Samir Gardner's first coaching client relapsed into binge-eating after two weeks and disappeared out of shame. Instead of giving up, he documented what went wrong in a Google Doc, studied psychology, hired coaches himself, and committed to getting better. He turned the failure into fuel for growth.
I would coach him, and then after 2 weeks, he was free for 2 weeks. And then, well, at that time I didn't have the same knowledge as I do now. He went back to PMO and suddenly started binging. And it was totally my mistake because no good coaches would coach someone every single day. The moment you stop coaching them, they just go off-rail, first of all. But also, I just was kind of new to just me being free myself, if that makes sense. So then what happened is he binged and binged even more. And at one point he just gave up out of shame and he never contacted me since. And at that time it shattered me, but I was like, you know what? This is going to be part of my story because I had this vision clear in my mind where I'm going to live my dream life. I'm going to be able to coach people. I'm going to be the best coach. I'm going to travel the world, do things of that nature. And so I was like, you know what? I'm going to use this as an opportunity for me to grow. I'm going to use this as part of my story for my come up to success. My first ever client, it didn't work for him and he completely ghosted me. And I went on a Google Doc and I literally wrote, what can I do better? What did I learn from this and what can I do better? And that immediately made me feel better. And that same process I just applied here, I applied still to this day whenever I make mistakes. And at that time, I was constantly learning about psychology. I read many books, I paid coaches.
