A Different Path

Chade-Meng Tan is an award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader, a movie producer, and a philanthropist whose work has received eight nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meng was one of Google’s earliest engineers. He retired from Google in 2015, at the age of 45. He helped build Google’s first mobile search service, headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google’s search quality, and was a founding member of Google’s Chinese Search team. After a successful eight-year stint in Engineering, Meng became the first practicing engineer in Google’s history to move from Engineering to People Operations. His job description was, “Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace”.

Meng led the creation of a groundbreaking mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course at Google called Search Inside Yourself, which was featured on the front page of the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. Search Inside Yourself is also the title of Meng’s first New York Times bestselling book which has been endorsed by world leaders such as President Carter of the United States and President Nathan of Singapore, business leaders such as Eric Schmidt of Google and John Mackey of Whole Foods Markets, and spiritual leaders such as the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra.

An exciting conversation with Geoffrey, founder of the Choson Exchange, on how a Singaporean decided to dedicate his life's work to teach North Koreans entrepreneurship and business! 

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Nichol Ng, Managing Director of  food services provider FoodXervices, shares her story about family business, bankruptcy, starting afresh, her battle with bulimia, starting the Food Bank Singapore and the food insecurity problem in Singapore.  

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An interview with Vincent about his adventures in business and in the world of motorsports in Singapore! Head over to adppod.com for more links from the episodes. 

Some quick shownotes:

• 2min: vertically integrating the biz
• 6:30min: how vincent bought an MX-5 and got into the world of racing
• 13min: how Vincent found his first shifu who taught him how to race. A hilarious story of humility of how
• 16:30min: what a gymkhana is and why Vincent was inspired to create something like this in Singapore
• 25min: the hilarious story of what it took to book a location for a gymkhana
• 36min: what vincent thinks of the illegal racers who give motorsport enthusiasts a bad name (TLDR, go join them and learn how to use your car before you hurt someone). Also some good advice on what to do when facing obstacles when you're trying something new
• 41min: the most important thing is probably to find something so you don't get lost. In Vincent's words: I've seen a lot of people who kind of just living day to day knowing what to do. just, just feeling lost. I think the scariest thing that could happen to me, something that I would try to avoid

This episode is about Lenn and his journey of how he went from an architecture student to setting up Digital Matter, an architecture firm that partners with developers to optimize Design-to-Construction. 

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Find Digital Matter at https://www.digitalmatter.co/

A conversation with Willie Lee, Founder and Managing Director of Big 3 - a media production conglomerate. Willie shares his journey of how he was a black sheep in school and how he created Big 3 while overcoming challenges such as self sabotage.

More about Big 3: https://www.big3.sg/

Melissa Tan shares her story of discovering her authentic self, through cultivating alignment as a creative individual. To find more of Melissa, find her on instagram at @melmakesmagic

In this episode Chun and I go into more detail about biohacking and extreme sports

Chun is a Wim hof instructor, wakeboarder, scuba diver, freediver,  skydiver,  snowboarder, dirt biker, rock climber, fire spinner. And he's done all of this while working in his family business. On this episode, he shares his journey of how he found synthesis with his job and his passions, and how he's refocused his craft from breaking bodies to healing bodies.   

Find more of Chun at https://www.hyperactiv.us/

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Anqi Lim talks about her journey from consumer banking into the world of scuba diving and discovering her love of freediving. We learn about the hard work she invested into the sport of freediving, and how she worked her way from 8m of depth to 70m! Anqi is an ocean ambassador, and is passionate about ocean conservation. She is the founder of the Sea Glass Project (seaglassproject.etsy.com), using upcycled sustainable fashion to promote ocean conservation. Follow Anqi's ocean dreams on IG @anqiunderwater.