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Tell me about your vision. Hi, Harry. Thank you

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for inviting me on the podcast. When you say

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vision... It's one of those elusive words that

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I come across with my mentees and the people

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I've worked with is that many people are just

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working towards a goal. And it often is a material

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goal or something that they've been told to do.

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When I work with my mentees, I ask them, what

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is your vision? Actually, I put it slightly different.

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I ask them what their big dream is. And sadly,

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most people really cannot articulate what their

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big dream is. They are really holding themselves

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back. And the few of them who do... tell me about

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their big dream often it's limited to the next

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step so i find it critically important as i work

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with folks to take a step back and raising self

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-awareness and part of self -awareness is to

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really start at the foundation and it is asking

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the key question uh about your why what why do

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you do what you do why are you in healthcare

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why are you in banking why are you in it doesn't

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make a difference what industry you're in but

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really bringing that out of people and developing

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what i call that 43 -second power statement,

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the eight -second hook, the 30 -second body,

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and then a five -second closer in order to be

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able to represent who they are. Because your

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vision needs to come from your why itself. And

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people are always perplexed after three, four,

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five, even maybe six or seven renderings and

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practice sessions when they finally get to the

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tip of the spear and they now see their why.

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they become much clearer on what their vision

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for the future is. And after we see that their

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dreams are expanded beyond what they think they

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can accomplish in the next role. So what is your

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vision? So my vision, actually, interesting enough,

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as I have grown up as an adult, has changed.

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So my vision early on, and I always say my why,

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is that as a young man riding my bicycle in Holland,

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I came across a horrible car accident. And I

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had an old farmer who was literally dying in

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my arms, and I did not know what to do. I felt

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helpless. And right at that moment in time, sitting

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on that pavement, I had an epiphany that I wanted

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to be in healthcare. I wanted to never feel like

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that again. And everything I did from that point

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forward as a vision, I took steps to becoming

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a first aid. And I became an EMT, and I became

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a paramedic, and then a flight paramedic. And

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that's really how my first vision of what it

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is today, the impact I want to have on the world.

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Of course, because things change around us. You

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know, I had three kids. They all had to, at some

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point, go to college. I have to pay for things.

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I have a household to maintain. You know, just

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as an individual healthcare provider, you can

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only work so many hours and make so many dollars.

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So my vision shifted from being that one -to

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-one healthcare provider to becoming that healthcare

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administrator that could lead people who take

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care of patients. And that, as I said, my vision

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is to make a difference in how we deliver care

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from sick care. to well care so really big vision

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right big big picture wise and i started taking

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steps i got my bachelor's my master's my fellowship

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i worked my way into a hospital worked up you

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know my career ladder into all the way into the

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c -suite and once i was there i got to see you

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know, and do things that were absolutely amazing,

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right? That I met my big dream at that point

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in time. And then I said, challenge myself, what

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else do I want to do? Especially now that I'm

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going into, you know, retirement age, so to speak,

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55 and plus, what is it that, how else do I want

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to contribute? And that's where my vision shifted

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to say, listen, instead of being a leader of

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a large organization, I want to have impact on

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one -to -one and teams as an executive coach,

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as a mentor, particularly. And that was on the

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healthcare side, but always deep within me, I

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had a vision of being and owning a flight school.

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I love helicopters. I love airplanes. So I shifted

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my vision from what I was doing to what it is

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that I thought I could do going into the future.

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And first, you know, you have to kind of sit

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back and be in that dreamy state. What could

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that look like? And once I understood what my

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vision was like, I was able to execute to that.

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So I got my pilot's license, my fixed wing, and

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now my helicopter, working all of my ratings

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while I continue to build out the business so

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that it has a foundation that I can provide for

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my family. I can feel that I can make a real

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impact on the world. But again, it also fuels

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the vision of what it is that I would like to

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build for the future. So one of the things that

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I've seen, Harry, is that most people just get

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stuck into this one track. And I always say that

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the scary part is that, especially in healthcare,

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68 % of the people are working at a near burnout.

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That's a scary statistic, right? It's part of

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the reason why we have such high turnover rates.

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But even more importantly, only 28 % of the people

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who go to work love what they do. But we only

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have one life to live. We likely have to work

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for 40 years. So we spend more time at work than

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we do at home, per se. So we need to go back

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and really challenge people to raise self -awareness,

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to really deeply understand their why and start

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dreaming big. So what else can they do that really

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hits home? And I use the 4P approach for that.

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You know, it is really important that we need

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to have a vision that connects to our purpose

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and passion at the heart level. And then we need

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to connect that to the processes and people that

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we want to work with. And we do have choices,

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right? Listen, sometimes we got to put food on

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the table and we just have to do a job and make

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money. But once you have that, don't stop dreaming.

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Don't stop visioning to what it is that you want

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to do and start taking small steps to that. And

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don't let anybody else around you tell you that

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you cannot do it. You're too old. You're too

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young. You're not this. You're not that. We have

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to make sure that every day you take small steps

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to that big dream that you have. And of course,

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listen, it's your vision. You don't need to lift

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somebody else's. Thank you for sharing that.

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So for you, the mentorship, the Dutch mentor

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and the mentorship you do and then the flight

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school and the businesses, how does that fit

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in your vision? How did you get on the path of

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being the mentor and why is that the center of

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everything that you do and everything that you

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portray, even the shirt that you're wearing?

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Yeah, it is a great question. So just to go back

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two steps. Initially, I had the vision I wanted

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to be the best one -to -one health care provider

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in the field that I loved, which was emergency

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services. And then I made a decision that I wanted

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to be a health care leader and set a vision for

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well care rather than sick care. And at that

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point in time, I identified along my path that

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there are lots of great people who go from doing

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things to leading. But they fall into that valley

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of despair where they don't really know how to

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lead and they continue to do and they don't find

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the fun in leadership. But I identified and made

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that my new vision is that if I can bring in

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the value of mentorship, I'd work with somebody

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who has been there, done that with deep personal

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experience. There's not a coach who's going to

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tell you or a coach who's going to listen. No,

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a mentor is somebody you can work with on a daily

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or weekly basis. for an extended period of time

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who can bring other people's visions to a reality.

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All right. So my reality is today that I had

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a vision to become a great mentor and build a

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small company into a midsize company. And I'm

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on my way to doing that. I had a vision to be

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able to do my hobby and pay it forward as a flight

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instructor and then a flight school. Now, both

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those two things, I just finished up my flight

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instructor licenses. Now it is to envision on

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how I want to open up a flight school in the

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next couple of years. be able to work that in

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a way that I can graduate new aviators who are

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going to make a difference in the world. So for

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me, as a mentor, it is about making a difference

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on a one -to -one basis or on a team basis that

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helps drive performance. Now, in healthcare,

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if I work with middle managers, if I work with

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executives, or I work with doctors and nurses,

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if they are happy doing what they're doing, Hey,

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that goes right back to my first vision. They

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will be better health care providers to the patients.

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And so that's how I continue to have my values

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in place, my vision of creating a better world

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where we teach and pay it forward. And I get

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a lot of energy from that. Thank you for being

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here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in

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to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing

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your reactions as these episodes continue to

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move forward. This is going to get more and more

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fun. 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.