March 31, 2025 • 25 mins
Carey shares powerful insights on how a clear business vision leads to entrepreneurial success and personal fulfillment. She draws from her journey of transforming from a corporate employee to a successful entrepreneur who helps others clarify their vision and achieve their goals.
• Turning a written vision into reality through clarity and purpose
• Why many entrepreneurs are running "expensive hobbies" rather than profitable businesses
• Using vision to distinguish between opportunities that align with your goals and those that don't
• The importance of setting real revenue targets tied to specific outcomes rather than arbitrary numbers
• How vision encompasses seven life areas: faith, family, friends, fitness, fun, finances, and field
• Finding your purpose hidden within your vision writing
• Looking three years ahead when creating your vision to make it more tangible and achievable
• Maintaining resilience through challenges when your vision is compelling enough
Download Carrie's free "Vision is Victory" guide to help clarify your entrepreneurial vision and set yourself up for success.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Elevate Media Podcast with your
host, chris Anderson.
In this show, chris and hisguests will share their
knowledge and experience on howto go from zero to successful
entrepreneur.
They have built theirbusinesses from scratch and are
now ready to give back to thosewho are just starting.
Let's get ready to learn, growand elevate our businesses.
And now your host, chrisAnderson.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back to another recording of the Elevate
Media Podcast.
I'm Chris Anderson, your host,and exciting day today.
If you're used to the show,watching it, you're going to see
the setup's a little bitdifferent, a little bit more
bare.
Right now we are actuallyrecording our first episode in
our new office that we've hadconstructed and been building
for the team and us used soexciting steps, finally had
enough to for the team and us touse so exciting steps, finally
(00:45):
had enough to get in here andjust started waiting.
So that's why you'll see thedifferent background in this,
but super excited for ourconversation today.
You know, when we startentrepreneurship, we kind of
have an idea, we have anunderstanding of where we want
to go, possibly why we want toget there, and sort of have that
vision.
But along the way we might havekind of veered off from that or
(01:08):
forgotten it or not reallyfocused on that.
And today we're going to bediscussing, you know, vision is
victory and we're bringing in anexpert to talk just about that.
So, carrie, welcome to theElevate Media Podcast today.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thank you for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely, and everyone, you're in for a treat
today and at the end, I'm goingto let Carrie share where you
can connect with her, becauseshe has just so much wisdom, so
much insight, so much successthat she's done through multiple
endeavors, events, books, herbusinesses, things like that and
so I'm really excited for thisone, carrie, today, to dive
(01:46):
right in though.
What made you want to reallyhone in on entrepreneurs'
visions to help them havevictory.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's kind of a story.
So I was in my late 20s thiswas a very long time ago.
I was doing what we were alltold to do was, you know, get
the nine to five job and workyour way up, and everybody in my
tribe was doing really wellwith that and I was not.
I was changing jobs about everytwo years because I just
couldn't fit the mold Right.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And so I had a mentor come into my life that told me
you know, you can create yourlife to look however you want.
You just need to get reallyclear on what that is Right.
And so, with her encouragement,I took a day off of work and,
with a legal pad of paperbecause again, this was the late
eighties right, I wrote outeverything I wanted, what kind
of relationship I wanted to havewith my husband, where we were
(02:40):
living the kind of lifestylethat I wanted.
I knew eventually, especiallywhen we started having kids,
that I wanted to be able to workfrom home and be an
entrepreneur.
I didn't know what it was, so Inoodled a lot of ideas and out
of my head that day I wrote forthe very first time ever that
someday I thought I wanted toteach this vision writing and
(03:01):
goal setting to other people.
And so fast forward a little bit.
I had my son and I was fivemonths pregnant and I got an
introduce to the industry ofnetwork marketing with a company
called Arbonne, which mostpeople are familiar with, and
jumped all in so that I couldquit my job to get my son out of
daycare and stay home and raisemy babies.
That's awesome, and the onething I had to do with all of
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the people that I brought ontomy team was have them write out
a great big vision for why theywanted to work Because I knew if
they didn't have it, Chris,they were going to quit on me in
about three days.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right, Because being an entrepreneur is tough and
there are a lot of days you justwant to wave your white flag
and say right.
So I taught that to them, andso about 12 years ago, I created
some curriculum around it andstarted teaching it publicly,
and most of the people that Iended up speaking in front of
that came into coaching with mewere were entrepreneurs that
(03:57):
were trying to figure it out.
Yeah, because most of them wererunning pretty expensive
hobbies, because they werethinking of a vision.
Right, exactly so.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because most of them were running pretty expensive
hobbies because they were.
They didn't have a vision Right, exactly.
So you know how's, how's thatcome.
You know, you know fast forward.
That was late 80s.
You said did that vision cometrue for you?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, uh, when I got introduced to Arbonne now
remember when I wrote out thingsI wrote specifically that I
wanted to be, I wanted to workfrom home.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I wanted to make a residual income, passive income,
I wanted to take fabulous tripsand I wanted to be in a company
where there was a lot of growthfor leadership.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And so not knowing about Arbonne at that time.
When Arbonne showed up it waslike bam, because it checked all
the boxes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So one of the things I tell people about having this
written vision is you get superclear what you want so that when
the opportunities arise, you'llknow exactly which path to
follow.
And that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I like that goals down, these dreams, what you
want from life, and beingspecific gives you or helps you
delineate between things thatcome up that you can say yes or
no to.
Basically, does this align withwhat I truly want?
Yeah, um, to help you get tothose goals, because otherwise,
(05:18):
right, we're just going to bekind of throwing it on the wall
and see if it sticks, kind ofthing, because we'll say yes to
everything.
Is that kind of right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
yes, and and that's very common for entrepreneurs,
especially in the beginning, isto do a lot of things all at
once.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And then they can't figure out why the they're not
monetizing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And so a lot of the clients that I've worked with
have come to me to kind offigure out which path should I
stick with for right now, and sowhen they write out a vision
for me, I get them to write itout as if it's three years out,
chris, so I get a littletimeline.
Let's imagine you're writingyour journal, like I did, and
it's three years from today.
How old will you be?
(05:58):
How old will your familymembers be?
Because time and aging kind ofgives us a vision.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Especially if you have kids.
Yeah, you can kind of seechanges coming.
Yeah, so when we get reallyclear on that target, it does
help with getting very clear onwhat aligns with what you want
and what doesn't, so that everyday, when I get presented a lot
of opportunities because I'mclear on my vision, who I serve
and where I'm going, it's veryeasy for me to say no to the
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things that I should not bedoing.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And so we in the beginning of the coaching.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We do a lot of clearing of the path, okay yeah,
taking things off your platethat don't need to be there
maybe not forever, but justright now.
I see a lot of entrepreneurs doall the right things, but
they're doing them in the wrongtimeframe, the wrong order.
I've seen a lot ofentrepreneurs do all the right
things, but they're doing themin the wrong time frame.
Okay, yep, so it gets.
It relieves a lot of stress.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, but being able to have that, that plan, that
kind of path laid out.
So you know like, okay, thisseems great but it doesn't serve
me right goals, or, whenthey're trying to clear this
path, some things that they'redoing that are not going to be
as beneficial to that growth,with that vision casting.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, so I'll use this example, because this
happens a lot.
I end up coaching a lot ofspeakers and coaches just
because that's my industry.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And a lot of people who want to be speakers figure
okay, I got to get a book out.
If I write the book, then I'llstart getting asked to speak,
and so they put a lot of timeand effort into getting a book
out.
Where, really, what they don'tunderstand is that the book's
not really going to drivespeeches for them.
It's just going to be a callingcard.
Right?
(07:50):
Is that?
The book's not really going todrive speeches for them?
It's just going to be a callingcard, right, it's going to be a
.
It adds to your credibility,but it's not a moneymaker.
So I have to get them tounderstand.
Okay, yes, we will get to thebook, but the first thing we
have to work on is who do you?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
serve and how do you serve them, so we can start?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
making money right.
They don't get upside down,which is very common for new
entrepreneurs.
Financially, they push a lot ofmoney out and they're not
bringing anything in.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, so the book is just one.
You know one example, but it'spretty common.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, so with this vision casting you know a lot of
people that I've seen is youknow I want to make X amount of
money per month.
Is that a positive way tovision cast or is that kind of
do you?
Do you still go with a monetaryamount or do you focus on other
things to be more successfulwith it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So when I get them to write out their vision, I get
them to think of the seven areasof life, and they're all seven
F's their faith, life, community, whatever that looks like for
them family, friends, fitnessand health.
Uh fun, which entrepreneursforget about?
A?
Lot Uh finances right Uh, theirfield, their career.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, so we look at the finances, because usually
that's a big problem for a newentrepreneur that they don't
have a target number.
So when they write out thevision of their life for me, now
we can start looking at okay,how are we financing that and
how much is it going to take?
Yeah, and it doesn't matterwhat the number is, chris, they
could say to me you know what?
We're happy just going campingall summer and cost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Or we want to take our family of 12 to an Airbnb
for a month, yep.
So I don't care what the numberis, we just have to have a real
number.
OK so a lot of times when I askentrepreneurs and it's ninety,
nine, point, nine percent of thetime when I ask them what's
your revenue goal for the year,they go well, I guess, right,
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it'd be nice to make six figures.
I'm like, ok, well, that's nice, but that's not giving me a
real number.
I need to know what real numberis that you need to make in
this business.
That's not getting funded fromanything else, right?
So, going back, I'll use I liketo use my story a lot.
So when I, when I startedArbonne, I was five months
(10:08):
pregnant and I was still workingfull time.
I wanted to quit my job and getmy son out of daycare by the
time that my daughter was bornthree months later.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So I knew the number.
Let's say it was $1,000 a month.
It was all I knew, then, right?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Cover the bills I was paying for in the household,
plus get money back from gettingmy son out of daycare.
Right, right, so that was mytarget, chris.
I had 90 days to get to theplace where I was sustaining a
thousand dollars a month.
That was a very real number forme because it was attached to
things I was paying for.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
So when I have a new entrepreneur that I'm coaching,
we we that, after we get thevision, we hone in on.
All right, what's the one yearrevenue goal?
And let's make it a real number.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, and I like that .
So cause I remember when Ifirst started and I think I
still kind of get into this likebig dream kind of which is
nothing wrong, I have big dreamsbut I was like, yeah, I'm going
to make a million a year, youknow something.
But like not breaking it downto like why?
Like what is that a milliondollars a year for?
(11:09):
Or whatever your number is athousand dollars a month, like
your story starting out.
That, I think, is.
Is that the kind of theimportant piece?
Instead of just throwing out anumber, it's breaking it down
and saying what, why, why thatnumber?
Yeah for sure Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
You know, I think we all get, social media has so
much.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I can't scroll through Instagram and not see a
post at least every five postson make it seven figures.
That's a big hobby, bigachievement in our country, and
it's a good thing.
To ask is why is that soimportant to you?
It's just because you feel likeeverybody else apparently is
doing it.
Is it something that you needto do?
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You want to fund a big charitywith that, right?
Do you want to make sure thatyou're you're building a nest
egg for your kids or whatever?
Or you just want to prove toyourself that you can?
Right, whatever it is, it's gotto be so big and so important
to you, yeah, that it becomeslike it's going to push you
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through all the days that you'regoing to want to quit.
So the numbers is your number,right, but it's got to be a real
number, so that then what youcan do is take that number and
now break it down into okay,what are my services, what am I
charging for, what I do and howmany people?
This is all math.
Business is all math.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
How many of the ideal customers do I need to get in
front of every month to convertto that number?
Yeah, but it all starts withthe vision first.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, and it's so simple.
Right, it sounds so simple andI would say it is simple, but
it's not easy to stick to it andbecause you see shiny objects,
right, or you not easy to stickto it and because you see shiny
objects right or you see youknow other people on social
media and you're like, okay, whyam I not at that level yet?
there, they seem to be way ahead, but you don't really know the
true story, right?
Yeah, um, and and and so like.
With that like thinking of likehow often do we need to come
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back to this vision statementwe've written, or these goals or
dreams that we've written out?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
sure, Sure.
Well, I wish that I could saythat life doesn't change, but it
does, and things happen.
I will tell you two thingsabout vision One I'll share
again.
My story is.
You know, the part of my visionthat I wrote, let's say 15
years ago, as we started to seethat our kids were going to go
off to college and start theirlives, was, you know, my husband
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and I were going to settle intoour forever home.
I wanted to retire him so thathe could work alongside me, go
out, travel with me while Ispeak, have him be a big part of
that and have my son involved.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But I've lost both my husband and my son in the past
10 years, so that part of myvision of my lifestyle is
shifted, but what I do has not,because a big part of my vision
is my purpose and my legacy thatI want to leave.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So one of the things that I tell people, one of the
things you're going to find whenyou write out your vision, is
you're going to find that littlehidden nugget that you've been
looking for.
Is what is your purpose?
that you've been looking for iswhat is your purpose and when
you have these life adversitieshappen.
You now understand.
Now I know why I got set onthis path.
It's because now I have abigger mission to fill Kristen
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just coaching entrepreneurs.
Now what I'm working on islaunching a community for young
adults, because they'restruggling.
That's my biggest legacy rightnow.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and thank you for sharing that and being being
open.
And it's not easy and I'm sorryto hear about that.
For sure, you know people aretrying to create this vision for
their life but they don't knowtheir purpose.
Is it still?
Is it still a good thing towrite out some visions, even
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though you don't necessarilyknow your specific purpose?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, because it's going to be hidden in there.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, a lot of people when I asked them to write
their vision and I've done thiswith thousands of people now um,
at workshops, events, Iactually get them to write, as
if it's three years out, and allthe things that they want to
create.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
A lot of them have a hard time with it because they
don't know the how.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So a lot of times and I will joke with them how many
of you in here need somebody tohand you the blueprint before
you think you need to write thevision?
And of course, a lot of peopleraise their hand.
Yeah, it's the opposite.
You write the vision, the houseshows up.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Like it did with me and Arbonne.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, so it is important to keep revisiting it,
and you will find your purposehidden in there, because what
you're going to be writing isall your heart's desires.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, because I hear people talk about
you need to write down yourgoals every day, maybe twice a
day.
Do you think you need to do itthat much, or it's just kind of
whatever cadence fits you best?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, I think there's two thoughts on that.
The people who are manifestorswill tell you, put it out there
and then put it away, right?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You don't need to Do you?
You know who gabby bernstein is, chris uh, yeah, yeah, yeah
sounds like her and in the worldshe, she has a thing she calls
manic manifesting.
Okay, you just get to where, ohmy god, I've got to get control
now yeah, and I gotta write itagain uh- huh she's saying is
you know what?
(16:30):
If it's real for you and it'swritten, you should be able to
write it and let it go, and letGod do the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right.
I'm not a believer that if youjust put a vision board up there
and just stare at it all daylong, it's going to happen.
Right, but I am a big goalsetter.
Every day I look at okay, weall have the very long to-do
list.
I've picked three things thatare the most important, things
that align with my vision.
That's going to keep the needlemoving.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I think that's, and it's kind of I'm kind of
that way too, like as I've builtLLA.
It's like different levels,like the ultimate goals there
that I have in life, but likethe smaller ones of like, okay,
this, this office, for example,um, that we just moved into, was
a vision, like we need a space.
How can we, how can we makethis work where we're kind of
(17:20):
expanding now?
We need to have better internet, we need to come together as a
team like how can we make thatwork?
Right?
And you know, I was looking atcommercial space like renting, I
was looking at, you know,building a brand new new
building, like all this stuff,and it just kind of like things
happen and led to this, this newoffice that we're in now, that
(17:42):
I would have never necessarilythought of.
But again, kind of like you'resaying, like I was like hey, you
know I prayed about, like youknow, god, god, like just how
are we supposed to do this ifthis is what we're supposed to
do, this at this next step, likeyou know, just let me not miss
the miss, what I'm supposed todo, kind of thing, and uh, you
know just little things thatopened up along the way and it's
(18:04):
kind of like that, like justworking towards that goal, uh,
knowing you'll figure it out,and just being open to those
opportunities that could be thatmaybe weren't aren't what
you're thinking of in the moment.
Um, that would, that would showup and you can, could use for
sure, like that's been a forthis whole journey that I've
been on is kind of how thingshave played out.
Just I don't believe incoincidences at all, but like
(18:26):
just crazy happenstances thatyou know have, just it's, it's
just been crazy.
Like I tell people I need towrite a book about it just to
show what God has done Causethat's a big part of me is faith
and, um, just the doors he'sopen at the right time.
Like on the goals, like lastyear we were able to travel
across the country and do videoproductions.
(18:47):
And you know, one thing Istarted back into or prayed
about in 2020, when I first quitmy job at the beginning of 2020
was, you know, lord, I'd loveto travel, like that'd be
awesome to see different places.
And, like last year, I kind ofsat back for a second I said,
wow, like that prayer wasanswered, like that was, that
goal was accomplished.
Like we're traveling now acrossthe country.
So now it's going to beinternational.
(19:08):
That's the next, next kind ofgoal.
But it's just crazy, you know,you just kind of throw it out
there like that and then justwork, take the action, right.
Yeah, try to to try to make ithappen and things will.
I think, things will happen foryou.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, I'm glad we're talking about God, because I do
read a devotional every morningand every morning, in one way or
another's god going.
Look, I've got the plan.
I know what you want, because Iknow the desires of your heart.
I need you to work with me, butI also need you to just rest a
little bit and just be patientyeah, yeah my plan is better
(19:44):
than your plan yes, I always getthe visualization when we, when
things like this are discussed.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a picture someone painted and it's this
little girl who is standingthere kind of crying in front of
Jesus.
He's kneeling, so he took awaythis little teddy bear and he's
got this really huge one behindher.
Just trust me, just trust me,something better is coming, kind
of thing, and I just alwayspicture that of like you know,
he's got the best for us and, ifwe can, instead of just forcing
(20:13):
and saying this is what I thinkor what I want, like just
trusting in that and um andknowing, though, and we need to
be taught lessons too, right,like as I'm a parent, um, as
well, and it's like we want toteach our kids, and sometimes
you have to have some disciplineand, you know, kind of have
that of teaching moment of likehey, you did that wrong.
That's not the right thing, butstill coming back with you know,
(20:36):
but I'd really love you and youknow I want to do good things
for you and give you things,even though you don't ask, or
things that are gonna be goodfor you that you don't know,
kind of like a bowl of ice cream, like as like just out of the
blue that I didn't have to doanything for it.
Just give them a little bit ofice cream or a little bit of you
know a bite of chocolate orsomething that they can, that
they're going to enjoy, justbecause I know, you know that
they would.
And so it's like stuff likethat.
(20:57):
I kind of like correlate, likeGod wants to do those good
things for us, but we still haveto also go through the lessons
and learn to become betterindividuals.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Absolutely, it's just .
Every day is a learning curve.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, yeah, I heard it New levels, new devils.
Like new level, there's alwayssomething you got to overcome or
go through or learn from.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So this again is why you need to have a really
powerful vision, because I'vesaid this many, many times, as
an entrepreneur now, havingbuilt two businesses Right,
people have repeatedly asked me,especially after losing my
husband and my son to suicide,how do you keep going Like there
were so many days, like I'vesaid a couple of times, that I
wanted to quit Arbonne.
(21:40):
So bad Chris, I mean entireteams quitting on me in a month.
You know all the personalgrowth I went through, all the
rejection, my husband not beinga fan.
You know all of it and whatkept me going every day was that
my, my vision was bigger thanwhatever hurdle I was facing
(22:01):
Right.
So, it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And that's the thing is when I tell people,
especially entrepreneurs, ifyou're drifting and you're not
consistent, your vision's notbig enough because you're
allowing your emotions to get inthe way.
Yeah, and you can't.
I mean I had to get in myoffice and just work.
Yeah, they said I didn't wantto because what I wanted for my
family was bigger yeah,absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
so you know, if we were to wrap up this
conversation there's been somuch good insight, good, good
direction what would you kind ofleave people with, maybe like
the top thing from thisconversation that you would want
them to hear out of everythingelse?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is that so many
people are afraid to write theirvision because they can't see
it with where they're at rightnow.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They might be going through some really hard times
or they might feel like they'renot educated enough, they don't
have enough resources.
You know, it's all the, it'sall the things.
Yeah, people get in the waybecause of where they're at
right now and I promise you thatif you write this vision out
and you dedicate yourself toworking on it a little bit every
day, the how will show up,it'll keep going and you will
(23:12):
get there probably faster thanyou think.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah.
I love that.
And and something that stuckout with to me during this
conversation that I thought isreally good for people to hear,
especially if they're juststarting writing out the vision
look three years ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know, cause I hear all the time like five, 10,
you know, look, and that's likeso far.
I think that's that's hard fora lot of people to fathom, like
you said, because they're justwhere they are right now.
So I love the three year timeframe because it's I feel like
it's a little bit more it'sright here yeah, it's a little
bit more easy to take in and say, okay, yeah, that's, that is,
that is doable, like I can kindof see the light on that one
(23:47):
right, and you just keep doingthat.
I like that a lot.
That stuck out to me.
So you know, carrie, reallyappreciate you being on today
sharing all this and and yourstory and things you've been
through and things you've done.
If you want to connect with you, learn from you, get your help,
even where's the best way forthem to do that, Well, I'm going
(24:08):
to give you a link that you'regoing to post here, and it's a
link to download.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
My vision is victory.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What she's up to, you know, take a part of her or get
a part of her courses, get allshe's putting out there to learn
(24:40):
how to you know vision cast, tohave that victory through your
vision.
Uh, and just continue tosucceed, because as we get
better, as we improve, as wesucceed, we're going to help
more people.
And so, carrie, this has againbeen a great conversation.
Thanks so much for being on theElevate Media Podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Absolutely, and if you're listening to this and you
know someone who is juststarting out or you're yourself
trying to just cast that visionfor your life, share it with
that person.
Make sure you go like andfollow this show.
It helps us get this to moreears and more eyes as we do that
, because we can help so manymore people together through
sharing and liking the show.
(25:20):
So we appreciate everyone outthere doing that.
But until next time, go outthere, continue to elevate your
life, elevate your brand, andwe'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Thank you for listening to the Elevate Media
podcast.
Don't forget to subscribe andleave a review.
See you in the next episode.
Welcome to the Elevate Media Podcast with your
host, chris Anderson.
In this show, chris and hisguests will share their
knowledge and experience on howto go from zero to successful
entrepreneur.
They have built theirbusinesses from scratch and are
now ready to give back to thosewho are just starting.
Let's get ready to learn, growand elevate our businesses.
And now your host, chrisAnderson.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back to another recording of the Elevate
Media Podcast.
I'm Chris Anderson, your host,and exciting day today.
If you're used to the show,watching it, you're going to see
the setup's a little bitdifferent, a little bit more
bare.
Right now we are actuallyrecording our first episode in
our new office that we've hadconstructed and been building
for the team and us used soexciting steps, finally had
enough to for the team and us touse so exciting steps, finally
(00:45):
had enough to get in here andjust started waiting.
So that's why you'll see thedifferent background in this,
but super excited for ourconversation today.
You know, when we startentrepreneurship, we kind of
have an idea, we have anunderstanding of where we want
to go, possibly why we want toget there, and sort of have that
vision.
But along the way we might havekind of veered off from that or
(01:08):
forgotten it or not reallyfocused on that.
And today we're going to bediscussing, you know, vision is
victory and we're bringing in anexpert to talk just about that.
So, carrie, welcome to theElevate Media Podcast today.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thank you for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely, and everyone, you're in for a treat
today and at the end, I'm goingto let Carrie share where you
can connect with her, becauseshe has just so much wisdom, so
much insight, so much successthat she's done through multiple
endeavors, events, books, herbusinesses, things like that and
so I'm really excited for thisone, carrie, today, to dive
(01:46):
right in though.
What made you want to reallyhone in on entrepreneurs'
visions to help them havevictory.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's kind of a story.
So I was in my late 20s thiswas a very long time ago.
I was doing what we were alltold to do was, you know, get
the nine to five job and workyour way up, and everybody in my
tribe was doing really wellwith that and I was not.
I was changing jobs about everytwo years because I just
couldn't fit the mold Right.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And so I had a mentor come into my life that told me
you know, you can create yourlife to look however you want.
You just need to get reallyclear on what that is Right.
And so, with her encouragement,I took a day off of work and,
with a legal pad of paperbecause again, this was the late
eighties right, I wrote outeverything I wanted, what kind
of relationship I wanted to havewith my husband, where we were
(02:40):
living the kind of lifestylethat I wanted.
I knew eventually, especiallywhen we started having kids,
that I wanted to be able to workfrom home and be an
entrepreneur.
I didn't know what it was, so Inoodled a lot of ideas and out
of my head that day I wrote forthe very first time ever that
someday I thought I wanted toteach this vision writing and
(03:01):
goal setting to other people.
And so fast forward a little bit.
I had my son and I was fivemonths pregnant and I got an
introduce to the industry ofnetwork marketing with a company
called Arbonne, which mostpeople are familiar with, and
jumped all in so that I couldquit my job to get my son out of
daycare and stay home and raisemy babies.
That's awesome, and the onething I had to do with all of
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the people that I brought ontomy team was have them write out
a great big vision for why theywanted to work Because I knew if
they didn't have it, Chris,they were going to quit on me in
about three days.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right, Because being an entrepreneur is tough and
there are a lot of days you justwant to wave your white flag
and say right.
So I taught that to them, andso about 12 years ago, I created
some curriculum around it andstarted teaching it publicly,
and most of the people that Iended up speaking in front of
that came into coaching with mewere were entrepreneurs that
(03:57):
were trying to figure it out.
Yeah, because most of them wererunning pretty expensive
hobbies, because they werethinking of a vision.
Right, exactly so.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because most of them were running pretty expensive
hobbies because they were.
They didn't have a vision Right, exactly.
So you know how's, how's thatcome.
You know, you know fast forward.
That was late 80s.
You said did that vision cometrue for you?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, uh, when I got introduced to Arbonne now
remember when I wrote out thingsI wrote specifically that I
wanted to be, I wanted to workfrom home.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I wanted to make a residual income, passive income,
I wanted to take fabulous tripsand I wanted to be in a company
where there was a lot of growthfor leadership.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And so not knowing about Arbonne at that time.
When Arbonne showed up it waslike bam, because it checked all
the boxes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So one of the things I tell people about having this
written vision is you get superclear what you want so that when
the opportunities arise, you'llknow exactly which path to
follow.
And that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I like that goals down, these dreams, what you
want from life, and beingspecific gives you or helps you
delineate between things thatcome up that you can say yes or
no to.
Basically, does this align withwhat I truly want?
Yeah, um, to help you get tothose goals, because otherwise,
(05:18):
right, we're just going to bekind of throwing it on the wall
and see if it sticks, kind ofthing, because we'll say yes to
everything.
Is that kind of right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
yes, and and that's very common for entrepreneurs,
especially in the beginning, isto do a lot of things all at
once.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And then they can't figure out why the they're not
monetizing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And so a lot of the clients that I've worked with
have come to me to kind offigure out which path should I
stick with for right now, and sowhen they write out a vision
for me, I get them to write itout as if it's three years out,
chris, so I get a littletimeline.
Let's imagine you're writingyour journal, like I did, and
it's three years from today.
How old will you be?
(05:58):
How old will your familymembers be?
Because time and aging kind ofgives us a vision.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Especially if you have kids.
Yeah, you can kind of seechanges coming.
Yeah, so when we get reallyclear on that target, it does
help with getting very clear onwhat aligns with what you want
and what doesn't, so that everyday, when I get presented a lot
of opportunities because I'mclear on my vision, who I serve
and where I'm going, it's veryeasy for me to say no to the
(06:31):
things that I should not bedoing.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And so we in the beginning of the coaching.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We do a lot of clearing of the path, okay yeah,
taking things off your platethat don't need to be there
maybe not forever, but justright now.
I see a lot of entrepreneurs doall the right things, but
they're doing them in the wrongtimeframe, the wrong order.
I've seen a lot ofentrepreneurs do all the right
things, but they're doing themin the wrong time frame.
Okay, yep, so it gets.
It relieves a lot of stress.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, but being able to have that, that plan, that
kind of path laid out.
So you know like, okay, thisseems great but it doesn't serve
me right goals, or, whenthey're trying to clear this
path, some things that they'redoing that are not going to be
as beneficial to that growth,with that vision casting.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, so I'll use this example, because this
happens a lot.
I end up coaching a lot ofspeakers and coaches just
because that's my industry.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And a lot of people who want to be speakers figure
okay, I got to get a book out.
If I write the book, then I'llstart getting asked to speak,
and so they put a lot of timeand effort into getting a book
out.
Where, really, what they don'tunderstand is that the book's
not really going to drivespeeches for them.
It's just going to be a callingcard.
Right?
(07:50):
Is that?
The book's not really going todrive speeches for them?
It's just going to be a callingcard, right, it's going to be a
.
It adds to your credibility,but it's not a moneymaker.
So I have to get them tounderstand.
Okay, yes, we will get to thebook, but the first thing we
have to work on is who do you?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
serve and how do you serve them, so we can start?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
making money right.
They don't get upside down,which is very common for new
entrepreneurs.
Financially, they push a lot ofmoney out and they're not
bringing anything in.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, so the book is just one.
You know one example, but it'spretty common.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, so with this vision casting you know a lot of
people that I've seen is youknow I want to make X amount of
money per month.
Is that a positive way tovision cast or is that kind of
do you?
Do you still go with a monetaryamount or do you focus on other
things to be more successfulwith it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So when I get them to write out their vision, I get
them to think of the seven areasof life, and they're all seven
F's their faith, life, community, whatever that looks like for
them family, friends, fitnessand health.
Uh fun, which entrepreneursforget about?
A?
Lot Uh finances right Uh, theirfield, their career.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, so we look at the finances, because usually
that's a big problem for a newentrepreneur that they don't
have a target number.
So when they write out thevision of their life for me, now
we can start looking at okay,how are we financing that and
how much is it going to take?
Yeah, and it doesn't matterwhat the number is, chris, they
could say to me you know what?
We're happy just going campingall summer and cost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Or we want to take our family of 12 to an Airbnb
for a month, yep.
So I don't care what the numberis, we just have to have a real
number.
OK so a lot of times when I askentrepreneurs and it's ninety,
nine, point, nine percent of thetime when I ask them what's
your revenue goal for the year,they go well, I guess, right,
(09:47):
it'd be nice to make six figures.
I'm like, ok, well, that's nice, but that's not giving me a
real number.
I need to know what real numberis that you need to make in
this business.
That's not getting funded fromanything else, right?
So, going back, I'll use I liketo use my story a lot.
So when I, when I startedArbonne, I was five months
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pregnant and I was still workingfull time.
I wanted to quit my job and getmy son out of daycare by the
time that my daughter was bornthree months later.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So I knew the number.
Let's say it was $1,000 a month.
It was all I knew, then, right?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Cover the bills I was paying for in the household,
plus get money back from gettingmy son out of daycare.
Right, right, so that was mytarget, chris.
I had 90 days to get to theplace where I was sustaining a
thousand dollars a month.
That was a very real number forme because it was attached to
things I was paying for.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
So when I have a new entrepreneur that I'm coaching,
we we that, after we get thevision, we hone in on.
All right, what's the one yearrevenue goal?
And let's make it a real number.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, and I like that .
So cause I remember when Ifirst started and I think I
still kind of get into this likebig dream kind of which is
nothing wrong, I have big dreamsbut I was like, yeah, I'm going
to make a million a year, youknow something.
But like not breaking it downto like why?
Like what is that a milliondollars a year for?
(11:09):
Or whatever your number is athousand dollars a month, like
your story starting out.
That, I think, is.
Is that the kind of theimportant piece?
Instead of just throwing out anumber, it's breaking it down
and saying what, why, why thatnumber?
Yeah for sure Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
You know, I think we all get, social media has so
much.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I can't scroll through Instagram and not see a
post at least every five postson make it seven figures.
That's a big hobby, bigachievement in our country, and
it's a good thing.
To ask is why is that soimportant to you?
It's just because you feel likeeverybody else apparently is
doing it.
Is it something that you needto do?
(11:54):
You want to fund a big charitywith that, right?
Do you want to make sure thatyou're you're building a nest
egg for your kids or whatever?
Or you just want to prove toyourself that you can?
Right, whatever it is, it's gotto be so big and so important
to you, yeah, that it becomeslike it's going to push you
(12:15):
through all the days that you'regoing to want to quit.
So the numbers is your number,right, but it's got to be a real
number, so that then what youcan do is take that number and
now break it down into okay,what are my services, what am I
charging for, what I do and howmany people?
This is all math.
Business is all math.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
How many of the ideal customers do I need to get in
front of every month to convertto that number?
Yeah, but it all starts withthe vision first.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, and it's so simple.
Right, it sounds so simple andI would say it is simple, but
it's not easy to stick to it andbecause you see shiny objects,
right, or you not easy to stickto it and because you see shiny
objects right or you see youknow other people on social
media and you're like, okay, whyam I not at that level yet?
there, they seem to be way ahead, but you don't really know the
true story, right?
Yeah, um, and and and so like.
With that like thinking of likehow often do we need to come
(13:05):
back to this vision statementwe've written, or these goals or
dreams that we've written out?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
sure, Sure.
Well, I wish that I could saythat life doesn't change, but it
does, and things happen.
I will tell you two thingsabout vision One I'll share
again.
My story is.
You know, the part of my visionthat I wrote, let's say 15
years ago, as we started to seethat our kids were going to go
off to college and start theirlives, was, you know, my husband
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and I were going to settle intoour forever home.
I wanted to retire him so thathe could work alongside me, go
out, travel with me while Ispeak, have him be a big part of
that and have my son involved.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But I've lost both my husband and my son in the past
10 years, so that part of myvision of my lifestyle is
shifted, but what I do has not,because a big part of my vision
is my purpose and my legacy thatI want to leave.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So one of the things that I tell people, one of the
things you're going to find whenyou write out your vision, is
you're going to find that littlehidden nugget that you've been
looking for.
Is what is your purpose?
that you've been looking for iswhat is your purpose and when
you have these life adversitieshappen.
You now understand.
Now I know why I got set onthis path.
It's because now I have abigger mission to fill Kristen
(14:23):
just coaching entrepreneurs.
Now what I'm working on islaunching a community for young
adults, because they'restruggling.
That's my biggest legacy rightnow.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and thank you for sharing that and being being
open.
And it's not easy and I'm sorryto hear about that.
For sure, you know people aretrying to create this vision for
their life but they don't knowtheir purpose.
Is it still?
Is it still a good thing towrite out some visions, even
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though you don't necessarilyknow your specific purpose?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, because it's going to be hidden in there.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, a lot of people when I asked them to write
their vision and I've done thiswith thousands of people now um,
at workshops, events, Iactually get them to write, as
if it's three years out, and allthe things that they want to
create.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
A lot of them have a hard time with it because they
don't know the how.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So a lot of times and I will joke with them how many
of you in here need somebody tohand you the blueprint before
you think you need to write thevision?
And of course, a lot of peopleraise their hand.
Yeah, it's the opposite.
You write the vision, the houseshows up.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Like it did with me and Arbonne.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, so it is important to keep revisiting it,
and you will find your purposehidden in there, because what
you're going to be writing isall your heart's desires.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, because I hear people talk about
you need to write down yourgoals every day, maybe twice a
day.
Do you think you need to do itthat much, or it's just kind of
whatever cadence fits you best?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, I think there's two thoughts on that.
The people who are manifestorswill tell you, put it out there
and then put it away, right?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You don't need to Do you?
You know who gabby bernstein is, chris uh, yeah, yeah, yeah
sounds like her and in the worldshe, she has a thing she calls
manic manifesting.
Okay, you just get to where, ohmy god, I've got to get control
now yeah, and I gotta write itagain uh- huh she's saying is
you know what?
(16:30):
If it's real for you and it'swritten, you should be able to
write it and let it go, and letGod do the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right.
I'm not a believer that if youjust put a vision board up there
and just stare at it all daylong, it's going to happen.
Right, but I am a big goalsetter.
Every day I look at okay, weall have the very long to-do
list.
I've picked three things thatare the most important, things
that align with my vision.
That's going to keep the needlemoving.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I think that's, and it's kind of I'm kind of
that way too, like as I've builtLLA.
It's like different levels,like the ultimate goals there
that I have in life, but likethe smaller ones of like, okay,
this, this office, for example,um, that we just moved into, was
a vision, like we need a space.
How can we, how can we makethis work where we're kind of
(17:20):
expanding now?
We need to have better internet, we need to come together as a
team like how can we make thatwork?
Right?
And you know, I was looking atcommercial space like renting, I
was looking at, you know,building a brand new new
building, like all this stuff,and it just kind of like things
happen and led to this, this newoffice that we're in now, that
(17:42):
I would have never necessarilythought of.
But again, kind of like you'resaying, like I was like hey, you
know I prayed about, like youknow, god, god, like just how
are we supposed to do this ifthis is what we're supposed to
do, this at this next step, likeyou know, just let me not miss
the miss, what I'm supposed todo, kind of thing, and uh, you
know just little things thatopened up along the way and it's
(18:04):
kind of like that, like justworking towards that goal, uh,
knowing you'll figure it out,and just being open to those
opportunities that could be thatmaybe weren't aren't what
you're thinking of in the moment.
Um, that would, that would showup and you can, could use for
sure, like that's been a forthis whole journey that I've
been on is kind of how thingshave played out.
Just I don't believe incoincidences at all, but like
(18:26):
just crazy happenstances thatyou know have, just it's, it's
just been crazy.
Like I tell people I need towrite a book about it just to
show what God has done Causethat's a big part of me is faith
and, um, just the doors he'sopen at the right time.
Like on the goals, like lastyear we were able to travel
across the country and do videoproductions.
(18:47):
And you know, one thing Istarted back into or prayed
about in 2020, when I first quitmy job at the beginning of 2020
was, you know, lord, I'd loveto travel, like that'd be
awesome to see different places.
And, like last year, I kind ofsat back for a second I said,
wow, like that prayer wasanswered, like that was, that
goal was accomplished.
Like we're traveling now acrossthe country.
So now it's going to beinternational.
(19:08):
That's the next, next kind ofgoal.
But it's just crazy, you know,you just kind of throw it out
there like that and then justwork, take the action, right.
Yeah, try to to try to make ithappen and things will.
I think, things will happen foryou.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, I'm glad we're talking about God, because I do
read a devotional every morningand every morning, in one way or
another's god going.
Look, I've got the plan.
I know what you want, because Iknow the desires of your heart.
I need you to work with me, butI also need you to just rest a
little bit and just be patientyeah, yeah my plan is better
(19:44):
than your plan yes, I always getthe visualization when we, when
things like this are discussed.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a picture someone painted and it's this
little girl who is standingthere kind of crying in front of
Jesus.
He's kneeling, so he took awaythis little teddy bear and he's
got this really huge one behindher.
Just trust me, just trust me,something better is coming, kind
of thing, and I just alwayspicture that of like you know,
he's got the best for us and, ifwe can, instead of just forcing
(20:13):
and saying this is what I thinkor what I want, like just
trusting in that and um andknowing, though, and we need to
be taught lessons too, right,like as I'm a parent, um, as
well, and it's like we want toteach our kids, and sometimes
you have to have some disciplineand, you know, kind of have
that of teaching moment of likehey, you did that wrong.
That's not the right thing, butstill coming back with you know,
(20:36):
but I'd really love you and youknow I want to do good things
for you and give you things,even though you don't ask, or
things that are gonna be goodfor you that you don't know,
kind of like a bowl of ice cream, like as like just out of the
blue that I didn't have to doanything for it.
Just give them a little bit ofice cream or a little bit of you
know a bite of chocolate orsomething that they can, that
they're going to enjoy, justbecause I know, you know that
they would.
And so it's like stuff likethat.
(20:57):
I kind of like correlate, likeGod wants to do those good
things for us, but we still haveto also go through the lessons
and learn to become betterindividuals.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Absolutely, it's just .
Every day is a learning curve.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, yeah, I heard it New levels, new devils.
Like new level, there's alwayssomething you got to overcome or
go through or learn from.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So this again is why you need to have a really
powerful vision, because I'vesaid this many, many times, as
an entrepreneur now, havingbuilt two businesses Right,
people have repeatedly asked me,especially after losing my
husband and my son to suicide,how do you keep going Like there
were so many days, like I'vesaid a couple of times, that I
wanted to quit Arbonne.
(21:40):
So bad Chris, I mean entireteams quitting on me in a month.
You know all the personalgrowth I went through, all the
rejection, my husband not beinga fan.
You know all of it and whatkept me going every day was that
my, my vision was bigger thanwhatever hurdle I was facing
(22:01):
Right.
So, it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And that's the thing is when I tell people,
especially entrepreneurs, ifyou're drifting and you're not
consistent, your vision's notbig enough because you're
allowing your emotions to get inthe way.
Yeah, and you can't.
I mean I had to get in myoffice and just work.
Yeah, they said I didn't wantto because what I wanted for my
family was bigger yeah,absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
so you know, if we were to wrap up this
conversation there's been somuch good insight, good, good
direction what would you kind ofleave people with, maybe like
the top thing from thisconversation that you would want
them to hear out of everythingelse?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is that so many
people are afraid to write theirvision because they can't see
it with where they're at rightnow.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They might be going through some really hard times
or they might feel like they'renot educated enough, they don't
have enough resources.
You know, it's all the, it'sall the things.
Yeah, people get in the waybecause of where they're at
right now and I promise you thatif you write this vision out
and you dedicate yourself toworking on it a little bit every
day, the how will show up,it'll keep going and you will
(23:12):
get there probably faster thanyou think.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah.
I love that.
And and something that stuckout with to me during this
conversation that I thought isreally good for people to hear,
especially if they're juststarting writing out the vision
look three years ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know, cause I hear all the time like five, 10,
you know, look, and that's likeso far.
I think that's that's hard fora lot of people to fathom, like
you said, because they're justwhere they are right now.
So I love the three year timeframe because it's I feel like
it's a little bit more it'sright here yeah, it's a little
bit more easy to take in and say, okay, yeah, that's, that is,
that is doable, like I can kindof see the light on that one
(23:47):
right, and you just keep doingthat.
I like that a lot.
That stuck out to me.
So you know, carrie, reallyappreciate you being on today
sharing all this and and yourstory and things you've been
through and things you've done.
If you want to connect with you, learn from you, get your help,
even where's the best way forthem to do that, Well, I'm going
(24:08):
to give you a link that you'regoing to post here, and it's a
link to download.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
My vision is victory.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What she's up to, you know, take a part of her or get
a part of her courses, get allshe's putting out there to learn
(24:40):
how to you know vision cast, tohave that victory through your
vision.
Uh, and just continue tosucceed, because as we get
better, as we improve, as wesucceed, we're going to help
more people.
And so, carrie, this has againbeen a great conversation.
Thanks so much for being on theElevate Media Podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Absolutely, and if you're listening to this and you
know someone who is juststarting out or you're yourself
trying to just cast that visionfor your life, share it with
that person.
Make sure you go like andfollow this show.
It helps us get this to moreears and more eyes as we do that
, because we can help so manymore people together through
sharing and liking the show.
(25:20):
So we appreciate everyone outthere doing that.
But until next time, go outthere, continue to elevate your
life, elevate your brand, andwe'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Thank you for listening to the Elevate Media
podcast.
Don't forget to subscribe andleave a review.
See you in the next episode.
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