Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

This Is Why Clients Will Trust You..

10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Richmond Dinh, an optometrist from an Asian background, explains why coaches build trust by sharing their origin story. He faced family pressure to pursue a high-status career and broke away. Your exact journey is yours alone, and clients connect with coaches whose struggles mirror their own.

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If you're looking for inspiration as a beginner coach, the best place to start is to find someone with a very similar backstory to you. My backstory is optometrist, Asian cultural upbringing, study hard, get a good job, become a doctor, dentist, all that stuff. And I understand the cultural pressures of what it's like to leave the blue world and to leave what your parents wanted you to become to do what I'm doing now. There's some context there and there's some empathy there and compassion but more importantly understand the hurdles that I personally had to overcome to get to where I am today. It's important when you're looking for inspirational role models of someone has a similar background or story to you because they will understand your situation better than anyone else's. And that's why it's important when you're a coach and starting out to share your origin story because it's the only thing that can separate you from everybody else because no one has lived your story. So if you're looking for inspiration, find someone with a very similar or parallel story to what you're going through.