WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.660 Tell me about your vision. My vision, Harry, 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:06.620 is a tiny one. My vision is just for world peace. 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.539 Wow. Tell me more about that. World peace, when 00:00:11.539 --> 00:00:14.480 put like that, might sound like a lofty goal. 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.079 But if you break it down, what world peace really 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:21.780 is, is a world made up of peaceful individuals. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.920 So in my work as a meditation and mindset mentor, 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:30.280 I feel honored to help people make small shifts 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.759 that are doable, actionable steps that yield 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.759 huge results in how present, how peaceful they 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:41.560 experience their everyday life. Wow. Tell me 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.960 more about that. And how did you get to that 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:48.679 individual level? When I was 17, I was blessed 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.920 to meet who became the world's oldest yoga teacher, 00:00:52.219 --> 00:00:55.560 my mentor Tao. And she lived until she was 101. 00:00:55.979 --> 00:00:59.679 She was this magical, sparkly -souled human. 00:01:00.100 --> 00:01:04.680 And being with her for 20 -plus years, studying 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.900 under her, assisting her, traveling with her, 00:01:07.980 --> 00:01:12.299 I got to see... the impact of making a difference 00:01:12.299 --> 00:01:14.780 of reminding people the magic they already possess 00:01:14.780 --> 00:01:17.719 of helping them turn that light and that sparkle 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:21.400 back on from within and when i saw that transformation 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.620 i became addicted to it so i felt honored to 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:29.200 continue in small part what she had started in 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.760 her lifetime and i thought if you work with the 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.500 individual if you remind everybody that they 00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:39.140 already have those Dorothy red shoes on. They 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:42.319 have everything they need. They just might have 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.599 forgotten how to access it. So if you can help 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.840 turn people's sparkles on one person at a time, 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.980 then they go back into their family world, their 00:01:51.980 --> 00:01:56.280 work life, their social life, and they are rippling 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.819 bigger than they could even imagine. So the impact 00:01:59.819 --> 00:02:02.819 spreads. So if you start with the person where 00:02:02.819 --> 00:02:05.920 connection is the easiest, one -on -one, soul 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.159 to soul individual to individual you can really 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.460 change the whole world because of the ripple 00:02:11.460 --> 00:02:15.979 wow thank you for sharing that what would you 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:22.319 say like how like i understand that you uh your 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.400 vision is world peace but if i dive into the 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.979 why of what you do what would that be Well, I 00:02:31.979 --> 00:02:33.939 don't know if you could relate to this, Harry, 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.900 but there are times in our lives, seasons, chapters 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:41.300 that seem difficult. Maybe you have tragedy, 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:45.400 illness, loss, divorce, death, whatever it is. 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.460 We go through seasons of challenge. And I was 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:52.319 in one when I was 17. And it was a moment that 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:55.259 was really challenging in my personal life. And 00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:58.639 then while traveling, I just had a glimpse of 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.840 a feeling of peace. And for one moment, I felt 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:06.580 connected. I felt calm. I felt present. And that 00:03:06.580 --> 00:03:10.919 first glimpse into it started my obsession. How 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.560 do I access that feeling more often? And once 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.979 I became practiced at feeling that way, and more 00:03:17.979 --> 00:03:20.680 often than not, I was living my life in this 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.919 peaceful experience, then I became addicted to 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.490 how do I share this with others? So I started 00:03:26.490 --> 00:03:29.870 going deeper into my dive into meditation, into 00:03:29.870 --> 00:03:34.189 yoga, became a certified yoga teacher with my 00:03:34.189 --> 00:03:37.550 teacher, my mentor, who I mentioned. And I really 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:40.449 started helping people have that feeling in studios 00:03:40.449 --> 00:03:45.270 and on mats. As the years went on, and then we 00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:48.449 faced a circumstance no one could have predicted 00:03:48.449 --> 00:03:52.009 with COVID, what that enabled me to do was take 00:03:52.009 --> 00:03:55.250 the message out of the studios, off of the mats, 00:03:55.740 --> 00:03:57.800 and bring it to people where they needed it most, 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.680 whether it was in their homes, with their families, 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.699 or in their workplaces. And I started doing more 00:04:03.699 --> 00:04:06.800 executive high -performance coaching, keynote 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.680 speaking, and connecting with people so that 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.879 they can receive these messages, whether or not 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.480 they had a practice of meditation or they had 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.019 ever done yoga. This was the great equalizer. 00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:23.959 Yeah. Well, tell me more about that. How was 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.360 that the great equalizer? So I loved the feeling 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:30.879 of being in a studio, of teaching people the 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.379 power of their breath, how to connect their breath 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:36.160 with their movement, how to use their body as 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.240 a vehicle towards their peace, exhaust themselves 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:43.259 physically so that they can really relax, rest, 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:47.279 recharge. That was really satisfying. When COVID 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.519 happened and things switched to virtual, I wasn't 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.920 getting the same connection teaching yoga virtually 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.370 that I had teaching it. personally, in person. 00:04:57.949 --> 00:05:02.290 So I started thinking, okay, there's a reason 00:05:02.290 --> 00:05:06.189 for this. And by necessity, the course, which 00:05:06.189 --> 00:05:08.529 is actually the basis of what my most recent 00:05:08.529 --> 00:05:12.610 book was on, Best Life Ever, was born. And this 00:05:12.610 --> 00:05:14.810 enabled me to use a different kind of platform 00:05:14.810 --> 00:05:17.949 so that connecting virtually made it possible 00:05:17.949 --> 00:05:20.470 to reach more people in other states and other 00:05:20.470 --> 00:05:23.759 countries and time zones. And once a week, we 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.139 would meet for about an hour. And it helped me 00:05:27.139 --> 00:05:29.399 solve a problem that I didn't recognize that 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.759 I had had, which was when you create immersive 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:37.040 experiences, Harry, if you do a retreat or if 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.620 you have anything that's full immersion, maybe 00:05:39.620 --> 00:05:43.420 a weekend away, it's easy to create the peace, 00:05:43.660 --> 00:05:48.759 the serenity, the experience there. When you 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.860 go back home to your real life, real life happens. 00:05:52.410 --> 00:05:54.889 Maybe you have a flat tire. Maybe the same dishes 00:05:54.889 --> 00:05:57.709 are in the sink from when you left. Real life 00:05:57.709 --> 00:06:01.209 enters the picture. So how do you maintain that 00:06:01.209 --> 00:06:04.250 feeling that you created and felt on a retreat 00:06:04.250 --> 00:06:08.230 after coming back to your real life? Well, because 00:06:08.230 --> 00:06:10.790 of COVID and because I started connecting with 00:06:10.790 --> 00:06:14.009 people through my course virtually, we would 00:06:14.009 --> 00:06:16.850 meet once a week and then we would use the seven 00:06:16.850 --> 00:06:20.170 intervening days to play with our action steps. 00:06:20.810 --> 00:06:23.709 So the magic of it was we were playing with these 00:06:23.709 --> 00:06:26.589 tools of transformation within the context of 00:06:26.589 --> 00:06:29.670 our regular everyday life. So the transformations 00:06:29.670 --> 00:06:36.310 were bigger, faster, and just incredible to witness. 00:06:38.110 --> 00:06:41.189 I'm going to ask a deeper question here. I like 00:06:41.189 --> 00:06:45.689 deeper questions, Harry. Bring it. Yeah. So I 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:49.509 understand that people want to feel that feeling. 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:54.279 again right but i want to know why like why do 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.920 you want to bring that feeling home from whatever 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.040 you experienced to like hey let's say i go on 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.939 a mountain and i'm experiencing some kind of 00:07:02.939 --> 00:07:05.879 peace or some kind of serenity that i'm feeling 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:11.120 right then i come back to uh so this is my story 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.740 actually i'm gonna say this so i was uh i went 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:16.899 to yellowstone a few months ago with my wife 00:07:16.899 --> 00:07:21.199 and We were there for four days. Most of the 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.980 time was just spending driving in and out and 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:25.839 driving through the roads, looking at wildlife, 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:28.819 stopping, looking. And it was one of the best 00:07:28.819 --> 00:07:32.220 times I've ever had going to that place. And 00:07:32.220 --> 00:07:37.680 I really, really miss it, right? And then I want 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.879 to go back there and experience the wildlife 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:41.980 again and experience all those people again. 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.060 But when I come back here, I don't expect the 00:07:46.060 --> 00:07:49.410 wildlife come to me. And experience that here. 00:07:49.449 --> 00:07:52.689 That's not what I expect. So why would someone 00:07:52.689 --> 00:07:55.589 want to have that experience with them when they 00:07:55.589 --> 00:07:59.569 experience that? What would that be? Now, may 00:07:59.569 --> 00:08:02.649 I ask you, you don't expect the wildlife from 00:08:02.649 --> 00:08:05.649 Yellowstone to be home with you now. But I'm 00:08:05.649 --> 00:08:08.230 imagining that you also loved other aspects. 00:08:08.290 --> 00:08:11.370 Maybe you were less digitally connected and more. 00:08:11.819 --> 00:08:14.759 connected to the natural world around you. Maybe 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.759 you had really uninterrupted beautiful time as 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:21.259 a couple. There are other aspects when you travel 00:08:21.259 --> 00:08:24.779 that feel amazing besides the physical location 00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:28.259 that you want to take home as souvenirs. And 00:08:28.259 --> 00:08:32.720 to put it so simply, there are feelings that 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:37.899 we experience that feel like ugh. Feelings that 00:08:37.899 --> 00:08:42.389 we experience that feel like ah. And in my book 00:08:42.389 --> 00:08:45.169 and in my course, I call this towards and away. 00:08:45.789 --> 00:08:49.470 That when we are moving closer towards the best 00:08:49.470 --> 00:08:52.929 version of our lives we can imagine, that feels 00:08:52.929 --> 00:08:56.210 like when everything's going beautifully. When 00:08:56.210 --> 00:08:57.789 you think of your favorite song, you turn on 00:08:57.789 --> 00:08:59.929 the radio, it's on. When you're just about to 00:08:59.929 --> 00:09:01.490 pick up the phone to call your best friend and 00:09:01.490 --> 00:09:04.009 it's ringing and they're calling you. Or when 00:09:04.009 --> 00:09:06.049 you get to a light and it's turning green, you 00:09:06.049 --> 00:09:09.649 find $20 in your jeans pocket. That feeling of... 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.039 being in a flow state, it feels like, ah, it 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:16.899 feels like peace physiologically, emotionally. 00:09:17.179 --> 00:09:21.440 It feels like a full body sigh. And when we feel 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.840 like we're working hard and we're swimming upstream 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.639 and we're going against the grain, we're forcing 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.259 something, we're pushing something, we're rushing, 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.960 we're running late, we feel overworked, overwhelmed. 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:37.480 It feels like, ugh. And it shows up in physiological 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.840 ways in our body. So when we learn to identify 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:45.000 what the feeling is, we can use it as a guide 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.259 to get more of that which shows up as a feeling 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:51.460 of peace in our body and less of that which doesn't. 00:09:51.539 --> 00:09:54.679 So it gives us a great indicator. We start to 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.139 tune in more with our emotional cues, our physiological 00:09:58.139 --> 00:10:02.080 correlating responses to them. And then we start 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.559 to stack the ahs in our favor so that before 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.470 we know it, we're living more of our lives. feeling 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:12.889 happier, more peaceful and more fully expressed 00:10:12.889 --> 00:10:17.750 than not. So the long answer to your short question 00:10:17.750 --> 00:10:22.210 is it feels better. It just feels better. In 00:10:22.210 --> 00:10:25.710 simple terms, in our body, it feels better. In 00:10:25.710 --> 00:10:29.509 our soul, in our energy, in our happiness levels, 00:10:29.809 --> 00:10:32.710 it feels good to feel good. And if we get to 00:10:32.710 --> 00:10:35.610 the basis of anything we've ever wanted in life, 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.740 Almost always the answer is some version of the 00:10:38.740 --> 00:10:42.720 fact that having that, achieving that feels good. 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.379 Thank you for sharing that. I have one more question 00:10:48.379 --> 00:10:51.600 for you before we end today's segment. Ioana, 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.580 what is your goal for being on the show? My goal 00:10:55.580 --> 00:10:58.659 for being on this show is that for anyone listening 00:10:58.659 --> 00:11:04.019 today, if you have this little inkling feeling, 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:07.299 a tug, of something that's been in the back of 00:11:07.299 --> 00:11:10.080 your mind. Maybe it's been there for some time. 00:11:10.659 --> 00:11:14.440 It's there for a reason. It is there because 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.600 you have the thought and then you have that inspired 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:21.059 action to take after having the thought, as long 00:11:21.059 --> 00:11:24.860 as you trust in what the goal is and your ability 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:28.000 to achieve it. So just know that you would never 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.700 even have the idea if you didn't already have 00:11:30.700 --> 00:11:33.779 the ability to achieve it. So whatever it is. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.879 Go for that. Follow that tug and go for your 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:40.059 dream because there's no one else that has your 00:11:40.059 --> 00:11:43.200 unique perspective and your individual voice 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.779 that can share your specific story the way you 00:11:46.779 --> 00:11:48.950 can. Thank you for being here today. I'm really 00:11:48.950 --> 00:11:50.970 happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 00:11:51.149 --> 00:11:53.549 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 00:11:53.549 --> 00:11:56.190 as these episodes continue to move forward. This 00:11:56.190 --> 00:11:58.090 is going to get more and more fun. We'll have 00:11:58.090 --> 00:11:59.909 more and more engagement as well. We'll invite 00:11:59.909 --> 00:12:02.289 people to participate in the show. And thank 00:12:02.289 --> 00:12:04.269 you for giving us your time and attention. Have 00:12:04.269 --> 00:12:06.950 an excellent time building out your vision and 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:08.029 becoming a vision pro yourself.