Want Meaningful Work? Join The Placeholder

Miroo Kim
3 min readAug 8, 2024

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โ€œYou will facilitate emotional intelligence training for leaders of all kinds and leadership offsites of big tech companies to resolve organizational issues, and you will also advise/coach startup founders to pay attention to their wellbeing.โ€

If you told me 7 years ago that this would be my work, I would have never believed you. ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ. ๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

But this is ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐๐ข๐ in the last 2 weeks. ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿคฉ

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿซ I co-facilitate the ๐’๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  at Unlikely Collaborators in Santa Monica ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ.

At Unlikely Collaborators in Santa Monica

๐ŸŽ™ I co-facilitated another ๐’๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  at a beautiful 100 year old CA State Library for ๐‚๐€ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ in Sacramento.

At California State Library

๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ I co-facilitated a ๐‚-๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž of a big tech firm ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ at a historic Fairmont Hotel in SF.

My โ€œclassroomโ€ at Fairmont in San Francisco, where President Kennedy and Obama hung out (at different times)

๐Ÿ… I ๐œ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ ~๐Ÿ“ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ + ๐ž๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ and am planning for group coaching sessions in the fall.

๐Ÿ“• And yes, I wrote a book ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ and launched the ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ง for it!

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ! Helping leaders and organizations learn how to feel well through emotional intelligence and be compassionate with one another while achieving great things.

It all started with ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: โ€œ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™-๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’?โ€ Then my ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ started; a journey of a long, convoluted and ambiguous process of many (seemingly random) experiments.

If you know just finding another new job isnโ€™t what you are looking for, you are ready for the Placeholder, too.

Want to know more about it? Join ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ by getting your pass on the Preorder Campaign!

๐Ÿ“• ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ-๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ <๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ>
๐Ÿค— Share the pre-sale campaign with your network. You can use hashtag #theplaceholder and tag me as well, so we can amplify your efforts.

๐Ÿ’• Special thanks to everyone who contributed to the preorder so far! Thanks to you, I raised beyond 30% of the target fund to publish this book.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

The cover image is still a โ€œplaceholderโ€ ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Miroo Kim
Miroo Kim

Written by Miroo Kim

I teach how to be emotionally intelligent to live a life of wellbeing. I am curious about how to design wholehearted life for everyone.

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