Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom

My guest this week is Angelique Peng. Angelique is from Singapore, has studied in London, lived in Los Angeles, and she’s now an entrepreneur in Beijing. She is a partner in AWA Health. In the episode we talk about Angelique’s highly interesting background, her mission with the company, and much more. I also give a little shoutout to Carl King and his new show “The Oracle of Outer Space”, as well as the holiday fundraising drive for this very podcast. Enjoy!

Mike Shaw is a vegan PR professional from Boston who is fascinated by the extraordinary potential of the global expat community, and he aims to do something about it. In this episode we talk a lot about what it’s like to be here bearing witness to China’s ascendancy at this historic moment in history, and how global people like us can find our way in and find a purpose.

My guest this week is Fei Wu, a “reverse laowai” who made the move FROM China TO the US. Fei is a native-born Beijinger who has now been living in the US for 17 years. We discuss her origins in Beijing, her move to Maine to finish high school - where she became both the captain of the boys' hockey team AND the prom queen - and then her move to Boston for college and the cool life and business she’s built for herself there ever since.

Today I am happy to share another special LIVE episode with you, a panel presentation on the topic of "Becoming an Entrepreneur For Life”. The event was sponsored by the EO Beijing Sanlitun chapter, and was recorded from the naked HUB in Sanlitun. For more information on the numerous speakers and sponsors, please search them using the information below. Enjoy!

My guest this week is AJ Warner. AJ is the co-founder of Touchdown!, a leading Chinese higher education consultancy, as well as being the current President of the Beijing Sanlitun chapter of the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO). In this episode, we discuss AJ’s interesting background, his earlier adventures in Asia by way of Japan and Korea, and his move to the Middle kingdom in the mid-aughts (2005) and everything that has followed from there.

My guest this week is architect Coro Urdaneta. Much like previous guest Ronald Paredes, Coro left the upheaval in Venezuela to seek a better life for herself. Her first stop was Miami in the US, but China was next, and in 6 short years Coro has established herself very well in Beijing with her work designing the interior architecture of Moka Bros, the Q-Mex Taqueria, La Social, Mosto, and many other local F&B standouts.

This week’s episode features John Dietz. John is the Founder of Bangbang, a Beijing-based VFX and full-service film company. John has worked on almost 20 Chinese films and has collaborated with some of China’s most successful directors, including Xu Zheng, Jiang Wen, Guan Hu, Han Yan, John Woo, Sun Zhou, Deng Chao, Lu Chuan, and Eva Jin, among others. In the West, he’s worked on over 20 Hollywood films including the Harry Potter franchise, Hunger Games, and X-Men: Wolverine.

This week’s episode was a special treat, a group roundtable discussion recorded live from XL Bar in Beijing for the kickoff of Maovember 2017. It features Jim Boyce, Mike Wester, and Claudia Masueger of the Maovember Steering Committee.

My guest today is Marcus Medina. Marcus is a chef from California by way of Mexico, Manhattan, and many stops in between. He’s also the food mastermind behind QMex and it’s sister restaurant here in Beijing, QMex Taqueria. If you’re a long-time listener to the show, you might swear I’m on the PR payroll for QMex, but it’s honestly my favorite restaurant in Beijing.

This week’s show features artist and graphic designer Ronald Paredes. In it, we discuss the situation back in Ronald’s home country of Venezuela, what it’s been like to move and live in Nanjing for 11 years, his art and design background, charity and non-profit work and much more. Ronald has a serious passion to explore creativity in all its forms, and in his current and upcoming projects, he doesn’t shy away from the artist’s mission to explore life’s most meaningful, if painful, truths.