Amber De Muyt is a Belgian fashion model, founder of Monique Models, and Europe scout for Respect Models Belgium. In this episode she talks about landing in China on a modeling contract, getting told to lose weight on day one, spending two months working hard, then getting sent home anyway.

We go into the two years she spent not eating carbs out of fear, the first agent she signed with who told her she could not run because her legs would get too big, and how she used a lawyer to walk away from that contract. She built Monique Models to be the kind of agency she never had.

The conversation ends on solo travel as the fastest way to find yourself, why the things that scare you most are usually worth doing, and the one piece of advice from her dad she still lives by.

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Tenzin Yeshi is a Tibetan-American actor, writer, and director from Queens, New York. He's the founder of Six Realms Production and his latest film Free Tea Bed is on Apple TV. In this episode, we get into what it took to follow a creative path with no roadmap, why he believes making bad work is the only way forward, and how a late-night conversation about Tibetan identity became the seed for his short film You Tibetan.

We go through how he dropped pre-med at City College to pursue acting, what the Meisner Technique changed in him, and how he made You Tibetan for $500 with his wife holding the camera. We talk about flow state, creating for yourself before thinking about the audience, the life lesson filmmaking gave him about asking for help, and the question every Tibetan diaspora person carries: if Tibet was free tomorrow, would you go back?

The back half covers how his definition of success has shifted over time, what the attempt means even when the outcome is uncertain, what it means to be a second-generation Tibetan building something in the West, and the message he has for young Tibetans figuring out their path. The episode ends with four words from a theater director that changed how he works.

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Yassin Mahhou is a young entrepreneur based in Belgium building a web development and audio-visual marketing business while co-founding Young Entrepreneurs, a podcast and community for young people building their own path. This is his second time on Courageous Ones.

He hit his first online income milestone and felt almost nothing. We talk about why that happens, why the goal line keeps moving, and what it means to track progress when you are early in the game. The conversation covers enjoying the process without forcing it, dealing with dark stretches, and a concept Yassine came up with live on the call: active patience.

We also get into intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, why journaling is the one habit Yassine keeps coming back to, and what he wants young people building something to understand about their own value.

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