We recently connected with Hyim Ross and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Hyim, thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

There have been numerous defining moments in my professional career. I would say a few of them are the death of my father at the end of violence when I was 10 years old. Another would be going through the Oakland public school system as a white Jewish kid and still calling that my hometown. Another defining moment was my travels around the world with my brother when I was in my early 20s. All of these were so defining because they allowed me to learn how to connect and relate to a very diverse community and individual. I’ve studied music in Cuba and India and Brazil and my interactions with my teachers and fellow students as well as my interactions with teachers and Phyllis students and open public schools taught me how different everyone can be and also how in the end of the end we are all the same. I have spent time in my early early 20s native American sweat lodges that deeply affected my understanding of my relationship to the Earth below me and my place within nature and. community. Another defining moment is when I change myself up against the entrance sign at UC Santa Cruz (go Slugs!) And to see how positive the response was from my community. I did that in protest of the massive prisons that were being built in California and the lack of funding of education especially in urban cities and communities. Inspired me to use my privileges and education and capacity to speak more and more. And to use my rights as a US citizen and a sovereign white cis gender male as best I can. I am very proud to say that I travel the country now doing corporate trainings helping people learn about their nervous system and skills and techniques for mindfulness of the nervous system and then how to be stewards of one’s nervous system, learning skills and techniques to regulate her emotions I know anxiety and nervous system. My capacity to communicate with a broad audience has had many defining moments and integral lessons and training. Indeed I was born in San Francisco on a commune to a bunch of doctors and hippies and it was really an awesome way to grow up as a baby and little boy. So I also learned how to really live in community. And in the end of the end we are all living in one large community. Whether we like it or not. So if we do want a better world we have to learn how to regulate our own nervous system so we can show up is clear minded and aware of our own triggers so that we can really support ourselves in our community, our children and grandparents, as best as possible.

Hyim, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I came to Los Angeles from Oakland already with a Masters in Psychology for a film score internship with Hans Zimmer. I quit after two days and me and my pitbull mastiff dog Izzy decided to stay in Los Angeles and I completed my hours as well as continue to perform in tour and do commercial music while I got my hours and eventually took the ridiculously challenging exams to complete and obtain my license as a marriage and family therapist in the state of California. Now I am basically a professional problem-solving that does most of my work helping clients around the world as well as here in Los Angeles deal with crisis, trauma as well as empower clients in their own self mastery. Now I do workshops for anywhere from 5 to 200 people in one to three day trainings. I also work at several institutions in Los Angeles for mental health. I am also a event promoter, Producer and world touring musician with about four albums as well as a bunch of singles and EPs (“Hyim” on Spotify & iTunes). I created “The Hyim Method” and you can see testimonials about it that speak for itself. You can see that on my website for my consulting and therapy. For a lot of my business consulting clients my focus is on Peace, productivity and prosperity. I essentially train people in a certain understanding of the nervous system and how it relates to our cognitive thinking capacity. Basically when we’re stressed we make bad decisions. So I train people how to be more peaceful and focused and present and self aware so they can be more productive. That productivity doesn’t Jasmin work it can also mean helping our relationships with our children or our partners be better. Or our relationships with our bosses or peers be better.
You can also find me on TikTok and Instagram. @hyimjross. You can see a lot of what I do there.
Frankly what sets me apart is me. Part of the challenging part of this is that I only have so much time. So I have actually started training other coaches and Therapist in my methodology and I’m now supervising other coaches and Therapist who can do the work.
Every company that I’ve been hired to consult I seen an increase in revenue so they really appreciate me and that way but what really matters for me is there a sense of peace and happiness and their capacity to bring a loving presents to their community whether it be with their family and friends are in the workplace. We need more love in this world. See I told you I have some hippie roots (he laughed).
The truth is what I’m offering is stuff we should’ve learned in middle school. I don’t know why I was studying calculus but not our own nervous system. I don’t know why children are not taught how to regulate our and understand our emotions.
What I’m most proud of honestly is when I get emails or texts months or years later after working with a client and they tell me how they thought of me or use one of the skills or technique so I offered them back in the day and they tell me how helpful it was. That’s really fulfilling. I also love to see how advanced my son is already at six years old using some of the techniques that I use my for my adult clients. In fact my son is very inspiring to me.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I’ve recently had to pivot my career both as a musician as well as as a therapist. I’ve worked so much in trauma as a therapist and developed a business strategy that really helps people but I have found that putting out fires all the time and solving intense problems after years and years keeps me from doing other work. Now I’m looking to start building and creating programs as well as institutions if possible. I want to be able to create things that will be here for seven generations yet to come. We live in such a challenging time and with the calming technology and even the current technology our own understanding of what it means to be human and to be a connected human is becoming quite hazy and confusing. We will see a lot more anxiety and depression and disconnection in the future in our western countries I’m sad to say. So I have pivoted to try to help create institutions that will help train future clinicians and people who can facilitate healing long after I’m dead. So I’m starting to collaborate with others in some pretty wonderful ways on some local and domestic projects as well as even international. As a musician I’ve had to pivot many times. After my first album came out I got offered a couple record label deals and I decided to decline it and stayed independent for 15 years. And had a great manager in booking agent publicist in the whole nine. But when CD sales began to decline and Napster came along I knew it was time to pivot. Plus the touring is really exhausting. So I went into film scoring and licensing music as well as more commercial stuff. But now I’m realizing that my passion really isn’t performance and the future of Entertainment is either going to be online, obviously, or having some incredible live shows. So I’m working on a couple projects that will have me performing and singing live and possibly even touring a little. We shall see. hyimvibe.com for more info in the future on that.

What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?

I grew up in Oakland. Even Tupac Shakur said Oakland is the town that taught him “the Game. ” if you know you know. I learned how to hustle as a independent musician as well as have a deep confidence in who I am. If you don’t have confidence in who you are In Oakland you will be crushed. On top of that in Oakland I was a varsity top-tier athlete my first year of high school so I Learned a lot about resilience there as well as playing a lot of street basketball all through my youth. So I learn to have faith and confidence in myself even one face with much larger and stronger adversaries. And killers. I saw too many people shot, killed, stabbed, beat up growing up. I’ve been jammed countless times. My point is is that resilience is key and having a deep faith and trust in who you are. And do the opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it’s trust. Trust in yourself. So I’ve learned how to hustle and really trust myself and as soon as I got licensed I just started a hustle and when I introduced myself to every single clinical Director of almost every treatment program here in Los Angeles. Eventually I got some work as a group therapist and from there I shifted and develop some outside of the box business models so I could work with clients outsid of California. I highly recommend reading the Art Of War, Sun Tzu. I actually never really developed a website or anything I just strictly built my reputation through meeting people and being very very persistent about setting up times. I’m also very diligent about being on time and showing up on time. As a musician I was not always the most powerful performer but one thing for sure is that all the people who worked in the industry knew I was very reliable and professional. That goes for Music and as a therapist. You gotta be sure to handle the low lying fruit. Being on time, punctually following through on your promises, etc. When I net work I will go home and keep notes about the people I met so that I can remember them and help build my relationships. In the end of the N business is built on relationships and having really good relationships is a wonderful way to help one’s career. In fact I love referring people to other professionals. I even throw a ton of events and have dinner parties because I love gathering people and I love seeing people meet each other. All of that relation building has absolutely helped my business. 100%. My resilience and faith in who I am and confidence and finding ways to show up and help my clientele build a reputation that will naturally grow my clientele base.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.hyimjross.com www.hyimvibe.com
• Instagram: hyimjross
• Youtube: hyimjross
• Other: TiKToK: hyimjross

Image Credits
Photographer peace