Your pain is often the breadcrumbs to your values and those values become the guiding light

for your purpose on the planet because what often happens is that the pain gives us a glimpse

of what we want to heal and fix in the world so that other generations and other people we love

do not have to experience that pain. I am Vision Latiani, founder of Mind Valley, the school

for human transformation. You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you

the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet. It discussed the world's most powerful

ideas and personal growth for my body, spirit and work. I once started a company that I had to

quit in eight months. This was 2010 and back then, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia was going through a massive

round of startup culture. Investment funds were coming in, entrepreneurial accelerators were being

established and everyone was starting a startup. In America, Groupon had become the fastest growing

company in the world and in Kuala Lumpur, in Asia, startup after startup was racing to create the

Asian version of Groupon and I decided, wow, everyone else is doing this, I want to do it too.

So I jumped in. We got $2 million from Intel Capital Ventures and I created one of the seven

different Groupon clones in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We were neck and neck with the leading guy,

waiting to see who was going to be acquired for millions of dollars by the massive Groupon

and spread its tentacles all around the world. Six months into that, I realized how miserable I was.

I had everything that I thought I wanted. I had venture capital. I was in the press. I was in the

media. I was a startup entrepreneur, but I was miserable. I disliked my job. I disliked the

work I had to do. I disliked the things I had to fulfill for that investment and I decided to give

up all my shares and do something that really made my heart sing. That something was a-fest,

which eventually led to Mind Valley University. My friends couldn't understand. You just gave up

that whole startup, but what really happened was I awoke. I wasn't setting goals that came from my

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