Tell me about your vision. Thank you. And excited
to be here. You know, we were just talking about
multiple visions and part of my work has always
been around purpose. And I incorporate in that
word how vision, which I think is as ideal future
state and mission, like why we are doing what
we're doing, plus purpose, which is actually
an emotional. component which most people don't
think about purpose in that way and so when you
do a mash -up of it uh it comes out to a question
of really what's going to make me proud And I
look at what's going to really make me proud
in multiple aspects of my life. So on a work
front, it's really about helping people realize
their genius and to be able to not just realize
and see it, but to have it be lived and come
out in all aspects of their lives. Personally,
my purpose, like with my kids and my own family.
It's I help them do the same thing. And I'm,
I'm actually, I can't help myself, but coach
and my daughter and son will say, I actually
have five children, three bonus and two birth
children. And with my birth children, they know
that when they ever, they asked me a question,
I will more likely ask them a question first
to help them bring it out. Because I think we
all have the genius within us when we really
listen, listen with our heart. and be able to
know and I work with executives and doing you
know fortune 50 company work and all that but
I do come back to the place of the heart and
how do we actually have to see people and all
of their brilliance that are right in front of
us yeah wow tell me more about that um you can
take whichever way you prefer you can talk about
the business or you can talk about family uh
but I want to hear more about it well I think
for the longest time I had imposter syndrome
where I can think people can, and I know that
a lot of people can relate with us where we think
we're supposed to be a certain way or should
do something with our lives and our careers.
And it's not until we finally get to a place
of being very much kinder to ourselves and understanding
what our inner voice is saying that we can actually
truly be authentic. And I'll give you a quick
example. So I see things in pictures and I don't
normally. Like when I do writing, I don't write
just on a Word doc. I actually have to mind map
it. So a quick example of how I see the world
is I was teaching a class. I was at Harvard and
one of the professors I was working with, we
were doing this work with the students, the second
year students. And, you know, they all, so many
of them felt like either they were the last people
who were admitted to the school or they were.
had this impression that they had to go out and
make a lot of money and do something in finance
because that's what they thought was expected
of them and my role was to be able to ask what
do you really want what do you think your purpose
is what do you love doing what lights you on
fire and i was in 2016 in dallas not very far
from where you live and ended up being in a car
ride a taxi ride with this gentleman who said,
it's been a really hard day. And he said, why
are you here? And I said, I'm here to help these
executives with a purpose. And he said, God has
brought you to me. And I'm like, okay. And I
didn't know like what to say to this. And he
said, you need to help me figure out my purpose.
And here I had worked like with Unilever in the
top 300. And we do this like multi -month program.
Here, Harvard has this 12 -week syllabus. And
what did I have for Walter, who was the cab driver?
I had nothing except for a business card, which
was useless to him. So the next morning I storyboarded,
what would I tell Walter? And what would I say
to him and or my executives? Because I realized
my executives don't have time. Walter doesn't
have time. How do we make this really simple?
So I created a book. This is a book I wrote a
while ago. And it's actually a picture book to
help you really think through and create a lot
of white space in. to help you understand and
get you just started with thinking about your
purpose. And that started me on a journey where
I don't know if you ever had this, but I knew
I'd be writing three books. Now I am not, I don't
consider myself a writer, but everyone else will
say, of course you're a writer if you've been
written books. But three books were going to
come from this. The first one was for individuals.
The second one was for leaders. And I just published
my third one called Team Purpose to Performance.
And it just became an Amazon bestseller. But
it's really to get the word out so people could
do this on their own without having consultants
come in and help them. And it became an Amazon
bestseller. So something's working. And hopeful
that people will just be able to take it on their
own and do this work. That's awesome. That's
amazing. Wow. I'm so excited you shared that
with us today. And did you ever hear back from
Walter? I did. So this is a crazy story. So I
am back in Dallas. I was doing work with Toyota
and I've been trying to find Walter and one of
the guys who was working with me doing some marketing
work for the book. I said, you know, we keep
running up into, we keep getting stuck. And it
was actually, Walter was an Uber driver. And
if anyone has ever taken an Uber, you know that
if you leave something in the car, you can easily
call back and they'll find it for you. Or if
you have an issue, like someone's been abusive
or something like that, they'll handle it right
away. In this case, just to say thank you to
Walter and give him something, it was almost
impossible. So fortunately, the gentleman who
i was working with knew someone at uber and went
through their back doors to tell walter i had
something for him because i wanted to thank him
and i wanted to give him a copy of the book so
while i am in dallas because i'm from boston
area while i'm in dallas taking another uber
to my client i get this guy's phone number i
call him up and i say walter how are you and
i said this is laura this is your i you know
you inspired me and i wanted to give you a gift
of my inspiration and i he goes well where are
you i said i'm in dallas in an uber and his first
response was what are you doing in another uber
i don't have any other way to get a hold of you
so now i do anyway long story short uh i was
able to meet up with walter gave him a copy of
the book Got to talk to him about where he was
at. And that was the rest is history. Thank you
for being here today. I'm really happy that you
tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward
to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue
to move forward. This is going to get more and
more fun. We'll have more and more engagement
as well. We'll invite people to participate in
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and attention. Have an excellent time building
out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself.