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Tell me about your vision. Well, how much time

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you got? I help other people find their vision.

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So what I'm known for is that I am very good

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at helping people get their what I call their

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someday plan out of their head and onto paper.

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So they will actually execute it so they can

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bring the vision to life. And so my vision is

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to help people create that. from being an entrepreneur.

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I'm now building a community for young adults

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to help them with their vision. It's called Vision

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is Victory Academy. So lots of ways that I like

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to serve people with bringing their dreams to

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life. Yeah. Tell me more. Well, so I started

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this because when I was in my late 20s, and this

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was a very long time ago, I was doing the nine

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to five gig and I wasn't doing it very well.

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I was changing jobs every two years because I

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just didn't. I just didn't fit the mold. And

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most entrepreneurs can relate to that, right?

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So I had a woman who became my first mentor and

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she was the first person in my life who said,

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you know, Carrie, you can create your life to

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look however you want. You need to just get really

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clear on what that is. And so I took a day off

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of work and just sat down and wrote out in great

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detail what I wanted my life to look like. My

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family life, where we were living, how we were

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spending our time, what kind of mom I wanted

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to be. I knew at that point that I wanted to

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have my own business from home, especially because

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we were starting a family. I just didn't know

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what that was. I just knew that I wanted residual

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income. I wanted to earn trips, be a leader,

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be able to just make a really great income and

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have that flexibility with my kids at home. And

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so that's what happened. I became an entrepreneur

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in the industry of network marketing first with

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a company called Arbonne, which most people are

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aware of. And I had to teach all of the people

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that I brought into my organization why they

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needed to have a written, clear vision. And then

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I created content around it and became a speaker

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on it about 12 years ago. Wow. Yeah. That's awesome.

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It's been quite a journey. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me

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more. How was that transition like from, hey,

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this is the 9 to 5 is not for me. And I think

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I need to be an entrepreneur and work towards

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my vision. What were you feeling when you wrote

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it down and the transition from there to actually

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achieving things that you want to achieve? You

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know, it's so interesting how this all unfolded.

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I wrote this out, like I said, when I was about

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28, 29, somewhere in there. We did not have children

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yet, but I knew that eventually we were going

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to start doing that. So I kept working for a

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little while. And then one day I got introduced

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to Arbonne by my best friend and it checked all

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the boxes. work from home residual income passive

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income you know earning trips all the things

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so i knew at that moment that it was time for

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me to jump in and a couple years later i'd had

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my son and i was still working full -time and

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he was in daycare and i was five months pregnant

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with my daughter and i decided to just go all

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in so kept working started building my business

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got my business to a point where it it balanced

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out my income for my job so that i could leave

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my job get my son out of daycare and stay home

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so i planned the transition i knew exactly what

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i needed to be making with my business in order

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for me to quit the job and make that transition

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and i think that's one of the things pieces of

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advice i can give people if they're thinking

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about doing that is um to get a plan and transition

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into it knowing your numbers wow That transition,

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were you working as a solopreneur? Did you have

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a team around you or what was that like? Well,

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when I transitioned, you know, in the industry

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of network marketing, you don't really have like

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people that you hire. Now, as a speaker and a

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coach, I definitely have a team. I have a VA

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team. I have a team of people that help me get

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speaking gigs and on podcasts. I have a team

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of people that manage all my social media. That

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was a different, whole different transition when

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I transitioned from building my network marketing

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team into having my own business. And so I learned

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from my first, I invested in my first business

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coach and she was the first one who, again, helped

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me figure out, okay, how do I monetize this so

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that I can start having those people on board

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and I can delegate out the things that I should

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not be doing. And that's my second piece of advice

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I give a lot of entrepreneurs is. to plan on

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having a team and making enough money so that

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you can, because you should not be doing it all

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yourself. The only thing I should be doing most

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of the time is what I'm doing right now. It's

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talking to people. Right. Cause nobody else can

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do that for me. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So I stay

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in my zone of genius. Yeah. That's it. That's

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what I think most entrepreneurs do need to do.

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I mean, they need to focus on what they do best.

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Exactly. and delegate the other things responsibly

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yeah it's hard it's hard to look at spending

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the money but you have to look at it from a standpoint

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of um it's giving you time back that you can

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make more money yeah right and it's hard for

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people to make that switch in their head I know

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when you have the right team on board you can

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make more money and it more than pays for itself

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yeah exactly yeah um and I think a lot of times

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that that mental block or mental switch it comes

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from a piece of place of fear like i don't know

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can i even afford this or like what if i can't

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pay them what if this just drains my um my savings

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in the thing and like what if and i think a lot

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of times people just get lazy they they hand

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it off to other people and then they go enjoy

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it on the beach or something that's not what

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it's supposed to be at that time so You know

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what the real problem is, is that, and I end

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up coaching a lot of entrepreneurs around this

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specifically, is that they don't set enough ROI

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in place and enough money -making activity first

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in order to be able to do that. So when I first

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started my speaking and coaching business, I

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started bringing in clients first so that I knew

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I could make the money in order to grow and then

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eventually bring those people on, right? There's

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no money -making game plan behind most entrepreneurs

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right now. They're kind of winging it without

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any metrics. And so I teach a lot about knowing

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your numbers. Exactly, yes. Yeah. What would

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you say, Carrie, is what gets you out of bed

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every morning to do what you do? Well, the other

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part of my story is that I have lost two family

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members over the past almost 11 years now to

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suicide. I lost my husband in 2014. And then

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three years later, I lost my 25 -year -old son.

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And because of that, I am very passionate, again,

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around specifically young adults knowing their

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vision and their purpose for all the reasons

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we're aware of, right? There's just too much.

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Too much depression, anxiety, suicide happening

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right now. And so I still coach entrepreneurs

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and I love doing that. But my passion is this

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community that I'm building now for young adults

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because I know how much it's needed. And so I

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talk a lot about that. That's what that's what

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really drives me now. Wow. Tell me more about

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that. What's the what is this community about

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and what is it aimed to do? So we're just kind

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of getting started. And what I envision is it's

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age groups between, let's say, early 20s to early

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to mid 30s. These are the people who are kind

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of getting out in the world and starting their

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adult life and headed into all sorts of struggles.

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They are not sure that they're following the

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right path for their life career wise. They are

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lonely. They're the loneliest generation we have

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right now. They're very isolated, which is also

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not good. Money, a lot of fear around making

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enough money and making money decisions. Struggling

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in their relationships. You know, just a lot

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of stuff. They're really just drifting and not

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happy. And feeling and because of that, I think

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it just takes a toll on their self -confidence.

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Right. So I just really feel like they need a

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community where they can get together maybe virtually

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a couple of times a month on a call to meet each

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other, talk about what their needs are. I'm going

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to be bringing on guest expert trainers on different

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topics like relationships, money, your vision,

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you know, all the things that I think they need

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the most amount of help with. I'm hoping maybe

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later by the end of this year or next year to

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start doing little retreats so we can literally

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get together live because this virtual thing

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is great. The in -person interaction, I think,

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is huge. Thank you for being here today. I'm

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really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros

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Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward. This

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is going to get more and more fun. We'll have

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more and more engagement as well. We'll invite

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people to participate in the show. And thank

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you for giving us your time and attention. Have

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an excellent time building out your vision and

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becoming a vision pro yourself.