Founder Of Brillane LLC: Kristen Becker AKA The Revolutionary Boss – S2E40 (#68)

• The importance of vision boards
• Balancing work life and kids
• What a positive morning routine looks like + the 1-minute plank
• And So Much More!!!

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Everything is good, your audio sounds good. My audio clear, yep, perfect. All right, let’s roll three to one. Welcome welcome back to Boston podcast. Today’s episode is going to be a pretty interesting one, and I think it is probably going to take some twists and turns. But in the end, all it all makes sense. Our guest today is Kristen, and I’m going to deem her the revolutionary boss. How are you doing today?

Hey, I’m wonderful. Thank you for having me.

Great. Great. So I just want to kind of just break out the cage right away and kind of just tell people a little bit about like who you are and what business do you have.

OK, well, hey, I’m Kristen Becker, as we’ve already covered and I have a company called Brillane, I have a signature program called Your Revolution. And basically what that’s all about really at the heart of things is people living their best lives, like coming really alive and how they show up in life, doing things that they’re passionate about and giving them the support structure and the framework to help make that happen in little bite sized chunks.

Great! So, I mean, even even with that, I think that you have some different programing, dealing a lot with vision you want to kind of talk about, like seems like vision is like a big factor to what you do.

It’s huge because the life that we’re living at any day of the week is the result of our current vision. Right. What we think is possible. And you’re never going to achieve your vision. A magic fairy isn’t going up here and, you know, bestow upon you this life that is not aligned with what your vision is. And personally, I think that 80 to 90 percent of people really sell themselves short in the vision category and in their hearts, they know that they want to do those things and live that kind of life, whether it be like body, career or relationship, whatever. But they just don’t take ownership and give themselves permission to to really see what’s possible and then take steps towards living that.

So, I mean, the reason why I brought a vision, because obviously, like I’m a big believer, a vision as well. I wrote a book about the having vision. And I’ve also noticed that you’re really big into like vision boards. And I had this whole conversation with my wife recently about like the real definition of a vision board and how to really use it and how to really maximize it. And I’m sure that you can to give our audience a little bit more insight into vision boards a little bit.

Yes, I love vision boards, like probably everyone who’s use them. My first experience was kind of going to a party, hope in envision and putting stuff on my vision board, kind of coming at it from a not very informed perspective, which is fine. But the vision board that I like to teach people how to make is based on symbols. It’s based on, first, knowing what your vision is. How does that feel? What are the whys behind it? Because here’s the critical I see as the error that people make. They look at as a vision board as something. If I put this on here and then it comes to be, I will then be happier. I will then feel worthy or valued or significant or whatever when the perspective that I look at vision boards is seeing that already within yourself and how to bring that out. So it’s not a big change, you know, that happens to you. But really, it’s just recognizing something within yourself and then bringing it out. And I recommend symbols on the vision board, which I gather a whole process of how to determine what these symbols are. But then they do all sorts of things to serve as triggers and that sort of thing. And you find yourself during the day because you looked at your vision board and reminded yourself of your vision of your true self and making different choices in life and just kind of steering towards opportunities and away from things that are going to distract you from what it is that you really want.

That’s definitely an interesting philosophy. So do you think vision boards are kind of like more so an action item checklist that way people can kind of strive to their achievements? Or are you more so on the side of reaching for goals that may seem to be out of reach currently?

Absolutely out of reach, because that’s the one that really inspires you. You know, I think we get our goals from two places. One is paradigms and conditioning and peers and society. You know, I call those box checking goals and having checked a bunch of boxes and then sitting around going to this kind of sucks, you know, but everybody says this is what I should do. But when your goal is something that’s really come from inside, it’s really inspiring. Then you’re growing as you achieve that goal. As I mentioned before, bringing out more of your true ideal self.

Definitely. So if you could define yourself in just three to five words, what three to five words would you choose for yourself?

Well, freedom always I love to feel free, and that’s really just awareness being in the moment and able to take advantage of whatever pops up and having great but but not super specific expectations. Resilient. You know, I think that’s a wonderful quality. I’ve learned to look at challenges as opportunities and see how I’ve grown to them, and that helps me to be more resilient. That’s two words and I think graceful, actually. And a lot of people who know me will be like she’s not graceful at all, but it’s a matter of kind of letting your wisdom come to the surface and being accepting and compassionate like embodies so much that I just love the idea of grace and continuously striving to be more filled with grace and living with grace.

So let’s step back a little bit. I mean, like like this is the first time we’re meeting, right? I can tell that you’re warm, you’re inviting like you’re knowledgeable, you’re a ball of energy. But were you always like that? I mean, like did you grow up like this? Like when when did you find, like, your core niche to where you are currently right now?

Well, I thought a lot about that, because part of what I do is help to other people to achieve not to be, quote, like me, but their own version of their best self. I definitely think that I was blessed in that when I was really young. My dad taught me a lot about meditation. And so there is a lot of people who were getting caught up in like if you look at conditioning when you’re little and you’re in the spring mystate, that you’re just like a sponge. I think that probably had a lot to do with it. And then I mentioned the box checking. I kind of went off the rails in my 20s because I wanted to be the successful adult and I just jumped in like what everybody else was doing. Honestly, I stopped meditating. I mean, my life was OK, you know, but there was this internal thing and I wasn’t being my truest, best happy self. And to be honest, it was like my late 30s, early 40s when I got back into that. And I’m constantly looking for ways to evolve and improve myself and not looking at my life as a series of circumstances and reactions, but just, you know, opportunities and. I don’t know, I guess what I’m saying is it’s a little bit, I think, inherent, but also it’s an awful lot of continuously going back to the drawing board and looking, what do I have going on here? What can I do now? What can I do next to evolve?

So it seems like I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, it seems like you’re kind of alluding to maybe like where you are currently in your business right now is now where you were before. Did you kind of shift industries a little bi?

Well, and something I kind of want to hit on today was giving yourself permission to be successful because I for many years was teaching college and creating these personal development courses. And I have well over 7000. Honestly, I haven’t looked in a long time in those courses. Right. Four and five star reviews. So this tells me these are appreciate it. Valuable. Right. But it wasn’t making a lot of money, but also I hadn’t really started thinking of myself as that being who I am and what I bring to the world. It was really a side hustle, you know. And then when I started taking ownership of it and just being like, I can’t not do this, you know, it fills me with passion. It makes me so happy. I love helping people and people, the kind of people who resonate with me enjoy it. And so when I really started giving myself ownership is kind of like when everything switched over, pivoted, you know, so on this journey.

Right. And it seems like it’s a seesaw. There’s ways and there’s pivot’s what’s like the worst, like out of the ordinary experience if you’ve had so far on this journey.

Well, you know, I’ve had two people that I love very dearly pass away in the course of two years and one of them being my son. And so that’s like a huge a pattern interrupt. OK, and so for me, again, looking at what can I learn from this, what can I take away from this positive not to be stifled and completely thrown off of track by it, but to look for how it more empowers me? It’s not like I am doing this because I’m passionate. Right. So how can that experience help me to get even more grounded, dig in even a little deeper and to learn from it? But when you’re bee bopping along and something like that happens, it’s definitely cause for the reevaluating what you’re doing and why, you know.

Yeah, I’m definitely sorry. Sorry to hear it. I mean, I didn’t think you would even go there. And the fact that you went there and you’re still kind of oozing like this glowing sensation of your inner self is definitely a powerful testament to who you are and what you’re going to achieve and what you’re currently achieving. So I definitely commend you to continue on that path.

Well, thanks. And on the one hand, you know, it’s you have to draw the line of something. My story is it. Keeping me in a place where is it empowering me and like with the issue with my son, I just was talking to my girlfriend about this day because her mom is a widow and and she was trying to encourage your mom to come out of her shell a little and stop living the widow story and live life, you know, and I always say, Cody, my son, I know he’s standing behind me and he’s like, oh, you know, it’s so good. Keep going. You could do it. You can do it. So instead of just being sad about it or whatever I think of him, what would he want me to do? You know, like how excited would he be for me right now if he was standing here so excited? Oh, wow.

Yeah, definitely a powerful it’s kind of funny because, I mean, coming into into this podcast, I had no idea. And then I you know, I made that statement that this episode is going to be a pretty interesting episode. And obviously, I think you’ve more than lived up to it. And we’ve only been talking for about maybe ten minutes so far. So, I mean, like, go to your business, like, how was your business structured? Is it more like an LLC and S-CORP, a C-CORP?

Well, administratively, in that way, it’s just an LLC, I admittedly did minimal research on that and just kind of took the easiest route and for protection purposes, not to have what’s what’s the one sole proprietorship. You don’t want to have that. But I did recently rebrand as a company instead of using my own name because I’m already thinking exit strategy. I want to grow this to a scale that other people can step in and provide the same value that I’m providing. And eventually, you know, sell it, offer or hand over leadership to someone else and to continue to evolve and grow and move on as as I do. My career evolve and. So that’s my story on the company where it is right now.

OK, so let’s talk about the company as far as like the services. Right. So let’s say this is the first time I’m hearing about your company and I’m asking you, OK, like, what do you guys do?

OK, well, at this point, the only product that I am personally offering is a membership product, because I think there has to be a threat of consistency. People buy programs and then never even use them. Right. Then don’t even ask for a refund or anything that the statistics are huge on that. And I’m not doing this to just make money. I’m doing it to help people. Right. And I want people to be engaged and I want to be able to interact with them and have an ongoing thread of me understanding what’s going on with them and helping them in modifying what I do based on what I see the needs being. So creating this long term relationship, that’s where I am right now. My own personal goal is I really want to get more into media and casting a wider net, so to speak, but that’s something I call edutainment. You know, I think it should be fun. It should be engaging, but inspiring or educational in some way. So that’s like a future future leg of my and I’ve already kind of built it in with my YouTube channel. Just get my toe in the water with that one.

Got you So let’s talk a little bit. I think currently right now you have a three day vision challenge, is that correct?

Right, I’m not currently offering the challenge, I’m getting ready to re-offer that both as a live event, which I’ve done in the past, and then eventually an on demand event. And but basically, when someone comes into my program, that’s the first thing that they do. I have a twenty three page thing called the Vision Blueprint, which your watchers and listeners can have for free, because if you don’t have a vision, what do you do and where are you going? What are you committed to, what choices do you make and why write? You have to have a vision and in my opinion, a vision that was not created by this outside paradigm and conditioning one. And it’s going to be scary and it’s going to maybe seem like, oh, can I really do that? Of course you can do it. You know, if somebody else did it, you can do it.

Wow Wow! so I mean, obviously, you’ve been on a journey and there’s been some ups and downs and the perception of success is always perceived to be something that happened overnight. How long have you been on your journey?

Well, well, I guess in this business format, about maybe eight years, I’d say seven or eight years, and and I like something you said about the success and the perception of success. You know, there’s the whole iceberg thing, like people see the tip of the iceberg and think, oh, you just popped out of nowhere when really there’s this all this stuff underneath that supports it. However, another element of success is not necessarily things other people can see, like I mentioned, taking commitment, giving yourself permission. To me, that was a huge win. You know, it’s just like I’m almost like it doesn’t even matter what happens now because I’ve said, hey, it’s super OK for me to prioritize this in life. It’s super OK for me to believe in myself, you know, and that’s a huge success that other people can’t really see, but changes the flavor of every single day when I wake up.

That’s definitely interesting. So, I mean, that is and I like talking about this topic. So I just want to just dove in a little bit more about like like your target audience. Like who who’s the the ideal persona for your programs?

I think people who are no longer willing to settle, no longer willing to just exist you. And that’s because that’s me 10 years ago. You get a sense inside of you that I still got a lot of living to do. And this, you know, stuff doesn’t really quite seem to be addressing what I feel like I need. And for me, I could not initially articulate it. I just was kind of like I used to it. The gap like something’s missing. I don’t know what it is. Oh, my goodness. And I think that gap is just not seeing your true self that you’re capable of being that you were put here to be able to be. And so I like people who have at least determine within themselves, dammit, I’m going to do it. You know, I’m committed. I don’t know how and maybe I don’t know what that stuff doesn’t really matter. But what matters is that personal commitment.

I’m very, very nice. So if you could time travel backwards, try and do one thing over again, what would it be?

Oh, man, because, you know, I’m like, I don’t have regrets, I see things as learning, you know, sure, I learn a lot of things along the way that I would do differently. But to actually have the opportunity to go back. Oh, my goodness. Well, I mean, I just mentioned about my son. And I think if I could go back to when I was in my 20s and he was really little and changed the way I parented, like with my two younger boys who are teenagers now, I’m a whole different parent, you know, because I’m all about empowering them to take chances and speak for themselves and explore and experiment with life and then evaluate and readjust accordingly. And so with my older son, though, I was like everything I saw on TV, the helicopter, mom, step aside. I’m going to solve all your problems. Mommy’s here. You know, how can I wrap you in bubble wrap before you go out kind of thing? So I think I would do that differently and I’m not so sure it would have a different end result. You know, just as a parent, if I were advising other parents who are new parents, that would be my advice.

Interesting. So talking about, like, your entrepreneurial background, I mean, are you related to anyone that was an entrepreneur or your family members, your mom, your dad, like were you getting your entrepreneurial hustle from?

Well, that’s really a fascinating topic because a lot of what I help people with during their process is identifying and overcoming limiting beliefs and things of that nature, because our belief models dictate how far we’re going to go. They really, really do. And yes, I did have a lot of entrepreneurs, but the funny thing is, quote, they weren’t successful. So the story in my family was most businesses fail. It’s very hard. You know, why would you do that? Why would you subject yourself to that? Inevitable failure basically was the end story that I got. So I had to get over that. And that was actually what held me back a lot and realizing, oh, sorry, like kids there are different. I write my own story, you know, and and if you hang out with people who are persevering and being successful, you see all different possibilities. It would never occur to you that that you might fail. It’s like, well, I didn’t fail. I learned a bunch of lessons and now I’m applying them in this way, you know? So it’s just. Perception, so I did have entrepreneurs and they helped me in a weird way.

That’s a good, good angle to me. Like the statement always goes, you know, you’re a byproduct of your circles, right? In today’s world, obviously with multiple different circles and you kind of have to find like your niche of a circle that’s going to not only help carry you there, but hold you accountable to get to where you’re trying to get to as well. So I think that you definitely depicted that very clearly. So I’m just thinking about you got two kids, right? How do you currently juggle your your work life with your family?

Well, I like to use it as a teachable moment too, you know. They know exactly what I do, Hiero, where I’m coming from, and I’ll share a lot of ideas with them, like, hey you guys, I’m talking about this. What are your thoughts on that? And and, you know, there’s times when I’m doing something like this, they are not home right now that they they are sometimes on like nobody move, going be quiet, you know, and they’re cool with that. It’s it’s never been a problem for me. But that’s another mindset thing. I remember a long time ago thinking it’s so scary. Oh, my goodness. What is this and what is that and how am I going to make it work? And but once you roll up your sleeves and jump in and do it, all that fear goes away. Stuff gets taken care of. You know, you find your your sweet spot kind of thing.

Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I think fear is one of those hindrances that hold people back and they don’t realize how far back they are from there, where they could be if they would just move past the fear level. Just a little bit.

absolutely. Firstly, oh i just want to say it’s like, oh, I just wanna say i love here because I used to get for me, I get the feeling in my tummy all knotted up and and I used to get that in kind of like like, oh my God, what am I doing now? I get that and I get really excited because I realize like, oh, I’m stretching myself, you know, I’m moving into new territory. So I come to get excited about the fear.

Yeah, it’s pretty it’s pretty cool. I mean, I think mostly if you look at it from like the like major league athletes, I think all of them have that fear factor. But to your point, I think that fear factor is what pushes them to become great, like they enjoy being scared just for that moment and then they take advantage of it. So go to the next question. So like what? What are your morning routines? Your morning habits?

Love morning intention, basically, before I even get out of bed, the first thing I wake up and I’m literally like, oh my God, this is amazing, I’m alive, have a whole another day to do all the stuff with. And I think about what do I want to accomplish today? What are my primary objectives? And then I think about how they feel. I’m just huge on that, like embodying the feeling, like pre feeling great feeling, you know, like if I have a bunch of stuff I want to get done, I might think, oh man, I’m going to be feel so productive and I’m going to look back and be like, I dropped that. I crushed that. Wow, that went really fast. Or like yesterday, my boys is here. And I woke up and I was like, you know, I really want to be engaged with them and have meaningful conversations and experiences before I even got out of bed. I decide this stuff for myself for the day. And, you know, you could talk about, well, you’re connecting all these neural networks and you’re setting an intention. You’re keeping it in the forefront of your mind. It’s going to happen. And one more thing I do every morning before I leave the bedroom, I do a one minute plank and it seems like a little thing. You know, it gets my body going a little bit already. And it’s a trigger. It’s a commitment that I made to myself. I care about my physical quality of life. And to remind myself of that, in the morning, I do the plank and therefore I make better choices during the day that are aligned with that as well.

So this is this is the time because I usually like literally nine out of ten people that I interview. They also include like they read books or they listen to audio books and planking is considered yoga. So it all falls into that. So I’m excited to you this next question, because I think that you may be able to shine some light on some pretty interesting books that our viewers may not have heard of before. So what books did you read to kind of get you currently where you are? And what books are you reading right now and what books do you want to generally recommend?

I love books and I have gotten huge into audio books lately because I could be driving or go for a walk and listen to them, you could bookmark your favorite parts and go back. And I’ve gotten really broad when I first started out. Definitely. I read all the the most kind of popular books on, say, like mindset and that sort of thing. And then I was like, oh, I want to understand the science more and getting more into technical stuff and then I went off in another direction of the more spiritual and esoteric. Like right now I’m listening to a lot of Neville Goddard and he’s I want to say, like the early 19th, some things I like his flavor and his style. And that in and of itself is like a pattern of not just kind of trying to keep up with them, like how he’s looking at the world and things that go on and consciousness and our conscious intention. And then I have books on psychology, influence, self-image, self concept. Maxwell Maltz, Psycho Cybernetics is a great book for for that kind of thing because it’s running your show right. To not understand. It is just like walking around with a bag on your head in their all of life in my opinion. And then marketing, you know, I need not need, but I want to really have a full breadth of understanding and then, you know, bring all this stuff in and then see how it all fits together and see what falls out as not important and what stays and what you use again. I did want to mention I’m reading a hard copy right now of atomic habits. Yes. Have you read it?

Yeah, because it’s part of our book club.

Oh, wonderful. It’s a fabulous book.

Yeah, it is. It definitely it goes well with deep work. Are you familiar with deep work as well?

I haven’t read it,

yeah. So its name is Cal Newport. I think it’s his a name. Deep works and atomic habits go together hand in hand, systematically

Taking note.

So where do you see yourself in 20 years from now?

OK, well. Part of what I’ve come to see as my vision for myself and my life is continuously walking the walk right, and I have plenty of room to grow, plenty of ways to evolve, and no intention whatsoever of backing off or slowing down in. And I really also like changing people’s ideas about what is possible at different stages of life because I’m fifty one. Last year I got my motorcycle license and my dad’s he said you’re I think you’re too old for that. I was like a god damn life. But when you buy into that stuff, you live it, right? Yeah. And all it takes doing the planks, you know, driving the motorcycle, whatever. Just do it and then that becomes OK, becomes who you are. So talking about 20 years from now, I definitely see myself continuing to change what people think is possible at different phases of life.

It’s pretty cool as well. I’m happy you got on a motorcycle how much almost out of time have you got in so far.

Well, I don’t keep track. I literally started up yesterday because we had a nice day here. and now that it’s become become muscle memory that I don’t worry while I’m driving, you know, I can actually look at the scenery or, you know, enjoy like the wind or some vibration or something. And so I’ve noticed that as a marker. Do you ride?

I used to ride pretty often, I mean not as of lately. But yeah, I mean it was more dirt bikes and used to ride my son. Yeah.

Yeah. That’s my next thing actually because my two boys are 15 and 17.

Oh yeah. It’s Goldie.

I want to get dirt bikes and get them out there on the dirt bikes.

So what kind of bike do you have right now?

Well, I have a kawasaki, which I’m riding, which is just like really low you know, and then I have a Harley, which I inherited. And to be honest, it’s huge. So will I be able to ride it? I don’t know. But that was the whole catalyst, you know, despite the fact that I’ve been wanting to do this since my 20s and, you know, oh, no, that’s not a good idea. I kept buying into that. I was like, screw it.

Yes, I see that you got the best. You got kind of a tourky bike and you have like a cruiser. So you got the best of both worlds, a kind of mix and match between us. That’s pretty cool. I mean, I’m definitely I think your kids will definitely have a ball for sure.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’m excited about that. And I have a good friend up in Pennsylvania who’s kind of like me, similar age, and just was like, screw it, I’m getting a dirt bike and I see her stuff on Facebook and I’m like, dude, I love it.

Yeah, yeah, definitely so. Thinking about like, what software do you currently use that you would not be able to do what you do without

All of Adobe? Oh my gosh, I just love it. I make a lot of videos, obviously, for my membership site and training in that sort of thing. And a podcast myself. I just adore all things to be creative sweet. Right.

Nice. Nice. Yeah. I mean, Adobe is one of those things. I mean, my first degree was graphic design. So I mean, it’s one of those things that no matter what secondary software that comes up that can make things a lot easier and systematically done. I still kind of at times revert back to my Photoshop illustrator and in design and so forth. So pretty cool platform. So going to your last words of wisdom, let’s say I’m 40 years old, I’m in corporate America and I’m thinking about stepping out on feet and going after what my original vision was, which was to become an entrepreneur. What words of insight would you give to me to help me continue on that path?

Well, you know, there’s a lot of people I call like the two beer entrepreneur dreamers, like they have two beers, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they never falter because it’s just easier you take the comfortable route. Right. A safe, comfortable route. But the question is, what’s that really costing you and and why is so important? Like why would you do this entrepreneurial dream. What how does it benefit you? How does it benefit other people? What could you bring in to your own quality of life? And how could you impact other people’s. Because no matter what business you’re in, a product, a service, whatever, you’re ultimately doing good work. You know, you’re benefiting someone. Some people will look at business as just to make money to benefit themselves. And I’m not judging them. But every business has the potential and should, I think, benefit the people who exchange their money for the service.

And so just when you get focused on that, it’s like, well, how can I not, you know, so focus on your why focus on all the great things you bring into the world. How I improve your quality of life. You’re like as parents role models to your kids and stuff. Yes, I don’t really want to teach my kids how to hate your job and sit in a cubicle and have, you know, this three hours between when you get home from work and when you go to bed to be yourself. No, you know.

That’s definitely interesting. I mean, based upon what you just said, if money wasn’t a factor, would you still be doing exactly what you’re doing right now?

100%, yes. Yeah and, you know, I have people, especially some students, who we’ll get into like long ongoing, really personal relationships, email or something. And when I see the stuff that’s going on in their lives and they share that with me, you know, I’m just like, wow, this whole person’s life is different, OK? Because I touched it. And I’m not saying that to to brag or whatever, but it truly makes me just so happy. And don’t we all want to have purpose? Definitely. And feel that our time in this world is meaningful and has value outside of ourselves? , I think yeah.

I think it’s funny. And I think of us as podcasters. I think we fall into that category by default. If you want to target a particular user audience, podcasters are probably the most willing to fulfill their purpose because that’s what we do all day long. We’re recording these episodes to either help someone, motivate someone, inspire someone to take a leap of faith and to learn from our example. So I definitely agree with you on that, right? .

How can people find you online. I mean, what’s your Facebook, your Instagram, your Website?

Oh, I love social media. Everything is pretty much under Brillane, B.R.I.L.L.A.N.E Brillane.com. Brillane on Facebook, Instagram. So, yeah, just find me there, go to the website, sign up for the newsletter, because I’m not one of those people that uses newsletters to sell people. I try to always provide useful, cool, inspiring things.

Nice. So this is talk about branding a little bit. I mean, like, why did you name it Brillane?

Well, when I was thinking about it, I was like, OK. And I mean, just a lot of. Popular, typical kind of words are cliche, but also taken and so I knew that I wanted to have a new word that wasn’t didn’t already have meaning prescribed to it. And Brillane is actually kind of a combination of bright and lane. That’s the bright lane, the bright path where it came from. And so and what I envision is and when I did my whole branding strategy, is it becoming like a verb or an adverb to think outside the box, to live outside the box like that was a very brilliant approach or that was a very brilliant way of handling that situation, you know? So I see it eventually kind of like how we talk about grabbing a Kleenex or cocreate that like Brillane being a way of looking at life, a way of existing and being in that sort of thing.

it’s definitely a pretty pretty cool. Pretty cool. So going into the bonus round. Right. And I think you’re going to have a very original answer. I just go with my gut here. Right. OK, if you could spend twenty four hours with anyone dead or alive, uninterrupted for 24 hours, who would it be and why?

Already talking about this? OK, Jason Silva, do you know who he is?

Who is it?

OK, well, he has shows on some different like cable networks. I don’t have cable. don’t know what they are YouTube and that’s sort of thing. But he’s all about “Aw” like just focusing on the “aw” that is inherent in every potential experience in life. And I found that to be so incredibly true. Like, you know, you’re having a peek into my living room. Me and my kids just will be in tears, like laughing over the silliest little thing, like the most beautiful moment that you didn’t see coming. And and that’s his thing. And he does a great job of articulating it. And I actually have in my signature block of my email, like, if you know anybody who knows anybody knows Jason Silva, you know, connect me because I want to actually go camping with him, because I think that that’s a great way to get to know people and to really connect and be out in nature and kind of have your basic survival things there.

That’s pretty cool. Have you done a lot of camping?

Yes, I love camping.

Oh, well, camping is it’s one of those things where it’s like I used to go camping, at least probably quarterly and like I haven’t been camping, says this whole covid thing here. So thanks for reminding me.

it’s probably the best time to go camping and think about it. Like, did you know, in Scotland they can prescribe nature, doctors can prescribe nature to their patients. I really think it’s so good for us. It’s not a would be nice luxury. It actually, if you’re looking for inspiration, if you’re looking for clarity and you remove the clutter from your brain, go out in nature.

Yeah, well, you better believe it’s going to be on my to do list. So look out to see me go camping pretty soon. So I’ve always asked this question to parents and I always say, OK, as I’m asking a parent, the answer cannot be your kids. So outside of your kids, what is your most significant achievement to date?

Hmm. Honestly, my most significant achievement, and this is one of those successes that nobody can really see or would know if they didn’t ask me, is putting aside what everybody else thinks and what everybody else thinks is possible. And it wasn’t always pretty. Sometimes it was like me having a temper tantrum and stuff, you know, but but then then in came the grace I was talking about, you know, when I was able to more be like, no, you know, this is like being me is my most significant success and my most significant achievement

Nice Nice! Well, I definitely appreciate your insights and this is a time, but a podcast like, you know, the people that I’m interviewing, I give you an opportunity that asks me any questions that you may have come up with while we’ve been talking. So the floor is yours.

Well, since you do get to meet so many people and see so many perspectives around the same general niche that you do, what has been most unusual or most impactful or like have you taken and used again and again and again?

I think I take a I make sure that every single episode that I listen to, I take away something so like example, this episode from you is about one being a bright and being a visionary. And that’s my takeaway from this is like being like that, not the epicenter of the world outside, but being your epicenter and using that to fulfill your vision forward. That’s what I got from this episode. So every episode I take away a little piece of that and I keep layering it on, Layering it on, layering it on, because my goal of my podcast is to essentially create a legacy of information for other entrepreneurs, other podcasters and also for my kids and my grandkids. So once I’m dead and gone, to have opportunity to see, like you’re seeing all these different personalities, all these different visionaries, entrepreneurs, business owners, and have the same common collective of growth, that’s really what we’re talking about, is how someone started at Point A and went to point B.

Nice.

Yeah, so, I mean, if you have any other questions for the time of night, then I think I mean, you definitely answered the questions that I had for you. I think lovely. I think anybody that is looking to expand on their vision and expand it with someone that’s bright and glowing. I would definitely point them in your direction.

Well, thank you so much. And I would love to just connect with anybody on any level, like whether somebody just wants to touch base, become connected on social media, get answers to questions or whatever. We’re all here to like, support and connect with and uplift each other, I think.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I’m really connected to, I think most of your platforms. And I just kind of wanted like to dove into to kind of see the other stuff that you have going on. Like, I’m very big on vision. So I definitely I think after this call, this is not the last time you and I are probably going to have to talk. Definitely. I appreciate it S.A Grant over and out.