“Within that (first) five minutes of meeting someone, you can already make an impact and vice versa.” — Kimberley Goh (Founder of Migrant Professional Network)

Transitioning from being merely an international individual to becoming an integral part of a new community and professional sphere in a foreign country requires transformation on multiple fronts, extending far beyond proficiency in a dominant language. From initial experiences in networking to the founding of a migrant network that connected over 600 participants from 50+ countries in its inaugural year, the journey of our guest exemplifies the power of inclusive multicultural networking. Join us as we explore this transformative journey with Kimberly Goh, and uncover the secrets of networking as a dynamic and rewarding journey in our interconnected world. 

Kimberly's journey in Australia began as an international student from Malaysia, where she learned the importance of going the extra mile to stand out in the competitive job market. Engaging in mentorship programs, internships, and networking events, she secured her first role organising wellbeing and resilience training, honing her resilience skills in the process.

Transitioning to the international education sector, Kimberly spent 6.5 years working as a Career Advisor witnessing the struggles of international students and migrants in finding employment and forming connections. Motivated by this, she founded the Migrant Women Professional Network upon returning from maternity leave, aiming to empower migrant women through connections and professional development by combining what she loved, organising events and helping people. Since starting in January 2023, she's had monthly events and has engaged with over 600 participants from 50+ countries. 

(Follow Kimberly on LindedIn and her work at Migrant Women Professional Network )

In this episode, we will examine: 

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From tackling isolation to accessing valuable resources and opportunities, inclusive networking opens doors to growth and fulfillment. Discover the five essential steps to building an inclusive network that empowers you to connect authentically, collaborate effectively, and make a meaningful impact.

Tune in now and start building the connections that will shape your future on No Language Barriers! And remember, your journey to inclusive networking starts here.

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‘Don’t think you’re the minority in the place. Think about what you can bring to the table.’----Tracy Pham

 ‘It is what it is.’ That is one of the attitudes to embrace in any situation often when things don’t appear to one’s advantage. Yet, there are always people who are able to recognize the blessing behind every challenge. Even fewer people have the courage and capacity to embrace such an outlook to empower not only themselves, but others they identify with. As our guest speaker Tracy well said, we must first be the change we want to see by upgrading what we think. And that what enabled her to achieve what she has to earn her place on this podcast:

With a background in Media & Communications, Tracy Pham, a migrant from Vietnam since 2013, is a passionate advocate for change in the realms of community empowerment, particularly within culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. As a dedicated member of the Australian Vietnamese Women Association, Tracy channels her commitment to community empowerment by providing media support to various projects, including Age Care services, Family & Children initiatives, Training programs, Family Domestic Violence Prevention, and Gambling Counselling. These efforts aim to promote the health and well-being of migrants and refugees. Tracy’s impact extends to her role as a Board committee member for Meld Community since 2020, actively contributing to the development of a healthy international student community in Victoria and fostering their integration into Australian life and society with respect.

In her free time, Tracy lends her voice to Magnify magazine, a quarterly digital publication that recently received the Tech Diversity Awards in the Marketing, Media, and Advertising category. Tracy’s contributions celebrate inspiring women of colour in STEM, breaking barriers, and making a difference. (Follow Tracy on LinkedIn)

In this episode, we will take you through:

-      How language learning benefits communication skills and character development

-      The power of including others in our motivation to master a language

-      The importance of reaching out to expand social network and support in a foreign country.

-      Leveraging cross-cultural connections to promote one’s cultural heritage

And more. Please leave me a 5-star review if you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with those who want to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please messge me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to explore how we may work together, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector

Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠⁠⁠

Are you empowered or overpowered by the networking strategies you’ve learned? Did you know your networking can also be successful without always following many pro tips and advice? Listen for how the possession of networking strategies can impact your performance including when it may be counter productive

Book your FREE strategy call (valued at $129) to discover how to become 20X more connectable in a foreign environment in the next 90 days

Please leave me a 5-star review if you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with those who want to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please messge me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to explore how we may work together, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector

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“You don’t need to be someone in order to do something.” —Bonnie Chi

One of the greatest relationship secrets I’ve learnt is that every single person in your life is your mirror. What this means is that others are always reflecting parts of your consciousness back to you, allowing you to see yourself, to grow and to change your beliefs about who you are and about other people. 

The qualities you most admire in others are part of your consciousness and the same goes for the qualities you dislike. If you see those around you behaving like the victims and perpetrators of the commonly quoted bias and barriers, such as glass ceiling and bamboo ceiling, it is exactly because you also consciously believe in the existence of such limits and behave accordingly.

To change anything in your experiences and relationships, you must be the change you want to see. And this is the core message in the second part of my dialogue with Bonnie Chi:

Associate Director from NAB and frequent speaker and career strategist challenging the next generation to reinvent their career with unconventional strategies.

Made in Hong Kong and now further rooted in Australia with her expansive migrant journey, Bonnie actively advocates for 'breaking the bamboo ceiling' whilst staying culturally diverse by choice and by love.  She believes everyone - of different colours, nationalities, races, or ethnicities, deserves equal chance to present their unique, best self and thrive in their dreams.

In this episode, Bonnie and I will explore:

And more. Please leave me a 5-star review if you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with those who want to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please messge me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to explore how we may work together, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector

Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠⁠

How to reconnect with your network  and find good mentors when the industry is still bit quiet? Here are 5 strategies you can implement conveniently online,  instead of waiting for others to approach and invite you which you always cannot fully predict and control.

Please leave me a 5-star review if you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with those who want to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please messge me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to explore how we may work together, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector

Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠⁠

“You don’t need to be someone in order to do something.” —Bonnie CHi

Do you ever feel your English is not as good in reality compared to your education and how others typically perceive you based on your grades and what you have already achieved in an English-speaking environment?

We are all not immune to imposter syndrome and in and beyond the use of a foreign language, each of us may be fighting an inner battle usually unknown to others, however competent and confident we usually appear in front of them. In the same context, there is a common notion that confidence comes from familiarity. From my experience, aside from deliberate practice in settings unfamiliar to us, we can also gain more confidence with the reference of the experience and lessons from other people similar to us. 

In this spirit, I am pleased to present the first guest interview on No Language Barriers in 2024, with a Multilingual Connector who speak more than 10 language and to earn her place on this podcast, has re-established herself in several continents and cultural landscapes,  leveraged such experience to emerge as a career strategist and panellist as a recent migrant in Australia. She is Bonnie Chi.

Bonnie is a devoted Compliance and Risk Management professional with 7 years of steadfast experience in combating Financial Crime. She’s now working as an Associate Director at NAB & focusing on their Third-party service suppliers’ compliant in Cyber security. She is driven to uplift our next-gen workforce and amplify barefoot kick-starters’ inner strength and potential – as an emerging, unconventional Career Strategist.     

Facing countless rejections and visa hurdles when she returned to Australia in 2017 for her second master degree, indeed it took a long way for her to bounce back stronger in resilience, to establish her career foundation and head towards where she landed today. Proudly and humbly flourishing in adversity and striving to set a precedent, Bonnie first set her foot at the doorstep with a Big 4 bank by simply knocking on doors. (whilst still on Student Visa)

Being able to elicit convos in 13 languages,  Her intercultural intelligence has definitely done her favour to brighten up people’s lives with her animated interpersonal personality while blending in the neighbourhood & community; can’t wait to see where this unconventional path would lead Bonnie to her next exciting destinations.

In this episode, we’ll discover how Bonnies rides the wave of confidence as she keeps rising up to new challenges in a foreign context:

And so much more. Keep listening

If you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with someone you know who wants to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please send me a message on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector until the next episodes there is reveal secrets to having no language barriers. Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠

Did you know you’re 90% likely to FAIL at your 2024 goals around networking/connecting even if you stick to your daily English learning routine and/or attend events regularly? You can still fail at your New Year’s resolutions like the majority even if you take consistent action, if you do not know what you should work on and how to work smarter. Listen till the end to find how you may discover your best strategy to fulfill your goals in English this year.

Thank you for supporting No Language Barriers in 2023 which has inspired global audience from 5 continents and 20 countries within 4 months! To supercharge your progress in 2024, I'd like give you 5 secret weapons from 5 of the top played episodes on No Language Barriers this year. Listen in!

If you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with someone you know who wants to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please send me a message on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector until the next episodes there is reveal secrets to having no language barriers. Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠

“One of the gifts in the conversation I have with people is NOT the destination I want to get to……” ----- Charles Liang

Are you under pressure to participate in networking this side Christmas and the new year, ? are you also already making a plan for the coming year where you wish to be more active, more engaged and more effective in networking so that you can gain something from your commitments, such as insights, knowledge and potentially introductions and referrals? 

While the episode name might make you believe we are going provide pro tips for you to accelerate conversational skills in the interest of converting opportunities, I’d like remind you that whilst networking and conversations can be approached as a means to the end, not all means are the same, just like there are faster routes and ways to get to Rome. For us to map out and embark on the paths from conversations to destinations in a cross-cultural and cross disciplinary context, we need far more than language skills and industry knowledge, and this is what I shed light on in the remainder of my latest interview with Charles Liang

Bringing his cross-disciplinary talent , Charles currently serves on the Victorian committee of the Australia-China Young Professionals Initiative, the premier platform connecting young professionals and entrepreneurs  in the Australia-China space. There, he has moderated a diverse array of English panels across numerous industries  to engage with the Australia-China relationship. (Follow Charles on ⁠LinkedIn⁠)

Further to the speaking and conversations technique in the previous episode, we will unveil the other ingredients for conversations to the destination of connecting: 

- Why are conversations orientations rather than destinations

- Strategies to request for favours

- The importance of accountability in speaking and networking 

- How to evaluate networking experience for continuous improvement

And so much more. Keep listening

If you’ve been inspired by you’ve listen to, please share it with someone you know who wants to build more meaningful connections and convert opportunities in foreign language. If this is also what YOU to achieve for yourself, please send me a message on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, I’m @daisywu.multilingualconnector until the next episodes there is reveal secrets to having no language barriers. Get a copy of my award-winning book:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.multilingualconnectors.com/book-collection-1⁠