Ever thought about building a career overseas? Listen to this conversation with Karen Loon, a Non-Executive Director and former Partner at PwC Singapore.

Karen has over 30 years of deep, cross-cultural experience working with local, regional and multinational organisations across the Asia Pacific, particularly in Australia and Singapore. As a 4th generation Australian Born Chinese, she is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace and utilising diverse talent for business success.

This podcast episode touches on:

· Karen's journey from Australia to Singapore

· Career advice for young professionals

· Workplace Diversity & Inclusion

· Utilising Australia's diaspora and expat communities

· Australian companies expanding to Asia

In this episode we speak to Samantha Low on what it's like living and working in Japan.

Formerly based in Sydney, Sam is now a Tokyo based Senior Account Manager at Critical Mass, a digital experience design agency. Find out more about her journey on her website, where she regularly blogs about her life in Japan at http://www.samanthawxlow.com/

Topics covered in this episode:

· When and why did you come to Japan. How did you get a job?

· Is Japanese fluency essential?

· How to build a professional career in Japan (outside of teaching English)?

· What is working culture like?

Emma Lo Russo believes that in order to become truly successful, you have to take big risks, and that was exactly what she did a decade ago. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Digivizer, Emma has led the digital analytics company from being a start-up to now having over 50 employees globally across 14 countries. Emma is also the CEO and Founder of goto.game, a leading data-driven agency and destination for all things gaming and esports, which she founded in 2017.

In this interview, Emma shares with us how she took a leap of faith by stepping out of the corporate world to start her own business in a male-dominated industry. She also discusses the importance in knowing your worth and the value you can add to your organisation in order to help you make that leap.

More about Emma Lo Russo

Emma won Carnegie's Den in 2014, is a Portfolio CEO for Heads Over Heels since 2015, received the AGSM Anita Prabhu Women Leaders in Business Award for entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and business acumen in 2015, won the Pearcey Foundation Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award for NSW 2016, the ACS CXO Disruptor of the Year in 2018 and received an ACS award for Thought Leadership in 2019. She holds an MBA from the AGSM UNSW, and has completed further education in Leadership and Negotiation with Harvard University.

Feel free to connect with Emma via her social media:

Twitter: @EmmaLoRusso @Digivizer

LinkedIn: emmalorusso https://www.linkedin.com/company/digivizer/

Facebook: emma.lorusso https://www.facebook.com/Digivizer/

Instagram: @emmalorusso @digivizer

Web: emmalorusso.com digivizer.com goto.game

In this episode, Jeffery speaks to Alexandra Egan, a communications mentor and coach, a straight shooter that gets results .

Alex came to Australia as a 5-year old with her Greek migrant parents. As a child, she struggled to communicate across language and cultural barriers. That made her acutely aware of the need to communicate authentically so she can build fulfilling relationships. It also inspired her journey into becoming the brilliant communicator she is today.

She specialise in communications under pressure in extremely challenging circumstance. With over 30+ years' experience working with prisoners, victims of crime, witness protection and the like, she understands that managing communications is the most effective way to avoid a crisis.

www.alexandraegan.com.au

01:50 Arriving as a child of Greek migrants and her struggle to communicate across language and cultural barriers

03:30 The language barriers made Alex especially adapt at communicating non-verbally

05:20 Being told by migrant parents to suppress herself in order to fit in

08:40 Discovering her Greek culture allowed her to find her voice

13:10 Why do we need good communications skills to be happy

18:50 Example of how our environment affects our self talk

22:00 Why some people's struggle with communications is a psychological one

26:30 Alex sharing her traumatic experience of the hopelessness she felt when she couldn't communicate authentically

32:10 Communication is the key to solving many psychological problems

37:10 Communications is what gives people hope

39:40 How to reverse the psychology of people who believe they can't communicate well?

We talk to Oliver Blain who has over 20 years of experience in Leadership positions, managing over 200+ staff for enterprise organisations and get his thoughts on what values, traits and behaviours he looks for in potential leaders.

He also gives his recommendations on how to put yourself in a better position to get into a leadership role.

Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist. His pioneering behavioural economics research on the confluence of demographic change associated with Millennials, and digital technology, have influenced the way we think about our social, cultural, economic and technological future.

As a media commentator, his unique insights have featured on SKY Business News, The Australian Financial Review, ABC Radio National, The Economist, Forbes and Bloomberg. As an international keynote speaker, his presentations have captivated audiences across Asia Pacific, the USA and Europe including Mobile World Congress. As a thought-leader, over 150 boards and leadership teams, including Fortune 100 corporations, each year seek his advice on strategy.

Listen to Rocky's unique insights on:

•Predicting the future of Australia in this coming decade

•Exploring the attitudinal shifts among Australian professionals

•Effects of digital transformation on our lives

•How to best prepare yourself for change

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More about Rocky Scopelliti:

In an executive capacity, he is a member of the Optus Business Leadership team as the Director, Centre for Industry 4.0 where he leads the specialist team creating world-class thought-leadership and innovation on the 4th Industrial Revolution.

In a non-executive capacity, he is a director on the board of Community First Credit Union, on the technology advisory board for REST Super, member of the Australian Payments Council and on the advisory boards of SP Jain School of Global Management and Wake by Reach.

Educated in Australia and trained in the USA at Sydney and Stanford Universities respectively, he has a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management and an MBA. He is also a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Discover ground breaking insights from research in Rocky's book titled 'Australia 2030! - Where the bloody hell are we?

His new Australian-first book, is a fascinating window into Australian professionals sentiment about the decade ahead, based on a major study conducted before and during the eye of the COVID-19 storm. His other book 'Youthquake 4.0 - A Whole Generation and The New Industrial Revolution' has now being translated into Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian and Chinese languages.

Buy the book HERE.

In this final episode, Shayney and Patrick explain the importance of the recruitment function within a business and what value they add.

They also talk about how to approach a common, simple question asked in an interview, what the underlying message is and what it reveals about your motivations.

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In this episode, we speak to Gina Mitchell about the importance of women's health and well-being, inside and outside of work. Together we explored some of the common concerns women have, including a discussion on menopause, an often overlooked career challenge. Gina also shares practical tips on how to best deal with life stresses for women, having experienced many of it herself.

About Gina Mitchell

Gina was previously a scientist with over 30 years of experience teaching as a secondary-school science teacher.

Now she is a certified Life Coach, certified NLP Practitioner, Matrix therapist and Hypnotherapist.

With almost a decade's worth of experience with coaching and empowering executive women to reach their full potential and life goals, she has shared all her insights on the topic in her best-selling book, 'Ignite the Spark'.

Feel free to contact her via her social media:

www.midlifecoachingforwomen.com.au

www.gcmitchell.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-mitchell1958/

You can purchase her book here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Ignite-Spark-Strategies-Reinventing-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00QVB9O5E

Themes

•Opening the menopause conversation

•Empowering lifestyle changes to make today

•Ways to help women better cope with life stresses

•Tips for professional women

Time Stamps

01:20 Her career as a life coach for executive women

08:25 Menopause explained

13:40 Raising awareness about menopause

18:06 Common concerns women have

21:00 Use of hormonal therapy

23:15 Lifestyle changes for you to make and tips for professional women

28:30 Setting strong work-life boundaries

In this episode, we speak with Kimberley Lee about going through rough patches and when we need to seek help.

As a trained counsellor, Kimberley helps people to have more honest conversations. Both with themselves and those around them. She works with Rough Patch, a social enterprise that aims to make counselling affordable for everyone.

As a certified meditation teacher, she helps people release stress and fatigue from their body, mind, and soul.

As a freelance communications consultant with a background in PR and social media, she helps people with storytelling, copywriting, stakeholder engagement, brand and reputation management.

At one point or another in your career, you may have to front the media.

But how many of us are properly trained to communicate effectively and get the desired message across with authenticity?

As a veteran of the media industry, Ky's focus is on simple ideas and techniques that work, not a myriad of tips that desert you when the studio lights go on. The objective is to help you present the best version of yourself, so you don't have to worry about trying to be someone you're not.

About Ky Chow:

Ky has 10+ years at elite media outlets such as the ABC, Fairfax and Sky News, as both an interviewing journalist and an interviewed guest commentator. He has powerful and up-to-date expertise in how to make your media appearances effective.

Yet Ky has experience well beyond working in communications. His years in product management, marketing and compliance consulting at KPMG, Macquarie Bank and CommSec means he understands business in a way many journalists never can.

Ky Chow's social media:

https://www.kychow.com/presenter-mc

https://au.linkedin.com/in/kychow

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