your vision
and the things that you want to achieve.
So when working with business owners,
I come in, I help them rekindle what their vision was,
where do they want to be in five years,
and then we backtrack and construct that plan.
That's awesome.
Where did this vision, Sean, come from?
How did you get into helping business owners coaching
and how did you end up where you are today?
It was by fault really.
So my background is a former paratrooper
in the British Army and then I became a bodyguard.
So I worked with a lot of very,
some of the most influential people in the world,
you know, billionaires,
people from certain various governments.
And one of the things you find, you know,
when you spend such close intimate time
with people from that sort of background,
you learn a lot about how to get to that point
how people make decisions, you know,
it's about being decisive.
And when I say it by default,
so I built a really successful security company
and by two challenges that happen,
all business have challenges, you know,
whether it's personal challenges or global challenges.
And one of the challenges that affected me was
when Russia invaded Ukraine,
my main client base was high net worth,
Russian individuals,
and it impacted my business in a large way
when that war happened.
Cause one client after another came under sanction,
so I had to repivot.
And what I'd done,
I took up, I started business coaching.
My initial niche was focused on security,
business owners to get them to build their businesses
like I'd built mine.
Now I focus on mostly small and medium businesses
because the fundamentals of building any business
in any space is the same.
Just different industries have different nuances
and it's about working with the business owners.
You know, they're the expert in their space.
You're the guide that helps get them
to where they wanna be.
What would you say, Sean, that is your vibe?
Like what gets you out of bed every morning?
Why do you do what you do?
I know you started because your business took a downturn
with the war.
And so you got into coaching,
but why do you do what you do now?
It's been, I wanna say, an year at least, right?
Yeah.
So when I was a child,
it's a story I've done a talk recently actually,
and I spoke about when I became a British paratrooper.
As a child, all my holidays were,
part of my holidays, they weren't,
I'd never been aboard, I'd never been on an airplane.
And I did a talk recently where
when I joined the parachute regiment,
the first time I ever got on a plane,
I jumped out of it.
I've always had this,
I've never really had a plan what I wanted to do in my life.
You know, as a typical teenager, teenage boy,
I loved playing football,
chasing after girls, you know,
getting lost in computer games,
all of them sort of things.
But until one day,
all past the army careers officer,
literally just got drawn in.
And I walked, I've always had that sense of adventure,
that sense of want to achieve something.
And when I went in, joined the,
they said, what do you want to join?
I didn't know what I wanted to do,
but I'd seen, you know, on the new, on the TV,
these guys who jumped out of airplanes,
and I'd never been on a plane.
So I said, I want to become a paratrooper.
At the time, during the British Army,
outside of special forces,
the parachute regiment is the,
it's like the Marines and the paratroopers
are the elite forces that you would join.
So I had that,
I don't know, it was almost a sense of calling
when I joined the parachute regiment.
But when you join the parachute regiment,
it's almost, you get indoctrinated,
you know, you get told you're better than everybody else
because you're in these harder challenges.
So all these other units, they can't touch
or reach the levels that you are,
the tests that you're passing.
And you get this motivation, this drive,
that you are better than everybody else.
And you get this mindset that you can achieve anything.
And when I left the parachute regiment,
I wanted to become a bodyguard.
And I remember my parents said to me,
at the time it was a strange career to go in, right?
Where I'm from.
And they said, oh, you're going to bodyguard.
And I said, I don't know who I'm going to bodyguard,
but I'm going to do it.
And I flew out to South Africa and I'd done,
it was the best bodyguard course in the world at the time.
And still, no one has won the top bodyguard course
in the world now.
I've done the rolling course in South Africa.
And I just threw myself and I knew I'm going to do it.
If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well.
Because everything I've done is to,
I think you get what you pay for.
So I've always tried to buy quality,
provide a quality service.
And why do I do that?
Because I want to present myself in the correct way
to the people that I work with.
And by doing that, I can help people
on the mission I'm on with my business.
I can help grow life for my family.
And I get a big kick out of seeing the people
that I work with progress, move forward.
And when that happens, it also impacts me
because when you get good results,
then you get more clients, right?
So that's all about the delivery
and what comes out of that.
So how long have you been doing the coaching now?
So I've been in the military, 2005.
I left the military when I got into the security industry.
In the coaching industry,
it's been just over two years now as a coach.
Prior to that, in the military,
spent years coaching individuals as an instructor
through different levels,
whether that's physical training or instructor level
on different weapon systems, things like that.
But set my first business up in 2012.
And there's a lot of element of coaching
along with the staff that you have on board,
the various positions that they go into,
the leadership roles that they go into as a business coach.
That's where I've been focusing for the last two years,
but I've had experience of running business since 2012.
Thank you for sharing that.
I have one more question for you.
Yeah.
What is your goal for being on the show today, Sean?
I think my goal at the moment,
I like giving value, if I can pass value
in some of the lessons that I've,
from my background, some of the things I've done,
I like to do that because when you give value,
what you give in life comes back to you in return.
If you're a bad person, if you're a glass half empty person,
then that's what you're gonna attract.
If you're a positive person, glass half full,
the same goes, right?
I think what Tony Robbins says,
proximity is power.
You are who you surround yourself with.
And I spend a lot of time trying to give value
in the things that I do.
And hopefully that comes back,
that goes out to your listeners,
they get some value, some nuggets from me,
and in return, maybe they start following me,
getting on board, becoming part of my community,
and then I can continue to add value on a larger scale.
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.