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Tell me about your vision.

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Hey, Harry.

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My vision,

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I work as a business coach

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and what I find is so many businesses or business owners,

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they work so hard and they never get to

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enjoy the fruits of their labor, right?

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And I think one of the things we spoke about

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just before we done this podcast,

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imagine someone says to you,

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go and build a shed in your back garden,

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but you didn't have a picture of that shed.

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How would you build the shed?

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I'm not a DIY man.

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I need to see the picture of it

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before I can create a plan to achieve that vision.

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I think that's the same with all business owners

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and that's a space that I work in.

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You know, you had a dream when you started your business,

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you know what you wanted it to look like,

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but as business goes on, you know,

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two, three months down the line after you've started,

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if you aren't generating business,

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our motivation starts to wane.

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It gets a little bit less at your sight of your vision

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and the things that you want to achieve.

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So when working with business owners,

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I come in, I help them rekindle what their vision was,

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where do they want to be in five years,

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and then we backtrack and construct that plan.

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That's awesome.

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Where did this vision, Sean, come from?

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How did you get into helping business owners coaching

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and how did you end up where you are today?

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It was by fault really.

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So my background is a former paratrooper

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in the British Army and then I became a bodyguard.

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So I worked with a lot of very,

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some of the most influential people in the world,

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you know, billionaires,

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people from certain various governments.

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And one of the things you find, you know,

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when you spend such close intimate time

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with people from that sort of background,

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you learn a lot about how to get to that point

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how people make decisions, you know,

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it's about being decisive.

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And when I say it by default,

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so I built a really successful security company

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and by two challenges that happen,

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all business have challenges, you know,

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whether it's personal challenges or global challenges.

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And one of the challenges that affected me was

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when Russia invaded Ukraine,

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my main client base was high net worth,

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Russian individuals,

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and it impacted my business in a large way

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when that war happened.

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Cause one client after another came under sanction,

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so I had to repivot.

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And what I'd done,

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I took up, I started business coaching.

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My initial niche was focused on security,

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business owners to get them to build their businesses

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like I'd built mine.

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Now I focus on mostly small and medium businesses

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because the fundamentals of building any business

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in any space is the same.

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Just different industries have different nuances

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and it's about working with the business owners.

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You know, they're the expert in their space.

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You're the guide that helps get them

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to where they wanna be.

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What would you say, Sean, that is your vibe?

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Like what gets you out of bed every morning?

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Why do you do what you do?

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I know you started because your business took a downturn

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with the war.

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And so you got into coaching,

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but why do you do what you do now?

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It's been, I wanna say, an year at least, right?

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Yeah.

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So when I was a child,

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it's a story I've done a talk recently actually,

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and I spoke about when I became a British paratrooper.

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As a child, all my holidays were,

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part of my holidays, they weren't,

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I'd never been aboard, I'd never been on an airplane.

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And I did a talk recently where

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when I joined the parachute regiment,

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the first time I ever got on a plane,

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I jumped out of it.

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I've always had this,

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I've never really had a plan what I wanted to do in my life.

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You know, as a typical teenager, teenage boy,

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I loved playing football,

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chasing after girls, you know,

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getting lost in computer games,

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all of them sort of things.

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But until one day,

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all past the army careers officer,

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literally just got drawn in.

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And I walked, I've always had that sense of adventure,

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that sense of want to achieve something.

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And when I went in, joined the,

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they said, what do you want to join?

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I didn't know what I wanted to do,

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but I'd seen, you know, on the new, on the TV,

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these guys who jumped out of airplanes,

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and I'd never been on a plane.

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So I said, I want to become a paratrooper.

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At the time, during the British Army,

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outside of special forces,

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the parachute regiment is the,

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it's like the Marines and the paratroopers

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are the elite forces that you would join.

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So I had that,

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I don't know, it was almost a sense of calling

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when I joined the parachute regiment.

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But when you join the parachute regiment,

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it's almost, you get indoctrinated,

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you know, you get told you're better than everybody else

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because you're in these harder challenges.

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So all these other units, they can't touch

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or reach the levels that you are,

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the tests that you're passing.

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And you get this motivation, this drive,

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that you are better than everybody else.

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And you get this mindset that you can achieve anything.

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And when I left the parachute regiment,

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I wanted to become a bodyguard.

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And I remember my parents said to me,

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at the time it was a strange career to go in, right?

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Where I'm from.

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And they said, oh, you're going to bodyguard.

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And I said, I don't know who I'm going to bodyguard,

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but I'm going to do it.

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And I flew out to South Africa and I'd done,

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it was the best bodyguard course in the world at the time.

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And still, no one has won the top bodyguard course

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in the world now.

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I've done the rolling course in South Africa.

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And I just threw myself and I knew I'm going to do it.

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If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well.

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Because everything I've done is to,

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I think you get what you pay for.

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So I've always tried to buy quality,

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provide a quality service.

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And why do I do that?

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Because I want to present myself in the correct way

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to the people that I work with.

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And by doing that, I can help people

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on the mission I'm on with my business.

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I can help grow life for my family.

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And I get a big kick out of seeing the people

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that I work with progress, move forward.

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And when that happens, it also impacts me

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because when you get good results,

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then you get more clients, right?

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So that's all about the delivery

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and what comes out of that.

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So how long have you been doing the coaching now?

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So I've been in the military, 2005.

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I left the military when I got into the security industry.

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In the coaching industry,

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it's been just over two years now as a coach.

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Prior to that, in the military,

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spent years coaching individuals as an instructor

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through different levels,

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whether that's physical training or instructor level

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on different weapon systems, things like that.

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But set my first business up in 2012.

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And there's a lot of element of coaching

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along with the staff that you have on board,

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the various positions that they go into,

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the leadership roles that they go into as a business coach.

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That's where I've been focusing for the last two years,

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but I've had experience of running business since 2012.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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I have one more question for you.

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Yeah.

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What is your goal for being on the show today, Sean?

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I think my goal at the moment,

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I like giving value, if I can pass value

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in some of the lessons that I've,

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from my background, some of the things I've done,

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I like to do that because when you give value,

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what you give in life comes back to you in return.

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If you're a bad person, if you're a glass half empty person,

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then that's what you're gonna attract.

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If you're a positive person, glass half full,

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the same goes, right?

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I think what Tony Robbins says,

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proximity is power.

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You are who you surround yourself with.

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And I spend a lot of time trying to give value

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in the things that I do.

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And hopefully that comes back,

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that goes out to your listeners,

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they get some value, some nuggets from me,

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and in return, maybe they start following me,

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getting on board, becoming part of my community,

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and then I can continue to add value on a larger scale.

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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.