Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

self betterment into a shot class because let's face it who's got that much time

these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose. If you're

looking for more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place.

So I just hit send on an email and I feel nervous I feel naked I feel anxiety I feel fear let me explain why attached to the email was a

Screenplay

a television pilot that I just wrote over the weekend and it came out of me like a pregnant

women whose water just broke and I want to share the story because there's a lot of themes here I want to pull.

So I don't know if you guys know this, but I used to be a screenwriter and I spent my days alone in coffee shops writing

act breaks and clever dialogue and trying to execute, you know, high concept ideas to sell the

million dollar screenplay because I thought that was my ticket to happiness.

I thought that would make me happy and

successful and you know create the the dream of living in LA and you know

having all the shiny things and the three-picture deal and all that stuff and

I did that for you I mean I went to film school so Iored in screenwriting and I did that for years and probably over a decade.

And you know I sold the script.

I sold the script HBO I got hired to write a TV project, but it was just, you know, it wasn't enough for me to spend, you know, 12 hours a day grinding and at the time my marriage was falling apart and I just wasn't happy

and then my scripts were all shitty after a while I wasn't enjoying the process so I quit and became a therapist

and so since then and became a therapist. And so since then, and this is probably over a decade ago, I really have not written a screenplay. And so recently, talking to some production TV people, they encouraged me to write a screenplay.

You know, just some of the stuff that I've been doing on Instagram writing little

dialogue things with my parents and stuff and so I just I was you know I wasn't

going to do it and I decided you know what fuck it you know let's

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