Navigating the Rise

This week we explored how to be an expert at various new technologies quickly with Amit Joshi in his entrepreneurial journey. Amit is an MBA+B.Tech graduate with 10 years of work experience in business strategy consulting and product management. He has been in the blockchain domain for 3+ years. He also worked on the implementation of blockchain in healthcare, payments, logistics, aerospace, crypt...

This week I have the opportunity to speak with Alex (Woo Seung) Sohn, Head of US Office, King Sejong Institute Foundation.  The goal of the organization for King Sejong is to share Korean culture through activities and Korean Language. Given the recent rise in K-Pop and K-Drama, many people are becoming interested in Korean culture.  But that is still at a superficial level.  To ful...

A show that uses culture to elevate yourself personally and professionally.

This week I have the honor of having a session with Co-Founder and CEO of Reasi. Reasi automates property settlements so customers can transact real estate using only their phones. We've streamlined home closings and eliminated frustration in a $110 billion industry plagued by expensive fees and wire fraud. However, the deal is sourced; Reasi will close it efficiently and securely. John described...

John is a web manager with over 10+ years of experience launching web sites, applications, and content to market. My passion lies in learning new techniques and technologies to improve business operations.

This week we explored what it means to have strong emotional intelligence.  People usually associate emotional intelligence in how well we can read and understand other people.  Valerie gave her perspective in developing a strong foundation for emotional intelligence, and that begins with the self instead with others.  After all, how can we say we know about someone else when we don...

This week we explored how to navigate the situation as a meek individual.  We investigated how it affects our work lives as well as our personal lives.  These effects have long term consequences, both good and bad, depending on the environment we are in and being exposed to.  We explored how can we deal with that situation in cultures where being meek is perceived to be incompetent...

This week we explored how to build up the mentality of having a successful business when the traditional path either cannot or won't serve you.  Alex started his career where most of his income came from commissions, which means he gets paid based on results as opposed to time like a regular job.  That means he had to be creative in how he approaches his career.  Like most Asian hou...

Peter Lee has been in law practice for over 25 years. He practiced many different areas of law with current specialties in the following: Real estate transaction and litigation. Commercial leases and unlawful detainer actions. Construction contracts and disputes. Business consultation and litigation. Peter Lee shared his background and how his family indirectly influenced him to practice law. One...

This week we explored with engineer turned business owner in how she branched out in creating not one, but two businesses.  We examined how she went about creating her activities as well as what Asian traits she utilized to make her business successful.  Some sample traits mentioned including the cost conscious and the hard-working behavior commonly exhibited in the Asian community. &nbs...

Known as the "Career Whisperer" in Fortune 500 companies for being the most sought out coach for employee & team success, Shian Chuan is a certified Master NLP practitioner and a Peak Performance business consultant. Shian has mentored over 300 clients and is an accomplished trainer and speaker, having presented to 1000's of leaders around the world on behavioral science and human psychology....

There are actually 6 major regions in Asia.  I broke it down for you as well as the list of countries in each region.

Languages alter your worlds in ways you can't imagine.

This is a Japanese episode about the conflicting feelings between inner and outer display in Japan

In this episode, Jerry Lee gave us some top tips on how to overcome some of the perceived limitations of being Asians.  Also, we addressed some of the cultural nuances that affected Asians in the workplace in the United States. Jerry Lee is an admin from the Subtle Asian Networking Group in the US, and he takes his experience in the group as a guide on how to overcome these potentially harmfu...

In this episode, we evaluated how Asians work and perceived in the professional environment both from the US and from the UK. Initially, I spoke with Jatin Anand from the Asian Professional Facebook Group in the UK, and he noticed these couple of things among the professional Asians in the workplace. Asians do not take initiatives at workspace -> perceived lack of leadership skills The Asian cu...

This episode is a bit different as I have taken the top 10 things that people have experienced and put it down into a sequential story.  Girik Sehgal from Subtle Asian Travel gave us a brief breakdown in the top 10 cities that people should visit to better understand the cultural phenomenon within Asia. In the first part, we explore where are the best cities that give a good representation of...

Explore why languages cause you to look at the world differently.

Greetings around the world:   How are you? = Did you eat yet?

Evaluating the positive vs. negative reinforcements in leading others.

Everything in your life can be reused.  I mentioned three examples: -Learning languages -Career pivots -Travel

This week, I had the opportunity to speak to William Hung, the viral American Idol who looks adversity in the face and charges through with unwavering conviction.  After his American Idol audition, William Hung’s rendition of “She Bangs” became famous for all the wrong reasons. Despite the harsh criticism he endured, William persevered—having gone on to attract a cult following, release three...

This week, I had the opportunity to speak to Chirag Sagar, the Co-founder of Money Matters Top Tips, a media, entertainment, and book-publishing company dedicated to the needs of business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives. Chirag is also the Co-Founder of Digital Luxury Agency, where the team has collectively worked with over 3000 small and large companies, Fortune 500s, governments, non-profi...

This short episode describes why face to face meetings are so important to Asian countries

These objects signify death...or bad luck