Adam Torres and Moon Cho discuss energy and manifestation.
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How do you manifest with energy? In this episode, Adam Torres and Moon Cho, Co-founder and CEO at 69moons and Creator at Yin and Yang Living, explore the 69moons and Yin and Yang Living story.
About Moon Cho
Meet Moon, the visionary behind Ying & Yang Living, a beacon of wisdom in the realm of holistic living. Moon’s journey began in Seoul, Korea, before her family embarked on a transformative move to America when she was just four. Growing up in the vibrant borough of Queens, NY, Moon was the youngest of six siblings, affectionately dubbed the “baby” of the family.
Adapting to life in a new country wasn’t without its challenges for Moon and her family. They navigated the trials of assimilation, with humor sprinkled in. Moon’s mother often reminisces about their initial encounter with pizza, a quintessentially American dish. On that first bite, the entire family’s reaction was unanimous—spit it out. It’s a humorous anecdote that underscores their journey toward embracing American culture, one slice of pizza at a time.
Yet, Moon’s roots remained deeply embedded in her Korean heritage, influencing her perspective on health and wellness. She recognized the intrinsic connection between spiritual well-being and physical health, a belief she would later weave into the fabric of Ying & Yang Living.
Today, Moon’s mission is clear: to empower others to nurture their minds, bodies, and souls through holistic practices. For her, spiritual wellness serves as the cornerstone of a fulfilling life, laying the foundation upon which healthy habits flourish. And as Moon shares her wisdom with the world, she continues to honor her heritage while embracing the diverse tapestry of human experience.
About Ying & Yang Living
Yin & Yang Living is a healthy lifestyle resource that provides holistic Living tips for your mind, body & soul.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today’s guest is Moon Cho. She’s co founder and CEO over at 69 Moons, and she’s creator of Yin and Yang Living.
Moon, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam. Thanks for having me. Welcome. Welcome. All right, moon. So , great to finally have you on. I think we met originally at, at Newport Beach investor conference. Yeah. Right. did you like it? How did you like it? That was my first time at the conference.
I liked it a lot. I, I ended up staying a lot. I ended up staying till about 8:00 PM that evening, or eight 30. It was like You closed it out . Yeah, it was you know, I just kind of, you know, I set my intention to have great conversations with people and not expect anything and just stay with the flow, whatever the universe gives me.
And then and then I always end up meeting amazing people. So I ended up at six o’clock. I met somebody, we talked for like two and a half hours. So that’s why I ended up being there for eight until eight 30. It’s pretty amazing. It’s a good conference. That is amazing. And yeah, I had fun and I’m sure I’ll be back next year.
It was a great conference. I agree with you. So today’s topic, and I’m excited to have you on the show is really using the power of energy to manifest your business. So want to kind of go and start this conversation because I remember our conversation and I, we started talking about you as a creator in general and with your, with your website, your blog maybe just start with just kind of the inception of how yin and yang living all came to be.
Yes so I have a sister. My name is Moon. I have a late sister named Sun, S U N. They’re Korean given names. We didn’t make it up. And so over 30 years ago when she got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, she was about 39 at the time. The first thing that dropped into my head without having any formal education or knowledge about the connection between the mind, body, and soul.
I knew that she had gotten that cancer due to years of stress and unhappiness and cancer was just her manifested symptom because we came from a very traumatic childhood. We were abused at the hands of our father. So because of that, she made a lot of decisions as an adult that were not in her best interest and that did not honor her.
And making those bad decisions brought more stress, more stress, more stress to her life. And so, your body is going to respond to that after, it’s not going to happen one day, but now we’re talking about from childhood through age 39, that’s a lot of years. Yeah. And so that’s when I started my spiritual and holistic living journey.
I read my first beautiful spiritual book by a beautiful author named Ken Wilber. He’s a, he’s a genius conscious new age conscious author. And I cried and then I went to a Buddhist meditation in the mountains of Colorado for about for about a month shortly after I read that book. And at the time I try to meditate every day.
And then I said, Oh my God, this is, I couldn’t even sit down for two minutes without a rampage of thoughts going through my mind. I thought to myself, Oh, this meditation, this doesn’t work, but I stuck it out for one month, I came back and I said, I don’t know, I don’t know about this meditation. It doesn’t really work, but I was raised in a very agnostic family.
Well, I wish I should say atheist family. I, I’ve always felt very spiritual inside. I always prayed by myself without my parents knowing or anything. So I came back and. You know, I think it was in my late twenties. I got really sick thirties, early thirties. I got, I started getting sick and I wasn’t sure why.
like, I always knew that there was some deep connection between the mind, body, and soul. And I, I started doing these like mantras and I started. started to research mantras and things like that. And over time my body started to get better and I was like, wow, this is interesting. So I continued on my spiritual journey of learning a lot.
I was reading lots of books, you know, I was reading, I would say reading a lot of books and by beautiful authors who understand that we are created by, energy Consciousness and spirit that is our truth and I had this aha moment one day. I was like, oh my god We are this energetic Beings of infinite consciousness where we come into this physical form Temporarily and we basically have all of these physical experiences so we can learn Lessons for the expansion and growth of our eternal soul.
That’s why we’re really here You That’s the real reason. And so when our body goes, that energetic consciousness still lives on. That’s why if you go to a good medium, a good medium, there are a lot of not good mediums. What they’re doing is they’re pulling from that energetic field, the consciousness, and then if they’re good medium, they can interpret it correctly.
So, so if you look at, if you study quantum physics, and this is where it becomes very scientific, is that all quantum physicists will tell you that 99. 999 percent of the entire universe, including you, energy, it’s vibrational frequency, and 0001 percent is physical matter.
So everything that people want in this life is physical matter. Mm hmm. That 0001%, but the 99. 999 percent that physical matter is coming out of energy. Mm hmm. This was a profound aha moment for me. I was like, Whoa, you got to manifest energetically first. And then the physical manifestation will pop.
And so where, so, so, and this applies to everything in your life. That’s why when I was doing the mantras and things like that, I was literally tapping into that quantum field of infinite possibilities. And because I was tapping into that quantum field of infinite possibilities, I was shifting my energetic frequency.
It’s a very profound thing. , as you raise that frequency, it leads towards health, prosperity, abundance. Everything that you do in business, if you want to make money, You’ve got to be in the right energetic space and then the manifestation will pop the manifestation is just really just like a byproduct of what energy so in quantum field when you observe the physicists observes the quantum field of infinite possibilities, what they say is that the observer, and you are an observer is going to shift that energy.
To create a different manifestation. Mm-Hmm. . That’s why thought. And so I’m curious here, so is this, and so is this what led you to like manifesting and deciding to create yin and yang living? Is that what kind of led you That’s a great question. Yeah. so what it is, is that I. I ask spirits, I ask the universal forces, what is it that you want me to do? we are here for a higher purpose, what is the path that you want me to take? They said, Oh, I, I just downloaded, get, start a healthy living blog. I said, okay. That’s amazing. So that’s interesting.
Cause when did somebody say that? Starts creating something that for the first time. You know, I think that it always comes from some other type of inspiration or something else. Like it just happens. Yeah. And so it’s interesting that you’re, so, because you were studying this already, you were pretty in tune, so it was just an download of like, I need to do this.
Is that, am I understanding that right, by the way? Yeah. What happened was my late son had passed away four years after battling her cancer. And that, at that time, I asked. I asked the sun and I asked the universe, what do you want me to do? What is my soul’s path and journey? And. I just, Oh, it’s our healthy living.
But I said, okay, what am I going to call it? It says, okay, I like Yin and Yang living, you know, Yin and Yang are energies of balance and harmony. And so I said, okay, let me look up the domain. Oh, YinYangLiving. com it’s available. So I just took it. I was like, Oh, it must not to be. Then this is the synchronicity of the universe.
If you’re on your soul’s comp, my mother, she’s Korean, her generation, they all studied Chinese characters. This is, I think after two years, I created Yin and Yang living. She said to me, Moon. Did you know that In Chinese, the yin is the moon and the yang is the sun. Mm hmm. And which, and I almost dropped to the floor because I asked my sister’s son, what do you want me to do?
Yin and yang could start a healthy living blog. So my, me, I always say my, in Chinese, the yin is the moon and yang is the sun. My late sister, her name is Sun. My name is Moon. These are current given names. We’re the yin and yang and I didn’t know that when I created yin and yang living That’s how the synchronicity of the universe came together.
That’s why my The yin yang living logo is the crescent moon and the round sun and the yin yang living prayer beads that I custom Designed it’s a crescent moon and the round sun Mm hmm, and you’ve been running the blog for for how long now because you’ve got quite a bit of time about six seven years something like that.
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I never wanted to be in front of the camera So I try to get Other people to be in front of the camera. So it was essentially trying to hire actors, but for this, but then I realized, Oh, this is going to fail because how can you act something a holistic live? It’s like you either, you either know it or you don’t.
You can’t, this is not like, you know, it’s not like a fiction. It’s not a non, was it nonfiction or fiction? I forget. It’s not a fiction. You can’t make up, like you can’t give somebody, it’s hard to give somebody a script. So I said, Oh my God, this thing is going to fail. So then I never wanted to be in front of the camera, not in a million years.
So, but I stepped in because I was so afraid that I really felt so deeply about yin and yang living. And so I stepped in front of the camera And my first shoot, I was so traumatized by it. I didn’t think I was gonna do the second shoot cause I was, I was really traumatized. And then at the time I had distribution at AOL, they distributed the videos that I shot and they were actually doing pretty well.
And so I was surprised and that gave me the courage to do the second, second shoot. And after the second shoot, I was like, it was hard too, but then I was like, you know what? I can do this. I have to work harder. But so now it’s really. I, you know, I’ve never had a script. I just kind of, you know, I have ideas and then I just go and that’s do it.
But I, I generally, I rarely have a script and you’ve, and you’ve, and you’ve created this whole ecosystem around it. And so and is this part of, and I guess jumping around a little bit here how does 69 moons tie into this? Yeah. So, so yeah, it ties really well because I wanted to figure out what is it that I want to really offer to my audience.
viewers that was meaningful, that I really loved. Not some just to sell, sell. I hate that. It’s got to be really tied to my soul’s path and journey. And I thought, you know what, I love traditional Chinese medicine herbs because I love traditional Chinese medicine, which is really acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine herbs.
I take TCM herbs. The acronym is TCM. I take TCM herbs every day myself. And I said, you know what, I want to sell TCM herbs. And then what happened was I have this idea. Okay. So I told my, my, my co founder, 69 moons. He wasn’t even the co founder at the time. He was just my business advisor because I had known him from a previous company.
I co founded, it was an energy medicine company. Talk about energy. I’m really into energy. You could see that, right? And so he was an advisor. He’s actually, he’s a massive business coach. First and fourth, but he wasn’t my business coach. I didn’t hire him. He just came in as my advisor because we wanted to work with each other.
We really liked each other. And I said to him, I texted him. I said, you know what? All of a sudden I had this aha moment. I said, I want to take traditional Chinese medicine because it’s actually an energetic system. Traditional Chinese medicine. is based on an energetic system. Qi, which is the life force energy, Yin Yang energies, and the five elements.
They’re all energetic system. And so that’s one of the reasons why I love TCM and I take TCM herbs because it’s based on energetic system. So he said, I technically said, I had this idea of, you know, creating an AI platform around focused on traditional Chinese medicine because it’s a 5, 000 year old energetic system.
So I said, That works. It’s, if it didn’t work, it wouldn’t be around for 5, 000 years. And so I texted, I said, you know what? I want to, you know, turn this into AI. And he was like, great idea. Beautiful flow of ideas. He said, did you know that I just co founded an AI development company? And I was like, what?
Wow, that’s interesting. Yeah, and he was like, I knew who wrote software. Yeah. But I didn’t know how long he’s been writing software. He says, did you know that I’ve been writing software for 30 years? And I was like, Oh my God. And it was literally like the universal forces that was flow.
That’s called flow. He my co founder and CTO. He was right there. He came in as my business advisor. He came on just to help me, not even to even. expect any payment. And literally, that’s how it happened. And then I said, don’t worry, I’m going to find a master, you know, TCM herbalist and practitioner, somebody who really knows this.
Within three weeks, I found somebody named Miles who came on our team. He loved it. He joined our team. It was like amazing. It was like how the universal forces just come. It was just allowing the flow to happen, not trying to force anything. It’s just right in front of you and you don’t even know it.
And it’s revealed to you in divine timing. And that’s the power of energy. And that’s the power of flow. And that’s the power of tapping into something much bigger than you, something in this energetic flow. And so that’s how That’s how 69 moons came about, which is a data platform, AI data platform focused on traditional Chinese medicine.
So consumers like you can use it, if you have a health issue and then Eventually the practitioners like the acupuncturist can use our data. The herbal manufacturers will use our data and then ultimately the pharmaceutical companies can use our data. So it’s an educational platform. So we’re aggregating all of the data of the TCM, which is a huge amount of data.
We’re organizing, structuring it, and then presenting in a way that is useful to other people. And then we’re also we’re going to launch a. Our own e commerce so that we could sell TCM herbs as well. As I kind of see this and I see the platform overall, and just even where it, where it came from originally and how the, the, the blog ties into the, the content you’re creating.
You also have a great YouTube channel as well. So you’re providing a, a ton of, value and content out there to your community. And that’s really, I feel like yin and yang, between yin and yang living and 69 moons, it’s kind of turned into its own community. Am I off on that? Well, the 69 moons hasn’t launched yet.
So we’re launching the user prototype. In a few weeks and we’re building out our Shopify, you know, our e commerce now, and we’re talking specifically to wonderful TCM herbal manufacturers to, to start selling their herbs. These are people that have been selling TCM herbs to practitioners for 30, 40, 50 years here in the U.
S. So we’re getting that Shopify. So the user prototype It’s just a prototype. So it’s just literally, it’s to get feedback from our users about. What is it they like? What is it that they don’t like? How can we approve? What would they like to see in the future? So it’s it’s not there’s no really 69 moons community right now and so but that will be built i’m sure organically as it should and so i’m really excited about it.
So I do talk about tcm in my videos You know, because I am very passionate about traditional Chinese medicine, and, Oh yeah, and you have over For everybody watching, I’m looking at right now, Yang Yang Living, I mean, that’s over, over 830 videos. You’ve been, so when you say you’re passionate, you’ve been doing this for a while.
You’ve been creating content for a while. I think that’s a, that’s a testament to get to that many videos, by the way. That’s amazing. I would say that Instagram is where I get the most because I stopped doing the long format, but so I’m doing mostly short format and Instagram is really short format.
I get a lot more engagement Instagram. My Facebook is And speaking of, by the way, Moon, how do people follow you? How do they connect with you? Like leave, leave. Yeah. So they just go to it, go to Instagram and go to Yin and Yang living.
, if you go to my e commerce that I have up right now, it’s my prayer beads. And I actually have two 69 Moons herb formulas out. Yu Ping Fang San Plus, which is to help support a healthy immune system. And Xiao Yao San Plus to help calm and focus the mind. Both based on traditional Chinese medicine formulas, we added, but I would say yin and yang living on my Instagram a good place to, to follow.
Or my Facebook, Facebook, it’s yin and yang living. Y I N A N D Y A N G L I V I N G. So. Yeah, and then, well, moon I have to say it has been great having you on the show and thank you for sharing your story with our audience and with me. It’s been great to, I know when we met, I was like, ah, more here.
There’s more story. I want to, I want to hear it. I want to bring it to my audience as well, because I thought you were extremely interesting and I knew I could see, I could just feel how passionate, speaking of energy. Like I could feel how passionate you were for what you do. and now I know a little bit more about why you do it.
That being said so I’ll just leave a couple, a things here that I see for my audience. So definitely it was super easy to find on YouTube and then it’s Yin and Yang living on And then I did see that the product that you mentioned over at Yin and Yang living.
com as well. So if anybody wants to go follow up, The shop is shop. yinyangliving. com And then shop. Okay, wonderful And we’ll put some of that information in the show notes so that everybody can click on the links and head right on over And speaking of the audience if this is your first time with us And you haven’t hit that subscribe button definitely hit that subscribe button because we have many more mission based Individuals coming up on the line and we don’t want you to miss a thing and moon again Thank you so much for making some time for us.
It’s so great to have you on finally Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
