WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 But Jeremy, tell me about your vision. What we 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.839 have in our civilization right now is a time 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.000 when everything is changing. And the world that 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:13.919 you could count on five years ago, it is just 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.539 simply not there anymore. And what we're seeing 00:00:17.539 --> 00:00:21.760 right now is that federal employees are now even 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.059 having to face the music and federal employees 00:00:24.059 --> 00:00:26.800 have been relatively insulated through decades 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:29.460 and decades and decades of this kind of real 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:32.840 security from the changing of the world around 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.420 there. They've been immune from economic turndowns 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:41.359 and so forth. This major change is making the 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:45.439 job market more fragile. more fast moving. And 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:47.759 it's taking people who have made all of the right 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.020 decisions in their lives and it's shaking up 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:53.280 their whole lives. My vision is to help people 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.439 who are struggling with what it is that they 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:58.520 want to do and who they want to be. They're conscientious 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.619 people, they're hard workers and be able to. 00:01:02.509 --> 00:01:06.430 really move into that really fantastic piece 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:10.870 of themselves that is transcendent from just 00:01:10.870 --> 00:01:14.390 simply being an employee changing your life changing 00:01:14.390 --> 00:01:17.069 your paradigm in a way that holds you accountable 00:01:17.069 --> 00:01:20.769 for the goals that you set and helps you with 00:01:20.769 --> 00:01:23.370 a greater sense of security for where it is that 00:01:23.370 --> 00:01:26.250 you want to go in your life in your profession 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:30.430 in your personal relationships and in your spiritual 00:01:30.430 --> 00:01:34.519 journey yeah Thank you for sharing that. Tell 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.299 me more about that. You mentioned a few different 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:39.200 things. One of the things that caught my eye 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.840 was you mentioned simply by being just an employee. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.400 That's a very specific word that you used. I 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.739 want to hear more about that. Also along with 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:59.680 the lines, what do you mean transcendent? in 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.579 where they're going i would love to hear your 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:03.959 thoughts on that i want to know more okay and 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.459 my adhd brain is going okay there were two questions 00:02:06.459 --> 00:02:10.840 there okay so the first the first one being about 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.819 you know what what is it that i mean about just 00:02:13.819 --> 00:02:19.479 being an employee so when i got out of my corporate 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.180 journey and i work myself from being a lobby 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:24.900 security officer to being the ceo of a large 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:30.689 non -profit organization i wanted to start in 00:02:30.689 --> 00:02:33.669 the entrepreneurial realm. And I realized that 00:02:33.669 --> 00:02:37.449 I had really defined myself by the prestige and 00:02:37.449 --> 00:02:41.050 the income of what I had been doing, working 00:02:41.050 --> 00:02:43.689 myself up the corporate ladder. I really had 00:02:43.689 --> 00:02:47.030 a sense of my identity that was that great CEO, 00:02:47.189 --> 00:02:52.659 but that identity, it wasn't me. When that was 00:02:52.659 --> 00:02:55.240 over, I had a long time of searching, like, what 00:02:55.240 --> 00:03:00.319 is my actual value beyond Jeremy, the CEO? And 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.520 I had a long set of discussions with a few mentors 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.879 that I had. And I talked about how afraid I was 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.639 that I wasn't going to have the level of security 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.719 that I had with every two -week paycheck. How 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.979 do you deal with that sort of thing? And they 00:03:14.979 --> 00:03:17.180 said, you know, you just have to switch the way 00:03:17.180 --> 00:03:21.629 that you think about what security is. You have 00:03:21.629 --> 00:03:26.349 had one income from that corporation that you 00:03:26.349 --> 00:03:29.370 work for, from that nonprofit, okay? But when 00:03:29.370 --> 00:03:31.110 you're self -employed, you have many different 00:03:31.110 --> 00:03:33.430 streams of income coming to you, have many different 00:03:33.430 --> 00:03:35.629 contracts. And so when I was able to switch for 00:03:35.629 --> 00:03:40.189 myself, this kind of corporate thinking and this 00:03:40.189 --> 00:03:43.729 kind of defining myself by what I was in a big 00:03:43.729 --> 00:03:48.090 system into what I am as a creator, what I am 00:03:48.090 --> 00:03:51.830 as an inventor. what I am as a service provider 00:03:51.830 --> 00:03:55.129 to people and what I can do in this world to 00:03:55.129 --> 00:03:58.750 bring my own unique value to people, I started 00:03:58.750 --> 00:04:02.030 kind of operating in a different space of consciousness, 00:04:02.409 --> 00:04:06.289 a different space of what my value is. The second 00:04:06.289 --> 00:04:09.210 part of your question was about transcendence. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.139 For me and for many people, really coming into 00:04:14.139 --> 00:04:17.839 what your true value is, it is a transcendent 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:22.120 space. It is a space of really recognizing what 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.620 your intrinsic value in this world is. It's not 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:30.860 easy because sometimes you have to confront some 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:33.819 difficult things about yourself. And for me, 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:37.860 it was... My ADHD makes it difficult for me to 00:04:37.860 --> 00:04:40.720 focus on a few things without getting distracted 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.060 and running in several directions at once. And 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:49.000 so being held accountable for the high achieving 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.740 ADHD person is really, really important if you're 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:56.019 going to be able to set those goals, accomplish 00:04:56.019 --> 00:04:58.660 those goals, and do those goals in alignment 00:04:58.660 --> 00:05:01.839 with the things that you really want to be in 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:06.029 this world beyond having your world. defined 00:05:06.029 --> 00:05:09.110 by your relationship with a corporation or a 00:05:09.110 --> 00:05:14.430 government entity wow there's so many things 00:05:14.430 --> 00:05:18.550 you said in that that i some of them i don't 00:05:18.550 --> 00:05:22.050 align with some of them i do um the first thing 00:05:22.050 --> 00:05:28.449 about the job side where um i guess you shared 00:05:28.449 --> 00:05:36.750 your story about being an employee and being 00:05:36.750 --> 00:05:40.250 an entrepreneur at the same time after that and 00:05:40.250 --> 00:05:44.449 having multiple streams of income. The job market 00:05:44.449 --> 00:05:48.410 and the entrepreneur world are, I think, two 00:05:48.410 --> 00:05:52.850 different worlds. When it comes to, and this 00:05:52.850 --> 00:05:57.910 is just my opinion, over the decades of data 00:05:57.910 --> 00:06:00.149 that people have and the people that we've seen, 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.180 Most small businesses are failing within the 00:06:05.180 --> 00:06:11.920 first 10 years of their being started. I think 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.660 80 % are failing within the first five years. 00:06:15.980 --> 00:06:19.600 And then how many are actually getting past the 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.220 two -year mark? That number is pretty staggering 00:06:22.220 --> 00:06:30.240 counted against a normal entrepreneur. I think 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.660 when you mentioned that you being able to focus 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:35.300 on things, I think that's a superpower. I would 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:37.600 say like you being able to focus on things and 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.519 being held accountable for things, that's a superpower. 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:44.100 Too many of our entrepreneurs get distracted 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:48.540 by the shiny syndrome and they don't have the 00:06:48.540 --> 00:06:50.660 bigger picture in place. And I would say most 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:54.759 people are not made for being an entrepreneur. 00:06:55.060 --> 00:06:59.560 I think most people would be happy being... being 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.259 in the job market. And I don't say that because 00:07:03.259 --> 00:07:07.459 I don't see them as capable or not being capable. 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:11.600 That couldn't be far from the truth. I think 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:19.360 it's a very hard world. It's cutthroat. And I 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:20.980 don't think most people are ready for that. I 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:23.819 think most people, if they knew the truth behind 00:07:23.819 --> 00:07:27.040 what entrepreneurship is, and if they knew the 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.269 truth about how much... hard work it takes. And 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:32.730 if they saw it in front of them and then they 00:07:32.730 --> 00:07:35.850 saw their job and they were like, oh my gosh, 00:07:35.990 --> 00:07:38.750 I think most people would choose the job. And 00:07:38.750 --> 00:07:41.110 we see the data. The thing is, we see the data 00:07:41.110 --> 00:07:43.310 because 96 % of businesses are failing within 00:07:43.310 --> 00:07:46.089 the first 10 years. So what are your thoughts 00:07:46.089 --> 00:07:49.069 on that, Jeremy? And help me, how does your vision 00:07:49.069 --> 00:07:52.269 incorporate that? And if it doesn't, that's awesome 00:07:52.269 --> 00:07:54.589 too. I want to hear that as well. No, this is 00:07:54.589 --> 00:07:59.290 great. It's a great discussion to be had. What 00:07:59.290 --> 00:08:03.149 I am finding just as recently as yesterday in 00:08:03.149 --> 00:08:06.689 working with people is that, I mean, it used 00:08:06.689 --> 00:08:09.430 to be that you could make all the right decisions, 00:08:09.490 --> 00:08:12.269 that you could get into a job, and that you could 00:08:12.269 --> 00:08:14.170 keep that job for as long as you needed it to, 00:08:14.230 --> 00:08:16.029 as long as you kept yourself working hard and 00:08:16.029 --> 00:08:19.019 out of trouble and these kinds of things. move 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:22.660 to the next thing you're finding a lot, particularly 00:08:22.660 --> 00:08:25.839 about people who are over 40 is that these companies 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.620 are finding ways to let them go. Okay. And so 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:32.759 I have a bunch of people who I am working with. 00:08:32.779 --> 00:08:36.779 They're deeply discouraged by, by there. There 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:39.019 can't keep a job now for longer than a year and 00:08:39.019 --> 00:08:43.100 a half. You have one. where you're not meeting 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:45.580 your sales deadlines and that corporation will 00:08:45.580 --> 00:08:46.980 turn around and let you go, even if you have 00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:50.059 several wonderful quarters before that. And so 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:54.820 if you're looking to the corporate world, as 00:08:54.820 --> 00:08:57.399 we're kind of talking about here, as your kind 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.320 of ticket to where you want to be, you really 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:05.500 want that every two weeks paycheck, that's not 00:09:05.500 --> 00:09:08.320 any more secure anymore than going into business 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:11.740 for yourself. And that building an actual personal 00:09:11.740 --> 00:09:16.279 brand for yourself is what is going to make you 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.860 more valuable when you are looking for, let's 00:09:19.860 --> 00:09:22.360 say, another corporate job. Because a lot of 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.299 people are looking for those corporate jobs. 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.019 They're going through, one gentleman recently 00:09:27.019 --> 00:09:29.419 told me that he feels that he's probably been 00:09:29.419 --> 00:09:33.419 in close to 100 job interviews and he can't get 00:09:33.419 --> 00:09:37.759 a job offer. And he's a hardworking, clean cut. 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:42.320 a guy who has a lot of experience but what he 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.320 hadn't done is build an actual kind of personal 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.500 brand around him whether or not you're in this 00:09:48.500 --> 00:09:52.220 entrepreneurial space that really states what 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:56.460 your real value is this way when let's say you 00:09:56.460 --> 00:10:00.570 get laid off you can jump into an entrepreneurial 00:10:00.570 --> 00:10:02.789 space a little bit more easily because you've 00:10:02.789 --> 00:10:05.690 done some of the work to actually create an identity 00:10:05.690 --> 00:10:10.690 around yourself and your work. It used to be 00:10:10.690 --> 00:10:15.190 that a resume was enough, but it's just not anymore. 00:10:15.509 --> 00:10:20.990 So I think getting back into the spirit of what 00:10:20.990 --> 00:10:24.250 it is that you're talking about here, it's some 00:10:24.250 --> 00:10:28.940 people feel much, much more confident. in the, 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.299 if I get into a corporation and I obey the rules 00:10:32.299 --> 00:10:34.100 and I do what I'm supposed to do, I'm going to 00:10:34.100 --> 00:10:37.059 be okay. And I, I'm, I'm afraid that that is 00:10:37.059 --> 00:10:40.059 not what's really happening out there anymore. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.720 And so you kind of have to be ready to be quick 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.259 on your feet and, and be ready for what comes 00:10:46.259 --> 00:10:50.840 next. I totally agree with one aspect that you 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:55.340 shared. I think you shared about how people are 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:58.700 getting obsolete faster than, are the things 00:10:58.700 --> 00:11:00.620 that people do are getting obsolete faster than 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:03.720 they used to. I don't know how much of that has 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.200 to do with AI or not and how much does have to 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.320 do with how business is evolving. But I don't 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.860 see that as a solution to entrepreneurship. I 00:11:13.860 --> 00:11:16.879 see as the solution for that is upgrading your 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.299 skills and making yourself valuable. I don't 00:11:20.299 --> 00:11:22.639 think entrepreneurship is the answer for that. 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:27.759 And believe me, I'm an entrepreneur myself. And 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.179 I am not made for the corporate world. I'm not 00:11:30.179 --> 00:11:33.220 made to get the job. And I firmly believe that. 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:36.779 Like, I think if I had to get a job, I think 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:38.919 would be the probably the last case scenario. 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:40.559 And I think it won't be hard for me to get a 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.659 job. I think it'd be very easy for me to get 00:11:42.659 --> 00:11:46.659 a job. But most people are not privileged with 00:11:46.659 --> 00:11:48.799 that way. Most people haven't had the skills 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.240 that I have acquired over the years of my life 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:58.220 to be where I'm at, to do what I do. For average 00:11:58.220 --> 00:12:00.519 employees, I mean, I guess we have to break it 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.679 down to what employee are you talking about and 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.600 what field are you talking about? What value 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.399 do you bring to that company? What value do you 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.620 bring to the people that you serve in that company? 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:16.120 But I for sure do not see entrepreneurship as 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.799 the brand, as a solution for it. But building 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:21.980 the personal brand, that's more intriguing and 00:12:21.980 --> 00:12:24.480 interesting to me. But what do you mean by that? 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.970 What do you mean by... Someone needs to build 00:12:26.970 --> 00:12:31.669 a personal brand to stay relevant, I would say. 00:12:33.450 --> 00:12:36.129 So a lot of people, and this is the way that 00:12:36.129 --> 00:12:41.210 corporate life has gone, is you get your job, 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:44.549 you do the work with great diligence, and you 00:12:44.549 --> 00:12:47.230 build the skills that you can put on a resume. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.679 You know, LinkedIn many, many years ago kind 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.580 of revolutionized the concept of having your 00:12:53.580 --> 00:12:57.659 resume online, which is really fantastic. The 00:12:57.659 --> 00:13:00.940 person with the personal brand, though, has a 00:13:00.940 --> 00:13:03.379 leg up in whatever industry it is. Let's just 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:06.019 take bookkeeping. okay bookkeeping is a thing 00:13:06.019 --> 00:13:09.220 that you can do as a freelancer it's a thing 00:13:09.220 --> 00:13:11.740 that you can do for a corporate entity a non 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:15.779 -profit or on your own starting your own business 00:13:15.779 --> 00:13:18.720 and so when you have that personal brand and 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.100 what kind of bookkeeping that you tend to be 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:25.419 really good at it makes it much more clear for 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.019 the world out there. And a lot of the thinking 00:13:28.019 --> 00:13:29.879 is done when you're kind of looking for what 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:33.220 the next gig is for you, what it is that your 00:13:33.220 --> 00:13:36.200 strengths are and how you can bring value to 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.759 the world, whether or not you want that to be 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:44.039 an entrepreneurial pursuit. But it is really 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.740 important because say that your company lets 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:51.659 you go from their finance department, you actually 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:55.409 have some of the basis. to start the next thing 00:13:55.409 --> 00:13:58.590 and you're not caught flat footed. Another thing 00:13:58.590 --> 00:14:03.730 is the way that your brain works. And you said 00:14:03.730 --> 00:14:07.190 it yourself, your brain doesn't necessarily work 00:14:07.190 --> 00:14:10.789 the way that a corporate kind of brain is supposed 00:14:10.789 --> 00:14:13.950 to work. I imagine that you're very creative, 00:14:14.169 --> 00:14:15.889 that you think outside the box, that you like 00:14:15.889 --> 00:14:19.289 taking risks, that you... when you want to make 00:14:19.289 --> 00:14:21.769 a change you really just want to make the change 00:14:21.769 --> 00:14:23.330 and you don't want to go through a bunch of red 00:14:23.330 --> 00:14:27.169 tape to do it oftentimes people who are neurodivergent 00:14:27.169 --> 00:14:30.929 people who have adhd are also like this and they 00:14:30.929 --> 00:14:34.269 don't necessarily fit really well into the box 00:14:34.269 --> 00:14:37.809 because their brains are moving so quickly so 00:14:38.820 --> 00:14:41.220 Entrepreneurship really can be the answer for 00:14:41.220 --> 00:14:44.500 somebody who has never quite been able to fit 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:48.320 in the box and do what they're told always in 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.500 the way that some people are just more adept 00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:53.190 at doing. Thank you for being here today. I'm 00:14:53.190 --> 00:14:54.909 really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros 00:14:54.909 --> 00:14:57.889 Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 00:14:57.889 --> 00:15:00.490 as these episodes continue to move forward. This 00:15:00.490 --> 00:15:02.409 is going to get more and more fun. We'll have 00:15:02.409 --> 00:15:04.230 more and more engagement as well. We'll invite 00:15:04.230 --> 00:15:06.850 people to participate in the show and thank you 00:15:06.850 --> 00:15:08.730 for giving us your time and attention. Have an 00:15:08.730 --> 00:15:11.529 excellent time building out your vision and becoming 00:15:11.529 --> 00:15:12.370 a vision pro yourself.