Aug 14, 2026 · 34 min · 11 segments
What do you do when you feel called to something new, but you have no idea what it is? For three years, I wandered in a desert of confusion, asking the Universe over and over, *"What am I meant to…
Grace ChonHost
One of the things that we talk about when I'm on set, and I feel like this conversation's been happening since pre-COVID, so probably at least since 2018, 2019, is what's coming next? What are we gonna do next? Because as we all get older, I mean, I'm in my mid-40s now, and the people that I work with sometimes are even older than that.
And for me personally, the physicality of what I do, like I've always known there's gonna be some point where I just cannot do this job anymore because of how physically demanding it is, and mentally demanding, and it's stressful.
It's just a very high pressure sort of environment when you're working on set in commercial photography.
And so spirituality, teaching, connection, those are the things that I'm deeply passionate about.
And in 2022, I started coaching, and the whole thing I had to stop because of what was going on with my family at the time.
I had a two-year-old and then a nine-year-old, and they were getting sick nonstop.
I hated having to cancel on people at the last minute and having to reschedule, and I ended up reaching a point where I realized I had to stop.
And actually, this is interesting, is because this is also when I had found my spiritual mentor.
Please show me who my next mentor or teacher figure can be." And I started working with her.
And just the recurrence of the illness, how random it was, how constant it was, I knew it had to do with something beyond my children just getting sick.
I knew it had to do with something that needed to be addressed deeper in my life, and it did.
But I also realized that I was not meant to continue coaching in this one-to-one way.
One of the things that we talk about when I'm on set, and I feel like this conversation's been happening since pre-COVID, so probably at least since 2018, 2019, is what's coming next? What are we gonna do next? Because as we all get older, I mean, I'm in my mid-40s now, and the people that I work with sometimes are even older than that.
And for me personally, the physicality of what I do, like I've always known there's gonna be some point where I just cannot do this job anymore because of how physically demanding it is, and mentally demanding, and it's stressful.
It's just a very high pressure sort of environment when you're working on set in commercial photography.
And so spirituality, teaching, connection, those are the things that I'm deeply passionate about.
And in 2022, I started coaching, and the whole thing I had to stop because of what was going on with my family at the time.
I had a two-year-old and then a nine-year-old, and they were getting sick nonstop.
I hated having to cancel on people at the last minute and having to reschedule, and I ended up reaching a point where I realized I had to stop.
And actually, this is interesting, is because this is also when I had found my spiritual mentor.
Please show me who my next mentor or teacher figure can be." And I started working with her.
And just the recurrence of the illness, how random it was, how constant it was, I knew it had to do with something beyond my children just getting sick.
I knew it had to do with something that needed to be addressed deeper in my life, and it did.
But I also realized that I was not meant to continue coaching in this one-to-one way.
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