The Wisdom Archiver

Have you ever felt like you don’t know what to do in life? Actually we have that feeling every once in a while and it holds us back. Your thoughts open opportunities and set you up for the journey that you want to take.  If your thoughts are scrambled, then they are holding you back, hence you’re going nowhere. Without clarity, satisfaction in life decreases and complacency sets in.

In this podcast, Peng shares his stories and the wisdom he gained throughout his career and personal life. One of the biggest advice he gave was to have clarity in what you do and that leads to you redefining the meaning of work.

"Traditional definition of retirement is very dangerous...you work 30-40 years and then you stop and that is retirement. There is enough data to tell you that if you did that you die quickly after that."

Peng T. Ong is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia.

Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Encentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.

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In the fast-changing world of digitalization, competition, and pandemic, many people suffer from increased levels of stress and frustration as the demand to keep pace with the change is even greater. The pressures of these demands are so immense that many are left burnt out and mentally fatigued. As the world is changing, people’s internal minds are also becoming more complex. There is an increased desire to align meaning and purpose with their career and there is a desire to reconnect with self and with others. In this podcast, Brian shares his philosophy and framework on how to live mindfully. He also shares his wisdom that is practical that can be applied to help us immediately.

"Mindfulness - it's being present in the moment without having yourself there...when we are paying enough attention in to what it is that we are doing and we are paying less and less attention what we think and what we are."

As the founder of the Asian Leadership Institute, Brian Bauerle has over 40 years’ experience working in Asia with multinational and family-run companies. He has been instrumental in creating ALI’s unique core competence in mindfulness-based leadership transformation. Brian trained as a professional psychotherapist, earning a postgraduate fellowship in psychoanalysis from the prestigious Menninger Foundation in the United States. He has also held faculty positions at major universities in both the US and Australia.

Five years spent as a monk in Tibet and Thailand gave Brian a deep experiential understanding of the fundamentals and essence of mindfulness training. He uses this unusual experience in a practical, yet provocative way that directly applies to business.

He has worked closely with a wide variety of corporate and governmental institutions to design and implement strategies for organizational and personal change. In recent years, he has focused more of his time working with large Asian family-run businesses, where family dynamics play a new and challenging role in the transformational process. His success derives from his practical awareness, his extensive experience with business, and the wise, intuitive counsel he provides to his clients. He enjoys a regular meditation and yoga practice and continues a lifelong tradition of social work with his support for an orphanage on the Thai / Burmese border named Schools of Hope.

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A highly successful and respected leader in the business world, a loving husband and a father, a thoughtful mentor for many young entrepreneurs, and an avid world traveler, Gregory Crichton joins us here to share his wisdom. Hear his story from his risk-taking decision to move to Asia since he was young to his thoughts on successful marriages. Listen in to hear his many advice on life, marriage, work, leadership, and investing.

Greg is for many years an independent non-executive director of a Hong Kong listed company.  He has held numerous directorships in various entities and countries including American International Assurance Co., Ltd. (AIA) and continues to work in the insurance industry. He served as President Commissioner of an Indonesian life insurance company and was an advisor to a successful Singapore reinsurance start-up, as well as serving on the Inland Revenue Board of Review and other bodies. He is currently a non-executive director and advisor of a major international insurer and sits on a number of related committees; he is also the managing director of a corporate services trust licensed Asian company.

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You can find Greg on LinkedIn. Like this podcast? Find more wisdom at The Wisdom Archiver.