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    Season 1 · Episode 4

    Maintaining Your Daily Physical & Mental Health

    ZADAN with Wisith Jiengwattana

    · 1:53:06

    The conversation

    Wisith Jiengwattana, a distributor for an all-natural mental wellness products company a friend started in Orange County, explains how he got there. He moved from Thailand to Los Angeles with his mother at nine, grew up with little money in Thai Town and later Pacoima, and spent his 20s changing jobs for bigger raises. At 27 he woke up unable to move his right arm, which a doctor linked to stress, and a later job at a cancer hospital nonprofit changed how he weighed money against time.

    Much of the rest moves between his mentor, whom he met through a thoughtful Instagram message, and practical talk about personal branding. ZADAN explains his 13-week content seasons and why he recorded 13 episodes before launching the show. They trade views on optimism and failure, a snowy multi-city job hunt, earning from YouTube through affiliate links, flipping secondhand goods, Zappos's customer service, and the risk of comparing yourself to profiles built on rented cars and bought likes.

    Topics, with timestamps

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    1. Natural products for stress, sleep and energy
    2. Leaving Thailand at nine and chasing a paycheck
    3. Waking up unable to move his arm at 27
    4. Finding a mentor through an Instagram message
    5. Branding yourself instead of the product
    6. Planning social content in 13-week seasons
    7. Growing up in Thai Town and Pacoima
    8. Optimism, failure and opportunity in America
    9. A multi-city job hunt in the snow
    10. Why the show banked 13 episodes before launch
    11. Funding creative work and choosing honest affiliates
    12. Flipping goods and a mentor's lesson in humility
    13. Organic relationships and the Zappos example
    14. Loving yourself first and ignoring the comparison

    Worth hearing

    • Wisith describes his work as mental wellness rather than mental illness: helping people with stress, anxiety, sleep and low energy.
    • In his 20s he found that changing companies brought bigger raises than staying put, and he changed jobs six or seven times.
    • After three weeks in bed following the ER visit, he started gratitude walks and journaling, left that job, and took a 40-hour-a-week role at a nonprofit cancer hospital.
    • His mentor showed him Brene Brown's TED talk on vulnerability, which led Wisith to stop hiding the years his family had little money.
    • When his fashion website's domain lapsed, someone bought it within days, so he rebuilt under wisithj.com.
    • ZADAN plans posts in 13-week blocks of 91 and recorded 13 episodes before the first one aired so the weekly schedule would never slip.
    • Both argue that creators who earn money outside their audience can keep their content and sponsorships honest.

    ZADAN's original episode notes

    On this week’s episode, with the guest appearance of Wisith Jiengwattana, we will be discussing various strategies and branding methods, the mental health industry and the product Wisith supports to help with the daily stress and various other levels to improve your overall ability to perform, we talk background, passions, this is not an episode you want to miss.