Chiwi Journal

My guest today is David Senra . David is the returning guest of Chiwi Journal ( episode #131 ). He hosts the Founders podcast, where listeners can learn lessons from historical and modern figures based on David's selection of a biography of an entrepreneur. Last time, we focused on the top lessons previous founders can teach current founders and the most inspiring stories among 200+ stories David...

My guest today is  Doug Antin , the Founder and Author of TSI Global Media, who writes The Sovereign Individual Weekly Newsletter, picking up where The Sovereign Individual left off and exploring the digital transformation in real-time. Doug is the return guest of my podcast . Last time, we discussed how to become a sovereign individual, digital transformation trends, cultivating multiple inc...

My guest today is Angelo Alessio . He is the co-founder and protocol architect at buildcities.network , which allows anyone in web3 to overlay their digital communities on top of existing cities. We discussed: What is the build_cities ? What are the four phases of building this protocol for startup cities?  **** How build_cities can facilitate an online community for meetups and crowdfunding...

My guest today is Chen Qiufan , also known as Stanley Chan. He is an award-winning Chinese science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter. Chen's fiction, described as "science fiction realism", focuses on individuals' internal struggles during times of accelerated change. And recently, he collaborated with Kai-Fu Lee to co-write and publish a novel called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Fu...

This is the special episode featured a guest speaker  Eric Jorgenson  at  1729writers  Cohort 2. 1729writers is a group of writers inside of the  1 729 online community. We explore issues related to the Network State, seek truth, wealth and health and share our ideas and thoughts in public. It’s a great pleasure to have Eric attend one of our weekly community calls and dis...

My guest today is Tom Morgan . Tom is the return guest, and we discussed Joseph Cambell, Carl Jung, Jorden Peterson and Iain McGilchrist in episode #129. Today, we talked about… Commentary on David Fuller's article about Jordan Peterson from two people who are relatively familiar with JP's works. Revisit the Hero Journey coined by Joseph Campbell. Why is it dangerous to apply pattern recognition s...

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang . My guest today is Derek Sivers .  Derek has been a  musician , producer,  circus performer ,  entrepreneur ,  TED speaker , and book publisher. He’s an author of four books, Anything You Want , Your Music and People, Hell Yeah or No , and How to Live . In today’s episode, we talke...

My guest today is  Bear Liu . Bear is a product designer and design mentor. He hosts an award-winning podcast show called  BearTalk , focused on sharing his learnings and ideas in design and personal experiences in reading and parenting. In this episode, we talked about: How do Chinese people pick up their English names? From working at a ‘tier 18’ city in China as a designer and buildin...

My guest today is Lauren Razavi . Lauren is a writer, speaker and strategist working at the intersection of technology, business, policy, and human behaviour. She is the author of the book  Global Natives  and writes the  Counterflows newsletter  about borderless living. Lauren was an early adopter of remote work and has lived as a digital nomad since 2013. Curre...

My guest today is  Bianca Caruana . Bianca is a storyteller, podcast host, sustainability & equality advocate and writer at  The Altruistic Traveller . Bianca and I had a serendipitous encounter in Aveiro (Thanks to Pieter Levels’  Nomadlist.com ), and we immediately clicked because we shared similar backgrounds and spiritual growth journeys. In this episode, we discussed... How...

My guest today is  Antoine Dusséaux . Antoine is a  legaltech entrepreneur  based in London and co-founded  Doctrine , the first legal information platform. He’s passionate about law, economics, geopolitics, and languages. In this episode, we discussed: How to describe 1729 and Network State to children to help them understand this progressive technical concept? What are the fu...

My guest today is Vicci . She is an experienced video producer and digital marketer and hosts a podcast Big Little Screens commenting about British/American TV shows to Chinese audiences. Vicci and I had a girl's chat and recorded this special episode while drinking a bottle of Italian wine and Japanese Umeshu. Cheers, and enjoy 😊 Why do many Chinese people born in the 1980s/90s have the American...

My guest today is David Senra . David is the host of podcast shows Founders . Every week, he reads a biography of an entrepreneur so listeners can learn the lessons from those greatest history and modern figures. In this episode, we discussed: What motivated David to start this niche show to share his learnings of biography and autobiography? How many founders were influenced by those who came bef...

My guest today is Pieter Levels . Pieter is a serial founder of multiple products, such as NomadList.com , remoteOK.com and rebase.co . In this episode, we discussed: How did Pieter start his digital nomad life and create 12 startups in 12 months? The original story of the birth of  Nomadlist.com What are the common traits of digital nomads based on  the 2022 State of Digital Nomads &nbs...

My guest today is Tom Morgan . Tom is the Director of Communications & Content at The KCP Group and writes a newsletter called The Attention Span. Tom has spent the last 16 years on Wall Street in research and data sales and focuses on consuming content and tries to extract actionable insights for busy people. In this episode, we discussed: What’s a trend of modernist holism? What’s the global...

My guest today is Will Mannon 马晓伟 . Will is the Course Director of Write of Passage and passionate about online education. In his free time, Will enjoys exploring language, literature, history, and philosophy. He lived in China for six months and is a comfortable Mandarin speaker. We discussed: The motivation behind learning Chinese and how to learn a foreign language in adult year The differen...

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. My guest today is Xuan. Xuan's footprints covered from a small village in China to the capital city Beijing then moved to DC and NYC and now settled in LDN. She studied English lit, Linguistics and Philosophy at university, trained herself in programming, and currently works as a software engineer. We discussed: How does exchanging po...

Welcome to the special episode of the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I'm sitting with two artists in Aveiro, Portugal to record this episode. Hugo Branco , musician and artistic director of VIC // Aveiro Arts House Jorge Loura , musician and guitarist from Troll's Toy We share the behind-scene stories of the 1st Unclassifiable Music Festival of Aveiro and introduce the difficult labelled artists who will...

My guest today is Christin Chong. She is a neuroscientist at heart and enjoys investigating consciousness through the Buddhist lens. Christin's work history continues to evolve—from research in the lab to biotech marketing, to creating a delicious self-care tea for physical + mental health, to establish a community for accelerator compassion . In today's episode, we discussed: Our experience with&...

My guest today is Zach Caceres . He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas. In today's episode, we discussed: Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning. Why choose to go back to university later on? Hilarious stories on the...

My guest today is Bridget Romanes. She is the Founder of Mobile Relocation Ltd, helping Kiwis returning to work and live at homeland, assisting migrants and expats relocating to New Zealand, and offering a tailored program for businesses to recruit and retain international talent throughout Aotearoa. We discussed: From expat herself to founding the company to help expats, Bridget's cross-culture c...

My guest today is Allison Wang. She is a founder of a yoga brand, Awake. She is currently living a digital nomad life and writing a blog, and running a podcast channel. Allison and I used to be online friends, but we finally met in Madeira and recorded this podcast sitting in front of the Atlantic Ocean. The sound quality might not be perfect, but you’ll be able to hear the sound of waves and feel...

My guest today is Jay Yow . Jay is a recording and mixing engineer and a gamer. He was born in Malaysia and immigrated to America in his adults year. Jay is currently the producer of one of my favourite podcasts James Altucher Show. We discussed: What's it like to be a bilingual writer producing two newsletters to two different audiences? How James Altucher adopted Jay and trained him to be his so...

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang. My guest today is Doug Antin . He is the Founder and Author of TSI Global Media, a company covering the Digital Age and how the current digital transformation creates a new class of people. Doug is also writing The Sovereign Individual Weekly Newsletter, providing insights, analysis, and actionable advice...

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast . I’m your host Camellia Yang. My guest today is Royal Reed . Royal has 20 years of experience in the NZ legal profession. She is also well respected in the Chinese community as a TV and Radio presenter and for her legal education programs for the community. Her legal practice and excellent cross-cultural dispute resolution have receiv...