Inspiring Conversations with Dan Mendilow of Breakthrough Life

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dan Mendilow.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I learned the skills I’ve used over the last 13 years to help people transform their lives because I needed to save mine. I suffered from suicidal depression ever since I was born. It didn’t help that I was born in Jerusalem, Israel, but raised in NJ. Other kids picked on and bullied me for my weird accent, clothes, and food. One of my most vivid memories from childhood was telling my mom that all I wanted was to fit in and be liked and to do that, I would never speak Hebrew again.

I was three years old and had already learned how to hate and reject myself.

I shut down my positive emotions (because that’s when you’re most yourself) because it wasn’t safe to be me. I stifled my empathic abilities and sent myself on a journey of unmitigated pain and misery.

School broke me. I was bullied all the way through college, ate lunch by myself for an entire year in high school, and had two friends during the best times. I learned to hate everybody, especially myself. Which was easy because I was covered in acne, had braces, and looked emaciated from growing a foot in a month when I was 14.

Doctors told me I’d never be athletic because my joints couldn’t handle it. And being underweight as a man can be as psychologically damaging as being overweight as a woman.

In college, I regularly drank myself into oblivion to forget everything. I didn’t know that I was also searching for extreme experiences because I couldn’t feel anything positive.

Tons of drugs and alcohol lowered the walls I put up and allowed me to empathically feel some of the happiness others felt around me.

But I was poisoning myself and became increasingly suicidal.

I couldn’t understand how it was so easy for other people to have fun, friends, girlfriends, and enjoy their lives when it felt impossible for me. After a few nights seriously considering ending it all, though, I decided I would find a way to turn things around for myself.

I HAD to find a way.

That sent me on a 13 years journey around the world, studying personal transformation methods from doctors, scientists, coaches and gurus. I got a BA in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by 3 certifications in Neuro Linguistic Programming, 3 in Vedic Sciences, and one each in Time Line Therapy, Past Life Regression, and Nutrition.

I spent months meditating in Thailand and living in ashrams in India. In just those 13 years, I read approximately 700 books about human psychology, neuroscience, behavior, and potential. I even spent 1.5 years in a Hindu spiritual cult, learning the mysteries of the universe and awakening my kundalini.

What I discovered changed my life. It turns out that my brain wasn’t broken, I wasn’t defective, and the world didn’t hate me. The first level was realizing I could rewire the perceptions that made me feel that way. And everything began changing.

First, I rewired it to gain weight, and at one point got up to running sub-5 minute miles and deadlifting 400 lbs. Then, I rewired it for my social life, and soon found my tribe and had a happy dating life. At 31, I did what many people still tell me is impossible – I permanently erased my anxiety and depression on my own. Then I used those same techniques to create a 6-figure business in 6 months, scale it up to multiple 6 figures within two years, and become Yelp’s #1 life coach in LA while taking frequent 3-4 day weekends and traveling internationally for months at a time.

I’ve continued to heal since then, and now know my struggles were blessings. The pain pushed me to do the hard internal work to become who I am today. Crawling out of darkness helped me lead over 1000 others to their light. Almost dying again and again taught me how to literally save other people’s lives when doctors had no idea what to do.

My relentless search for truth has brought me face to face with my deepest, darkest fears and taught me how to help others shatter the illusions that disempower them.

Whereas I used to think life had to be a challenging grind and fight, now I know how sweet life can really be. It continuously sends me blessings of unreasonable wealth, dream clients, soul-tribe friends, goddess partners, angels-on-earth mentors, life-altering adventures, and laughs all along the way.

And the more I show up to learn the lessons of life and surrender to the grandeur of the Universe, the better my life becomes.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No!

Owning a business pit me up against all my demons. I had to heal my fears fear of rejection, failure, and of being a fraud. I had to learn how to accept myself at ever deeper levels and love myself through the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial life. I’ve come close to going broke, had emotional collapses, and total freakout moments. But each one pushed me to heal even deeper, expand my mind even more, learn even more about psychology, spirituality, and transformation. Each one made me stronger, wiser, and more powerful as an individual. I’m grateful for my challenges.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Breakthrough Life LLC?
I help business owners and coaches become the most confident, clear, and magnetizing versions of themselves so they can take their businesses and personal lives from stuck to “OMFG YES!” status. I’m known for being Yelp’s #1 Life Coach in LA since 2017, and helping my clients heal and transform in ways that are so deep it changes their entire lives. My clients have manifested millions of dollars in sales, hundreds of thousands of extra income, soulmate partners, life-altering career opportunities, and the kind of loving relationships with themselves and others that change everything. They’ve healed from chronic pains and even some diseases.

I’m proud to be the innovator of emotional, cognitive, and energetic transformation techniques that offer my clients utterly life-changing shifts. We don’t just work on business, relationships, or one area of life. I help people become the powerful, unstoppable, magnetic individuals they’re meant to be. And it can happen so much faster than you might think 🙂

I’d love readers to know I’ve got two podcasts out there – Mind Mastery & Manifestation (with 125 episodes) and my new one – Magnetic AF. They can listen to both at www.danmendilow.com/podcasts.

And I’ve got 1:1 coaching positions available if they want to work together.

Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Just one?

I’d say perhaps my obsession with making real-life magic happen on a consistent basis. Whenever someone told me “it’s impossible!” I figured out how to do it. I healed my suicidal “chemical” depression without taking pills or going to therapy, I deadlift 415 lbs even though a doctor told me I would never be athletic because I grew nearly a foot in a month as a kid, I grew a thriving business without following any normal business rules, and help people transform in ways and at speeds that “should” be impossible.

I’m driven to finding ever faster, deeper ways to help people get the mindset and energy they need to get the happiness, love, and success they want. And I don’t believe there are any limits to it.

Pricing:

• 1:1 VIP 3 month Journey is 5k
• 1:1 VIP 6 month Journey is 10k
• Smaller programs ranging from 1.5k-4k

Contact Info:

• Website: www.danmendilow.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/danmendilow
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/dan-mendilow-los-angeles?osq=Dan+Mendilow