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Eleanor Mooney grew up between two worlds - a white father and a Filipina mother who worked in hospitality, where kindness and service weren’t just values, they were survival.

As a kid in Massachusetts, she watched her mother remember everyone’s name, favorite drink, and story - even as people sometimes dismissed her accent or heritage. That early contrast shaped Eleanor’s life mission: to make people feel seen, included, and cared for.

Years later, she carried that same warmth into business. After building a career in luxury retail, she founded deVivre Concierge, a lifestyle service for New York’s elite, and Verdant, a lingerie brand designed for women in motion. But as her companies grew, the habit of over-giving, inherited from both culture and family, began to catch up with her.

One night, while answering a client email at dinner, Eleanor had a panic attack that forced her to pause.
That moment became a turning point, not away from ambition, but toward awareness.

In this episode, we explore:
 · Growing up biracial and learning belonging through service
 · How Filipino hospitality shaped her leadership and empathy
 · The thin line between generosity and overextension
 · Rebuilding boundaries without losing compassion
 · Designing lingerie - and a life - that’s truly made for women, not for the gaze

“You can’t take care of others if you’re not taking care of yourself.”

🎧 Listen to this episode if you’ve ever been taught that saying yes makes you worthy, and you’re ready to learn that peace can be productive too.

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Petal Modeste was born in Trinidad and Tobago, in a home where achievement was expected, but purpose was essential.
Education brought family honor, but her parents taught her that true success was measured by how you uplift others.

That lesson carried her from the Caribbean to New York City, where she built a distinguished career as a lawyer, educator, and Associate Dean at Columbia Law School. Yet through every chapter: corporate law, academia, motherhood, Petal kept asking one question that shaped everything she did:
 “Who do you want to be in the world?”

In this conversation, we explore:
 · How immigrant values can evolve from achievement to contribution
 · What it means to succeed without losing your sense of humanity
 · The difference between raising obedient children and raising conscious ones
 · Why vulnerability is a strength for modern parents
 · How to help the next generation build self-worth beyond test scores

“Every time I talk to another human being, I try to see the humanity in them and treat them as they deserve.”

🎧 Listen to this episode if you believe education and success mean little unless they make you, and the world, a little more humane.

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Jason Lim has lived life in the fast lane, quite literally.

From leading social media at Netflix Southeast Asia and helping ONE Championship grow from zero to millions of followers, to co-founding Stratgeist, one of the region’s top digital agencies, he’s been at the center of Asia’s attention economy for over a decade.

But behind his adrenaline-filled life, from skydiving and scuba diving to scaling startups, lies a deeper story about mastering fear, learning self-awareness, and redefining what it means to win.

After a near-fatal car crash, Jason experienced crippling anxiety that forced him to rebuild his mental strength from the ground up. What began as survival became transformation, teaching him that courage isn’t the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

In this episode, we unpack:
 · Why self-awareness is the real foundation of entrepreneurship
 · How to stay calm in chaos, in business, and in life
 · What it means to “build while falling off a cliff”
 · How gratitude, not hustle, became Jason’s new metric of success

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of it.”

🎧 Listen to this episode if you’ve ever felt like success alone wasn’t enough and wanted to find the calm within the climb.

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When you meet Hafiz Kasman, you don’t feel hustle. You feel a presence.

Hafiz grew up in a lower-middle-class Malay family in Singapore, where stability was prized and risk-taking came second. He started his career as a management consultant — a path few from his background dared to walk. But at 25, he did something bold: he left it all to build Kinobi, an ed-tech platform helping students across Asia navigate their careers.

In just a few years, Hafiz and his team grew Kinobi to reach hundreds of thousands of users across the region and earned a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia. But what’s more striking than the numbers is Hafiz’s mindset — calm, grounded, and deeply intentional.

In this episode, we explore:
 · What it means to succeed as a Malay founder in Singapore’s startup scene
 · How to build for purpose, not validation
 · The invisible privilege of inner peace

“I don’t mind starting from scratch. My lifestyle was humble from the start — I can go back to that anytime I want.”

🎧 Listen to this episode if you’ve ever wondered how to build without burning out, and still win.

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In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Bradley Sutton - VP of Education and Strategy at Helium 10, host of the Serious Sellers Podcast with over 4 million downloads, and one of the most recognizable voices in global e-commerce.

But before he became a household name for Amazon sellers, Bradley lived many lives.
 Half Filipino and half American, he grew up in a deeply Asian household where grades were non-negotiable and shoes were banned indoors (atypical in the US). He went on to become a nationally ranked sumo wrestler, a YouTube Zumba influencer with over 30 million views, and later, one of the most influential educators in the e-commerce world.

Through it all, Bradley has always “marched to the beat of a different drum.” His story is a testament to what happens when discipline meets rebellion — and how the pursuit of meaning can completely rewrite the definition of success.

In this episode, we unpack:

·       Growing up under strict Asian expectations and how that shaped his obsession with mastery

·       Why he left comfort for constant reinvention: from sumo to Zumba to e-commerce

·       The mindset that helped him gamify even the hardest moments of life

·       What dying for 15 minutes taught him about mortality, gratitude, and joy

·       Why the most successful people in ecommerce blend science and soul — data with human connection

“If I dedicate myself to something, I give 150% and find a way to dominate it. But it’s never about being perfect. It’s about turning weakness into strength.”

🎧 Listen now and send it to someone who’s constantly reinventing themselves or needs the reminder that your biggest strength might just be your biggest ‘weakness’.

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In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I chat with Anshu Singh - technologist turned spiritual teacher, founder of Solana Wellness Retreats, and author of Pressure to Pleasure: A Seven Pillar Approach to Living Your Best Life.

Anshu spent over 25 years building software and startups in Silicon Valley, chasing success, status, and the perfect life. She graduated from college in India at 18, climbed the corporate ladder, and lived what most would call the American dream. But underneath the achievements was exhaustion, disconnection, and a deep question: What’s the point of all this?

One day, she packed her bags, left her high-flying job, and moved to Bali “for one year.” She never went back. That one decision changed everything, leading her to become a yoga teacher and founder of a wellness sanctuary that now helps thousands find balance, peace, and joy.

In this episode, we unpack:

·       Growing up in India under intense academic pressure and emotional distance

·       Why perfection and comparison are invisible cages, and how to let them go

·       The breakdown that led her from burnout in Silicon Valley to awakening in Bali

·       How to reprogram your relationship with ambition, money, and enoughness

·       Practical tools for managing stress and finding peace in chaos

“I spent most of my life surviving instead of thriving. When I finally stopped running, I realized happiness isn’t out there. It’s a state of being.”

🎧 Listen now and share this episode with someone who’s questioning the life they built.

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In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Swan Chen (SwanVR): an artist, technologist, and cultural disruptor who walked away from Wall Street to design a radically freer life.

Born in New York City but raised by her grandmother in rural China before being air-dropped into suburban Ohio, Swan’s story is full of twists and turns in the theme of courage. From dropping out of pre-med against her father’s wishes, to going viral in VR with over 100 million views, to now creating conscious festivals around the world, Swan has chosen authenticity over obedience at every turn.

In this episode, we unpack:

• Growing up under suffocating Asian parental expectations and finding the courage to walk off script
• How a mushroom trip in Amsterdam healed her depression and reconnected her with her inner child
• Why Burning Man and psychedelics became portals to self-expression and freedom
• The wild story of how Swan went viral in VR with 100M+ views, and what she learned about visibility and power
• What it means to follow synchronicity, design your “soul blueprint,” and trust freedom over fear
• How she turned heartbreak and breakdowns into portals for reinvention

'I realized I wasn’t depressed because something was wrong with me. I was depressed because I was living a life that was never mine.'

🎧 Listen now and send it to someone who secretly wonders if they’re allowed to start over.

🌀 Question for you:
When was the last time you chose freedom over family expectations?

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In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Joachim (Jay) Brackx - musician-turned-entrepreneur, teacher, and host of Relating to Self - to explore the radical power of boundaries.

Growing up in families where survival meant prioritizing everyone else’s feelings, neither of us learned the language of boundaries until much later. In Asian households, especially, the word itself barely exists. Instead, we inherited guilt, shame, and a constant pressure to self-sacrifice. Together, we unpack what it means to reclaim boundaries as a practice of integrity, self-trust, and love.

We explore:

• Why boundaries are not walls, but invitations to healthier relationships
• The difference between acting from guilt vs. genuine desire
• How cultural conditioning in Asian families erodes our sense of self
• The link between boundaries, work ethic, and redefining success
• Why compassion and shadow work are essential to stop gaslighting yourself

This is a conversation about building safety inside yourself so you no longer people-please or betray your truth.

🎧 Listen now and share it with someone who struggles to say “no” without guilt.

🌀 Question for you:
 What boundary could change your life if you honored it today?

Explore Jay's guided meditation on boundaries: https://insighttimer.com/joachim/guided-meditations/a-meditation-to-feel-powerful-in-your-boundaries

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What happens when you stop following the script that was written by generations of legacy?

In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Kaushik, a former ship captain turned 3x tech founder who walked away from a conventional South Asian medical legacy to confront some of the most outdated systems in global trade.

But Kaushik’s story isn’t just about entrepreneurship. It’s about identity, scale, truth, and the discomfort required to live a life with no escape hatches.

We dive into:

• How living in 7 countries shaped Kaushik’s obsession with scale and truth
• The mental discipline from maritime life that still guides how he builds today
• Why he left a legacy-driven career path to challenge opacity in ocean freight
• How confronting family systems can be as hard as disrupting global ones

Kaushik doesn’t sugarcoat the pain of breaking away, but he also reminds us why it’s worth it.

🌀 Question for you: What were you told you must become by your family of origin? Did you follow that script, or choose to rewrite it? Why?

🎧 Listen now & forward it to someone quietly questioning everything.

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What if you’ve been told that you’re too queer and too much, but you choose to become even more?

In this episode of Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Darice Chang - a queer Taiwanese-American writer, performer, meditation teacher, and cultural disruptor who has never fit neatly into the boxes assigned to them.

From competing in the Miss Taiwan Pageant to strutting through Taipei’s queer nightlife scene in Midnight Asia (Netflix), Darice has spent a lifetime reclaiming visibility on their terms. This is a conversation about queering the system: whether it’s gender norms, cultural expectations, or inherited shame.

Together, we unpack:

• Why spiritual practices like meditation helped Darice feel “safe in their own body” again
• The subtle forms of cultural violence that suppress queerness in Asian families
• How drag became an expression of power and truth
• What it takes to unlearn people-pleasing and live a life built around self-belonging

This episode is an invitation and a reminder to anyone who does not feel that they belong. Your freedom might just begin where shame used to live.

🎧 Listen now and forward it to someone ready to reclaim their voice.

🌀 Question for you:
What if your superpower lies in your queerness?

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