We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Binh Trinh a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Binh, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My parents left behind the only life they knew to move to a foreign place to give me the opportunities they never had—to grow up safely, go to a good school, and live the American Dream. Moving to a new country half-way across the world is hard, like really hard. My parents were determined to make a better life for my family, so they worked tirelessly to provide for my brother and I. They showed me the value of hustling hard to accomplish my dreams. It takes guts and perseverance. I personally fear failure and rejection and when I’m reminded of what my parents did for me, I’m able to reach inside of me and emulate the strength they had to reach high to achieve my own dreams. They instilled a relentless mamba mentality in me to constantly grow, learn, and become better.

Binh, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I provide online coaching, nutrition, and individual personal training sessions. I help the busy 9-5er stay fit mentally and physically because I am a 9-5er as well. I want everyone to know that you can be busy, have a million things going on at once, but still incorporate nutrition and health into the regiment. I want to empower others to be inspiring, so that they can help themselves and then inevitably help others.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

A book that impacted my thinking and philosophy is the Four Agreements. The book states four agreements to live a fulfilling life. The agreements include:

1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take things personally
3. Don’t make assumptions
4. Do your absolute best.

After reading this book I wake up every morning with the same routine. I look in the mirror state each one of these agreements out loud and set my intentions to love, inspire, and not take a moment for granted. I then take a shower and write on the foggy mirror that 1. I am enough 2. My life is abundant 3. I am not my past and then I hit a hard work out and start on with the rest of my day.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I remember back in university, there was a two-year time frame where nothing went right. I lost my grandma, two aunts to breast cancer, my teammate died in a drunk car accident, dislocated my patella, tore my meniscus, had a tumor removed from my neck, and it was all topped off with my dad’s heart attack. It was a rough time and I definitely threw myself a pity party and made plenty of excuses at the time, but there was finally a moment where I was tired of feeling angry. I ended up taking that anger out on the gym and eventually the anger turned to purpose. After some time, others were saying they got inspired to go on to their fitness journey because of my own journey. This empowered me to continue on.

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