In this monologue, the speaker reflects on how intensive coaching and mentorship have dramatically reshaped his life, career, and mindset. He recounts his personal journey from feeling stuck in Korea to moving to the United States, emphasizing that attempting such a transition alone brings doubt, resistance, and a lack of resilience. By engaging coaches and mentors, he gained new perspectives, psychological safety, and a faster, more enjoyable path toward his goals. The speaker describes his preferred coaching style as playful and collaborative— likening the process to directing a movie where the client is the main character— and stresses that coaching should evolve as one's frequency and needs change. He illustrates the tangible impact of coaching through anecdotes of networking opportunities, creative collaborations, and personal growth, arguing that coaching is essentially high‑quality, dynamic learning through shared energy and expertise.
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I showed him some photos and videos of myself from before and now. I'm just like, who is this guy? Completely, I changed so much. So the question was, how important is coaching in your life? Well, that depends on what kind of life you're here to create. Important life? Yeah, of course. Yeah, if you want to like solve a problem in your life, for example, in my case, everything that I'm doing right now in terms of my career, really started from me wanting to leave a certain situation because I wasn't happy with it and I wanted to get somewhere. I wanted to leave Korea. I wanted to get to the US, for example. It goes as far back as that. And yeah, the thing is, it's like I want to get from point A to point B, right? Like this. Then, well, if I'm just doing that alone, trying to figure out alone, right? It's like, it's not easy, you know, a lot of the time. You get resistance, you get pushed down, for example, you doubt yourself. You're like, oh, did I actually really care about this thing? And you start like doubting yourself. These like skepticism starts creeping in. And if you don't have a strong mind, if you don't have this resilience, you might like forget about this vision. But then if you have a coach, for example, guide, mentor, you know, someone who can, like, someone who's invested in your success, in your journey, in your manifesting, you know, whatever you want in life, you know, your possibility, then it's just way more fun. You have someone to vibe with you. You have like, oh, this is how I'm thinking about it, but wow, like, this coach is kind of showing me a different way I can play. I haven't thought about that before. And because we're all designed to focus on something, especially when you're on this, hey, let me build this vision, or let me build a company, or let me solve a problem, whatever. Let me build this whole movement. Let me create content. Like, we think about it a certain way. People who are a little bit ahead of you, they've done a few more things. They've seen the ups and downs. You get more sort of perspectives and then you find what resonates with you. You try more. Having a coach gives you this psychological safety net. It's almost like you can fail and you feel like it's not a big deal. Oh, let me, let me try again. Oh, it's fun. Let me try again. Coach is there to support you, lift you up. Sometimes you're fucking things up, then they're like, yo, I think you're fucking it up. Do this other way. Let me help you save your time. Ultimately, this is your choice. This is my perspective anyway. There's no right or wrong answer, but I've done XYZ and then it turned out amazing. I've done ABC and then it turned out in a different way. So you just gotta be aware. They give you more perspectives to be aware of. So then it's like, yeah, you save your time, you have way more fun doing it, and you might be able to build whatever you wanna build, create whatever you wanna create much easier, much faster. Then why not? So because I'm this type of person that really values education, for example, but doing it in a fun way, I resonate with this type of coaching style. Also, that happens to be very aligned with how I help people as well, how I coach as well. Yeah, let's have some fun because that is my frame. That is my main frame. Let's create a movie and you're the main character and we're designing, we're directing this whole movie together. How fun is that? And you can decide. There's many different avenues you can go down. You choose Avenue A, B, C, D, E, F, whatever. And I'm here to say, hey, I've walked down some of these paths. They could be different to your own unique situation because you are your own soul and you have your own soul's mission. But let me— I'm just here to share my perspectives. Have you thought about this? Have you thought about this? Why not this? Doing it for fun. I've invested in so much coaching and education in myself, personal development. I've just changed so much as a person. Sometimes I'm giving my potential clients like a presentation. I show them some photos and videos of myself from before and now. I'm just like, who is this guy? Completely— I changed so much. Coaching doesn't mean that you have to pick one person for the rest of your life. As your frequency levels up, it's inevitable that you're going to find other people that you resonate with. Keep learning more. Keep vibing more. And yeah, coaching is almost like spending like really quality time with people who have like certain expertise in a certain part of area of life, and you're borrowing their sort of like vibes, directly learning from them. For me, I think that's super powerful, but I feel like for me, I just personally like to have a conversation with people, and that's how I like to learn. That's how it really sticks with me. And I think a lot of people are, actually as well, because you can play more. It's way more dynamic. Then yeah, it's just like way more fun way to expand yourself, expand your way of life, expand your way of thinking as well. Even today, you're telling me you went to this tower here in Bangkok, and you normally you just take photos and then you just leave. But if someone came up to you and be like, hey, can you take photos? And then you started vibing with them, you started talking to them, you started becoming curious, you started connecting. Why did that happen actually? For many reasons, but you, as you said, yeah, cuz I learned it from you because we're spending a lot of time together. So you're directly in my field of energy, each other, we're each other's energy, right? Because you're here to help me out, you really download everything that I'm doing. And then obviously this type, these types of moments, it's like you're getting coached too as well, right? You're downloading these like insights, like, okay, these are the codes. I like that. And if you like that, you integrate it. And then yeah, again, anywhere you go, just like you start noticing these opportunities. Maybe you had something similar in terms of opportunities before, but because your frequency was different, because your frame was different, you know, you responded to these situations differently. You know, maybe if someone asks you, it's like, oh cool, yeah, I'll take photos. And you just go, maybe. But now it's like, okay, one more conversation, one more thing. Okay, now suddenly you start making connections. Maybe they'll come to Bali for their wedding. Maybe you'll shoot at their wedding. Who knows, right? Because your frame changed, the way you started creating your vibes changed. That happened as a result of us spending quite a lot of time together. And even though I never really directly coached you, you were like with me essentially. I'm talking about it, right? I'm like, we're making content and everything. You're directly downloading from that. So yeah, this is case in point, the power of coaching.
