Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

JL thank you for being on my show.

I'm actually excited to talk to you for many reasons.

One, the whole book business agent, all that stuff.

But also, it seems like you're all New York.

Like you're all in on New York, like your biggie

and I'm Tupac, meaning I was born in.

I'm all LA.

This is all I know.

I visited New York and I actually, I disagree with Biggie.

I think New York is a great place to visit. I think LA is home. Now you're gonna just you're gonna disagree.

Well, go ahead. Were you born here? No, I was just gonna say like I don't I don't, I can definitely see, I think, I can see the benefits of both. I have lots of friends who grew up here and then, you know, moved, it's a variety of situations. Some people like moved to other states and you know didn't have any siblings grew up with a single mom and like a you know like a tenement apartment in the East Village and then like they moved to you know Georgia they got married they had kids they had like they had a completely different life than what they grew up with and then others have stayed here so I mean I can definitely see the benefit when I come out to California which isn't very often

like I get it like you guys have palm trees and you have vibe and it's chill and the sun is shining and like I

get it's not it's not New York is kind of hardcore like the I find beauty in like the construction site that's happening over by the FDR drive like I am able to tune in and be like this shit is so gnarly but like I love it because like smoke stacks and like it's just a different it's a different vibe but I also think it's what you get used to you know like I grew up here like I like it I do like it so

J L Sturmer is the owner of next level lit she's previously worked as a Lyrrhic agent at New Leaf, U.T. A, and the Donald Mass

Agency and she holds a BA from Columbia University and you know we're talking about

New York because she's a native New Yorker who loves her city more than ever and I love this part.

She's really excited about the creativity bubbling up post pandemic.

It's like she's able to see this silver lighting,

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