 I guess I'll go ahead and talk for a couple minutes. I guess we'll see how long I can talk for. If he doesn't show up, I might run out of things to say. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the US Embassy. Nice to see everyone. My name is Holly Miles. I am the Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer here at the US Embassy. I work in the Economic Administration upstairs. I'm happy to see everyone here for this digital video conference that we're having today. This will be with American entrepreneur and businessman Philip Harding. Philip was in Uzbekistan at the end of October. I don't know if any of you had a chance to attend his previous lecture that he gave. He came to the National Library. I think on, like, October 24th or 25th. Was anybody there? Did they see Philip the first time? Oh, yes. He was at the Innovation Week that the Ministry of Innovation put on. He gave a couple of presentations there. And then he was also at the National Library giving presentations in October. Well, that's OK. He's happy to come back and to talk to people in Uzbekistan one more time. Like I said, he's an American businessman. He's an innovator and an entrepreneur. Philip founded his own company. It's called Impact Junkies. And the point of his company is to help businesses, to help startups, to help them think about their ideas, think about the change that they want to make in the world, and how to take those changes and turn them into an actual business. His business center is on taking ideas and commercializing them, helping people figure out what they want to do with the changes they want to make in the world. Is anybody here interested in entrepreneurship? Yes, I'm interested in entrepreneurship. All of us, is that what you're talking about? Is anybody ever thought of creating their own business? Yes? I get very tentative. Yes? Yeah. About what? He said yes. What's your idea? Online websites, not to sell, or selling online something. I don't know. I love my audience, but just the plans. I'll fully talk, but no. What's possibly selling something online? OK. Where's he? In the morning. Here he is. OK. It's very early in the United States. That's where he is right now. It's about 6.30 in the morning, so I'm thinking maybe he's having breakfast, coffee, I don't know. Can you hear us? Yes. Maybe I'll come where he can see me. Michael. Hello. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. You heard the song I was singing? No, that part, you can repeat it. We didn't hear it. Oh, good. OK, good. Good. No, we just. Good. How are you, Holly? I'm doing pretty good. I'll come maybe where you can see me. Wonderful. So I gave you your opening remarks already. They know who you are. You've been fully introduced. Wonderful. OK, let me make sure I can share my screen with you all. And so you can see some of the things I want to talk with you about. It's so great to see you all. Thank you for coming. And look forward to talking more. And if Holly already mentioned, I look forward to taking some questions and hearing your thoughts. And any way I can help you, I look forward to that as well, helping with that. So let me just get open up my presentation. I want to share with you some photos. How many of you, when I was there, how many of you were at one of the sessions I did when I was there about a month or so ago? Was anyone? OK, great. So it's all new, folks. Is this all new people? Yes. OK, great. Awesome. All right. Well, it's wonderful to meet you. I was just in Tashkent in Uzbekistan. Just what was it, Holly? A month or so ago? Time flies. And I just love the time there. And Holly is doing great things. And the State Department there. And it's an exciting time in your country right now. It's an exciting time to see the focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, which is very exciting to me and something that I do a lot of. And I'm the co-founder and CEO of Impact Junkie, which is an organization and network of entrepreneurs and investors around the world. And so I get very excited when I see the possibilities then and what's happening in your country. And meeting with, it looks like a lot of young people and a lot of energy there as well, and the possibilities for your future and what you're going to be able to create in the country. So I'm very excited about that. On the wall here, some of the pictures. This is my office. Some of the shots from around the world and different ventures that we've started everywhere from the jungles in Central America to the deserts and around the world. So it's in here in the United States. And we're working on some things right there in Uzbekistan. So I'm excited to hopefully be working with some of you all on some new ventures and new business ideas that you may have. Is everyone speaking English well enough? Or that's good? Am I just want to understand how am I speaking OK? All right. I'll take silence as a yes. OK. Let me go full screen on this. I just don't want to. Great. OK, one second. All right. Can everybody see that or just me? Can you see this slide? This says, do more with what you've been given? Yeah. OK, great. So this is what I was talking about, impact junkie. And today I want to talk a little bit about your story. And maybe you're in this place where you're not quite sure about this word entrepreneurship or about starting a business. Maybe that's kind of why you're here. You're interested in that. You've heard a lot of talk this year in your country obviously about entrepreneurship and the president saying, this is the year of entrepreneurship and innovation. And you're wondering about that. And so I want to talk to you about how your story and the journey that you're on is pivotal to that. And the experiences that you have, your family, your life, your education, the things that you've experienced have prepared you and are shaping your story to launch something. And I'm going to talk to you about why I think entrepreneurship is so important and that the impact you can have and how you can change so many lives by starting something. And I hope to encourage you in that regard. And I would love to take questions after I talk. And so be thinking of questions or ideas that you have that we can discuss as we go on here. So I want to talk to you about this idea into action, turning an idea into action. And a lot of people have ideas. A lot of people see problems in the world. And especially when you say entrepreneurship, some people really you can define that as just solving problems. Finding needs, understanding needs, understanding pain that someone else may have, something that's frustrating or something that's slow or that can be made better. So a lot of people can have an idea and that's a great way to start. But how can you turn that idea into action and actually turn it into reality? Make it something real. And that's what separates successful people from people who just have an idea. And so there are tools that we can talk more. We won't have time to go into all of them in detail today. There's a lot of tools that you can utilize, that you can use to understand who your user is, who your customer is. And I say user more broadly because they're not always just a customer. But the people you're trying to help, trying to understand understanding their needs, ways to test ideas that you have on those user, on those people and understand if it's helping them or if it's not helping them and how to change it slightly to improve the product. And the word iterate comes up a lot. And that's sort of like changing with slight improvements. And you say, oh, that didn't work. How can we change it to make it better? And that's a whole part of this curiosity and learning process of figuring out how can you help others in the world around you and make their life better? So that's at the core of this. And then, like I mentioned, I'd love for you to take just a moment and reflect on your life, reflect on your life to this point and think about what really gets you excited. What are you really passionate about? What are the things that you just love and what maybe are the things that not only you love, but that you are one to see made better as well? And so take a second. If you have a piece of paper or a pen, write those down, write down a couple of things. It can be one thing, it can be three things, let's maybe keep it less than five things. So one to five, but one to three is probably a sweet, a good number. And write down a couple of things that you're really passionate about, things that you really love doing and things that you would love to spend more time working on. What are those things? And then, if you can write that down, I'd also like for you to write down why and what motivates you. So don't just write down, okay, well, I really love technology or I really wanna work in agriculture or what have you or I wanna work on mobile apps, but why? Why is that, why are you attracted? What do you like about that? And it may be based on a personal experience you've had, maybe something with family. We have one, yesterday I was doing workshops here in the United States and one of the women in the workshop for her father died two years ago and she got inspired to start making healthy food. And she was, and they have just completed a marathon. If a marathon is like the very long big race, I've never done a marathon, but she had done this with her father and he had died. And so she decided she was gonna do an Ironman race, which is like, it's a running, a swimming, bicycle race, a very long bicycle race and then a running race all put together. And she did this for her dad. And in the process, she discovered she was making these smoothie drinks, the fruits and vegetables and mixing them together. And that was really a passion that she was passionate about. And it was also really inspired by her father. And when you really can get deeper into why you're passionate about something and what motivates you, that's a deeper and more powerful reason to want to do something and to want to start something. So I want you to just take a second and if you have a piece of paper, write it down. If not, try to think really hard in your head or see if you can borrow paper from somebody. And I'd love for you to write down just a sentence or two on what motivates you, what inspires you, what excites you and why. Just another minute, one minute. One minute. While you all are finishing up, if you're done, I just want to show you also, this is impactjunkie.co, our website or part of it, you can sort of see here. And this is you start ventures that change lives. And I'm going to talk about that as well. There's some videos and things on here you can watch. And we're about to release some new exciting changes with more training and resources on our website. So please follow along. You can definitely follow us on Instagram, find impactjunkie. You can also find me, fill the parting and connect with me. This is me right here. And send me a message. Would love to follow along with your journey. And here, look at this. Look at these photos on my Instagram feed. This is a wonderful meal we had there. I'm sure you all recognize that. And this was at the Innovation Week where I was fortunate to speak and be a part of the events there. And this, I'm going to show you this slide and just, this is my next slide I want to talk to you about and this is giving a talk here with the leadership and some of the government folks on entrepreneurship. Yeah, so that's me getting ready to go up. So anyway, these are some of my photos. These are a couple of awesome ladies there in Uzbekistan that are starting a maker space for new startups which is really cool. And these are some of the different places they are including the airport. Anyhow, yeah, please connect with me and would love to continue working with you all. And all right, so let's get back to it. So you had a little bit of time to think. And how did this, how did this feel? How did this process feel for you all? Anybody? You don't have to say what you wrote down, just how did it feel? Was it easy? Was it really easy for you? No. Was it really hard? Yeah. Yeah, I understand. If it felt hard, that's completely normal. This is a very hard thing to do. So I kind of made it seem like it was really easy, but it's very difficult to condense your life into just one or two sentences and all of your passion and everything you're inspired. And so I understand that they can seem very difficult. So know that congratulations, if you got something written down, that's fantastic. That's a great start. If you didn't, it's okay. We'll keep working through it together, okay? We'll keep working through it. And we're just warming up. So I wanna talk to you about why start something. So we're gonna continue on this idea of developing out your story and how important that is to starting a venture and how important it is to change lives and to do something meaningful in the world. So why start something? There are many benefits to entrepreneurship. And like I said, I'm so excited to see the doors opening. It can't just be the government that says entrepreneur, everyone go be entrepreneur, everyone go start. It's gonna take awesome people, wonderful people just like you to actually make this happen. It's gonna also take education. It's gonna take private industry and others to move the entrepreneurial landscape in Uzbekistan. And so you are a key part of this. So when I say why start something, this is you can do this. And when I met with the new ministry of innovation and the government leaders, they're wanting you to, they're encouraging you to, and they're trying to make it easier to start businesses. And we're trying to continue to work with the, like I said, the ministry of innovation and other parts of the government to create opportunities for you all that when you have an idea and something you're passionate about, how you can actually turn that into reality. So why start something? Entrepreneurship honestly has a lot, it allows you to have a lot of freedom. It can allow you to obviously set your own schedule and the opportunity, it opens up and the richest people in the world are entrepreneurs and they've started something. So there's obviously a lot of personal benefits to starting something, to starting a new venture. There's the freedom, there's the financial benefits and the ability to control your own life and your own destiny. But more than that, I think it's really special aside from just the personal benefits, the thing that really excites me about entrepreneurship, even more than that, which I love the freedom, I love being able to spend time with my family. I love all of that, but, and yet some days it's actually more work. People would say it's more work, but when you're doing something you're passionate about and something that you love, like we've just been talking about, it doesn't feel like work, you enjoy it. It's something you would do anyway as a hobby for fun. So there's the personal benefits, but more importantly, the benefits that you can bring to the world, the impact that you can have in other lives. And by starting something, you can find a problem you see in the world and you can do something about it. If you see something you don't like, something that frustrates you, something that you think could be made better, that's awesome. And you can have a bigger impact in the world by starting a venture, by starting a business. And there's a company that was started in the U.S. called Tom's Shoes. I don't know if anyone's heard of Tom's Shoes, but this is one example and there's many others where instead of just starting a charity or something like that to change lives, which you can do and there's a lot of benefits to that, but he said, I could have sold my other companies. So let me back up. Blake is the founder of Tom's. He went to Argentina and found out that kids didn't have shoes, he found a group of kids and he saw that some of them didn't have shoes and he was moved by that. Just like we were talking about, you may identify a need that you see in the world and he said, I'm gonna do something about this. And so he started a company and a shoe company. And so they sold, he started a shoe company and he said, I could have sold my other companies and just donate and gave money, but, and that would have maybe, we would have given out a few thousand pairs of shoes, but he said, because we started a company, it became a sustainable business and they've given out over 80 million pairs of shoes, right? So the impact you can have in the world, the debt you can make in the universe, the change that you can see can be so much bigger when you start something. So I believe that is the main reason why starting something is so beautiful. So let me tell you this in the context of something that, and I'm gonna show this to you as an example, as well for how you can turn an idea, put an idea, put it into something visual that you can share with others, right? So you've heard this concept of a pitch deck perhaps, basically a presentation that you can give to either an investor or your friends, your family, other businesses, you can show them and explain what problem you've identified in the world, what types of solutions you're trying, what kinds of things you wanna, you're trying to improve, to solve this problem, and then some kind of call to action to get them involved as well. So this is one of the pitch decks I would show for Impact Junkie, and this is what we say, love people, go places, change lives. We say, if you love people, if you wanna help them, this is what we wanna do, we wanna have the words empathy, which is putting yourself in the place of others and understanding the pain that they're feeling and the problems that they're facing and trying to help them, right? And so love, if you really love people, that's what we believe in starting, through entrepreneurship, we can start sustainable businesses that can help people around the world. And we say, go places. We believe you need to go places so you can put yourself in their shoes so you can understand the culture, understand the community, understand the needs. If you're trying to help someone in another part of Uzbekistan, you should go there and be with them. If you're trying to solve a problem in restaurants in Uzbekistan, you should go spend a lot of time in restaurants, right? If you're trying to solve problems for business owners, you should just spend a lot of time with business owners and get to understand. If you're trying to solve a problem for students, you need to go spend a lot of time with students and hear from them and understand the needs that they're facing. And then ultimately, we say change lives. And that's at the end of the day, what we're trying to do is to improve lives. And so in the world, there are a lot of problems in search of a solution and the world has really big problems. Some of these problems around the world include and the same planet we live on, almost a billion people don't have access to clean water. Over two billion don't have access to clean sanitation and that leads to a lot of disease. Millions of children live without a shelter. Billions don't have access to basic financial services. Over a billion live without electricity in the same planet we live on. And in the United States alone, over 120 people die from suicide every day. And these are really staggering facts. And when you're kind of faced with these problems that you see around the world, it can be really overwhelming. And we have impact junkies that go with us around the world and we have different investors and entrepreneurs that we work with. And when you're kind of exposed to some of these needs, it can be really overwhelming. And we say there are three ways sort of that you can respond. One is, and we've seen this happen, you can easily get depressed because you realize, oh my goodness, with your eyes, you kind of open to the needs. And you say, how have I not been aware of these needs before? Whether that's your next door neighbor or someone right around the corner that lives near you and your neighborhood and your community or someone on the other side of the world. And when you're kind of open to these, your eyes are open, you say, but one, you can be depressed, kind of spiral into depression. Two, you can kind of block it out and just live in your bubble and be upset about the normal day-to-day thing. Or three, you can do something about it. And so that's what we're all about with Impact Junkie is helping people realize they can be part of the solution. And in fact, the problems are not the problems. We can fix the problems. The problems are getting all of us to take action and to be part of the solution and you can be. So we say, do more with what you've been given, start something that changes lives. And when you realize how much you've been given, how much knowledge you have, expertise you have, you can use that to help others. There are others that don't have the knowledge you have, who don't have the expertise you have. They have other skills and other knowledge and you can learn from them just like they can learn from you. So we say, do more with what you've been given. And we focus a lot on the impact, not just making money, but also making impact. We believe making money is great. And it's a great side effect of starting these businesses. But we also believe that we wanna do good and help others. And so when we do, for those in need, what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them. So we wanna empower people and we wanna help them help themselves. And so there's more I could say on that, but I'll kinda skip forward. So basically we say with Impact Junkie, imagine if you could. And this is a overview of sort of what we say, we call the ecosystem, the different parts of our organization and ways that you can come in, either as an investor, as an entrepreneur, or as one of our partner organizations. And so depending on who I'm talking to when I'm giving this pitch, I will cater the talk to them, right? And the idea here is I want them to get excited about this idea as well and want to join and become part of this story. So we talk about understanding your story. So just to kind of reflect here on what I just shared with you, did you all pick up on these key elements when I just kind of gave this short pitch? Did you get the problem, right? Did you hear me talk about problems? We talk about problems right up front, right? I started, actually I said it, there's problems in the world in search of a solution, right? So I start that out from the very beginning. There are a lot of problems in search of a solution. Later I come back and say you can be the solution, right? And so I go through these problems to give you some examples, right, around the world. And then I say, in fact, the solution can be you, right? And I make it personal to your story. So whoever you're talking to when you have an idea and you're saying this is a painful, whether it's a restaurant, it's a business owner, it's a student, you say this is a pain point that I've seen in your story and something I want to help you with. And so here's where I've identified and here's how you can be part of it. And so depending on who I'm talking to, they may say, yeah, this is something I've been looking for, I've been wanting to be part of something like this, right? And so I help them understand that it's not just them talking, me talking about my story, but helping them understand that, helping them with their story. And then I would show them the website and say, here's how you can join to be an impact company. And then I'll have a couple of stories that I'll share. This one is if you go down eight hours in Belize, in Central America, there is, this is the jungle. It's called Punta Gorda is a village down there and you drive beyond the paved roads and you get down here to dirt roads and you'll see a beautiful family. This is Elfina and her husband and their daughter. And we went down to do some entrepreneurship training and workshops with them and to help them start chicken farms because that is something they said, we have this skill of chicken farming, but if we could scale it and turn it into a larger business, it could transform our villages, it could help our community. And so we went down to help them with that and develop out business plan and all of that. And while we're doing that Elfina, this is her, she stopped to make, she was joining us in the sessions, but she also stopped to make us lunch and we had a break. And this is her making it with rice and beans in their kitchen there with the open fire. And one thing we noticed was they had this ancient Mayan weaving technique. And I said, could you make that into like an impact junkie X? So if you don't know, this is, I don't know if you can see me here, but this is the X that we have for our impact junkie. And she said, yeah, I think I can. So the next morning I came back, we came back and she had made some prototypes, some first editions of it. And this is her finishing the first one. And we said, Elfina, what do you think if we turn this into a business for you and we could sell these and it could, it could, we'll see how it goes. And she said, I think that's a great idea. So we put them up, we did a very simple webpage on our impact junkie site and we sold out and we had so many pre-orders backed up. And that was, it was kind of crazy. And we said, we'll take everything you got and this was her first sale. And then five months later, we went back. And what do you think we found when we went back five months? This is what we found. Elfina had brought together women from across the village. They'd all, they've all become experts on how to make these bands. It was beautiful. There were hundreds and hundreds of bands and they were smiling and they'd come from all over. It was awesome. And then this is my favorite picture here. This is Elfina with a big smile and a big stack of cash, a lot of money. And so that, then we did another workshop and this is how I ended up standing in this home in the jungle working with these villagers on doing the same kind of talk I'm doing with you all. And they all went up and put their dreams and their ideas for starting ventures on this chalkboard. And it was fantastic. And we went to eat to celebrate and she got her first phone, which was really important, a big deal. And we celebrated and we went out in the jungle with machetes that night and slept by the river and almost died, but it was fantastic. So that's a one story I wanted to share with you because it's just a really powerful way to explain the kinds of things that we're doing with Impact Junkie and it's a really cool tool you can use when you're thinking about, I wanna solve a problem or I see a need and these are the kinds of things I personally, years ago said I wanna be a part of helping people that may not have access to this, to think like entrepreneurs. And so to go in and have, there's other stories I can share from refugees from countries facing war to just children that don't have families to all sorts of stories that are improving lives around the world. And that is the most rewarding thing for me and for our team is to see those stories. And so also when you're trying to get support for an idea, you should try to figure out, if you're trying to help, I keep going back to restaurant owners or business owners or students, I'm just using those as examples. If you can start sharing some stories of how you've helped these students or you've helped these restaurant owner or business owners, you're gonna start getting more support. And more people are gonna say, I wanna be a part of that story. And so this is why storytelling is so important. And when you think about your life and this journey of storytelling, it really, it sort of makes things clearer in your head when you understand we're all just trying to go through a story and how are our stories overlapping? And so one thing that I'd love to hear some of your ideas on some of the things you all wrote down earlier. I would love to hear that. If anyone's brave enough to share, I would love to. And before we do that, I was just gonna share one other thing that this is sort of my life in a slide. This is a picture that sort of demonstrates my life. And this is a great exercise that I encourage you all to do. You can take different snapshots. If you have photos, it's great. If not, you can do it other ways. You can draw it out. You can do all the different ways. But in one slide, I have images that sort of represent my life story. And so I can show in this one story, in this one slide, I can take you on a journey of how I grew up in California. And my dad is a pastor of a church and I was a youth pastor. And I was really involved in helping young people in the community and people of all ages. But I specifically worked a lot with youth and developed the passion for service and loving others and helping others, which carries on to this day. I was very entrepreneurial, starting businesses as a young boy to starting more ventures as I got older. But right out of high school, I went to a local college, a community college and said, I want to learn how to build websites because I was really passionate about this idea that I could connect with people on the other side of the world and how beautiful is it that I'm sitting here today talking with you on the other side of the world. It's like a dream come true. But I was excited about that at the time. And I thought, that's what I want to do. They said, you should go to this department. And I went into those computer information systems and I started asking more questions about design and how marketing can influence people. And they said, you should go to this department. So I went to that design department and then they said, I realized I was really passionate about business. So I went to the business department and this was over three years. And so I ended up getting three degrees and three certificates in three years. And my papers when I graduated said undecided because I didn't actually declare a major even though I was following my passion. Anyhow, I'm the first of my family to graduate from college. I'm the first to even think about a master's degree. But education was really important in my family. So anyway, right after I graduated there, I got married to my wonderful wife. We now have three children, but we got married and I started a few different businesses. One was a national training, a digital media company. Another was an eBay business and another was a design firm. And one of the businesses I was visiting universities around the United States, one of them was Harvard. And I found out that Harvard had a distance program an extension program. And so I thought that would be perfect because we can maintain our comfortable lives and not move out of our comfort zone. And I could finish my bachelor's degrees what it's called and my undergrad graduate degree. And so I enrolled in long story short. I ended up being encouraged to run for student president and I ran for student president from California which is 3,000 miles away from Massachusetts on the other side of the United States and used all those same skills that I developed from web design and marketing and social media and video. I used all those same skills to campaign from the other side of the country 3,000 miles away. If that had never been done and I got elected that was the first time that had ever happened. So that was a big chapter closing in our life and a new one's beginning. So my wife and I, we ended up moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts on the other side of the United States. And I ended up running in eight elections over the next four years and later being elected university wide student president across the entire university. And then I ended up working in United States Congress which was a dream and doing things there. And this picture on the right is me standing giving the commencement speech at graduation in Harvard yard with over 30,000 people and a former United States president was right next to me and famous celebrities and it was an amazing moment and I gave a speech about dreams and destiny and entrepreneurship and this was a beautiful moment in my life and another big chapter sort of changed and a new one beginning. Then I went, I was selected for a presidential fellowship and went to work everywhere from the White House to the Pentagon, which is the Department of Defense in the United States. And in the bottom corner here's a picture of a selfie I took in the White House which is kind of funny because I was acting like I was paying attention and really was taking a selfie of myself because you have to take a selfie if you're in the White House so anyhow. And also the entrepreneurial sort of background I also was able to bring a large program into government a pitch event for new ideas that are good for government bringing sort of like a private entrepreneurial startup approach inside of government and that was over 16 million dollars we used to build this fund that would keep government services improving and anyhow. So that was a really cool thing and I'm telling you some of these things you can see these themes in my life. So if some of you earlier when you're struggling trying to write down your passions and things you're really focused on you look back through your life and you can sort of see these themes. In mind you see digital media and technology and service from the very beginning is really important in my life and you see an interest in government as well and public service and entrepreneurship throughout. And so that's to say I'll leave out some of the details but I felt this drawing and sort of a passion to do more in the world and some of these needs that I pointed out to you earlier in that deck those were things that were being kind of opened up my eyes to needs around the world and I'm like man I wanna work on these big problems I wanna work on these big needs and I think I could do something about this and it really excited me. And so two years later from where I'm standing on that stage at Harvard I'm standing in the mud in Haiti helping dig a water well that was our first project with Impact Junkie and it's a beautiful story because we realized instead of us going and building the wells we can empower the people there and create a water well business and create jobs for them we can invest in them and they can build three water wells a week we could bring water to over a million people in less than a decade. And that's in the bottom right corner is a pitch competition we ran in a giant stadium here in the United States with young people like many of you there pitching their business ideas that not only make money but also make a difference in the world. And that has led me to like riding on an elephant in crocodile infested waters to roasting marshmallows in the jungle overnight with a lot of creepy crawly things to being in Turkey to being in Uzbekistan with you all and Honduras in the bottom right at an orphanage there. And so, and then you already know the story of how I ended up in the jungle doing an entrepreneurship workshop. So all that to say I wanted to tell you these stories to kind of inspire you and also give you some examples of reminding what your story and that was the key takeaway for today is what is your story and what other stories are you gonna create by helping others around you? And I honestly believe through entrepreneurship in our heart of hearts with ImpactMP entrepreneurship is the key to unlocking human potential and possibility for others and I believe the best way you can have an impact in the world. So with that, I'd love to hear from y'all. Stop sharing. I'd love to hear some of your ideas from some of you and any questions as well we can open up for that but does anybody wanna share any of your passions or dreams or ideas that you wrote down? Put it on the spot. Right, yes. No, we can see. I noticed that you placed the first place a lot of people. Why? I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing. Maybe, Holly, you can help. There are three points. A lot of people go place and change places. Yes? Why in the first place, love people? Explicitly. Oh, very good. Thank you, good question. So love people, we believe that, so at the heart of entrepreneurship is understanding needs and solving problems, right? And so we believe that's sort of with our organization we believe it starts with let's really love and that's like at the heart of what we, how we see our role in this and so when you love people and you have a sense of hey, I wanna help a lot of times emotion, you can get very emotional and just you wanna give but sometimes it starts becoming a selfish motivation because it's like I want to make myself feel better about doing things because I feel good by helping and so you have to be really thoughtful about if you love people, what's the best way you can help them? And we honestly believe through entrepreneurship by helping them help themselves that can be the most sustainable way you can show you love people. So we come at it rooted in love and try to, that's our priority and that's why we wanna make a difference whether it's in communities locally or around the world, like I mentioned. And so that's the short version. Some people say when you're talking about impact and a lot of people think like a charity that's sort of mindset and while we have that sort of some of those elements we want to think, we say do more with what you've been given we want to bring our entrepreneurial thinking into these situations. For instance, a lot of people, you may have heard the phrase some people say you give a man a fish, right he'll eat for a day, you teach him how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. We say let's not stop there, let's help them buy the lake finance and purchase the lake or start a fish hatchery at the lake and start or start selling fishing licenses or start selling fish by the pound and helping them think about how can we help them create a sustainable business so we can come in and train them and work with them and help them so that they can really be a sustainable adventure that can live on. And so rooted in the heart of that is love and that's where we start with. We start with the love first and it's so ingrained into the core of entrepreneurship the way we see entrepreneurship is about understanding problems in people you see understanding needs that people are facing and you want to do something about it. And so that's who we are as like a network that's what like an impact junkie we've kind of branded that we've got thousands of impact junkies around the world now that are part of this that are constantly looking for ways how can I like come with this the word empathy if that I don't know if that translates as well but empathy is really understanding go putting yourself in other people's place and trying to help them. So we come from a place of love and knowing that that's how we try to help. So that's why we start with love and then we want to go and we want to help change lives. Good question though. They have to answer your question. I agree. They ask you sir. Yes go for it. You showed the lot and what about your neighbors? Do you help your neighbors for example? Yes you like folks here in the United States. Yes. Absolutely. We have ventures one example are prisons. We have the folks who made a mistake in life and ended up in prison. And so we are doing work with prisons to help people that help them while they're in prison but also as they get out to help them start businesses that can improve their life and use some of this. Sometimes folks in prison have used they have entrepreneurial skills they just maybe use them in the wrong way perhaps that invoke the law. And so we're trying to help say like you can use those powers for good. Another there's other examples. One is human trafficking in the United States. Most people think like oh that's somewhere else in the world but we have an impact junkie in Texas to state here in the United States who found out about human trafficking that happens right in that it's called the I-10 the highway is called the I-10 the road the I-10 corridor the area there. And so she got fired up and we've been working with her she wrote a book and she speaks out a lot and has created a movement around creating more awareness around human trafficking and trying to end that. Those are just a couple of examples. There's others we're trying to work with kids in schools from high schools to do anti-bullying and help them sort of work together to. To yeah there's more examples but absolutely. I think it's not just something on the other side of the world. It's sort of viewing and I love that the beauty of entrepreneurship and specifically like the way we view entrepreneurship is you're constantly looking at what needs are right around me and how can I improve the lives of people. My neighbor as well as making a difference to for folks on the other side of the world. Did that answer your question? I have a question. Yes. You showed us a scheme. A scheme and I noticed one word angels. Why? Oh okay yeah it's a good question. So we call our investors that's great. Man I can't believe you saw that that's fantastic. So angels is a term that is used for early stage investors. So you'll have venture capitalists and larger investment funds and things like that which we have as well but we also have our angels that kind of come in early stage on some ventures. So we call that group the angels, impact junkie angels. That's the term in the United States in the investment space. That's it's sort of once your friends and your family invest in your venture if you're starting a business you'll typically have what they're called angels that help you before you get to like larger investment. And angels also are typically mentors and will help with guidance and education to help a young entrepreneur or an early venture grow. And so that's why we use that term and it also is sort of like a special meaning because it's sort of like a double meaning because you're like you're actually like an angel to help people. Thank you. Good catch. Could you tell about your business story? About what? About business story. Business story. Story? Yeah. Yeah. So that's kind of what I shared today. So the impact junkie story that I shared and that's the one business that we've started that is really, that's created a movement. So now we've got thousands of folks who are feeling the same way I felt. When I said I wanna do something about these needs I see in the world and how can I do that? So we started a monthly membership and so we have impact junkies who invest every month starting at $25 to higher numbers and then we have a larger investment group who want to say I want, we wanna invest and make a difference and we also offer training for them so they can learn some of these ideas and maybe they just start as an investor and they just wanna give to other things and be a part of, we also work with them on trips and other things and we give them resources and kind of educate them on places. Well, for instance, like you in Uzbekistan, there's a lot of people in the United States who don't know a lot about Uzbekistan. So it's really great to be able to share the culture and learn about Uzbekistan. So we'll help that just like it's great for you to learn more about what's happening in the United States. So we try to help connect people globally, I have this global network to connect people and then we have folks who maybe join and just say, oh, I just wanna kind of be a part but they don't really think of themselves as an entrepreneur but by the time they go through the education and they watch our videos and they come to our sessions and we do sessions like we're doing here with you, they're saying like maybe I do wanna be an entrepreneur, maybe I do wanna start a venture and take that next step. And so we have a lot that will move over and have started a lot of different business ideas and we take a long time to tell you all of them but I don't even know all of them right now but there's a lot. And so it's a beautiful story from like a personal story from me to have started this kind of movement and then have others stories, other people's stories being written and starting their journey in a similar path of what I went through. That's a really beautiful thing. So I hope that answers your question. I have an interesting question. So you mentioned previously about that you uphold some of the women's to start their business and pick up some ideas about their business but how about the disabled people? Do the entrepreneurship and coverage like people who is like poorly ill and like disabled, the people who cannot like start their own business or to earn the money? Yes, that's a great question. And I hope you wrote some of that down on your paper earlier. That was a beautiful, that was beautiful. No, that was wonderful. Yes, absolutely. And I think even more so with technology, there is an app that I have on my phone that people who are visually impaired or blind can't see, they can use this app and call other people to help them. So I'm driving down the road the other day and I got a call from someone and she said, can you help me read my mail? And she holds up papers and asks me to help her read her mail and I'm driving but I was like, yeah, so I stopped and I'm helping her read her mail and I just thought that was really a cool experience. That's someone I don't know but I think startups can empower people, anyone, to start things and I think it's an opportunity and maybe that's something you're passionate about or you have experience in that could be part of your story that you can, you can, I think Phillip may be experiencing some technical difficulties. Oh, hello, sorry, I just wanted to say that I went unstable for a second. Yeah, that's good question. Oh no, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to cut it off. It's been about an hour and we really can't go much longer. I'm so sorry, no more questions. Awesome, connect with me on social media, everyone and go start something. Yeah. Make it sound, please. I want to come back and see you. I want to come back and see you all, yes. When, when? Oh, when, yeah, let's work on that. Yeah, let's set that up. Thank you so much, Phillip, for doing this and talking to everyone. It was very interesting. I'm sure everybody's quite interested. Thank you, everyone, thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. All right, the sun's up now.