Introducing Hamish Curry from the Asia Education Foundation.

We talk about the importance of education, intercultural learning, personal growth and sagacity - which is the intelligent application of knowledge acquired from years of learning and experience.

Follow Hamish's journey on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/hamishcurry/

For more information about the Asia Education Foundation, visit their website www.asiaeducation.edu.au

Introducing Money Coach - Ella Safri.

This episode was recorded on Instagram with a live online audience. We talk about all things personal growth, success, failures and wealth building.

For more information about Ella, find her on Instagram @mybudgetculture.

Introducing Magician, Radio DJ and MC - Nadri Harif.

This episode was recorded on Instagram with a live online audience. We talk about all things personal growth, communication, success, failures and dealing with doubt.

Lots of laugh, lots of stories, lots of bromance, but most of all, lots of heart.

For more information about Nadri, find him on Instagram @nadzthenadz.

Introducing Jean Sum, a Transformational Life Coach, Maven of Change, Speaker, Facilitator, Dancer and a Lover of Life. 

This is Episode 1 of a brand new series I am calling "100 Leaders". Jean and I discuss a range of topics including success, cross-cultural communication, feminine leadership and something Jean calls "home-play".

Jean supports her clients transform through major life and career changes. She is the Creatrix of Asian Women Rising, a monthly online circle for Asian Women to be seen, heard and felt. Recently celebrated as YWCA Australia's Feminist of the Month, Jean serves her community with love, courage and presence. With tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies and Commerce, Jean has led an unconventional career from banks to international development to university and family violence, peppered with two self-funded sabbaticals to pursue her love of tango in Argentina and her Life Design Project in Melbourne! She is a Beautiful You Life Coach (Finalist, Trainee Coach of the Year) and a Biodanza Facilitator in training.

In this episode, I chat with three-time LinkedIn Top Voice and Branding Expert, String Nguyen. String is the Founder of The Trusted Voice, an online course designed to amplify the trust of experts and professionals by growing their voice online.

String shares about the origins of her content creation journey, how she got recognised as a Top Voice on LinkedIn, three online branding tips, and the importance of recognising how each social media platform has its own culture and creating content accordingly. We also discuss how we have been dealing with COVID19, the power of authenticity online, and exchange insights on life as online coaches.

If you'd like to find out more about String and her work, find her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stringstory and check out her online course https://www.thetrustedvoice.co

In this episode, I chat with Melbournian Innovator and Foodpreneur, Ngoc Le. Ngoc has been involved with the Dessert Parlour since 2012, created Melbourne's Donut and Beer Festival in 2017, and is involved in a few other F&B brands including Go Pho Yourself, Soju Sisters and Melange. 

Ngoc shares about the origins of her F&B journey, how she leverages social media to create buzz and grow her businesses, how she is innovating during COVID19, and her list of go-to creativity apps (see below). We also exchange views on how social media has levelled the (marketing) playing field for businesses, dealing with customers' shorter attention spans, and the importance of being adaptable.

If you'd like to find out more about Ngoc and her work, find her on Instagram @ngocolat www.instagram.com/ngocolat

Ngoc's Recommended Apps: Photo Editing - Snapseed, Lightroom Mobile (for presets); Video / Animations - Video Show, Textro, Mojo, Unfold, Pixaloop, GIF Maker; Graphics / Post Design - Canva; Scheduler - Later or Planoly

To mark podcast episode #50, I chat with my big bro Dexter about all things fatherhood.

We exchange views on what success means to us as ambitious men versus how we define success as fathers. We discuss insights observed about fatherhood from Will Smith, the movie Finding Nemo, and of course, our own father. We also chat about the hardest and the best parts about being a dad, the pressure of trying to balance societal norms versus being the best versions of ourselves as fathers, and things we know now that we wish we knew earlier. 

This one is dedicated to our dad and our late mom.  

If you'd like to follow Dexter's journey, find his on Instagram @d3x www.instagram.com/d3x

In this episode, I chat with Shannon Guss, Survivor Podcaster and TV Analyst. You may recognise her voice from the international Survivor coverage on Rob has a Podcast (RHAP).

Shannon shares about her love for all things Survivor, and insights from her podcasting journey - including rising to the occasion when opportunities surface, biting off more than she can chew . . . and then chewing, an important episode she discussed on RHAP (see link below), and saying yes (and no) to the right things. We then exchange views on Survivor "Winners at War" and Survivor life-lesson takeaways.

If you'd like to find out more about Shannon and her work, find her on Instagram @shannongaitz and the RHAP website https://robhasawebsite.com/author/shannon-gaitz/

p.s. Here's the link of her discussion with Rob on RHAP about Episodes 8 & 9 from Survivor 39 https://robhasawebsite.com/survivor-39-know-it-alls-island-of-the-idols-episodes-8-9-recap-shannon-gaitz/

In this episode, I chat with Fellow in Neonatal Medicine, Dr Gillian Foo, a.k.a. the Baby Doctor, a.k.a. my best friend and wife. This is Gillian's first time on the podcast with me! The Conversation is framed around her journey as a doctor, including the best and hardest things about being a doctor, commons misconceptions about the life of a doctor, and tips for aspiring doctors (and people who date them).

We also answer a bunch of questions from a live audience on Instagram Live about our journey from the time we met in university, the early years of our marriage, our move from Australia to South East Asia (Brunei) - and then back to Australia, and how we balance family and career. 

If you'd like to reach Gillian, feel free to send me a DM or email. I'll pass it on to her.

Peace and Love.

DK

In this episode, I chat with Liyana Hanif, Creative Lead at Progresif and Founder of Just Bruneians. Liyana was featured on The Futur, an online education platform for creative entrepreneurs with over 200 thousand followers on Instagram back in March 2020.

Liyana shares a few misconceptions about creativity, her thoughts on the status quo of creativity in Brunei, and advice for aspiring creatives - including having the confidence to fail. We also exchange views on brand building, and the importance of learning business skills and working hard.

This is personally a special episode because Liyana was the first person I had a Conversation with back in June 2019. That was the Conversation that got the ball rolling for me and this podcast. [BUT I made a rookie mistake and forgot to record it!] 

If you'd like to find out more about Liyana and her work, find her on Instagram @vanilliyy and visit the Just Bruneians website www.justbruneians.com