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Speaker: Someone just asked. What made me get into this industry in the first place, the coaching industry? Why? did I get into this industry? Why did I start all this in the first place? And It's...
Speaker: A question that landed differently for me. this time. And it was like, oh, oh my gosh, yeah. Because, you know, we can get so caught up in the growth and... and The next thing that needs to be done that we can kind of forget what started all in the first place.
Speaker: And. It was the most amazing thing because I...
Speaker: Here's what I've learned through my most... deeply embodied experience is that when you master your perceptions You master your life. When you master your perceptions,
Speaker: You master. being able to create A. Me. Think. that you would like. Because when you become a perception. Master.
Speaker: You can turn down the volume of stress. You can turn up. discipline, you can turn You can become who your next level requires with more ease just because you simply became more flexible in your perceptions. And I was just thinking about.
Speaker: why I really started this. And it was so funny because this is the first time where it truly flashed into my mind. of um When I was 16, I survived a suicide attempt. and the very next thought was I need to master my mind.
Speaker: I need to master my mind. If I'm going to do anything, I need to master. my mind. And so there was always this deep understanding from a A teenager. you know, getting thrown into psychology classes and then neuroscience and studying all of that.
Speaker: And just constantly following the pull, following the pull, following the pull. And now... I'm just having this realization. Oh my gosh. It wasn't even just about mastering the mind. It was about mastering.
Speaker: perceptions. Because I went from being someone who's very insecure, who thought I would be damned to poverty and all that shit. to becoming a team leader of a $10 million dollar restaurant to...
Speaker: Becoming a paid model quickly, expanding into rooms with celebrities and mega influencers to deciding that actually I don't want that to then becoming the CMO of Commercial Real Estate Network at 25. and all that shit. And the reason why I've lived so many lives and I'm,
Speaker: Only 28. Is because. I did it. I became a master of my mind. and a master of my perceptions.
Speaker: And right now. so many entrepreneurs Anytime they feel capped out, anytime they whatever. What? is occurring when you feel overly stressed out when you feel like you can't You're at this place where you know you're truly the bottleneck. What's actually occurring is that you just haven't mastered your mind. Your mind is your master.
Speaker: You haven't mastered your perceptions enough. you have Because when you master your perception, you easily... can move between. identities. When you master your perception, you can easily shift.
Speaker: Into what. Whatever challenge, whatever obstacle, whatever is in front of you, you can shift into becoming the version of yourself required to solve it. required to overcome.
Speaker: When you master your perceptions, you begin to be able to diagnose. What breakdown is happening in the way that you're believing, thinking, feeling? That is creating shit that you don't want anymore. And we can diagnose where the breakdown is happening.
Speaker: Then guess what? You become a master of your business. You become a master of your life. You can create any outcome. Becoming a master of your perceptions is how The vision, the big ass vision that you see for yourself in your life, in your head, there's no such thing as too big, too much, too hard anymore when you are a master of your perception.
Speaker: Master your perception. You master your business. You master your life.
Speaker: And. I'm just grateful. that this thought has really fully finally cemented. Because you know when you're so deeply embodied into something and you're so excellent and gifted at something and there's like a through line to your life.
Speaker: That explains... what you're here to do with your life, but it's like you're so embodied in it that you can't see it.
Speaker: Yeah. Heh heh heh. For me, I just had that aha. Moment of. That's what I'm here. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker: That's what I've been doing. That's the mission. is I'm here to help entrepreneurs and people who aren't entrepreneurs, it's just entrepreneurs right now. but helping leaders.
Speaker: Master their perceptions. Mastery of perception is the cure. to victimhood, victim mentality. Help. conditioned helplessness. That's perception.
Speaker: It is everything. Your perception is the world, the model of reality that you live in.
Speaker: The reason why I didn't have a third suicide attempt was because I became a master of my perceptions. I was forced. Two. It literally saved my life.
Speaker: And it so seems so simple. But it really is the foundation. of everything. everything that you could ever want in your life. The money that you want to make, the business that you want to have, the team that you want to lead, the marriage that you...
Speaker: desire, the type of relationship you want with your kids. how you want your family life to be. your relationship with your parents. The trips you go on.
Speaker: How much fun you have when you're there. Everything, everything is about mastering your perceptions. that's That's really even what it means to feel lighter, to choose to feel lighter.
Speaker: in your business and in your life. It's not something that just randomly happens to you. It's about mastering your perceptions. When you master your perceptions, you become more adaptable. You become more resilient. You go through really hard things and you make those really hard things your bitch.
Speaker: because you've mastered your perceptions.
Speaker: And it's just so freaking cool.
Speaker: To... it's I know it sounds really simple, but... Um... It just feels really freaking cool. Just... Realizing.
Speaker: Ah. How can I sum up the through line of every single... thing in my life and why I do the work that I do and and what it is that I'm here to give to the world. How can I sum that up? And it it really is this.
Speaker: I exist. to help you master your perception so you can master your life. so that you can become who God sent you here to be. That is literally what I am the most obedient to. that's My lifeline, that's...
Speaker: Where I thrive. That's what saved me. That's what God showed me. And I'm just having this realization right now that when I was... Laying on the floor and I... I was having a really bad breakdown. It was after my suicide attempt. It was like one of those really hard breakdowns I was having. And I was just like, God, I don't know. Like.
Speaker: I don't know, man, I might fuck around and try it a third time and I was just staring up at the ceiling. Just staring up at the ceiling. tears running down my face, and then God started flashing to me, okay.
Speaker: What life would be worth if it wasn't flashing to me the visions. The visions. And...
Speaker: And... after i got flash divisions me helping people speaking on stages doing all this shit things that like it just came out of nowhere came out of nowhere And then...
Speaker: I was like, what is that? Like it was the immediate next thought. It really was the immediate next thought. I was like, what the fuck was that? like It just... but Just...
Speaker: created such a level of curiosity inside me. I was like, what the fuck? What is that? And I was like, whatever that is, I got to go. I want that.
Speaker: For the first time in my life. There was a lot a true light at the end of the tunnel for the first time in my life. A vision pulled me. more than the pain. of where I was.
Speaker: that fuel Oh my goodness. the fuel of a vision. that pulls at you I was like I have to do that and I remember now Truly.
Speaker: I'm like just making this connection right now. The very next. immediate thought was, If I'm gonna get that, if I'm gonna do that, like I have to become a master of my mind. Because right now I feel like I'm in a prison.
Speaker: Right now I feel like I'm in a cage. I have to become a master of my mind. Then it was just like a knowing. I just knew it. I just... Knew it. And that's how maybe you've heard this story before, or read it before where I've shared it. You know, I go to the library.
Speaker: Immediately the next day at school. I'm checking out these psychology books. I start just flipping through these freaking psychology books. um I mean, these are thick textbooks. They are thick.
Speaker: like college level. I'm flipping through these books later on. I ended up actually just saying, fuck high school, going to college. Starting when I was 16, just going to college, doing college classes, taking psychology classes, neuroscience. like all that jazz, all the things.
Speaker: And. But I still remember. When I... checked out those books from the library. And I was flipping through the pages and I was reading and I was reading and I was reading and I was reading and and I just had this moment where I was flipping through the pages and then I was like, oh.
Speaker: My gosh. I've been a prisoner in my mind. And the key... has been in my back pocket.
Speaker: This whole time. The key was in my back pocket. this hole. Time. What?
Speaker: If you pay attention closely, that's actually why um the Uplevel Playground logo. you'll see there's a key in it. and it it comes from that moment. where I had that realization.
Speaker: And... Because that's what it means to master your mind. That's what it means that the key that unlocks every next level of your business and every next level of your life.
Speaker: is coming from Do you know? How to... Pull the key out of your back pocket. and open the door to your next level.
Speaker: And that key is your mind. The key is your mind. It is your perceptions. Anyways, so. Yeah. That was something. um very freaking Cool.
Speaker: I just had a deep realization around. And. The work starts with... are leaders, crazy pants entrepreneurs because of the amount of influence that you have. And if you really start leading yourself.
Speaker: from mastering your mind, mastering your perceptions.
Speaker: then the ripple effect of that on your team, on your family. It goes on and on. So I hope entrepreneurs now, but then. I'm also here to help others.
Speaker: Other professionals, other people who aren't entrepreneurs, people. who are serious about becoming who God sent them here to be.
Speaker: The people who are serious about honoring that big -ass vision that God gave them. That's what I'm here to serve. And it just tends to be that the entrepreneurs are the most serious about it is what I've come to find.
Speaker: But I'm just having this realization right now that like, huh. I'm definitely not just here to help entrepreneurs. Those are just... The people who are my type of crazy right now.
Speaker: Anyways. So that gives a little bit more lore into the background of... Vanessa Mariah and Why I Do What I Do. And.
Speaker: Yeah. Start thinking about your your own life and your own business. And.
Speaker: I guess just to take away from this is just... Zoom out a bit. Zoom out of, I know you're in growth mode. I know you're scaling. I know you're doing all the things. but I just want you to zoom out and to just...
Speaker: Think about and just contemplate. Maybe go on your little hot girl walk, bad boy walk. Just... Think about And really emotionally connect to why you started all this.
Speaker: why you decided to do all this in the first place. Why it's so. Worth it. What did God show you? What did God show you?
Speaker: I'm telling you, when you connect back to that, you can zoom out. Everything that you're doing right now, all the hardship, all the whatever. suddenly it doesn't seem that hard anymore. Suddenly, it doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal. It's just...
Speaker: You're going to make it through. All right. Talk to you in the next one. Love you. Bye.
