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. Welcome in to another episode
of Vision Pros Live. I'm your show host, Jackson
Callum, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
And I'm super excited to have Benaiah Sif on
today. So this is an interesting episode. Vinay
is listening in the background. He'll get to
understand some of my evolution. I have been
on a journey of self -awareness, self -actualization,
discovery, becoming my best self for the better
part of the last five years now. And, you know,
it's interesting to start that journey at 33
when we think we should be starting that journey
at three years old, shouldn't we? And sure. But
this is where, The last five years have taught
me a lot about trying to become a better leader,
showing up and appreciating myself fully, as
well as those that I'm working with. And over
the last year, I've made some radical shifts
in terms of leadership and what it means to care
about others and listen to others and make space
for their storms and, you know, really playing
with healthy boundaries in a completely new way.
I share all that because Vinay has also been
on this journey for a long time, since he's 21.
And he's got at least a decade on me, I think.
And he's got different cultural backgrounds.
There's so much wisdom that we could potentially
learn. But one of my discoveries over the last
six months, so really the last three months,
has been I can do a better job of making room
for alternative perspectives, perspectives that
are maybe outside of my comfort zone. And Vinaya
represents that. He works with things like crystals,
and that's a subject that normally we've actually
turned guests down in the past, probably from
an unfair, self -righteous sense of judgment
on my part. And today is the first day where
I'm going to say, you know what? It's okay. Vinaya
has his strengths. for his life. And some of
you may benefit tremendously from that and may
not benefit so much from my way of thinking.
So this is a new exploratory episode. Before
I bring him back on, I want to give a huge shout
out to Junaid Ahmed of Home Studio Mastery. He's
one of the best podcast studio creators on the
planet. I'm in Ecuador right now. I don't really
worry about the style of the podcast from a design
standpoint. As long as you can see me clearly
and hear me clearly, I'm happy with that and
hope you are too. But there are certain markets,
there are certain brands where it makes sense
to have a phenomenal studio. He's the best in
the business. Then there's Danny Brassell. Dr.
Danny Brassell teaches parents how to inspire
their children to learn, to love, to read. And
I once heard from my international politics teacher
at BYU, if you want to change a nation, educate
a mom. I love that Danny goes around the world
educating parents how to educate their children.
All of us that are listening in right now know
the power and value of reading. And if you look
at the most successful people on earth, most
of them would claim that reading is one of the
cornerstones and pillars of their success. So
we got one more piece up here, and that's the
water project. There are millions of people in
this world who don't have access to clean drinking
water. My hope is that you and I will bring the
subject up with more and more people, even if
you're not in a financial position to give back
to it. Just showing people the Water Project
and seeing how the Water Project goes about transparently
showing you. which villages have need for which
water systems and how much it's going to cost
to build it you get to see the projects come
to fruition and you get to make a generational
impact on others like i said even if you just
share that over dinner and show people what they're
up to that person you show it to might end up
funding an entire project for an entire village
and that's the type of impact that i hope we're
willing to make for the world and if there's
other means of causes to support that you would
like us to support, then just drop the comment
below and let us know. And I will take a look
at that personally, and I will probably talk
about it with others as well, if it's something
that I feel called to do. And this is one way
we can go about bridging the gap in economics
that exists between North America, South America,
and the rest of the world. And it's one way we
can make sure that we're trying to help the 8
billion people out there who really need it.
So without further ado, Vinaya, thank you so
much for joining me on Vision Pros Live. Yes,
thank you. Wonderful project. I really appreciate
that. Thank you. I'm happy to hear that. So back
to helping these visionaries that are out there.
I asked you a strange question, which was, what
question, what powerful question should we be
asking in order to maximize and learn from your
years of wisdom and your perspectives? The first
would be to become aware that in a certain way,
no matter how beautiful life was to this moment,
right? We had beautiful moments and love and
yeah, it was overall actually pretty cool. Maybe
we even have our dream job. And if I really look
and feel inside and notice that Yeah, but there's
still something missing. What am I missing here?
What is that which always remains unfulfilled?
And to find that or to become aware that, yeah,
there's more. And it's not more in the sense
of more cars and more happiness or anything,
but more security in my life. is exactly the
way it is supposed to be and i'm the master of
where it goes and learning to step into that
has the requirement to actually feel that and
know yeah wait there is more no clue what it
is never mind i had no clue what i was looking
for And then one starts on the journey and then
one starts to look at one's programs and ways
of doing things and reacting and not being present.
And it's all variation of the same story, basically,
but different for everybody in this moment. And
through readings, I can give you. It's basically
I read or not read, but I'm a medium for your
higher self. and basically tell you what you
know but not listening to, how to get all on
your feet and become more aware, more the master
of your life, more content. It's not about happiness,
but contentment. That's an interesting word because
in English that word has a negative connotation,
but in Spanish that's the word for happiness.
So I'm glad you combined the two. i'll uh i'll
just put a shot out there for those of you listening
in um i have found my answer for what fills that
void oh man it doesn't mean it works for everybody
i can't predict what worked for you but i can
tell you for sure for myself it is gratitude
it is gratitude if i if i lose sight of being
grateful for what i've been given in any moment
whether it's good bad or ugly hard and adversity
a blessing not then of course there's going to
be a void but if i am truly grateful for everything
that comes to pass in life then there's no space
for a void i can be at peace um so that would
be my my secret that's absolutely uh correct
in my book and there is this wonderful exercise
i share sometimes where you take once a day like
a few minutes and just get in inside start a
bit of a breathing exercise become conscious
of your breath and then open your eyes and see
wow how much have i got thank you so much i am
alive and really feeling that is a wonderful
exercise to really be in that space you automatically
are in now because you learned and became aware
and yes that's huge it's it is part of my daily
exercises and so i'm glad you mentioned it because
i've been i've been doing these uh exercises
uh trauma exercises for like the last three weeks
um it's about it's about an hour um in the morning
And if I miss in the morning, I'll do it in the
afternoon. But I do it two to three times per
day. And they're little exercises. They're five
minutes to seven minutes maximum. But one of
them is exactly what you said. Another one is
similar. And the similar one, I address my power
of God as Heavenly Father. When I say Heavenly
Father, I release my need to control the outcomes.
Please teach me to trust in thy timing and in
thy plan. And then the exercise is to sit in
silence for five minutes and to try not to do
anything. Don't worry about the breathing exercises.
Don't worry about the what. thoughts come to
your mind um and that's in addition to my typical
prayers and meditations and other exercises but
that has been one of the most empowering processes
of my day over the last three to four weeks has
been that almost like that sense of of Just letting
it go. Just letting it go. Vinaya, again, thank
you for guiding me to think through that and
voice it out loud. I haven't told anybody about
that. So you inspired it. Is there any final
thoughts of wisdom or perspective that you'd
like to share before we wrap up today? Yeah.
This is a tricky little thing. Cool. I like tricky.
So without having a goal, I don't go. go anywhere
obviously right and focusing on the goal is something
i might want to avoid because then i'm in the
future i'm not here intending the goal being
aware of what i want to achieve and then dropping
that and being here now on the way but here i'm
not there anymore You know what I'm saying? That
would be my last words. I do. I love that. I
love that. That is, it's beautiful. And it, cause
it's like, okay, we're wrapping up the podcast.
So I'm thinking ahead. I'll write about that,
but I'm also trying to be present with you because
this is beautiful and amazing. It makes me feel
good. And I've got plans tonight. And so. yes
it is a balancing act and i i'll go back to the
gratitude aspect right to be grateful that wow
i i have the ability and the privilege to be
able to do both those things um right and and
ultimately it's my choice uh which which area
i choose to focus on um and it's it's freeing
to It's freeing to play with the subconscious
or whatever that feeling is. I'm definitely a
vision pros. I'm not your guru on this stuff.
I'm just in the process of learning about how
it all works as well. And I'm super grateful
for the piece that I have. I'm grateful for the
piece that you brought today, Vinaya, as well.
I hope someday we get to meet in person. That
would be super cool. And vision pros, those of
you that want to come on and share your vision
as well, it may be something as personal. as
meditation and practice for yourself. Or you
may have a vision of building some type of, I
don't know, global scaling company that you want
to share with people. We want you to come on
here and I know this is a safe space to share
it. Just click the button in the top right corner
that says be our guest and book your time and
we'll see you on the show. Vinaya, thanks so
much for being here. You guys can find Vinaya
at the links provided as well as by looking him
up, Vinaya Sif. on the internet um and that's
pretty good at getting us to where we want to
go these days so we will see you guys on the
next episode take care everybody god bless 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
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