Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin

Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin interviews Coach Chot Reyes, former head coach for the Philippine national basketball team. During his leadership, led the team to a historic silver medal finish at the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship and the subsequent appearance at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, the country's first in 36 years.

He also coached the team in the 2023 FIBA World Cup receiving disappointing reactions from Filipino basketball fans.

Listen to the coach as he shares the highs and lows of leadership coaching. And what’s next for him as he steps down as the Gilas Pilipinas coach.

This episode of BREAKTHROUGH with Boris Joaquin entitled, 'What's Next, Coach?' was aired last Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 7PM.

Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin invites you to break from Performance Paradox box, that counterintuitive phenomenon that if we focus only on performing, our performance suffers. Discover how to balance learning and performing to bolster personal and team success with this revolutionary guide from a world-renowned expert on growth mindset.

Aired last August 17, Tuesday 8pm on the FB pages of the Philippine Star, CareerGuide and Salt and Light Ventures, Boris Joaquin interviews Eduardo Briceño, a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and program provider who supports organizations in developing cultures of learning and high performance. His TED Talk, How to Get Better at the Things You Care About, and his prior TEDx Talk, The Power of Belief, have been viewed more than nine million times.

In his latest book, Performance Paradox, Edu shares that most successful individuals, teams, and organizations habituate the two zones — the Learning and Performance Zones). To improve or innovate, we can’t spend all our time doing things as best as we know how, trying to minimize mistakes. We have to also engage in the mental state and strategies to go beyond what we know. When we do these together, we’re Learning While Doing.

Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin interviews celebrity couple, Anthony Pangilinan and Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, as they navigate the challenging road to a lifetime of togetherness. Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and with grown and growing children to boot, how have Anthony and Maricel stayed together in a world where staying married seems to have become the exception rather than the rule?

This episode dubbed as "Couple Goals" aired last July 25 at 7 PM, on The Philippine Star FB page.

Now the managing director of Accenture, former actor Hans Montenegro shares his experiences navigating the corporate world.

Even with failure in the background, former actor turned human resources director Hans Montenegro believes that there is nothing wrong with leaving one’s comfort zone as doing so can even open up more career opportunities. 

In an interview on “Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin” livestreamed on the Facebook pages of The Philippine STAR and CareerGuide on Thursday, May 4, Montenegro said that after all, people have full control of their career despite having a manager they report to and who would guide them. 

In Montenegro’s case, his career was early on marked by several two-year stints mostly as a human resources executive. The first time he stayed for much long, based on his LinkedIn profile, was at Manulife where he worked for about seven years.

On this podcast, he explained this began in 2004, when a senior employee in a previous job told him that their human resources department should be more in tune with company business. Montenegro took this as a challenge, going out of his comfort zone, proceeding to learn more about the company’s business model at the time. Later on, he noted that this came from an innate desire for growth, aside from him being inspired to leave his comfort zone.

Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin celebrated International Women's Month last March 28. We interviewed 1999 Ms. Universe First Runner-Up, TV Host, Speaker, and Author, Miriam Quiambao-Roberto, in CELEBRATING WOMANHOOD live streamed on the Philippine Star. It's time to recognize the achievements that women have made, the roles that they have taken on, and reflect on the many struggles that they still face today – together, let's explore and appreciate the true essence of womanhood.

Parenthood has become increasingly challenging these days with all the different problems confronting the modern society. People who choose to become parents, therefore, must be ready to meet the standard of care that all children deserve.

Beauty queen and new mother Katarina Rodriguez described “positive parenting” as the principle of “showing love to your child even when you’re trying to discipline them,” which is something she learned as one of the celebrity ambassadors for Save the Children Philippines (SCP).

The 2018 Miss World Philippines titleholder talked about her positive parenting advocacy and life as a mother during her appearance on the seventh episode of “Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin," which was streamed live on The Philippine STARand Career Guide official Facebook pages last Monday, Nov. 21.

“It's one thing to just donate…but then would you really be able to appreciate the effects of your little act if you don’t go through it further? 2022 Miss Universe Philippines Charity Pauline Amelinckx said. The holiday season is here and for those who seem to have already gotten tired of traditional gift-giving, 2022 Miss Universe Philippines Charity Pauline Amelinckx and Save the Children-Philippines (SCP) shared an idea that could make this act of kindness even more meaningful.

Appearing in the latest episode of “Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin,” which was streamed live over The Philippine STAR and Career Guide Facebook pages last Dec. 6, Amelinckx talked about the concept of going “beyond charity” or getting people more actively involved in the process of helping others.

“It's one thing to just donate, for example, or give… Anyone would be able to do that at some point, but then would you really be able to appreciate the effects of your little act if you don’t go through it further, if you don’t see beyond what you offered or what you provided, for example?” she said. The recent discussion on this topic was a fitting celebration for the National Volunteers’ Month this December. Amelinckx and the Miss Universe Philippines organization have been working with Save the Children Philippines to raise awareness on its humanitarian missions that are made possible because of countless volunteers.

“Save the Children has really allowed for those avenues for us to be able to be more aware and for us to be able to also find our own ways of not just helping, or not just providing ways of help, but also be part of the process itself,” the Boholana beauty queen said.

Classes for school year 2022 to 2023 will start in August for most schools and universities while basic education schools are required to implement full face-to-face (F2F) classes by November 2.

The Department of Education acknowledged that the return of wide-scale F2F classes would present “new stressors and challenges.” In the next episode of Breakthrough with Boris Joaquin, we’re going to discuss how ready the schools are and even students to return to campuses. How can we provide psychosocial support during the first month of the school year?

Our guest is Paolo Laurel, AVP for School Operation, Lyceum of the Philippines.

This episode originally live streamed on the Facebook pages of Philippine Star and CareerGuide.

We are featuring Boris’ interview with BrandStart. In this 3rd cut, Leonard Grape (host of BrandStart) interviews Boris to reveal his secret in leading a team, the early days of his entrepreneurial journey and what made him a successful freelance training consultant. This is the longest part of his interview with BrandStart but there are so many gems in this conversation so take note and enjoy!