Future Reel - Joey Vaillancourt

FUTURE REEL – BY REAL INFLUENCE

The 4,500-Year-Old Formula of the Visionaries and World Builders, Decoded and Made Personal for the First Time

For thousands of years, the world’s highest performers rehearsed their future before they lived it. Future Reel is the first time you can craft yours, hear it in your own voice, and feel it as if it’s already real.

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THE PROBLEM

You know what you want.

So why doesn't it feel real yet?

You’ve done the work. You’re not new to this. You know about mindset. You meditate, you journal, you set goals. You might even have a visualization practice. And yet when you sit down and try to access the vision, something interrupts it.

Your mind goes blank when the goal feels just out of reach, especially when part of you doesn’t fully believe it yet
You get distracted mid-practice. The noise of what’s in front of you pulls you back before you can drop in
You hold back on dreaming too big, and keep pulling the vision back to what feels safe and believable
You watch others access their vision effortlessly and wonder what they’re missing that you aren’t
Even when you can see it, it doesn’t feel real enough to change how you show up today

And underneath all of it: you hit a goal, and the feeling you thought was waiting on the other side just wasn’t there. So you set another one. And that same distance followed you.

Here’s what’s actually going on. Your brain moves toward what it recognizes as real, and until your future identity feels familiar, your behavior keeps defaulting to who you’ve already been.

That’s a familiarity problem, and familiarity is something you can build on purpose.

What this actually is

A vision, a practice, and

the coaching that makes it stick.

Most people find us looking for a cinematic video of their future. That video is real, and it’s powerful. It’s also the surface of something deeper. What you’re actually getting is a process with three parts that work together.

Part 01

Clarity on the right vision

We architect the specific future you’re moving toward: the moments, the people, the feelings, and the small human details most people never think to name. And we make sure it’s built from abundance instead of scarcity, because a vision built from fear quietly points you somewhere you don’t want to go.

Part 02

Your reel, plus your Identity Track

We produce two tools you use daily, and they are different things. Your Future Reel is the cinematic film of your future, narrated in your own voice, the part you watch. Your Identity Track is separate: a 5 to 7 minute personalized audio in your own voice, built from your vision, that you listen to like a daily meditation to program the identity you are stepping into.

Part 03

Coaching that gets you there

Then we stay with you. One to two calls a month to work your action plan, keep you accountable, and move through the doubt and limiting beliefs that surface the moment you reach for something bigger. The reel shows you where you’re going. The coaching is how you arrive.

This is ancient wisdom

From the pharaohs to the Olympics

THE OLDEST PRACTICE IN THE WORLD. FINALLY MADE PERSONAL.

The oldest practice in the world.

Finally made personal.

“Skate to where the puck is going to be.”

Wayne Gretzky

This isn’t new thinking. For thousands of years, the people who reached the lives they wanted practiced some form of it. They rehearsed the future before they stepped into it.

Over 4,500 years ago, Egyptian pharaohs had future victories and reigns carved into stone before they happened. They called the force behind it heka, the power that turns thought into reality. The Stoics did it with discipline. Marcus Aurelius wrote that “the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts,” and rehearsed his days before he lived them. Napoleon Hill built the modern self-development movement on the same observation: the successful people he studied held a detailed picture of their future long before it existed.

Then the science caught up. In the early 1970s, sport psychologist Dr. Richard Suinn developed Visual Motor Behavior Rehearsal, training Olympic athletes to run a performance vividly in their minds before competing.* Their brains fired many of the same pathways as physical practice. Today mental rehearsal is standard among elite athletes, surgeons, fighter pilots, and high performers, because the brain responds powerfully to a future it has already practiced.

Neville Goddard

“Feeling is the secret.”

The emotion of the wish fulfilled, felt now, is what activates the shift.

Dr. Joe Dispenza

“The brain can’t tell a vividly imagined event from a real one.”

Repeated, emotionally immersive rehearsal rewires behavior from the inside out.

Florence Scovel Shinn

“Every great accomplishment is brought into being by holding to the vision.”

Living inside the vision, daily, is the practice itself.

So why doesn’t everyone do it? The practice has always had a ceiling. Many people can’t picture their future clearly. Others don’t know exactly what they want. Some can think it but never truly feel it. And even when they manage to visualize, they’re often watching a version of someone else’s life instead of standing inside their own.

That’s what has finally changed. For most of history you had to build the entire future in your imagination. The Egyptians had carvings. The Stoics had journals. Your grandparents had vision boards. Now, with modern technology, your future can be made into something you actually see and feel, built around your real life, your people, and your specific moments.

Clarity creates direction. Emotion creates connection. When both come together, the future stops feeling like a distant possibility and starts feeling like something you’re already moving toward. That’s exactly what Future Reel is built to do.

The discovery

From Vision Board to Living Proof

I built this because

I needed it myself.

I’ve been doing this since I was 17, long before I had a name for it. My first vision board was about music and getting on stage, and it happened. Then I built one around competing in fitness modeling, trained to 3.1% body fat, and won.

Then came the harder vision. After going through a divorce, I got clear on something that felt almost too specific to put on paper: a home with a waterfront view, a new partner, kids. Within a year, I had all of it.

Sound familiar?

So I know this works. But as my vision grew bigger, something shifted. The more I needed the practice, the harder it was to access. My mind would go blank. I’d fight distraction and quiet doubt. And I asked a different question: what if instead of trying to conjure the vision from nothing, I could watch it? That question became Future Reel.

If you've tried visualizing and

vision boards, and you're still:

Closing your eyes to picture it and getting a blank screen, no matter how hard you try to see it
Starting the practice with good intentions, then quietly letting it slip after a few days
Catching a glimpse of the vision and feeling your mind reject it, because part of you doesn’t believe it will happen
Stuck in your own version of writer’s block, knowing what you want but unable to make it feel real enough to move toward
Sitting in indecision, second-guessing the next step because the future you’re aiming at is still fuzzy
Watching the vision board collect dust while life pulls you back into the same routine
Ending up in the same place a year later, with the same goals and the same distance between where you are and where you know you could be

If you saw yourself in that list, the problem was never your ability. You’ve just been handed a blank page and told to “see it.” That is the exact problem Future Reel was built to solve.

What makes it different

The version of this

that's actually yours.

Most visualization is narrated by someone else, with open prompts that put the entire burden of creation on you. If you’re already struggling to access the vision, that burden makes the practice harder.

Future Reel is narrated in your voice.

The Future Reel method and the Real Influence Coaching system are one combined process that:

Captures your own narration and builds it into both your Future Reel and your separate Identity Track
Plays the script of your future moments back in a voice your brain already trusts completely
Uses self-referential language to create deeper neural encoding
Turns watching something into actually feeling it, which is the whole point

And the scenes are specific. Instead of “I am successful,” it’s the morning you saw the email that confirmed it. The conversation where everything shifted. The moment you launched the product, took the stage, wrote the book, and did the impossible.

The craft

We capture the things

you wouldn't think to ask for.

A glimpse inside a Future Reel · narrated in your own voice

This is where the difference lives. We capture what you’re wearing, how you’re standing, the title of the book you haven’t written yet and the color of its cover, the look on someone’s face in the front row. The specifics are what make your brain believe it.

If part of you is afraid of the stage, your script doesn’t skip the stage. It puts you there, steady:

“Here I am, owning the room, pausing where I want to pause, delivering this the way I always knew I could.”

We program your subconscious to move past the limiting beliefs and focus on how you want to show up and who you want to be, so that’s what you connect with on screen.

Picture someone who wants to lead at the highest level. The reel isn’t only them in the role. It’s the quiet moment beforehand, someone they love straightening their collar and saying they’re proud. It’s their kids in the front row. It’s the dinner afterward, holding hands around the table, feeling full. The achievement is the headline. The life around it is what actually moves you.

Vision · Identity Installation · Coaching · Embodiment

What’s possible

Create Your New Reality.

Your Future Self is Waiting.

Future Reel is built around 1–2 year visions. Not a distant fantasy, but a future close enough to feel credible, and specific enough to feel like a memory waiting to happen.

The course launch

The moment you open your laptop and see the first sales come in. The quiet pride afterward. The message from someone saying it changed something for them.

The relationship shift

Standing in the kitchen with your partner. A moment of ease and warmth you haven’t felt in years. Being fully present with someone you love.

The confident conversation

A call with your boss, or someone you’ve had conflict with, and you’re calm, clear, and grounded. You speak without over-explaining. They hear you differently.

New beginnings

A new role where your skills finally match the room. A new partner you meet in an ordinary moment that somehow feels inevitable. A chapter closing on what no longer fits, and the quiet confidence of stepping into what does.

The keynote stage

Stepping through the curtain. The room coming to you. That specific calm that only exists when you know you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.

The inner shift

Handling a moment that used to trigger you, calmly. Responding instead of reacting. Being someone who trusts themselves under pressure.

The life on the other side

Adventures you're not yet living. Moments you can already feel.

Adventures you're not yet living.

Moments you can already feel.

Future Reel doesn’t sell you a fantasy. It builds the emotional familiarity of the life you’re moving toward, so you start showing up as the person who already lives it.

The throughline

The life you're living

is the life you're building.

It’s tempting to wait. To tell yourself you’ll feel proud once the goal is hit, calm once the money’s there, present once things finally settle. But the person you’re being today is the person building tomorrow. If you want to become someone who is confident, abundant, and at ease in the life you’re moving toward, the work is to start being that person now, in small real ways, before the proof arrives.

Future Reel is built to make that shift feel natural. Once your future feels familiar, acting like the person who lives there stops being a stretch and starts being who you are. You don’t wait to become them. You start now, and the rest catches up.

Coaching and accountability

The video gets you inspired.

The coaching gets you there.

Watching a vivid film of your future will stir something up. Excitement, yes. But also contrast. Doubt. The quiet voice that asks who you are to have this. That’s not a sign something is wrong. It’s the moment the real work begins.

So we don’t hand you a beautiful video and wish you luck. We stay in it with you.

Monthly coaching with a Real Influence facilitator to work your action plan and keep you moving when it feels far off
A clear focus on the limiting beliefs and old patterns that surface as you reach for more, addressed the moment they show up
Accountability to the identity in your reel, so the person on screen and the person living your days keep moving toward each other
A reel that evolves with you, refreshed about every 90 days as your vision sharpens
Your Identity Track, a separate 5 to 7 minute personalized audio in your own voice, to keep the new identity programming in daily

A standalone reel can be powerful for someone who already has the mindset, the clarity, and the practice.

For most people, the coaching is what makes it hold. The vision is the destination. The coaching is how you stay on the road.

The discovery call

We Start With A Conversation

To Craft Your Vision Together

The right path looks different for everyone.

Some people arrive with a clear vision and a strong practice, and simply want to build their Future Reel and integrate it.

Others are at a turning point, where something is shifting and they need both the vision work and the coaching to move through it cleanly.

On the discovery call we ask the right questions to understand where you actually are, then point you toward the path that makes the most sense.

No pressure. No pre-determined outcome. Just clarity on your best next step. And we’ll have some fun in the process.

The big picture of the journey. Below is how we build each piece with you, and coach you through it.

How it works

A process built around

your specific situation.

Most people try to build the vision before doing the inner work. That’s why it doesn’t stick. This process goes in the right order.

1

The discovery conversation

We talk about where you are, what you’re moving toward, and what level of support fits. Some people are ready to build the reel. Others benefit from doing the inner work first, so the vision is built from the right foundation.

2

Deep vision extraction

Through guided calls and a structured process, we pull out the specific moments, people, locations, and emotional anchors that form your Future Reel. We work in scenes and feelings, not goals: the felt experience of a life that’s already happened.

3

Script and cinematic production

Your narrative is written in first-person present tense, the language of identity. We capture your narration and produce both your cinematic reel and a custom audio track in your own voice. Visuals, music, and pacing are calibrated for emotional immersion. Your reel runs 3–5 minutes, and every second is intentional.

4

Daily integration

You watch the reel and listen to your audio track daily: before meditation, before decisions, before the moments that matter. It primes your nervous system and gives your practice a precise, emotionally real starting point.

5

Coaching through the hard part

This is where it sticks. One to two calls a month to work the plan, hold you accountable, and move through whatever surfaces as the new identity takes hold.

6

Evolution over time

As your identity grows and your vision sharpens, your reel grows with you. Scenes deepen, scripts evolve, and you’re never working with a version of yourself you’ve already outgrown.

What shifts

Feeling is the Secret.

Here's what you'll actually feel.

The outside results vary for everyone. The internal experience, what people describe along the way and once they’re living it, tends to follow the same pattern.

Along the way

The blank page disappears

The blank page is gone, and the vision feels real for the first time.

You stop forcing it

The drive that used to drain you turns into a pull instead of a push.

You stop carrying it alone

Someone’s in your corner, and this time you follow through.

The pressure quiets

It starts to settle even before anything outside has changed.

Once you’re living it

You’re present

Actually at the table, actually with the people you love, instead of half-gone planning the next thing.

The chase ends

Peace inside your ambition, instead of the hollow “is that it?” that used to follow every win.

You trust yourself under pressure

You respond instead of react.

You get your life back

Your time, your energy, your attention.

Proof

The proof starts with

the people who built it.

Future Reel didn’t start as a product. It started as the way Monika and I re-built our own life from the ground up, together.

After going through a divorce, I got clear on a vision that felt almost too specific to put on paper. A home with a waterfront view. A new partner. Kids. Within a year, we had all of it. A great relationship. Leo. Nash. The house on the water. Marriage. A happy life, growing together and building more of our vision. We know visualization works because we have proof of it in every area of our life. Future Reel is what we built when the vision grew bigger than what we could hold on our own.

Joey and Monika Vaillancourt, co-creators of Future Reel

The honest truth

WHAT ANOTHER YEAR OF THE SAME PATTERN ACTUALLY COSTS YOU.

What another year of the same

pattern actually costs you.

You can keep sitting down to visualize and fighting the blank page. You can keep hitting goals that don’t fill you up. You can keep investing in frameworks and courses that work the surface while the deeper pattern keeps running. Here’s where that road leads:

A year from now, you're standing in the same spot, telling yourself the same story about why it hasn't happened yet
The vision quietly shrinks. You stop saying it out loud, because part of you stopped believing it would come
The restlessness doesn't fade. It gets louder, and you keep numbing it with more work, more goals, more noise
You watch other people step into the life you can picture for yourself, and start to wonder if it's just not in the cards for you
The space between who you are and who you could be slowly hardens into who you believe you are

None of that is wrong, but it leaves that distance exactly where it is. The question isn’t whether you’re capable of closing it. You already know you are. The question is whether you’ll give your brain something real to move toward, and the support to stay with it, or keep asking it to find its own way there.

Is this you?

You might recognize

yourself in one of these.

The Shaky Founder

You’ve scaled the company, but the restlessness shows up again at every new level. You sense the next chapter needs a different version of you, not just a harder push.

The Wondering Executive

You perform flawlessly in every room, and privately wonder when the life you’re building will start to feel like the one you actually wanted.

The Off-Duty Coach

You teach this work to everyone else and know, quietly, that your own vision has gone fuzzy and your own practice has slipped.

The Secret Dreamer

You’re sitting on a goal you’ve never said out loud, because some part of you doesn’t fully believe it yet, so you keep it safe and small.

Unlucky In Love

You keep ending up in a version of the same relationship, with the same dynamic. You’re ready to become the person who calls in something different.

The One At The Crossroads

A new chapter, a new relationship, a new direction. You can feel the next version of yourself but can’t quite hold them long enough to step in.

The Serial Seeker

You’ve done the courses, read the books, built the vision boards, and still end up in the same place a year later, wondering what’s still missing.

If any of those felt like reading your own mind, that’s the point. This was built for people who already know what they want, and need a more precise way to make it real.

Who this is for

For Those Ready For Real Transformations

A SPECIFIC KIND OF PERSON, AND A SPECIAL KIND OF READINESS.

A specific kind of person,

and a specific kind of readiness.

High-performing executives and founders who already invest seriously in their own development
People with an existing meditation or visualization practice who want a more precise instrument
Leaders who are achieving externally but feel a distance between the life they have and the one they're moving toward
Anyone at a genuine turning point: a new chapter, a new direction, or a version of themselves they can feel but not yet fully access
People who are open to the idea that identity precedes behavior — and want to work at that levell

If you’ve never explored personal development or mindset work, the timing probably isn’t right. Future Reel is built to sharpen an existing practice, not to introduce the concept.

Real questions

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

"Is this just a custom AI video?"

The film is the most visible piece, and it’s only one piece. What you’re really getting is a process: getting clear on the right vision, capturing it as a reel and a separate Identity Track in your own voice, and coaching you through the work of becoming the person living it. The discovery call is where we shape the right structure for you.

"What about coaching?"

For most people it’s the core of the work, not an add-on. Monthly Real Influence coaching and strategy calls to work your plan, hold you accountable, and move through the beliefs and patterns that surface as your identity shifts. The reel keeps the vision alive. The coaching keeps you moving toward it.

"I already do visualization."

Future Reel is what you watch before you visualize. It builds the scene so precisely that your mind has somewhere emotionally real to go. You stop conjuring and start dropping in. It sharpens a practice you already have.

"Visualization hasn't worked for me."

That’s the blank page problem, and it’s exactly what this solves. When the vision is narrated in your own voice and built from your specific scenes, the brain responds differently. You’re not straining to imagine. You’re watching something that already feels like a memory.

"I don't have time for another practice"

Your reel is 3–5 minutes, the length of a song, and your Identity Track is a 5 to 7 minute listen. Every second was built specifically for you, and it replaces the daily struggle of trying to access a vision that won’t come on command.

"My goals aren't big enough for this."

The most powerful scenes are often the quiet ones. A morning in a new home. A conversation with your partner that used to feel impossible. A version of you that handles pressure calmly. The vision doesn’t need to be grand. It needs to be real to you.

"What does the investment look like?"

It depends on what you need. We have options from a standalone Future Reel build through to a full multi-month coaching engagement. We’ll figure out what makes sense together on the call, with no pressure to commit to anything in advance.

THE TEAM

THE REAL INFLUENCE TEAM

Who is Joey Vaillancourt?

Joey Vaillancourt

Co-Creator & Co-Owner · Host of Real Influence

Joey has helped businesses generate over $200M in revenue, and spent years looking successful on paper while living in constant internal pressure. Always chasing the next milestone. Always feeling behind. The turning point came when he realized the real issue wasn’t workload. It was unconscious programming. After divorce, sobriety, and over $300K invested in personal, professional, and spiritual growth, Joey rewired the beliefs behind his drive. Today, as host of the Real Influence podcast, he helps high performers achieve more by forcing less, and reclaim their freedom in how they live and lead.

Who is Monika Vaillancourt?

Monika Vaillancourt

Certified Mindset Facilitator · Lead Coach, Real Influence Coaching

For nearly 20 years, Monika has been a teacher, with a lifelong passion for helping people uncover their strengths and step into the best version of themselves. After working through her own anxiety, self-doubt, and the belief that she couldn’t “have it all,” she discovered the mindset and behavioral science tools usually reserved for top performers, rewired her own thinking, and became certified to teach them. As a Certified Mindset Facilitator and co-creator of Real Influence Coaching, she helps clients identify what’s holding them back, often in a single session, and build unshakable confidence from the inside out. Monika is the primary coach and facilitator for Future Reel clients. When she isn’t coaching, she’s raising three boys alongside Joey and still loving her work as an educator.

Ready

Your future is already there.

Let's make it feel that way.

What the process includes

A fully personalized Future Reel: your specific scenes, your voice, your vision
Your Identity Track, a separate 5 to 7 minute personalized audio in your own voice for daily programming
A guided vision and narration process so it sounds and feels like you
An identity installation routine: how to use it daily so it changes how you show up
Monthly Real Influence Coaching and strategy calls to work on the plan and move through what surfaces
A reel that evolves with you, about every 90 days

“I know what it’s like to have a vision you can feel but can’t hold. I want that to change for you.”

JOEY VAILLANCOURT

The discovery call is just a conversation. We’ll figure out together where you are, what you’re building, and what the right next step looks like.

Limited spots. Every application reviewed personally. You’ll hear back within 48 hours.

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Goddard, N. (1948). Feeling Is the Secret. · Hill, N. (1937). Think and Grow Rich. · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.