Transformative Purpose with Aaron Pang

If you're here for the first time, welcome! This short episode explains why I do what I do. If you are looking for inspiration, positivity and new knowledge to start your week, you've come to the right place. Each week, we tab into the stories behind some of the world's most successful people and unsung heroes, to understand what made them who they are. Our mission is to build a global community to spread love, positivity and inclusion, to inspire all of us to become a better future-self.

To learn more about us, please visit our website at https://www.transformativepurpose.com/

From the author of Unstuck, Aaron was emotionally stuck after a life lesson that happened in April 2019. He founded Transformative Purpose, a media and education platform to share inspiration and ideas, and help people become better at what they do. TP is a top 3% globally ranked Apple podcast. Previous guests include global CEO and entrepreneurs, scientists, psychologists, Olympian and professional athletes, authors, coaches, parents and many more.

For more inspiration and ideas, check out:

• Self-help book - Unstuck on Amazon
• Transformative Journal on Amazon
• Become a speaker
• Contact us for workshops
• Sponsor our epsidoe

Stephen Wong sits down with Aaron Pang to talk about how we can build better communities and businesses through design thinking. 

Stephen is the former CEO of Asia Miles. He is using big data, design thinking, innovation and technology for his two social enterprises, me2you and newgig.me Stephen is a household name in Asia when it comes to design thinking, one of the early pioneers who brought design thinking into Hong Kong. He and his team had to oversee 10 million customers and 700 business partners in the ecosystem when he was the former CEO at Asia Miles.

Ricky Cheung joins with Aaron Pang to share how Rosewood builds a purposeful workforce through The Calling and relationship hospitality.  We will explore a wide range of topics such as the importance of looking after humans and their feelings as companies push towards digital, what the right culture in a business looks like and how Rosewood empowers their people to greet customers without giving them any operating manual / playbook, but still managed to impress Aaron with their above and beyond service!

Ricky currently looks after global talent acquisition for Rosewood Hotel Group, an international luxury hotel group.

May Tran, Founder of Parent Poppin and our guest for today’s episode, explains how their cafe helps supercharge young parents in Australia overcome the anxiety post-childbirth.

After a brief episode of postpartum anxiety and the associated treatment, May realized the experience had transformed her into a liberated and genuinely happy person. She discovered the need and power of holding open conversations around the same to help young parents begin a brand new chapter of their lives. Quitting her corporate life to switch to working with startups, May found herself aligned with her vision of building a rejuvenating environment for young parents, Parent Poppin.

Fion Leung chats with Aaron Pang about her decision to pivot from a full-time bank job to focus on her passion entirely, her journey co-founding Time Auction with her friend. Time Auction is an asset-light charity which has achieved 90,000 volunteering hours after 7 years of operation.
Fion is the CEO and co-founder of Time Auction. She used to work with a renowned investment bank before she turned full-time into her passion project and now a highly-regarded charity organization that advocates volunteerism. Time Auction has successfully made its presence reach nine countries worldwide.

Ashely Dudarenok joins with Aaron Pang to share her journey moving from Russia to China to pursue her studies and how the experience seeded her business career going forward. Ashley also discusses being a woman entrepreneur while explaining that the Chinese market has seen more businesswomen than many other countries in the world. She will also touch on insights about Chinese consumer behaviours, marketing in China and recent regulations facing internet companies.

Ashley founded two successful businesses - Alarice (social media agency) and ChoZan (training company).

Allan Zeman was born into a Jewish family in Regensburg, Germany; and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where his mother worked in a hospital.

When Zeman was seven years old, his father died. He started working at the age of ten. He dropped out of college, and by the age of nineteen, while working for a lingerie company, he had earned his first US$1 million.

Through Lan Kwai Fong Holdings Ltd, of which he is chairman, he drove the development of Lan Kwai Fong to be one of the most important bar and night life districts in Hong Kong. He is said to own 65 percent of the district's properties. In July 2003, Zeman was appointed by the then-Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Tung Chee-hwa, to become the chairman of Ocean Park. He managed to raise visitor numbers despite the opening of rival Hong Kong Disneyland. By 2007, Forbes magazine dubbed him “Hong Kong's Mouse Killer”. 

KEY QUESTIONS ASKED:
0:00 - Introduction
2:33 - My typical day
5:20 - How I keep track of different priorities
9:03 - Why I was late for a meeting with George Bush
11:48 - Why I started work at age 9
14:26 - Being positive will get you ahead in life
17:00 - How I deal with challenges
27:38 - How I stayed ahead without technology enablers
33:49 - I look at things for what they could be

Sudesh Thevasenabathy joins with Aaron Pang to chat about societal conditioning of racial and gender stereotypes, existing discriminatory practices, first-hand examples of having experienced the same, teaching our kids inclusivity, and devising BOTTOM-UP inclusion and diversity practices in organizations. 

Despite the recent progress made by some organizations on the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) agenda,  our spearheaded efforts continue to be reactive , failing to create lasting effects in society. 
Sudesh is currently Head of Asia for DEI at Manulife.

Peter Birch joins with Aaron Pang to chat about how he successfully built a global healthcare community through his podcast. We explore the existing bottlenecks to intensifying Healthcare Technology in the APAC region and discover incredible ways to reinvent the healthcare industry there.

Peter has made it his passion to enable health tech change in Australia. Believing strongly that technology can be both the problem and solution, if technological tools aren't promptly integrated or interoperable, they would only aggravate the current issues. 

Peter is the founder and CEO of Talking HealthTech.