Ricky Sahni is back on ComebaCK to catch up on the year of 2022. Ricky is a fellow podcast host, health and fitness enthusiast, personal trainer, and long term Saigon expat, who joins me to converse about recent events.

Topics

⁃ Running in sandals; a pursuit that he’s taken up in the last year and the benefits he’s experienced as a result

⁃ Why it’s important to be busy, structured and disciplined, especially living as an expat

⁃ His experiences returning home to India after a long time away and what he’s subsequently learned

⁃ His daily exercise and productivity routines and adapting to work In Vietnam 2022, post pandemic

⁃ Aims for 2023

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

This is a pod swap from Conor’s recent appearance on Kerry Newsome’s ‘What About Vietnam’, discussing a 2021 trip to one of Vietnam’s hidden gems, Con Dao Islands.

MikeDee (ProjectElon) is a recurring guest who returns back to ComebaCK, with a twist. What’s the twist?? Find out here….

Topics

⁃ What constitutes a good podcast guest

⁃ How to deal with rejection

⁃ Why “just doing something” is key

⁃ How your life really can change, if you allow yourself to take the leap

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Simone Elliot is a Saigon expat from Scotland and hosts her own workshops on exploring our emotions and feelings through art and painting. We discuss her journey of self development and exploration, the ethos behind her art workshops, and much more.

Topics

⁃ Cultivating an international outlook and mindset from growing up on the Scottish border; and how she later moved to Vietnam TWICE

⁃ The importance of gratitude and how that’s the basis for her work today

⁃ Connecting through a shared/common understanding and themes such as vulnerability

⁃ The importance of flexibility in our thinking and having an open mind; we all process and think about things differently, and this is demonstrated through art

⁃ How art and psychology can combine effectively to further self discovery and awareness

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Kelly is a young Vietnamese business lady, fitness enthusiast and content creator, hugely interested in self development and joins me to discuss a wide variety of topics.

Topics

⁃ Building financial, emotional and physical vitality and health over time

⁃ The importance and value of gratitude

⁃ Her core values and philosophy and her spiritual outlook; how to effectively raise your vibration

⁃ Going on a business and self development journey in her early 20’s; and what she hopes to achieve going forward

⁃ Her passion for people and putting them first always

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Matthew Egglestone is a business psychologist who helps people make better decisions (in business and in life), by sidestepping their unconscious biases.

Topics include

⁃ How to find the appropriate balance of influence in mixing competency and warmth

⁃ Where our bias and subconscious prejudices come from and how to be flexible with your thinking

⁃ How to cultivate self awareness, developing charisma, interacting with people and working on yourself

⁃ His own discovery from 18-25 at unpacking his own behavior

⁃ The importance of learning from failure, looking at the journey rather than the destination

⁃ Communicating effectively with different people

⁃ His future aims

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Annika Egglestone provides business owners with burnout solutions and helps them manage their workload, having varied experiences all over the world in business, and joins me to discuss the concept of burnout and how to avoid it.

Topics

⁃ Her international upbringing, subsequent experiences with burnout and how that proved as the catalyst for her work

⁃ Using pressure and passion in a healthy capacity

⁃ Why our bodies are adapted to stress over short bursts of time, and how to effectively manage/balance our time

⁃ What more businesses should know

⁃ How to know that you need a break, and what constitutes actual rest

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Anne Thai Vo is a pole dancer, teacher, businesswoman and owner/founder of Foenix Studio and ‘Little Anne’ here in Saigon, Vietnam. She joins ComebaCK to discuss how she cultivated her strong mindset, motivate and inspire those around her, dedicate herself to her pole practice, and what drives her at Foenix.

Topics

⁃ Cultivating her strength and toughness on a physical and mental level, and what “Anne Thai Vo” symbolizes

⁃ How she became active in her community and her practice and what she does to maintain self development

⁃ Being an inspiring teacher and leading from the front

⁃ How she continues to stay motivated, active and enthusiastic over a long period of time

⁃ What her businesses, values and ethos are and how she serves her customers

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Duong is a health and fitness enthusiast and regular Spartan racer based in Saigon, Vietnam. Duong has many stories to tell. She’s Vietnamese, she’s from a minority group in the centre of the country, she’s very passionate about sports, fitness, health, nutrition and racing, and she’s lived in several countries, including USA and the Netherlands.

We discuss a wide variety of tales in today’s episode, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to have a long form sit down conversation. Thank you, Duong!

Topics include

⁃ Managing your energy and time and having boundaries when connecting with friends and people alike

⁃ Her experiences with a difficult upbringing in a minority group and how that’s shaped her today

⁃ How she’s developed a certain level of mental and physical strength

⁃ Her passion for racing, why she keeps doing 42km mountain marathons, and the supportive and influential community she’s built as a result of her fitness journey

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.

Nathan Willis is a tennis coach and former ATP ranked professional player, joining the podcast to discuss his sporting and teaching career both at home in Australia and abroad through multiple expat experiences in Asia, and his coaching and business philosophy and pursuits.

Topics

⁃ The mindset of a tennis professional; both playing and coaching perspectives and the individual gladiatorial style

⁃ The true importance of competing against yourself consistently; and how this applies both to tennis and life

⁃ His coaching philosophy and how to cross communicate with clients from different backgrounds and visions

⁃ Moving abroad and adapting to the cultural challenges in developing a career within the sports and recreation sector

⁃ His future aims in Vietnam

If you enjoyed this conversation, you can find out more about ComebaCK at @thecomebackwithck on Instagram.