#TheLearningPodcast

Feeling immensely GRATEFUL to have had the opportunity to have a podcast with the GOAT of investing - Adam Khoo. Most people know him for his investing/finance content, I only recently discovered he was very involved in the field of self-improvement/NLP education space 10-15 years ago.

BIG THANKS to Chloe for coming on this podcast! If you're in Singapore you'd probably have seen her YouTube ads from The Next Level - her journey to become what she's doing is pretty inspiring! From learning english as a teenager, hosting webinars with hundreds of people teaching options trading, to building her own private community of investors - her career journey is definitely much exciting than mine haha.

Big thanks to Andy for agreeing to start this informal podcast where we talk about anything and everything in our lives; self-improvement, investing, relationship, career tips etc. 

Here's 6 things we collectively wish we knew at 20!   Hope its somehow useful to someone out there! :)

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The #Learning Podcast is a Singaporean Podcast dedicated to learning new from guests that comes on this show! If you're interested to join me, email me at [email protected] or reach me at any of my socials!

What is worth spending your entire life savings on?

For epic entrepreneurs like Damian Chow, it was his company

Had the  privilege to catch-up with him over a podcast session, where he shares his entrepreneurship journey in starting several businesses, one of which was even acquired/sold off, even eventually creating The Gym Pod, Singapore's first 24 hours automated container smart gym which gives you an undisturbed and private workout at any time of your choosing.

On a separate note, I've never seen any founders like him who managed to convince his employees to work more than a month without any pay; a true testament to exceptional EQ abilities - many crazy entrepreneurial stories in this podcast - WORTH A LISTEN!

Damn I'm inspired, BACK TO WORK!

Questions are from a study by psychologist Arthur Aron (and others) that explores if intimacy between 2 strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of questions. There are a total of 36 questions in the study - this podcast only covers 12 out of the 36 questions. There may be a part II and III to this podcast series. Big thanks to Hazel for doing this podcast session with me :) 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html

Had the biggest privilege to have Jansen Ko on a podcast session! He is the co-founder of Boulder Movement, a Singapore-based rock climbing gym that currently has 3 outlets around the island.  

He shares his journey during his junior college days being obsessed about rock climbing, being involved in several businesses as a franchisee, and eventually starting Boulder Movement - it is the best rock climbing gym I’ve ever been to.   

Jansen strikes me as a humble individual who is dedicated to perfecting his craft of managing a business - though it’s not really part of the podcast (since he wrote it in his Medium article), my biggest takeaway is the following phrase from one of his articles;  The first rule of CEO psychological meltdown is to not talk about CEO psychological meltdown.  

It is crazy to think that businesses can lose tens of thousands of dollars every single month when sports facilities were recently forced to close due to COVID-restrictions. While things are getting better now, I can’t imagine how tough it is to swallow that loss of cash flow for consecutive months - this podcast gives a 0.01% peek into it is.  Definitely check this podcast out!  

*On a separate note, go and check on their YouTube channel! It’s awesome for anyone new to rock climbing!!

Big thanks to Xiao for sharing her experience about the sports franchise business at F45, WeChat marketing, and family in this podcast!  It shares her journey of how she turned her hatred as an engineering student to being a self-taught piano tutor, doing husband-prospecting and starting a WeChat TikTok marketing agency. She also talks about how life is like being involved in the Sports Franchise Business at F45, a fitness training company. 

This is no doubt one of the most refreshing podcasts I've ever done. Most guests, including myself, tend to have a filter on podcasts as it's a fairly public forum to express one's opinion; Xiao doesn't hold back and it's so refreshing to hear someone speak authentically to what she truly believes in. 

She shares many crazy stories on using marketing tactics on WeChat, leveraging peculiar marketing messaging such as high divorce rates etc - I definitely took away the lesson of being more thick-skinned from her in being more upfront with what I want whether in relationships, sales or life :)  If you're interested in the Sports Franchise Business, WeChat Marketing, or Sales, this podcast is definitely worth the listen!

Had the big privilege to have Rae on a podcast session - she's an entrepreneur, speaking coach, and emcee!   

Mentorship and coaching are the central themes of this podcast - I've always regarded market forces to be the best forms of mentorship when it comes to one's entrepreneurial endeavors but am usually skeptical when it comes to mentorship primarily because of the uneven value-exchange between the mentor and mentee -  this podcast sheds more light on that and I definitely see the value in learning from people who're much more experienced in life. 

If you're ever interested to learn more about the coaching industry and perhaps engage one yourself, I'm sure this podcast will be helpful :)

Really enjoyed in conversation with Chela who's currently an undergraduate from the Nanyang Technological University Business School - was connected to her via an agency to share the impact of how important English is, on behalf of the Speak Good English Movement here in Singapore. 

She shares her story on how it's like growing up in Singapore as a Korean and how she utilized social media in helping her dad's hawker business during the circuit breaker period. The hawker business is something that I don't have a clear understanding of and this conversation definitely sheds more light on the realities of how tough it is to run an F&B business.