He Woke Up From a Coma and Rebuilt His Life From Scratch Episode

What do you do when life changes in an instant?

In this powerful episode of How to Win Big at Business, Joe DiChiara sits down with Vincent Lanci — author, podcaster, coach, entrepreneur, and traumatic brain injury survivor — to talk about recovery, resilience, purpose, and rebuilding a life after everything changes.

Vincent shares the story of being hit by a car at age 21, waking up from a coma after a traumatic brain injury, and slowly rebuilding the basic skills most people take for granted. What followed was not just a recovery story — it was an entrepreneurial journey filled with setbacks, reinvention, service, and impact.

This conversation goes far beyond business. It’s about mindset, persistence, faith, healing, and what it means to keep moving forward one step at a time when the future feels uncertain.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

•  Vincent’s story of surviving a traumatic brain injury 
•  What recovery looked like in the earliest days 
•  The emotional toll on families and caregivers 
•  Why communication is so critical after a brain injury 
•  How Vincent rebuilt his skills and confidence over time 
•  The parallels between recovery and the entrepreneurial journey 
•  How he turned his experience into coaching, books, podcasting, and service 
•  Why your story can become your mission 
•  How podcasting became part of his business and impact strategy 

This episode is deeply inspiring for anyone who has ever faced a major setback, questioned whether they could keep going, or wondered if something meaningful could still come from a painful chapter.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

April 2009, I get a frantic call from my daughter that my oldest son Anthony was in some kind of accident and I had to get to the hospital right away. If you've ever had that kind of call, it was shocking. It was like time stopped. All I had to, you know, it went from that call to all of a sudden I was in the hospital. I don't even remember driving there. I had no idea what happened. And when I get there, what I was told was my son had been doing something that that was like a trend back then. He jumped on the back of his friend's car onto the bumper, was holding on to whatever the top of the of the truck was, and his friend took off, he fell backwards, hit his head on the ground, and had a massive, massive head injury. And three minutes later, after I found out, they're wheeling him out of the out of the room. His head is full of bandages. He's out called. And I remember shouting to him, Anthony, don't leave. And what I was saying was, don't die on us. It was it was shocking. It was a moment that I'll never forget. And the time after that was torture for me, my wife at the time, my my other son, my daughter, because we felt helpless. We didn't know what to do. We didn't know if he was gonna live and die. And they put him in a room, and just by coincidence, there was another kid that had the same exact injury, and a few hours later, he passed. And I remember seeing the doctor telling the parents, and I was like, I hope I don't get that news. Thank God he made a full recovery. He he became an attorney, he passed a bar in New York, then he moved to North Carolina, passed a bar there, he got married, he has two children, and it it's all God's work. I know that. I know he was meant to do something. And during COVID, I met this man who is my next guest, and he's actually breaking a world record tonight. He's he's coming on my show for the second time. Nobody else in in the history of this show has ever done that. And if this is the first time that you're listening or you're a regular listener, the name of this show is How to Win Big at Business. My name is Joe DeCera. I'm a CPA, lifelong entrepreneur, and I am spending the rest of my life on this planet helping self-employed professionals get through those those moments where you want to give up. You don't know what you you say, like, why did I do this? What a mistake. And and you know, when I met this gentleman, his story just resonated with me. It resonated with me because not only did he recover, he was a an example of what can be done. And I could definitely relate this journey. It's similar to what we go through. It's and I and I can't put myself in his shoes, but when I hear the stories and how he recovered, and I you know, and I just got done telling him, I'm like, oh my god, that's the entrepreneurial journey. You take one little step at a time. So it's my pleasure and honor to introduce to you my friend, the TBI world-renowned expert, Mr. Vincent Lancy. He's a best-selling author, podcaster. He's my podcast coach, uh, and I know that he's gonna have a long career helping probably millions of people that have been in similar situations. So, welcome, Mr. Lancy. Where do we start?

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Joe, thanks for having me. Joe and I have these talks weekly, so it's nice to put some of these talks together now, put them on his podcast. Remember to subscribe to this show because he's got a lot of episodes recorded ready to go, and you don't want to miss them.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Yeah, so you know, take me back to the I just watched your your YouTube video, which was only like three minutes, but I said, Oh my god. And and that's when I said, You just described the journey, even though it was, you know, a major, major head injury and a long recovery. It's it's similar, you know. So take take me back to what happened and and the steps that you took, and we're gonna end this with where you are now and what you're doing as an entrepreneur, which I I think is freaking amazing.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Well, again, thanks for having me, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. When I was 21, I made what I thought was the safe decision, which was not drinking and driving, not getting in the car with someone drinking and driving. But I learned that life doesn't always work out the way you planned. And on that walk home, I was hit by a car that left a bar, and I woke up about a week later out of a coma after a traumatic brain injury and a broken TIB fib, which has a rod in my leg now for the rest of my life, but that's nothing compared to the brain injury early days, especially, and now that's why I do work as a TBI coach to help families and survivors piece their life back together and find a way to live a fulfilled life again.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Okay, so you know, you have a uh very, very inspiring story, and and we're gonna share it with the world, but I want you to take me through first of all, there was a DUI stop point, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:34

Yeah, right where I got hit. Yeah, just coincidentally. So it was a hot spot, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, well, I don't think there's any coincidences, but if they weren't there, you wouldn't be here. Am I right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

If that police officer wasn't there, he had two options chase down the man who hit me or woman who hit me, we didn't know yet, or save my life. He decided to get the ball rolling to get me to Tampa General Hospital.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Yeah, and you know, kudos to them, thank God. Because I always think about you know, whatever those ambulance drivers did for my son, every little thing it mattered, you know how they picked him up. So, anyway, what year was that?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

2013. It was right before my last semester of college was getting ready to start up.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Wow, so you wake up, you have no memory of anything that happened, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah, they I was told that there's a part of your brain that blocks certain things out, and I know I was out, I just obviously don't remember getting back home. I mean, I was I could throw a football to where my house was from where I was hit by the car, and there's that stat. I don't know if for sure that majority of accidents happen X amount of miles or feet from your house, and that's what happened here.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Yeah. So you wake up, and what's your first thought?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Well, the nurse had asked me, Hey Vincent, which school do you go to? And my brain was taken far back. I know you've heard this before where I said Pulaski Road Elementary School, which is where I went to kindergarten, but now I was a near college grad studying finance, getting ready to get a job. So really had to build my way back up from that point, right? That's not just knowing which school I went to. What do you do in kindergarten? You learn to say your name, spell your name, you learn the colors, you learn how to write a sentence, read the newspaper, right? These are all checkpoints you need that start out by you riding an arm bicycle every morning, doing these tedious tasks that will make you go crazy in a way, right? Why am I doing this? You don't remember what happened. It's just a whole bunch of unknown. So if anyone out there is dealing with someone with a TBI, just remember we're not perceiving everything and information the way you are. So communicate as best you can, overcommunicate because that was something that we definitely had issues with.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

So, how long were you out before you woke up?

SPEAKER_00 9:08

About a week in the coma, then I stayed in the hospital a little less than a month.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

I I'm over here thinking it must have been like six months, nine months. You you were out of the hospital in a month.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Well, they told me I may not make it through the night, and then I ended up returning to summer school that year in college. So four months or five months later, I was just taking one class at a time, trying to rebuild my skills and motor everything, and learning how to go grocery shopping again, write all these things. I was on my own for the first time in my life again. I had to relearn normalcy and staying up late, which I don't, but being around college lifestyle is just a big difference than living at the hospital with no release date because of the brain injury. Some things are day to day, week to week, month to month, so they can't give you a release date. So if it didn't get more depressing, you know, that's what it was. You never thought you're gonna leave. You're eating this food, you're stuck here forever. But um, they do at TGH have a McDonald's. So that's something where my mom was able to bribe me a little bit, like I would be playing sleep or something. She'd tell me, it's like, hey, if you go to ride the arm bicycle, I'll get you a Big Mac. And you know, when you're eating hospital food, I'm sure things have gotten better now, right? TGH does a pretty remarkable job at every area they have, so I'm sure things are different. But just overall, if you've been in the hospital eating the food, you'd prefer to eat something different.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

So what's TGH? That's the hospital that that you are at?

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Yeah, Tampa General Hospital. I always try to plug them if I can. Go to TGH.org, and I'm just gonna fact check that while I'm with you. But we do something really cool there where yet it is TGH.org. We go to Tallahassee, our state capital, every year to advocate for the great work they do and causes that are near to us. And they're just led by John Corse, of course, the president, but they've got you know so many amazing people there that I try to bring on a mental health break, my other podcast, to show them love for all the hard work they do. And um, yeah, it's just it's been a joy. If you are a survivor of TGH, definitely reach out to them because I know they bring a lot of patient advocates over to Tallahassee. And John may be the CEO, not the president, excuse me, but he's the leader there who has built an incredible organization that always welcomes me. And of course, they're a podcast client, right? We do the podcast for the PFAC, hosted by Amber, an amazing host, how put together with by Kristen and the PFAC team. So that's a real joy.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

No, that's something interesting because I never realized that hospitals actually have a marketing depart.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

And they have a big need, maybe not for podcasting, but for separating yourself from the hospital down the street, right? T Tampa General is renowned around the whole state. They've got locations everywhere, hundreds, right? So uh it's an honor just to be a part of all the great work they do.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Yeah, you know, one of the things, and again, this was God God helping us. What I found out, my son went to uh Nassau County Medical Center, and I found out that was like one of the best hospitals for brain injuries. But so let me go back again. Um, you mentioned what they told you. What exactly did they tell you? Like your chance first, they didn't know if you were gonna make it through the night, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Well, it might as well my mom, and you know, I don't remember seeing my dad, my family friend Carolyn, uh family lawyer, and my sister, all these things I don't remember seeing at first is he may not make it through the night. So that will back up a sec. I get hit, they get a call in the middle of the night. Hey, is your son Vincent Lancey? If he is, you better get down to Tampa immediately. He may not make it through the night. So from there, it was they had a flight. This is 2013, there's no like Venmo Zell, there's no easy access, 24-hour ATMs. You got to scrounge to get the money for flights, um, fly to Lauderdale, there's no direct flight to Tampa. They have to call TGH and ask if I'm still alive before keeping going, get in on that next plane. So all those things helped motivate me for a long time. And, you know, I have these great degrees where I could earn six figures in an office, no problem. But that just wasn't in the cards for me after the accident. I have found ways to work with my brain injury and not let it be a crutch, but more propel me forward with routines and systems and all of these things. But uh you know, the debt from student loans is real, but as far as fulfillment, you know, even on my terrible months here, I know that I'd rather be doing this than asking someone if I can go to the bathroom and take a day off.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

So that, and I know you told me they said, you know, okay, you survive, but you may not be able to take care of yourself, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Yeah, 24-7 uh care potentially, never go back to school. I mean, you name it, but you have to remember that people are going to give you expectations, and that's just that, what other people expect. They're not trying to do you harm, but they don't know how hard you will dedicate yourself to getting back to a normal life, right? I was hit by a car when I took the safe route home, air quote. So that not ruined my life, but it definitely paused and impacted my family and my friends and my entire future because I was corner office job title, money hungry, strung. And now I built an impressive resume, at least I would say for a college grad, PWC, Merrill Lynch, Northwestern Mutual, and I'm not using it directly, but the work ethic from a finance degree has helped me a great deal.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Yeah. So I remember my son when he woke up, all he wanted to do was go home. It's like, when am I going home? And the doctors couldn't, they were like, I don't even remember what they told him. But you know, my drive when I got that phone call was literally 10 minutes away. I can't even imagine what your parents must have been going through, like, because that's you know, that's a a big trip. Where were they in New York at the time?

SPEAKER_00 15:20

They were in New York, yeah. So it wasn't around the corner, and Fort Lauderdale to Tampa is maybe like an hour in the air or less, but you know, three hours there, delays, transfers, whatever. That's then and this is now. You can either sit and silk or you cry about it and you make something good. And you know, I'll hold it up. My you know recent book, I giving Joe a copy, TBI Recovery. I know I I have, of course, the I want to start a podcast for people who want to start a podcast, but this is essentially that the playbook for TBI parents and survivors. So that's just something I'm really looking forward to amping up more throughout 2026.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Yeah, and and that's why, you know, when I saw the book, I'm like, I gotta have you on the podcast to talk about this because it it talks about something that I could definitely relate to, because I remember not knowing what I'm supposed to do, what to expect, you know, what could the doctors tell me? Well, you know, his vital signs are this, and you know, he made it through another day. Uh so does your book like give any advice? Because yeah, you're the one with the injury, but you have all these loved ones. Like, what do you do? Do you go to the hospital and spend all the whole day there? That's basically what my wife did. You know, I buried myself in work, I went to work because I didn't know what else to do. So, does your book cover like this is what the people around you should do?

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Yeah, it's a playbook for the survivor, but for the family and caregivers. Communication, as we teased earlier, is such an important thing. And we're going through, you know, we're scratching the surface of my coaching with Living Proof TBI coaching, but with this, there's activities you can do for survivor and caregiver, but you know, it does take buy-in from both parties, right? It can't just be one party pushing it. You both have to agree that you want to live a more fulfilled life, inch your way back. There can't be pressure from what where it's not gonna work. It's got to be a mutual, hey, we both know what we need. It's uh it's written in my voice, like most of my books are. It's conversational where you're gonna be able to go in and learn things that I wish I knew. It features five other TBI survivors. At the end of each chapter, there's a question or at the beginning of the last one, right? Where we're gonna answer it, questions that I wish we had the answers to. I lacked having a community of TBI folks in my network where amazing support at the hospital, but now I'm trying to build more of a community. So if you do feel alone and you, for whatever reason can't get the book, whether it's you can't afford it, you don't have Amazon, whatever, email Joe, email me, and I'll get you the PDF for free. We have a TBI support group, we'll add you to there. You know, there are resources, you're not alone.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Now you also have uh your mental health podcast, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

So how do they I usually save this for the end, but since since we're on it, uh, how do people get uh download your podcast? How do they listen to it?

SPEAKER_00 18:27

The easiest place is Vincentalancy.com. And if you want to talk with me, I learned this from Joe, time with Vincent.com. So it's easy place to book the call. On VincenaLancy.com, you'll see my podcast books, community work, right? I work in the classrooms, but a mental health break is also on all podcast platforms or a mental healthbreak.com, that entrepreneur show, that entrepreneurshow.com, and pod o'clock podcast, my podcast Teaching People Podcast is also on all platforms. But we were talking behind the scenes. I'm getting ready to put out a traumatic brain injury show, a YouTube exclusive podcast to go with my writing with authors YouTube podcast, right? It seems like a lot, but when you love what you do, it's just a lot of fun, and it's been a while since the new show, but now you always hear niche down. It just took me a long time to finally weather the storm where we have Pod o'clock, the podcast teaching podcasting, and we'll have the TBI show for TBI survivors and their families, and that's the two areas where I'm coaching. And again, this is just supposed to be an exciting finish in 2026. So I'm I'm real excited about it.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Yeah, well, like I said in the opening, I I believe strongly that you have an amazing future in front of you. You're gonna help, I believe, millions of people 20 years ago. That that was almost like, oh, yeah, how is that gonna happen? You have to be a best-selling author on you know, CNBC. It's not like that anymore. You could reach literally the whole planet, right? And we we've been talking about a sales funnel, and ultimately, I think what you want to do is you want to be coaching people, right? You want to be coaching who exactly do you want to coach about the TBI issue? Do you want to coach the the people that had the traumatic brain injury? Do you want to coach people like me that have had to deal with it?

SPEAKER_00 20:26

I we're working with both right now. We're working with survivors because I'm resonating with you. I'm not, it doesn't seem like anyone's talking down to you. I've been through it, but I'm also working with equally amount of families because that was a big thing where you know my loving family gave me their all, but I didn't perceive things as they were, right? Separating dreams from reality with the brain injury is one thing, but separating what they can understand, what you're saying, you make no sense sometimes, and you get mad because they don't understand you. I know you're nodding your head, so there's activities in that book. Again, TBI recovery. If you type in Vincent A. Lancy on Amazon, they're all there, they're cheapest on Amazon, and you get them tomorrow. Uh, we have signed copies, just got to reach out to me. Um, info at Vincentalancy.com. But uh again, this podcast is up to great things. Remember to subscribe here because you know I have a lot of fun. This is my second time. I hope I can come back again soon.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Yeah, well, we're not done yet, Mr. Lancy. Uh no, I'm just giving you another plug. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, uh, so you mentioned something because I remember my son talking, like I could tell it was it was painful for him, and he'd be doing like this, like he'd be and I asked the doctor, I'm like, what the hell is that? And he's like, he's word finding, like he literally like forgot word, like that we just take for granted. Like to complete a to to complete a sentence was was uh an effort. And I'm like, oh my God, what is he always gonna be like that? That that's what I wanted to know.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah, sometimes your words are stuck somewhere between up here and here, and they just can't find its way out. But I've come across a lot of people in the brain injury world where they didn't put in the work necessary after. Like I don't want like a pat on my back or anything, but I, you know, went back to school twice. I knew how important it was for me to be reading, writing, and typing and rebuilding these skills because of how far back I was. And I met people that unfortunately I know how hard it is that sit and sulked and didn't maybe have a community around them, family support, which I'm grateful for. So that's why I offered before. If you are feeling alone, we've got a private TBI group where you'll connect with people just like you to help you get where you want to go because I know how hard it must have been for you to visualize that and see all of that and think about that after you saw the way he was, but um, it just takes dedication.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Yeah. So let's let's change course now because I want to know what burge you like to start a business. You weren't going to school to be an entrepreneur. I knew I was born to be an entrepreneur. When I when I was 10 years old, I asked my mother, why do people get jobs when they could just start a business? You had a whole different plan. And now what made you decide? Hey, let me start a business.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Well, I had a lot of pushes to eventually write left for dead, right? A lot of people were write a story, write a story. It took me the longest of any book. It's probably also my longest book, but from there, you know, I bought a pod started a podcast, excuse me, right after that. Was that entrepreneur show? I wanted to keep sharing my message with no money, and I failed in both of those fields 10 times over. So now that led me to coming a live podcast production where we help others successfully start a podcast that will last. Don't be discouraged by the overall podcast numbers because the majority of them haven't done 10 episodes. So be sure to just stick with it. You don't need to use me, but use a professional or someone to outsource pieces of what you process you don't like or take you the longest, because you know there is eight steps. You need to network, you need to prepare yourself and the guest. Then once you prepare everybody, you can record, edit, upload, follow up, market, rinse, and repeat. So you need to do all those things. And it's an unpaid full-time job if you do it on your own. So I would challenge you to reach out to someone, use a freelancer, whatever, but it will take your whole life.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

I believe you. You know, I've had a lot of help. You know, I spent decades learning about marketing. You were a tremendous help just just getting it started. But now you mentioned something, and it has to do with the entrepreneurial journey. But what's interesting to me is most entrepreneurs like me, like I want to start a business, and then we just find something that we can make money at, and yeah, we fail all the time. You sort of like just took this path, and and I think one day you were like, Hey, I have this podcast, maybe I can make money with it, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Yeah, I mean, big shout out to the Lothe Entrepreneurship Center in my interview for the startup program, the incubator program, because I was making money but not consistently, or had everything unorganized, and they were like, Why aren't you charging for people to be on your shows? If you're a podcast host, as you stay in, you eventually get incoming demand, and you're offering an incredible opportunity. And now both shows, the main shows are globally ranked, so we have packages, and if you want to be a part of it, you pick what you like, and then we have our systems in place after to book you. But people eventually care, right? I got one or two listens really for like six months or something of doing three episodes a week, getting nothing. And that's another lesson I have is I don't feel unless you're like Joe Rogan statist, three episodes a week's a lot. Like you're not giving people a chance to catch up. People have lives that don't revolve around your podcast. So for me, it's kind of like the car ride podcast, it's 30 minutes or under, every show's different. Um, the TBI show, though, I'm excited because that will be a little longer of a format. I don't feel people are looking to rush a conversation like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Yeah. So you mentioned about you know, you failed miserably. That that's part of the entrepreneurial process. I don't think I've ever seen a successful entrepreneur that didn't fail multiple times. Uh, the thing is, most of us make mistakes that you haven't made. We don't get the support, uh, we don't go to a group, and I want to talk about that because so first you write your book because you have a message, and it wasn't actually your idea. Other people taught said that you have a story, right? Then what made you do the podcast? Was it just like another way for you to get your story out there?

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Solopreneur, solopreneur budget, and I said, Let's do it. That's exactly it. I had reached out to people to join my show, cold emailing some bigger names to give me some credibility, and then from there, you know, weekly show this is an easy thing to do, but that entrepreneur show since 2019, a mental health break, January 2020, and it just helped me build the brand of consistency and helped me attract clients who want to do what I did.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

So this is great. So, what spurred you to find that group? And this was a not-for-profit group, right? Which group you mean the uh mentors where where they told you to start charging for guests.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

That was in they are a program based here in Tampa for startup companies, and they were just like giving me the scratch of the surface, like, okay, well, you already have your own shows. This is before I had the production company, I was coaching people, but nothing formalized just to bring in some extra revenue because I was in hospitality, which doesn't help an entrepreneur's schedule of being up early, being there late. So I had to get out of that.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Right. Okay, so now you're on the entrepreneurial journey. Now you're like, okay, you got a taste of making some money with an idea. Okay, and that's you know, that's it in a nutshell. Real entrepreneurs, we take an idea and we turn it into money, we turn it into cash flow, and when you start, you know, making you know, enough cash flow to not only pay your bills, but start reinvesting, you know, you'll you'll get there. Uh but now you're you're taking okay, you were just doing the podcast, you got a lot of knowledge producing the podcast. Now you decide, hey, let me show other people how to do this and and also do it for them. So are you showing well? I know you wrote the book, and the book was excellent, it helped me a lot. Uh so are you looking for people to coach how to do a podcast? Or are you looking for people that want you to help them actually produce the podcast?

SPEAKER_00 29:30

We're full service done for you with some people. We're just coaching along the way. Other people want us to build out their show, right? From unique value prop, listener persona, guest cover art, right? Cover art for the show, you name it, all the way to weekly production, audio, and video episodes. We are not a social media growth company, right? Like most of our competitors or social media companies who now offer podcasting without ever having been a podcaster or been even a guest on a podcast in most cases, right? With us, we are a team of podcasters, podcast coaches, hosts, podcast video editors, podcast audio editors, so we can give you advice that will actually work. Where, as I mentioned, I failed, right? Quote unquote failed every step of the way, learned a lot of lessons. So I hope to save people years with even tips that seem obvious. I glanced over and we help you get started, and then of course, not just get past 10. We want to be with you for a while.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

Yeah, you know, I like to tell people, I'm like, listen, I made all the mistakes. I literally spent millions of dollars making the mistakes, so you don't have to, right? It's the same thing. Now, I I was lucky enough that I already had a marketing team. I got a you know, full-blown, you know, marketing staff from graphic designers, web design, uh, video editors. So I was lucky. Not everybody has that, right? So you're mentioning, you know, just the graphics, right? All I had to do is say, Aaron, I need a graphic for my podcast. I need a logo. We need a name. All this stuff I I already had in place. So you're you're gonna help people that don't that don't have a whole marketing team, right? And you're basically you're not gonna help them market the podcast, but you're gonna put them in a position where they actually have a podcast that they can market, correct?

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yep, full service will have it done up, sent out to Apple, Spotify, and the works. But if you want to just get to know me first, see where we're about, get learn a little more about podcasting. I challenge you to get I Wanna Start a Podcast on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. And from there, it's a course book. If you have the strong will to do it and you're a self-learner, this will be perfect for you because there's questions and activities throughout where you're going to be building your show, not skipping over the steps that I and many other podcasters did.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I love that because you just opened it and there was like uh uh uh it's like a workbook. Yep, you know, it's like a workbook, and and it's it's real, I highly recommend it. It's a it's an easy read. And by the time I because I I already knew a lot about the podcast, I've I had a podcast for years, I was surrounded by professional podcasters, but still I was like, oh my god, I never realized that all those people that were multi-gazillionaires doing podcasts. I'm like, they never told me this. Okay, so last question. Okay, last question. Why should somebody have a podcast?

SPEAKER_00 32:50

You should have a podcast because a it's a therapy session, right? I share the story about a mental health break. I lost my insurance with COVID, so now I'm able to have honest and vulnerable conversations with people on that end. But as far as your business, you click play, and Joe said it before, it is out to the entire world in every country. You'll see your hosting stats where you start getting random listens from Africa, Antarctica. It's just a cool thing to see, and your messages getting there. My quote is it only takes one, right? One person to listen that could be the client that changes your life, the networking opportunity you've been looking for. So with the podcast, just like a book, they're the best forms of a business card that you didn't know you needed. Think about inviting someone on your show to talk about them and all the great work they do. It's really exciting. And I do again want to thank Joe again for this opportunity because he's got an awesome brand. You know, I've been getting to work with him for many years now, and it's just great to see him continue to evolve as an entrepreneur because that always inspires me as an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much, Vincent. God bless. Uh, you got a lot of great things in front of you. What I love about the podcast is yeah, it's fulfilling. It's fulfilling. Another thing that I use the podcast for, and I'm not embarrassed to say this. If I want to learn a topic, if I find somebody that's an expert in that topic, and I pick their brain in the podcast. I just did it, did it with your friend Jerry, where I learned all about the Google notebook thing. And uh the it's probably the best, most effective marketing tool that's out there. It's better than a website. Uh it's just great because here's the thing it's not that expensive, and my podcasts, they're up there forever, they're up there forever. I've done 17 of them already. I can't believe I'm like, oh my god, I'm on 17, and this is my sixth guest episode, so that's 23. I'm almost at a half a year already, and it seems like yesterday, and I got some really good topics, not to toot my own horn, but I have some I have you the second time. I got some great guests, inspirational stories, and anybody that has a story should have a podcast. You don't have to do it because you're an entrepreneur. Okay, you could do it just because you have an important message, and you could be helping people that you never even know that that you're helping. So, Mr. Lancy, you've you've said it before. Let's just wrap it up. How do people connect with you? And and what's your plan for the future?

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Well, thanks again for having me, Joe. Connect with me, info at vincentalancy.com. Don't forget the A for the email. And what's next? We're just working on making a difference in both the businesses now. Coming alive podcast productions a little more further along, but we're trying to continue to grow with the right clients, not just any client. So if you want to book a free discovery call, email me info at vincentalancy.com or time with Vincent.com. There's less availability on that calendar. Uh, but yeah, I'm excited for the year. We'll see where it goes.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

I love that time with Vincent. Uh, I'm thinking I should have bought a whole bunch of domains and then just sell them to people. But that's our story, folks. We're sticking with it. God bless. Uh follow me, follow Vincent. You won't, you won't be sorry. And over and out until the next time, Joe DeCerra, CPA, entrepreneur. Thank you, and goodbye.