In this reflective monologue, the speaker examines how a lifelong need for security—shaped by a structured Swiss upbringing and a conventional career path—had to be abandoned to pursue self‑employment and personal growth. He recounts the transition from a stable, employed role to the volatility of running his own business, the shock of losing a major client in his third year, and the subsequent decision to relocate to Bangkok. Through these experiences, he discovers that much of the perceived necessity for financial and professional security is an illusion; while some security is still needed, it is far less than he once believed. The narrative underscores the emotional challenges of confronting fear, the importance of adaptability, and the liberating insight that embracing uncertainty can lead to unexpected opportunities.
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or maybe even like business at a higher level that maybe you've had to let go of to get to where you find yourself today with what you've created? Yeah, I mean, I definitely, yeah, I mean, I definitely had to let go of a couple of things. The major theme, I think on many ways, like, I think it's like a very general thing about a need for security that had to go out of the window. Like when I think about growing up in Switzerland, you know, like, everything like safe, you're taken care of, there's structure, things work. If you follow a classic path and you're well-educated, usually things turn out relatively well for you, you know, like all of that thing. So everything is almost kind of set up for you in quotations. And with that comes a security on many levels, like a financial security that you long for at one point, a security of, yeah, what happens if you don't follow that classic path? Like also like, oh, what happens when you switch career into something that I worked in leadership, but not in coaching and things like that. So what happens if I have to let go of many of the things that I built up over a long time, like with university and things like that? So that was for sure one thing that had to fly out of the window. And that was not always an easy path, right? I mean, the first one, when you switch from being employed to being self-employed and the regular income doesn't come in, okay, that's something I kind of could deal with. And then you build your thing up and then it starts to work. And then I think in my third year, a huge client broke away within two weeks and I was like, oh my God, and as my expectations went up and then I was again kind of confronted with a little bit of that fear. But then that fear opened up other things, for example, moving to Bangkok. But then of course, you're like, oh, everything is starting to change. So how do you deal with that? So I think that need for security needed to go out. And it was also interesting to notice how much of that on some level is an illusion. And so on some level, it's like, actually, you don't need that much of it. You do need in some areas, and you do need from time to time, but in my experience, way less than you might think, at least speaking for myself.
