Living Vision with Aaron Velky

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This Is Why AI Is Slowly F***ing Your Brain Jun 24, 2025

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AI Is Making You Dumber (And You Don’t Even Know It)

MIT released a study that should terrify every entrepreneur, leader, and thinker. It shows how AI tools like ChatGPT are actively weakening your brain, your memory, your creativity, your ability to think critically. In this episode, Aaron Velky and Marty break down how AI dependence is quietly wrecking your cognitive function and what to do about it before it’s too late.

🚨 Key Topics Covered:

The dark side of using ChatGPT for everything
MIT’s study on how AI kills brain activity
Why leaders are outsourcing thinking and what that’s costing them
How AI use is lowering memory, strategy, and decision-making
The right way to use AI as a partner, not a crutch
Warning signs you're becoming intellectually lazy

🔍 If you’re a business owner, creative, or high-performer, this conversation will challenge your entire relationship with AI.

The Ugly Truth About Why You Have No Real Friends Jun 17, 2025

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Most entrepreneurs didn’t build businesses. They built bunkers.

In this episode of Living Vision, I expose the real reason high-performing men feel lonely and why it's not about being alone, but being emotionally disconnected.

This isn’t another fluffy mindset talk.

It’s a brutal reality check for the entrepreneur who has it all except real connection.

Why most successful men over-identify with achievement
How loneliness is not solved by more meetings or masterminds
What real connection looks like (and why you’re likely avoiding it)
The science behind social pain and chronic isolation
Why “family-like business teams” are a myth hurting your growth
How to escape the fortress you’ve built and start building your kingdom

Whether you're a founder, CEO, solopreneur, or leader scaling a business, this episode will hit you in the gut. If your calendar is full but your soul feels empty, this is for you.

🧠 Backed by psychology.

🔥 Delivered with honesty.

👥 Designed to help you reconnect to yourself, and others.

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Start building a vision beyond the bunker: https://www.living.vision

How I'm Using AI in 2025 to Transform My Life Jun 10, 2025

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Marty takes centre stage today and shares a deeply personal journey through grief, change, and identity and the unexpected role AI played in helping him rediscover who he truly is.

Marty, a former pastor turned business integrator, opens up about the three ways AI has transformed his life:

- It gave him language for emotions he couldn’t articulate

- It brought clarity during upheaval and transition

- It offered insight he didn’t expect from a machine

Whether you're skeptical about AI or already using it in your business, this conversation will change how you think about technology’s role in emotional healing, self-awareness, and leadership.

What You’ll Learn:

- How AI can be more than just a business tool

- The connection between inputting your truth and receiving meaningful output

- Why integration of head and heart is key to purpose and fulfillment

-How grief and transformation are sacred doorways into identity

Subscribe for more episodes on vision, leadership, and transformation

Share your thoughts in the comments or message us directly how has AI helped you grow?

The SECRET To GREAT Ideas in Business and Life Jun 03, 2025

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If your best ideas still come while sitting at a desk, you're stuck.

In this episode, you'll learn why getting out of the office isn't optional for high-performing leaders. Whether you're running a team of two or two hundred, staying stuck in your workspace kills creativity, vision, and strategic thinking.

Here's what we cover:

Why stale environments block original ideas
The real reason your team isn't leveling up
How to stop being the bottleneck in your own business
The 4 things that must be on your calendar every week
A simple test to spot groupthink in your company

This is the same advice I give inside our Accelerator program. It's tactical. It's proven. And it might piss you off. That means it's probably for you.

Next Accelerator kicks off July 2025. Only 10 seats.

Apply here: https://www.aaronvelky.com/accelerator

Stop managing. Start leading.

Hit play. Then get the hell outside.

#visionaryleader #outofoffice #entrepreneurmindset #leadershippodcast #founderlife

Build a Business That Pays for Travel May 28, 2025

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I want to share what 10 years as an entrepreneur has taught me about one essential truth: if your business isn't giving you freedom, you're doing it wrong.

You’ll learn:

- How to reverse-engineer your dream adventures using points

- Why most CEOs postpone joy until it’s too late

- The exact process to align your credit cards, spending, and schedule to fund the lifestyle you actually want

- How to create “forcing functions” that turn your calendar into a tool for freedom

- Real talk on grief, burnout, and the lies entrepreneurs tell themselves about "someday"

This episode is a wake-up call for business owners who are stuck in the grind with nothing to show for it but stress. Whether you’re earning $5K/month or $500K/month, this conversation will help you stop deferring life and start living your vision now.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Are you trading your freedom for cash?

3:04 – The truth about travel hacking

10:55 – A $1,160 trip that changed everything

4:38 – Book the trip: how vision gets real

36:58 – The single most important thing to put on your calendar

47:32 – Building your business backward from the life you want

Want hands-on help?

Join our next Living Vision Accelerator — an 8-week program to rewire your business for adventure, clarity, and cashflow. Plus, gain exclusive access to 7D Travel Concierge for high-end logistics and bookings most people only dream about.

💬 DM @aaronvelky on Instagram or visit www.aaronvelky.com to apply.

Understanding AI for Business Before It's Too Late... May 20, 2025

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In this episode, Kevin Brenner breaks down exactly how he's using AI to actually drive revenue, not just save time. After a decade in the Air Force and a successful run at Active Duty Passive Income, Kevin pivoted hard. He launched PropertyBots.ai, a business solving one of the biggest problems in real estate: speed to lead.

Kevin didn’t come from a tech background. He just started building. Now he's helping real estate investors, flippers, and home service pros implement AI-powered voice and text bots that book qualified appointments in seconds. Literally.

We talk:

- How AI became his secret sales weapon

- The transition from military life to entrepreneurship

- Why most business owners are stuck watching the AI wave instead of riding it

- Tactical tips for integrating AI without burning it all down

- Why "legal cheating" might be the future of lead conversion

👁‍🗨 Want to see it in action?

Try Kevin’s demo at: https://www.propertybots.ai

📌 If you run a real estate business and you're still qualifying leads manually... you're already behind.

🧠 This isn’t a conversation about AI theory. This is boots-on-the-ground, client-generating tech that works right now.

Nintendo Played It Safe And Blew It. Are You Doing the Same in Your Business? May 13, 2025

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The Nintendo Switch 2 just launched, and it's a complete failure in innovation. But this episode isn’t about gaming. It’s about you.

Because if you're making small tweaks, minor updates, or chasing “better” versions of a business you don’t even like anymore, you're falling into the same trap Nintendo did. And it won’t work.

In this episode, we unpack:

Why incremental change is a trap

How the world’s best companies create quantum leaps

What’s keeping you stuck in a business you secretly resent

A tool we use to help entrepreneurs design from a blank slate, not a broken model

If you want to create a business that fuels your life instead of draining it, this episode will hit hard.

📩 Want the free 3-Year Vision Blueprint? DM us “Blueprint” on Instagram or Facebook and we’ll send it to you.

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Why Most People NEVER Learn From Their Mistakes w/Aaron Hale May 06, 2025

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We don’t learn anything from winning. We learn everything from pain.

That’s what Aaron Hale taught me in this episode.

Aaron is a former Army EOD technician who lost his eyesight to a roadside bomb and years later lost his hearing to bacterial meningitis. But what he gained in that darkness is what this conversation is really about: purpose, identity, and a deeper understanding of what true vision looks like.

In this raw, deeply human episode, Aaron shares how he rebuilt his life from the ground up. How he became a father, a husband, an endurance athlete, a chef, and a speaker with no sight and limited hearing. We talk about internal vision, how to stop fighting what you can’t control, and how pain can become your greatest teacher if you’re willing to listen.

If you're navigating identity, change, grief, burnout, or just want to hear from someone who turned unimaginable loss into powerful service, this episode is going to hit hard.

Listen if you're ready to:

• Learn how to find meaning through suffering

• Reconnect with your deeper purpose

• Stop running from change and start using it

• Turn emotional pain into your blueprint for success

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Tactical Vision: How to Turn Dreams Into a Strategic Roadmap Apr 29, 2025

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Most CEOs build their vision like they're writing a fantasy novel: inspiring but useless when it comes to execution. If you're serious about scaling your business, your vision can't just live in the clouds. It needs to become a tactical, actionable roadmap.

In this episode, I break down the real process behind creating a vision that drives decisions and results. You'll learn:

- Why your org chart MUST be part of your vision

- How your calendar reveals what you truly value

- Where and how you should invest time, money, and energy

- How to define your role and leadership to stay out of the operational weeds

If your vision is just a motivational poster, it’s holding you back. It's time to build one that actually scales your business and your life.

👉 Need help sharpening your vision? Reach out: https://living.vision

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How Saying Yes Nearly Destroyed One of the Most Iconic Brands Ever Apr 22, 2025

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Most people know LEGO as a global icon. What they don’t know is how close LEGO came to total collapse.

In this episode, I’m telling the real story, the business near-death experience LEGO faced, what caused it, and how a razor-sharp vision brought them back from the brink. This isn’t just a toy company comeback. It’s a masterclass in focus, leadership, and saying no.

If your business feels chaotic, distracted, or spread too thin… you need to hear this. Because what almost killed LEGO is what’s killing most companies right now: too many false yeses and not enough commitment to vision.

I’ll walk you through:

- How LEGO lost their identity chasing too many ideas

- The exact moment they turned it around

- How YOU can use the same strategy to align your business, your team, and your future

- Why “vision” isn’t a fluff statement, it’s a daily operating system

This is personal. I’ve lived the wide, chaotic, soul-sucking version of entrepreneurship. And I’m telling this story because I don’t want you to go through the same thing.

If you want my free Focus Exercise or Vision Blueprint, DM me the word “FOCUS” on Instagram and I’ll send it over. No strings attached.

👀 And yes... if you’re watching on YouTube, that’s a 3,500-piece LEGO Lamborghini I’m building. Worth every hour.

If you’re building something that matters, this episode is for you.

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