There are so many paths that could be taken in life but which one to choose? How to make sense when there are so many ideas in my head and external factors shouting: "You should do this, you should do that!"

That stands at the core of the discussion with Andrés Bohórquez who we are warmly welcoming to the Flying Colours Podcast. Want to watch the video version? Click here.

Andrés is New Yorker since the age of 10, originally from Bogotá, Colombia. Andres’s work performance and passionate persona are derived from his family. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science, Baccalaureate of Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies with Honors in Sound Design for the Moving Image from The City University of New York, Andres landed multiple professions. His work experience, from directing a televised show, video graphing various shows of performance arts, managerial roles in the service industry, and his excellence in customer service have all flowered Andres Bohórquez’s latest endeavour, and growing passion, for Green Marketing & Global Real Estate. He

To get in touch and connect with Andrés, go to:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-bo...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_andresboho...
or email him at: [email protected]

Also, definitely make sure to check out Green Mo:  https://www.greenmo.space/

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If you are new here, Hi👋

Flying Colours is a podcast that helps students and young professionals take more informed life and career decisions. The podcast is hos

My name is Bastian Harth, I'm the host. I'm a side hustler, podcast host of Flying Colours, career and life coach, mentor, polyglot, and so much more! My attitude to life is continuous learning. I enjoy trying out new things and meeting new people even though I'm at heart an introvert. I've lived in many countries including Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, the UK, France, and Panama. I studied politics for my bachelor's and master's degrees but realised that a more business- and entrepreneurial-driven career is what I am looking for. One of my biggest passions is specialty coffee. I even left my stable job and apartment behind to work on a farm for a year...

Flying Colours is back and it has now become the Flying Colours Network. We will continue doing podcasts but you will see different hosts and also, different formats like live coaching.

In this episode, Bastian welcomes Tahmid Chowdhury who also has recently become a transformational coach. We talk about his career change during the pandemic, his path towards becoming a coach, diversity and inclusion and also, the reality of how work-life is.

Do you want to know more about Tahmid? Follow him on LinkedIn for his blog posts about diversity and inclusion.

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahmidcho...

You may also check out his new podcast called "Behind the Suit and Tie" here:

https://anchor.fm/tahmid5/

Here is Tahmid introducing himself:

"I’m Tahmid. I am a transformational coach who supports individuals and businesses to continually improve and be the best version of themselves. As a professional, I work on policy-making and Diversity and Inclusion, most recently within the UK Government.

I greatly believe in the importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the modern economy. As a coach, I work with senior executives, D&I practitioners and those with a particular interest in Diversity and Inclusion to better understand their own views and what positive impact they can make in the world.

Through my proven track record of success, I have developed corporate Diversity and Inclusion Strategies, as well as targeted Race initiatives. I developed race training material and presented at senior boards with recommendations on how to improve racial diversity in the workplace.

Outside of work, I love to travel and learn languages. I speak English, French and Spanish. I am currently taking weekly classes to learn Bengali, and have also done courses in German, Dutch and Italian. To wind down I also do yoga (when I get the chance!)"

Find all previous Flying Colours episodes here and listen to them on your favourite podcast app:

https://pod.link/1546394596/episode/2...

Everything else:

https://linktr.ee/flyingcolours

Flying Colours has been on a sabbatical month and now, returns fresh from its break!

This time, Flying Colours welcomes Heather Dobbin, a transition, actualization, and deep living coach based in Tokyo, Japan, and Founder of IkigaiMe Coaching.

In this episode, we will be talking about self-reliance, deep-living and how to create the life you want!

Want to know more about Heather? Check out IkigaiMe or follow her on social media:

https://linktr.ee/IkigaiMe

About Heather:

Using her background in coaching, psychology, leadership, and education, Heather serves creative, impactful individuals who are seeking to create a thoughtfully crafted life and increase the range of their ideas and abilities.

With roots in Atlanta, Georgia, she has spent the past 11 years living in South
Korea and Japan. Her unique experience living and working with clients of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds has given her the ability to empathize deeply with leaders and leadership-oriented individuals who want to foster a more inclusive and diverse culture.

When not nerding out reading and devouring podcasts about mindset, organizational psychology, and courageous vulnerability, you can find her walking with her partner, wandering around Japan, enjoying great beer, hiking, meditating, or caring for her many, many houseplants and garden vegetables.

Find the live episode on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS1tVdxMKCc

Support Flying Colours or listen to the previous episodes here:

https://linktr.ee/flyingcolours

A master of change and adapting to new situations, LeeLee Genovese has an extensive and diverse background in international education with more than 15 years of experience transitioning, studying, and working abroad in several different post-secondary settings.

Before becoming a Life Coach, LeeLee spent 6.5 years in Tokyo as a professor, an international advisor, and a mentor to international students, where she helped them to find clarity in their study abroad and career paths.

As an Elite certified life coach, her mission remains the same as she dedicates her time to helping mid-career working professionals rediscover their path and purpose in their life and their professions and summit their potential.

Lee Lee’s focus is on helping her clients figure out, face, and embrace changes, and further (re)commit to taking charge of their lives by intentionally challenging themselves to create positive results in the ways they most desire.

LeeLee is currently in her own life transition. After 7 years of living in Japan, she is grateful to have moved back to her home state of Oregon with her Japanese husband, for now.
Cheers to exciting new chapters.

Connect:

Webpage: https://www.coachleelee.com/​

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leelee-ge...​

Email: [email protected]

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tA...​

Nathan is the Managing Director and one of the co-founders of The Speaker, currently studying Management, Politics & International Relations at Lancaster University in the north-west of England. From a young age, Nathan has been committed to supporting others, from creating opportunities through sports coaching and charitable work to increasing access to understandable knowledge through roles in media. In 2019, Nathan was recognised as an ‘inspirational young leader’ and featured in The Independent’s Happy List - a list ‘celebrating 50 of the most inspirational people whose kindness, ingenuity and bravery have made Britain a better place to live. Nathan has taken part in a number of campaigns to raise awareness of important issues. In recent years, Nathan has been keen to raise awareness of mental health charities, recognising the importance of removing the stigma around mental health. In particular, during 2020, many people experienced mental health problems for the first time as a result of Coronavirus lockdown measures and Nathan himself faced a period of struggles following a head injury. Since 2014, Nathan has led a range of campaigns that have raised awareness and over £10,000 for a range of important charitable causes. A big fan of sport and travelling, Nathan can often be found exploring new places, watching and playing sport in non-lockdown times.

Check out The Speaker here:

https://lnkd.in/dYZcGXq​

Check out Nathan's book on the year 2020 as it happened.

Find it here: https://amzn.to/3vyMB6b​

Support Flying Colours or listen to the previous episodes here:

https://linktr.ee/flyingcolours

Dr Michael Caampued is a health system, economics and governance consultant with a total of 13 years of involvement in supporting community health development in the Philippines. Experiences include community-based clinical practice, national and sub-national health systems strengthening, care integration (service delivery networks), local health governance, reform implementation, program and policy development.

Between 2010-2014, worked as a Doctor to the Barrio turned Municipal Health Officer for the Municipality of Polillo. During his time as a DTTB, he was awarded the Grand Distinction Award by the Department of Health. In 2014-2017, he was a technical consultant for Health Systems Strengthening in the country under the World Health Organization – Philippines significantly contributing to the efforts improving maternal and child outcomes within the Davao region and the development of the national policy on service delivery networks. Between 2019 to present, he has been involved as a consultant member to Universal Health Care advanced implementation sites - technical working group aiding in the prioritization of investments for UHC, worked as a health systems consultant to the Asian Development Bank, and worked as a pillar lead in Regional Coordination of COVID-19 Emergency Response of the WHO-Philippines.

Education includes a double Master’s degree in Public Health specializing in Economics and Governance of Health Systems in Transition from the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) and Ecole des Hautes en Sante Publique (Rennes, France); a master’s degree in public management from the Development Academy of the Philippines; and a medical degree from the University of the Philippines - College of Medicine receiving various academic and special awards.

He currently sits as the founding board member of the Philippine Society for Public Health Physicians (PSPHP); a partner for the NGO, Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes, Inc (AIHO); a Faculty for the Development Academy of the Philippines; and an invitational Subject Matter Expert for the Philippine Navy.

From 15 March to 26 March 2021, he will be leading an online course on Leadership and Change Management in the Health Sector at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. If you want to join, check it out here:

https://bit.ly/37LrDXe

Evelyn started her very first "business" at the age of 5 by the roadside and began reselling her used-books at the age of 10. Afterwards, she worked in food processing, only being 12 years old at that time. As she comes from a low-income family "she had to mature earlier than her friends" she says. 

When she was 18 years old, she received a promotion to become state manager for an event activation company but she realised soon that she preferred doing a Bachelor of Marketing (Honours) in UTAR.

During her university life, she and her co-founder came up with the idea of an automated food reseller in university to cater to the demand of hungry students who would want to buy cheap and quick food. This is where the starting point of her real entrepreneur journey got kick-started: She started Vechnology which quickly became the pioneer vending industry producer in Malaysia. 

Being an entrepreneur while still committing to studies at university brought more challenges and difficulties than she expected but her motto: "Never stop trying your limits" kept her going. She persisted, grabbed all opportunities that she saw as fit and stayed true to her heart and passions to this day.

Mona Shair-Wloch is the founder and managing director of key2advance. Mona is passionate about helping people discover and develop their true potential via coaching, training and consulting. She has created a series of workshops around high-performance teams, leadership, university-to-work transition, and publics peaking for both teams and individuals.

She uses a variety of effective techniques and the latest research whilst being engaging, creative, and fun. In addition to managing key2advance, Mona delivers a series of workshops and executive coaching for Fortune 500 companies on an international, divisional and local level and thus, has a good understanding of the corporate and operational sides of various businesses. Having lived and gained experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, Mona brings an inter-cultural sensitivity and understanding to her work while she also fluently speaks English, German and Arabic.

Alison is a leadership coach and organizational psychologist who is on a mission to create meaningful and courage-filled workplaces. As an entrepreneur and a former young business leader, she understands the anxieties, challenges, and desires of young leaders to learn enough to run their companies, push business development, manage clients and investors, and on top of that deliver valuable products and services to the world. 

Alison coaches founding teams and leaders to develop self-aware, continuously learning teams that are aligned on how they want to work, and what they want to achieve.

Alison’s experience spans both internal HR leadership and external consulting, with a specialization in the healthcare and tech industries.  She has worked alongside senior leaders to develop and implement talent acquisition frameworks, talent assessment programs, and leadership development initiatives on a global scale. 

Alison is bilingual in English and Chinese (Pu Tong Hua). She has worked globally with a focus on Europe, China, and Emerging Markets (LATAM, Eastern Europe, SEA).

Contact her via her homepage:

https://alisonleejy.com/

After spending two months in Indonesia, Nadjib discovered that there are whole societies in which people are smiling, caring, full of joie de vivre and particularly attached to the importance of everyone. 

Since then, now that he is back in France, he decided to share his unconditional love for humanity through short videos by adopting an active use of social networks. 

Thus, as soon as he sees a person, an activity, an event, a publication that arouses his interest, he takes the initiative to contact the person to organize a meeting full of spontaneity, authenticity, positivity and humanity.

If you yourself are interested in being part of the adventure by having your own video, do not hesitate to contact him directly on his Facebook page "Human Nadj" to arrange a meeting in a joyful and good mood!