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Meet Our Coaches

You can start your personal coaching TODAY with our experts in San Francisco, New York, LA, San Diego, Washington DC, Miami, London, Sydney. and more Read about us, check out our bios, our blogs and our pickup videos, and find the coach you relate to the most and get started on enjoying the rest of your life!

Coaches listed alphabetically by first name with home city indicated.

Asher Kayce - San Francisco
Asher is one of our newest Senior Instructors.  Like all the others, he was a student of PickUp 101 not too long ago.  He is a living example of Pickup101's success.  His story probably will sound familiar to you.  A once shy youth has a rough high school experience and  comes out of his shell a little bit in college.  He "gets lucky" every now and then, but never really knows what he's doing right (or wrong).  He gets fed up.  Enter PickUp 101. 

Pickup101 did more than just change his life.  Not only had he become empowered, but he had a clarity of understanding over his own past experiences, that is whole perspective on how everything works changed.  Now he's one of the most outgoing charming happy warm lovable people you'll ever meet. 

He now has a new purpose in life: to bring this same clarity and power to men all over the world.

"I love my life.  I've got everything I need.  I eat well, sleep well, and have great sex with a woman I love.  Pickup101 has helped me realize what I've had within me this whole time and has shown me how easy it really is to get what I want.  Now my job is to show the same thing to more men in the world and I couldn't be happier"
  
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Curran Padake - London
I come from a shy asian indian background. I came out of a 7 year marriage not knowing how to approach and meet women. Never had my first sexual experience until I was 26 years old and this was from meeting some girl in a bar when I was totally drunk. I was hitting my 40’s deep inside I knew I had to sort this part of my life out but never really knew how to go about it. For years I read articles on pickup plastered across the internet but never really seemed to get anywhere. I heard about PickUp 101 and decided to attend the AOA workshop. I remember the first day I set foot into the workshop I could feel my heart racing. Sean Newman was leading the workshop that time and he gave me a big warm smile and and made me feel like I was part of one big family. The instructors have this caring nurturing side to them. They helped bring out that naturally attractive man within us all and helped me rewire my beliefs it was like going through a whole new self realization. The same year I took AOR. My game changed overnight. Suddenly I was able to build deep connections with women within 10-15 minutes of meeting them. Whilst at the workshop I met this sexy sales assistant in a store and we ended up making love back at my hotel the same afternoon. Now I am honoured to be working as a PickUp 101 coach in London.
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Daniel Johnson - San Francisco
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, I've also had my share of world travels. At 28, I now live at the Project San Francisco Mansion along with six housemates who share my desire to improve in all areas of life. I've been featured in magazines and videos with my skateboarding talent. I've worked as an Environmental Chemist, a Salesman for a California farm, and later an English Teacher overseas. I've also sold my charcoal paintings at home and abroad. I've fasted in the jungles of Hawaii and journeyed to Thai temples for meditation retreats. Living the extraordinary life has always been my goal. And then one day I realized that I'd done so much in life but was still settling for mediocre results with women. Putting my heart and passion into everything I do, I quickly learned how to create the truly fulflilling relationships that I'd always longed for. Now I feel blessed to be part of PickUp 101 and to have the opportunity to share with other guys the many lessons I've learned along the way.
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"Daniel is a superstar. He has an ability to control frame, to be funny and still tell the most amazing, heart-warming stories. Daniel’s coaching is excellent. He is a true Pick Up Artist."
– Eric, New York


Dave Stern - New York
Born and raised in Los Angeles, I moved to the New York area a few years ago. At 35 and a successful technical professional, I had done well with women, but never had the success and choice I really wanted. Before taking my first course, I dated mostly through my social network, but always felt that I was missing a skill I believed I could never learn: approaching attractive women. After discovering Pickup 101, this belief was blown away and I am constantly surprised at how an already fulfilling life can get even better. I am genuinely interested in making a positive difference for men who want an incredible social life and the women who want to meet them.
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Eric a.k.a. Disco - New York
I'm 33 years old and live in New York City. I have coached and instructed for Pickup 101 and for other local New York City gurus. I specialize in day game, killer NYC fashion and teaching guys how to manage approach anxiety. I grew up in New Jersey and became interested in pickup in the late 90s, reading Eric Weber and eventually moving on to David D. I read the 'the Game' in early 2005. After that, mastering pickup became a priority in my life. I haven't looked back since. I've taken and taught Art of Attraction and Art of Rapport. I am out on the street every single day approaching women. On the weekends you will find me tearing it up in the meatpacking district or in some artsy Williamsburg parties. I co-authored a book on fashion for pickup artists and am currently writing my own book on pickup.
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Niels Hoven - Seattle
A cast member on the third season of Beauty and the Geek, Niels was chosen from 25,000 applicants as one of the 8 nerdiest guys in the United States of America.  But he's doing much better now.  Having transformed his relationships with friends, family, and women, Niels is now committed to helping others experience the same life change.  With a Chinese mother and a Ph.D. father, there was always pressure to succeed, and Niels gave everything he had.  A talented clarinetist and swimmer while growing up in Maryland, he switched to rowing and martial arts in college.  After graduating from Rice with a degree in electrical engineering, he continued his westward migration, pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.  Despite his athletic and academic performance, success in the social arena still eluded him.  An introvert at heart, Niels avoided parties in college and never started conversations on his own. He didn't even hold hands in high school and finally got his first kiss at age 20.  Five years later, Niels has at last mastered that final arena and can confidently say that nothing in his life has brought him as much happiness as the ability to build amazing relationships with incredible women.
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Sean Deacon - San Francisco
Sean was born in a beach town in Southern California. As soon as he was old enough to leave he headed north. He studied fine art at Santa Cruz, then moved further north to Berkeley and studied engineering. After graduation, and one five year relationship later, he decided he should be better with women. He had a lot going for him, but being an artist, musician, engineer, and having a great sense of humor and a fantastic smile wasn’t making the women flock to him. Sean always thought that he should be that confident guy that talks to all the beautiful women in the bar… but he wasn’t. Pickup 101 changed that. He now has the confidence and skill to meet those incredible women that used to walk by in his life. Since teaching and coaching with Pickup 101, he has learned that he can help other men to gain the same confidence and skill.
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"As soon as I hit a sticking point, Sean immediately cleared it up for. I didn't have to sit around for 6 months to figure it out. In 5-10 minutes we got past any sticking points. In addition, I did in field night coaching with him. This was even better, because I got to see how he runs the game. He also pushed me into more sets to get me to another level. What is great to see how he does the banter because I just follow it and it works."
– David S., Los Angeles CA (full review)

Trev Roberts - London
The elder statesman of the PickUp 101 family, Trev (affectionately know as voodoo) is 40 years old, is a full time professional psychotherapist with a successful private practice in the UK and has been happily married (well fairly for 15 years. At school, Trev was clueless but by the age of 20 having worked as a barman and nightclub bouncer, had pretty much worked it all out (at least at an unconscious level) and was regularly dating stunning women. Once asked how the hell he did it he replied "easy! …… got it wrong a thousand times first". Working a lot with young guys with confidence issues, often surrounding interacting with women, Trev began to research the subject of seduction so that he could better assist such patients. Having studied just about every school of thought on the subject he found pickup101 and found that our approach resonated with him. He is now able to replicate the success he found 20 years ago on a regular basis and furthermore can now explain it and teach it. Trev learned the hard way and nothing gives him greater pleasure than helping guys avoid having to get it wrong a thousand times first. Kowledeable, helpful and hugely popular with students and coaches alike, because how much he genuinely cares about them is self evident. Fearless in approaching and experienced in all areas of inner game, opening, rapport, body language and kino, Trev is also an expert on long term relationship management.
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Walter Yu - San Francisco
How does one go from an introverted civil engineer, struggling to meet new people through his social circle to purveyor of the cutest girls that San Francisco (and World) has to offer?
PU101.
The entire process happened in a little over a year. It was here that I found my mentors, support group and real-life practice to make this happen - to find my natural voice, the way it was meant to be heard.
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Robbie Krammer - San Diego, CA

A San Diego resident and OC Native, I have been chasing the SoCal hotties all of my life.  I’ve always had tons of women in his life but more often then not, they would end up as just friends.  Some time around my Junior yeah of High School, I became popular and had many women to choose from, but that all vanished after two years of college and the end of a two year relationship.  I often recollected on the women I missed out on and when I did find someone I clicked with, I would immediately jump into the long term relationship trap.  I remember thinking to myself about a year and half ago, “It’s a good thing I’m decent looking and able to occasionally get lucky because life would suck otherwise.”  Ironically, a couple days later I was introduced to The Game, PickUp 101, and idea that I could actually improve my situation and have choice with women.  Since then I have been having the time of my life meeting women and helping other guys realize they can achieve all the happiness they have ever dreamed up and have fun doing it.          
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