Navigating the Rise

How can you navigate cultural differences to communicate with others?

Appreciating the uniqueness of each culture is key to building confidence and engaging with others. In this episode, Carl Choi discusses his early experiences as an Asian-American trying to adjust to his surroundings. He shares how he overcame his shyness and became a more outgoing individual to become the entrepreneur he is today.

Listen to the full episode and be empowered to live a more connected life.

How do you deal with cultural differences in your business?

This week, we learn about Kenneth Randall’s experiences in bridging Asian and Western cultures. As an American, he encountered challenges in adapting to the Asian approach to work and leadership. However, Kenneth addressed these cultural gaps. The values and principles he learned from the Asian culture also helped him in raising his family.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about bridging cultural differences in your business and personal life.

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Sunni Sukumar, Marketing Director at preHIRED.  We explored various topics on how he broke out of the limitations he had and practiced his grit to get to where he is now.  Some of those stories we heard from Sunni include:

* How Sunni grew up scared of white people because of all the racism he faced as a kid.

* His parents didn't teach him any Indian languages or the culture. They wanted him to be as American as possible to fit in America.  After all, his parents struggled to fit into the US culture even though they spoke good English and were highly educated).

* Have severe social anxiety. That drove him to understand people better, which got him curious about marketing.

* How Sunni defined marketing as the science of helping people embrace change. People need to hope that "this time can be different." The reason is that we've almost all tried to get a result many times before we finally do. That same kind of fear keeps us from straying outside our culture to understand others.

Among everything Sunni described, the core things we touched upon include using exposure therapy to get over the hump.  Also, Sunni mentioned how he combined anxiety and marketing.  As a result, he does that by understanding people and how marketing can be used to relieve others' anxiety.  He mentioned avoiding being trapped by data. The different techniques of marketing are dangerous.  They take the emotion out of marketing. People buy from emotions, not data. Hence, most importantly, he views marketing as a way to help people embrace change.

Our upbringing determines our identity and values. Every decision we make is affected by our beliefs growing up. As a result, it can become a constraint in a diverse workplace, where you have to learn how to put yourself in the shoes of someone from another culture. By learning how to respect each other’s differences and awakening our cultural awareness, we can achieve success in everything we do.

In this episode, John Eing joins us to talk about how you can advance your career without compromising your values in life. He also discusses the importance of breaking cultural norms and stereotypes in the workplace. Also, he highlights the role of cultural awareness in our multicultural interactions in the workplace and society.

This episode will teach you the importance of culture in living a happy and successful life. Tune in!

This week we have the opportunity to discuss with Angeline Wehmeyer on she went from making minimum wage with a master's degree to owning 1000's apartment units. Angeline Wehmeyer has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Her passion is to share her system with others to continually add more value and help them create a lifestyle filled with health & wealth, joy & abundance.

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Surbhi Rathore.  Surbhi Rathore is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rammer, the popular AI platform that automatically generates actionable insights from meetings. Prior to leading Rammer to success, Surbhi was heading Pre-Sales and Implementation projects for the Intelligent Assistant from Amdocs pluggable on existing Telco Enterprise software solutions around the globe. She has earlier worked with Nevis Networks, where she oversaw the development and deployment of Endpoint Agent for Network Security across organizations.

This week we explored how to be an expert at various new technologies quickly with Amit Joshi in his entrepreneurial journey.

Amit is an MBA+B.Tech graduate with 10 years of work experience in business strategy consulting and product management. He has been in the blockchain domain for 3+ years. He also worked on the implementation of blockchain in healthcare, payments, logistics, aerospace, crypto exchanges/funds, asset tokenization, among others.

For any company, integrating innovation with your business model is key to delivering better products and services to your customers. If you’re looking into using emergent technologies in your business, you have to innovate and use your resources well. In this week’s episode, we’re chatting with Amit Josh, the CEO of the blockchain domain company HashPrix. Amit shares his entrepreneurial journey, and he lets us in on his knowledge on how to be an expert quickly at new technologies. He also talks more in-depth about how residing in different countries has helped shape his perspective not only in business but also in life.

This episode is packed with valuable insights on entrepreneurship and firsthand experiences on different cultural exposure. I hope you get loads of takeaways after the show!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover how you can easily apply emergent technology across different verticals.

2. You will learn how Amit leveraged his cultural background in his work.

3. Find out the different levels and paces of innovation in different cultures, specifically in India.

This week I have the opportunity to speak with Alex (Woo Seung) Sohn, Head of US Office, King Sejong Institute Foundation.  The goal of the organization for King Sejong is to share Korean culture through activities and Korean Language.

Given the recent rise in K-Pop and K-Drama, many people are becoming interested in Korean culture.  But that is still at a superficial level.  To fully become more immersed in the culture, it is imperative to learn about the language.  One of the ways is that the Korean language is more of a context-driven language than a non-context driven language.  For example, in English and other languages, the sentence itself can quickly convey the meaning by itself. However, Koreans like to communicate a bit directly, and one word can mean different things depending on the context.  Because of those structures, not learning the language will take away many of the deeper nuances of the Korean language.