I’m a identified psychopath however I work as a life coach – this is how
Nine years ago Lewis Raymond Taylor was convicted for the 11th time after punching a man so hard the victim had a mini-stroke and a bleed on his brain.
Less than a decade later, Lewis is the CEO of $25million life coaching business The Coaching Masters, and became an overnight celebrity following the release of a Netflix documentary about his life.
An impressive feat for anyone by any means, but in Lewis’s case there’s another interesting factor: he’s a psychopath.
Rounding off an interesting array of anecdotes for Lewis is the fact he’s now mentoring Katie Price to become a life coach.
So how does he do it? Lewis told MailOnline in an exclusive chat with his new client Katie.
Lewis Raymond Taylor is the CEO of $25million life coaching business The Coaching Masters and became an overnight celebrity following the release of a Netflix documentary about him
Dubbed The Psychopath Life Coach, Lewis, 34, has a history of violence, drug addiction and prison stints.
Lewis’ father was an alcoholic who would regularly put him down.
By his own admission: ‘This created voices in my head: you’re not good enough and you don’t deserve to be successful. This inner dialogue completely paralysed me, too scared of people thinking I was stupid, or failing and proving my dad right, or succeeding and proving my dad wrong.’
He was sexually abused at the age of 11 and by 13 he began getting into trouble with the law, being slapped with an ASBO the following year.
Lewis’s 20s were dominated by violence, prison sentences and drug and alcohol abuse.
In 2015 he nearly killed a man after a punch up outside a taxi rank resulted in his victim suffering a bleed on the brain.
Having hit rock bottom, Lewis realised: ‘I was repeating the same cycles and doing the same things over and over again, expecting a different result. That’s the definition of insanity!
‘So for the first time, I started to take responsibility for myself and look at myself in the mirror and realise that if I wanted my life to change then I had to change.’
When asked if he has any regrets, Lewis confessed: ‘I don’t know, which is quite a controversial thing to say, given obviously some of the damage that I’ve caused, but I know the impact that I’ve now had and the ripple effect on people’s lives.
‘I’ve trained 10,000 life coaches and they’ve gone off to coach thousands of people and those people are in a better place to be around so the ripple effect is millions.
‘So if I’m looking at it logically, which I do with my antisocial personality disorder characteristics, well, I’ve done this huge, impactful, positive thing.
‘I’ve also done these very bad things that I wish I didn’t do. However, if I didn’t do them, I wouldn’t have done these things. So I have no regrets now.’
Dubbed The Psychopath Life Coach, Lewis, 34, has a history of violence, drug addiction and prison stints and now he’s training Katie Price to become a life coach
Now Lewis hosts his own podcast, Life Reclaimed, and had his life story featured in Netflix documentary, The Psychopath Life Coach, last year.
Explaining where the name came from, he shared: ‘When I was 18, I was diagnosed with an antisocial personality disorder, which is the clinical term that’s associated with psychopathy.
‘So, I am technically a psychopath and I’m also a life coach.
‘Neurodiversity is a marginalized part of society where people put this label of a psychopath on people when actually there’s a lot more to it.
‘There’s a lot of people on this spectrum that have these antisocial personality traits and don’t always do things negatively. Sometimes they harness those skills for positives.’
Lewis’s business is all about training other life coaches to succeed, to grow their business and make more money.
The Coaching Masters and the assets it holds are valued at $25million. The company has made $10million in around seven years, most of which has been reinvested in the business.
It’s a transformation that impressed not just millions of viewers, but Katie too.
The glamour model, 46, is currently seeking Lewis’ help in training to become a life coach and the pair will document their journey in a new TV show.
Lewis is not naïve in thinking that he and Katie won’t be judged for their colourful pasts.
However, as he pointed out, this is exactly what makes them the perfect candidates for life coaching.
Lewis explained: ‘I think a lot of people are going to be laughing and joking and saying: “How can a psychopath be a life coach? How can Katie Price be a life coach when she’s put herself in this situation and that situation?”
‘But you’ve got to think Katie’s been in the industry for decades, still inspiring people and still has millions of followers. It takes a lot of resilience to be able to do that.
‘There will be a lot of people that have a lot of negative things to say, but there’ll also be a lot of people that have been inspired and empowered by Katie for decades now.
‘She will make a very big difference to a lot of people because they will resonate and connect with her in a way that they won’t resonate and connect with anybody else.
‘So watch out, Katie Price is here to make a difference.’
The pair are so hellbent on proving their doubters wrong that they are filming a TV show about their life coaching journey in Bali this year.
Lewis is not naïve in thinking that he and Katie won’t be judged for their pasts. However he believes that this is exactly what makes them the perfect candidates for life coaching
As for Katie, she admitted that she ‘lives and breathes trauma‘, and so was inspired by Lewis’ story.
‘You couldn’t make this up!’ Katie exclaimed. ‘When you see his story, you would never ever think in a million years watching him in his younger days how he would turn things around.
‘He’s a prime example of how you can have a real s**t time and turn things around if you get yourself together and get the help that you need.’
No one knows more about trying to heal and move on from trauma than Katie.
In 2018, after being robbed and raped during a horrific carjacking in South Africa, Katie had a mental breakdown and attempted suicide.
She was the first to point out during our chat: ‘I’ve got severe ADHD and severe PTSD. I’ve been through break-ups, marriages, kidnapped threats, hijacked, held at gunpoint, you name it, I’ve been through it.
‘And then I had a breakdown, a bad breakdown, survived that and came out the other end. I just feel that I’ve been through so much.
‘I want to be a life coach because I do live and breathe trauma, I’ve been through drama, real life events and I’ve come through the other end. So if I can help people in any way I can, then I will.’
Now it’s clear she wants to pass on the wisdom that she’s been taught through her years of therapy and start her life coaching journey.
‘Nowadays I’m very calm,’ she explained. ‘I know how to manage things and my expectations, and I wish I had the knowledge I have now and how to cope with situations.
‘If anything bad happens, I try and think of a positive for it. I’m still crazy and chaotic, because that’s just me. I’ve still got the personality, still like to be creative.
‘But now, I’m in control. No one’s controlling me. I am me. No one, absolutely no one, would break me now, never.’
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