Playing The Inner Game

Rob Mills is an actor, performer, and born entertainer who's well known in Australia for his roles on stage in productions that include Jesus Christ Superstar, Ghost the Musical, Hairspray, and Wicked. Many will recognise him from his role as Finn Kelly on the popular television series, Neighbours, for which he won "Best Actor TV Soap Awards UK".

He is currently playing the role of William Shakespeare in the brilliant award-winning musical “& Juliet” (https://andjuliet.com.au/) which is now coming to Perth & Sydney.

Rob Mills first came to the attention of the Australian public in 2003 as a finalist on the first series of Australian Idol. With his boyish charm and a successful national Idol Tour, he was signed to BMG records.

Rob’s first single 'Ms Vanity' debuted at #6 on the Australian charts, reaching Gold status. His debut album Up All Night was released in June 2004.

Rob and Michael met in Singapore in October 2023 to discuss:
- Relationships
- The perils of early fame
- Self-confidence & self-worth
- Finding himself in musical theatre
- Happiness & lowering your expectations
- Notions of masculinity & men's mental health
- Speaking to mates vs speaking to a psychotherapist
- His latest book 'Putting on a Show: Manhood, Mates, & Mental Health'

Guest: Rob Mills
Website: https://www.robmills.net.au/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-suhina-singh/
Instagram: @robmillsymills
Buy the Book: Putting on a Show - Mates, Manhood & Mental Health

Host: Michael X. Campion
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Michaelxcampion

Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Keynote Speaker please email the address below.
Coaching & Speaking Enquiries: [email protected]

Medical Doctor. Model. Miss South Africa Finalist. Entrepreneur. Healthcare Strategist. Executive MBA. Investor. Chronic Disease Warrior. Fashion Blogger.

My guest, Dr Suhina Singh has worn more than a few hats in her career thus far, but her current hat as co-founder of Jonda Health is the one she was truly meant to wear.

We discuss her past adventures and how she found her calling. In this wide-ranging conversation we cover:

- Growing up the odd one out
- Reluctantly entering the world of fashion and modelling
- Is there a tax on attractiveness?
- Her most painful moments as a doctor
- Leaving the medical profession
- The new lease of life her INSEAD Executive MBA gave her
- Finding her way back to herself
- Why everyone loses in the current healthcare system
- The ups and downs of entrepreneurship
- Daily habits and words to live by
- Plus much more

I hope you enjoy this raw and unedited conversation as much as I did.

Guest: Dr Suhina Singh
Website: https://www.jonda.health/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-suhina-singh/
Instagram: @luxitgirl

Playing The Inner Game Podcast: Hosted by Michael Campion
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
https://linktr.ee/Michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Keynote Speaker please email the address below.
Coaching & Speaking Enquiries: [email protected]

*Aside from the 60 second introduction, this episode of the podcast is a raw and unedited version of my conversation with Philipp Knuepfer, General Manager of the Mandarin Oriental, Singapore. As time passes and the longer the podcast goes on, I sense that there is a universal desire for greater authenticity.  Sharing our conversation in its entirety, imperfections and all, should bestow a more natural sense of being a fly on the wall.  This will also be the first episode of Playing The Inner Game to be released as a video podcast on YouTube, which hopefully adds even further to the sense of connection between speaker and listener...*

Philipp has been with Mandarin Oriental Group for over 20 years, taking up leadership positions in Hawaii, Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, USA, and Singapore. He generously shares with us his principles on leadership, service standards and hospitality, the importance of choosing the right life partner, following your gut instincts, going against your father's wishes, and how happiness, positivity, and career success are ultimately a choice you make.  I hope that you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

P.S. If you enjoyed this you may also enjoy Episode 13 with CEO of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, James Riley.

Guest: Philipp Knuepfer
Website: https://www.mandarinoriental.com/en/singapore/marina-bay
Instagram: @philippknuepfer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-knuepfer-mba-22437014/

Playing The Inner Game Podcast:
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Keynote Speaker please email the address below.
Coaching & Speaking Enquiries: [email protected]

*This episode first appeared on the Eurasian Society podcast and sees Michael Campion step in as guest host. 

Sophia Hotung's family were trailblazers in this city; her great great Grandfather Sir Robert Hotung being the first one to really pave the way for Eurasians in society during a time of racial segregation in HK. Naturally, we touch upon some of that fascinating history but we also wanted to ensure that we captured the present and did justice to Sophia’s journey, because she is an inspiration to many and a very talented artist and writer in her own right.

Sophia is the illustrator behind 'The Hong Konger' and we talk about dropping out of the corporate rat race early, the struggle of entrepreneurship against the backdrop of her 7 (yes 7) autoimmune diseases. We discuss Eurasian identity, disability, and belonging. We talk about the pressures of tiger parenting, societal scorekeeping, self-esteem, and thus the importance of keeping something sacred. Having a hobby or passion that is yours, that nobody else can touch. We end the podcast on some principles and inspirational words to live by.

Sophia is wonderfully articulate with a lovely turn of phrase, and I felt that throughout the entirety of our chat there was a great generosity of spirit. She shares things openly because she believes it will help motivate, illuminate, or open doors for others, and the world needs more people like that. I hope that you enjoy this wide-ranging conversation as much as I did.
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The Eurasian Society is a charity that aims to promote and improve the lives of Eurasians through awareness, education and opportunity. To provide scholarships and funding to the most vulnerable members of our community. Follow Eurasian Society:

Website: https://eurasiansociety.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eurasiansociety/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eurasiansocietyhk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurasian-society/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eurasiansociety/

Guest: Sophia Hotung
Website: https://www.sophiahotung.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiahotung/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shotung/

Host: Michael X Campion
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Guest Speaker please email the address below.
Email for Coaching & Speaking Enquiries: [email protected]

My guest today is Chris Lowder, the Co-founder of Lowder Tascarella Hospitality ( or LTH for short). Chris is one of the world’s most sought-after talents in corporate and multi-venue luxury bar consulting and LTH deliver thoughtful hospitality for the modern era. Helping property owners to program, open & operate profitable, memorable, and socially significant hospitality destinations. Some of his happy clients include: The Four Seasons Hotels, Leading Hotels of the World (LHW), Swire Hotels, Accor Hotels China, Aman Hotels, Capella Hotels, Starbucks China, DisneyLand China,  ABINbev etc.

During his nearly 5-year tenure as GM of Proof & Company in China, Proof’s consulting team placed at least 2-3 creative projects in the World's 50 Best Bars every year, and 5-8 creative projects in Asia’s 50 Best Bars every year. No other beverage consulting team on Earth has ever achieved this level of sustained excellence. Did I also mention that he’s also ridiculously fluent in both Mandarin and Japanese and over the last few months has been absolutely blowing up on TikTok. 

Despite our paths crossing in the wine and spirits world, this episode and this show is never really about one specific industry, it’s about one’s inner game,, it’s about how lessons and principles learned in a field can be transferred and applied elsewhere, and Chris’ incredibly diverse range of hard-won skills and life experiences create a rich tapestry full of interesting threads to pull on. When you marry intellectual curiosity and intellect, with the work ethic of an athlete, and the creativity of an artist, this is what you get. You get the vortex of positive energy that is Chris Lowder and the next 90 minutes are full of great soundbites and ‘cheat codes’ for life that anyone can apply to make themselves happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser. 

Links:
LTH Hospitality
https://linktr.ee/GetLowderNow
IG: @getlowdernow
TikTok: @getlowdernow
My personal favourite TikTok of his (time to get educated!)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-lowder-00887030/
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Mentions:
Momofuku by David Chang
The NoMad Hotel NYC
Proof & Co & Jason Williams
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat
Derek Sivers on The Tim Ferriss Show
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Host: Michael X Campion
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Keynote Speaker please email the address below.
[email protected]

Took a little break.

Moved from Hong Kong to Singapore.

At long last, the podcast returns.

Next episode dropping in 24 hours...

Preview of the Eurasian Society Podcast, Ep 6 - Listen here on Spotify
Website: https://eurasiansociety.com/

Guest: Sophia Hotung
Website: https://www.sophiahotung.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiahotung/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shotung/

Host: Michael X Campion
Homepage: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion

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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Keynote Speaker please email the address below.
[email protected]

My guest is Vishal Tolani, CEO of Dartmouth Brands. He’s helped bring multiple watch brands into the world under the Dartmouth umbrella such as Spinnaker, Avi-8 and Earnshaw. As well as playing in the world of brands, he’s also deeply embedded in the watch industry as a second-generation manufacturer.

Vishal and I talk about what it means to be made in Hong Kong, what keeps him up at night as the custodian of the family business, and how he hopes it will one day live on without him. We discuss what goes into creating that beautiful combination of art and engineering that resides on your wrist, and in a time when (thanks to mobile phones) the idea of timekeeping is more emotional than essential, we discuss the primacy of storytelling and brand-building in order to infuse a product with real heart.

We also talk about the positive side-effects of the advancing years, the peace that comes with it, as well as how he finds inspiration in the people all around him. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Links:
https://www.dartmouthbrands.co.uk/
[email protected]

Host: Michael Campion
Coach & Speaker Profile: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Guest Speaker please email the address below.
[email protected]

I'll continue to share these shorter soundbites, in-between regular guest episodes, in the hope that some of you find them valuable.

- The true value of a career break / sabbatical / gap year
- The struggle and what gives life meaning
- Consequential environments
- Living a self-authorised life
- What to teach children

Home of the podcast:
Coaching & Speaker Profile: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion

Sean Carter is the founder and Design Director at Carter Hales Design Lab. Sean’s an extremely talented graphic designer that’s been in the agency game for 30 years now and someone whose creativity and eye for detail that I really respect. Full disclosure, there will always be a part of me that is heavily indebted to Sean because he is the beating heart of the team that helped us create Four Fox Saké when it was still embryonic. I’ve had the pleasure of spending time at the design lab in Vancouver, and we also stood side by side on stage in Shanghai as we collected the award for “Best Luxury Alcohol Packaging Design in the World” back in 2016. This is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for a long time, life got in the way, but I’m very happy that we got there in the end.

If you work in the fields of design, branding and marketing then the benefits of tuning in are obvious, but even if you aren’t involved in these worlds, there’s plenty in here to chew on with regards to creativity, self-expression, the relationship between commercial growth and personal growth, the trials and tribulations of entrepreneurship (he is after all someone who has been eating what he kills ever since he left university), and why it’s imperative to take some risks, and stay out of the safe and mushy middle.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Links:
https://carterhales.com/ 
LinkedIn: @sean-carter

Mentions:
Four Fox Saké
The Wickaninnish Inn 

Host: Michael Campion
Coach & Speaker Profile: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Guest Speaker please email the address below.
[email protected]

My guest today is the inimitable Andrew Cox. He and I have known each other for a little while now and I’ve always admired his energy, enthusiasm, and zest for life which is also backed up with a great breadth and depth of knowledge, especially when it comes to the realm of health and fitness.

He is a director and co-founder of Joint Dynamics, a multidisciplinary studio that provides a bespoke approach to injury prevention, combining personal training, physiotherapy, massage therapy, and psychology with intelligent movement at its core.

We discuss the secret to his energy levels and what allows him to motivate his clients, some biohacking tips for better physical and mental health, the magic of reciprocity and what he calls ‘selfish benevolence’, the importance of playing to your strengths, of surrounding yourself with good people, principles for business and negotiation, and as you’ve just heard, why we all need a healthy amount of stress in our lives.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Links:
https://www.jointdynamics.com.hk/
Facebook: @jointdynamicshongkong
IG: Andrew Cox Movement Medicine

Host: Michael Campion
Website: www.michaelxcampion.com
LinkedIn: @michaelxcampion
IG: @michaelxcampion
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Michael Campion is a Corporate Trainer, Career Coach, and Entrepreneur based between Singapore and Hong Kong. If you are looking for an Executive Coach or Guest Speaker please email the address below.
[email protected]