Welcome back to Vision Pros. This one's going
to be a treat. We have Jaden Sterling calling
in from British Columbia. Jaden, welcome to the
show. Would you please introduce yourself? Yeah,
Sue, thank you so much for having me. I am an
entrepreneur and a lifetime entrepreneur. Actually,
no, spent 10 years in corporate. So I spent the
decade of my 20s in corporate America working
for Citigroup in Maryland, some of the biggest
Wall Street firms. But since then, since I was
30, so a long time now, I've been a serial entrepreneur
and working toward helping people take control
of their finances and experience financial freedom.
That's our number one thing. Wow, that's fantastic.
And you did your time in corporate. Yes. Well,
tell me about your vision for your business.
So the vision we set out, oh gosh, it's been
about 12 years to assist people to take control
of their money. You know, I recognize working
on Wall Street that... The industry is set up
to make money off of people, not for people.
And because of the jargon that is used and the
acronyms, it's very difficult and intimidating
for a lot of people to invest their own money.
So we set out, I said to my partners, you know,
if we could create software and trainings to
help people find winning stocks in two clicks
or less, we'd really have something. So that
was the vision. our goal is to assist uh people
around the world we now have 4 000 people members
on our platform in i think we're up to 15 different
countries right now wow well done that's amazing
oh my goodness that's that's fantastic tell me
where did this vision come from it's interesting
i um when i was 14 i had an epiphany have you
ever had an epiphany oh yeah That's how I got
here. That's how you got there. Exactly. So,
you know, in that situation, time stands still.
And for me, time stood still. It's funny. I was
in my mother's town home and I was coming down
the stairs. All of a sudden, OK, I'm totally
dating myself. But there was a big boom box sitting
on her dining room table. Remember back in the
day? Oh, yeah. And I don't know. And then I'm
pushing even more. A cassette was playing. Oh,
yeah. This cassette was Wayne Dyer. And I found
myself transfixed in front of this player listening
to Wayne Dyer speaking. And what was really strange
about this, Sue, no one was in the house. So
this was playing automatically. I came down the
stairs. I'm standing in front of this. And I
knew or I heard or I felt, I don't know the exact
details, but three things came through very clearly.
The first one was that I would be speaking on
stages around the world. The second thing was
that I would be teaching. people about money
how to be empowered by money not enslaved by
it and lastly i was told that i would be teaching
from personal experience not from a book i read
or course that i took so my vision came directly
from i don't know whatever you want to call it
source the universe you know what have you my
higher self it doesn't matter what we call it
i guess matters more of what we that we call
on it and that's where it came from so that's
i've just lived out my entire purpose in my life
knowing, you know, having to really master money,
building a eight -figure business over seven
years in the financial space, using that knowledge
and now teaching it to as many people as I can.
That is amazing. Like that literally directed
your whole life from 14 on. Absolutely. 100%.
That's amazing. That's so cool. All right. What
would you say, like, what is your why behind
this? well, my why is my purpose. It's exactly
what I'm here for. It's why I show up every single
day is, again, because I was basically, I don't
like to say told, but I just felt very clearly
on the inside. I believe we create a blueprint
before we come over. And it was definitely a
part of my blueprint to do this. So my why is
to fulfill my mission while I'm here. Yeah. That's
an incredible thing. So from 14, don't know how
old you are. It's been a few years. And that
why has held you all that time. Yes. And you
were faithful to it. Yes, 100%. That's really
something. And starting a business, I mean, Wall
Street, that's not fun. No. You survived through
a decade of that to do this. And then building
your own business, obviously not easy all the
time. That's a very, very powerful why to have
helped you hold the course. And what was interesting,
my training, my real financial training came
from my clients, not from what the brokerage
firms are wanting me to sell and liquidate my
clients' assets. And guess what? They came into
the brokerage firm with a handful of stocks.
So back in the 1990s, it was like John Deere,
IBM, some of the really big companies. And that
was millions of dollars invested in these individual
companies. And I just started to recognize, wow,
there is something to this, you know, rather
than diversification. And, you know, it wasn't
until we were told liquidate those assets and
and buy mutual funds and package products and
manage money and unit investment trusts and things.
So we we took them from a concentrated portfolio
to this overly diversified. But the portfolio
then was earning money for the brokerage firm,
not for the client. And when I woke up to that,
Sue, I was like, oh, no, this is. So that's why
I got out of the business when I did and started
implementing that strategy of targeted investing,
you know, focused investing. And it's changed
my life and we've changed the lives of thousands
and thousands of people. That's incredible. You
had a moment, a line in the sand moment. You're
like, this is not on my watch. We're not doing
this. Totally. 100%. You had a little bit of
righteous anger, you know? Yeah, exactly. You
know? I did. I still do. I mean, the industry
hasn't changed a bit, you know? It's still exactly
the way they were doing things back then that
they're doing today. So people, you know, I just
think the... people can have such and people
want financial freedom right no one wants to
be enslaved but it was interesting like when
i went to college at american university i went
i picked all my classes and the very last table
was the credit card table the mastercard oh here
you've you've earned a 500 i'm like what is this
i didn't even know i was 18 years old had no
idea what a credit card was didn't have a job.
Like it was just crazy that I even got that.
Right. And, and yet they're wanting to, the system
wants to enslave people in a debt -based economy
to keep you working. And this goes way back,
you know, decades and hundreds and hundreds of
years as to how this system is set up. So we,
we have to, and I love what you're doing and
sharing with people, there's another way to go
about life. You know, there's another way to
do things. the very first step entrepreneurship
is that. It's someone saying, okay, I'm going
to forget this J -O -B, which stands for just
over broke anyway. And most employees are paying
the highest income taxes ever, rather than having
an LLC or an S -Corp or some type of entity established
that you work for and can funnel a lot of tax
deductions through. So that's a whole nother
we can talk about at some point. But anyway,
yeah. We definitely want to, yeah. So many ways
to go about this. That's fantastic. I'm so glad
you're out there doing what you're doing. Thank
you. You know, we need some good guys on our
side, right? Yes. Yeah. Fantastic. Well, I can't
wait to have you back. I'm looking forward to
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