towards that uh the the power launch program
is now live and free um the power launch we've
always had free access to what we call passion
pro as well and passion pro is about helping
people move into their purpose and and find life
fulfillment so when i saw what you do carrie
i was like oh my gosh a great friend um right
here's somebody who understands you know we've
got the academy of first class business you've
got vision is victory academy And we met serendipitously,
you know, with, with Michelle Chooseberry, correct?
Yes. Correct. We were at Podfest. Oh, so awesome.
And like, I just knew right away when I saw it,
I was like, oh my gosh, this lady's got, got
heart to the vision, authenticity to the vision.
So I was just talking about how long it took
me to kind of pull this off. What about yourself?
Like how long have you been working on Vision
is Victory Academy? And, and did it always, you
always know coming out of the womb that you wanted
to help the world with vision or what does it
look like? That's so funny that you asked me
that. So Vision is Victory, the Academy is one
piece of everything that I've built. And it's
the newest thing we're building. But my story
is, Jackson, when I was in my late 20s, I was
doing the 9 to 5 gig and I wasn't doing it very
well. I was changing jobs every two years because
I just didn't fit that mold. And so I had a mentor
show up in my life who sat me down and said,
you know, you can create your life to look like
however you want it to look here you just need
to get really clear on what it is that you want
what do you envision and so i took a day off
of work and with a legal pad of paper because
this was the 80s i wrote out in great detail
we were pretty newly married so i wrote a lot
about the relationship i wanted to have with
my husband and what i wanted us to be doing as
a couple I knew that we were going to have children.
So I wrote a lot about being a mom, what kind
of mom I wanted to be and the values I wanted
to instill in my kids. And I knew that at some
point when we had the children that I wanted
to be able to work from home. I wanted that flexibility.
Didn't know what it was at the time. I did not
know the vehicle. I just knew that I wanted the
flexibility. I knew that I wanted residual income.
I knew that we wanted to travel a lot, put our
kids through good schools and just have a really
great life, be able to be creative and a leader.
After I wrote that, and this is the funny thing,
Jackson, you asked me if I always knew that I
wanted to be a vision expert. On one of the pieces
of paper on the very last line, I wrote out of
the blue that someday I wanted to teach vision
and goal setting to other people. So not knowing
that this is eventually what would happen, it
was just there. And so I stepped into being an
entrepreneur when I was a young mom. I was in
the industry of network marketing first. They're
a really big team of people with a company called
Arbonne. And I taught them all how to write a
vision. Because I knew that if they didn't have
a really powerful purpose and a big why for their
business, Jackson, they were going to quit. It's
just too hard. Absolutely. It's a hard business
and a hard industry. Yep. Especially in the 80s
and 90s when it was very taboo. That's where
I learned your why should make you cry. I mean,
that was my university. University was a different
thing. I did that for a little bit and failed
it pretty badly, but I crushed it through the
university learning of network marketing. That
helped me have a very strong base of personal
development. Yes, it's a great, it's a beautiful
place to be as a new entrepreneur because you
have everything in place. The system is there.
You don't have to build it. It's like a franchise,
but you don't have to spend the franchise money.
That's right. That's exactly right. I just followed
the system. They told me what to do and how often
to do it. And I built a really big team. But
the bigger thing is that I had a lot of amazing
leaders around me that were helping me grow into
the leaders that they saw. And it was painful.
There were points where it was really humbling.
You know, you lose a whole team of people because
they're not loving being around you. You're being
at the moment you change really fast. But it's
a safe place to be because they love you. Correct.
I actually did super, super well in network marketing
when I was, I think I was like 22. I built a
big team. and like seven months later i got a
check for nine dollars and 82 cents um you know
like it was not at all what i was hoping uh what
happened with that situation and i i mean i racked
up a ton of debt on credit cards oh you know
doing that too but again it was kind of the price
i paid for the university um you know and for
moving my life forward understanding things i
wouldn't be where i am today And it would have
gotten what I've gotten out of this. I do have
some good relationships. It also taught me how
to push people away. Right. How to not build
relationships and not be a great leader, but
like try to lead. So that's just life, though.
You know, we have to walk. We have to walk before
we crawl. We have to crawl before we walk. You
know, we have to figure it out. So it's a great
incubator for some people. And speaking of that,
let's use that as resource number one. So that's
one resource that has helped both of us with
our path as visionaries. What are two more resources
that have helped you get to where you are? Well,
I wrote down, because I knew you were going to
ask me this question, that one of the resources,
and we just touched on this a minute ago, is
you have to be in the right community. Because
without it, we can quit on ourselves so easily,
Jackson. So you've just got to put yourself in
the right place that you're going to have some
people that are going to be a safe place to grow.
And they're going to pour into you. Everything
I am right now is because of what I learned through
my 25 years in network marketing, right? Another
resource is a company that I have found that
has a digital tool. It's a company called Oola,
O -O -L -A. Two amazing, amazing men that have
been teaching vision and purpose for about 30
years now. And it's a resource and a tool that
I use for people who like to use digital tools
to keep track of their vision, keep track of
their goals because it has an app. It's kind
of gamified. So you can put your three top goals
in there every day and tick them off. Right.
Great streak. So, so yeah, they've written several
books. They are two of the most amazing humans.
That's awesome. Yeah. I'm going to check it out.
I've never heard of it. So if I have heard of
it, I didn't use it. So I need to go back and
look at it. O -O -L -A. So I still have a, you
know, a hand in that. I love the tool. So I recommend
it to a lot of people. Definitely. Other resource
would be, and I'm going to be very non -humble
here as I have a workbook, my first book that
I created called Vision is Victory. Hold on.
Let me pause you. Let me pause you. Let me pause
you. I want to help America and all the listeners
that speak English to remember that the definition
of humility is wrong in modern society. Humility
is a full appreciation of oneself and everything
else that's out there. I'm glad you're the type
of visionary who stepped up and honored us with
what you've worked so hard to create. So let's
hear about this workbook and honor that. Go ahead,
Carrie. This is your workbook. I want to hear
about it. Yeah. So it's a workbook that I wrote
when I stepped away from network marketing. I
never left my company, but I just wanted to teach
vision to the public. So I created curriculum
around it that I'd been using with my team. I
started doing workshops, which I still do. teaching
people how to get their vision out of their head
and onto paper, Jackson, so that they bring it
to life, right? Love it. So a year after doing
that, starting the workshop, starting the coaching,
I wrote this very, very simple workbook called
Vision is Victory. And it literally walks people
through a process of how to get it written like
they've never written it before and how to break
it down into goals. It's so simple that a teenager
can do it. Yep. I've, I've thought about maybe,
maybe I should revamp it and make a vision as
a victory 2 .0. And I don't do it because people
remember it. They tell me after they do it, that
they remember all the visuals in the book. So,
yeah. I'll give it away as a free ebook to your
listeners and we can give them a link if you'd
like. Please do. Do I get it too? Just kidding.
So I'm definitely going to dive into that and
take a look. It reminds me of Passion Pro and
they go hand in hand. So the fun thing about
that is for me, I find it so interesting as our
entrepreneurs find themselves in Passion Pro
because we Miyagi it into what we do. It's amazing
how many completely transition shift from what
they are doing to where they want to go now,
now that they have permission. That only tees
them up with the need to then clarify the vision
too. And so the two resources, sometimes the
vision comes first. Sometimes the passions comes
first. Those of you listening in, you do you,
right? You know in your own heart, your own mind,
where you're at, what you need, where you might
go. You might not feel like you know it, but
follow that feeling. Follow that sensation. Follow
that thought process and allow it to happen.
So we'll be right back. We're going to carry
back on. We're going to dive into how everyone
has a secret vision. And talk about what that
secret vision might look like. You may already
be on to it. You may already know. You may doubt
that and be like, what? You know, what are they
talking about? If you can hold some space for
us and allow us to talk through this, you might
find your life change forever. And we'll see
you on the other side. All right. Welcome in
to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Callum. I'm
your show host. We'll be doing interviews for
visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who
are building fantastic visions out there. What's
up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode
of Vision Pros Live. I'm your show host, Jackson
Callum, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
Today, I got to give a shout out to my team and
myself because... We launched our program as
a freemium solution this week. We've been building
it for like 14 years. It's still a soft launch.
You'll be one of the first people gets to see
it, but you can literally go to firstclassbusiness
.io and start getting access to PowerLaunch and
all the things that we've been building for many,
many years to help you have the infrastructure
and have the insight into how to bring your vision
to the next level and really move your brand
to... $20 ,000 per month and new revenues within
45 to 180 days. Let's go. Let's get it done.
It's going to take hard work. It's going to take
sacrifice, and it's going to take team. You don't
have to use our team, but there's a reason we
built it, and that should tell you enough. All
right, moving into some of the other resources
that we have for you. We got Home Studio Mastery
with Junaid Ahmed. who is now not only somebody
who came on the show, became a client and then
became my business partner. He also builds these
incredible studios and he's over at VidCon right
now representing these studios that he builds
are world class. I'm talking like Lamborghini
style studios where people go, whoa, this guy,
you know, in this case, the hair restoration
podcast, Dr. Danio. it's easy to see he is the
leader in his industry because of the way he
set his studio up and that was us right there
setting up 3pg advisors as well over in the same
part of the country over there in atlanta now
if you're in need of basic lighting and setup
stuff too junaid's just got a super awesome heart
and he's always helping people upgrade their
studios me personally i like to keep my studio
uh very basic and like to travel a lot i want
people all throughout the world to know that
it's possible to rock a mic and win and really
it's all about the value that we share but he
guides on that too how do you share your value
what questions you ask how do you host guests
and he also helps you move to the next level
If you're one of those people who's like, no,
I got to have the best of the best. I got to
look like Joe Rogan in what I'm doing. And I
don't think there's a better person on earth
to talk to than Junaid about that. Then there's
Dr. Danny Brassell. Dr. Danny Brassell is also
a client of ours. He has a program called The
Reading Habit. This guy is one of our absolute
favorite leaders to work with. Me and Junaid,
we're up here, okay? But Danny is just like,
he's at a whole nother level. And it's so fun
to be able to represent him and work with him.
He helps corporations. He helps events. He's
a great speaker. He's often known as the the
educational version of Jim Carrey. Super funny
guy. And his reading habit program is designed
for those of you who are parents. So you can
learn how to inspire your kids to fall in love
with the art of reading education. has the power
to change the world. We are seeing that all over
the map. There's so many stories about it. You
and I both know we benefit from it every day.
So if we can inspire the next generation of kids
to learn how to continue to love reading while
also continuing to appreciate the online resources
that they have, it'll expand and help their brains
and their hearts in so many ways and always put
them in a position to where they can absorb great
content. I again, highly recommend checking out
Danny. The neat thing is the reading habit used
to be a paid for program. But in first class
fashion, we've worked with Danny to launch the
freemium version of the reading habit. So make
sure to go check that out and see what it is.
And you'll also be able to watch as we continue
to develop it and move it from vision to resource
that is easy to distribute, easy to share and
easy to get very excited about. And he does well
-crafted workshops. excuse me, with coach Jimmy
as well. So there's a lot of impact and power
that's there. Do they pay me to do this? They
don't. My friends, this is just me sharing resources
that I love and believe in. The next one is the
water project. I don't have any personal involvement
with the Water Project, but we do contribute
to it every single month. We love the fact that
we have the opportunity to make worldwide impact
for the people who have such greater needs than
we do. The Water Project opened my eyes to the
reality that there's millions of people who don't
even have access to clean drinking water. And
as I started to meditate more and more on that,
that means that these kids, they're having to
leave school to go get water for their community.
And it's also dangerous and very unsafe. A mom,
a dad, they might have to leave work. They might
have to leave their sick child at home while
they go try to search for water and they may
not find the type of water that they need. And
it just breaks my heart and tears me up inside
to think that, man, what if it were my kids or
me having to live in that circumstance? How could
I move my life forward? It would be so hard.
Look at these kids celebrating water like our
kids, my kids celebrate Christmas Day. and this
is the most basic resource that humanity needs
so my hope is that you will take the opportunity
to share this with at least one friend maybe
over dinner with people maybe you decide to post
about it but if you're not in a financial position
to just click on one of these communities see
what's going on and see how you contribute and
see the outcome of it then at least share it
because maybe somebody that you share with becomes
the connection that ends up donating and contributing
to three four or five of these you never know
how good how far the good ripple effect will
go that you plant the seed of. So join me in
that. Let's make sure to help the world out.
And without further ado, we're going to get back
to helping all of you and talking about these
secret visions and visions and how to unlock
them in our lives. So Carrie Conley, welcome
back to Vision Pros Live. Thanks for having me.
Absolutely. So diving right in for everybody's
sake, I would love to know what is your vision?
Well, as we mentioned earlier, you have me here
as a founder of Visions Victory Academy. So when
I started teaching my workshops, what organically
happened, because I was already a female entrepreneur
that was networking a lot, a lot of the clients
that I worked with for a long time and still
do to an extent are entrepreneurs. Because most
of them, their vision is very vague, which means
they're running what I like to say, really expensive
hobbies, right? They're winging it. And so I
used to bring them into coaching to get their
vision written so that they can now create a
business plan with some target dates on things.
So I still do a lot of that. But my passion really
has shifted towards wanting to work with young
adults. The Business Victory Academy is geared
towards like early 20s to early mid 30s. They're
kind of getting out in the world and figuring
out their adult life. And a lot of them are not
doing very well. They're struggling. Because
they don't have a vision. They're not happy with
the career path that they were placed on. They,
you know, struggle in the relationships and their
stress around money, their identity. Most of
them, because I have a podcast called Mental
Health Breakthroughs for Young Adults, Jackson.
A lot of them have told me that they feel like
they're already behind. And it just, it breaks
my heart. They're 25 years old and they feel
like they're already behind. And I think a lot
of that is social media. Yeah. So we're getting
ready to launch a community for them. I've been
talking about it for years like you. This has
been in the making for a very long time so that
I can build a community that's based on what
they need. So over the summer, I'm going to be
starting to host with my team one or two calls
a month to bring on some young adults to talk
to them about what's going on in their life and
what do they need help with. Maybe bring on some
experts on these calls on different topics, build
some. I'm going to do an event in September in
Coronado, California, and I'm inviting young
adults to be there called Vision is Victory.
So we'll see where it takes it. I really feel
like I've got the vision for it. I've got the
passion for it. And it's time for me to bring
it to life. I just want to see what they want
and help create it around what they tell me.
Oh, I love it. And I look forward to seeing the
link for the event. If you're doing it link style,
then it'd be awesome to have that because what
a powerful vision. and a powerful event that's
going to get redundant between the two of us.
But that's all good. I mean, that's kind of what
we want you guys to be able to see. So I want
to go back to one thing that you talked about.
One, you talked about your podcast, Mental Health
Breakthroughs with Young Adults. And you also
talked about already feeling behind to validate
that. You know, I mean, I grew up in a world
where YouTube had just come out, right, when
I was a young, not adult, young man. And so I
remember. uh i remember my my friend telling
me about youtube and about a really gruesome
video and i was like okay never touch youtube
um you know and and uh now here it is right but
we were we were both in band and we ended up
getting second in state um in the state of texas
for our band and i emotionally and psychologically
quit i was done i knew that i wasn't good enough
I knew right then and there that if I wasn't
first as a seventh grader in my own class, there
was eighth graders who are better than me. And
there's probably every other state, there's 49
other states, probably every single one of them
has at least one to two people better than me.
And then that means all the adults that are already
experts, I'm never going to make it in this world.
What a horrible feeling and burden to have as
a kid, thinking that, You have to be the best
or you have nothing. And now with Instagram and
TikTok and Snapchat and all these things, it's
like if you do something well, but you open up
one of those social media apps, you know, you're
just bombarded with all sorts of people who do
it better than you. If that's the goal is to
be better than then, you know, what a vicious
trap that put me in almost until my 30s. I was
stuck in that for so long. So those of you listening
in, that scratches the surface of one of these
levels. But we're talking to Carrie, who's doing
this on a regular basis, dedicating her life
to it, helping people uncover that reality. And
that's not something I've had to learn just once.
It's not something that I'm one and done with.
It's something I'm continually leaning into.
So I'm very excited about what you're putting
in place. I'm very excited about the shift that
you're making for young adults. i'll just add
one tiny bit of wisdom for all of us on that
regarding visions while i don't like when cartoons
throw in tons of adult content or adult humor
to kind of connect with the parents and get the
parents there do understand the value of making
sure that if you don't get the audience who pays
for it right if you don't get their interest
involved then you end up creating a situation
where no You know, adults probably aren't going
to go pay to sit through an hour and a half of
Barney singing. You know, we got to do something
to kind of get the full audience there to help
and support. So it'll be interesting to see how
you and I both go about our processes for that.
I'm going to switch gears to this secret vision
concept. So everyone has a secret vision. I know
I projected the line on this and we both talked
about it beforehand. What does that mean to you?
And, you know, what about the people who think
they don't have a vision? This is such a big
question. Yes, I believe everybody has a vision.
I believe that as children, until we go through
the process of being educated and being told,
you know, so I'll use myself as an example. So
I grew up wanting to be a singer and an actress.
I loved it. I would spend hours in my room singing
into anything I could make a microphone, right?
And I was very creative. But it became very,
very clear as I started getting into middle school
and high school that that was really cute that
I sang in all the shows. But I was going to go
to college and get a degree because nobody in
my family ever had. Right. So slowly, a lot of
that creativity and that vision that I had of
myself really changed, especially because I met
my high school sweetheart early on. Thank you
for that. And we started dating right out at
the end of high school, went to college together
and got married. And off we went right into the
corporate world because that's what everybody
was told to do at that point. And it wasn't until
I mentioned to you earlier that I was changing
jobs every two years and I was miserable that
I figured out, man, I need to sit down and figure
out what is right for me. And I just. i am strong
-willed enough to have taken the advice and write
the vision and then carry it out because that
wasn't easy either people thought i was crazy
quitting my job having a business degree and
going into selling lipstick right in the network
marketing world so i do believe everybody has
a vision and i do believe that most people unfortunately
die with that dream inside them because they
don't um they just they worry so much about what
people are going to think of them right Yeah.
So I just, this is my whole thing. I love when
people come to my events and my workshops and
do the book and actually pour out their heart
onto paper because I know how scary it is, but
I know that they have a purpose. Huge, huge.
I love that. And that is, you know, I think a
lot of us, you know, grew up unaware completely.
of the idea of having a vision you know if we
don't have we didn't grow up in america or we
didn't grow up in an environment where there's
a whole lot of opportunity to think through what
your choices are what your options are in life
then it be i think it becomes really hard to
even understand the value of the concept of vision
and you know that's that's from my experience
meeting with people all throughout the world
panama colombia puerto rico uruguay mexico etc
and uh for for myself even though i grew up in
a home Right. All the opportunity to incubate
visions. You know, I went through Myers -Briggs
and DISC and career advancement assessments and
all of that in high school. And for my talent
set, I was almost always smack dab in the middle
of everything. And so it was like, cool, you're
really great at everything. You can be anything
you want. I was like. no, I want to know like
which direction I'm supposed to go. I don't want
to regret being a basketball player. If I was
gonna be the world's best soccer player, you
know, like that, that played in my mind and it's
not a bad thing. It's just a discovery process.
So those of you listening in that secrets within
you and the more you dig, right, the more you
dig into that, the more likely you are to unlock
and find it. But the more you dig into that with
a trained professional. as well with somebody
who can guide you somebody who's going to love
you not somebody who's going to kick your dreams
down or hold you back or make you feel bad or
make you feel stupid because you're going outside
of the box the opposite and i love that you shared
your your one of your resources community right
it's that place where we belong where we're safe
to do this it's so critical to to get into a
community with people who are going to support
love nurture cultivate those visions and i love
seeing your website and how well prepared it
is the videos of you getting people dancing and
going like it's it's easy to see how well you
lead these initiatives so you know we're we're
going to talk a little bit more directly about
it we've alluded to it we've talked in pieces
about it but to really put clarity around it
What's your vision then for those that you serve?
Where do you see that taking them? Well, it's
a movement that I want to create, Jackson, because
I feel like if I can work with young adults right
now, helping them uncover their own purpose,
their vision, following out, they're taking some
baby steps, right? I just love it when I work
with somebody and they're scared to death and
I can see that to follow their vision, but they're
ready to take at least some baby steps like I
did. Right. So if I can get to them and help
them create a more purposeful, joyful life. I
see that trickling down when they start their
own families and raising their own kids. That's
the trick, you know, because I'm 63 now. Right.
So it's not a matter of making money anymore.
It's a matter of how can I change the trajectory?
of uh what we've got going on and i don't think
we've hit on this but i'm i know you're showing
my website here that i've lost both my husband
and my son to suicide so my son was 25. so we
started talking about building this movement
he and i together before he passed and now after
losing both of them it's just become you know
really big mission for me so that's why i have
this vision to serve is because we've got we've
got an epidemic going on right now yes right
We do, Carrie, and thank you for being willing
to share such a difficult reality with us and
still yet pour love and grace into our lives,
you know, and to honor them in that process.
The opportunity that we have to lean into supporting
and helping others is critical. I've talked once
publicly about a book that I've been writing
and how the publishing date. still to be determined
um but it's called the third parent and the third
parent is a reflection of i think one of the
big root causes of what happens to children in
today's society um and how in the past we used
to be able to go to our parents and it didn't
really matter if they told us the truth or not
their word was that was the word um right that
was the truth we had and so most parents don't
lie with a with a bad intent but you know if
if a parent one parent cheated or something like
that um right and then the kid goes and asks
what happened like where's dad where's mom i
don't know how does this happen and they could
they could you know they had to go work you know
they dad's got a new friend um right there's
lots of ways parents attempt to handle that type
of conversation with their child pre -google
that that may have worked But now that a six
-year -old or an eight -year -old can jump online
and say, what does mommy mean when she says daddy
has a new friend? That child's not getting psychological
advice. They're getting cosmopolitan. They're
getting trolls on the internet comments of other
six and eight -year -olds. They're very active
in that because they got nothing else to do with
their time. And Google has become this third
parent entity where there's so many... popular
votes right so many bits of knowledge of everybody
agreeing agreeing agreeing agreeing with unhealthy
concepts that if the parent us real life parents
are not prepared to acknowledge that and we're
not able to talk to our children and we just
keep shutting it down like our parents in the
past used to do or we say someday you'll understand
nope someday you'll get it some they think they
do get it and you're outnumbered with all the
world voices and so if we don't learn how to
discuss that with our children What happens is
I see nieces and nephews and I see other children
out there completely putting up a wall against
their dumb parent and saying, you're just, you
know, they don't want to fight with their parents.
They just know their parents are ignorant. Their
parents can't see what they have access to seeing
all the voices they see. And people don't even
realize that. And we can't wait for the stats.
We can't wait for us to find out in 20 years
what's going to happen. We have to make logical.
healthy movements in society say okay google's
a google's a resource like fire and it can burn
people to death or it can create electricity
but we have to use these resources responsibly
in order to protect the next generation so i
didn't i hope i didn't derail our conversation
um as much as paint a vision of something that
i don't think many people have have talked about
a lot and to me it relates to the idea of if
if children feel isolated into a virtual box
and they accidentally put up walls against their
existing physical community then they're going
to fall into a position of despair and a position
of distrust what are your thoughts on that as
a visionary expert and as somebody who understands
the vibe community you know this uh really takes
my heart because i now have two grandsons that
are five and two and I am very aware of how different
it is for them than it was when I was raising
my kids, right? Because my kids were not raised
with a cell phone in their hand. And I know that
my, I'm proud of my daughter and my son -in -law
because they are hyper aware of not doing that
as well. But I see it's prevalent, right? When
you can be in a restaurant and you see two -year
-olds with an iPad in front of them, you know,
because they want, the parents don't want to
have to. teach them how to communicate and how
to be at a table. It's just very, very sad to
me, to be honest. But that's why there's people
like you and I and other people that are visionaries
that are very aware and having a voice. And I
really want to encourage you to get that book
out. I want to encourage you to contribute to
it as far as an expert. Somebody also, I'm going
to be the crazy dad with no degree. And that's
all been planned pretty much for a long time
in my life. But ringing the bell, you know, it's
just my response. Look, I don't know. But this
expert says this. This expert says this. I've
already gotten several experts to contribute.
And the launch won't be that hard. But I didn't
launch it. And this went back to y 'all's visions.
This is about vision development. You can fall
on our footsteps on these things. When I was
ready to launch the book, it was the year that
Trump was being elected. And the political chaos
that was taking place was so loud. I was like,
this is never going to get any attention. And
I'm like, this is not the time. I need to wait
for a smarter time to launch this book because
I am going to launch it powerfully. And then
COVID hit. And I was like, great. Now there's
a whole thing that nobody's going to stop talking
about along with yet another election. So it's
been a process, but I know that God makes no
mistakes with his timing. I need to do. my part
to get the people who are going to get involved
to help me push this up the mountain. I think
it's very much time. I think we've got to, and
we'll launch the third and it's an easy book.
All we need is screenshots, right? All we need
is to showcase what it looks like. We're just
driving awareness and we're driving a conversation
with a healthy petition to ask people to bring
this to the attention of Google, you know, what's
going on there. And we will launch it with the
trailer already for the fourth parent, Facebook.
and the fifth parent snapchat and the sixth parent
and we'll create the whole series but we do have
to create a dialogue and uh there's there's not
i have my theories of solutions but you know
unless we have doctors talking about it nobody's
going to care i mean nobody that can make the
changes is going to adjust we got to make a movement
with it so thank you thank you for your support
on that And again, those of you who are out there
who might want to contribute and think that's
a good idea, please do contact me. Let me know
that you're interested in that concept and seeing
it brought forward because that also empowers
visionaries. So speaking of that, you've talked
about community. Communities are very hard to
build. They take a lot of work to be able to
pull together and make happen. The visionaries
out there, if we want them to. Lean into community
and get support there. And we know the power
of networking. And you've got materials and resources.
We've talked about secret vision. Let's talk
about secret sauce. Is there any piece of the
puzzle that you want to reveal from the middle
of the puzzle that obviously it's not going to
help with the whole infrastructure, but what's
something we overlook as visionaries? So the
process that I walk people through, Jackson,
when they go through my workbook, my workshops,
my events, is I get them to put a target date
on things. So I ask them on their piece of paper
to date it as if it's three years from that day.
And after they write that date, I ask them to
write down how old they will be, how old their
family members will be, anybody that's important
in their life. And the reason I do that is because
I can see on people's faces when I get them to
think about that. That they are starting to see
some things coming that they're not prepared
for, especially if you have children. Yes. Because
about every three to five years, there's a shift
in the family dynamic because they're growing
up. And so and again, using myself as an example,
when I started in my network marketing company,
I had a two year old. I was still working full
time and I was nine months or five months pregnant.
And my target, my big, big target that had a
date on it was to be able to quit my job, get
my son out of daycare and stay home before the
baby came. And so when I stepped into my company,
I told them that and they said, well, how much
do you need to make? And I said, I need to make,
let's say, a thousand dollars a month to do that.
So I knew with that target and what that target
looked like for me to create that vision, the
first step in my vision for our life, our family's
life was to follow the steps they told me so
I could reverse engineer it. Right. So when I
get people to think three years out and to dream
in every area of their life, what do they want
it to look like three years, that three year
date? Now we can start moving backwards and we
can go down into, all right, let's write out
some really specific quantitative smart goals
for one year. Yeah. Right. So that's the secret
sauce is that nobody wants to put dates on things
because it's scary. What are you talking about?
Especially entrepreneurs, when I talk to them,
first and foremost, I ask them, what's the revenue
target for the year? 99 .9 % of the time, they
let me go, what are you talking about? That's
right. Okay, so you just gave us spicy secret
sauce. That is absolutely spicy. So I'm going
to add some mildness to the mix here. I'm going
to add some ingredients that help pull the spiciness
level down on it. without losing its savor, right?
And this comes from Ramit Sethi of IWillTeachYouToBeRich
.com. Ramit Sethi, Stanford grad, super smart,
awesome programs, but his main program that like
really, really hit me was his ultimate guide
to setting habits. And in that ultimate guide
to setting habits, He had this process on goals.
And he shared a theory that I had never heard
on goals. I was pretty young when I read it.
I think I was like 25 or so. And it unlocked
everything for me about goals. It unlocked why
I had struggled with goals. It unlocked why I
was like, why does everybody hate that I set
big goals rather than I set timelines? And what
Ramit Sethi taught is we have a very unhealthy
relationship with goals. The goal. Why do we
set a goal? We don't set a goal so that we can
achieve the goal. We set a goal that stretches
us, that expands us. And so instead of looking
at goals from the position of I have to do this
or I'm a failure or I have to get this done or
I'm a loser. Instead of looking at it that way,
realizing we need to realize that the goal is
designed to stretch us and we need to evaluate
how did we do? That's the opportunity is how
did we do? What did we learn? Where will we go
from here? Are we going to abandon this goal
because we found something better or going to
move towards it? So I love what you're talking
about to set the target date. And if you feel
the date is scaring the bejesus out of you, right.
And it's like going to crush you and cripple
you, then that's probably a really healthy time
to say, I added a little bit too much spice to
this. Maybe I can extend it by a week or a year.
Maybe there's something else I need to evaluate.
And that's, again, where other people's minds
and hearts, community can really help. That way
you're not trying to dissolve all this by yourself.
And if that scares you, the latest savory, mild
component that I recommend adding, chat GPT.
Go to chat GPT and ask it and say, hey, I'm kind
of scared about this goal. Here's what I've done.
What am I overlooking? Or what can I do in relation
to this to protect my own feelings, my own ambitions,
my own motivation as I move towards this? Chai
TBT does miracles when it comes to helping us.
If we're able and willing to ask the right questions,
it can also be a very powerful and dangerous
tool if you don't ask the right questions. So
make sure you're paying attention to that out
there if that's your direction. We're coming
up to the end of the show. I'm going to ask my
favorite question. I'd love for you to come back,
Carrie, because we got... We got depth, real
great depth here. So my favorite question, if
this was the last chance you had to speak on
any podcast anywhere, today's the day that it's
all over, you've left your legacy. What powerful
lesson can other visionaries learn from your
experience? I think it's that the biggest reason
I talk to people about vision is it becomes,
and this is interesting, we're talking about
books. When I get in front of people and I talk
about why vision, having a written vision is
so powerful in your life, there's like 20 bullets
I can pull from Jackson of all the reasons I
believe in a written powerful vision. And one
of the reasons I talk about is it becomes your
anchor in all the storms. And the reason I can
say that is because when people ask me, you know,
how in the world did you get through what you've
been through and you're still doing what you're
doing? And one of the reasons I tell them is
my faith and it's my vision. My vision has been
my anchor. It's my purpose. It's what gets me
out of bed every morning. And so I think that's
the overall message I want people to know is
that if you are struggling and you're not happy
and you're not finding joy, your joy is anchored
in knowing that you have a purpose, right, and
to follow your vision and your dreams. So I just
really want to encourage people, especially if
they're really struggling right now, to find
their anchor. I love that. Thank you. Carrie
Conley, founder of Vision is Victory Academy.
And here she is helping open our doors, open
our abilities. I love this quote. Vision becomes
your anchor in all the storms. If you're not
feeling good, maybe it's time to upgrade the
vision. Right. Just like if you don't have a
strong enough anchor for a ship. Um, maybe you're
one of those people who is destined to have multiple
visions. Um, you know, that could be LeBron James,
um, oops, wrong side, that guy, um, right there,
or Richard Branson, um, and with hundreds of
companies, uh, Jackson Callum with like a dozen,
um, you know, and Carrie, she's had several visions
too. You got, you got family vision, you got
personal wellbeing vision. you got spiritual
visions temporal wellness visions there's lots
of different types of visions too that can that
can be intertwined that can be forgotten but
i love this concept that the vision becomes your
anchor in all the storms because i know what
it's like to go through heavy storms in life
and i'm sure many of you do too So, Carrie, again,
thank you for being here today. Those of you
listening in, you'll be able to find Carrie Connolly,
of course, online. We'll have in the show notes
as well. We'll have the resource links down below
this episode on the landing page. We'll also
link to the other resources that we talked about
in the top right corner of the screen. You're
going to see a button that says be our guest.
You know, if you're ready to come talk about
your vision, the whole point of the show is to
provide that safe environment. You don't have
to be at the, you know. years, decades of experience
level where you've got amazing footage and, you
know, experience being on events. We want people
to come and talk about their visions authentically.
And I hope that this becomes at least the stage
for some of you where you get to say, this is
the first time I'm sharing my vision. Like, that's
like the coolest thing ever. So come and share
that. And if you've got a super awesome vision
or like you've already developed it to like,
of course, we want you to be here. Carrie, I'm
also going to invite you to be on our next show,
our show that I don't ask very many people to
go to. um and it's called the be your best show
dot com that's a that's a show where i ask tougher
level questions um we go into the good we go
into the bad we go into the ugly um it's a limited
stage because not many leaders out there want
to dive into that level of authenticity and want
to discuss the variables that are uncomfortable
for them but we can't really guide people very
well if we're not having those serious and you
know like legitimate conversations about how
did we actually get through this um you know
what were the challenges that we faced throughout
the process so if you'd love to join me on that
we'll discuss that behind the scenes offline
um but i just i want my i want my guests to know
how much i value you as an individual coming
on the show and how well you're diving into what
you're doing you've proven concepts that really
helped me feel that much more secure and certain
about my own vision. So it's like your anchors
stabilize my ship now. And I thank you for that.
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a work
in progress. And we have several authors contributing
to this new book coming out called Unshakeable
Stories to Anchor You Through Life Storms. So
we're really excited about it. That would be
a great book title. You guys are some of the
first to hear about it. And we look forward to
that coming out. And let us know once it does
so we can add that resource back to the landing
page as well on Vision Pros. We'll see you guys
on the next episode. Thank you. Thank you for
being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned
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as well. We'll invite people to participate in
the show. And thank you for giving us your time
and attention. Have an excellent time building
out your vision.