Valsala Krishnan, CEO of Globetrotter Consultancy, discusses how your Spirit, Intellect, Emotions, and Physical Senses - otherwise known as the SIEP principle - can assist you in lessening your stress levels and improving your emotional intelligence.

In this special, we look back at some of our interesting conversations in the month of October that features:

1. 1) Making EAT Easy

2. 2) Music, Movies, and Mojo

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 In this special, we look back at some of our interesting conversations in the month of September that features:

1. 1) Growing A Business With Rent A Pot

2. 2) A Furniture Business Built on Family Values

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We look back at compelling stories told to us on the show in 2019. From investigative journalism in transborder crime to fake news legislation to the state of the Malaysian media industry, we covered a broad range of issues - and here are some of the highlights.

On The Breakfast Grille this year we had conversations with technoloy companies that want to change the way we live, work and play. Roshan Kanesan takes us through the conversations we had with fintech disruptors Stripe and Transferwise as well as home-sharing platform AirBnB as they aim to improve payments for the internet economy, disrupt remittances and change the way we travel.

A meeting planned by Chinese educationist group Dong Zong was cancelled last week by police order, on concerns that the meeting would lead to protests.

For more insight, we speak to Nathaniel Tan, moderator of the recent Jawi forum, about whether our inability to have discussions is indicative of a deeper trust deficit.

With an overwhelming majority at the UK elections Boris Johnson now has a clear mandate to push through his Brexit plans with the country leaving the European Union formally on 31 January 2020. However the hard work of negotiating a trade deal begins with a 11 month deadline made complicated by having to negotiate with 27 members of the EU whilst also working out how to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement.

00:21 - The FMT reports that Datuk Seri Anifah Aman has applied to stay the January Kimanis parliamentary by-election, pending a review

05:37 - Bank Negara Malaysia has issued a draft framework, and plans to issue 5 licenses for the establishment of digital banks

Kingsley Jones, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Jevons Global in Sydney reminds us that the US equity markets only generated a return of 10% for the last 2 years as the end of 2018 saw a very sharp market correction creating a low base effect. He however says that sector rotation is key to outperformance and to start looking at the laggards which are healthcare, financials and even consumer related names.

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