Tell me about your vision. Well, how much time
you got? I help other people find their vision.
So what I'm known for is that I am very good
at helping people get their what I call their
someday plan out of their head and onto paper.
So they will actually execute it so they can
bring the vision to life. And so my vision is
to help people create that. from being an entrepreneur.
I'm now building a community for young adults
to help them with their vision. It's called Vision
is Victory Academy. So lots of ways that I like
to serve people with bringing their dreams to
life. Yeah. Tell me more. Well, so I started
this because when I was in my late 20s, and this
was a very long time ago, I was doing the nine
to five gig and I wasn't doing it very well.
I was changing jobs every two years because I
just didn't. I just didn't fit the mold. And
most entrepreneurs can relate to that, right?
So I had a woman who became my first mentor and
she was the first person in my life who said,
you know, Carrie, you can create your life to
look however you want. You need to just get really
clear on what that is. And so I took a day off
of work and just sat down and wrote out in great
detail what I wanted my life to look like. My
family life, where we were living, how we were
spending our time, what kind of mom I wanted
to be. I knew at that point that I wanted to
have my own business from home, especially because
we were starting a family. I just didn't know
what that was. I just knew that I wanted residual
income. I wanted to earn trips, be a leader,
be able to just make a really great income and
have that flexibility with my kids at home. And
so that's what happened. I became an entrepreneur
in the industry of network marketing first with
a company called Arbonne, which most people are
aware of. And I had to teach all of the people
that I brought into my organization why they
needed to have a written, clear vision. And then
I created content around it and became a speaker
on it about 12 years ago. Wow. Yeah. That's awesome.
It's been quite a journey. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me
more. How was that transition like from, hey,
this is the 9 to 5 is not for me. And I think
I need to be an entrepreneur and work towards
my vision. What were you feeling when you wrote
it down and the transition from there to actually
achieving things that you want to achieve? You
know, it's so interesting how this all unfolded.
I wrote this out, like I said, when I was about
28, 29, somewhere in there. We did not have children
yet, but I knew that eventually we were going
to start doing that. So I kept working for a
little while. And then one day I got introduced
to Arbonne by my best friend and it checked all
the boxes. work from home residual income passive
income you know earning trips all the things
so i knew at that moment that it was time for
me to jump in and a couple years later i'd had
my son and i was still working full -time and
he was in daycare and i was five months pregnant
with my daughter and i decided to just go all
in so kept working started building my business
got my business to a point where it it balanced
out my income for my job so that i could leave
my job get my son out of daycare and stay home
so i planned the transition i knew exactly what
i needed to be making with my business in order
for me to quit the job and make that transition
and i think that's one of the things pieces of
advice i can give people if they're thinking
about doing that is um to get a plan and transition
into it knowing your numbers wow That transition,
were you working as a solopreneur? Did you have
a team around you or what was that like? Well,
when I transitioned, you know, in the industry
of network marketing, you don't really have like
people that you hire. Now, as a speaker and a
coach, I definitely have a team. I have a VA
team. I have a team of people that help me get
speaking gigs and on podcasts. I have a team
of people that manage all my social media. That
was a different, whole different transition when
I transitioned from building my network marketing
team into having my own business. And so I learned
from my first, I invested in my first business
coach and she was the first one who, again, helped
me figure out, okay, how do I monetize this so
that I can start having those people on board
and I can delegate out the things that I should
not be doing. And that's my second piece of advice
I give a lot of entrepreneurs is. to plan on
having a team and making enough money so that
you can, because you should not be doing it all
yourself. The only thing I should be doing most
of the time is what I'm doing right now. It's
talking to people. Right. Cause nobody else can
do that for me. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So I stay
in my zone of genius. Yeah. That's it. That's
what I think most entrepreneurs do need to do.
I mean, they need to focus on what they do best.
Exactly. and delegate the other things responsibly
yeah it's hard it's hard to look at spending
the money but you have to look at it from a standpoint
of um it's giving you time back that you can
make more money yeah right and it's hard for
people to make that switch in their head I know
when you have the right team on board you can
make more money and it more than pays for itself
yeah exactly yeah um and I think a lot of times
that that mental block or mental switch it comes
from a piece of place of fear like i don't know
can i even afford this or like what if i can't
pay them what if this just drains my um my savings
in the thing and like what if and i think a lot
of times people just get lazy they they hand
it off to other people and then they go enjoy
it on the beach or something that's not what
it's supposed to be at that time so You know
what the real problem is, is that, and I end
up coaching a lot of entrepreneurs around this
specifically, is that they don't set enough ROI
in place and enough money -making activity first
in order to be able to do that. So when I first
started my speaking and coaching business, I
started bringing in clients first so that I knew
I could make the money in order to grow and then
eventually bring those people on, right? There's
no money -making game plan behind most entrepreneurs
right now. They're kind of winging it without
any metrics. And so I teach a lot about knowing
your numbers. Exactly, yes. Yeah. What would
you say, Carrie, is what gets you out of bed
every morning to do what you do? Well, the other
part of my story is that I have lost two family
members over the past almost 11 years now to
suicide. I lost my husband in 2014. And then
three years later, I lost my 25 -year -old son.
And because of that, I am very passionate, again,
around specifically young adults knowing their
vision and their purpose for all the reasons
we're aware of, right? There's just too much.
Too much depression, anxiety, suicide happening
right now. And so I still coach entrepreneurs
and I love doing that. But my passion is this
community that I'm building now for young adults
because I know how much it's needed. And so I
talk a lot about that. That's what that's what
really drives me now. Wow. Tell me more about
that. What's the what is this community about
and what is it aimed to do? So we're just kind
of getting started. And what I envision is it's
age groups between, let's say, early 20s to early
to mid 30s. These are the people who are kind
of getting out in the world and starting their
adult life and headed into all sorts of struggles.
They are not sure that they're following the
right path for their life career wise. They are
lonely. They're the loneliest generation we have
right now. They're very isolated, which is also
not good. Money, a lot of fear around making
enough money and making money decisions. Struggling
in their relationships. You know, just a lot
of stuff. They're really just drifting and not
happy. And feeling and because of that, I think
it just takes a toll on their self -confidence.
Right. So I just really feel like they need a
community where they can get together maybe virtually
a couple of times a month on a call to meet each
other, talk about what their needs are. I'm going
to be bringing on guest expert trainers on different
topics like relationships, money, your vision,
you know, all the things that I think they need
the most amount of help with. I'm hoping maybe
later by the end of this year or next year to
start doing little retreats so we can literally
get together live because this virtual thing
is great. The in -person interaction, I think,
is huge. Thank you for being here today. I'm
really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros
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an excellent time building out your vision and
becoming a vision pro yourself.