Join us on The Joseph Bonner Show as we celebrate the incredible legacy of Oprah Winfrey — the CEO, actress, and publisher whose influence has transcended generations. We delve into her journey of perseverance, success, and her impact on media and culture, inspiring millions worldwide.
In this special episode, we’re honored to feature an exclusive interview with Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini, CEO of Lush Enterprises, LLC. Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini shares her inspiring story of building a thriving business, her leadership philosophy, and her vision for empowering communities through innovative initiatives. Her insights offer a powerful look at leadership, resilience, and the drive to make a difference.
Name: Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini
Title: CEO
Company: Lush Enterprises, LLC
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LushenterprisesLLC/
Contact: statinvestors15@gmail.com
Additionally, we sit down with Raliqua "Rai" Slater, CEO of Anu Global Philosophy, to discuss her pioneering work in global education and cultural exchange. Rai opens up about her mission to foster understanding and growth across borders, her journey as a leader, and her hopes for shaping a more connected and compassionate world.
Name: Raliqua "Rai" Slater
Title: CEO Company: Anu Global Philosophy Corp (AGP)
Email: anuglobalphilosophy@gmail.com
Don’t miss this inspiring episode celebrating trailblazing women and legendary figures who continue to shape our future.
In this special episode, we’re honored to feature an exclusive interview with Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini, CEO of Lush Enterprises, LLC. Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini shares her inspiring story of building a thriving business, her leadership philosophy, and her vision for empowering communities through innovative initiatives. Her insights offer a powerful look at leadership, resilience, and the drive to make a difference.
Name: Sun Yong Kim-Manzolini
Title: CEO
Company: Lush Enterprises, LLC
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LushenterprisesLLC/
Contact: statinvestors15@gmail.com
Additionally, we sit down with Raliqua "Rai" Slater, CEO of Anu Global Philosophy, to discuss her pioneering work in global education and cultural exchange. Rai opens up about her mission to foster understanding and growth across borders, her journey as a leader, and her hopes for shaping a more connected and compassionate world.
Name: Raliqua "Rai" Slater
Title: CEO Company: Anu Global Philosophy Corp (AGP)
Email: anuglobalphilosophy@gmail.com
Don’t miss this inspiring episode celebrating trailblazing women and legendary figures who continue to shape our future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Joseph Bonner Show. Is this The Joseph Bonner Show
is a unique show designed to provide comfort and support
to the international community.
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Joseph Bonner is an experience mentor, live coach, and certified
mental health first aid responder.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh an amazing guy.
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So get ready to feel inspired, get ready to feel
like you can make.
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A difference, and get ready to.
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The Joseph Bonner Show starts now.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Welcome everyone. Today, we're exploring someone truly influential, looking at
the really positive and lasting impact of Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it's about understanding how one person, you know, facing
some pretty serious challenges could rise up and become such
a force for good exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We've looked some fascinating material charting her journey, her achievements, and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's less a straight biography, more an examination of her
influence how it's kind of spread and stuck around, right.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
We want to get to the heart of her legacy
for you. Make it clear why her story is so
well significant without getting bogged down.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Makes sense?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Okay, So where to begin the beginning? I guess born
in rural Mississippi nineteen fifty four into poverty.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, the information really details that significant hardship from the
start and some really difficult experiences, including sexual abuse and stability.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's quite stark when you read about it. Neglect too,
just formidable early challenges truly, But what really jumps out
even then is this incredible resilience.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Absolutely, Like, how do you even process that kind of start?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It's extraordinary, And the material we looked at draws a
really interesting line from those struggles to her later empathy,
that deep desire she developed to connect with people to
help them, maybe because she understood pain herself.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That makes a lot of sense. It suggests those hardships
weren't just things she overcame, but things that actively shaped
her ability to connect.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, she's talked about that herself, hasn't she How understanding
pain informed her work the importance of healing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It really sets the stage for her unique approach later on.
So moving into media, her start was maybe conventional enough,
but she rose.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Fat because of that style, right, authentic, compassionate people responded totally.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It seems that genuineness just cut through.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And then nineteen eighty six, the Oprah Winfrey Show launches,
and it wasn't just another talk show.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, wait, it completely changed the game for daytime TV.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It was like, finally Onnest conversations Yeah, about real stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, tackling difficult social issues, personal stories with a kind
of candor that felt well, pretty revolutionary for back then.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It went beyond the usual celebrity chat. It was about
real lives, real struggles.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And then the power move launching Harpo Productions.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh huge, taking control of her own show, her own message.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That really cemented her status, didn't it. From host to
media mogul territory.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Building her own skys VP, as you said, it gave
her independence.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Complete control, and that paved the way for well everything else.
Like the book Club in ninety six.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Ah, the book Club, what a phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That was unbelievable impact.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Seriously, she picks a book and boom bestseller overnight. It
created this massive reading wave.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It really did. People were suddenly talking about novels everywhere.
It got the whole country reading and discussing books.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It was kind of amazing, actually, such.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Influence democratized reading, you could say, and brought diverse stories
to light. Then there's her film work.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Right, The Color Purple, her acting debut, and she was good,
got critical acclaim.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Showed another dimension for sure, but also producing later on
films like Selma.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, powerful important films. It wasn't just about being in
front of the camera. There was always this intent behind it, purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Which connects to own The Oprah Winfrey Network launching in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Another massive step building her own TV network.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
A whole platform dedicated to her vision, essentially inspiring, empowering
content on a much bigger scale.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's like she kept building bigger platforms for her message.
And the magazine, Oh, the Oprah magazine in two.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Thousand, that took off immediately too, didn't it like wildfire.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It felt like getting a dose of that Oprah inspiration delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Right to you exactly same themes instiration, personal stories, wellness,
self improvement. It just echoed everything she stood.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
For one awards, reached millions, solidified her influence in print too.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Across all these different media, you see that consistent thread right.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Absolutely, empowerment overcoming adversity. It's the core.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Message and it clearly resonated deeply with people, still does.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Which flows right into her philanthropy.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Not just talk, no, definitely not. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership
Academy for Girls in South Africa is such a clear example.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Creating real opportunities using her platform and resources for education,
especially for marginalized kids.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's a powerful, tangible commitment putting her philosophy into action.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It really is inspiring, like she's paving the way for
others based on her own journey mm hm, which.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Leads to her wider cultural impact. It's hard to even
measure fully.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It really is. She became this symbol, didn't she of compassion, authenticity.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, inspiring so many people to believe in themselves, chase
their dreams, no matter where they started.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And just her influence on conversations mental health, emotional honesty,
well being.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
She shifted things undeniably. It's woven into the culture now
in many ways.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Speaking of continuing the conversation, the material mentioned Joseph Bonner, Ah.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yes, it seems he's really focused on highlighting her positive
legacy specifically.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, he's got interviews coming up apparently. That sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It does could offer some fresh perspectives.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh, I'm curious now, you know, Joseph Bonner often finds
those unexpected angles. I bet he'll talk to someone like
really surprising, maybe someone from the crew of the original
show or a student for the Academy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Could be anything.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Really, Yeah, you just know he'll dig up something fascinating.
I'm definitely gonna keep an eye out for what he
puts out next. It's like, you know, waiting for a
really good documentary to drop.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Worth watching for sure if you're interested in her ongoing influence.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So wrapping this up, oprah winfree story is just this
incredible example of resilience, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Absolutely resilience, empathy, determination.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
All of it facing down such tough beginnings to build
not just a career, but this huge positive force through
everything she did.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Her legacy is pretty remarkable and it really makes you think,
doesn't it about how overcoming obstacles can fuel someone to
create change?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, how those personal struggles can be turned into something
that helps others on a massive scale.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The power of media, personal stories used for good to inspire, hope.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Definitely something to reflect on how individual journeys can drive
collective progress.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And now you guys for the part of the show
that I get super excited about, and I know you
are all exciting now, and that is our special guest.
Now we have with us CEO of the New Global
Philosophy Corporation. Raleik was Slater joining us on today's segment.
Now first up in a line if it's some very
inspiring guests. We're so excited to welcome her because what
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she's doing with the New Global Philosophy is helping students
learn the life skills that are missing today in most
educational frameworks, and her personal story and testimony is absolutely inspired.
And want you guys to join me in welcoming raleigal
Slayer to the show. Raleko, welcome to the show. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Thank you? I'm doing great. To yourself, I'm.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Doing fantastic and I'm doing much better now that we
have you on as a guest, because you're doing some
pretty amazing things at a New Global Philosophy Corporation. Now,
I know that you are just starting out and you're
in the I would say maybe the infancy stages of
building this this foundation and really helping people on a
global scale. Can you tell me a little bit about
(07:57):
the philosophy behind a New Global Philosophies and what you
aspire to do well.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
We do help with trying to go ahead and help
people with transitional housing. We understand that everyone these days
are in different stages of their life, whether you're a VET,
you have a student visa, work visa, you have low income,
you're a single parent, anything of those natures, or even
assistant to live in facilities because your income is reduced
through medical reasons.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
People need help, they need affordable housing.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
But on top of that, a lot of times when
we get these type of helps from these organizations, a
lot of us are turned down because we don't meet
certain qualifications or we're trying to keep our families together.
We also have the problem where we get comfortable. I
want this program not for people to get comfortable. I
want it to be transitional housings that provide actual life
skills for people to get from dependency to independency and
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actually thrive.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Wow, that sounds phenomenal, and I think especially today where
I think a lot of people are struggling not only
with affordable housing, but also the life just the necessary
life skills to be able to succeed. You know, we
were just talking with a few hours ago just about
I think a lot of our young ones who are
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going out there in the real world, obviously with a
lot of powerful skills, but just not able to necessarily
cope emotionally and mentally with all of the challenges that
they personally face as use in today's job market. And
so tell me a little about how a new global
philosophy is helping our young ones, you know, really gain
those necessary life skills to help them be successful in
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today's job market.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Well, the life skills that I would like us to
focus on is more of the mental and physical wellness.
Like you said, it is a mental strain. A lot
of times people are getting anxiety. Everybody's more open about
this anxiety and going straight into depression when they're not
getting things done with that anxiety. And I feel like
that's a very big part of it. A lot of
just think that stress is unhealthy. Stress is not always unhealthy.
(10:03):
We're going to get anxiety, We're going to get nervous,
but it's just how do you cope with it? How
do you get from one step to the next step
without freezing, without paralyzing yourself. So really working on the
mental and physical wellness portion. Also other aspects would definitely
be the financial wellness. If you know how to get
your finances, that's one thing, but how do you manage them?
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How do you make sure that the late fees are
not taking all your money that you have extra for
the month, and things of that nature. So really teaching
budgeting and money management and how to have money saved
up for emergencies. What is insurance and what is it
used for, why should you get it, why shouldn't you
get it, what type of things to look out for
in these type of contracts as well.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Wow, and that makes a lot of sense. And I
appreciate you touching on the aspects of mental and emotional
well being for our young people, especially as they combat
with negative I guess I would say that just the
next negative side effects of just living in today's society
and yet still having to make, you know, life decisions
in the work and out of the work. And so
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I really appreciate that a New Global Philosophy is really,
you know, focusing on making sure that our young ones
are are given the start of a future that they
need to be successful. So we appreciate everything that you're
aspiring to do and and how you're shaping even just
this particular aspect of education and wellness. Now I know
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that you know the foundation a New Global Philosophy corporation
has its own personal story of how do I say
of trial and to success, and that goes back to
a personal testimony of yourself. You yourself were recently in
a a terrible accident that almost took your life. Do
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you mind sharing that with us?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
So back in a guess of twenty two, twenty two,
my ex boyfriend and I we were, you know, driving.
We went to go get a smoothie. It was it
was that simple and nothing more. We went to go
get a smoothie ten minutes away. On the way back,
literally the GPS said five minutes left, the car caught
on fire. We did not hit anything, No car had
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hit us. We were at an intersection by a freeway
and it blew up. And being in the car, you know,
you can go back to your past experiences and like, okay,
God prepared me for this. We all go through you know,
the fire drills and everything we know to get on
the floor because you can't breathe when you're up high.
You know certain things that feed the fire. And in
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that moment, some of us freeze up, some of us panic.
In my case, I tried to get out of the
car and I couldn't. The door did not unlock, even
though I could see it was unlocked. It wouldn't open.
I tried banging on the window, it wouldn't open, and
just I've done medical in the past, so they really
train you on that disaster relief, and I just remember surrendering.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I was I was done.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I was just like, Okay, I can't get out the car.
It's not opening. I have nothing around me to break
this window in front of me. I know the windshield
is going to get much harder, and then I knew
that there was only certain parts you can hit on
the windshield too, and I was scared to move inside
the car. I had contacts in and they tell you
take your contacts out because they come melt in your eyes,
and I was like, I don't want to take them
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out because.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Then I can't see. I need to get out this
car if I have a chance.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
But after trying for a few seconds it felt like minutes,
it really did feel like a long time. It was
very vivid. It just it felt like a very vivid dream.
And I can tell that the fire was behind me
and on the side of me. It definitely wasn't on
the front of the car. And I just felt like
I was suck So that moment when I did surrender,
something popped up in my head to just give it
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one more try, try the other windows. So I just
remember sticking this hand just right out the window. I
felt some window on my fingers and I went for it.
I put my leg up on the seat and I
just go right out the window. And that's personally how
I got out the car. I found out later that
somebody had pulled my ex boyfriend out the car, so
that's how he got out the car.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Luckily, no one did pass away that day.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
And the area that I was actually in, I was
in Texas and I was in Dallas, and one of
the areas that I was actually in was a new development.
It was three cities. It was two cities turning into three.
So when they originally called the ambulance, they went to
the wrong city. It took them forty five minutes to
get to that wrong city, another forty five minutes to
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get to us. So when they did get to us,
they said, you know, I do apologize. Nobody told us
that it was two people involved. We need another ambulance.
Only one of you guys can go at a time.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I'm like, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
So at the time my ex boyfriend. He went through
an injury at work and he had back issues. I
didn't know what I looked like. I didn't know how
bad it was or anything. I'm like, no, give him
the ambulance, like he needs help right now.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Give him. I feel fine, Like I'm perfectly fine. I
feel fine.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
And so they gave them the first one, and that
that I waited forty five minutes for another one. After that, Yeah,
they helicoptered. They got the helicopter. They sent us over
to the burn unit in Dallas, and I was in
the hospital for seventeen days before I was able to
get out.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Wow. Now, from that experience, and thank you so much
for sharing that with us. I mean, that's there's so
many questions that I have and it just seems like
a lot of people drop the ball in this situation.
But I want to take I want to I want
to take away something from this. What was What was
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your takeaway from this experience?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Trust my instincts. You know, they tell you that all
the time.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
They tell you to have discernment, to work on yourself
so that you do have that discernment and labor and
tell you a lot of times, you know, not to
do certain things. For example, we still don't know what
the cause of the fire was. After the investigation and everything,
we still don't know. However, my ex boyfriend, he was
under the influence heavily. Because he was under the influence,
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he was not driving properly, did not want to let
me drive, did not want to give me the keys.
And I am younger, I still got in the car.
I shouldn't have gotten in the car. And it's a
lesson learned that day. One thing I can remember beginning
and from the time I woke up to the time
I went to sleep that day, and I was uneasy
before the accident. I was very, very uneasy. Something was
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trying to tell me something that's just not right, like
don't go in that car. I wanted to go to
sleep that day before the smoothie, I was trying to
go to bed and I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I was just so uneasy.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
So to anybody out there, I would definitely say, trust
your instincts. We all like to have fun and everything.
You want to let people do what they do. You
think it doesn't have nothing to do with you, But no,
get out the car, catch the uber ketch, the lift,
walk whatever you gotta do catch the bus. Your life
is just not worth it. It is definitely not worth it.
You let them risk they your own life. Wow, And
I think that goes back to a New Global Philosophy
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corporation and really what you're trying to provide for young
ones as they step out into the real world, just
those those life skills, those instie trusting skills that they
need to be able to be successful, especially in today's
job market. Thank you so much for sharing your testimony.
If you can give us a piece of advice that
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we could take away and also how we can contact you,
what would it be. The piece of contact would be
at a new book Global Philosophy at gmail dot com.
And my major piece of advice would definitely be utilize
your resources. That's basically what I'm trying to do here.
When I went through my accident, the recovery portion was stressful.
(17:43):
It was more stressful because I did not prepare. I
was told three times by my aunt to get long
term disability. I did not get long term disability, you guys,
I had I mean no short term disability.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
I did not get short term disability. I had long
term disability. So in the beginning of my state, all
expenses were on me. I had no medical insurance. I
took it off because they were taking too much at
my check. That too much out of my check actually
could have helped me a whole lot more. Right now,
you guys need those insurances. They mean a lot and
a lot of times we take them for granted. The
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life insurance too. Thankfully I am here. If I was
not here, that would have been another expense, funeral expenses
and even debt cancelation expenses that we don't think about
that we would believe in our families with.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
So definitely utilize your resources.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
If you don't know how to do something, talk to somebody,
look it up, read a book something.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Wow, great pieces of advice. And thank you so much
for everything that your a New Global Philosophy Corporation stands
for and what it will become in the very near future.
For those of you who are looking to reach out
a new Global Philosophy Corporation and network with Reliqua and
you know, support this the start of this amazing foundation,
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I want you guys to go to a New Global
Philosophy at you dot com. You guys can also see
a link in the description of the show wherever you
happen to be listening or are watching this particular segment, Marli,
but thank you so much for everything that you're doing
and the individuals that you will continue to inspire for
future generations.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
We truly appreciate you. Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Looking to you guys listening at home. I want you
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Speaker 2 (19:25):
Be right back.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Hey, what's going on you guys? This is Joseph Bonner
and welcome back to our show. Now we are continuing
in a very inspiring lineup of some amazing, amazing guests,
and our next guest joining us today is nothing short
of amazing. Her name is Son Young Kim Mazzolini. She
is a CEO, author and life coach, business coach Lush
(19:51):
Enterprise LLC. Son Young, Welcome to the show. How are
you today.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And doing great? Thank you? Tilseev happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Well, We're so happy to have you, and I'm actually
pretty excited about some of the things that we're gonna
be talking with you about because you have such an
amazing story, not only resis, I mean your story it's
so I mean, it's so much to take in. So
I really want to have my audience pick up where
(20:20):
I really think they're gonna have some really profound takeaways. Now,
a lot of us can relate because you know, we
are hustling and bustling, we're working, we're trying to make
a living. But a lot of us out there really
from paycheck to paycheck. You know, it's rough, and some
of us want to escape the rack race. You you
were also in that similar situation. Can you tell us
(20:42):
about that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Sure? Yes, you know I was doing my dream job,
you know, nine to five. I was so excited to
go to bed at night before just so that I
could get up to go to work. That's how much
I love my job. But let me just kind of
take you back to where I kind of came from. Basically,
(21:04):
So I was born in South Korea. Those of you
probably never heard who I am or anything like that,
but I became an instant orphan after my dad left us,
my sister and I, and that is right after my
mother passed away. He just figures that he could not
take care of us by himself. So my sister and
(21:27):
I ended up in an orphanage. And that orphanage, I
realized a couple of things. One was that it was
normal for my dad to leave us because there are
so many babies who were dropped up by the front doorstep,
and that the step at the orphanages would talk about
it and said, oh, we got another baby today. So
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when I saw that, you know situations, I go, oh, well,
it's not so bad our family split, so I could
just you know, accept that. But there's something else that
I realized in that orphanage was I was observing other
kids playing outside, and I was looking at myself and
I said, why couldn't I go outside with my friends
(22:09):
and play? I realized I couldnot walk. So then my sister,
out of the blue, she decided that she's going to
take me to another orphanage. And I remember she brought
me a picture and say this is a new place
that I'm going to take you. And I said why.
(22:30):
You know, we have a right to ask why about
any questions or anything that people say to us. And
she says, this is where they're going to teach you
how to walk. And I said, thank you, but no,
thank you, I don't need to go there. I don't
want to go there. I don't need to learn to walk.
I just want to be with you. That was my
(22:50):
goal in my life, to just to live with her,
somebody from my birth family, only person that I have
left that I know of. I don't even know anybody's name.
I don't know my parents' names. But her name was
Kim Sunjah and she was my only hope. And I
thought that we're gonna be together until one of us die.
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That's the kind of hope that I had with her.
But she decided to, you know, take me there anyway
without me not wanting to go there, not wanting to
learn to walk. So she dropped me off and she said,
of course. I was hanging out her hand really really
tight because I didn't want to go, you know, I
didn't want her to go. And she says, you know,
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I have to go to the bathroom, and I said,
why can't I go? You always, we always go to
the bathroom together because I can walk. So she had
to take me to the bathroom, right So anyway, anytime
she had to go to the bathroom, I would go
with her. This time she says, no, you can't come,
and I go.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She said, i'll be back, I'll be back, and with
pinky promise, and after an hour of going, pulling back
and forth with her holding hands, I let her go.
She went to the bathroom. Never saw her again. I
waited all day long into the evenings. Never came back,
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and so I would that moment, I think I went
through a life change that moment, I realized I can't
trust anybody, and I hated the world. I did not
want to live anymore. I basically wanted to call back
into my mother's womb, you know womb when you know.
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And then I wanted to tell her, I said, Mother,
after you died, guess what happened to me? But I couldn't.
I was so hurt, I was so lonely. So I
lived in that orphanage where my sister dropped me off.
I never smiled, I never spoke to anybody because I
just thought I am all alone in this world. Can
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even walk being in there. I lived there for about
nine or ten years, but it took me two or
three years to learn to walk. Basically, one of the
orphanage staffs showed me how to hang onto the rail
on the walls, and you gotta get up and you
gotta learn to walk, and how you do it, you
gotta do it every single day. You gotta get up,
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pull yourself up, holding onto the rail until you could
stand up, and then when once you feel comfortable, then
you could take a step. But that's how she never
worked with me. She just kind of showed me once
and that's it. So every single day I looked around
and all the kids that in the orphanage was getting
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around with clutches, with the limb, with the wheelchairs, but
there was me. I couldn't even get around at all.
I didn't even know how to get up on the wheelchair.
I was just scooting myself with my hands and my
feet with my back on the floor. That's how I
got around. So as I was observing other kids getting around,
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I thought, I have to learn to walk so that
I could help some other kids that could not move.
I could carry them on my back. That was my
main goal. So I learned to walk. Took me two years,
no physical therapists, nobody other than it just be shown
to me once or twice. And the moment that I
took a step when I was aged six or seven,
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without holding onto anything, no rails, no chairs, nobody next
to me standing by in case I fall, to hang
on to anything. I thought the floor was going to move.
So I took a step, and I was so scared.
And I remember this when I was about six or
seven years old. I was so scared to take a step,
so scared because I didn't have nothing to hang on
to in case. That's how we live a life. At
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age fourteen, there was an American family that wanted to
adopt me. They wanted to adopt special needs a child,
and I fell under that category. So I was adopted.
I came to America at age fourteen. I didn't have
a normal teenage years. The year I came, I cried,
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even though I didn't have any family, but I cried
because I left so many friends in the orphans that
I became friends with for nine or ten years. They
were my family, and I didn't know how to speak.
And also my biggest challenge was I had to learn
to love people. I had to learn to trust people.
I have to learn all these new things that I
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was just so against because previous life, by my birth family,
they abandoned me, so why should I trust? And so
I went through a lot of obstacles and really wanting
to embrace a second chance that I have in my life.
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And so I was so grateful. I was so grateful.
And one of the things that I was so so
happiest moment when I came to America, I didn't have anything,
nothing with me other than just few pictures of my friends.
But my parents bought me all kinds of clothes, like
they bought me shoes, school shoes, tennis shoes, address underwear,
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bra I mean, I never had a bra, a change
of clothes. And I cried, and I thought, this is
the gift that is going to last me lifetime. This
is all I need. I remember just crying and I
just thought I don't deserve this. But they were not
only they're adopting me just the way I am, but
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they were giving me all these gifts that I didn't
even ask for. But they knew that I have to
have those things to go to school. They knew that
I have to have a basic necessity. But I didn't
look at it that way. I just thought, I can't
believe this. I just cannot believe. I mean, I have
a change of clothes, like this is just unreal. So
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those were like a really really surprising these moments. And
I remember one year first in life and orphanage, we
never got to celebrate my birthdays or Christmas. And so
when in America when they celebrated Christmas, and I asked
for one thing and that was Kotian Bible and my siblings.
My parents had six kids of their own and that
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adopted one child from Kotia, so they had seven kids.
But I remember my siblings were saying, son, you young,
you could ask for more than one gift for Christmas.
And I going, uh uh, this is all I want.
And they was, yeah, you can't ask for more, and
I go, no, I just want one thing for Christmas
and that is Kotia Bibles. I caree and I got it.
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That was another breakthrough of my life. It's like I
just cannot believe that someone would give me something that
I want, that I wish to have. It was just crazy.
So those were just chucking moments that I came to America.
So I listened to my parents' teachings. They told me,
they says, get a good grade and just get a
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good you know, go to college and get a good
pain job and just work and make money and you'll
be set. And I said, okay, I could do that.
I'm going to try. So I went through every single
summer to learn English, and my mother spent whole summer
with me teaching me English. And I would get up
at four o'clock in the morning. We were all in
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the bunk best because there were so many kids, you know,
seven eight with me, and I remember I was sleeping
under one of the bunk beds and then upper bed
upper bed was my sister, and I had a little
tiny flashlight, and I was sett in my English because
I really wanted to learn that English so bad, because
I really wanted to, like get a good grade, because
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in my mind, if I didn't get a good grade,
I thought they would send me back to Korea. I
had the biggest fear. I thought they were going to
send me back if I do not do what they
tell me to do, and if I don't learn and
learn to socialize, learn to accept and go to school
and get a good place, I'm pretty sure that they're
going to send me back. So I thought this was
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like a test. I didn't know that they had unconditional
love for me, because I didn't know what the love
meant I had to learn that. And so even now
forty to fifty decades later, I took it up at
four o'clock in the morning because it became my habit.
But I don't study English. I just something else at
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four o'clock in the morning. But anyway, so I landed
up as a certified medical system. My dream job would
love working for doctors and taking care of my patients.
For thirty three years, it was my passion. But you
know what, I was really very grateful and very happiest
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energy every single day when I went to work because
I was helping people. That's what my passion was, helping people.
And I got to listen to their problems. But you know,
I never got to talk about my problem. I never
got to talk about where.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I came from.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They just knew me happy son, young, happy nurse, you know,
nurse for a doctor. So and so that's what they
knew me as And then I thought, why am I
still working here? I knew why because I loved it,
But I wasn't making enough money. Why am I struggling
leaving paycheck to paycheck? Why do I have to work,
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you know, like six seven days a week just to
make ends? Meet because I was I found myself raising
do the kids as a single mother after come through
you know, divorce with a domestic violence marriage. And so
I did all kinds of side jobs and everything. And
I thought, in my old mindset was like the harder
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you work, the more you work, you're gonna make more
money and you're gonna be rich and you'll be okay.
That was my mindset. I work, work, work, I so
back in the night after I worked ten hour shifts
as a nurse certified medical assistant, and then I would
I did a catering business on my days up on Wednesdays,
and I also did house cleaning. I did all kinds
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of job and I loved. I loved doing everything because
here I am. When I lived in an orphanage life,
I was living from meal to meal, I had no purpose.
By here I am, I have all kinds of purpose
right now. So my purpose was to make en up money,
make sure my kids were taken care of. But I thought,
I cannot do this aftertyre, how many years do I
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have to go through before I retire? So I decided
to retire, not knowing any other skills other than being
a medical system. And I didn't have anybody within my
circle that was making, you know, extraordinary money. They just
living pacheck like I was. My family is my friends,
my coworkers. So I thought, hmm, you know, I'm in America.
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I came to, you know, a country where you could
get your dream life. And then I ended up with
my dream job, but my dream income wasn't there. It
wasn't matching. So I thought I had to do something
about it. And so I just took a leap mindset shift.
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And so anytime we want to do anything at all,
we had to think about it first. We don't just
do things because you don't know what the result's going
to be. Right. So when I thought about it, I said,
my dream job, the country that I live in is
all dream life. I'm living dream job. But why am
I not getting dream income? This is crazy because I
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love my job, but why not? So I was telling
my doctor in twenty fourteen, I said I'm going to
retire and he says when And I said within a year.
He says, do you have any money? And I said no?
And I only had a ten dollars in my checking account.
I didn't have any money in my savings. But I
did have my four one K my pension plan after
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thirty three years, but I cannot touch it because I
was going to retire earlier than the age that I
was able to withdraw those And so but I hear
in America there's a people somewhere out there that are
making money like warm buff Ellen mask because there are
so many rich people out there that I hear. I
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haven't been around them in their circles, but I heard it,
and I thought to myself, like why not me? Like
I could make enough money. It's like, okay, I could
do that. But instead of saying how do I do that?
Where can I start? I didn't do any of that thinking.
I just thought, I'm just gonna make go up. I'm
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just going to retire early and I'm going to start
making money. I don't know what I'm going to do,
but I'm going to do it anyway. And so I
started going to realestate investment. You know, I thought I
was going to be a real city investors and of
financial investors. So I started tending classes for real estate
because I did have a real estate property. But I
didn't make money. I was losing money because I didn't
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have any skills. I didn't have any strategies and I
was just like people said, oh, you just have a
rental properties, you can make money. So I just went
by what I heard. So I just did that and
I was losing money because I didn't have a specific
strategies and skills. So I went there to learn some
skills I could make money under the rental properties that
I had. And that's when they introduced me to option trading.
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They says, if you're going to make so much money
doing real estate business, what are you gonna do. You're
gonna learn to invest your money. And I said what
do we do? And they said, well there's option trading
strategies that you could learn and you could invest money.
And I said what is that? Intaeil and they said
option trading and I said, well what do you have
to do? They says you got to learn things from
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computer and I said, I'm now not me. I hate computers.
So I automatically because I was scared. I was really
scared of computer and so no thanks. And then and
then I did retire within a year, and I did
go to the auctions and trying to buy the property
more properties and things to do a real estate investors.
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And then it took me away from home and I
had a son. It was like sixteen seventeen year old.
I got remarried too since then, but anyway, so I
thought I wanted to stay home, So that did not
liign with my goal. So I decided to do this
option trading, and I took on a hobby after I retired,
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and so my option trading strategy was my hobby. And
then when I was practicing with the virtual money, and
I realized, like, wait a minute, I could make thirty
thousand dollars in one or two days, and I made
that in about a year. There's something wrong with this picture.
I think I better really kind of look into it
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more often. So I took this my hobby very seriously
and not wanting to make money to live on, but
because it was fun. Like a lot of people have
hobbies like hunting and fishing, they spend money, and me,
I wanted to take on a hobby that makes me money,
and so that's what I did. I and then I thought, okay,
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I'm going to do this with the real money. So
I took some homemaquerity loan from the house and in
two thy sixteen, cause I retired in twenty fifteen, exactly
a year from twenty fourteen, and then twenty sixteen, in January,
I started doing this with the real money. And my
first year with the real money, I mad one hundred
and seventy eight thousand, I six times my income what
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I was doing for thirty three years. And I thought,
oh my gosh, I'm maybe I'm I'm not so bad.
Maybe I'm better than I thought. I would you know
something that the skills that I hate I didn't want
to learn, and I was scared and petrified, and I
was getting the results, and I thought, okay, well, and
so when my husband retired with his retiring money one
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hundred and sixty four thousand in two years later, I
took on invested and turned out to six hundred and
four thousand dollars. And I really like, by keep doing
repeating the repeatable results that are real, and I became
a millionaire. And I just thought, this is shocking. I
never ever even dreamed of becoming a millionaire. Now I
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can say I'm living my dream life in a dream world,
in a dream country and making the dream income. And
I just said, oh my gosh. And along the way,
you know what I have. They so many, so many
challenges and obstacles that I just wanted to give up.
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But the things that we do behind when nobody's expecting anything,
nobody wants to, you know, expect the results. I didn't
even know how good I was going to be at
I have no idea if someone told me, so, you know,
you're going to be a millionaire doing option trading in
you know, like a couple years or so, I don't
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think I would have believed it because I haven't heard
anybody making that kind of money doing oction chating for
number one, because I was not within that circle of people.
Because we have to be within the proximity of people.
If you want to become a rich you have to
start talking and thinking that you're rich. And so this
is what I teach my clients. It's like, you know,
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not only I'm a millionaire financially, but I'm a millionaire
with the things that I have now. Compared to the
life that I lived in, I didn't have a change
of clothes. I never used to wear clothes that are matching,
you know, But here I am I have like you know,
more than one person, I have like five, six, seven, eight,
twelve persons in my hub. Since I have a twenty
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person I feel rich. I feel millionaire. I have more
than one pair of shoes. That's what makes me feel
like millionaire, not only financially, but the life that I'm
living in. I am just I don't need anything else.
I'm spoiled, brat. That's how I see myself, not to break.
But when you think about how how focus on what
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you have instead of like you don't have, it makes
you so rich. I mean, I feel like I'm a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
With my life.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
I love her. I love your attitude, and you have
such a genuine spirit about you, and you can tell
that even when you didn't have what you have now
you you came from such a place of appreciation and
it just res like you are. You are the kind
of people that we want to be millionaires in this world.
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I kid you more people like you if they were,
If we had more millionaires like you, the world would
be a much better place. I do have a question
for you, because there's a coup, there's there's so many
things about your story and I didn't want to interrupt
because you tell your story so well. You really don't
need any narrator. There was something that you mentioned in
your story and it goes back to when you were
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learning how to walk and lady she kind of when
she attached you to the wall and she's like, hey,
you got to you gotta get it and pick yourself up.
You gotta know.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
And you did.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
You figured it out, you you version, you stood up,
and then eventually, when you felt comfortable, you took that
first step. And I feel like right now people are
in that similar situation where they're clinging on like a
wall and they don't know how to walk forward. They
don't know how to move forward from living from paycheck
to paycheck and they're like stuck. And I feel like
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you're the person that's kind of coming there and saying, yeah, okay, now,
if you're if if you're tired of being here, let's
go ahead and learn now how to how to walk
from this point forward. And I think that's what you're
doing through your company. Tell me a little bit about
the coaching that you provide, because I know that a
lot of people who are coming to you they want
to know how can they do what you do? What
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kind of coaching do you offer them?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
So I offered them the biggest mind shift, you know,
mindset shift, because without knowing that that you cannot shift
your mind, then you cannot do anything. Okay, So the
coaching that I do is life coaching. I help people individually,
group coaching, and also a couple's coach. All the things
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that I've had problems in my journey, I figured it
out that I have a strategy is how to overcome
those problems is huge. And so when people say, well,
I don't know how to take a next step because
even though I'm sick and tired of my job, you know,
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but I don't know. I'm scared because this is why
I feel comfortable and this.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Is all I know.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Right, we have to say, you know what, No, but
you cannot wait for opportunities to come to you. We
have to go where there's an opportunity. We have to go.
We have to put ourselves there's an opportunity. But not
just doing that and not just listening to like this
podcast like this sure, you know, like I get motivated
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myself just talking about my story, you know, because it
really motivated me to where I am today. And so
if you know, hopefully like one or two of your
audience could be motivated and take the next step. But
the thing is is you can't just listen to the
motivational speakers like me or like yourself, because you know
you're you know, you're a great influencer too, Joseph. You know,
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like everybody knows, right, but you have a great business
that you influence so many people and you're changing people's life.
But the thing is is the secret is you've got
to take actions now. Because a lot of times we say, Okay,
I'm going to do that. There's times where in my
life I have heard the motivational speakers and then I
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feel so good and I felt like I could change
my life and I'm going to do it. And then
I walk into my door, my house, and guess what,
there are same old routine, same old house, same people,
same room saying everything. But what different. There's nothing different
other than what I heard. But something that has to
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do it is me saying I took it. I'm going
to have to take an action. It doesn't have to
be big actions right away, it has it could be
small actions. So one of the examples that I want
to tell you about orphanage life, where I took that
setting a goal taking an action was this When I
was about ten or twelve years old in orphanage, I
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was watching other kids chewing a gum because, like I said,
the orphanage that I was ended up in two second
orphanage was one hundred percent of the kids were handicapped.
They're all getting around with the wheelchairs and limping, and
I was clutches and things. And but eighty percent of
the kids had a family, and twenty percent of us
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did not have a family. But we're all a handicapped.
But I saw some of the kids who were chewing gum,
and I said, oh my gosh, I want to chew
a gum. But I had no money. I was an
orphan I was tooing bears to ask, you know. The
kids with the family said, hey, can I have a
piece of gum. I'm sure they would have given it
to me, but we feel, you know, we live our life,
you know, like I don't dare to ask because I
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feel shamed, you know, like I don't want them to
ask me why you need it or whatever. So when
I saw them chewing a gun, and I thought, I'm
going to chew a gump, and so my girlfriend and
I we went outside. I was good bye. Then I
was walking over it because I learned to walk when
I was like six or seven years old. So when
I went outside of the orphanage and I found the
gum after now, don't get sick, but anyway, after floor
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that has been walked down by so many so many
dot de feet, who knows, and he was stuck in
the cement and I dug it out. Okay, I wanted
to chew a gump. That was my goal. I just
started chewing a gump would be willicole. So I dug
it out and it was sticky, and then I took
out the biggest rocks that I could feel, right, and
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then I thought, okay, this looks good. So then I
put in my mouth and I chewed it and I'm like,
this is so cool. And I was cheating like and
my girlfriend I looked at it. I was like, we're cool.
We were chewing a gum, right, But it was crunchy.
I thought I took all the rocks out, but it
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was crunchy, and at that time I didn't know anything
better about it. Then I accomplished the goal that I wanted.
I just want to chew a gum that day, I
want to be cool like other kids. You know that
chewing gums. Right, Well, many years later, when I came
to America, right when I bought a gum, or when
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my parents bought me a gum, and first time I
chewed that gum, I realized something. Gum had a flavors
and gum tasted smooth. It wasn't crunchy, and I realized that,
oh my gosh, there tisch And then I couldn't blow
a bubble. It's like not just a tube you can
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blow bubble. It's like so cool. Well, Joe said along
my journey, this is something that I realized. We set
a goal, and we accomplish a goal, we do not
stop there. Why if I accomplish my goal, I need
to chew a gum. And I did that, And if
I have never tasted a new gum, I would have
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never known the difference because in my mind, the gum
would always be crunchy and no flavors. Right, That's how
I finished my goal. But then when I came to
America and I bought a gum and I chewed it
and I could blow bubbles and it was smooth. There's
no clutchiness. So then oh my gosh, I can't believe this.
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And so when we set a goal, it is important
for us to keep going to the next goal to
find out because I didn't I didn't buy gum to
find out what my next goal. I just found out
that I could afford to buy gum because I have
a job and I feel rich. I have my own
job now, and so I could buy a gum and
makes me feel rich because I could buy any flavors,
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many gun as I want, anytime I want. That makes
me rich. And so it is important for us to,
you know, set a goal, go for it, taking actions
no matter what it is. You can't say I can't,
I don't have any money. I'm embarrassed to ask. You
don't give all that crap. You just do it. You
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just find a way. And then once you accomplish your goal,
go for next level. And then you're gonna realize, oh
my god, you know, like we don't stop, you know,
and making a million dollars, you go for the next level,
next million. Right, That's how life is, and that's how
your dream life is. You gotta always learn, You're gotta
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always learn to grow. But the biggest thing is you
gotta take actions right now. In fact, I'm guilty of
not taking actions because I have used so many excuses.
So I just talk about this. But here's a book
that I wrote, invest in yourself, throw away your excuses,
and turn your life around. Because I have all my life,
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most of my life, I have used excuses like not now,
in the future, maybe when I graduate from you know,
high school, after my kids grown, after I graduate from college.
I'm too young, I'm too old. I use all these excuses,
and it took me thirty three or more years. I
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delayed my results because I've used the excuses. So it's
important to take actions right away. Not just hearing it,
reading about it, and talking about it. You got to
actually taste it with actions.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Thank you so much for sharing that. For those of
you guys who are wanting to get a copy of
that book, I want you to go to the description
of this podcast wherever you're going to be listening to
it or watching it, and you'll click a link and
I will take you right to the book. Also your
website as well, is this how we can reach out
to you for coaching sessions.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yes, coaching sessions through my website, you can reach out
to me my Instagram, TikTok Linda, you know, all the
fun social media's.
Speaker 5 (51:19):
Right, yeah, and all those links everyone, they're in the
description of the show. So if you go down to
the Sun Young section there, you know, be able to
click on her website, her social media handles, you know,
connect with her. Make sure that you are setting your
goals and pushing forward to greater success. I do want
to circle with this before. I'm not letting you go
just yet, because you know you're so inspiring. I have
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a few questions I want to ask you. It's like,
my first big question is this, and it's kind of
circling back to something that you said earlier about your sister.
I know that before the show started you you were
mentioning about how he went back to Korea to search
for her. Were you ever able to find her?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Well, the answer is no, because when I went to
the Detective Private Detective Police Department and they said that
I didn't know my family name and I didn't have
my sister's birthday, the only thing I knew about her
was just, you know, my sister's name, Kim Sunja. But
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the reason I went back to look for her is
because I have lived most of my life with the
hatred towards her. When she left me at the second
organ and she promised me, says she would come back
to me, she would come back for me. She never did.
So I hated living my life hating her. When I
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learned to forgive, and I wanted to tell her say
I'm sorry, please forgive me, and I love you. I
wanted to tell her that. That's why when I went
back there with my husband and my son in twenty eighteen,
never got to find her. But I still say those
things to her. It makes me feel like, you know,
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she is listening to me.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
I ask you a question, where where exactly was this
in Korea? I mean, because listen, we're gonna put this
on TikTok and social media, and we're going to ask
you guys out there to do your thing, you know, TikTok,
do your thing, Instagram, do your thing, and and and
find her. What is your sister's name? Beginning? Where in Korea?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Was this in South Korea? And Mo pol tejon okay?
So we were in a mopol orphanage first first time
and then second orphanage that she dropped me up. Was
she left me. There was a Tejun so Song, said girl.
Tejun Tong said, girl, it's the name. It's in Teijun,
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South Korea.
Speaker 5 (53:54):
Okay, all right, And and your sister would be around
what age now?
Speaker 2 (53:59):
I would say she would be in her probably like
seventies maybe yeah, And I want to do it like
if she was not doing well, I would have loved
to just bring her to America and just you know,
take care of her, because I'm sure that she would
have wanted to take care of me. But she didn't
have any money, she didn't have any resources or only
(54:21):
thing that she knew at the time was just drop
me up where they could teach me how to walk.
And so if I didn't not walk, if I did
not learn to walk, my life would be different. I
don't think I would ever come to America. I don't
think that I could do all the things that I
could do, like is just just you know I would be.
I don't know where I would be. But instead of
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thinking about what if or what could have what if?
The important thing is to enjoy the moment and appreciate
what you have and focus on what you do have,
not what you don't have, and then take massive actions.
By taking little baby actions turns into big actions. You
never know what the result.
Speaker 5 (55:05):
Yeah, absolutely well TikTok Instagram. You guys do your thing.
I want to I want to see if we can
find her. I know the police weren't able to help,
but I know you guys are a lot more thorough
investigators in the police are. Let's be honest, you can
find anybody anywhere. So your sister's name again, she's in
her seventies. Her name beginn a son young No.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Her name is Kim Kim son Jah Kim sun Ja.
Speaker 5 (55:30):
Kim is don Joh. She's in her seventies. Korea. And
what city again?
Speaker 2 (55:36):
She left me at the MoPo No Inkjua. She left
me in Keiju. It's an Orphanish name called Song, said
Yeo Hotil. Song said hot Gil. It's like a rehab center.
There's only one place in Tijon. It's a rehab center.
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And they're still there.
Speaker 5 (55:59):
Okay, there you go, All right, well there you guys go.
There's information. Please make this go viral. Let's let's let's
find her sister, and let's let's.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Make it so good.
Speaker 5 (56:10):
Yeah, let's make another chapter in this book. I mean,
I mean your legacy, and sometimes, like you said, we
just need a little extra help. And sometimes it's people
out there in social media that can be our help,
that can help us get to that next level. And
so you're giving so much to us through your inspiration,
and I hope that this is something that we in
the social media world can give to you as well. Now,
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if you have any party pieces of advice for us,
things that we can take away with us to help
us just get to that next level, maybe not give up,
maybe just overcome negative thinking. I mean, what piece of
advice do you have?
Speaker 2 (56:44):
First, Well, the advice is that I use now is
I always talk positively in my mind. So in other words,
like we all hear things in life. You know, we're
living in a broken world, all kinds of strategies, tragedies
and everything around us. That's part of life. You have
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to accept it. But how we react is very important.
So the my device that I use every single day
and I teach my clients is this, It's how we speak.
So in other words, like the things that we get
to do, like we have to do, we take it
as like, oh do I have to do that? I
don't have time, Like with the talking with your body's posture.
(57:29):
You gotta, you know, become your own best state that
you've got to create yourself and just say, know what,
whatever I have to do, I get to do it.
I have an opportunity to do it, not that I
have to. So for example, like when my kids were little,
they want to hang out with their friends and they
can't drive, right, but I'm busy. A lot of parents
(57:53):
we said, oh I don't have time, or sometimes kids
will feel guilty to ask their parents even say can you, like,
can you take me to my friends house? I want
to hang out, especially teenagers, right. But instead, if you're
a parent or whoever it is, whoever you're dealing with,
just say, I get an opportunity to do this for you.
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I know that I know that I have to because
you can't drive, but eighty percent I want to do it.
I get to do it. Twenty percent I know I
have to because you can't drive. So that's just one
of the examples. And so we live attitude with like.
And then when you run into people that are negative
talking negative to you, a co worker or your loved ones, whatever,
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you look in the mirror every single time when you
wash your hands at the public restrooms or even in
the around the homes and stuff, or washing doing dor
dishes and something, and like, let's just say, like I
just had an argument with my husband and he made
me feel like crap, you know, and he made me
feel like I'm not a good wife or whatever. Or
talking to my kids and they feel like they let
me know, I get the feeling like, oh, I'm not
(58:58):
as a good mother or whatever we all feel about. Right,
you wash your hands and say, you know what, I'm
a good wife. What he said he doesn't mean it.
He's just upset, and so you don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
It's like I'm a good wife, I'm a sexiest wife.
I'm a good mother because I love being a mother.
I love cooking for my kids. You have to say
those things in positive. You have to say those things
to yourself. So you have some like some boss or
manager who say, you know why you didn't do this right?
Or you know, so you feel like, oh, should I
quit or I'm afraid I'm gonna get fired. You go
in the bathroom and say, you know what, I'm a
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good employee. I gave the best I could. You know,
they're just having a bad day, and whatever they're saying,
it's not true, right, that's just their belief. You have
to believe how good you are, the good person you are,
and you have to kay that every single day, not
just only when the situation arises, every single time. My
husband and I we practice, and so we don't mind
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arguing more often because it gives us an excuse to
do that more often. And that's what I told my husband.
Speaker 5 (59:55):
I love that. I love that you know you are
a millionaire, and so anyways, I can't even I can't
even say it. You know, it's it's you radiate with
so much joy and positivity, and like I said, if
we had one millionaires like you, the world would be
such a better place. Thank you for everything that you're doing,
and thank you for sharing your wisdom and insight with us.
(01:00:16):
For those of you guys who are listening at at
home or watching this, I definitely want you guys to
to go to those links, you know, connect with Sun
Young half hours a part of your life and your
network support her, and she continues to support so many
others on their journey. I'm so excited for what twenty
twenty five, twenty twenty six is going to have in
store for you. And really, let's just be honest, your
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story should be a movie. It should.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Thank you, Joseph. I appreciate your time and your journey
helping so many people, including myself and I get to
talk about my story, you know, And I used to
hide this story. I used to never want to talk
about it because it's ugly, it's a depression, it's a
it's a hurtful, it's you know. But a lot of
us could connect in some ways. We all been scared,
(01:01:05):
we all been neglected, we all been the abuse, we
all been bend, and we all been you know, we're
human being. But when we connect and just you know,
help each other grow and any tips that we could
give to you know, one another, to share the lessons
that we learned from from our journey, that's the beauty
of living life.
Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
Absolutely well said. Thank you, and thank you so much
for being on today's segment. You and I we got
to stay in contact even after today's show and support
each other. For those of you guys who are listening
at home, thank you again for joining us on this segment.
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The Joseph Bonner Show starts now.
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Welcome everyone. Today, we're exploring someone truly influential, looking at
the really positive and lasting impact of Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it's about understanding how one person, you know, facing
some pretty serious challenges could rise up and become such
a force for good exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We've looked some fascinating material charting her journey, her achievements, and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's less a straight biography, more an examination of her
influence how it's kind of spread and stuck around, right.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
We want to get to the heart of her legacy
for you. Make it clear why her story is so
well significant without getting bogged down.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Makes sense?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Okay, So where to begin the beginning? I guess born
in rural Mississippi nineteen fifty four into poverty.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, the information really details that significant hardship from the
start and some really difficult experiences, including sexual abuse and stability.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's quite stark when you read about it. Neglect too,
just formidable early challenges truly, But what really jumps out
even then is this incredible resilience.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Absolutely, Like, how do you even process that kind of start?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It's extraordinary, And the material we looked at draws a
really interesting line from those struggles to her later empathy,
that deep desire she developed to connect with people to
help them, maybe because she understood pain herself.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That makes a lot of sense. It suggests those hardships
weren't just things she overcame, but things that actively shaped
her ability to connect.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, she's talked about that herself, hasn't she How understanding
pain informed her work the importance of healing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It really sets the stage for her unique approach later on.
So moving into media, her start was maybe conventional enough,
but she rose.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Fat because of that style, right, authentic, compassionate people responded totally.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It seems that genuineness just cut through.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And then nineteen eighty six, the Oprah Winfrey Show launches,
and it wasn't just another talk show.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, wait, it completely changed the game for daytime TV.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It was like, finally Onnest conversations Yeah, about real stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, tackling difficult social issues, personal stories with a kind
of candor that felt well, pretty revolutionary for back then.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It went beyond the usual celebrity chat. It was about
real lives, real struggles.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And then the power move launching Harpo Productions.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh huge, taking control of her own show, her own message.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That really cemented her status, didn't it. From host to
media mogul territory.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Building her own skys VP, as you said, it gave
her independence.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Complete control, and that paved the way for well everything else.
Like the book Club in ninety six.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Ah, the book Club, what a phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That was unbelievable impact.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Seriously, she picks a book and boom bestseller overnight. It
created this massive reading wave.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It really did. People were suddenly talking about novels everywhere.
It got the whole country reading and discussing books.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It was kind of amazing, actually, such.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Influence democratized reading, you could say, and brought diverse stories
to light. Then there's her film work.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Right, The Color Purple, her acting debut, and she was good,
got critical acclaim.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Showed another dimension for sure, but also producing later on
films like Selma.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, powerful important films. It wasn't just about being in
front of the camera. There was always this intent behind it, purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Which connects to own The Oprah Winfrey Network launching in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Another massive step building her own TV network.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
A whole platform dedicated to her vision, essentially inspiring, empowering
content on a much bigger scale.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's like she kept building bigger platforms for her message.
And the magazine, Oh, the Oprah magazine in two.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Thousand, that took off immediately too, didn't it like wildfire.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It felt like getting a dose of that Oprah inspiration delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Right to you exactly same themes instiration, personal stories, wellness,
self improvement. It just echoed everything she stood.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
For one awards, reached millions, solidified her influence in print too.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Across all these different media, you see that consistent thread right.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Absolutely, empowerment overcoming adversity. It's the core.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Message and it clearly resonated deeply with people, still does.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Which flows right into her philanthropy.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Not just talk, no, definitely not. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership
Academy for Girls in South Africa is such a clear example.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Creating real opportunities using her platform and resources for education,
especially for marginalized kids.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's a powerful, tangible commitment putting her philosophy into action.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It really is inspiring, like she's paving the way for
others based on her own journey mm hm, which.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Leads to her wider cultural impact. It's hard to even
measure fully.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It really is. She became this symbol, didn't she of compassion, authenticity.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, inspiring so many people to believe in themselves, chase
their dreams, no matter where they started.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And just her influence on conversations mental health, emotional honesty,
well being.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
She shifted things undeniably. It's woven into the culture now
in many ways.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Speaking of continuing the conversation, the material mentioned Joseph Bonner, Ah.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yes, it seems he's really focused on highlighting her positive
legacy specifically.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, he's got interviews coming up apparently. That sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It does could offer some fresh perspectives.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh, I'm curious now, you know, Joseph Bonner often finds
those unexpected angles. I bet he'll talk to someone like
really surprising, maybe someone from the crew of the original
show or a student for the Academy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Could be anything.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Really, Yeah, you just know he'll dig up something fascinating.
I'm definitely gonna keep an eye out for what he
puts out next. It's like, you know, waiting for a
really good documentary to drop.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Worth watching for sure if you're interested in her ongoing influence.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So wrapping this up, oprah winfree story is just this
incredible example of resilience, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Absolutely resilience, empathy, determination.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
All of it facing down such tough beginnings to build
not just a career, but this huge positive force through
everything she did.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Her legacy is pretty remarkable and it really makes you think,
doesn't it about how overcoming obstacles can fuel someone to
create change?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, how those personal struggles can be turned into something
that helps others on a massive scale.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The power of media, personal stories used for good to inspire, hope.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Definitely something to reflect on how individual journeys can drive
collective progress.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And now you guys for the part of the show
that I get super excited about, and I know you
are all exciting now, and that is our special guest.
Now we have with us CEO of the New Global
Philosophy Corporation. Raleik was Slater joining us on today's segment.
Now first up in a line if it's some very
inspiring guests. We're so excited to welcome her because what
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she's doing with the New Global Philosophy is helping students
learn the life skills that are missing today in most
educational frameworks, and her personal story and testimony is absolutely inspired.
And want you guys to join me in welcoming raleigal
Slayer to the show. Raleko, welcome to the show. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Thank you? I'm doing great. To yourself, I'm.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Doing fantastic and I'm doing much better now that we
have you on as a guest, because you're doing some
pretty amazing things at a New Global Philosophy Corporation. Now,
I know that you are just starting out and you're
in the I would say maybe the infancy stages of
building this this foundation and really helping people on a
global scale. Can you tell me a little bit about
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the philosophy behind a New Global Philosophies and what you
aspire to do well.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
We do help with trying to go ahead and help
people with transitional housing. We understand that everyone these days
are in different stages of their life, whether you're a VET,
you have a student visa, work visa, you have low income,
you're a single parent, anything of those natures, or even
assistant to live in facilities because your income is reduced
through medical reasons.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
People need help, they need affordable housing.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
But on top of that, a lot of times when
we get these type of helps from these organizations, a
lot of us are turned down because we don't meet
certain qualifications or we're trying to keep our families together.
We also have the problem where we get comfortable. I
want this program not for people to get comfortable. I
want it to be transitional housings that provide actual life
skills for people to get from dependency to independency and
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actually thrive.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Wow, that sounds phenomenal, and I think especially today where
I think a lot of people are struggling not only
with affordable housing, but also the life just the necessary
life skills to be able to succeed. You know, we
were just talking with a few hours ago just about
I think a lot of our young ones who are
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going out there in the real world, obviously with a
lot of powerful skills, but just not able to necessarily
cope emotionally and mentally with all of the challenges that
they personally face as use in today's job market. And
so tell me a little about how a new global
philosophy is helping our young ones, you know, really gain
those necessary life skills to help them be successful in
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today's job market.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Well, the life skills that I would like us to
focus on is more of the mental and physical wellness.
Like you said, it is a mental strain. A lot
of times people are getting anxiety. Everybody's more open about
this anxiety and going straight into depression when they're not
getting things done with that anxiety. And I feel like
that's a very big part of it. A lot of
just think that stress is unhealthy. Stress is not always unhealthy.
(10:03):
We're going to get anxiety, We're going to get nervous,
but it's just how do you cope with it? How
do you get from one step to the next step
without freezing, without paralyzing yourself. So really working on the
mental and physical wellness portion. Also other aspects would definitely
be the financial wellness. If you know how to get
your finances, that's one thing, but how do you manage them?
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How do you make sure that the late fees are
not taking all your money that you have extra for
the month, and things of that nature. So really teaching
budgeting and money management and how to have money saved
up for emergencies. What is insurance and what is it
used for, why should you get it, why shouldn't you
get it, what type of things to look out for
in these type of contracts as well.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Wow, and that makes a lot of sense. And I
appreciate you touching on the aspects of mental and emotional
well being for our young people, especially as they combat
with negative I guess I would say that just the
next negative side effects of just living in today's society
and yet still having to make, you know, life decisions
in the work and out of the work. And so
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I really appreciate that a New Global Philosophy is really,
you know, focusing on making sure that our young ones
are are given the start of a future that they
need to be successful. So we appreciate everything that you're
aspiring to do and and how you're shaping even just
this particular aspect of education and wellness. Now I know
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that you know the foundation a New Global Philosophy corporation
has its own personal story of how do I say
of trial and to success, and that goes back to
a personal testimony of yourself. You yourself were recently in
a a terrible accident that almost took your life. Do
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you mind sharing that with us?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
So back in a guess of twenty two, twenty two,
my ex boyfriend and I we were, you know, driving.
We went to go get a smoothie. It was it
was that simple and nothing more. We went to go
get a smoothie ten minutes away. On the way back,
literally the GPS said five minutes left, the car caught
on fire. We did not hit anything, No car had
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hit us. We were at an intersection by a freeway
and it blew up. And being in the car, you know,
you can go back to your past experiences and like, okay,
God prepared me for this. We all go through you know,
the fire drills and everything we know to get on
the floor because you can't breathe when you're up high.
You know certain things that feed the fire. And in
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that moment, some of us freeze up, some of us panic.
In my case, I tried to get out of the
car and I couldn't. The door did not unlock, even
though I could see it was unlocked. It wouldn't open.
I tried banging on the window, it wouldn't open, and
just I've done medical in the past, so they really
train you on that disaster relief, and I just remember surrendering.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I was I was done.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I was just like, Okay, I can't get out the car.
It's not opening. I have nothing around me to break
this window in front of me. I know the windshield
is going to get much harder, and then I knew
that there was only certain parts you can hit on
the windshield too, and I was scared to move inside
the car. I had contacts in and they tell you
take your contacts out because they come melt in your eyes,
and I was like, I don't want to take them
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out because.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Then I can't see. I need to get out this
car if I have a chance.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
But after trying for a few seconds it felt like minutes,
it really did feel like a long time. It was
very vivid. It just it felt like a very vivid dream.
And I can tell that the fire was behind me
and on the side of me. It definitely wasn't on
the front of the car. And I just felt like
I was suck So that moment when I did surrender,
something popped up in my head to just give it
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one more try, try the other windows. So I just
remember sticking this hand just right out the window. I
felt some window on my fingers and I went for it.
I put my leg up on the seat and I
just go right out the window. And that's personally how
I got out the car. I found out later that
somebody had pulled my ex boyfriend out the car, so
that's how he got out the car.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Luckily, no one did pass away that day.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
And the area that I was actually in, I was
in Texas and I was in Dallas, and one of
the areas that I was actually in was a new development.
It was three cities. It was two cities turning into three.
So when they originally called the ambulance, they went to
the wrong city. It took them forty five minutes to
get to that wrong city, another forty five minutes to
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get to us. So when they did get to us,
they said, you know, I do apologize. Nobody told us
that it was two people involved. We need another ambulance.
Only one of you guys can go at a time.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I'm like, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
So at the time my ex boyfriend. He went through
an injury at work and he had back issues. I
didn't know what I looked like. I didn't know how
bad it was or anything. I'm like, no, give him
the ambulance, like he needs help right now.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Give him. I feel fine, Like I'm perfectly fine. I
feel fine.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
And so they gave them the first one, and that
that I waited forty five minutes for another one. After that, Yeah,
they helicoptered. They got the helicopter. They sent us over
to the burn unit in Dallas, and I was in
the hospital for seventeen days before I was able to
get out.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Wow. Now, from that experience, and thank you so much
for sharing that with us. I mean, that's there's so
many questions that I have and it just seems like
a lot of people drop the ball in this situation.
But I want to take I want to I want
to take away something from this. What was What was
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your takeaway from this experience?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Trust my instincts. You know, they tell you that all
the time.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
They tell you to have discernment, to work on yourself
so that you do have that discernment and labor and
tell you a lot of times, you know, not to
do certain things. For example, we still don't know what
the cause of the fire was. After the investigation and everything,
we still don't know. However, my ex boyfriend, he was
under the influence heavily. Because he was under the influence,
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he was not driving properly, did not want to let
me drive, did not want to give me the keys.
And I am younger, I still got in the car.
I shouldn't have gotten in the car. And it's a
lesson learned that day. One thing I can remember beginning
and from the time I woke up to the time
I went to sleep that day, and I was uneasy
before the accident. I was very, very uneasy. Something was
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trying to tell me something that's just not right, like
don't go in that car. I wanted to go to
sleep that day before the smoothie, I was trying to
go to bed and I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I was just so uneasy.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
So to anybody out there, I would definitely say, trust
your instincts. We all like to have fun and everything.
You want to let people do what they do. You
think it doesn't have nothing to do with you, But no,
get out the car, catch the uber ketch, the lift,
walk whatever you gotta do catch the bus. Your life
is just not worth it. It is definitely not worth it.
You let them risk they your own life. Wow, And
I think that goes back to a New Global Philosophy
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corporation and really what you're trying to provide for young
ones as they step out into the real world, just
those those life skills, those instie trusting skills that they
need to be able to be successful, especially in today's
job market. Thank you so much for sharing your testimony.
If you can give us a piece of advice that
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we could take away and also how we can contact you,
what would it be. The piece of contact would be
at a new book Global Philosophy at gmail dot com.
And my major piece of advice would definitely be utilize
your resources. That's basically what I'm trying to do here.
When I went through my accident, the recovery portion was stressful.
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It was more stressful because I did not prepare. I
was told three times by my aunt to get long
term disability. I did not get long term disability, you guys,
I had I mean no short term disability.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
I did not get short term disability. I had long
term disability. So in the beginning of my state, all
expenses were on me. I had no medical insurance. I
took it off because they were taking too much at
my check. That too much out of my check actually
could have helped me a whole lot more. Right now,
you guys need those insurances. They mean a lot and
a lot of times we take them for granted. The
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life insurance too. Thankfully I am here. If I was
not here, that would have been another expense, funeral expenses
and even debt cancelation expenses that we don't think about
that we would believe in our families with.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
So definitely utilize your resources.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
If you don't know how to do something, talk to somebody,
look it up, read a book something.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Wow, great pieces of advice. And thank you so much
for everything that your a New Global Philosophy Corporation stands
for and what it will become in the very near future.
For those of you who are looking to reach out
a new Global Philosophy Corporation and network with Reliqua and
you know, support this the start of this amazing foundation,
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I want you guys to go to a New Global
Philosophy at you dot com. You guys can also see
a link in the description of the show wherever you
happen to be listening or are watching this particular segment, Marli,
but thank you so much for everything that you're doing
and the individuals that you will continue to inspire for
future generations.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
We truly appreciate you. Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Looking to you guys listening at home. I want you
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Speaker 5 (19:27):
Hey, what's going on you guys? This is Joseph Bonner
and welcome back to our show. Now we are continuing
in a very inspiring lineup of some amazing, amazing guests,
and our next guest joining us today is nothing short
of amazing. Her name is Son Young Kim Mazzolini. She
is a CEO, author and life coach, business coach Lush
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Enterprise LLC. Son Young, Welcome to the show. How are
you today.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And doing great? Thank you? Tilseev happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Well, We're so happy to have you, and I'm actually
pretty excited about some of the things that we're gonna
be talking with you about because you have such an
amazing story, not only resis, I mean your story it's
so I mean, it's so much to take in. So
I really want to have my audience pick up where
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I really think they're gonna have some really profound takeaways. Now,
a lot of us can relate because you know, we
are hustling and bustling, we're working, we're trying to make
a living. But a lot of us out there really
from paycheck to paycheck. You know, it's rough, and some
of us want to escape the rack race. You you
were also in that similar situation. Can you tell us
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about that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Sure? Yes, you know I was doing my dream job,
you know, nine to five. I was so excited to
go to bed at night before just so that I
could get up to go to work. That's how much
I love my job. But let me just kind of
take you back to where I kind of came from. Basically,
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So I was born in South Korea. Those of you
probably never heard who I am or anything like that,
but I became an instant orphan after my dad left us,
my sister and I, and that is right after my
mother passed away. He just figures that he could not
take care of us by himself. So my sister and
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I ended up in an orphanage. And that orphanage, I
realized a couple of things. One was that it was
normal for my dad to leave us because there are
so many babies who were dropped up by the front doorstep,
and that the step at the orphanages would talk about
it and said, oh, we got another baby today. So
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when I saw that, you know situations, I go, oh, well,
it's not so bad our family split, so I could
just you know, accept that. But there's something else that
I realized in that orphanage was I was observing other
kids playing outside, and I was looking at myself and
I said, why couldn't I go outside with my friends
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and play? I realized I couldnot walk. So then my sister,
out of the blue, she decided that she's going to
take me to another orphanage. And I remember she brought
me a picture and say this is a new place
that I'm going to take you. And I said why.
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You know, we have a right to ask why about
any questions or anything that people say to us. And
she says, this is where they're going to teach you
how to walk. And I said, thank you, but no,
thank you, I don't need to go there. I don't
want to go there. I don't need to learn to walk.
I just want to be with you. That was my
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goal in my life, to just to live with her,
somebody from my birth family, only person that I have
left that I know of. I don't even know anybody's name.
I don't know my parents' names. But her name was
Kim Sunjah and she was my only hope. And I
thought that we're gonna be together until one of us die.
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That's the kind of hope that I had with her.
But she decided to, you know, take me there anyway
without me not wanting to go there, not wanting to
learn to walk. So she dropped me off and she said,
of course. I was hanging out her hand really really
tight because I didn't want to go, you know, I
didn't want her to go. And she says, you know,
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I have to go to the bathroom, and I said,
why can't I go? You always, we always go to
the bathroom together because I can walk. So she had
to take me to the bathroom, right So anyway, anytime
she had to go to the bathroom, I would go
with her. This time she says, no, you can't come,
and I go.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She said, i'll be back, I'll be back, and with
pinky promise, and after an hour of going, pulling back
and forth with her holding hands, I let her go.
She went to the bathroom. Never saw her again. I
waited all day long into the evenings. Never came back,
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and so I would that moment, I think I went
through a life change that moment, I realized I can't
trust anybody, and I hated the world. I did not
want to live anymore. I basically wanted to call back
into my mother's womb, you know womb when you know.
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And then I wanted to tell her, I said, Mother,
after you died, guess what happened to me? But I couldn't.
I was so hurt, I was so lonely. So I
lived in that orphanage where my sister dropped me off.
I never smiled, I never spoke to anybody because I
just thought I am all alone in this world. Can
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even walk being in there. I lived there for about
nine or ten years, but it took me two or
three years to learn to walk. Basically, one of the
orphanage staffs showed me how to hang onto the rail
on the walls, and you gotta get up and you
gotta learn to walk, and how you do it, you
gotta do it every single day. You gotta get up,
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pull yourself up, holding onto the rail until you could
stand up, and then when once you feel comfortable, then
you could take a step. But that's how she never
worked with me. She just kind of showed me once
and that's it. So every single day I looked around
and all the kids that in the orphanage was getting
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around with clutches, with the limb, with the wheelchairs, but
there was me. I couldn't even get around at all.
I didn't even know how to get up on the wheelchair.
I was just scooting myself with my hands and my
feet with my back on the floor. That's how I
got around. So as I was observing other kids getting around,
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I thought, I have to learn to walk so that
I could help some other kids that could not move.
I could carry them on my back. That was my
main goal. So I learned to walk. Took me two years,
no physical therapists, nobody other than it just be shown
to me once or twice. And the moment that I
took a step when I was aged six or seven,
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without holding onto anything, no rails, no chairs, nobody next
to me standing by in case I fall, to hang
on to anything. I thought the floor was going to move.
So I took a step, and I was so scared.
And I remember this when I was about six or
seven years old. I was so scared to take a step,
so scared because I didn't have nothing to hang on
to in case. That's how we live a life. At
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age fourteen, there was an American family that wanted to
adopt me. They wanted to adopt special needs a child,
and I fell under that category. So I was adopted.
I came to America at age fourteen. I didn't have
a normal teenage years. The year I came, I cried,
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even though I didn't have any family, but I cried
because I left so many friends in the orphans that
I became friends with for nine or ten years. They
were my family, and I didn't know how to speak.
And also my biggest challenge was I had to learn
to love people. I had to learn to trust people.
I have to learn all these new things that I
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was just so against because previous life, by my birth family,
they abandoned me, so why should I trust? And so
I went through a lot of obstacles and really wanting
to embrace a second chance that I have in my life.
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And so I was so grateful. I was so grateful.
And one of the things that I was so so
happiest moment when I came to America, I didn't have anything,
nothing with me other than just few pictures of my friends.
But my parents bought me all kinds of clothes, like
they bought me shoes, school shoes, tennis shoes, address underwear,
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bra I mean, I never had a bra, a change
of clothes. And I cried, and I thought, this is
the gift that is going to last me lifetime. This
is all I need. I remember just crying and I
just thought I don't deserve this. But they were not
only they're adopting me just the way I am, but
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they were giving me all these gifts that I didn't
even ask for. But they knew that I have to
have those things to go to school. They knew that
I have to have a basic necessity. But I didn't
look at it that way. I just thought, I can't
believe this. I just cannot believe. I mean, I have
a change of clothes, like this is just unreal. So
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those were like a really really surprising these moments. And
I remember one year first in life and orphanage, we
never got to celebrate my birthdays or Christmas. And so
when in America when they celebrated Christmas, and I asked
for one thing and that was Kotian Bible and my siblings.
My parents had six kids of their own and that
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adopted one child from Kotia, so they had seven kids.
But I remember my siblings were saying, son, you young,
you could ask for more than one gift for Christmas.
And I going, uh uh, this is all I want.
And they was, yeah, you can't ask for more, and
I go, no, I just want one thing for Christmas
and that is Kotia Bibles. I caree and I got it.
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That was another breakthrough of my life. It's like I
just cannot believe that someone would give me something that
I want, that I wish to have. It was just crazy.
So those were just chucking moments that I came to America.
So I listened to my parents' teachings. They told me,
they says, get a good grade and just get a
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good you know, go to college and get a good
pain job and just work and make money and you'll
be set. And I said, okay, I could do that.
I'm going to try. So I went through every single
summer to learn English, and my mother spent whole summer
with me teaching me English. And I would get up
at four o'clock in the morning. We were all in
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the bunk best because there were so many kids, you know,
seven eight with me, and I remember I was sleeping
under one of the bunk beds and then upper bed
upper bed was my sister, and I had a little
tiny flashlight, and I was sett in my English because
I really wanted to learn that English so bad, because
I really wanted to, like get a good grade, because
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in my mind, if I didn't get a good grade,
I thought they would send me back to Korea. I
had the biggest fear. I thought they were going to
send me back if I do not do what they
tell me to do, and if I don't learn and
learn to socialize, learn to accept and go to school
and get a good place, I'm pretty sure that they're
going to send me back. So I thought this was
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like a test. I didn't know that they had unconditional
love for me, because I didn't know what the love
meant I had to learn that. And so even now
forty to fifty decades later, I took it up at
four o'clock in the morning because it became my habit.
But I don't study English. I just something else at
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four o'clock in the morning. But anyway, so I landed
up as a certified medical system. My dream job would
love working for doctors and taking care of my patients.
For thirty three years, it was my passion. But you
know what, I was really very grateful and very happiest
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energy every single day when I went to work because
I was helping people. That's what my passion was, helping people.
And I got to listen to their problems. But you know,
I never got to talk about my problem. I never
got to talk about where.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I came from.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They just knew me happy son, young, happy nurse, you know,
nurse for a doctor. So and so that's what they
knew me as And then I thought, why am I
still working here? I knew why because I loved it,
But I wasn't making enough money. Why am I struggling
leaving paycheck to paycheck? Why do I have to work,
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you know, like six seven days a week just to
make ends? Meet because I was I found myself raising
do the kids as a single mother after come through
you know, divorce with a domestic violence marriage. And so
I did all kinds of side jobs and everything. And
I thought, in my old mindset was like the harder
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you work, the more you work, you're gonna make more
money and you're gonna be rich and you'll be okay.
That was my mindset. I work, work, work, I so
back in the night after I worked ten hour shifts
as a nurse certified medical assistant, and then I would
I did a catering business on my days up on Wednesdays,
and I also did house cleaning. I did all kinds
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of job and I loved. I loved doing everything because
here I am. When I lived in an orphanage life,
I was living from meal to meal, I had no purpose.
By here I am, I have all kinds of purpose
right now. So my purpose was to make en up money,
make sure my kids were taken care of. But I thought,
I cannot do this aftertyre, how many years do I
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have to go through before I retire? So I decided
to retire, not knowing any other skills other than being
a medical system. And I didn't have anybody within my
circle that was making, you know, extraordinary money. They just
living pacheck like I was. My family is my friends,
my coworkers. So I thought, hmm, you know, I'm in America.
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I came to, you know, a country where you could
get your dream life. And then I ended up with
my dream job, but my dream income wasn't there. It
wasn't matching. So I thought I had to do something
about it. And so I just took a leap mindset shift.
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And so anytime we want to do anything at all,
we had to think about it first. We don't just
do things because you don't know what the result's going
to be. Right. So when I thought about it, I said,
my dream job, the country that I live in is
all dream life. I'm living dream job. But why am
I not getting dream income? This is crazy because I
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love my job, but why not? So I was telling
my doctor in twenty fourteen, I said I'm going to
retire and he says when And I said within a year.
He says, do you have any money? And I said no?
And I only had a ten dollars in my checking account.
I didn't have any money in my savings. But I
did have my four one K my pension plan after
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thirty three years, but I cannot touch it because I
was going to retire earlier than the age that I
was able to withdraw those And so but I hear
in America there's a people somewhere out there that are
making money like warm buff Ellen mask because there are
so many rich people out there that I hear. I
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haven't been around them in their circles, but I heard it,
and I thought to myself, like why not me? Like
I could make enough money. It's like, okay, I could
do that. But instead of saying how do I do that?
Where can I start? I didn't do any of that thinking.
I just thought, I'm just gonna make go up. I'm
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just going to retire early and I'm going to start
making money. I don't know what I'm going to do,
but I'm going to do it anyway. And so I
started going to realestate investment. You know, I thought I
was going to be a real city investors and of
financial investors. So I started tending classes for real estate
because I did have a real estate property. But I
didn't make money. I was losing money because I didn't
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have any skills. I didn't have any strategies and I
was just like people said, oh, you just have a
rental properties, you can make money. So I just went
by what I heard. So I just did that and
I was losing money because I didn't have a specific
strategies and skills. So I went there to learn some
skills I could make money under the rental properties that
I had. And that's when they introduced me to option trading.
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They says, if you're going to make so much money
doing real estate business, what are you gonna do. You're
gonna learn to invest your money. And I said what
do we do? And they said, well there's option trading
strategies that you could learn and you could invest money.
And I said what is that? Intaeil and they said
option trading and I said, well what do you have
to do? They says you got to learn things from
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computer and I said, I'm now not me. I hate computers.
So I automatically because I was scared. I was really
scared of computer and so no thanks. And then and
then I did retire within a year, and I did
go to the auctions and trying to buy the property
more properties and things to do a real estate investors.
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And then it took me away from home and I
had a son. It was like sixteen seventeen year old.
I got remarried too since then, but anyway, so I
thought I wanted to stay home, So that did not
liign with my goal. So I decided to do this
option trading, and I took on a hobby after I retired,
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and so my option trading strategy was my hobby. And
then when I was practicing with the virtual money, and
I realized, like, wait a minute, I could make thirty
thousand dollars in one or two days, and I made
that in about a year. There's something wrong with this picture.
I think I better really kind of look into it
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more often. So I took this my hobby very seriously
and not wanting to make money to live on, but
because it was fun. Like a lot of people have
hobbies like hunting and fishing, they spend money, and me,
I wanted to take on a hobby that makes me money,
and so that's what I did. I and then I thought, okay,
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I'm going to do this with the real money. So
I took some homemaquerity loan from the house and in
two thy sixteen, cause I retired in twenty fifteen, exactly
a year from twenty fourteen, and then twenty sixteen, in January,
I started doing this with the real money. And my
first year with the real money, I mad one hundred
and seventy eight thousand, I six times my income what
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I was doing for thirty three years. And I thought,
oh my gosh, I'm maybe I'm I'm not so bad.
Maybe I'm better than I thought. I would you know
something that the skills that I hate I didn't want
to learn, and I was scared and petrified, and I
was getting the results, and I thought, okay, well, and
so when my husband retired with his retiring money one
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hundred and sixty four thousand in two years later, I
took on invested and turned out to six hundred and
four thousand dollars. And I really like, by keep doing
repeating the repeatable results that are real, and I became
a millionaire. And I just thought, this is shocking. I
never ever even dreamed of becoming a millionaire. Now I
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can say I'm living my dream life in a dream world,
in a dream country and making the dream income. And
I just said, oh my gosh. And along the way,
you know what I have. They so many, so many
challenges and obstacles that I just wanted to give up.
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But the things that we do behind when nobody's expecting anything,
nobody wants to, you know, expect the results. I didn't
even know how good I was going to be at
I have no idea if someone told me, so, you know,
you're going to be a millionaire doing option trading in
you know, like a couple years or so, I don't
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think I would have believed it because I haven't heard
anybody making that kind of money doing oction chating for
number one, because I was not within that circle of people.
Because we have to be within the proximity of people.
If you want to become a rich you have to
start talking and thinking that you're rich. And so this
is what I teach my clients. It's like, you know,
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not only I'm a millionaire financially, but I'm a millionaire
with the things that I have now. Compared to the
life that I lived in, I didn't have a change
of clothes. I never used to wear clothes that are matching,
you know, But here I am I have like you know,
more than one person, I have like five, six, seven, eight,
twelve persons in my hub. Since I have a twenty
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person I feel rich. I feel millionaire. I have more
than one pair of shoes. That's what makes me feel
like millionaire, not only financially, but the life that I'm
living in. I am just I don't need anything else.
I'm spoiled, brat. That's how I see myself, not to break.
But when you think about how how focus on what
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you have instead of like you don't have, it makes
you so rich. I mean, I feel like I'm a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
With my life.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
I love her. I love your attitude, and you have
such a genuine spirit about you, and you can tell
that even when you didn't have what you have now
you you came from such a place of appreciation and
it just res like you are. You are the kind
of people that we want to be millionaires in this world.
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I kid you more people like you if they were,
If we had more millionaires like you, the world would
be a much better place. I do have a question
for you, because there's a coup, there's there's so many
things about your story and I didn't want to interrupt
because you tell your story so well. You really don't
need any narrator. There was something that you mentioned in
your story and it goes back to when you were
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learning how to walk and lady she kind of when
she attached you to the wall and she's like, hey,
you got to you gotta get it and pick yourself up.
You gotta know.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
And you did.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
You figured it out, you you version, you stood up,
and then eventually, when you felt comfortable, you took that
first step. And I feel like right now people are
in that similar situation where they're clinging on like a
wall and they don't know how to walk forward. They
don't know how to move forward from living from paycheck
to paycheck and they're like stuck. And I feel like
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you're the person that's kind of coming there and saying, yeah, okay, now,
if you're if if you're tired of being here, let's
go ahead and learn now how to how to walk
from this point forward. And I think that's what you're
doing through your company. Tell me a little bit about
the coaching that you provide, because I know that a
lot of people who are coming to you they want
to know how can they do what you do? What
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kind of coaching do you offer them?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
So I offered them the biggest mind shift, you know,
mindset shift, because without knowing that that you cannot shift
your mind, then you cannot do anything. Okay, So the
coaching that I do is life coaching. I help people individually,
group coaching, and also a couple's coach. All the things
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that I've had problems in my journey, I figured it
out that I have a strategy is how to overcome
those problems is huge. And so when people say, well,
I don't know how to take a next step because
even though I'm sick and tired of my job, you know,
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but I don't know. I'm scared because this is why
I feel comfortable and this.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Is all I know.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Right, we have to say, you know what, No, but
you cannot wait for opportunities to come to you. We
have to go where there's an opportunity. We have to go.
We have to put ourselves there's an opportunity. But not
just doing that and not just listening to like this
podcast like this sure, you know, like I get motivated
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myself just talking about my story, you know, because it
really motivated me to where I am today. And so
if you know, hopefully like one or two of your
audience could be motivated and take the next step. But
the thing is is you can't just listen to the
motivational speakers like me or like yourself, because you know
you're you know, you're a great influencer too, Joseph. You know,
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like everybody knows, right, but you have a great business
that you influence so many people and you're changing people's life.
But the thing is is the secret is you've got
to take actions now. Because a lot of times we say, Okay,
I'm going to do that. There's times where in my
life I have heard the motivational speakers and then I
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feel so good and I felt like I could change
my life and I'm going to do it. And then
I walk into my door, my house, and guess what,
there are same old routine, same old house, same people,
same room saying everything. But what different. There's nothing different
other than what I heard. But something that has to
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do it is me saying I took it. I'm going
to have to take an action. It doesn't have to
be big actions right away, it has it could be
small actions. So one of the examples that I want
to tell you about orphanage life, where I took that
setting a goal taking an action was this When I
was about ten or twelve years old in orphanage, I
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was watching other kids chewing a gum because, like I said,
the orphanage that I was ended up in two second
orphanage was one hundred percent of the kids were handicapped.
They're all getting around with the wheelchairs and limping, and
I was clutches and things. And but eighty percent of
the kids had a family, and twenty percent of us
(45:49):
did not have a family. But we're all a handicapped.
But I saw some of the kids who were chewing gum,
and I said, oh my gosh, I want to chew
a gum. But I had no money. I was an
orphan I was tooing bears to ask, you know. The
kids with the family said, hey, can I have a
piece of gum. I'm sure they would have given it
to me, but we feel, you know, we live our life,
you know, like I don't dare to ask because I
(46:10):
feel shamed, you know, like I don't want them to
ask me why you need it or whatever. So when
I saw them chewing a gun, and I thought, I'm
going to chew a gump, and so my girlfriend and
I we went outside. I was good bye. Then I
was walking over it because I learned to walk when
I was like six or seven years old. So when
I went outside of the orphanage and I found the
gum after now, don't get sick, but anyway, after floor
(46:37):
that has been walked down by so many so many
dot de feet, who knows, and he was stuck in
the cement and I dug it out. Okay, I wanted
to chew a gump. That was my goal. I just
started chewing a gump would be willicole. So I dug
it out and it was sticky, and then I took
out the biggest rocks that I could feel, right, and
(46:58):
then I thought, okay, this looks good. So then I
put in my mouth and I chewed it and I'm like,
this is so cool. And I was cheating like and
my girlfriend I looked at it. I was like, we're cool.
We were chewing a gum, right, But it was crunchy.
I thought I took all the rocks out, but it
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was crunchy, and at that time I didn't know anything
better about it. Then I accomplished the goal that I wanted.
I just want to chew a gum that day, I
want to be cool like other kids. You know that
chewing gums. Right, Well, many years later, when I came
to America, right when I bought a gum, or when
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my parents bought me a gum, and first time I
chewed that gum, I realized something. Gum had a flavors
and gum tasted smooth. It wasn't crunchy, and I realized that,
oh my gosh, there tisch And then I couldn't blow
a bubble. It's like not just a tube you can
(48:01):
blow bubble. It's like so cool. Well, Joe said along
my journey, this is something that I realized. We set
a goal, and we accomplish a goal, we do not
stop there. Why if I accomplish my goal, I need
to chew a gum. And I did that, And if
I have never tasted a new gum, I would have
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never known the difference because in my mind, the gum
would always be crunchy and no flavors. Right, That's how
I finished my goal. But then when I came to
America and I bought a gum and I chewed it
and I could blow bubbles and it was smooth. There's
no clutchiness. So then oh my gosh, I can't believe this.
(48:49):
And so when we set a goal, it is important
for us to keep going to the next goal to
find out because I didn't I didn't buy gum to
find out what my next goal. I just found out
that I could afford to buy gum because I have
a job and I feel rich. I have my own
job now, and so I could buy a gum and
makes me feel rich because I could buy any flavors,
(49:11):
many gun as I want, anytime I want. That makes
me rich. And so it is important for us to,
you know, set a goal, go for it, taking actions
no matter what it is. You can't say I can't,
I don't have any money. I'm embarrassed to ask. You
don't give all that crap. You just do it. You
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just find a way. And then once you accomplish your goal,
go for next level. And then you're gonna realize, oh
my god, you know, like we don't stop, you know,
and making a million dollars, you go for the next level,
next million. Right, That's how life is, and that's how
your dream life is. You gotta always learn, You're gotta
(49:53):
always learn to grow. But the biggest thing is you
gotta take actions right now. In fact, I'm guilty of
not taking actions because I have used so many excuses.
So I just talk about this. But here's a book
that I wrote, invest in yourself, throw away your excuses,
and turn your life around. Because I have all my life,
(50:16):
most of my life, I have used excuses like not now,
in the future, maybe when I graduate from you know,
high school, after my kids grown, after I graduate from college.
I'm too young, I'm too old. I use all these excuses,
and it took me thirty three or more years. I
(50:37):
delayed my results because I've used the excuses. So it's
important to take actions right away. Not just hearing it,
reading about it, and talking about it. You got to
actually taste it with actions.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Thank you so much for sharing that. For those of
you guys who are wanting to get a copy of
that book, I want you to go to the description
of this podcast wherever you're going to be listening to
it or watching it, and you'll click a link and
I will take you right to the book. Also your
website as well, is this how we can reach out
to you for coaching sessions.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yes, coaching sessions through my website, you can reach out
to me my Instagram, TikTok Linda, you know, all the
fun social media's.
Speaker 5 (51:19):
Right, yeah, and all those links everyone, they're in the
description of the show. So if you go down to
the Sun Young section there, you know, be able to
click on her website, her social media handles, you know,
connect with her. Make sure that you are setting your
goals and pushing forward to greater success. I do want
to circle with this before. I'm not letting you go
just yet, because you know you're so inspiring. I have
(51:42):
a few questions I want to ask you. It's like,
my first big question is this, and it's kind of
circling back to something that you said earlier about your sister.
I know that before the show started you you were
mentioning about how he went back to Korea to search
for her. Were you ever able to find her?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Well, the answer is no, because when I went to
the Detective Private Detective Police Department and they said that
I didn't know my family name and I didn't have
my sister's birthday, the only thing I knew about her
was just, you know, my sister's name, Kim Sunja. But
(52:26):
the reason I went back to look for her is
because I have lived most of my life with the
hatred towards her. When she left me at the second
organ and she promised me, says she would come back
to me, she would come back for me. She never did.
So I hated living my life hating her. When I
(52:47):
learned to forgive, and I wanted to tell her say
I'm sorry, please forgive me, and I love you. I
wanted to tell her that. That's why when I went
back there with my husband and my son in twenty eighteen,
never got to find her. But I still say those
things to her. It makes me feel like, you know,
(53:11):
she is listening to me.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
I ask you a question, where where exactly was this
in Korea? I mean, because listen, we're gonna put this
on TikTok and social media, and we're going to ask
you guys out there to do your thing, you know, TikTok,
do your thing, Instagram, do your thing, and and and
find her. What is your sister's name? Beginning? Where in Korea?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Was this in South Korea? And Mo pol tejon okay?
So we were in a mopol orphanage first first time
and then second orphanage that she dropped me up. Was
she left me. There was a Tejun so Song, said girl.
Tejun Tong said, girl, it's the name. It's in Teijun,
(53:52):
South Korea.
Speaker 5 (53:54):
Okay, all right, And and your sister would be around
what age now?
Speaker 2 (53:59):
I would say she would be in her probably like
seventies maybe yeah, And I want to do it like
if she was not doing well, I would have loved
to just bring her to America and just you know,
take care of her, because I'm sure that she would
have wanted to take care of me. But she didn't
have any money, she didn't have any resources or only
(54:21):
thing that she knew at the time was just drop
me up where they could teach me how to walk.
And so if I didn't not walk, if I did
not learn to walk, my life would be different. I
don't think I would ever come to America. I don't
think that I could do all the things that I
could do, like is just just you know I would be.
I don't know where I would be. But instead of
(54:43):
thinking about what if or what could have what if?
The important thing is to enjoy the moment and appreciate
what you have and focus on what you do have,
not what you don't have, and then take massive actions.
By taking little baby actions turns into big actions. You
never know what the result.
Speaker 5 (55:05):
Yeah, absolutely well TikTok Instagram. You guys do your thing.
I want to I want to see if we can
find her. I know the police weren't able to help,
but I know you guys are a lot more thorough
investigators in the police are. Let's be honest, you can
find anybody anywhere. So your sister's name again, she's in
her seventies. Her name beginn a son young No.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Her name is Kim Kim son Jah Kim sun Ja.
Speaker 5 (55:30):
Kim is don Joh. She's in her seventies. Korea. And
what city again?
Speaker 2 (55:36):
She left me at the MoPo No Inkjua. She left
me in Keiju. It's an Orphanish name called Song, said
Yeo Hotil. Song said hot Gil. It's like a rehab center.
There's only one place in Tijon. It's a rehab center.
(55:56):
And they're still there.
Speaker 5 (55:59):
Okay, there you go, All right, well there you guys go.
There's information. Please make this go viral. Let's let's let's
find her sister, and let's let's.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Make it so good.
Speaker 5 (56:10):
Yeah, let's make another chapter in this book. I mean,
I mean your legacy, and sometimes, like you said, we
just need a little extra help. And sometimes it's people
out there in social media that can be our help,
that can help us get to that next level. And
so you're giving so much to us through your inspiration,
and I hope that this is something that we in
the social media world can give to you as well. Now,
(56:32):
if you have any party pieces of advice for us,
things that we can take away with us to help
us just get to that next level, maybe not give up,
maybe just overcome negative thinking. I mean, what piece of
advice do you have?
Speaker 2 (56:44):
First, Well, the advice is that I use now is
I always talk positively in my mind. So in other words,
like we all hear things in life. You know, we're
living in a broken world, all kinds of strategies, tragedies
and everything around us. That's part of life. You have
(57:06):
to accept it. But how we react is very important.
So the my device that I use every single day
and I teach my clients is this, It's how we speak.
So in other words, like the things that we get
to do, like we have to do, we take it
as like, oh do I have to do that? I
don't have time, Like with the talking with your body's posture.
(57:29):
You gotta, you know, become your own best state that
you've got to create yourself and just say, know what,
whatever I have to do, I get to do it.
I have an opportunity to do it, not that I
have to. So for example, like when my kids were little,
they want to hang out with their friends and they
can't drive, right, but I'm busy. A lot of parents
(57:53):
we said, oh I don't have time, or sometimes kids
will feel guilty to ask their parents even say can you, like,
can you take me to my friends house? I want
to hang out, especially teenagers, right. But instead, if you're
a parent or whoever it is, whoever you're dealing with,
just say, I get an opportunity to do this for you.
(58:13):
I know that I know that I have to because
you can't drive, but eighty percent I want to do it.
I get to do it. Twenty percent I know I
have to because you can't drive. So that's just one
of the examples. And so we live attitude with like.
And then when you run into people that are negative
talking negative to you, a co worker or your loved ones, whatever,
(58:36):
you look in the mirror every single time when you
wash your hands at the public restrooms or even in
the around the homes and stuff, or washing doing dor
dishes and something, and like, let's just say, like I
just had an argument with my husband and he made
me feel like crap, you know, and he made me
feel like I'm not a good wife or whatever. Or
talking to my kids and they feel like they let
me know, I get the feeling like, oh, I'm not
(58:58):
as a good mother or whatever we all feel about. Right,
you wash your hands and say, you know what, I'm
a good wife. What he said he doesn't mean it.
He's just upset, and so you don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
It's like I'm a good wife, I'm a sexiest wife.
I'm a good mother because I love being a mother.
I love cooking for my kids. You have to say
those things in positive. You have to say those things
to yourself. So you have some like some boss or
manager who say, you know why you didn't do this right?
Or you know, so you feel like, oh, should I
quit or I'm afraid I'm gonna get fired. You go
in the bathroom and say, you know what, I'm a
(59:28):
good employee. I gave the best I could. You know,
they're just having a bad day, and whatever they're saying,
it's not true, right, that's just their belief. You have
to believe how good you are, the good person you are,
and you have to kay that every single day, not
just only when the situation arises, every single time. My
husband and I we practice, and so we don't mind
(59:49):
arguing more often because it gives us an excuse to
do that more often. And that's what I told my husband.
Speaker 5 (59:55):
I love that. I love that you know you are
a millionaire, and so anyways, I can't even I can't
even say it. You know, it's it's you radiate with
so much joy and positivity, and like I said, if
we had one millionaires like you, the world would be
such a better place. Thank you for everything that you're doing,
and thank you for sharing your wisdom and insight with us.
(01:00:16):
For those of you guys who are listening at at
home or watching this, I definitely want you guys to
to go to those links, you know, connect with Sun
Young half hours a part of your life and your
network support her, and she continues to support so many
others on their journey. I'm so excited for what twenty
twenty five, twenty twenty six is going to have in
store for you. And really, let's just be honest, your
(01:00:38):
story should be a movie. It should.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Thank you, Joseph. I appreciate your time and your journey
helping so many people, including myself and I get to
talk about my story, you know, And I used to
hide this story. I used to never want to talk
about it because it's ugly, it's a depression, it's a
it's a hurtful, it's you know. But a lot of
us could connect in some ways. We all been scared,
(01:01:05):
we all been neglected, we all been the abuse, we
all been bend, and we all been you know, we're
human being. But when we connect and just you know,
help each other grow and any tips that we could
give to you know, one another, to share the lessons
that we learned from from our journey, that's the beauty
of living life.
Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
Absolutely well said. Thank you, and thank you so much
for being on today's segment. You and I we got
to stay in contact even after today's show and support
each other. For those of you guys who are listening
at home, thank you again for joining us on this segment.
I don't want you guys to go away just yet.
The show is not over, so please stay tuned and
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