Hey, welcome back to Vision Pros. We have Christine
Valdez today. I'm really excited to meet her
and hear all about her vision. Christine, welcome
to the show. Thank you. Tell me a little bit
about you before we dive in. Well, as you announced,
I'm Christine Valdez. I am a regional director
for our large sales team in pharmaceuticals.
I'm also a real estate investor and entrepreneur.
Very nice. Well, this is going to be a whole
lot of fun then. Let's just dive right in. I
want to hear first, tell me about your vision
for your business. You know, I wouldn't say it's
a vision for my business. I think it's more of
the way I look at vision, right? So vision, typically
people think of vision as they usually think
of it and describe it as something forward looking.
a forward -looking image of what they want to
look like or a forward focus or an aspiration,
right? And in my role as a regional director,
typically, we look at vision as somewhere we
want the organization or for our group to go,
right? And as a leader, I use a vision usually
to rally and align my team to a common purpose.
And it really provides that direction and that
motivation. For me, vision isn't something that
I chase. It's not that forward -looking image.
It's really something that I steward, right?
So the world often teaches us that the vision
is the destination. But vision, to me, is what
you do when the path isn't clear. It's when there's
so much noise coming at you and you have to make
a decision. And when no one else is looking,
you can see what you're trying to build, but
no one else can see it yet. right? So you're
stewarding that vision as you go along. And so
I really, my personal vision, and this is a vision
for all my businesses and for everything that
we do, is that everything that I've learned,
I have to steward that to the people that I lead
to give them more clarity and less weight so
that they can rise up to where they need to go
without as much trouble as I had to go through.
vision is that stewardship it's really like giving
it's giving back it's really you know taking
on what making those decisions as we go along
um and it's actually living that today for where
you want to be in the future i love that i love
that that's that sense of stewardship is just
so important we've been given so much learning
so many experiences so much you know all of this
insights Well, it's so funny, too, because it's
funny. The reason why I'm on this podcast and
the reason why I'm on a lot of recently a lot
of podcasts is that I was talking to a friend.
I think it was someone at church and someone
said this. Oh, you should be on podcast. You
have like so much to share. I go, no, no, I can't
be on podcast. There is no way I am not the person.
I'm not as articulate as I think I am. And she
stopped me. She goes, well, then you're being
selfish. I said, excuse me, I'm being selfish.
And she said, yeah, because you're thinking more
about yourself than about the people that you
can actually influence or help. She said, because
you have so much that you've learned and that
you've gone through in your life. And there's
so many lessons that you can give to other people
so that they don't have to go through the trials
that you went through. That's amazing. You should
share that. So that's the reason why. You were
shamed into it. Yes. But I mean, she has a point.
thinking more about, you know, from that sense
of stewardship and what you can pass along to
other people, it changes everything, doesn't
it? It does. It does. It doesn't become about
your pride or your ego or what's best for you.
It really becomes what's best for everyone else.
And it helps you take when you make, like, I
look at the stewarding of my vision or of the,
you know, stewardship of vision. I look at it
as, okay. I'm making a decision that's going
to affect for the greater good. So I have to
take the emotions out. I have to take the feelings
out because feelings lie, right? So I have to
take all of that when I make decisions for my
team or I make decisions for the business that's
for the greater good. And then when I do that,
I make better decisions. Wow. That's good. You're
taking it seriously. That's a good steward. Yeah.
That's fantastic. Well, this question is similar,
but, you know, where did all this come from?
Where did all this come from? The stewarding
of vision? You know, I think what it came from
is just as I started to look at my life and,
you know, you start to get older and you go,
okay, what, you know, you see for people who
have children, you're like, okay, my legacy is
my child. and she's fantastic right and i think
we've i think we've done a really nice job and
in light of you know everything going on in the
world um because she's a really good really good
good person and she really wants to provide value
to people but part of that too is as we started
as i started to look at everything i've done
i'm like what value am i providing everybody
else like what am i i'm doing my job and i'm
making my money right i'm doing a good job at
work i'm making money we're building these businesses.
Okay. We're making money, but what does that
do long -term for everybody else? Yeah. Right.
So to me, I was like, okay, what are we actually,
what value am I providing? Okay. Yeah. For my
job, I'm doing my job, but what value am I providing
to the greater good? Because if I can affect
one person with what I say or what I do and how
I steward my vision or how I. do all of that.
If I can affect one person, they may affect one
person or they may affect two people. And then
that just grows and grows and grows over time.
And then now we make a better place. We make
a better world. We make a better society. And
I know it sounds so big and so far -fetched,
but we just don't realize when you walk by someone
and you smile at them at the store and you don't
know them, you don't know if that person needed
that smile. that day or if you bump into someone
at starbucks and they start chit -chatting with
you you know a long long long long time ago i'd
be like oh stop talking to me i don't want to
talk to anybody right i'm in a hurry i'm in a
hurry i need to get my coffee um but now okay
i'll start stop and talk because i don't know
if that person needs to have that conversation
right or and so it goes back to all of that really
just providing that value from everything that
i've learned um and i think just I've just noticed
as I've done more real estate investing, my husband
and I, like the people I meet, they go, how do
you do this? And me just walking them through
how to, you know, how to look at a fix and flip,
how to do the numbers, how to evaluate it. This
is going to be a good buy for you. Different
options on how to, you know. Fix and flipping
is just fix and flipping. You can rent it out.
You can Airbnb it. You can long -term rental
it. You could turn it into a place for airline
stewardesses. You can turn it into a place for
nurses or doctors. There's so much you can do
with real estate and me walking people through
the different options. I feel like, oh, there's
a lot in this head of mine that I probably should
share. If you've been doing it a while and you've
had some wins and some losses, you're already
so far ahead of people who are just starting
and desperately need that info. That's beautiful.
I love that. This question is very similar, but
a little deeper even. What's driving all this
at a core level for you? At a core level. I think
that when I go back to where I started, I came
from a good family, immigrant family. My parents
came to the United States with like $500 in their
name and me, right? And we lived in a little
tiny studio apartment and then just seeing my
parents like really work hard. And then I got
myself into a little, not I wouldn't say trouble.
It was difficult. I had a child and I got on
welfare and it was really hard to get out of
that. But I was able to do that. Through different
strategies, different tactics, different ways
of looking at things, being resourceful. And
I think what drives it is that now that I'm grown
and we've done all of these things, we've built
our wealth, I want to help as many people who
are there get out of that. And if one or two
people in this podcast can hear that. and it
helps them i can give them some strategies or
some tips or something that'll help them move
out of the situation they're in then great let's
let's do that because there are a lot of programs
out there that charge a lot of money right five
thousand ten thousand twenty five i've seen thirty
five thousand dollars and people are taking everything
out of their savings to do these programs and
i feel like well why couldn't i just share what
i have for free to help people You know, and
I'm not looking to monetize anything, but, you
know, of course, if I have to give too much time,
I'll probably have to monetize something. But
if I have a lot of information that I feel like
should be offered for free, I'm going to offer
it for free. Right. I'm going to give that to
help people get out of where they were or where
they are. Right. beautiful i love that so much
that's i mean how deeply fulfilling you know
i'm sure you've had that experience where you've
passed along something and somebody's been like
this changed my life or yeah this changed everything
or wow you helped me avoid a huge mistake yeah
yeah i i hope i could do that more i hope i can
do that a lot more i love that Thank you for
being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned
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out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself.