Life Performance Journey

Hey everybody! My name is Brian Lorenz. I’m a professional singer and entertainer; and a master coach and trainer in personal development. I started my journey in becoming a real-life performer while I was onstage and founded my coaching and training company — Red Carpet Freedom in 2020 — so I can truly serve humanity at a deeper level.

In 2006 I decided to change my life. I decided to get out of the rat race. I was a dance instructor back in Manila for ten years. And I was getting tired of the kind of life that I was living. I would get up in the morning around 8:00 or 9:00, take a shower, and then go out and start working. I usually finish at midnight and then go home. The next day it’s the same routine. I was getting tired of it, and I want to have a better life because although I was earning good money, I was also spending them easily. There was no growth, and that made me a little worried about myself. I was 31, and I had $9000 in my bank account. That’s all I had — no car, no house, no properties, whatsoever.

Years before that, I organize a group of male dancers and entertainers to go to Japan and work as entertainers. After long preparations and training, only eight of us made it to Japan, excluding me. Not to boastful, I was the most qualified dancer and singer in the group. But I didn’t make it to Japan, maybe because I was a little shorter than the other guys. That would have changed my life. To pick me up from the big disappointment, I decided to upgrade myself and go back to university.

After a big dance studio accident in 2006, just right after my graduation, I decided to change the course of my life. I bought a book that helped me apply for a job as a dance teacher in America. I gathered all the requirements and submitted my applications online and surprisingly got a few responses. According to my employer’s lawyers, I had an excellent chance of getting the visa and the job based on my qualification, dance skills, and experience. I went through 3 dance studios in my application. The first one was in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they had to hold the application twice because of business challenges. The second was in Rochester, Minnesota, where I had to pull out the application when I was about to sign the contract. And the third one was in Chicago, Illinois, where the visa was finally lodged and was denied due to my employer’s incapacity to employ me.

So, after over two long years of trying to land a job in America, I decided to go to Australia instead. The goal was to study hairdressing, find a good job, have a good life, and become a citizen of Australia. By then, I’ll have a blue passport (Australian passport), and I can travel anywhere I want to.

In a short period, I found myself in Australia, studying hairdressing. And from here dressing, I got a dance scholarship, and in between those years, I did some cleaning jobs and massage jobs while working at hairdressing salons as an apprentice. On the side, I would teach ballroom dancing with a few students as a freelance dance instructor.

So I did hairdressing for two years, and after that, I did a Bachelor of dance for another 3 three years, where I discovered I could sing. Like really sing, confident enough to have a career in the music industry. So while I was studying dance, I was slowly exploring what I could do with my singing until I got a job as a dance teacher at Arthur Murray Dance Studio in the West of Sydney. It was a dream come true for me. That was the dream job I wanted in America. And it all happened in Australia.

And in 2013, as my singing career progressed, I decided to become full time with my signing. I said goodbye to my friends at the dance studio to concentrate on the singing dream. And I produced concerts after concerts. Produced two music albums and traveled around Australia doing shows and performances. I received awards and recognition from the community and the highly competitive entertainment industry — all of these in just a short period.

Despite all the things I was accomplishing, I was still worried about my residency status. After all the hard work and the career I build, I was concerned that everything would be wasted, and find myself back in the Philippines. And deep inside, I was struggling, and I am feeling like I wasn’t going anywhere. I just changed countries, but I still have the same problem. I don’t know where to go. Despite all the concerts and shows, albums, awards, and recognitions, it was still incomplete. It felt like everything that I was doing was not good enough. And It felt like I wasn’t good enough. Ironically, I just moved countries, but I still have the same experiences. I yet don’t know where I’m heading.

It was in 2017 December. I was performing in one corporate show. And before I go on stage, I notice that the audience was all over the place. People were taking photos, taking selfies, chatting, talking to each other, and children running around even while the host talked and introduced someone, even when someone was talking in front.

And so, in my head, I already knew what was going to happen. So I went on stage I started singing, and the crowd stayed the same. And there was this voice saying in my head — “Brian, these people are so disrespectful you have to do something, let them know they are rude.

And I said — “No, I can’t do that, that is rude and disrespectful as well. If I do that, that would be the end of my career.”

So I continued singing, and the voice gets louder and stronger in my head. And as I get to the chorus part, which is my most favorite part. And you know, the song I was singing is one of my toughest and most challenging ones. I have learned this song for months because it’s an Italian song, and I am in no way Italian. And so the voice said in my head — come on, Brian, these people are so disrespectful, go ahead tell the DJ to stop the music and give it to them.

And so…. I did.

After that evening, I was never the same. I couldn’t eat well, I couldn’t sleep well, and the thought of performing again in the next few days would make me really upset and irritated.

It was hard, because singing is my life. It is my full-time job. I can’t quit performing. So I did some research and tried to learn about myself about my emotional surge. I found this lady online from Nashville. She is an emotional coach, and we did some coaching sessions. That was good. But during our session, she recommended that I see a hypnotist. And he said whoaaaa… a Hypnotist! I was surprised. Isn’t that mind control? And she said yes, it is mind control. You learn how to control your mind. She said go ahead and find someone in your area who can help you.

So I found a guy online as well. He is a hypnotist from Croydon, and we did an online session for an hour and a half at $250. And he explained to me that is Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. We are in control during the process. It’s just like watching a movie. In a movie, all the actors pretend to be someone else, but in the middle of the movie, we get carried away, we are screaming, laughing, and crying. We permit ourselves to be in that moment, to be a part of that energy. We are in a trance. And that is Hypnosis. In the middle of the movie, when your bladder is full, you’re going to the toilet and pee. You’re not going to get yourself right where you are sitting just because you are in Hypnosis because you control your mind. You are not going to do anything that is against your values and beliefs.

And because I wanted to get better, I have to do anything. If you want to achieve a very important goal, you’re gonna do everything, won’t you? So I did agree to have the session because I wanted to get better.

After the session, it felt so light, like a load off my shoulders. I said to myself, if I do this again in the next few sessions, it’s going to feel so much better. And the Hypnotist said — “You wanna book for a couple more sessions?” And I thought to myself, wow, $250 per session that’s a lot of money. So I asked him if I can learn Hypnosis myself. And he gave the information of where I can do it, and my journey began.

So I went to the course to help myself with my issues, and after the course — I was transformed. I decided to become a fully qualified trainer for personal development. At the beginning of the course, they had all the other advanced course signs displayed, and I had this little excitement, this little spark that I felt within me. But when I looked at all the prices of the course, it was scary. The 3-day Hypnosis was okay — it was $800. But the more advanced courses was beyond my financial capability. It was very expensive. And it was scary having to look at the numbers. That’s a lot of debt. It’s even overly outside of my credit card limit.

At the end of the 3-days, something happened. Remember, I went there to clear my issues, I finished the course wanting to help save the world.
And I signed and turned the thousands of dollars of debt into a commitment to myself. And here’s another thing — I also made a goal to complete my commitment to myself and become a personal development trainer in one year. My friends, I became a trainer in November of that year and paid off my commitment — my course in one year — a total of $32,000. March 2020.

My friends, I went there to clear my negative emotions and all my baggage and came out with a desire to help others. As you can see, I’m a relatively happy person, well I can put on a face. A lot of people do. And I realized I had so much sh***t in my past. And I thought — how about my brothers? How about my friends in the Philippines. I grew up with the same mentality, the same belief that money is hard work. I believed that money is the root of all evil, yes I made that decision when I was young, and my unconscious mind believed it. That is why it was hard work earning money. That is why money is hard. How many of us here have been told by our parents that you have to work hard to make money. Money doesn’t grow on trees. That’s why money is hard work. You have to work hard. And that’s why it’s hard to earn money in our present time.

And that’s not my only limiting belief. I have so many of them I had to let go and process and learn from it — I’m a prisoner in a relationship. I’m not good enough. I won’t make it. And so many more.

I realized all the noise and issues I was finding were all my projections. The limitations I labeled myself were from my past. And when I changed me, I let go and clear all of them… things outside of me changed. My projections and destinations changed.

In one year, I have achieved my goal. What if I knew this stuff years before I left Australia? Imagine the things I could have achieved. But there is no point in having regrets. Because when is the best time to plant a walnut? Fifty years ago. When is the next best time to plant a walnut? Now!

Imagine if we can teach this stuff to parents, to children in the Philippines, and our children here in Australia. Our lives will change and our results will be different.

And that is why I want to teach this and share this with as many people as possible. I want to share this here in Australia with my community and all of you and the Philippines. So I invite you to join me in my course. It’s a seven-day neuro linguistic programming course with NLP timeline therapy and NLP coaching, and when you finish the course, you will have four certifications, and you will be qualified as a coach.