I'm thinking a lot of this has to do with a lack of emotional indiependence.
i think in the case of johnny berba he was sometimes too independent - he didnt have the support mechanism that other dating coaches had coming from a working class family in Ireland
if you look at other coaches the majority of them were from middle - upper class backgrounds and had some support mechanism behind them
lets take a few examples
James Tusk - middle/upper class - parents were business people in Hong Kong
James Marshall / Liam Mcrae - Middle Class Australians
Robbie Kramer- Middle Class American- Dad was a doctor
Tom Torero- Oxford educated ,
Alex Leon-Middle Class seemingly got free business class flights from his brother working for luxury airlines
Paul Janka- Harvard Educated living in New York , clearly from at least at middle class background
johnny berba was working class kid from Ireland , faced a lot of abuse as a kid and continuos mental health problems - he had no safety net to land on and was essentially a sitting duck- even in 2018 when he was coaching my wingmen he was hospitalised for mental breakdowns but kept on taking on new clients without considering the irony of being a "life coach" when his life plain and simply sucked. You could tell just at a glance by looking at him back then that things weren't going well .
So when scamvid hit and most dating coaches lost the ability to coach and the whole metoo movement started and youtube views for pickup plummeted obviously it would hit the poorest and most vulnerable coaches. He had no family to fall back on , seemingly had no women either and was left astray in London with tax debts and financial issues that most likely resulted from his lack of clients during covid and loss of income that would have resulted from most pua channels being shadow ban in light of the bbc anti pua documentary in the early 2020s
he was in a much weaker and vulnerable position compared to 99 percent of coaches and for him moving on from pickup was always going to be difficult considering he was a postman prior to this ( i mean post man turned lifecoach is not exactly the most inspiring cv )
maybe he was too naive to begin with- if youre going to be a dating coach you should expect some media backlash to come your way and be financially prepared for it- seemingly he had nothing if shit hit the fan and his mental health problems seemed to plague the entirety of his coaching career - he was really up against it compared to the majority you see and sadly it took a bad ending.
Same could be argued for Torero- no plan b if coaching went wrong and when the danya hajjaji article was published it probably pushed him on the edge - i imagine loss of income and social isolation played a part- he was essentially traveling around europe alone for a year after covid seemingly with no support group or no one to keep track of him
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