Transformative Purpose with Aaron Pang

Benita Chick joins with Aaron Pang to share what it was like growing up as LGBT, her emotional struggle and how we can best support those in need to build an all-inclusive community.         Ben runs an award-winning LGBT tour in Hong Kong and is the Founder and CEO of a social enterprise, Encompass Hong Kong.

Mac Ling joins with Aaron Pang to explore the space of coaching and radical authenticity. In this chat, we talk about the benefits of having a coach, how to tell if a coach is good, what happens during coaching, the concept of radical authenticity, empathy and psychological safety. Mac shares many people are living without self-belief and are constantly seeking external validation. He adds kindnes...

Alyn Mitlyng joins with Aaron Pang to discuss the limitation of traditional goal setting. She shares how she discovered the power of personal goals (she calls them DIRTY GOALS) and how dirty goals have helped her find meaning, fulfillment and happiness in life. Alyn also mentions we should all learn to be kind to everyone. When we are kind, people want to be around us. Alyn is the author of Dirty...

Selected as one of the Most Influential Negotiation Professionals Globally,  Lousin Mehrabi is an Inspirational Speaker, Trainer, and Board Advisor. She works with CEOs and decision-makers worldwide to help them get the best out of themselves and their teams. For over 23 years she has led high-stakes business negotiations.  KEY QUESTIONS ASKED: 0:00 - Introduction 3:06 - How can women thrive in a...

Podcast veteran Regina Larko joins with Aaron Pang to talk about how we can use our voice to make global impact and save lives. Regina shares her humble upbringing, her podcasting journey, the occasional imposter syndrome she experiences and the importance for all of us to truly listen, become aware of those who are left behind. Regina lost two loved ones to mental health and that made her more de...

Chhin Lee joins with Aaron Pang to talk about the common struggles behind parents and the key to maintaining relationships with our spouse. Parenting requires active communication, feedback with good intent and teamwork, listen in as Chhin shares her parenting journey, her hero, the conversations she had with other parents and how she and her spouse resolve the different challenges. After a succes...

Perry Lam sits down with Aaron Pang to discuss the power of storytelling and how it can be used to build relationships and humanity. Perry highlights the key elements of good storytelling to deliver the Contents, Context and Emotions and provides examples of where people tend to get it wrong. "Never start with the S-word." That's a big no-no for storytelling. Perry is the Founder and...

Waki Chuang joins with Aaron Pang to share his favourite books and why he thinks reading can help us build kindness, have an open attitude, provide us with a sense of serendipity and help us learn and develop a better version of us. Waki is the founder of Reading Outpost 閱讀前哨站. A native Taiwanese and an avid reader who grew his email list from zero to more than 13,000 loyal followers in less...

Vincent Siu chats with Aaron Pang on how to make learning and education stick. He's going to share with us on the importance of reinforcing imagination with young children through analog play and and how parents, educators and leaders can make education and training more effective by making it fun. Vincent is the Founder and CEO of  Press Start Academy.  Everyone loves having a little bit of f...

Yifan He joins with Aaron Pang to talk about the progress of blockchain, how blockchain can improve society, issues with crypto-trading and his prediction of where blockchain is headed for the next ten years! Yifan is the CEO of Red Date Technology, the founding architect firm who built Blockchain Service Network (BSN).

Fyiona Yong chats with Aaron Pang on how to manage generational diversity and work through differences.  After a 14-year successful career at Shell, a Malaysian Chinese who grew up in Germany named Fyiona told her dad she wanted to leave her job and pursue something of her own. Her father said to her at lunch, "why do you millennials all like to chase after your dream!" Fyiona was intrigued by the...

Michael Crossland chats with Aaron Pang about how despite spending a third of his life in illness, he emerged seeking to bring a change in the world we live in. Michael is one of the world's most sought after inspirational speaker and has shared the stages with Sir Richard Branson, Dalai Lama and Tony Robbins. He is the author of Everything Will Be OK: A Story of Hope, Love and Perspective . From...

Stephen Wong sits down with Aaron Pang to talk about how we can build better communities and businesses through design thinking.  Stephen is the former CEO of Asia Miles. He is using big data, design thinking, innovation and technology for his two social enterprises, me2you and newgig.me Stephen is a household name in Asia when it comes to design thinking, one of the early pioneers who brought des...

Ricky Cheung joins with Aaron Pang to share how Rosewood builds a purposeful workforce through The Calling and relationship hospitality.  We will explore a wide range of topics such as the importance of looking after humans and their feelings as companies push towards digital, what the right culture in a business looks like and how Rosewood empowers their people to greet customers without giving t...

May Tran, Founder of Parent Poppin and our guest for today’s episode, explains how their cafe helps supercharge young parents in Australia overcome the anxiety post-childbirth. After a brief episode of postpartum anxiety and the associated treatment, May realized the experience had transformed her into a liberated and genuinely happy person. She discovered the need and power of holding open conver...

Fion Leung chats with Aaron Pang about her decision to pivot from a full-time bank job to focus on her passion entirely, her journey co-founding Time Auction with her friend. Time Auction is an asset-light charity which has achieved 90,000 volunteering hours after 7 years of operation. Fion is the CEO and co-founder of Time Auction. She used to work with a renowned investment bank before she turne...

Ashely Dudarenok joins with Aaron Pang to share her journey moving from Russia to China to pursue her studies and how the experience seeded her business career going forward. Ashley also discusses being a woman entrepreneur while explaining that the Chinese market has seen more businesswomen than many other countries in the world. She will also touch on insights about Chinese consumer behaviours,...

Allan Zeman was born into a Jewish family in Regensburg, Germany; and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where his mother worked in a hospital. When Zeman was seven years old, his father died. He started working at the age of ten. He dropped out of college, and by the age of nineteen, while working for a lingerie company, he had earned his first US$1 million. Through Lan Kwai Fong Holdings Lt...

Sudesh Thevasenabathy joins with Aaron Pang to chat about societal conditioning of racial and gender stereotypes, existing discriminatory practices, first-hand examples of having experienced the same, teaching our kids inclusivity, and devising BOTTOM-UP inclusion and diversity practices in organizations.  Despite the recent progress made by some organizations on the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inc...

Peter Birch joins with Aaron Pang to chat about how he successfully built a global healthcare community through his podcast. We explore the existing bottlenecks to intensifying Healthcare Technology in the APAC region and discover incredible ways to reinvent the healthcare industry there. Peter has made it his passion to enable health tech change in Australia. Believing strongly that technology ca...