WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Hey, welcome back to Vision Pros. We have Christine 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:04.799 Valdez today. I'm really excited to meet her 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.019 and hear all about her vision. Christine, welcome 00:00:07.019 --> 00:00:10.320 to the show. Thank you. Tell me a little bit 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.660 about you before we dive in. Well, as you announced, 00:00:14.259 --> 00:00:17.960 I'm Christine Valdez. I am a regional director 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.699 for our large sales team in pharmaceuticals. 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:22.839 I'm also a real estate investor and entrepreneur. 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:25.600 Very nice. Well, this is going to be a whole 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.000 lot of fun then. Let's just dive right in. I 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.480 want to hear first, tell me about your vision 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.219 for your business. You know, I wouldn't say it's 00:00:34.219 --> 00:00:36.399 a vision for my business. I think it's more of 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.240 the way I look at vision, right? So vision, typically 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:42.799 people think of vision as they usually think 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.960 of it and describe it as something forward looking. 00:00:45.820 --> 00:00:47.899 a forward -looking image of what they want to 00:00:47.899 --> 00:00:51.460 look like or a forward focus or an aspiration, 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:55.259 right? And in my role as a regional director, 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.240 typically, we look at vision as somewhere we 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.579 want the organization or for our group to go, 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:05.819 right? And as a leader, I use a vision usually 00:01:05.819 --> 00:01:09.040 to rally and align my team to a common purpose. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.959 And it really provides that direction and that 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:16.329 motivation. For me, vision isn't something that 00:01:16.329 --> 00:01:19.049 I chase. It's not that forward -looking image. 00:01:19.489 --> 00:01:22.290 It's really something that I steward, right? 00:01:22.709 --> 00:01:25.769 So the world often teaches us that the vision 00:01:25.769 --> 00:01:29.670 is the destination. But vision, to me, is what 00:01:29.670 --> 00:01:32.590 you do when the path isn't clear. It's when there's 00:01:32.590 --> 00:01:36.250 so much noise coming at you and you have to make 00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:38.890 a decision. And when no one else is looking, 00:01:39.290 --> 00:01:42.530 you can see what you're trying to build, but 00:01:42.530 --> 00:01:44.920 no one else can see it yet. right? So you're 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.019 stewarding that vision as you go along. And so 00:01:48.019 --> 00:01:52.260 I really, my personal vision, and this is a vision 00:01:52.260 --> 00:01:54.719 for all my businesses and for everything that 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.620 we do, is that everything that I've learned, 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.760 I have to steward that to the people that I lead 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.099 to give them more clarity and less weight so 00:02:05.099 --> 00:02:07.859 that they can rise up to where they need to go 00:02:07.859 --> 00:02:11.120 without as much trouble as I had to go through. 00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:16.490 vision is that stewardship it's really like giving 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:19.789 it's giving back it's really you know taking 00:02:19.789 --> 00:02:22.909 on what making those decisions as we go along 00:02:22.909 --> 00:02:28.009 um and it's actually living that today for where 00:02:28.009 --> 00:02:30.990 you want to be in the future i love that i love 00:02:30.990 --> 00:02:34.729 that that's that sense of stewardship is just 00:02:34.729 --> 00:02:37.229 so important we've been given so much learning 00:02:37.229 --> 00:02:40.050 so many experiences so much you know all of this 00:02:40.050 --> 00:02:43.060 insights Well, it's so funny, too, because it's 00:02:43.060 --> 00:02:45.080 funny. The reason why I'm on this podcast and 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.099 the reason why I'm on a lot of recently a lot 00:02:48.099 --> 00:02:50.879 of podcasts is that I was talking to a friend. 00:02:50.939 --> 00:02:52.379 I think it was someone at church and someone 00:02:52.379 --> 00:02:54.800 said this. Oh, you should be on podcast. You 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.300 have like so much to share. I go, no, no, I can't 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:00.199 be on podcast. There is no way I am not the person. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.520 I'm not as articulate as I think I am. And she 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:04.960 stopped me. She goes, well, then you're being 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.300 selfish. I said, excuse me, I'm being selfish. 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:11.840 And she said, yeah, because you're thinking more 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.280 about yourself than about the people that you 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.000 can actually influence or help. She said, because 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.099 you have so much that you've learned and that 00:03:20.099 --> 00:03:22.319 you've gone through in your life. And there's 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.479 so many lessons that you can give to other people 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.379 so that they don't have to go through the trials 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:29.719 that you went through. That's amazing. You should 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:33.039 share that. So that's the reason why. You were 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:37.620 shamed into it. Yes. But I mean, she has a point. 00:03:39.710 --> 00:03:42.189 thinking more about, you know, from that sense 00:03:42.189 --> 00:03:44.370 of stewardship and what you can pass along to 00:03:44.370 --> 00:03:47.530 other people, it changes everything, doesn't 00:03:47.530 --> 00:03:50.030 it? It does. It does. It doesn't become about 00:03:50.030 --> 00:03:54.110 your pride or your ego or what's best for you. 00:03:54.189 --> 00:03:57.669 It really becomes what's best for everyone else. 00:03:57.729 --> 00:04:01.090 And it helps you take when you make, like, I 00:04:01.090 --> 00:04:04.409 look at the stewarding of my vision or of the, 00:04:04.490 --> 00:04:06.969 you know, stewardship of vision. I look at it 00:04:06.969 --> 00:04:11.120 as, okay. I'm making a decision that's going 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.639 to affect for the greater good. So I have to 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.100 take the emotions out. I have to take the feelings 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:20.379 out because feelings lie, right? So I have to 00:04:20.379 --> 00:04:23.199 take all of that when I make decisions for my 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.459 team or I make decisions for the business that's 00:04:25.459 --> 00:04:28.079 for the greater good. And then when I do that, 00:04:28.220 --> 00:04:31.600 I make better decisions. Wow. That's good. You're 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.000 taking it seriously. That's a good steward. Yeah. 00:04:35.850 --> 00:04:39.269 That's fantastic. Well, this question is similar, 00:04:39.649 --> 00:04:42.529 but, you know, where did all this come from? 00:04:43.430 --> 00:04:46.629 Where did all this come from? The stewarding 00:04:46.629 --> 00:04:50.029 of vision? You know, I think what it came from 00:04:50.029 --> 00:04:53.850 is just as I started to look at my life and, 00:04:53.889 --> 00:04:55.430 you know, you start to get older and you go, 00:04:55.569 --> 00:04:58.790 okay, what, you know, you see for people who 00:04:58.790 --> 00:05:00.750 have children, you're like, okay, my legacy is 00:05:00.750 --> 00:05:04.560 my child. and she's fantastic right and i think 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.660 we've i think we've done a really nice job and 00:05:06.660 --> 00:05:08.800 in light of you know everything going on in the 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.759 world um because she's a really good really good 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.920 good person and she really wants to provide value 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:18.300 to people but part of that too is as we started 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:20.339 as i started to look at everything i've done 00:05:20.339 --> 00:05:23.579 i'm like what value am i providing everybody 00:05:23.579 --> 00:05:27.139 else like what am i i'm doing my job and i'm 00:05:27.139 --> 00:05:29.579 making my money right i'm doing a good job at 00:05:29.579 --> 00:05:32.180 work i'm making money we're building these businesses. 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:34.899 Okay. We're making money, but what does that 00:05:34.899 --> 00:05:39.480 do long -term for everybody else? Yeah. Right. 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.199 So to me, I was like, okay, what are we actually, 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:45.379 what value am I providing? Okay. Yeah. For my 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:48.439 job, I'm doing my job, but what value am I providing 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.660 to the greater good? Because if I can affect 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:54.360 one person with what I say or what I do and how 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.220 I steward my vision or how I. do all of that. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.360 If I can affect one person, they may affect one 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.959 person or they may affect two people. And then 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.720 that just grows and grows and grows over time. 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.540 And then now we make a better place. We make 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:12.500 a better world. We make a better society. And 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:14.920 I know it sounds so big and so far -fetched, 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.220 but we just don't realize when you walk by someone 00:06:18.220 --> 00:06:20.759 and you smile at them at the store and you don't 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.000 know them, you don't know if that person needed 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.199 that smile. that day or if you bump into someone 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:27.939 at starbucks and they start chit -chatting with 00:06:27.939 --> 00:06:30.600 you you know a long long long long time ago i'd 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:32.319 be like oh stop talking to me i don't want to 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.839 talk to anybody right i'm in a hurry i'm in a 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.279 hurry i need to get my coffee um but now okay 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.379 i'll start stop and talk because i don't know 00:06:39.379 --> 00:06:41.040 if that person needs to have that conversation 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.420 right or and so it goes back to all of that really 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:47.519 just providing that value from everything that 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.139 i've learned um and i think just I've just noticed 00:06:52.139 --> 00:06:54.779 as I've done more real estate investing, my husband 00:06:54.779 --> 00:06:56.740 and I, like the people I meet, they go, how do 00:06:56.740 --> 00:06:58.519 you do this? And me just walking them through 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.939 how to, you know, how to look at a fix and flip, 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.560 how to do the numbers, how to evaluate it. This 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:05.379 is going to be a good buy for you. Different 00:07:05.379 --> 00:07:08.339 options on how to, you know. Fix and flipping 00:07:08.339 --> 00:07:10.980 is just fix and flipping. You can rent it out. 00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:12.860 You can Airbnb it. You can long -term rental 00:07:12.860 --> 00:07:15.660 it. You could turn it into a place for airline 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:18.279 stewardesses. You can turn it into a place for 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.779 nurses or doctors. There's so much you can do 00:07:21.779 --> 00:07:24.339 with real estate and me walking people through 00:07:24.339 --> 00:07:27.300 the different options. I feel like, oh, there's 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:29.639 a lot in this head of mine that I probably should 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.839 share. If you've been doing it a while and you've 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.420 had some wins and some losses, you're already 00:07:36.810 --> 00:07:39.149 so far ahead of people who are just starting 00:07:39.149 --> 00:07:43.470 and desperately need that info. That's beautiful. 00:07:43.670 --> 00:07:46.870 I love that. This question is very similar, but 00:07:46.870 --> 00:07:50.629 a little deeper even. What's driving all this 00:07:50.629 --> 00:07:56.689 at a core level for you? At a core level. I think 00:07:56.689 --> 00:08:02.550 that when I go back to where I started, I came 00:08:02.550 --> 00:08:05.649 from a good family, immigrant family. My parents 00:08:05.649 --> 00:08:08.389 came to the United States with like $500 in their 00:08:08.389 --> 00:08:11.569 name and me, right? And we lived in a little 00:08:11.569 --> 00:08:13.829 tiny studio apartment and then just seeing my 00:08:13.829 --> 00:08:16.410 parents like really work hard. And then I got 00:08:16.410 --> 00:08:19.790 myself into a little, not I wouldn't say trouble. 00:08:19.970 --> 00:08:23.230 It was difficult. I had a child and I got on 00:08:23.230 --> 00:08:27.490 welfare and it was really hard to get out of 00:08:27.490 --> 00:08:31.970 that. But I was able to do that. Through different 00:08:31.970 --> 00:08:34.690 strategies, different tactics, different ways 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:37.509 of looking at things, being resourceful. And 00:08:37.509 --> 00:08:40.210 I think what drives it is that now that I'm grown 00:08:40.210 --> 00:08:42.830 and we've done all of these things, we've built 00:08:42.830 --> 00:08:46.289 our wealth, I want to help as many people who 00:08:46.289 --> 00:08:50.610 are there get out of that. And if one or two 00:08:50.610 --> 00:08:54.529 people in this podcast can hear that. and it 00:08:54.529 --> 00:08:57.350 helps them i can give them some strategies or 00:08:57.350 --> 00:08:59.970 some tips or something that'll help them move 00:08:59.970 --> 00:09:03.269 out of the situation they're in then great let's 00:09:03.269 --> 00:09:06.029 let's do that because there are a lot of programs 00:09:06.029 --> 00:09:08.789 out there that charge a lot of money right five 00:09:08.789 --> 00:09:11.169 thousand ten thousand twenty five i've seen thirty 00:09:11.169 --> 00:09:13.370 five thousand dollars and people are taking everything 00:09:13.370 --> 00:09:16.149 out of their savings to do these programs and 00:09:16.149 --> 00:09:19.690 i feel like well why couldn't i just share what 00:09:19.690 --> 00:09:24.710 i have for free to help people You know, and 00:09:24.710 --> 00:09:27.210 I'm not looking to monetize anything, but, you 00:09:27.210 --> 00:09:29.289 know, of course, if I have to give too much time, 00:09:29.309 --> 00:09:31.870 I'll probably have to monetize something. But 00:09:31.870 --> 00:09:35.049 if I have a lot of information that I feel like 00:09:35.049 --> 00:09:36.789 should be offered for free, I'm going to offer 00:09:36.789 --> 00:09:39.169 it for free. Right. I'm going to give that to 00:09:39.169 --> 00:09:41.389 help people get out of where they were or where 00:09:41.389 --> 00:09:45.529 they are. Right. beautiful i love that so much 00:09:45.529 --> 00:09:49.309 that's i mean how deeply fulfilling you know 00:09:49.309 --> 00:09:51.389 i'm sure you've had that experience where you've 00:09:51.389 --> 00:09:53.450 passed along something and somebody's been like 00:09:53.450 --> 00:09:56.350 this changed my life or yeah this changed everything 00:09:56.350 --> 00:09:59.289 or wow you helped me avoid a huge mistake yeah 00:09:59.289 --> 00:10:02.990 yeah i i hope i could do that more i hope i can 00:10:02.990 --> 00:10:05.960 do that a lot more i love that Thank you for 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:07.960 being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.240 in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.539 seeing your reactions as these episodes continue 00:10:13.539 --> 00:10:15.299 to move forward. This is going to get more and 00:10:15.299 --> 00:10:17.320 more fun. We'll have more and more engagement 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.440 as well. We'll invite people to participate in 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.620 the show. And thank you for giving us your time 00:10:21.620 --> 00:10:23.879 and attention. Have an excellent time building 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.200 out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself.