 Hi, my name is Veljika and I'm an actress based out of California and I make acting related videos all of the time But today I mean it's still related to acting because we worked so much on acting things and my channel Which is about acting but today I'm gonna talk about how I worked with a life coach And how much he has helped me with productivity with acting and my channel and work in general any work that I do So I wanted to share him with you in case you guys also are looking for a life coach Or just to hear some of the tips that he did give me as well but I don't talk a lot about mental health on this channel because it's a sensitive subject to me and I have struggled for a few years with some you know mental health related issues and I Was taking steps to be happier and be better and be more productive and Justin appeared in my life in such a great Moment and helped me out so much So today we're gonna talk to Justin talk about my experience with him how he helped me what his other services are in case you would like to hire him and In general, we're also gonna give you a few tips So if you aren't financially able to hire him, you'll still be able to get a little tip here and there So let's talk to Justin. My name is Justin Chowl. I'm an actor and I'm a certified oolah live coach I love working with actors and people of all shapes and sizes and I've been doing it for about three years now But an actor now for about Ten years and I love it. I love what I do. So we know each other from Acting of course in the Bay Area I was really needing some kind of help now that I was going to be working at home alone And that's something that I struggled with so much was being home alone for some reason and not having human interaction So on Facebook put anybody want to be my accountability buddy anything and then Justin commented I jumped at the opportunity because I know how difficult it is Running your own business being an actor in this pandemic and when it's what it's done to us I like to use the phrase solitude versus isolation It plays tricks on your mind and so your coaching request was really very simple. It was accountability I want somebody to hold me accountable. I need accountability We all do and it's something I'm actually really good at I think You are very good at keeping me accountable when we were working together We would meet for 15 minutes. Sometimes it would go over a little bit. It was really helpful to just know Okay, every Wednesday, I'm gonna meet with Justin. I'm gonna tell him, you know, what's been going good What's been going not so great and then you would give me some really cool things that I still use to this day So great. What do you use? What do you still use? So I still uh sing put on a song Where I film a video to get my energy up because I used to struggle a lot with not feeling like doing something And it's just because I've been sitting on a computer for five hours or have been sitting, you know Just moping and once I get to singing and I listen to that song and I'm setting up I have so much energy and I'm strangely so much more inspired just by doing that physical action and then The three things so when we were doing it together You told me to do it on a postcard a postcard, um, which I don't have anymore because now I do it on my planner Yeah, and on one side I would write the goal and on the other side I would write the three things that I could get done today to um go towards that goal funny enough I ended up ordering a 2021 planner and At the top they have my game changer goal and it's three lines So it's funny that it's like exactly what you were telling me But now because this is what I I tried to journal a little bit give my ideas now I do it on here and those are some small what seems like small exercises But it helps me set up my day to be really productive every day It's like, okay I just got these three things and those three things always turn out to be something that make me feel good because I'm proactively working towards a specific goal and it keeps you specific and you can look at them and grow And this is a great way to actually see what action steps work and what don't work A lot of times we just do what to-do list and it gives us anxiety because we don't know what that to-do list is tied to It's not tied to a goal or a specific outcome So a lot of people feel lost when they write that to-do list doing your action steps tied to your goal Can actually focus you now That's the key word that I use with you is how do we focus on getting what you want? And this this little no card is backed by science It's why it works so well with people is because human beings often over complicate everything and this boils it down to Let me look at it visually and let me every day remind myself what that goal is when close friends of mine Tell me they're struggling with something. I always say, okay, what little thing can you do today? To make that matter, you know So I'm I'm even sharing the love of what you taught me with my close friends whenever they're struggling with something Because I don't know where it happened But now I love being home alone and being productive and filming videos and work on acting and on my youtube channel So it's like me, you know, just a few months ago and even years ago because I've always struggled with being home alone Now I I just feel so much better when I'm alone and I'm what was the shift What was the mental shift? Because there was a mental shift What was the mental shift? I could tell you can I tell you Yes, please tell me The mental shift I believe was you started being grateful for actually being at home when at the very beginning It felt like a curse. It felt like we're being restrained and isolated But when you start to feel the value of hate, this is my time. I get to peel. I get to be rested I don't have to go anywhere and I get to be a storyteller and run my youtube page That's what it is gratitude gratitude gratitude. That's so true And gratitude yeah and gratitude towards myself. I've always had family roommates boyfriend around and You know learning to live alone or learning to simply be in a space alone has allowed me to come back to who I am Like the happy person that I actually am and liking me and not needing to be around other people And needing to please other people like a lot of the things I do of course connect with people You know actually to my channel actually casting me for whatever I am now doing these things because First I like them And then they just happen to also, you know, incorporate other people. Yeah, thank you I'm so happy for you. One of the big questions I get on the weekly is so what is a life coach? How is it different from therapy? What's a consultant? What's a counselor? And I'll just tell you the basics between a therapist and a Life coach therapy is often based on the medical model. I diagnose you it's often based on the past The phrase we use is therapy takes you from suffering to baseline. I just want to feel myself again I have these relationships. I have hidden trauma and therapy is really effective for people I was in therapy for quite a while a life coaching is taking you from baseline to thriving Why are there certain things in my life that just aren't happening in college? I had all this energy, but now that I'm working in the professional world I feel like I don't have any balance in my life Certain things are going well, but certain things are not so a life coach is somebody that holds you accountable You don't need a degree. Although I am certified. I could have done it without a certification It's really about holding somebody accountable. There's also the critic now some of us grew up with critics in our lives Legalistic parents who said these are the rules you follow or else and critics often break us. We hate them We don't like their feedback. We don't know what to do with it We become people pleasers trying to get their love a critic often hides a coach needs to be vulnerable I share my pain points. I share my mistakes and I actively watch somebody not to make perfection But to make progress and there's the fourth category, which is a consultant now a lot of businesses hire consultants You can hire a consultant to help you make money A consultant uses for acting even for acting even which which uses a very analytical way of Measuring success consultants aren't bad. They're very result oriented in six months If your business doesn't go from here to here, you should fire me oftentimes people don't like consultants because once they're done They're done. There's no real relationship there. It's all statistics now Some people do need a consultant, but I would say most people Need a coach coaching can help you get from a to b quicker And they can often hold you accountable and see the things that you're missing. We don't diagnose people I often refer people to therapy. Hey, you're going through something and I'd love for you to talk to so and so I also don't criticize my clients. It just doesn't work Judgment never works if I have somebody that is a drug addict and is struggling. I don't say your drugs are bad I say, okay, let's work on why you're doing this and how we can get you out of it So those are the basic differences as an actress working with an actor It was really helpful because not only do you know how to like coach me as a life coach But you are also in the shoes of an actor if I was struggling with let's say my self-tape auditions Then you could relate and you could also, you know, give me tips on like, hey, like, you know I've actually been using this app to fill mine. You you you can try it if you want, you know Little things like that are also helpful and I had never worked with a life coach and you felt like I mean, you are a friend, but you felt like a really good friend that happened to be, you know, supporting me and just, you know, being like, hey, you're doing great And when we went through all of the things that I had done the goals that I didn't meet the goals that I did meet And all of that that was really helpful because I would not have done that on my own I could think about oh, what did I even do, you know In 2020 the way the questions that you gave me and the way that you allowed me to think about it Was really helpful to process and to have gratitude towards the things that I did do Thanks for saying that I really appreciate and working with you is great One of the reasons I love working with actors is actors inherently need to be generous and they need to be good listeners Now when I work with non-actors sometimes I'll do a session for 30 minutes And they didn't pick up on anything because they're not really listening. So I love Yeah I love actors because Actors just in general are running their own business I say that they're running gun CEOs of their own business and they need help. I need help I know the pitfalls of actors. I know FOMO Imposter syndrome, I don't feel like I'm enough and those things can wreck your energy a few years ago I hired a life coach. He kept me accountable. I was telling myself I'm a great storyteller, but I wasn't necessarily doing all the work The commonality between those four groups is they all measure something But the metric system for each is different. The metric system for coaching is very simple What are your action steps? If that's so, yeah, so I use caring kindness and Serving people that's essential. That's something that actors and coaches have in common My job isn't to take from you. My job is to give you as much value and to serve you as much as possible Do you want to talk about the discovery call and how other people can get in contact with you? And if somebody else wants to work with you how they can do that? Absolutely. So a discovery call is not a sales call I'm not pitching myself to you if you want more information You can go to my website just ask justin.com and there's a little email there. Just send me a message What a discovery call is intended to do is number one figure out your pain points number two Are we going to work well together and number three time? How much time do you want to spend on this? I don't accept every client within maybe five or ten minutes of talking to someone I can almost always tell if we'll work well together. Some people just want a counselor They just want somebody to listen and that's fine, but that's not what I do I'm a coach and this is why you are great to work with I'm adamant about the person being ready Now when a person doesn't know what they want, that's a problem. So a discovery call is just that I'm trying to discover What is it that you want and how far are you willing to go? It usually takes about 20-30 minutes I ask a series of questions and we go from there during our first meeting you asked me about my goals And I was like justin I got them. I got specifics. I have dates. I got them, you know And and also I completely agree with seeing if you can work well together because when I was looking for a therapist In I think 2019 I felt bad meeting a therapist and then being like sorry We don't really work together. That's something important that I I didn't know about is like don't feel bad for telling people You know, you're not a great fit for me because there's other people They're going to be able to work with just like auditions when somebody doesn't cast you It's not personal. Maybe you are not you don't have a right hair type or the hair color Right and that's high level maturity. It's not personal You just have to find the right person the right energy for you Because you can waste a lot of time talking and trying to get somewhere Six months go by and you realize I don't really know what I did here I've definitely felt that the therapist I currently have is my fourth therapist And I love it. I love being with this person. This person keeps me accountable She asks me great questions and she doesn't push me in a way that I don't want to be pushed Right now I'm specifically looking for more actors. I love working with actors I think actors don't need any more agents or managers. There's a lot of training out there What actors need I believe is learning how to be comfortable in their own skin They need to learn how to run a business Um in my certification program, we talk about the seven Fs fitness finance family fields faith Friends and fun and a lot of us don't know how to put that all together So when I coach people I look for all these things and if you go to my website There's actually a free test that you can take. We call it the oolo wheel 100 free This is how we measure where we are in life on a scale of one to ten Where would you say your fitness is on a scale of one to ten? How are your relationships family on a scale of one to ten friends a lot of us sacrifice friends I can't go to that wedding. I can't go to that event. You're doing that on the weekend I got to do this self tape. I got to go to rehearsal. Sorry I used to be something we used to say before the pandemic, right? Sorry I'm in rehearsal We sacrifice a lot, but there's an expense to that sacrifice time energy So I think loving actors being an actor myself. I'm looking for actors to coach discovery calls are always free and my packages are pretty I don't want to say cheap, but but um Barely Barely priced. I love that. Yes How can I help your page? How's your page doing? Um, how can I serve and get the message Out there. I think you're running an incredible page. You're seeing Actors actors who aren't we don't really that's actually great advice. I saw your subscription number I think you're almost at 9 000 way to go Yeah, but you have a bigger goal. What's your big goal? My goal for the year was going to be 15 000 But Justin was like, come on. Let's let's do it a little more So my goal for 2021 is to get to 20 000 subscribers And my channel is to help other actors and show them how I'm doing it So I you know, whenever I get an audition opportunity Something like that. I share it with you guys whenever I know information I share it with you guys I want to be a place where I can honestly give you all of my experiences and my opinions in this industry And hopes that you can have that information more easily and less filtered. I really enjoy sharing You know all of my experiences and information I like this being part of my acting career because I talk about acting so I connect the two worlds and I'm really enjoying it. Can I ask one more question? Yes How hard is it putting a video together? Because I don't think people who don't do this know It's it's hard. It's not easy. You're not just filming and talking You're putting it together editing it lighting it creating a storyline Time-wise I would say each video might take me six to ten hours on average But every once in a while I'm I struggle with you know making sure that all of the information's in the video So every once in a while I'll film it a bunch of times and then I'll edit it a bunch One of the videos that I published earlier this year. It took me 20 hours to edit I know Because I kept you know needing to maybe make it a little shorter It still turned out to be a 30 minute video But that video took me so long coming up with ideas is I really love it But then after the ideas you want to do research and you want to learn or I want to learn as I'm making these videos I I know this much what more can I learn to share with everybody and to learn myself Editing is a lot of work filming sometimes even on bad days when I I don't feel so great Videos can either make me feel worse because I'm like I can't even film a video today And a lot of the times they make me feel better because I know I'm going to be Sharing information with people that is going to be helpful and in the action of creating is something that I love So it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of love and a lot of fun Thank you so much Justin for coming on my channel You guys should definitely go check out his website and see if you can work with him because I really enjoyed working with him As an actress, um, he he just helped me out so much in everything But thank you so much for watching at the end of every video I feature another channel This is today's feature if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure you're subscribed Leave me a comment and like this video