Welcome to the playbook. We're live here at VCon. We're blessed to be here at VCon.

The only podcast studio stage here on the electric avenue. Speaking of electric avenue,

we're bringing the energy with the man himself, Vin and Fonte. Thank you. He's a therapist,

mental performance coach, but all around great guy, beyond a great speaker. Welcome.

Thanks. Thanks for having me. So it's so interesting how traditional professions have expanded and

amplified into all different measure to not only help in power others, which on an individual

basis, that's what therapists do. But to broaden its scope and scale with content that as a speaker,

you're able now to reach people all around the world and plant seeds as well as grow those seeds

into trees. For you, what was the inspiration to go beyond the padded walls of being a therapist

and reach out to the entire world, leveraging what I call the Shakespearean philosophy of the

stage theory that it's not just that desk or couch, it's the whole world you're impacting.

Right. Well, that's a great question. Funny enough, before I met you, so it was actually really

awesome and coincidental, is that I set out. I was like, you know, I want to go on this mission

to impact one billion lives. Over, though, right? Over. I mean, that's the step one, step two, it's

over. And so it was really cool when I saw your message. I was like, hey, that guy's doing what I'm

doing. I need to know him. That's so awesome. And you know, there's no coincidences, which leads

to the question as a doctor, right? Someone who understands the mind and the brain and the

integration between life and life circumstances. What is your perspective of coincidences and

awareness compared to the scientific background you have about emotion, the energy emotion?

Right. I don't believe that there is such thing as coincidences. I think everything is supposed

to happen the way it's going to happen. I think that we can influence our path to some degree by

the choices we make and that thing called luck is you taking chances on opportunities and then you

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