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Sarah Lupton the Life Coach in Mexico City
from The Life Coach | The Tim Dillon Show #309 · #309
6 min
Tim mocks a woman profiled in the article who moved to Mexico City and became a 'career coach,' performing an extended improvised sketch of her cluelessly life-coaching a Mexican woman named Luz whose brother was killed by cartels.
- Tim imagines Sarah Lupton's pitch as a life coach in Mexico, opening with her privileged backstory about Larchmont and her father's bank job.
- Sarah's approach to coaching: introducing manifesting and meditation to a Mexican woman whose brother lost his hand in the drug trade.
- Sarah pivots the therapy session to focus on the client's inner self, breaking into a monologue about drinking her mother's wine in Larchmont gardens.
- When the client describes threats of extreme violence, Sarah dismisses it as anatomically impossible and charges seventy dollars for the session.
- Tim's broader complaint: white Americans moving to Mexico as life coaches represents exporting the worst people to a country with genuinely hardworking locals.
- Lauren Rodwell, another expat marketer, fled San Francisco's culture of introductions built around career to find vibrant cities with good energy and art.
- Tim suggests Mexico would need extreme violence to stop the influx of tech workers from reshaping the country's culture and economy.
Laura RodwellSarah LuptonMexicoMexico CityLarchmont, New YorkSan FranciscoBushwickBrooklyn