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Nathan Andres, tell me about your vision.

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My vision is for a world filled with authentically resilient people.

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Tell me more about that.

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Yeah.

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What I mean is, is the world is filled with change and we have a lot of change happening

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every day and change comes from water insecurity and agriculture and climate and environment

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and sustainability and from interpersonal challenges and relationships.

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Every day there's some kind of adversity that we are faced with and authentically resilient

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people are able to face in, lean into those adversities and challenges and come out the

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other side really strong and also charged up with purpose and the byproduct of that

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is really a sense of well-being and joy.

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And that's my vision is to create a world one person at a time through the power of

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coaching and using authentically resilient powers as a way to make the world a better

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place.

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That's my vision.

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That word authentically resilient, that's a very specific word.

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Where did you come up with that?

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And where did you come?

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I mean, I know it's there, but like how, where did you, like, why did you decide to use those

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words?

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Well, I think, you know, when I look at my own personal values, authenticity is one that

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has played in my life from a very early age to today.

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And authenticity is a place that I think we need more of.

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The world is living in a place right now with a lot of distraction and, you know, social

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media and other places can really cloud our understanding of what it really means to be

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authentic.

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So I looked at how I've been able to get through my own life's challenges and authenticity

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stood out as a value, also as a strength, and also as part of my power to embrace change

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and the things that I have endured in my life.

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The resilience is kind of also another part of the strength that I think brings credence

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to the experiences that I've had in my life.

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And I've lived through a lot of disasters, natural disasters, manmade disasters, personal

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tragedies, and some other kinds of day to day adversities that we all have, like we

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all do experience.

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And the reason that these two words kind of came together was I had a teacher once ask

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me like, Nathan, how is it that you've lived through all of these natural disasters and

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earthquakes and 9-11 and, you know, the tsunamis and other things that have happened around

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the world and you've run marathons and you've changed your career to have a really interesting

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trajectory?

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Like, what do you think is this magic formula that enables you to do so many interesting

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things like you have?

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And it was the answer, the quest for that answer that led me to resilience.

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And as I started to really think through that, I recognized that the combination for me of

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being authentic and embracing the power of understanding who I am from the inside out

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and the outside in paired with resilience skills has been the kind of power pack combo

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that has enabled me to live a really interesting life, but also one that has led me through

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great adversities and challenges, but has also led me to live with a lot of well-being

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and enjoy.

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So I wanted to share those experiences with the world.

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And as a result, to be frank with you, I wrote a book about it.

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And that is the reason, Detra, for the book that I wrote called Your Real Life.

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Those two things, authentic resilience when they're paired together can really enable

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anyone to be unstoppable.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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Could you say that what you shared with me is where your vision came from or is there

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a story behind how this vision came about or what's the origination story about that

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vision?

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Yeah, that's a beautiful question.

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Thank you for that.

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I think the origination of this vision probably was 12 to 13 years ago.

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I was working in human resources in Asia Pacific.

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I was just coming out of the natural disaster that was in March of 2011 in Tokyo where there

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was a massive earthquake and then the tsunami disaster and then following that, the nuclear

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explosion at Fukushima.

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And coming out of that experience, I kind of rethought and reflected about what I want

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to do.

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It's a life changing experience.

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What is it that I want to begin to do with my own personal purpose and my mission?

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What's my mission?

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I was able to step up in a lot of that adversity and show my leadership enabling our business

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and our leaders and our employees to find their own sense of resilience.

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But after that, I recognized what was my own sense of power.

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Where did it come from?

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And it was about 12 or 13 years ago where I tapped into this kind of idea that I wanted

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to use authenticity in some ways to help influence the world, but also that I've got these magic

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skills in resilience, these life lessons and learnings that might be helpful for other

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people.

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So when I started coaching and I got certified as a coach, I started to play with these ideas

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and they started to come alive in a lot of the coaching conversations I was having.

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And it was when I had my own mentor coach that I started to stumble on what my purpose

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was.

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And I recognized that building a world of people who are authentically resilient one

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by one starts with me.

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And therefore started to really put together this plan of how can I build the world of

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more authentic, resilient people.

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And it was a very methodical kind of movement.

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It included going back to school, getting a master's degree in coaching, getting certified

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as an ICF coach.

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I knew I wanted to write a book.

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I wasn't sure what that was going to be about at first.

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And then we hit COVID.

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Another massive world event that gave me time actually to really lay down the tracks and

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lay down the information and start to really write it all out.

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And as I started writing, I recognized in that writing that I had created a model for

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my coaching practice that I use a lot with my clients.

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And that is the real model, hence the title of my book, Your Real Life.

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The real is a model that I use to build authentically resilient people and that my clients use to

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build both a sense of authenticity and resilience.

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And I'm happy to tell you more about the real model when we have more time.

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But the vision is now in play and it's starting to come alive.

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And the book has been out now for about a year.

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And we're able to share how to build more authenticity and more resilience in the world

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through that platform too.

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So that's where the origination is.

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And again, the power pack was that question from a teacher friend of mine who said, how

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do you do it all?

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The quest to bring my vision and the outcomes of the answer to that question culminated

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in clarity.

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And I think ultimately, clarity in your purpose and the star that you follow and that you

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align to for the mission of your life is what ultimately leads to a life of well-being and

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joy.

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And that's what I want for everybody.

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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 as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to 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 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.