About · Daniel Kim

My Story.

I was sent to a school for gifted children at barely 10 years old — and spent the next two decades wondering why I still couldn't keep up.

What nobody knew, including me, was that I had ADHD. I wouldn't find out until I was 30.

By then, the condition had quietly shaped everything: why I couldn't focus in class, why studying felt impossible, why my family thought I was lazy when I was quietly drowning. I made it through school on raw potential alone — but the real world doesn't grade on a curve. I landed a job at PwC and was let go for being unremarkably average. I got another shot at EY to complete my CPA, and lasted just over a year before debilitating stress forced me to quit.

I spent the next year and a half barely functioning. I saw specialist after specialist trying to understand what was wrong with me. No one had answers. I was also carrying over a decade of chronic stress eating in my body, weight I'd convinced myself was just who I was. During this time, the anxiety and depression I'd always managed in the background became impossible to ignore — some days, getting out of bed wasn't an option. Some days, brushing my teeth was the whole victory.

So I started with what I could control.

With no fitness history whatsoever, I ran a half marathon within six months of lacing up my first pair of running shoes. I lost the weight. I started therapy. I got diagnosed and treated for ADHD, anxiety, and depression — finally understanding that most of what I'd been fighting traced back to a very difficult childhood in a very dysfunctional, very poor family. I'd carried a scarcity mindset into my marriage, convinced that no amount of money would ever be enough. My wife and I worked through it together — paying off our student debt in under two years, saving enough for both of us to take 18 months off (she went back to grad school), and eventually buying our first home.

Then came sales.

It felt like a natural fit — and I still failed at my first job and nearly got fired from my second. What changed wasn't talent. It was realizing that great salespeople aren't lucky — they have a system. I figured out the system. I became a top performer.

I'm not sharing this because I've arrived somewhere perfect. I'm still a work in progress, still chipping away. But I've learned that ADHD, mental health struggles, financial stress, career failure, and a hard start in life don't have to be the end of the story.

If any part of my journey sounds familiar, I hope it gives you something — and I hope I can help you write the next chapter of yours.

The harder stuff.

So yes, I struggled with my weight and body image for most of my life. I didn't get fit until my late twenties, and it took even longer to sort out the mental side. I've helped people close to me get their finances in order — real conversations about debt, spending, and what a better financial future actually looks like. And I've struggled and wrestled through meaninglessness, lack of purpose and direction, and feeling 'stuck' — and figured out a few things along the way that produced real results.

None of this makes me a therapist. I'm not one. But it makes me someone who has been through enough to be useful — and who won't waste your time with vague encouragement.