From War Survivor to Education Revolutionary: Kohila Sivas on Rewiring the Mind

Summary

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Podcast Summary: What Are You Made Of?

Episode: From War Survivor to Education Revolutionary: Kohila Sivas on Rewiring the Mind

Host: Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Guest: Kohila Sivas
Date: March 11, 2026

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Overview

This candid and inspiring episode features Kohila Sivas—a war survivor, educator, and mindset coach—sharing her extraordinary journey from escaping war-torn Sri Lanka to revolutionizing holistic education. Kohila and Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco explore themes of resilience, self-reinvention, the power of questioning the mind, and what it means to facilitate true transformation beyond traditional education systems. Kohila delves into her personal battles with trauma, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts, and how these experiences laid the groundwork for her mind-rewiring methodologies that blend neuroscience and biohacking.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Kohila’s Multi-Cultural Life & Creative Environments

• (00:15–01:32): Kohila shares her nomadic lifestyle between Canada, Cabo, and Florida, attributing her creativity to these changes in environment.
  • “Environment is so important, and when you're stuck in the same environment all the time, it's hard on your creativity.” – Mike (00:44)
  • “Whenever I want to create and whenever I want to recenter, I come here [Cabo]. The energy is so beautiful.” – Kohila (00:57)

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2. Early Trauma & Building Resilience

• (01:32–02:31): Kohila reflects on escaping the Sri Lankan civil war at age six, immigrating to Canada, enduring cultural barriers, and surviving a toxic, alcoholic household.
  • “I tried to kill myself at 12... I escaped a war when I was 6. Lost everything, muted myself because I couldn't speak English…” (01:51)
• (02:44–04:40): Discussion of the Sri Lankan war, its impact, and adapting to Canadian society.
• (05:18–07:10): She describes deep loneliness, muted socialization, and feeling misunderstood—leading to her attempted suicide at age 12.

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3. The Complexity of the Human Mind

• (07:11–08:51): Exploration of how the brain manufactures stories and learning to separate oneself from one’s thoughts.
  • “My own brain betrayed me on my worst day ever in my life.” – Kohila (07:05)
  • “Our brain's a powerful machine... it loves to create stories...acts as if it’s really true.” – Kohila (08:04)
  • Kohila’s Method: Name your brain and question it like an external entity.

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4. The Transformational Power of Mathematics

• (09:47–12:24): School years marked by isolation, until world-opening interaction with a teacher who encouraged her to speak and the personal refuge she found in math.
  • “Math was a therapy during that time for me. I used it as a therapy to recover and become confident.” – Kohila (11:06)

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5. From Teacher to Revolutionary Coach

• (11:00–14:07): Kohila describes outgrowing the constraints of formal teaching, moving to tutoring, and then to coaching—focusing on transformation, not just grades.
  • “I wasn't getting them grades. I was actually transforming them in the way they could.” (12:16)
  • “Transactional...then transformational is only the thing that leads to transcendence.” – Mike (12:27)

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6. Personal Life: Meeting Her Husband

• (14:07–15:59): Kohila recounts how her husband, originally a client’s parent, fell in love with her unique approach—supporting her growth beyond tutoring.
  • “You're not just a tutor…You're transforming, you're transcending people into the next level.” – Kohila, quoting her husband (15:54)

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7. Pioneering Holistic, Personalized Learning

• (16:09–18:40): Kohila’s transition to online education, establishment of the Readiness OS methodology, and training 300+ educators worldwide.
• Use of AI to facilitate infinite customization for each learner while maintaining a human-centric experience.

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8. The Science of Unlocking Human Potential

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  • Holistic diagnostics: Not just blind spots or strategies, but biological systems—neuro, hormonal, psychological, and energetic factors.
  • “If you’re blocked in any way in your life, we can unblock you and put you into flow state...” – Kohila (17:53)
  • Emphasis on hormonal health—how biohacking, hormone panels, and even stem cell therapy can be critical to self-optimization.

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9. Why Schools Don’t Teach True Self-Optimization

• (22:45–23:53): Both highlight the systemic reasons why schools—and the forces of power—don’t educate people in holistic or biological self-mastery.
  • “People in power want chaos and confusion below them because it continues to grow their power.” – Mike (22:58)
  • Kohila advocates for a grassroots awakening among parents and educators.

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10. Redefining “Readiness” and Success

• (23:53–26:20): Kohila challenges the prevailing culture of struggle and “upstream” grind in personal development, proposing a “straight line” path to growth powered by alignment, flow, and deep self-awareness—not suffering.
  • “Growth has to be straight line and the rest of it is a spiral. We actually grow by like electrons in elements...They jump to a different level.” (25:18)
  • Critique of both school and self-help industries for perpetuating grind narratives.

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11. Rewiring in Practice: The Straight Path

• (26:20–30:15): The practical steps:
  • First, develop awareness of your thoughts.
  • Most people loop in the past or future; true power comes from being present.
  • Cultivate the skill of bringing yourself to the “now,” disengaging from unhelpful narratives.
  • “Our brain doesn’t allow us to be here in this moment...the thing that we miss is here and now. So how can you bring yourself like this to here and now? That’s the power.” – Kohila (27:36)
  • It’s a muscle—practice makes it easier and more natural.

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12. Universal Application & Invitation

• (30:21–31:53): Kohila offers her website (holisticsuccesscodes.com), explaining her work spans from children to seniors, as blocks and misalignment can occur throughout life.
  • “If you’re not expressing, that means you’re suppressed. We’re going to figure out what that suppression is so you can express and achieve whatever you want in life.” (31:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Grace. I lived through everything with grace.” – Kohila, on what she’s made of (01:41)
• “My own brain betrayed me on my worst day ever in my life.” – Kohila (07:10)
• “You gotta question it. Excuse me, where did you get that from? What facts do you have to tell me this right now?” – Kohila on talking to your brain (07:35)
• “We actually grow by...when [electrons] want to bond or go to a different level, they jump to a different level. Growth is a journey, not this valleys…It’s a straight path.” – Kohila (25:18)
• “If you’re not expressing, that means you’re suppressed. We’re going to figure out what that suppression is so you can express and achieve whatever you want in life.” (31:12)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:32] – Kohila’s war/loss/immigration story
• [05:18] – Her struggles with loneliness, mutism, and suicide attempt
• [07:10] – Realization: “My own brain betrayed me”
• [10:13] – Discovering math as therapy
• [12:16] – Transition from transactional to transformative to transcendent coaching
• [14:07] – Meeting her husband through her transformative work
• [16:09] – Launching her online, AI-powered “Readiness OS” method
• [18:40] – Holistic assessment: Biology, hormones, and neuroscience
• [22:45] – Why schools don’t teach true holistic optimization (“chaos and confusion”)
• [25:18] – Upending “grind” culture: “Straight line” growth
• [26:20] – Awareness and the power of being present
• [30:21] – Where to find Kohila and work with her

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Final Takeaways

• Transformation is not about grades or performance, but rewiring mind and body holistically.
• Question your thoughts; don’t blindly trust your brain.
• Awareness and present-centeredness are the foundation for flow and success.
• Growth need not be a struggle; it can be a straight, enjoyable path.
• Healing and flourishing are lifelong processes—at any age or stage.

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For deeper engagement or coaching with Kohila Sivas, visit holisticsuccesscodes.com.
Listen to the full episode for more details and real-life stories.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome back to the what are you made of show. It's your boy C. Rock here. I'm with Kuhila Sivas, and she's going to share what she's made of. Kahila, welcome to the show.

[B]

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

[A]

Yeah. You know, I love the background you have there, by the way.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Yeah. So you're. You're in. You bounce around, and from Canada, Cabo to Florida. And even though you're bouncing around, you still have a. A nice background, and so that's cool. A lot of people travel, you know, never know where they're going to be. Um, so how. Let. Let's start this. First of all, how. How long do you spend in each location?

[B]

Sometimes six, sometimes four.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Depends. Yeah, yeah, depends with our kids. And if you're. I'm married, so depends with my husband.

[A]

Well, you know, you know, environment is so important, and when you're stuck in the same environment all the time, it's hard on your creativity.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

You notice that when you move around a little bit, then you starts opening up some creativity.

[B]

Yeah. I love Cabo. I feel like the energy here is so beautiful. So whenever I want to create and whenever I want to recenter, I come here.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And then where in Florida do you go?

[B]

Miami.

[A]

Okay. It's got its own vibe. It's got its own vibe there, you know, A little bit more busy, right?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then Vancouver. Vancouver.

[A]

I haven't been to Vancouver, so I don't know much about that.

[B]

Another beautiful place.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And not in the wintertime. Is it. Is it. Does it get cold in the winter?

[B]

A little bit, but it's rainy. It's, you know, it's cloudy. It's like Seattle.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Similar to Seattle.

[A]

Okay, gotcha. Well, let's start the show the right way. This question I always ask is, what are you made of?

[B]

Grace. I lived through everything with grace.

[A]

Yeah, that's a good answer. How about you elaborate on that?

[B]

A lot of things have happened to me. I tried to kill myself at the age of 12. I escaped a war when I was 6. Lost everything, muted myself because I couldn't speak English when I moved to Canada. So a lot has happened. And my dad became an alcoholic, so household was very toxic. But everything I'd gone through, from what my grandfather always told me, things happen to you for a reason. And there's always things that you can pick up from it. And I think I picked up. Picked up what I need to pick up from all of those experience to make and Become who I am today.

[A]

I love that. So not that you went through all that, but it sometimes ends up being really good if we keep going, right?

[B]

Yes, it is. I love it. I love it. Every part of it, actually.

[A]

So talk to me about the war part. Like, where were you and what was going on?

[B]

So I'm originally Sri Lankan, so that was a Sri Lankan internal war that kept going. So we had to leave. It was not safe to live. So we left. We left everything. I left my grandparents. So that was my first separation from two people that I loved the most. And then coming to Canada, of course, I didn't know the language, and culturally I was very different. So there was a time that I had to learn and adapt and become part of becoming Canadian.

[A]

So what languages do you speak in Sri Lanka?

[B]

My family, I spoke Tamil. Tamil.

[A]

Tamil.

[B]

There's few languages in Sri Lanka as well. There's different religion and language, but the language I spoke was Tamil and Tamil.

[A]

What would that be? More. More like. Most like that I would know of. Is it. Is it relating to more?

[B]

No, it's got to almost 200 some odd Alphabet. So it's a very complex language.

[A]

Wow. And the letters look different than what we'd see in English.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, very different. Very different.

[A]

So can you point to the map where Sri Lanka is on the back there?

[B]

Oh, right here, right here.

[A]

Oh, okay. That little island.

[B]

Yeah, it's a little island underneath India. Okay, it's underneath, but it's a separate country. It's not part of India.

[A]

Yeah. And how many people, roughly, you know, is it really heavily populated like India is?

[B]

No, no, no, because it's an island. It's. It's almost like Singapore. If they did not have war, we would have developed and become like Singapore because we were once ruled by British. Right. Because Ceylon, it was called Ceylon before they were known for their tea. Okay, so the British loved the tea estates they planted there.

[A]

Oh, and then who were they at war with at the time when you left?

[B]

Oh, internal. Internal. We had two religion, two cultures. So it was an internal civil war. Yeah.

[A]

Okay, gotcha. And so, all right, so six years old, you come to Canada and then, you know, obviously. Yeah, culture shock. Trying to. It's hard enough to be a kid as it is. Anyway, I moved around schools and I was only staying in the same state a lot of times, or maybe the same region. And it was difficult making new friends, figuring out, trying to figure out who I fit in with. So I can't imagine, on your level, coming from a different country, different culture, what that was like. And I can imagine that led to when you were 12, feeling like you just didn't want to be here anymore. What, what do you remember, like, what that was like in the mental frame you were in when you were 12 years old. And can you kind of share that with us?

[B]

Yeah. Very alone. I was very alone by myself. So my parents did not understand what I was going through because they never grew up in Canada. Right. They moved and then they are survived. They were in survival mode because they need to protect us, find a job. You know, they're also going through financial stress as we moved because we lost everything. So there was nobody to talk to. So that's why at school I decided I would mute myself, which helped a lot because people just thought I was shy and quiet.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And. And did you take English class?

[B]

Yeah. Esl. I had to go through. Yes.

[A]

Yeah. Okay. And then, and then when you were 12 and you decided to just like, I just didn't want to be here anymore. Right. And. And then how did, like, what happened after that for you to recover?

[B]

So that, that was. That was very. That was a decision I. Because I talked so much to myself. I asked a lot of questions to myself and I would talk to my brain. So that is where I. What I do now. All of it comes from what I've been through. So at that time, I would talk to my brain and my brain would tell me exactly why I shouldn't be here. So there was a lot of stories that I've created in my little brain that told, you know what? You're not, you don't need to be here. This world is not going to help you. This world does feels very scary. Why are you here? So it told me the day before that this is why we should do what we should do. So then when I did it, the next time I woke up, after I did what I did, it told me the right opposite. It started flipping the stories on me. My brain, wow. The day before, it told me my parents don't love me, my mom hates me. And the next day, my mom's there crying. It says, why did you do your. Look at your mom. It's crying, she's crying. She cares about you. She loves you. Why would you do such a thing? I'm like, excuse me, you told me yesterday all of these things were opposite to what you're telling me. So it betrayed me. My own brain betrayed me on my worst day ever in my life.

[A]

Interesting. Because, you know, we're not our Thoughts.

[B]

I know, right?

[A]

Like we. This is a perfect example of like, we're the observer of the thoughts. And then, like, who are those thoughts? Like, where. Where are those thoughts coming from? What are your thoughts on that?

[B]

Well, my brain creates them. Our brain's powerful machine, it creates all sorts of stuff. So we have to question it. We can't trust our brain.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Not something to be trusted. You gotta question it. Excuse me, where did you get that from? What. What kind of facts do you have to tell me this right now? Right. But at that time, I didn't have any qu. I didn't know.

[A]

I just believed the brain, it's. It's. It's originating or it's formulating in the brain somehow, but there's something somewhere that's feeding that. Like, what is that? Is it the devil? Like, a lot of people say it's the devil. Is it your environment that you put yourself in and the, the experiences all feed into that? Like, it's an interesting topic.

[B]

We. We're a biological systems. Right. We were made out of so many different systems that's acting together to put us together. So the brain is just one part of it, but one part receives messages. But it loves to create stories that we can't tell when we're in it, that it's a real or it's. It's made up. It acts as it's really true. You got to buy it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So only when you learn how to separate them and start questioning it. So that's why you have to dissociate your brain from yourself and even have a name for your brain and talk to it. Like, come on, what are we talking about right now? Tell me more.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Where did you get that information from? How are we. What's the proof of that? And then when you question it, it's kind of has its own voice. So we have to, like I always tell my clients, name your brain and talk to it. It doesn't own you. You own it.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, once you get in control of that and end of your emotions and keep your emotions upscale. Right. Everything always works out. It's when you get down, down and. And chronically in a low emotional state. It's not, not controlling those thoughts and listening to those thoughts that things don't work out.

[B]

Yeah. It spirals.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's why depression is. You could get into depression pretty quickly.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Listening to.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. It's as important to take action as quickly as possible when you start to have those things. That's why exercise is so important. Walks in the wilderness, getting around the right people in your environment, you know, it's huge. So after that recovery and then you switched and started controlling and, and, and questioning, then did you notice like your, your friend, like, did you grow a friend group? Did you start fitting in more? How did that all play out?

[B]

No, I didn't do that. I was pretty, still pretty loner in high school, going through it, But I did have a profound message from one of my teachers. I still wasn't speaking. So by the middle school, my, one of my ESL teachers looked at me and said, looked at me into my eyes and said, kuhila, I know you can speak. Just speak. She was the first one she ever looked into my eyes and said, speak. And then that's when I started speaking.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So from that I also fell in love with math because something that I, I could solve. You know, in life you can solve a lot of things when at that time, but in math, if I sat with it, if I spent time on it, I always could get an answer. So that gave me so much confidence in figuring stuff out. So I became a problem solver in math and that gave me the confidence. So I was still not fitting in with people. I was always a loner because I, I asked, I asked so many questions that people could answer. So when I felt like I was always, I couldn't fit in because they didn't ask the question I asked. And then at that time, I thought I was stupid asking those things, but now I know I was pretty smart in asking a lot of those questions.

[A]

Curious. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then after high school, did you go to university?

[B]

Yeah. Then I, I said, okay, after cracking the codes of math. So I'm, I'm very good in teaching anybody to learn math. So that's my, my special gift. So then I thought, you know what? I need to share this with others. Because math was a therapy during that time for me. I used it as a therapy to recover and become confident. So I said, I need to deliver this to other people. This, you know, about the brain, how it, how to talk to your brain, all of this. So teaching would be the best place for me. And that's what I did. But unfortunately, teaching didn't work out very quickly. I recognized that this, the four walls and the ceiling was, was a box that's going to trap me so I can't fit into it for a paycheck. So I had to find another way out. The way out was tutoring. I said, let's do Tutoring, then I have more control. But then people thought I was just a paid worker. I could just buy grades from her. Let's go get help and get grades. But that's not what I'm here for either. I'm here to change people's life. I'm here to transform people and make them intrinsically motivated and hungry to learn. So that's how I became a coach. Started coaching people and coaching them through the work that I did on myself, brain work that I did. So eventually that moved on to becoming the most popular tutor in my hometown. Everybody wanted to work with me because I wasn't getting them grades. I was actually transforming them in the way they could.

[A]

Yeah, getting grades is transactional.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

A lot of businesses run transactionally and I've been in transactional businesses, did very well financially, but just, just didn't feel it, you know, and transformation, you know, here's the thing I always talk about, right. Learn this from a mentor. You can be transactional. The next level up is transformational. Actually, actually, I will say there's a T in between that. So it's transactional. There's transitional, then transformational. And transformational is only the thing that leads to transcendence, you know, and. And when you get to that level, by the way, I think you have to start a transactional. Like everybody's got to start a transactional and it works its way up. Because I don't think you could be transformational unless you've figured out how to transact. But it's a ladder. And once you get to that point of transformational and then into transcendence, it's. It's amazing, you know, the fulfillment that comes from it. So was there a time where you built enough confidence, even in university, where you started to build a friend group?

[B]

No.

[A]

No. Did that ever come, come about to this day?

[B]

Well, now I have friends. I have friends all over the place.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, so eventually it was after

[B]

like my friend circle to be by myself.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, so I get it. So. So you had to figure out to get to the transformational level to really start feeling confident enough to build friendships.

[B]

It was, I think it was never something I was looking forward to. I was more of a one on one person. Like I wasn't a group person to say yeah. To start with. But now I love group. I host my own live events. Like we have a cowboy event coming up, July.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So now I host my own event. So I'm that changed. But in the beginning, I was one on One person.

[A]

Yeah. Well, and then tell us the story of how you met your husband.

[B]

He actually brought his son to my tutoring office or coaching office. Tutoring. From him. From me. And then.

[A]

Wait a minute, wait a minute. But he brought. He brought his son to you. Did you see him for the first time and then like, did. Did you have a little spark the first time you saw them or. No. You know how.

[B]

No.

[A]

Some people have that, you know, they're like, oh, this is the one.

[B]

My customers are customers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

When I'm in my tutoring space, they're customers. But what he noticed is that he brought him for getting help, and then he noticed that what I was doing was way different than any other tutor. He noticed the difference that I was giving him. So now his son is an engineer. So at that time, he wasn't going to make it through high school. So I changed his life around. So looking at how I worked with him and how I was able to help him through what he was going through, that's probably how he fell in love.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And who made the first move?

[B]

Did he?

[A]

Did he?

[B]

He did.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

What was going through your mind?

[B]

He's a film producer. He's film producer. So he's very outgoing.

[A]

Okay. What was going through your mind? Like, should I. Should I not? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

He sees balance.

[A]

Yeah. No, but did it. What was going through your mind? Like, were you thinking, like, should I or shouldn't I? Like,

[B]

no. When he. When he was, you know, when we went out, conversation wise, he was just. It wasn't even that love relationship. It was more like, you know, we. You need to do this bigger. You need to share this. Like, he had passion to make me go big. Like, the reason why I'm here right now is part of it is his. His belief in me that, you know, you're not just a tutor sitting here tutoring people. You're transforming, you're transcending people into the next level.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

We've got to take this. We have to make this bigger.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Can't just keep doing our thing here hour to hour. So he's part of my success.

[A]

That's awesome. And then. Okay, so then. Then you come out of tutoring and then when did you decide to start really creating the readiness os and. And mindful strategies?

[B]

That was after Covid, because all. All the time up until that. I actually went online way before COVID because I did have a young son who I was like, dragging him around, working so much and thinking I was so successful in my Business. Right. Like everybody else. So one day he asked me in my tutoring office, like, mom, is there any way we can eat this din one day? Like, because we never do because it's always in the car or at my office or like that. I said, yes, we will. And that's how I said, no more in person. Tutoring, coaching. I'm moving all my business online. So this was way before COVID So when Covid hit, I was already online. Like everybody was struggling to get online. I was already online, established. So I had people calling from Singapore or Malaysia, India, asking, can you work with my students, my. My children? Right. So that's how I got so popular, so busy. Then I decided that I would share my methodology and my business, business opportunity with others and I started training them. So since then, you know, I'm very selective as who I train. I've trained over 300 plus educators to use my methodology and start their own business like I did.

[A]

Did you license

[B]

is licensed and certified? Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Okay. That's awesome. And so do you have us, like when you get a client that you're working with or student that you're working with, is it the same process every single time, or is it a protocol based on where they are or what they're dealing with or the personality or customized?

[B]

There's no standardization. That's what we kill. That's what school is about.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

We don't go that route. We're ending that.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I like that. All right, so, so like how do you, when they first come to you, like, how do you assess them?

[B]

I have an onboarding process, like complete customization. So we work one on one with every client. And now since AI has come into this play, I have our own trained AI that works beside us, alongside us, so it's able to customize to every single client. Everything is customized 100%, but human delivered. It's human centric still, but AI powers it because we cannot think infinite ways of AI can come up with. So our, our program, like I used to say, it will take about six months to see results in your kids or adults. Because our program now works for anybody. Since AI, I've expanded to. It's a human program. If you're blocked in any way in your life, we can unblock you and put you into flow state where you can achieve in grades or performance or money or whatever. Whatever you're trying to achieve.

[A]

I got, I got to hear this now. So let's say somebody is in a situation where they do have a Block where they're just, you know, maybe they've. I don't know, maybe they've. It could be relationship but business wise and they see all the people around them doing very well. But they, and they know they have something inside of them they just can't figure out. Like why am I not there? Like what am I missing? Right. Just, you know, there's a, there's a pie chart I saw one time and it had a little tiny sliver of what you know. Then there's another tiny little sliver what you know, you don't know. And the rest of the pie chart was what you don't know, you don't know.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And so I'm sure this has a lot to do with that. Right? Like what you don't know, you don't know.

[B]

That's the true job of a coach. Just to point you to those blind spots. Right. There are blind spots, but I go deeper than that. I don't just look at the strategies or what needs to happen. I actually look at. You look at, through look at a person as a living. We are living, biologically living person. So in order for us to perform an output, we forgot that these systems that are running me has to be in alignment and in activation. If it's not, we're just forcing it to perform. So I go back to, I look at it through 12 soul print systems. So it's actually biologically driven. So we look at it through that and psychologically and then we actually at the neurological path we have to recreate or rewire it because everything else just, you know, we have so many hacks and tricks people give, but those are all surface. It only works one day and the next day when your motivation and your hormones are down, you're gonna not do it because it doesn't make sense to you. But if it's neurologically built and you know exactly what's going on within your body, then you can achieve anything you want. So that's why it's so transformational for people because we're rewiring it at the neurological level.

[A]

Yeah. So we're, we're talking about different elements here. The, the nervous system, parasympathetic sympathetic nervous system, identity creation. Right. Because you have to be somebody. The, the somebody then to do the things you're going to be doing or that person would be doing, to have that with that person would be having. You also have to. Some emotional regulation in there. Hormones. Yeah. So do you talk to them about getting their panels done and looking at their hormones and. And balancing their hormones out.

[B]

It needs to be.

[A]

Yeah, it needs to be interesting. Yeah. That's part of biohacking you're talking about nowadays.

[B]

I mean, if you don't look at hormones, you could be doing everything and you still will fail. Yeah, I have a personal experience with that. I mean, until I come to Cabo and started doing stem cells and all this other things for myself in Canada and US, Everybody says I'm fine with hormones. You're perfectly in the balance of the range. You're cool. But I wasn't cool.

[A]

Was that one of the. Is that one of the first steps that you have to get that done before you can do the other work?

[B]

No, no, no, no, no. We go in orderly fashion. It's not like we jump into saying your hormones are off. Right. Like, if there's a chance of that, it's. It needs to be looked at because that's one of the things we're ignoring. Like, you know, a lot of people are going, even with their kids, to ADHD medications, but it might not be ADHD at all. It could be their homeowners, it could be their sleep. It could be so many different things. Or what they're eating. Right. So we have to look at, like, it's like variable by variable. That's why I'm saying we're a living system. Every variable is affecting us. We have to treat like this is a laboratory and it's an experiment. What. What is happening here. So we have to look at every aspect of it.

[A]

Yeah. You know, this happens in marriages, too. Like, I speak to this, you know, quite often, but, you know, when a women. Woman's hormones are off, it can affect the relationship. In the marriage, of course. And people don't realize that. They're just like, oh, she's just cranky, or she's just, you know, nagging me, or she's just never in the mood or she's not into me anymore.

[B]

And.

[A]

And then when you get your hormones balance, it's like a crazy thing happens. And, you know, like, we. We as a family do it and we. We get them checked at least probably every three to four months. And we, you know, took look at what we're eating and we look at our peptides and. And different things to make sure that we're in check with everything. And it's made a huge difference in our. Our marriage after 23 years, you know,

[B]

so here's the question I ask everybody. Why aren't we taught about this in our school system? Like

[A]

well, you know about my own

[B]

hormones that controls me. Should I not know about this?

[A]

Well, I'll tell you why I know the answer here. So the people in power in any, any, any country, the people in power want chaos and confusion below them because it continues to grow their power. So they want divisiveness, chaos and confusion. They don't want people to optimize. People that optimize and become who they really should be are a threat to their power. And then also not just the people in power, but also the people that are alongside of that or corporations that are making a lot of money off of people being in chaos and confusion. I don't know the way around that. Except for ground roots. Like what you're doing is like to get this ground root swell of a bunch of people together and get some momentum. And that's one of the things that like I love doing with what we're doing is I bring a bunch of people like yourself, like me, together. And I don't know the number of percentage of people we have to get together to start changing this. But I'm just gonna do my part. But yeah, that's a great question.

[B]

I'm waking up the parents, like with the clienteles I work with parents have, you know, for, for a number of years. They've been bombarded with so many information on online and so many people telling so many things. They're so. They're. They're also confused in parenting. Right. So we're waking them up. We do a lot of. We have live events for them even to help them. The next people are the educators. You know, they're also burning out and they're leaving the profession. We can't have that because they, they. They need to be given what they need in order to serve. Right. Those two people are very big people in my life that I want to, you know, change. But we also have to bring are a living system. We cannot look at it like we are all. We're not outputs and performance when we didn't come here to just output grades and perform and get money right. Like those are all outputs. When are we going to look at it as. This is a holistic system, living system. How does this system needs to be in the readiness phase so that I can do these things as an enjoyable thing. Why is it so forced? Why is getting great so forced? Why is success being successful in business has to be such a grind? It shouldn't be. It should be enjoyable. Everything is in alignment.

[A]

I agree. And I think the thing is, and I Think we're taught this that everything's got to be upstream, got to go upstream. Right. And it's not the case really. You talked about being in flow and alignment, like downstream is the way.

[B]

What about it's just straight line. I actually think about it as even straight line. It's a beautiful straight line path. You just have to take it. You know who made the upstream and the downstream, the peaks and the valleys? Right. It's the professional development industry has created all of this. And we always think if I don't grind, there's no winning over here. No, you don't have to grind. The more you grind, you're going to kill yourself in depression. So why don't we walk a straight line? Because growth has to be straight line and the rest of it is a spiral. We actually grow by like electrons in elements and when they want to bond or when they want to go to a different level, they jump to a different level. So the growth actually is a journey, not this values. And this is all personal development. So if our school does school system doesn't screw us, then the personal development comes later on to school us even more. And then we are trapped in this. Oh yeah, I have to be depressed to be successful or I have to be in this valley for so long to be climbing up this scale. No, it's a straight path. It's a beautiful straight path.

[A]

So practically give us an example of what that straight path would be for someone like

[B]

first step, first step in anything, any change, anything you want is awareness. Number one is awareness. You have to be aware of what your brain is telling you. Right. We talked about our brain, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

As quickly as possible you can catch your brain telling you stuff like if snap of a finger, you're in control of everything. But we don't do that a lot of the time. What we do is we spend a lot of time in the past replaying our past incidents with our brain telling us to what? Not like, like if you go in the past, most of the time we don't go to the good memories. Sometimes we might, majority of the time we go to the back the stuff that should have never happened or could have, I could have done this, should have done this. Right. So we spend quite a bit of time in the past and then we also spend quite a bit of time in our future pacing ourselves. So what we don't do most of ourselves is be here and now in this moment. Our brain doesn't allow us to be here in this moment. So we can't Create things. We are either replaying it or. Or we look into the future and we recreate with the projection of the past. So both of these things keep us very busy. And then if we have a crazy chaotic world, keeps us even more busy. So the thing that we miss is here and now. So how can you bring yourself like this to here and now? That's the power. If you can do that, you're always creating, you're always in flow, you're always moving forward. Yeah. Only time you don't do that, only person who can stop you is yourself. Nobody else.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Not the politician, not what's happening in the world. Like today. If I want to stop, I'm in control of stopping that.

[A]

So it sounds like to me that's decision. As simple as a decision. Just make a decision.

[B]

Am I here too much? Am I in the future too much? Am I here? Like, what part of your day. Day are you spending here and now? That simple equation will tell you if you're spending 90 over here and over here, like split in two different worlds. Nothing is going to happen here now.

[A]

Yeah. You know, I think there's a thing where people have this fear of being in the here and now because they feel like if they don't worry or if they're not anxious, they're going to miss out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right. It's like a fight or flight syndrome with survival mode. They're gonna miss something. Whether they're gonna miss something, like fear of missing out on something exciting, an opportunity. Maybe they gotta. They're gonna miss out on an opportunity to catch something that's going wrong. Things are going too good. Sometimes they say to themselves, it's going too good, eventually the shoe's gonna drop. Doesn't have to. Right.

[B]

No. It's all stories.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's all your brain. If you can control it, you, you, you travel on a straight lane. Yeah.

[A]

You know, one thing I say to myself all the time is everything always works out for me. Everything always works out for me. I say that all the time. Like, because, you know, you might come into something that happens and it's not what you expected or it's not moving as fast as you expected or whatever the case is. But sometimes you need that for the thing that's coming for you in a good way. Like, you know.

[B]

Yeah. That the past is good. But only thing you can extract from that is lessons.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then take those lessons to use it for now and here.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But sometimes what we don't. What we do is we take those lessons. And we project it to the future and start protecting ourselves for the future. Like, what if that happens? What if this happens now? We're wasting again another valuable amount of time in creating future. That's not even in my control. Only thing we have in control is now and here. But we're so afraid to be now and here. But you only have now and here. So what are you doing over here and here? That's how I talk to myself. Like, what are you doing over here in here? Kohila, come here.

[A]

Right.

[B]

What can you do now? Right now? So the more you exercise that it's like any other muscle, it grows. And then you get addicted to being now in here and you forget about rest of the stuff.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. That's powerful. Powerful. All right, well, Kahila, where can people go to go deeper with you?

[B]

I have a website. I'm on all, all social media as Kohila Sivas. And then my website is holistic success codes.

[A]

And if they go into that site, in which ways can they work with you? Like, what are some ways that they can be involved?

[B]

They can directly work with me. I have over 300 plus certified coaches who can help you in different ways. So we work with any. Our oldest client right now is 70 year old. So that's how it has expanded because a lot of people are blocked in their own way. It's not just students are blocked, it's parents are blocked, its grandparents are blocked. Because we're just entering a new way of living, new way of things are happening around us. Some things are not making sense. Some things are just out of our control. So everybody can be blocked in certain way. And blocks never leave us. Like, you know, every seasons brings different blocks. Right. It's not just you worked on your blocks and it's over.

[A]

Right.

[B]

You go through a different season, you're gonna have different things show up. So, yeah, any, any age, any stage, it doesn't matter what label you have, you know, adhd, autism, if you have a child or you yourself have adhd, we can help you with that because we don't look at through any of that. We look at through Soul Print Biolog. You are a soul here to express. If you're not expressing, that means you're suppressed. We're going to figure out what that suppression is so that you can express and achieve whatever you want in life.

[A]

And let me tell you, when you figure this out and you get rid of this suppression, you have this most euphoric feeling happen to you. Yes, it's energy breaking up and it's amazing. So go check this out, folks. Holisticsuccesscodes.com Kohila thank you so much for joining us today.

[B]

Thank you for having me. Thank you. It was a very good conversation. Thank you.

[A]

All right, hang tight while I wrap this up, folks. That's this episode of the Woody Made Up Show. Go. Make sure you hit the subscribe Follow button at the top of your favorite podcast platform so you can get the latest episodes of the Woody Made up show and hear from our amazing guests. And until next time, be that one.