Brian Koehn: Becoming a Newer Version of Yourself Pt. 2

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this compelling interview, Brian Koehn talks about the huge transformation he went through in his life that helped him become more comfortable and why you shouldn’t romanticize the person you used to be in order to create real change. He also discusses how he helps business owners increase their revenue in just 90 days. Take a listen!

Brian Koehn is part of the Unmistakable Creative team. He’s the Chief Executive Instigator and also has a multi-faceted background. He sold his first company by age 19, earned his pilots license at age 21, consulted successful startups in branding and strategy, worked in IT at Hewlett Packard, and took part in learning and development at Sony Playstation.

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0:14.8	So one of the things I think about when I think about creating change is that I've seen this a lot where people are very romantic or nostalgic about the person that they used to be or the place that they grew up and they feel like it's unethical or it's out of integrity for them to leave the person that they were behind in the past
0:19.4	where it actually is and I've seen people limit themselves.
0:24.1	Like I can never do X because I'm just this type of person
0:27.5	from this type of background.
0:29.3	And as long as somebody's referencing their previous self, their childhood as a reference point of who they can become,
0:35.3	they're going to be extremely limited. Their potential is going to be shot. And so what I would
0:40.3	encourage them to do is stop being so stuck in a way in nostalgia and in
0:48.8	romance and in feeling this you know I think for me like I had to realize that it wasn't unethical or lacking integrity to release whoever I used to be.
0:58.0	And I, none of my relationships needed me to stay who I was.
1:02.0	And you know, you've watched me change change it's not like I'm a totally
1:04.0	different person but I don't feel any obligation to anyone in my life to maintain a
1:09.0	consistency and people can't guilt me into staying the same person if I don't want to be that person anymore.
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