The Kevin Shee Show

If you're a leader, a big part of your job is getting people to do important things. Maybe it's getting your team to follow your strategy, getting customers to buy more, or getting your stakeholders to support you. But sometimes you can't get people to do those important things, and sometimes that's a big problem. And when it's a big problem, Jamie Dixon is here to help you. He is a coach, facilitator and author of "The Story Habit - How Leaders Shape Stories That Drive Action".

Jamie has worked with leaders in over 160 multinational companies over the last 10 years. He is an IAC certified coach, a Tiny Habits coach and a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centred Certified Coach.

Links:

• Shaping Paths
• Amazon Author | Jamie Dixon

Show Notes:

• 00:26 – How was your covid-19 lockdown experience in Shanghai?
• 01:29 – How did you end up in China?
• 04:10 – How did you transition from an English Teacher to a Leadership Coach?
• 08:55 – Can you tell us a little bit about your first book?
• 13:44 – How did this first book open new doors for you?
• 16:31 – What got you started on writing the second book?
• 20:52 – Can you tell us about your last book and how it has helped transform leaders ?
• 26:00 – Is this formula good for influencing people?

Sam Marks, co-founder and host of Invest Like A Boss Podcast, and self made millionaire through investments, joins me in Japan and we discuss why it is so traveler unfriendly, amongst catching up as we haven't seen each other for quite some time.

Links:

• Invest Like A Boss

Show Notes:

• 00:33 – Why Japan difficult for foreigners to travel within
• 05:15 – How I became semi-fluent in Japanese.
• 09:14 – How did we get into biking?
• 11:23 – What impressed Sam about Japan?
• 16:55 – Why i wouldn't move to Japan
• 18:43 – We talk about my Bali residence and how I got to purchase it?
• 25:51 – Why is Sam so impressed with Dubai?
• 28:33 – What the current state of self storage is
• 38:49 – My plan to open more properties in Hong Kong and abroad
• 42:00 – What is Sam's plan for 2023?

Jon Goodall, who has worked in Silicon Valley over a decade and is the founder of chatback.com, a messaging Omani chat software for school and hotels.

He just started a new NFT venture call Niftopia and is here to discuss the future of NFT and Web3

Links:

• Niftopia.me

Show Notes:

• 00:42 - Can you give us a little background of your employment?
• 02:26 - How did you get involved in the internet and computer industry?
• 06:33 - Tell us about Chatback.com?
• 11:44 - How did you get into crypto and NFTs ?
• 14:00 - What do you think about Bitcoin not being recognised by the government?
• 16:16 - What about the ease of use of Bitcoin?
• 20:05 - What about investing in NFTs and the Metaverse?
• 25:57 - What are the applications for buying an NFT?
• 30:19 - Can you tell us about Niftopia?
• 31:52 - How do you think crypto will change the business world in 5 years?

Steve Suh is an American Korean who came to Hong Kong with nothing but a dream and started Floship, a successful e-commerce logistic platform powering users of shopify and kickstarter.

Now he is reinventing himself again and moved to Columbia , to learn Spanish and look for opportunities in South America

Show Notes:

• 00:42 - What do you do and how did we meet?
• 02:10 - What is floship?
• 05:42 - Why are you in columbia?
• 08:40 - Did you consider copying successful businesses in North America to apply in Latin America ?
• 09:57 - How difficult is it to start a new business there?
• 13:54 - Do you find you need to be on site in the country or can you operate remotely?
• 17:09 - What kind of legacy has Pablo Escobar left in columbia?
• 22:19 - Are Asians considered easy targets to get robbed in South America?
• 27:48 - How are you socializing and meeting new people?
• 32:08 - Where do you see yourself in the next 2-3 years?

Alex Bodagnov is working as a project manager for a tech company. Before the Russian invasion, he was living a pretty active life in Kyiv, Ukraine. He used to go to the gym, attend different events and most importantly He had many friends. Now He is trying to understand what his next step should be since after Feb 24 his life turned upside down, with the invasion of Ukraine

Show Notes:

• 00:55 - What's happening in Kiev?
• 04:17 - How did you get out of the city?
• 06:47 - How did you get to the bomb shelter?
• 07:59 - Are they trying to take over the entire country or just a portion of Ukraine?
• 09:03 - How are you operating with banking as purchasing basic necessities?
• 09:56 - Have you ever had any military training?
• 11:36 - How do you think this will play out?
• 13:03 - What are some of the most shocking images in your mind right now?
• 15:28 - How much of a risk for a foreigner (American) to stay in Kiev?
• 18:56 - Is the "western media" reporting accurate?
• 20:30 - What's your mid-term plan?
• 21:33 - How do we pledge to support Ukraine?

Handi Kurniawan is a driving force to enable organisations and people to grow. He does it through his uniqueness and expertise in Learning, Leadership, Career Management, Business Management, Talent Management, Knowledge Management, Cross Cultural Management, Stakeholders engagement and strong People Management.

His career spanned over multiple geographies, and worked in 7 countries (Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, United States, and Taiwan) and he worked in some of the world's leading companies in various industries with both multinationals and conglomerates.

Links:

• Jardine Matheson
• Linked in : Handi Kurniawan

Show Notes:

• 00:36 - Can you tell us about your background?
• 03:48 - Why did you decide not to be an entrepreneur like other family members?
• 06:36 - How was your first Job at General Electric (GE)?
• 08:26 - What was the catalyst of GE's downfall?
• 11:50 - Why did you leave GE and where did you move to after?
• 13:45 - What do you like about Human Resources as compared to finance?
• 15:08 - What kind of skills do you develop while in HR?
• 17:48 - What do you suggest for employees who are in a "boring" business ?
• 21:03 - What do you teach to different employees?
• 23:53 - Would you recommend young adults to work for a company first or go straight into entrepreneuring?
• 26:06 - Are middle-aged employees at more risk of being replaced?
• 29:21 - Do you think employees should also make investments?

Bryan Clayton is the Co-Founder and CEO of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the "Uber for lawn care" by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 100,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal, Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc., one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee, growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan's interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurism, small business growth, marketing, and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

Links:

• GreenPal
• Bryan Clayton (@bryanmclayton)

Show Notes:

• 00:46 - Can you tell us about your background and how you got into landscaping?
• 02:46 - In your first business how did you separate from your competitors?
• 04:47 - Why did you decide to sell the business?
• 07:28 - What did you learn from selling the business?
• 10:02 - What then motivated you to start this new business?
• 12:50 - How tough was it to get started?
• 15:20 - What are the benefits of using your product instead of traditional methods?
• 20:12 - How do you stop the contractors from "Cutting out" you and working directly with the customers?
• 21:54 - What was the next challenge after scaling up with both customers and contractors?
• 24:44 - How did you learn about digital marketing?
• 27:25 - Are there plans to expand internationally?
• 28:35 - Do you have any regrets about not having any investors in your businesses?
• 30:45 - Any advice for entrepreneurs and startups?

Nike Anani is an entrepreneur and a Consultant. She was rated as a top-100 Family Business Consultant globally. She helps her clients bridge the gap between the senior and younger generations. As a result, they communicate, collaborate and collectively gain clarity, to increase profit and productivity in their family businesses.

Nike works privately with select business families. Nike's clients choose to engage her, not only because of her extensive professional training, but also because of her practical extensive experience (over a decade) as both a business founder and a NextGen. This allows her to uniquely empathise with both generations and act as a connector.

Nike is passionate about diversity, and celebrates the uniqueness in every individual, family and business. As such her approach is highly customized for each client and not cookie-cutter.

Links:

• Nike Anani | Award-Winning Family Business Strategist. Speaker. Author

Show Notes:

• 01:29 - Can you tell us about your background?
• 02:40 - Was there any pressure on you to carry on the family business?
• 06:00 - Did you have difficulties from staff and other family members taking over the family business?
• 09:01 - What are some of the leadership skills needed for a next generation leader?
• 12:15 - Can you give examples of how the drive has changed in the business?
• 15:22 - How do you keep in touch with the latest trend in technology?
• 16:35 - What common mistakes do you see a lot of next generation leaders make?
• 20:44 - How can you be a change creator in your business?
• 23:21 - How would you handle multiple siblings wanting to come into a family business?
• 26:44 - What is your passion for next generation leaders?
• 28:21 - What is your greatest wish for next generations at large?
• 29:02 - Has Covid-19 changed the family business world?

Kevin travels to Spain to have a sit down with "Serial entrepreneur" Raphael Dana. He talks about some of his previous businesses and then goes into detail of how he got involved in Africa and challenges with operating the business from overseas. He later offer advice to entrepreneurs based on his many years of experience.

Show Notes:

• 00:28 - Can you tell us about your background?
• 08:53 - How did you decide which country to start in Africa?
• 12:14 - What is your customer base right now?
• 12:45 - How do you manage the staff and company from around the world?
• 14:39 - What are the challenges with various currencies and languages in these countries?
• 15:52 - Are there any local tech companies?
• 18:07 - Do you see competition in your future?
• 19:12 - Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs?
• 21:06 - How was transportation done before any ride sharing apps in Togo?
• 22:07 - Do you see the business expanding beyond Africa?

"Authencious" Automation is about starting with understanding the operations of your business and moving towards the action of automation.

By doing this we can:

• Maintain the authentic way you show up for your clients as a human interacting with another human, and
• Increase your conscious awareness of what is going on in your business so you can make smart decisions about what to do next

If you understand your business then you have knowledge of what makes it "tick"

If you have knowledge then you have the confidence to delegate and automate.

That automation improves every part of how your business operates.

Links :

• "Authencious" Automation
• How to simply your business to 5 steps
• LinkedIn | Richard Schnitzel

Show Notes:

• 00:15 - Can you tell us about your background?
• 01:12 - How did you start out working in business automation?
• 03:20 - What different kinds of automation do you offer?
• 05:04 - Do you have a system which interacts based on KPI?
• 08:47 - How do you keep automation useful for not disingenuous?
• 10:41 - Besides customer acquisition, where else is automation useful?
• 12:47 - Do you think there is enough software out there that we can combine or should some companies build their own system?
• 16:19 - Can you describe a case study where you helped the company turn around through automation?
• 20:03 - Do you supply the programmers and codes for the software?
• 20:47 - Can all staff be replaced with automation?
• 23:23 - What do you think the world will become if everything becomes automated?
• 25:00 - Do you do personal matching with the data you collect?
• 26:49 - What is a cheap, efficient way to automate my business to be more efficient?
• 28:59 - Any off the shelf programmes or software you recommend?