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Tell me about your vision. My vision definitely

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starts with me, which is a little like self -centered,

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but I feel like we have to be that. It has been

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a really long process. Like from my childhood,

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I knew I was a little different. I knew I had.

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leadership qualities. I knew that making friends

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and having relationships with other people, thank

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you, was really part of my joy. And so my vision

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is about inspiring and empowering other people.

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And I do that through living an inspired and

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empowered life myself. It's taken a lot of years

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to kind of morph. I've gone on a lot of side

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journeys. But this vision is that we all are

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truly ourselves, that authenticity is really

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important. And I think it's getting a bit of

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a bad rap right now because it's used so much.

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But there's a reason it's used so much right

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now. Authenticity is our core truth of who we

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are, what we showed up to be, how our vitality

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and our vibrance comes across. It's what fills

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our heart and helps us bliss out. And I feel

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like. Helping other people through transformation

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and, like I said, empowerment helps people become

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more authentic. And when they become more authentic,

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they can connect with each other and find their

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so -called purpose and passion with a lot greater

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ease. So my vision is that everybody, everybody,

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because we're all in our bodies right now, even

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though we're these grand spirits that are eternal,

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is that. Everybody, you're going to see like

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my past life as an Italian or something come

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out here. That we're in these bodies and that

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my vision is that everybody can live a life that's

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super blissful, fun, joyful, and really meaningful

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that has super huge impact. And I believe we

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have to kind of do that together. I was definitely

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because of childhood conditionings. I was definitely

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a go it on your own. I don't need anybody. I

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created stories. I created career careers. I

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created relationships that allowed me to be the

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independent person. I was praised for being that

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person. And then at some point it was like, this

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isn't really. going to jive for me just being

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on my own. And I started to find the joy in collaboration

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and the joy in being inspired by other people

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and be lifted up by other people. So again, my

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vision is big. It's constantly evolving and changing

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and growing. And I like to use all the things,

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all the things. I've gone on tons of detours

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and reinvented a million times. And I think that's

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part of it. Yeah. What's the story behind your

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why? How did you get to this point where you

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care so much about authenticity? Yeah. Well,

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the why comes from a few different directions,

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but one of the biggest loves of my life was my

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grandmother, Pansy. I actually have her shirt.

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I have a shirt on today with a Pansy on it in

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case you don't know what a Pansy is. And that's

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just for inspiration. She's been gone for a while,

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but she was like one of the greatest loves of

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my life. A teacher, a spiritual guide, a wise

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woman, a butt kicker, all the things. She was

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so great. And I have a very beautiful mom as

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well, who was really young when she had my brother

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and I. So we spent a lot of time with my grandma,

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Pansy. My why is that she taught me how to really

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love life, how to love people and connection.

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She was all about her tribe. She was from a family

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of nine. And she was all about wanting to see

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her people. She lived kind of a couple hours

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from them. And we would go and sit with all of

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her sisters and the old aunties, and they would

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tell stories. And always when I sat with my grandmother,

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we would sit at the table and she would be like,

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wait, before we start dishing this gossip or

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whatever we're going to meaningfulness that we're

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going to talk about, we're going to make a pot

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of tea. We're not going to have a cup of tea.

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We're going to like take the time. It's sort

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of a little bit of a ritual and we're going to

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have this pot of tea and then we're going to

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discuss whatever we discussed and we're going

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to take the time and we're going to savor each

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other, the conversation. and our cup of tea.

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So a lot of my why comes from her. She was also

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a salesperson. She sold pre -need cemetery property.

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Okay. So if you think your job's hard, she, that's

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what she was selling a place for you to eternally

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rest. She had a great sense of humor, which I

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feel is something that's really important in

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life is to be able to laugh at all of these things.

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Right. And My why is just she gave me so much

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to go on. She was when I was having hard times,

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she was there. That truly unconditional love,

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even when it was her giving me that butt kicking,

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really. cemented for me that this is what I was

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here to do for other people. That every generational

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wisdom that she passed on, every joy, being in

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the garden, sitting with her clients. She used

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to take me to work with her. So I used to get

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to sit with her clients a lot. It's probably

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where we learned to sip tea as well. She had

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a lot of Japanese clients. So that was fun. I

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heard that. Everything she gave me, like everything

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that I am now, everything that's like so beautiful

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and good and friendly and fun. I feel like I

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had the opportunity to not that she gave that

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to me, but she helped me cultivate that. Yeah.

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Yeah. And she was an artist. So I'm an artist

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as a writer, but she was an artist as a painter.

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She was, like I said, a gardener. It was all

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these aesthetic beauties through nature and animals

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and all the things. And I feel like it's my purpose

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to help others, like I said. feel that and then

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i also as a young girl lost my dad um and i didn't

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really know until later in life what had kind

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of transpired but that kind of a loss um because

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i feel like you know if little girls have a great

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dad they're they sort of sort of it's a big loss

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for them and that kind of imprints on how you

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make choices as you go forward um so i feel like

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what i The person I came on the planet to be

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shifted when we lost him. I was only five. So.

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my life shifted a lot and it, that's when I became

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like, no one will ever hurt me again. And I'll

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become really independent and all those things.

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And it took me a very long time, a lot of failures.

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I mean, we have to be willing to fail in life.

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Like we have to just be willing to be epic messes

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because I think that's part of what we're doing

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here. And that's part of what the humor is about.

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Yeah, we have to do these epic failures. And

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I had a lot of those. But through all of that,

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I began to come back around to myself. And I

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mean, I can't tell you how many ways I did that.

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A lot of it's through travel. I am a travel addict.

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At 47, I became a flight attendant. So yeah,

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it was amazing. And I feel like the universe

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was like, you're going to do this right now.

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But I traveled a lot before that. And that traveling

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helps you to see other cultures and find your

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way through letting go of judgments. And I'm

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finding that a lot right now in this day and

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age that we have a lot of judgments. I have a

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podcast at Tea With Me in honor of my grandmother.

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And I was just talking about like how we're all

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so triggered. To me, I look at when I travel,

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I don't go to another country and be like, your

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food is ridiculous or your religion is ridiculous.

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I don't want to hear about it. Your way you build

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your homes with mud is terrible. Why would you

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do that? I travel so that I can see things I'd

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never see before and understand people in ways

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I'd never, ever understand them. So I feel like.

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We're sort of in a bubble right now. And if we

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could find that curiosity and openness. So anyway,

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my whys are people that are closest to me. I

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have nieces and nephews now. And it's really

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important to me to help be a generational wisdom

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giver. Thank you for being here today. I'm really

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happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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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.