2009. Full (Abridged) Biography

Why all the Biographical Versions?
A valid question. A more appropriate question would, indeed, be why NOT all the biographical versions? People evolve and change. Interests from the past can grow, expand, change, or dissolve. Showing past and current biographies is inspiring to people in the process of change, adaptation, learning from one’s successes and failures; additionally, the evolutionary emotional changes one undergoes is interesting and valuable.

John Thomas (Full Name John Thomas “Kooz” Kuczmarski) Authors “Validate Your Life Blog: Productivity Coaching for Clarity and Inspiration”.

With Validate Your Life he functions as a Validation Lifecoach.  This includes:

• Success Lifecoaching
• Career Coaching
• Relationship Coaching
• Productivity Coaching
• Health Coaching

Check out more about him and his site here.
My listing on Thumbtack: Relationship, Career, Health, & Productive Coach

All About John — Blurb (Short Version) Bio

Also Checkout the very poetic and more philosophical version of my evolution…

Serial Entrepreneur, Coder, Cutting-Edge Coach, Communications Expert, NLP Practitioner and Trainer, Physiology Aligner

I give you success on a silver-platter, basically.  You’ll become “too” successful.

– John Kooz

In addition to having hollywood-trained acting experience,  worked for Marvel,assisted in the leadership of tropical environmental conservation projects in the Yucatan and Amazonian rainforests of North, Central, and South America, traveling the globe and learning from the greatest professors, shaman, gurus, captains, and leaders.  Now he’s back.  Here to pass on his edifications for galvanizing transformation and for enjoyment!

John is also a multiple marathoner, a surfing and martial arts instructor, and has trained under a 7th-degree black-belt sensei to the combined 2nd dan Shotokhan martial art level from the distinguished Japan-Karate Association and International Martial Arts Association.

Furthermore,  John also also operates from the entrepreneurial experience of having launched multiple businesses which included a web design company that crafted over two dozen sites for schools and personal clients, and is the president of a life-coaching firm.

But what truly places John at the forefront of the lifecoaching market arena?  What makes John genuinely unique from other lifecoaches?  Access to a unique generational energy for one.  Let’s face it.  Most lifecoaches these days draw from the babyboomer generation.  In other words, 80% of all lifecoaches are between 35 and 60 and draw from the exact some global life experiences as all those other lifecoaches, making for a very limited, very redundant, very outdated set of practices and what we call “global belief generators”.  John’s training, experience, and style reflects that of a unique branch of Generation Y lifecoaches representing only a small percentage (under 5%) of all life change agents.  John’s written 4 ebooks, hundreds of motivational inspirational published articles, and over 1.7 million words on lifecoaching published material and devoted the last 9 years of his life to training, education, practicing, and living the art of motivational lifecoaching.  Conclusively, John possesses many (likely much more) of the accomplishments and credentials that older generational lifecoaches complete, but unlike the more outdated lifecoaches, John draws from a unique generational gusto and rich bouquet of cutting edge motivational, transformational, and synergistic technologies rarely found in other lifecoaching practices.

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All About John — Non Abstract Biography

John’s been cultivating, edifying, and passionately practicing nlp and lifecoaching skills for nearly a decade.  He has access to a massively broad range of emotions but most of his friends observe his noteworthy and phenomenally high level of happiness, intelligence, and energy.  NLP and lifecoaching are a direct carryover and congruent transmutation of his:

1. Immersion in Change with Business Innovation. John grew up around change, innovation, and transformation. His parents are business leaders and his biological father not only founded, but annually hosts the Chicago Innovation Awards, a ceremonial event drawing hundreds of entrepreneurs competing for some of the most prestigious awards in business innovation.  Indeed, John has cultivated and grown his own unique, novel, and original strengths and inventions, but it certainly was an asset having parents that tacitly mentored him in expert innovation strategies nearly everyday of his youth.
2. Self-Change. After binge-eating for a short period of his life, having the police called on him on 16 different occasions, gaining weight, and downward-spiraling into self-destructive behavior that included thousands of dollars of debt (in a foreign country!), having different shrinks diagnose him as having a variety of psychiatric disorders (including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia), and experiencing a car accident where he flipped over in his car, John endured some seriously catastrophic personal challenges and knew he wanted to change his life.  To do that he started with nutrition and his discovery and passion for lifecoaching over 9 years ago.  John was so committed to having resources to help clients change that he started smoking for distinct, controlled 2-month periods on three different occasions specifically with the intention of learning about the addiction to have resources to help clients break it, Since then, in completing a truly astounding lifetime’s worth of work John has soared as one of the most expansive-transformational-organized-productivity-focused-growth-oriented individuals you’ll ever meet, but more importantly he understood that overcoming all these challenges and achieving certain goals has simply made him a better coach!
3. Personal Therapy.

Understanding that the most challenging and heroic changes most often occur with helpers, John cathartically entertained a 9-year enterprise of therapy with over 7 different psychologists, braving hundreds of hours of counsel to truly do as he says, “the hard stuff in life, the interpersonal journey stuff, the getting to know your shadow stuff”.  In addition to ensuring his coaching operates from a place of utmost clarity, his intention was to create  absolute certainty within himself that he provides the most crystal clear and inconceivably efficient coaching exchange.

4. Nutrition and Athletics. Part of his personal transformation occurred during a vast redefinition in and detoxification of nutrition while living in the Yucatan jungle.  Through the implementation of what he calls self-edification, John completed multiple fasts, some as long as 7 days, and adopted a pollo-vegetarian diet.  He provides some seriously effective and enduring tools for meeting your nutritional-health goals be it losing weight, quitting a destructive habit (such as smoking),or a more fulfilling emotional relationship with food.  Through massive self-discipline and training himself over 4,400 miles, John completed multiple sub-4-hour marathons and invented the Reward Anchor™ technology.  The energizing impact of that type of motivation is something which he looks forward to install in order to upgrade any of your health goals.  In addition to having been both a surfing and martial arts instructor, John completed triathalons and has trained under a 7th-degree black belt, earned a 3rd Kyu from the Japan-Karate Association in Chicago and an additional 4th Kyu belt from the International Martial Arts Association in Colorado (2nd Dan combined).  When a client is grappling with a pattern, John’s extremely diverse career and athletic background has given him access to executing a swift, gentle, but effective craftsmanship to, for example, dissolve a state of overwhelm, install ease, or create motivation.
5. Authoring. John has written over 1.8 million words (roughly 6,800 pages) entailing over 300 free motivational blog-e-articles and 4 inspirational ebooks encouraging readers to construct new cognitive dimensions in their lives and reality, including “Validate Your Life™”, “Expressing the Observation”, and “Compassionate Reservoirs”.  His writing has fueled his proficiency as a coach.
6. Film & Audio. Employing his acting vocalization work. John produced 2 home-made DVDs, filmed, directed, and edited over 40 free motivational snippets, and recorded 2,040 minutes of personally-edited audio recordings.  These audios including nonfiction readings from the motivational ebook Validate Your Life, fictional recordings from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as well as various informative and inspirational podcasts with the intention of leading you to validating your strengths and transmutating doubts into inspiration.
7. Education and Time-Management. Employing cutting-edge “Threaded Multitasking of Nested TOTEs” (TMNT™) time-management techniques, John completed his 4-year bachelor’s degree in Communications Media major that he designed which infused psychology, english, politics, drama, and computers at one of the nation’s top tier (Colorado College ranked 19th in the nation) liberal arts colleges in less than 2.5 years of study all while training for a marathon and writing 3 ebooks!  Additionally, John studied British traditions at the prestigious London School of Economics, nautical science at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and educational psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His diverse academic background and time-management technology gives you a very unique coaching experience.
8. Hollywood acting and comedy experience. Whether it be individual mentoring from a director, Hollywood acting training, working for Marvel, or theatrically performing for schools and audiences, John directly channels his performance articulation training as well as a lot of the Method acting emotional awareness techniques taught to working actors to help people fully live in the moment.  If you want to have some of the freedom that you see actors display “on the silver screen”, John understands the exact same tricks and techniques that actors tap into to fully emotionally connect and synergizing with the moment.  Additionally, he recognizes laughter as some of the planet’s greatest medicine and infused his comedic skills when and where appropriate.
9. Mobility. After the mobility and cultural experiences of having switched schools 7 times from highschool to undergrad (Latin, LPHS, and Latin in highschool; Colorado College, Sea Education Assocation, and University of California, Santa Barbara for undergrad) and moved to and lived in 11 different places around the world including including Mexico, Colorado, London, Chicago, and California,  John understands that anti-clutter, minimalism, and “stuff organization”  are a crucial part of any transformational endeavor and loves to help with any organizational goals.
10. Programming and Math. John studied math, Java, css, html, and javascript programming in college and during his web design era.  He loved the logic, precision, and formulaic qualities inherent to those studies but as he put it, “was programming metal boxes with wires”.  He didn’t hear his calling for coaching recently, but nearly 9 years ago, and has since been channeling that logic, precision, and masterful programming knowledge learned from computer work into his transformative NLP and a clarifying life-coaching practice.  Now with the new focus of his transformative architecture, instead of installing successful programs into metal box computers held together with screws containing wires and subroutines, he elicits successful life programs in people whom, while put together with personal convictions and patterns,  truly contain infinite potential and the capacity to change in an instant.
11. Entrepreneurialism. John founded a web design company which crafted 25 web sites.  (17 web sites, 5 blogs, and 3 social-networking hubs). He’s learned Engine Optimization (SEO) tricks and knowledge to get his name to appear in the top results on all the major search engines.  Whether you have a business strategy you want to implement, marketing plan you want to employ, or an internet image you want to enhance, John is qualified to coach you in those areas.
12. Wildlife Conservation. For some of the most essential and radical changes to occur in humans, we must first start with the planet; in understanding the totality of that, John lived and worked extensively in the Quintana Roo region of the Mexican Yucatan cooperatively leading tropical conservation projects.
13. Coaching.  John has been coaching for over 10 years.  He’s been “cognizant” of his coaching (meaning authoring on coaching, writing articles on coaching and actively aware that what he is doing) for 6 years, since 2004 (after he finished his marathon) while he was writing his first book on coaching.
14. NLP.  John’s style has a very technical element to it.  He uses a lot of NLP, revolves his coachign around how “the map is not the territory” and ensures the client always creates the territory themselves.  He uses sleight of mouth patterns, visualizations, and technical sub-modality work when and where appropriate.  A lot of coaching he believes is “too fluffy”, so his interest in logic and the neurolingusitic-programming code” gives shape to a highly technical approach.

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Unique Coaching Strengths

1. Certified. John
2. LifeScribing. Perhaps John’s most unique lifecoaching quality, John invented the practice of LifeScribing™ and LifeChronicling™.  A practitioner and master of the LifeScribe system himself, he has journaled over 700,000 words in various journals averaging 100,000 words annually per journal over the past 8 years.  John looks forward to catalyzing powerful changes in implementing the LifeScribe journaling system to increase your memory retention, emotional well-being, and cognitive clarity.
3. NLP. John is in the process of authoring a comprehensive guide to mastering NLP.  He’s an advanced practitioner who’s utilized NLP in a variety of contexts including, as he says, getting paid in a job!  He’s gotten paying work at a bakery (Xanadu French Bakery) and a consulting group (The Career Center) without EVER showing any employer a single resume.  How?  He says, “Simple. NLP.”  So John has utilized NLP in his life to simply activate things that he needs and in his coaching to activate things his clients need!  He utilizes NLP technologies in his coaching to very quickly and very swiftly shift perspectives and install enduring successful change in clients.
4. Hypnosis. John recognizes that psychiatry is obsolete.  In 50 years psychiatry won’t exist.  He used to feel sorry for people put a lot of time and money into getting psychiatric degrees, becuase those degress will obsolete in 50-70 years!  Hypnotic trance will completely replace all pharmacology.  In 50 years from now, you’ll buy audio “prescriptions” that utilize the medicinal-physiological state change of language to change your physiology.  Hypnosis will become the new prescription!  John understand this and uses hypnosis in his coaching if appropriate.  There exist trance states for performance success, for relaxation, for fantasizing, for planning.  Trances are the “new prescription” for whatever physiological effect you want to acheive.  Trances cause different (Theta) brain waves and acetycholine to dominate over norepinephrine.  Internal physiological changes occur with trances and John has trained himself and practiced the past 5 years in working with and applying trance states for therapeutic, performance, planning, and clarity experiences.  Ask John about hypnosis if you’re interested in achieving your goals with the powerfully effective utilization of trance!
5. Youth. A younger age typically isn’t considered an asset, but when it comes to life-change technology, it is.   But what truly places John at the forefront of the lifecoaching market arena?  What makes John genuinely unique from other lifecoaches?  Access to a unique generational energy for one.  Let’s face it.  Most lifecoaches these days draw from the babyboomer generation.  In other words, 80% of all lifecoaches are between 35 and 60 and draw from the exact some global life experiences as all those other lifecoaches, making for a very limited, very redundant, very outdated set of practices and what we call “global belief generators”. John’s training, experience, and style reflects that of a unique branch of Generation Y lifecoaches representing only a small percentage (under 5%) of all life change agents.   Conclusively, John possesses many (likely much more) of the accomplishments and credentials that older generational lifecoaches complete, but unlike the more outdated lifecoaches, John draws from a unique generational gusto and rich bouquet of cutting edge motivational, transformational, and synergistic technologies rarely found in other lifecoaching practices.
6. Intuitive Recognition. Many of those who’ve worked with John acknowledge his keen intuition; he can detect many of the unspoken problems in your words and then articulate an invitation to work on those utilizing simple problem-solving patterns that he’s experienced.
7. Productivity and Organization Guru. John has distilled over 1000s of management, productivity, organizational systems to create a set of Principles, specifically Progress and Organizational Productivity Principles that, quite simply, WORK!  POPP works.  If you seek more organization or want to dissolve overwhelm, send John an email about POPP.
8. Immersion in Change with Business Innovation. John grew up around change, innovation, and transformation. His parents are business leaders and his biological father not only founded, but annually hosts the Chicago Innovation Awards, a ceremonial event drawing hundreds of entrepreneurs competing for some of the most prestigious awards in business innovation.  Indeed, John has cultivated and grown his own unique, novel, and original strengths and inventions, but it certainly was an asset having parents that tacitly mentored him in expert innovation strategies nearly everyday of his youth.

In his own words:

“In addition to my voice acting, and authoring (which are not mutually exclusive with coaching), I’ve always been coaching.  In school, when I studied, talking with peers, during performance work with acting, learning a computer language and writing a program or designing a website’s architecture, by studying NLP — all of that has always been coaching, some incarnation of life-coaching for me.  All of my challenges, difficulties, dead-ends, uncertainties, passions, certainties, and joys in the past have been the chiseling my focus and grinding my technology into sharpening and honing my lifecoaching capacity into a cutting-edge sharp repertoire of experiences and tools entirely for the purpose of coaching! All this work I’ve done was to just provide me with another tool, technique or experience to maximize my potential in coaching a client.

The fact that life-coaching truly allows clients to connect the dots and precisely operate in an agenda-free environment is a rarely efficient service I feel honored to provide.”

I love the process of helping people experience the sensation of becoming and finally seeing themselves exactly how you’ve always visualized yourself doing precisely what you’ve always wanted to become.  That’s just so amazingly cool and I’m infinitely stoked to catalyze that positive transformational process.

I help people transform and ultimately trivialize daunting, overwhelmingly complex, destructive, and/or seemingly-insurmountable problems into something ridiculously negligible so you achieve the outcomes you deserve.  Whether it be utilizing a highly-technical neuro-linguistic programming technology to install a relinquishment of doubt or intuitively recognize a solution pattern to unearth the genuine and rare strengths someone possess, this is an invaluable career.  The work I do as a coach is indescribably meaningful!”

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Coaching to Me — Evolving out of Disillusionment

Coaching is the opposite of disillusionment, “product placement:, and delusions put forth by religion, media. and debilitating influences.  I spend YEARS of my life writing books on discovering exactly what I want to know and who I want to be and I discover that! I was interested in spirituality and when I was, it was exciting but various things (prosetylization in Costa Rica on multiple occasion, reading up on cults and witnessing identical similarities between cults and major religions etc) emerged and I evolved out of that. Now science and atheism are rivetting. TRULY rivetting. But the truth of the matter is. They’ve ALWAYS been rivetting! I’ve ALWAYS been this nerdy, scientific atheist. I watch home videos of me as a kid and I see that and know that. “Devout Atheism” (:D) is what’s true for me. Kiekegaard says “I must find a truth that’s true for me”. Well, Soren, I did just that and it’s refreshing and incredibly MASSIVELY empowering!! Wow. So empowering to honor my genuine LOVE for science! Three kinds of symbiotic relationships, Stomata on plants, cellular respiration I love that high-tech jargon and better yet the fact that it’s linked to real things in nature. But physics is like some of the most absolute truths of all tied in with the precision of math. I’m very interested in physics especially. Sweet!!

All About John — Abstract Biography

 

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