37 Peculiar Facts You Didn’t Know About Rion
Got value from me in the past (from either blog, webinars, Powerliminals or private sessions) and curious to know more?
Well, these might only stoke the mystery ‘n intrigue even more.
(I’m also cross-listing this under the Top 10 list but if you want the Top 10 Most Alluring Muse/MET Gala keep scrolling in that category or use the search bar!)
Ok; let’s get to these largely unknown Rion facts:
1. I swigged rum in my hotel room before speaking on stage live at an industry event from so much anxiety in Montreal
2. My father and his father were entrepreneurs so that gave me a leg up
3. Rion Kati is not my legal name
4. I was selected for U.S. Army Special Forces. This means that I fully passed ‘selection’ and had orders to go to Airborne and the ‘Q Course’. This was its own Warrior crucible.
5. I’ve consensually dated over 200 women (like actually; not rule of 3’s; however this was an earlier era and was testament to the half-hearted shadow of Devotion)
6. I was one of the top Photoshop trainers on the internet in an earlier era with 10,000s of subscribers (under a different name)
7. 10:1 I prefer cats over dogs and call incessantly barking dogs robo-bitches
8. I was inspired to change my legal name to Orion (from my birth name) after connecting with the constellation during U.S. Army basic training in Ft. Benning, GA on a training mission with clear skies..later I found out I was an Orion Starseed. I went with ‘Rion’ b/c another interviewee from the Double Your Dating series was named Orion and I didn’t want it to be the same.
9. I believe I am the authentic living reincarnation of [Cao Guojiu](https://www.google.com/search?q=cao+guojiu&kgmid=/g/11cmw1vxyg); Chinese Immortal-God of Performance Arts and no one on earth is living his dharma as much as I am
10. I have 1 full brother, 1 half sister from my mother’s side and 1 half sister from my father’s side + 5 step-sisters and have 13 nieces and nephews. (None of them really know what I REALLY do except a too curious nephew; but I’ve kept it this way b/c of my double life)
11. I haven’t done Gridwork since 2 World Cups ago. These legendary sessions were so powerful…I write about them on the blog
12. I was a top 5 leading ‘natural’ dating guru in the online dating and seduction industry under a slightly different name and spoke at Eben Pagan’s Man Transformation event in L.A. where he walked on stage to stop me and change to an interview format. I had one man give me a standing ovation but he was likely wanting to stretch too.
13. I am Senior Class President of my class which was the largest high school in Wisconsin. Our basketball team went undefeated and won state that year.
14. I oddly do not have social anxiety, but I often have public speaking or PERFORMANCE anxiety.
15. I used to drink pretty heavily (now a few drinks a year)
16. I’ve suffered under forms of vestibular issues and vertigo for around 10 years
17. I drove my Himalayan cat (with no name b/c I called him whatever I felt like in the moment, often ‘puppies’) at the time up from Texas to Wisconsin to leave with my brother without air conditioning and remember bringing his carrier into a grocery station for 20 minutes on the way b/c he was panting.
18. I’ve lived abroad for years and years (net) of my adult life in Europe, Asia, Central and South America and Mexico. I used to live in Houston and Austin. I lived at my father’s house after I got out of the U.S. Army to start my business for about 2 years when my brother got married and started a family.
19. After dropping out of college at UW-Madison with 14 credits to go; I volunteered for the U.S. Army infantry after working dead-end jobs in Madison, Wisconsin being inspired exclusively by the book ‘The Power of One’ (although my father was a veteran during Vietnam era but they wouldn’t deploy him).
20. I speak several languages but none fluently; English, bad English, German (grammar’s an issue), Spanish, Thai (very conversational but tones are an issue) and can read Russian/Cyrillic, French, Italian and Korean (but don’t understand most of the words).
21. I cannot litter. I just cannot wherever I am. Also I often wash my hands and shower a lot.
22. I taught myself piano in Junior and Sr. year of high school partly b/c there was an issue of which table to sit at in lunch b/c I was in with several groups but not often ‘fully’ in with the popular kids.
23. I was accepted into USC as an undergrad and planned/desired to take the film school path however family and I didn’t have enough money to support it.
I went to UW-Madison instead with one of the popular kids on the basket-ball team as my room-mate and we would cold call girls in the visual Freshman directory.
(Photo by Jeff Miller / UW-Madison)
24. I’ve been internationally celibate for years (in Divine Union).
25. I was in 3 high school musicals but couldn’t sing.
26. I bungee jumped and skydived (north shore Hawaii).
(not me but it’s the view)
27. I was a lifeguard at America’s ‘supposed’ largest waterpark in WI Dells
28. I was at Chichen Itza at the end of the Mayan calendar day
12/21/12 Chichen Itza – A New Day
29. I was in the U.S. Army stationed in Hawaii (when 9/11 happened).
30. For decades I don’t watch TV and consumer programming (other than token channel surfing at hotwire layover hotels amidst travels). I don’t watch NETFLIX either b/c there’s too many distracting series and programs that would EAT my time (I AM pro-production however)
31. I rode the whole psy-op out and am (still) unv@xxed (from the you know what); however I gained TONS of weight when they closed the gyms down during the p.landemic
32. I’ve been regularly weight training for 10.5 years now starting seriously at a gay sauna in Medellin Colombia (b/c it was the only place I could find)
33. My life centers around devotional temple space session time with Beloved (see the TMPL CODES category sexychi.com ); basically 5 nights a week for over 2 decades
34. Movies and music are/were my first obsession (even though I don’t watch TV). I have movie time almost EVERY NIGHT before I go to sleep and my original dharma was to become a movie director (inspired mostly by Lucas and Spielberg)
35. I don’t have favorite music artists like all consumers do; I have a different relationship b/c Muse resources ARE my entertainment time (+ iTunes movies)
36. I am a single father have a beautiful and talented 13 year old daughter who is half-Thai. This is why I am in Thailand so often to live near her and see her (almost) every day.
37. I’ve lived a double life for well over a decade. That version of me is boring, mundane and has his own shadows and is NOT Rion Kati. Read more about the ‘living a lie’ here: sexychi.com
Those are SOME details; things you may not have known about me.
BONUS; I have the FUGLIEST passport photo imaginable from 2020.
-Rion
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Eroscape 11: ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ – U2 feat. Rion Kati
