All right, welcome in to Vision Pros Live.
With Jackson Callame, I'm your show host.
We'll be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs
and guests, guest leaders who are building fantastic visions
out there.
That could be CEOs.
It could be CMOs.
It could be government leaders, perhaps.
It could be people who work at schools
and are teaching kids and taking education
to the next level.
There's a lot of different types of individuals
that we could invite on this.
And today, what I wanted to do is
establish a pattern of having, well,
I want to lead by example.
I want to make sure that I get the chance
to get the vision out there.
So we're playing with the technology.
We're making sure that everything
with StreamYard works correctly.
That's what we're using to launch
this particular episode.
And we're streaming live on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on YouTube.
And I want to give you guys some behind the scenes
secrets of how we've built what we've built at first class
business, as well as what we're building out for vision pros,
what we do over at PassionPro, another vision of mine,
Opportunidades de Trabajo para Latinos,
which is our group for opportunities for Latinos
to find work.
Able Health is another company that I help grow.
And ultimately, I just want to go through some of the things
that might help you with your visions.
So if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask them
while this is live.
If you're watching this after the fact,
we will have a team, and I will be there as well,
to answer questions, dive into comments,
and make sure that your needs are met.
This is about serving.
So if there's one person out there who hears the stories,
it come on.
And it's able to move your life forward.
And you're able to be inspired to pursue your own visions.
We've done our job.
That's exactly what this is all about.
So when it comes to live streaming,
and when it comes to launching new networks,
one of the most important thing that you have to be aware of,
and as well as with building out your visions,
is you're going to face new opportunities
that are a little bit scary.
You're going to have to sometimes go out of your comfort zone.
And as part of that, you're going to have
to use technologies, perhaps, that you're not familiar with,
or you might have to be put on stage when you're not
prepared to give a talk.
And in this case, I came in purposefully,
ready to just do this raw, to get out there
and to make sure that you know, OK, I'm speaking from the heart.
I'm coming with content based on years of experience, not
based on something pre-written.
And again, let me go ahead and click this button here.
It says, live streaming isn't enabled in this group.
So I'm not going to worry about that right now.
I'm just going to hit Remove for that destination.
And it's going to give me a cleaner interface
so I can get back to my comments in case there's
people who decide to comment.
So if you have a vision that you're pursuing,
drop a link in the comments and let us know what that is.
That's a business or a brand, if it's a nonprofit that you run.
Be happy to promote it.
Be happy to talk to you about it.
And if you'd like to apply to be on Vision Pros
and be interviewed about that vision, then by all means,
feel free to reach out.
So one of the challenges that visionaries face,
again, is being put on the spot, is
having to make sure that you're comfortable with being
uncomfortable, whether it's the fact that you've got a team
to guide, and they need your guidance,
and they need your calm, still small voice,
or whether it's being asked to do an impromptu speech
at an event that you just happened to attend,
and somebody's like, hey, do you mind getting up and saying
something about so-and-so?
How do you say poise in those environments?
How do you stay ready?
I'd love some of y'all's ideas, too.
For anybody tuning in, given it's a first episode,
I anticipate our audience will be somewhat small with this
and grow over time.
But if you happen to have an idea of how do you become poise
and centered, and what it is that you're
providing to the world, or what it is when you have
an opportunity, let's say, to stand up and to speak on stage,
well, in my life, I think one of the most important things
that you can do in those moments is take a breath.
Realize that silence is only as awkward as you're
willing to make it.
A lot of times, people want to fill the silence with rambling.
Rambling doesn't typically lead us to say our best points.
Number two, think of stories.
Think of a story that you can share with people about an experience
that relates to them.
So my first time having an experience like this,
I was in Uruguay.
And I was knocking doors of the Mission Companion.
And so here we go.
We knock a door.
And we were 19-year-old kids, 19-year-old boys.
And the person who opened the door
was a very young, beautiful lady and an R-age.
And as missionaries, that's a no-go zone.
You don't engage with the opposite sex at your age.
And my companion was my leader.
And I was brand new to the mission.
I didn't know what to do.
And I looked at him, and he just looked back at me and smiled.
And he just stayed quiet.
He wanted to put me on the spot in this scenario.
And I froze and I panicked.
I didn't know what to do.
It's OK.
We have those experiences in life
where we don't know what to do.
The most important thing that you can do if you don't know
what to do when you freeze an event
is to get back on the horse and try again.
Life's not about being perfect.
Life's about making sure that you do prepare enough to know
what to say.
And yes, I did recover.
And I said what I needed to about talking to her parents
if they were home, they weren't.
We moved on our way and kept going.
But how many times are you going to be placed on the spot
in your life where you don't know what to do,
don't know how to act?
It depends.
Are you trying to get yourself out there?
Or are you not?
Are you too scared to talk to people
about the vision that you have?
I hope that everybody listened to this.
If you have a vision, you're out there sharing it with people.
You're willing to put yourself out there boldly.
Now that leads to step number two.
Make sure that people that you share your vision with
are people that respect your vision.
Now you're going to have to share your vision sometimes
with people who won't.
And that's OK.
But you want to build a team of people who can support you
because it's really hard to succeed
if you don't have an environment of support around you,
whether that's family members, whether that's friends,
whether that's making new friends.
I was talking to one of my friends today, one of my advisors.
His name is Dean Forbes.
Dean is actually going to be on the show tomorrow.
I'm really excited to have him because he's
one of the best people that I know about establishing
relationships quickly and helping people understand
both the value that he provides but the value of moving
their life in a direction in relation to something
that they need that they're not doing.
OK, so if you want to have influence on your audience,
if you're talking to your children
and you want to help them be inspired to change the actions,
to change the behaviors that they have,
you have to learn how to communicate them with them
in a way that makes that possible, that makes that effective.
So I was talking to Dean and he said, Jackson,
how do you find team members?
Like, I don't know how you did it.
How'd you find these team members that are so amazing?
I have an incredible team working with me.
And I listened to his question intently
and I realized he used the word find.
And I thought, we actually don't find team members that
are amazing.
We attract team members that are amazing.
That's how this whole thing started.
This business, first class business,
is something I was preparing for seven to eight years prior
to actually launching it.
And I was building experience prior to that.
And when I finally met Dr. Todd Snyder,
we weren't planning on launching first class business.
I was there to listen to his needs
about desiring to build another scalable business model.
And as I listened to what his needs were,
he shared with me the vision for what he was up to.
And I shared back with him, interesting.
Here are some assets that I have, some things
that I've created along that path.
And we kept going back and forth in our conversation.
We're very aware of what it is we wanted to create
because we've been building for so long.
And it came to a point where I said, listen, Dr. Snyder,
I didn't call him that.
I called him Todd.
I said, Todd, I have basically been building
what you want to build for the last six to eight years.
And I'd love to go 50-50 with you on it,
if that's what you want to do.
And that's exactly what we decided to do.
And so Todd, with his lead to, he's
much more of what I call a break of a car.
I'm more of a throttle in a relationship.
You're going to have different roles.
And you have to learn to respect the different roles
if you're going to build a vision that incorporates more
than one mind, correct?
So it was a really cool experience
of working together to harmonize and make sure
that we were on the same page about every little detail.
I don't know very many people I've harmonized better
with about all of the minute details
because we had no fear about figuring out legally,
how do we want to set this entity up tax-wise?
What are we willing to explore?
Which options can we look at?
How fast are we going to grow this?
What's going to be our primary objectives?
What elements of the business do you
want to take care of versus that I want to take care of?
We had an extremely healthy communication
about that process for the onboarding experience.
We had our target demographic down.
And we knew how to describe more or less what we wanted
to offer and service to be and how it was we wanted to help.
But we also knew that as an incubated startup,
we had to start by truly listening to our audience.
We had to start by finding out, what
is it that our audience wants from us
before we just go out and create some random thing
that we think they want.
So we got together and moved a lot of the elements
for that I've seen so many startups skip and not take
the time to build out.
And I'm really grateful that Todd was part of that
because he took a lot of the preliminary precautions
that sometimes I set to the side as a more risky
entrepreneur in nature, his low risk tolerance
allowed us to get those aspects set up
while I was able to focus on driving the vision forward that
was a little bit more outside of his comfort zone.
So again, break and gas pedal.
It's important to know that in many people's visions,
you want to make room and space for having that.
So communication ends up being key.
When it comes to attracting, that
led to us attracting other people who
wanted to be in an environment like that.
An environment with two very dynamic, different.
We're talking about Dr. Todd, who went to the Baylor University
doctorate program that's three times harder to get into than
any other doctorate program in the nation.
And he graduated almost twice as fast as anybody
who goes through that.
He's extremely academic and he's extremely good at getting
things done and teaching people about productivity.
You can actually research more about Dr. Todd Snyder
at ToddSnyderCoaching.com.
So in addition to that, let's look at the polar opposite
that I am.
I'm a college dropout.
I didn't finish.
I had a 0.33 GPA in college.
And it's not because I'm not smart.
It's because I couldn't apply myself.
I didn't know how.
I didn't fit into that infrastructure.
I have a very different way of learning and doing things.
And so here we come together and we
start working on this opportunity
to grow this business with my background as a business owner
taking lots of risk and diving into different startups
and stuff and knowing that my vision and my purpose
was to help businesses build sustainable revenue growth
and also ultimately provide an economic platform
to be able to help Latinos throughout the world.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm tied so strongly
to that vision.
I just know I am.
I just know that's where I'm needed and that's where I serve.
I know it's important.
All right, so here we come.
And we started attracting new people to join this company,
not by reaching out to them, by them understanding, well,
I want to be a part of this.
Can I be a part of this?
And then setting healthy and clear boundaries
for that to happen.
Then of course, yes, if you go to firstclassbusiness.io
and you look, one of our core pillars
is we have a call to action on there that says, join our team.
Let's go ahead and go into present mode.
I'm going to go ahead and share my screen
and share that with you what I'm talking about.
There's too many visionaries and too many entrepreneurs
out there that don't create a clear vision for those
that they're trying to work with.
And if you do that, you create a lack of certainty, which
creates a lack of progress.
We didn't want that.
We wanted to make sure that we created a clear vision for those
that are working with us so they can talk about it
with calm confidence, ultimately.
And so one of our big components,
one of our big secrets, one of my big secrets
for all the companies that I've helped establish and move
forward throughout life is make your team members,
your core clients, the people that you want to serve the most.
If you as leaders serve your team members
and take care of your team members
and you understand their vision and you understand
how they fit within the vision itself,
they will know that they belong and they will show up
and serve well.
So our number one call to action on our page
is join our team.
We want people who come through this process
to realize that we do put a lot of heart, energy, and effort
into making sure that our people are treated, ultimately
like superstars, and in sports.
If we're not putting our team member, thank you, Cynthia.
Cynthia did so much great work to help
us get our designs in a position where we could launch
this podcast and launch so many other elements.
She's our head designer.
We absolutely love working with her
and we love how she leads the team.
Once again, how do we land somebody who's
so good at taking care of the team
and taking care of what it is that we're up to?
Because we attract it.
We attract it by showing people how much we care about them.
And in turn, our people go out and care about those we serve
because they know that they're safe
and they belong in our environment.
And it creates what's called a virtuous cycle.
And that's something I pay attention to in everything
that I do and I look for visionaries.
I look for entrepreneurs who follow and abide
by the same principles.
They're people who build virtuous cycles,
meaning when I say thank you and you say, it's my pleasure,
and then I say, hey, you say thank you to me
and I say it's my pleasure, that's
a small virtuous cycle that a lot of us
are taught since we're little.
And it's easy to abide by, but it
can create a stronger and stronger and bigger, bigger
relationship as that grows.
It's one small principle, but there
are so many elements of communication that can go wrong.
And sometimes people think that, well,
communication is something you train kids to do,
or I don't need to coach anymore.
I worry about those individuals.
I worry for them because usually the moment you put those walls
up and those fences up and say, you know what,
I'm just going to stay in my silo.
I don't need that type of help.
It's usually the moment you actually step off the edge,
the ledge, so to speak, and fall on your face.
So it's very important that we're constantly
looking for ways to improve how we're serving in the world
and who we're serving in the world.
So with that, let's talk a little bit about the vision
that we have for first class business.
Why is it that I'm in these different companies?
What is it that drives me to be a visionary?
One of the things that drives me is I'm a father.
I'm a father of four children, and I
love and I take, it's hard not to talk about,
it's hard to talk about that without crying,
like without, when I really feel it,
but my role in this life for the most important role
that I have is to be an example to my children.
And so early on in the phase of realizing
that I had talents to become a business owner
and I had talents to learn how to do all this stuff,
as I started to work with different companies,
I began to form stories in my head of, all right,
if I'm going to go to that day at school with my kids
and talk about what I do, I want to make sure
my story is cool, right, for my kids.
I want my kids to be proud of me as a father.
And that morphed and changed dramatically
as I matured as a father and I realized, wow,
if I dedicate, as more opportunities came
and I almost got to work with Google,
but then I worked with a startup that was invested
in by Paul Buchain, they mentored Gmail,
and they don't care yet.
They're a little bit too young to care about those aspects
so far, but as they get older and they look back,
what I want them to look back and see is, oh,
dad was involved in a viral video ad campaign
for Nordic Track, that's pretty cool, right?
Kids like the cool stuff.
Oh, dad helped Jake Larson scale
and expand video power marketing.
And he was really one of the first people,
one of the first people using YouTube advertising.
Do we blame dad for that or do we thank dad for that?
It creates a fun conversation in the home at this point
on that subject.
And then they learned, oh, wow,
dad and the team of video power
helped the truth about cancer raise several million dollars
in a matter of two and a half months
to help people overcome cancer.
Like, that's pretty awesome.
And ultimately what I want my kids to be thinking about
is what can I do in this world?
Like if dad was able to do all these things
and dad's helping me learn how to move my vision forward,
what is it that he can help me accomplish?
And that's another, it's just a realization
of if you're out there pursuing big things, right?
And ultimately at the end of the day,
if you're a parent and you want to influence your children,
like pursue your dreams,
go after things you care about,
show them what's most important in life, right?
It's them that's most important, most likely,
but it's also showing them how to maximize their life
and live a life that they can love.
We're actually gonna bring my kids on Division Pros
next week.
This episode will be my children next week.
They're gonna be with me for spring break
and I'll give you a little backstory on this.
My daughter brought me this book and said,
dad, she's 11, she was 10 at the time.
She said, this book is awful.
You know, she's like, it's just poorly written.
I could write a better book than this.
And I said, you're right, you can.
It's like, first of all, I agree with you.
It's not a great book.
Second up, you can.
And so I'll tell you what,
if you publish your own children's book,
I will pay you $100 and her eyes set up.
And my seven-year-old heard me say that.
My seven-year-old runs to the craft room
and she grabs the crafts
and she starts working on writing her own children's book.
And she's like, dad, will you pay me $100
if I write a children's book?
And I was like, yeah, absolutely.
If you write and publish, you gotta publish it, right?
So we've been working on that project
for a few months now.
They've done awesome.
They're constantly, like, engaged in this.
If they weren't, we wouldn't do it.
It's all about teaching them, you know,
the principles of life, like how to build a spreadsheet,
you know, for a contributor's list
who can contribute to making this possible,
meeting with the publisher,
learning how to do an advertisement for those books,
getting the book finished, right?
Now that we're so far along,
yeah, no matter what, we're finishing this.
Like, even if they don't wanna finish it,
at this point, it's my responsibility as a dad
to help them learn to follow through.
But it's so easy because they've been so willing
and they really enjoyed the process of doing that,
where they've caught a vision.
So next week, they'll be sharing their visions
as to why they wanted to do this, what inspired them,
you know, to want to spend their Saturday with me
talking about a callback script, you know,
and actually sending their manuscript to people
and then calling back and learning to say, you know,
hey, Ant Veronica, you know,
what did you think of the book?
And guiding that person through the process of learning
how to contribute to their authorship.
That's just, it's just awesome.
It's so fun to be able to help them do that.
But that's really one of the greatest whys behind my vision
is everything that I get to be involved with,
every business I get to launch and be involved with
is another story to teach my kids
about what I'm doing to give back in this life.
It's not about the finances alone.
In fact, I used to say, and here's something
that I hope you write down, if you're a new visionary
or you're somebody who has an entrepreneurial venture,
I spent many years with a very toxic relationship with money.
And it was not to my best interest.
It was, I, I, I, I, I say toxic relationship.
My statement was, I don't care about the money.
If you've ever said that before, you can relate to it.
I used to say it all the time.
A few years ago, I switched gears and realized,
wait a second, if I don't care about the money,
the money won't care about me.
There's a grand difference between having a love of money
and recognizing that money is just a resource
and it's an important resource.
It's a resource that's a vehicle
to help us accomplish more things in this life.
It is important to maximize our talents and to spread them.
It's important not to say, I don't care about it.
It's important to become a wise steward.
Alvin Jackson, oh man, I love you dude.
Alvin's amazing.
He is, he's a wise steward in many respects.
Somebody who has helped me in my life
understand how I can be a better father as a single father.
And, and so great respect for you.
Appreciate the applause, my friend.
We've got to appreciate our finances
and we've got to learn how to maximize them
in order to ultimately achieve most of our visions in life.
And you may be the exception to the role of that
and that's just fine if you are.
But I know that all the things that I want to accomplish
and the things that I want to do for others
require that I be a wise steward
so I can have the financial capability
and also just in general, the security, the health,
the wellness, the mindset, the emotions, all of that.
I'm gonna be my best self and have my best life
if I do the things that are required to be my best self.
And that's ultimately what it's all about too.
So first class business, right?
That vision of that company is to help businesses
establish sustainable revenue growth.
What types of businesses?
Visionary entrepreneurs.
I need heart driven leaders,
people who care about their service at large
and what they're doing for others.
It's far easier to teach them the principles of wealth
than it is to teach somebody who's addicted to wealth
learn to stop thinking about their own needs
and start thinking about others.
That's a very hard transition.
I talk about one of the tests that I do
with my entrepreneurs to help them recognize
whether they're thinking about themselves
or they're thinking about others.
So some of you, this will come naturally to others.
This may just go right over your head.
But ultimately the test is I ask people
why they do what they do.
And there's two types of answers I get from people.
People who are not heart centered,
meaning they have a heart,
but they're not centered around it.
They have the ability to inspire others, but they're not.
They have responses like this, Jackson,
I do what I do because I want my bills paid,
I want a bigger house, I want a bigger car,
I want my kids, I want to be able to pay for my kids school,
I want a boat, I want to be able to take time off.
And they don't realize how many times
they just said the word I.
And you're sitting there, I'm sitting there going,
oh my, oh my, how are you gonna inspire others
to want to buy from you or want to believe in your vision
if it doesn't include anybody but yourself?
On the flip side, when I ask people,
why do you do what you do?
Why do you care?
Right, I don't ask that first.
I ask them, why do they do what they do?
And the heart centered leaders say,
because I love the effect that it has on other individuals.
I love seeing visionary entrepreneurs,
for instance, break free from not only the finances,
but from the day to day operations.
I love teaching entrepreneurs how to get time freedom
to be able to not be irresponsible
and sit on a beach all day,
but to have the ability to be there for their family
and be centered when they are.
Right, I love empowering entrepreneurs
to be able to let go and sleep at night
and not be thinking about all the calls they have coming in
because they have a team who supports them.
I love seeing an entrepreneur go from a team
that is serving them because they're scared of them
or because it's their duty to do their jobs, they do it,
to showing up because they love to be there
and they wanna support the vision
and they feel like they belong with it.
Right, those are all elements of aspects
of why I do what I do.
I love seeing the transformation take place in people's lives.
I love seeing entrepreneurs stop relying on marketers
to make their marketing decisions for them.
That's one of the most unhealthy practices
a business owner can make,
is to put their decisions in the hands
of all the people around them
who are still trying to figure the vision out.
I love the transition that takes place
when a visionary realizes,
oh, it's my responsibility to guide
and it's my responsibility to learn how to critical think
and how to guide people and where to listen,
how to listen to their heart and their mind
and subjectively look at their opportunities
in front of them so they can make moves
that are more holistic in nature
that lead to long-term growth
and to see them reposition themselves as a leader
and show up in a way that they can love those
that they serve and everybody can insert
to love how they're serving.
And it's just, it's amazing to see the virtuous process
take effect and to see their lives transform
and to see them inspired to represent what they did
in an entirely new way.
So that's one, one vision.
If you have a vision to share,
please share it in the comments.
If you have a question to ask,
don't hesitate to ask it in the comments as well.
If there's a, if you wanna be
on the Vision Pros Live podcast,
don't hesitate to apply, we can get to the application link,
just reach out to us, you know, person to person,
human-to-human interaction, that's what it's all about.
And tomorrow, again, we will have Dean Forbes
of Epic's Academy on board and you don't wanna miss that.
He's an amazing, amazing teacher, trainer,
and master of communication to strengthen relationships.
And I can't say that enough.
Most people have mediocre relationships in life
and they put barriers and walls up in their life
to protect that, right?
We're often told, don't talk about politics.
Don't talk about, now gender.
Don't talk about race.
Don't talk about religion
if you wanna maintain your relationships.
And I get it, like that's the safe zone, you know?
Like you're putting yourself on the edge,
you're putting yourself out there
if you go hard towards those subjects.
But if you don't go hard towards those subjects,
you're also locking yourself in a little box, right?
And you're saying, I don't wanna relate to people.
I don't want anybody to see me.
I wanna hide.
I wanna disappear.
And you know what?
There's a different type of misery and pain and suffering
and a lack of belonging that comes
from sheltering yourself further and further and further
away from society.
And so more so my takeaway
and what I'm excited to learn from Dean tomorrow
because it's just how amazing he is at teaching these concepts.
He can teach a concept that I can visualize and see, okay,
I'm practicing part of that in my life
but if I just have that one little tweak to it,
I can see how that will take my life up a notch
in all my relationships, not just business,
but also my relationship and ability to relate to my children,
to relate to my mother, to relate to people
that I love and support in life.
So super awesome opportunity.
We'll take place tomorrow on the next episode.
That episode actually does not air at the same time
as these ones.
We're gonna be doing those at, don't quote me on this.
I think it's 1 p.m. tomorrow.
The good news is all those announcements get dropped
on our social feeds as well.
But yeah, tune in and learn from Dean
about how to take your relationships to the next level.
And it will help you dramatically improve your ability
to influence others.
So let's talk about the vision of Able Health.
So I'm also here as a representative,
not just as CEO of First Class Business,
but also CEO of ablehealth.us.
And I'm a co-founder of that venture.
It is Dr. Seth Yates who partnered with me on that.
And he was building an incredible platform called Yip Fit
that was in concept, was amazing
and had a lot of elements behind it
to ultimately allow anybody who needs access
to a natural path to be able to access a natural path
as long as they had an internet source
and to be able to do so completely for free.
There's obviously opportunities on there
for us to monetize that too.
And to make sure that we have levels of service
that people can invest in in order to receive more help
that now empower us as a brand
to expand that vision even further.
But I'm gonna show you what ablehealth.us looks like.
So let's go ahead and take a look.
Let me share my screen again.
We're gonna go back over here to the First Class Business page
and I'm gonna type out Able Health in the chat.
And I'm gonna show you a little bit about the transition too
because vision is all about
knowing how to answer right questions to gain clarity.
When Dr. Seth Yates came to me,
this is what his brand looked like.
It was YipFit.com.
I didn't know what a Yip was.
He didn't know what a Yip was.
And at least he didn't explain it.
And the more I dove in, the more I was,
I knew that the prospects were gonna be,
fill a repulsion to the brand experience.
So it doesn't really matter what metrics I put in here.
I'm just kind of OCD.
So I'm gonna put some things that don't,
they're too far stretched.
You know, you're not gonna wanna go through this.
I gotta get off the screen
so you guys stay on the show too.
Let's go back over here for Able Health.us.
This is what we designed and built.
And we built it within a couple of months
after doing a ton of research and development to discover,
are we going for like a Gold Gems field?
Are we going for like the buff people?
Or are we going for more like a planet fitness?
And then we settled in on,
you know what, the real type of entity
that we need to model and learn from is Fitbit.
Because Fitbit's all inclusive.
It's about true health.
Not about taking one specific type of healthy figure
and moving them forward.
And so we created Able Health
with a much more holistic feel.
And the purpose of the initial launch
is to get some beta users.
We wanna get people in who are willing to give us feedback.
And based on that feedback,
we're able to continue to build out SMART
exactly what our audience is asking for.
And one of our audiences recognized that,
you know, they need better guidance in terms of
getting pregnant and starting their families.
And so we created a free quiz
to help people who are striving to start their families
have the health guidance they need
in order to get pregnant now
or reach their peak fertility.
And it was really awesome to build this process out.
And it was super fun seeing baby pictures
and getting them included in marketing.
It just, it makes you feel so good,
you know, to be involved in that process.
And if we happen to help a handful of mothers
improve their life,
I'm gonna be so excited about everything that we built
and got to do on this.
But the really cool thing is we're building a vision
to be able to help millions and millions,
quite possibly hundreds of millions of families
with their health.
And that just like, how can I not spend my time,
you know, like maximizing this opportunity
when I've had the chance, you know,
to pull it together and to be involved.
It's just, it's just so important to me
to maximize the opportunities that come across my plate.
So at Able Health, you know, we're,
while we've got that segment focused in on helping the women
get the supplements they need
because of Dr. Yates background,
as we come across more visionaries, you know,
doctors that may want to be involved, you know,
or other, other providers who are like, you know,
I like what you're doing,
maybe we can add this to it.
We have a very inclusive nature about us.
We love to meet new visionaries.
I love to see how can we align because, you know,
there's an old saying, a bundle of sticks is stronger than one.
Right? And if you, and if you take a bunch of,
a bunch of sticks together and you try to break them,
they're not going to break, you know, as easily
as if you've just got one stick in your hand.
And so we're always looking for who's,
who's aligned with us, who's the right type of person,
who catches the vision for what we're doing
over at First Class Business,
or who catches the vision for what we're doing
over Able Health, who catches the vision
of what we're up to at Vision Pros on this podcast.
Who wants to come and inspire the audience that we have here
and help people take their lives to the next,
to the next level? Super important.
So we're going to be looking to attract
different types of vision pros,
like the Gary Vaynerchuk's of the world,
like the John Lee Dumas of entrepreneur on fire,
like, oh man, Mark Rober, you know, on YouTube,
and we'll be, we'll be planning more seeds for him next week,
probably when my kids talk about the YouTube influencers
that they're contacting to let know
that they're publishing a book
and they're looking for contributors to support it.
It will be interesting to see which YouTube figures
respond to the videos they're putting together
in order to attract people to sponsor
or be part of that book launch
so that their book launch is as successful as possible.
And we're planning on hitting it hard.
We want to hit the, I want to hit the New York Times
best sellers and allow them, help them to do that.
They want to go as big as they can take it.
And as long as they have that mindset, you know,
they get to the day where they say,
dad, you know, I feel like the book thing's done.
You know, we've ran this race
and we want to move on to the next, the next purpose,
the next passion.
That's awesome.
We close the chapter of the book.
We put the book on the shelf, you know,
we move towards that next wholesome recreational activity
that ultimately empowers and builds their life out.
And so the same is true.
I see the same concept applied, not just to children,
but all of visionaries with what they're doing.
You want to get super clear.
And maybe that involves beginning with the end in mind.
Right? But one, one trick on that too.
I did not know I wanted to run first class business.
I didn't know that this wasn't my end in mind.
I did not know that I was going to be a partner
in a health company.
I would have never anticipated that.
I did not know that I was going to own 1%
of a marketing company in Toronto.
I wanted to be a basketball player.
I want to be a football player.
I want to be a soccer player.
So when people say begin with the end of mind,
begin with the end of mind and be flexible
because your vision will shift and it will change over time.
And you can always jump back on track
with what that vision might need to look like
or what you might need to do.
And you may have pivots along the way,
which is why an old friend of mine,
Cesar Torres and I actually launched a company back
in the day called Pivot Point.
And so having the ability to pivot
and to be malleable and recognize that,
you know what?
I don't have to be stringent.
I don't have to be exact, right?
I don't have to be controlled
and I don't have to be controlling
in the process of building my visions.
In fact, I should be flexible.
I should be aware of the opportunities.
I should be more ready to enjoy the journey.
You know, and that's really what I want
to inspire people to do is enjoy the journey,
enjoy our journey.
If you're seeing this episode
and it's five years from now looking back
on what it is that we've built,
I know I hope that you hear this
and understand that, you know,
I don't know where this is going
in the five years from now
and how many channels we'll be broadcasting on
or who will be running this broadcast.
Or, you know, if this is still running and building,
we've got, you know, 10 million subscribers to it.
You know, I didn't predict that.
I just, all I did was I abided
by what's called the law of the harvest,
which means I planted seeds that I knew were valuable
and I nurtured the earth where I planted those seeds
and I am going to take care of it
and foster it for years to come.
And by doing so, it's going to grow
and it's going to, you know, experience growth
and it's going to provide an abundance of wealth
for those who are involved in the process.
So enjoy the journey.
You know, that's my greatest takeaway
I can share with you is no matter, you know,
no matter what stage you're at,
whether you're going through sad times
or you're going through hard times,
you're going through great times,
take space and time to try to find what you can enjoy
with that portion of the journey.
And if you're in the great times, breathe,
be happy about it, be grateful for where you're at,
share it with people, share with people
why you're grateful that you're there,
why you're grateful that they are there with you.
Take full advantage of those opportunities
to build momentum when you have them.
One of the visions that we'll talk about
on another episode in more depth
is what we're doing over at Passion Pro.
That's another channel that I haven't mentioned yet
that we are actually streaming on
that has a lot to do with why we launched Vision Pros
and what we're up to in Passion Pro.
That is ultimately a program I created
to help people find their passions
and live their purpose.
And simultaneously, there's some selfishness
built into that as well.
I needed to be inspired this day
with my own passions.
I knew how valuable it will be
to be accountable to that reality
because I've seen too many adults in life.
I watched, I was the youngest in my family
and I got to watch all the adults grow up
and some of them made great choices,
some of them didn't make great choices,
but it was certainly insightful to see
and I watched all their friends and their friends' friends
and the parents and the parents of those individuals.
I don't, maybe that's just like unique to me.
Maybe it didn't have to do where I came
in the family order, but I watched and I observed
and I watched movies like Hook with Peter Pan
and how he lost sight of his vision
and his passions and all that.
And I got inspired by things like that
and realized, oh man, if I'm not careful,
if I don't protect my dreams and I don't hang on to those,
I could lose them and I could lose sight
of the things that are most important to me in life.
I don't ever wanna do that.
And so that's one of the big reasons
why I created Passion Pro was so that I would always
have a reminder that I couldn't let go of
that constantly kind of poked me.
And it's like, hey man, like, hey, Mr. Entrepreneur,
you know, hey, Mr. Dad, you know, hey, Mr. Husband,
whatever my, hey, Mr. Divorcee, you know, whatever it was,
don't forget the things that are most important in your life.
Don't forget to do those things and belong to those things.
And life has an interesting way of making sure
that we do get back on track, but life also has
an interesting way of rewarding us
when we proactively stay on that track
and stay involved with it.
And I'm really grateful for having positioned myself
to have dozens of people around me who support that
and who are willing to help me facilitate that
and who allow me to influence them to do the same thing.
And if you're one of those people
that are watching right now, I love you and I appreciate you.
If you want to be part of that inner circle,
then the only thing you need to do is ask, right?
The invitation is there.
We'd be happy to have you in our circles,
regardless of which circle that is.
So my leave behinds for today.
I'm gonna drop some links in the comments now
to some of these visions that I've shared and talked about.
And you're welcome to check them out.
You know, I don't have, we won't be,
we'll sometimes have guests on here
who probably sell from stage, so to speak.
They have some offer that makes sense to put out there.
I've no problem allowing people to do that
if they have the value that's relevant to the audience.
But if they don't have something
that's relevant to the audience
and they have something that's free to give away,
then of course we go that route.
I'm a big free guy.
I like to give free things away.
So passionpro.org, the entire thing is free.
We're not gonna charge for it.
I will eventually have sponsors for it
and that's how we will run the offers for Passion Pro.
But I don't feel like that's the best way,
I don't feel like monetizing the content
is the route to inspiring the 8 billion people
to pursue their passions that exist in this world.
I feel like we as a society have entities
that would be happy to contribute that
in the forms of sponsorships and advertisements.
So that's the route that will take Passion Pro
as we continue to build out.
For Able Health, AbleHealth.us.
And we're in the beta launch and program for that.
The cool thing about being part of a beta
is you get grandfathered into things
and the company does things, right?
And that's how we plan on doing things.
So you'll get the best rates,
you'll get the best opportunities as we build.
And I don't wanna overhype that.
As we build out those communities
and we get the central communities established,
the people who really understand the vision
and the value of being involved with AbleHealth,
then we can start organizing and planning
with those community members.
And kind of like the mother hen story,
which honestly I don't remember
the full end of the mother hen story
other than she tried to bake bread
and invite people to help her with it
and nobody ended up helping.
But I know the moral of the story is
if you have an opportunity to dive into something and help,
it's a really good idea to dive into that and help
because you're probably gonna get rewarded for it
after the fact.
So there's that.
Now let's go first class business.
What I'm gonna drop is the link to the Facebook group.
Now this Facebook group, again, back to the vision,
it's not designed to be promoted
to just anybody and everybody.
And it's not designed to be run
like a normal Facebook group.
I just see a lot of Facebook groups
have a lot of noise in them.
Ours is quiet and it's quiet with intent.
We wanna make sure that when we post in there,
it's a post that's actually valuable
and we don't wanna encourage our entrepreneurs
to waste time in Facebook groups.
Facebook groups are super important
as long as there's direct value
correlated with what we need for our lives.
But a lot of people in life,
a lot more people than should be in my opinion,
spend a lot of time consuming.
I teach people how to produce, not consume.
You can produce content or you can consume content.
And if I can help people produce content that's of value,
they position themselves as leaders in their life
and are then able to have followers
who contribute to whatever it is
that they're putting out into the world of value.
Now, I'm also gonna put in the chat
another portion of this vision is regarding
the Academy of First Class businesses.
And this is our academy to help entrepreneurs,
entrepreneurs and people who say,
hey, you know what, I might wanna start a business.
The checkout link that I sent is free as well.
And that link will allow you to dive into
what's called the Revenue Growth Workbook
and explore the idea of entrepreneurship
without any financial commitment.
And as you do so, you're actually gonna be working
in a workbook that we used at Video Power Marketing
that I've since built on and built on
and built on and built on and established new rules
and clarity for in order to help as many people as possible
leverage the principles of virality.
Yes, it is a science how you go viral on YouTube
and how you go viral on your Instagram posts
and all sorts of things like that.
It's a science, it's not an accident.
And it usually requires a lot of money for them
to be able to help themselves go viral over and over.
Well, if you follow that Revenue Growth Workbook
and you build out the audience you're speaking to,
the messaging you're putting out there,
the service that you're,
the clear service that you provide a value
and the offer that goes along with it,
you end up with a very, very good message
that people say, wow, like that resonates with me.
That's what I need.
Right, if you call out the audience and you say,
hey, this course is for people who only speak Italian
and live in Jamaica.
Well, anybody who doesn't live in Jamaica
and who doesn't speak Italian is not going to listen
to that message because it's not relevant to their lives.
We see entrepreneurs make that mistake a lot.
The Revenue Growth Workbook is what allows us
to align with them and help understand what it is
that their vision is that we can promote it to the world
and help them get their vision out there in a way
that allows their customers to buy from them
with more confidence and ultimately experience
what it is that they need so that in return,
the entrepreneur's business grows because of it.
So thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned into Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
as these episodes continue to move forward.
We optimize them as the months go by.
This is going to get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show
and thank you for giving us your time and attention
and have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.
I'll talk to you soon.
Bye-bye.