This Week
- How my first speech in years went this week!
- Why I went partying again this weekend.
- The takeaways I had from this two-day 3am-7am Zoom event.
August 2025
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 8/1 | 2 |
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| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | 9/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Where In The World Was I?
- 🇮🇩 Canggu (Bali, Indonesia)
Metrics From The Week
You already KNOW it’s gonna be an interesting week when my Whoop metrics look like this 😂
Snaps From The Week
Sunsets have been crazy good lately
Expanding Resonance
Tribal Solutions
I’ve been going to this Tribal Solutions mastermind for I dunno, 6 times? Basically every session (every two weeks) since I got here 3 months ago.
The acting community manager who runs it has seen me there all this time, has heard the transition I’m in, and so when he left for his Europe trip he asked if I would be interested in stepping in to lead the session! He recognized that it might be a great growth opportunity for me, which I appreciated.
And so of course I said yes!
This week I led the session and it went incredibly well! Amazing turn out, had 3 people share work/business challenges, and they all got great feedback from everyone in the group.
I’ll be leading the next 2 as well, very excited 🙂
Give It All Speech
This has been another event I’ve been going back to. It’s called Give It All and it’s a half networking half speaking event. I went to the last two and the guy who runs it recommended I sign up to speak! (anyone can speak and you can speak about whatever you want, just 5 minute talks).
I was quite excited about this.
Put together my speech around Monday and pretty much just spent all of my free time rehearsing until Thursday night.
It was titled “The Comfort Trap”
And I don’t want to spoil it, so I won’t explain the talk, but when I get the video link to the talk I’ll post it here and on my Instagram.
But my biggest takeaway from this was just how excited I was to do this.
I really liked my speech and rehearsed a lot.
I recorded myself and then would just continue to listen back and listen back. Every night the last thing I’d do before shutting my eyes was listening to my recording one more time.
And I went to the beach a couple times to practice.
And then once I had memorized it well enough, I would start playing music in my headphones (good dance music I like) WHILE simultaneously giving the speech. The idea being overload the brain so much that the speech becomes embodied… not just inside my mind.
There were zero nerves until about 1 hour before the event when I started to get some, and then the 5 minutes before I went (I went first! which I agreed to). And in those last 5 minutes before I walked on stage I kind of panicked because my mind started to go blank. My heart beating so intensely it was shaking my whole body. I just stood there taking deep “sigh” breaths.
Then I got up there and absolutely CRUSHED IT. I was very happy with how it went.
If I HAD to nitpick: I made ONE maybe two-word mistake, of course no one noticed and I recovered well, but otherwise I went word-for-word my whole speech. And I wanted to convey a bit more breadth of emotion and passion, but felt like I took a bit of a natural hit compared to when I rehearsed because of being on stage. But I thought I still conveyed it well.
The feedback I got from people was fantastic:
Speech:
- Many people asked if I was nervous and said I didn’t look nervous at all, that I was very confident
- A couple people said I looked like a natural up there
- Someone said it felt like a TED talk, very clear story and message
- And I was explaining to one guy that I went word-for-word my speech and he went “What? Nooooooo really?” (that it did not feel scripted)
It’s Already Happening
I think I mentioned last week someone reached out to me asking to talk and work through a big life decision.
This week I had that conversation and it went really well. He was really appreciative of the space and help.
Inside The Mind
202508010958 Brain dump this morning
#journal
Morning. Just feel like I want to allow myself some space to write. No expectations.
What's on my mind?
The GiveItAll speech last night went really well, very very happy with how it went. I'm honestly a bit surprised and impressed with myself. And the feedback was incredibly positive.
I just felt so excited leading up to it. To share my passion with other people. To take them on a journey, on my journey.
Got very nervous 5 minutes before, heart beating out of my chest, just kept breathing deeply, sighing out of my mouth.
...
Where do I feel most pulled right now in the context of value, creation, service?
More chats like with [name].
More speeches like GiveItAll. [name] came up to me after and he was like fuckkkk I think I need more chaos in my life right now 😂 I feel a bit of a mix of that desire for validation, desire to have an impact on other people, but I also really felt excited and aligned with this speech. So maybe sharing more of what I have to offer, getting in front of more people.
- And it's also pulling me a little back to making YouTube videos. It's like... people need you bro. And think about how you just showed up there.
More social events (up until a point, not too much) where I'm able to put myself out there. Remember how quickly I met [name] at GiveItAll, got into a conversation, and then he was like man we're really resonating.
What's my intuition trying to tell me right now?
- People need you.
- I'm ready. You have the results already [[202507240835 The pulls people feel from me]]
- Putting out my frequency and vibration to as many people as I can
- Movement and energy. More Muay Thai sessions.
- More living on that edge, uncomfortable situations, facing fear, developing courage, riding this confidence wave that I'm on. More social events, networking events, dates, people.
- Fuck the money.
...THE FUTURE
Had this two day Zoom event this week, the final sendoff for this online coaching business community I’m in.
Because of timezones it was 3am-7am for two days… Which I was frankly NOT excited about 😂
But it ended up being worth it.
Resonance and takeaways?
- If we’re comfortable, we’re not moving forward.
- If it doesn’t light you up, let it go.
- Identity first, income follows.
- “If I’m in my power and leading, it will always work no matter how I do it.”
- Important: when the idea comes, doing something with it. Close the gap between inspiration and execution.
- Permission to be unapologetically themselves.
- More self-trust you have around money, the more money you make. Only way to build self-trust is through courage.
- You need a money vision.
- Definition of authenticity from Hormozi: “What you would do if there were no consequences.”
- “you’re not in the information space.. you’re in the transformation space”
- Look at what drove you to buy from people in the past
- People don’t buy coaching. They buy coaches.
- What worked for him in the past, what will work now, what will work in the future: living my best life, helping people, being my most authentic self.
The Micro-Moments of Life
So it’s like 8pm and I’m walking down the steps to chill for like 45 minutes before going to bed.
I reach the end of the steps and there’s a guy sitting on the bottom step talking to his friend.
We exchange greetings and to be honest, I don’t even know how we started talking, but I stopped and we started a conversation.
But we end up getting into this really deep and meaningful conversation. He’s asking me some really interesting and deep questions.
I mentioned at one point that I’m in this social chapter of my life, that I’m looking for people, connection, conversations.
And he responds and asks me, “why do you want connection?”
And I was like “hahahaha wow I’ve never actually thought about this…”
We talked about connection, people, life and business. He was incredibly curious, very observant, and I could tell he came to a conversation with a completely blank slate, no judgements.
But he also expressed to me that I pulled this out of him.
Because I hear this from a lot of people I talk to, it brought to mind that it almost felt like I was talking to someone like me, and so I understood why people resonate so much when someone actually is fully present with you, listens, and expresses genuine curiosity for life.
I walked away from that like 45-60 minute conversation with that stimulating and fulfilling feeling of connection.
And I went to bed thinking…
This.
This is why I stay here.
See I’ve been asked many times why I stay in a hostel, why I don’t like my own private space, my own room.
And this is why. It’s these micro-moments that I would never get staying in my own place, because there’s too much friction to create them and it’s too easy to just come back at 7pm, be around zero people, and just sit on my phone until I go to sleep.
I’m willing to sacrifice comfort for growth.
And that very line (spoiler alert) is one of the core messages I tried to convey in my speech.
Push and Pull
This week has been a bit of getting back into routine and prioritizing sleep knowing that I was leading Tribal Solutions, had this 2-day 3am-7am Zoom event, had a speech, and a conversation helping someone through a big decision.
So it was also a lot more time behind the laptop and I said no to some dinners with friends.
But as the week went on I started to wonder if maybe “getting back into routine” is the wrong approach right now.
That maybe instead of thinking about my life like, the last 2-3mo has been chaos, anti-routine, openness, and now I’m ready to get back into routine...
Maybe the way to think about this is more, push and pull. Routine and then openness and spontaneity.
I wrote in my brain dump one morning…
I kinda feel like I haven't felt any big universe signs lately and I've been wondering if by leaning back into routine (maybe too much??) that I'm becoming more closed off to them.And so I went into the weekend with the idea that I wanted more spontaneity, more openness, more expression, more flow, less restriction, less structure.
So I went out partying again 😂
THE PARTY BOY IS BACK
I really wanted a place with good music because I wanted to move, be in my body, be in flow, in expression.
Started at Finns beach club (had heard mixed things) just to check it out. Then met up with some friends at Mesa for this afro beats night and it ended up exactly what I wanted. Great music, great vibes, it was packed, and there was this dance circle that was perfect, gave something to watch and feel into.
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Thoughts From The Week
202508010958 Brain dump this morning
#journal
Where have I felt FLOW lately?
- Rehearsing my speech on the beach
- Speaking last night
- Talking with [name]
- Leading Tribal Solutions
- On walks, taking photos, sunset
- In the gym
- Joking with other people, sarcasm, letting it out, not filtering
- At Give It All at the start messing around with [name] and [name] about pockets
- Listening to music
- Talking to [name] this morning
- That spontaneous conversation that went super deep quickly with [name]
- Most of Give It All
Where have I felt FRICTION lately?
- In filtering myself
- Thinking about posting on YouTube again
- The nerves before getting up on stage
- Some of these mornings trying to decide where to go for a coffee shop
- Thinking about working with [name] on YouTube strategy, getting back into spending 8 hours on doing a deep dive report for him
- Turning my video camera on during The Future zoom
- Catching up with my nightly journal, transferring everything from my digital note to physical
- Some of my conversations with [name], fear of being seen
- That first ask from [name] on who wants to volunteer to do the speaking activity
Will redact a bit of this, but think this still might be useful to capture publicly if it resonates:
202508021041 Brain dump this morning
#journal
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## Friction
What's this fucking friction, this overthinking, these critical thoughts about not being able to do small talk well?
And fuck bro I hate that feeling.
And so I've been soon in my head about feeling not "good enough" to do small talk. And I hate these thoughts.
It's like, know your worth. Part of why I did this was so that I could actually lean on this as factual and foundational evidence.
- [[202507240835 The pulls people feel from me]]
Is this a part of me that's in alignment with my true self? Small talk, saying stupid shit, keeping the conversation flowing.
In _some_ regards I would say yes. Some of this _is_ controllable. And yes I feel like I do some filtering of my thoughts.
But also like what the fuck, why are you comparing yourself to someone else? Why are you putting yourself down for something that's not actually in your most genuine honest aligned self.
Do I need to say it again?
[[202507240835 The pulls people feel from me]]
Do people get THIS feedback from other? I don't know, but what I can say is that the feedback I've received from others shows me that I have something unique and incredibly valuable.
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What’s Next?
Shooting off to another 1-1 Muay Thai session in an hour 🙂