Transformative Purpose with Aaron Pang

Alyn Mitlyng joins with Aaron Pang to discuss the limitation of traditional goal setting. She shares how she discovered the power of personal goals (she calls them DIRTY GOALS) and how dirty goals have helped her find meaning, fulfillment and happiness in life. Alyn also mentions we should all learn to be kind to everyone. When we are kind, people want to be around us.
Alyn is the author of Dirty Goals: Breaking Conventional Rules to Achieve Your Dreams and is currently based in Colorado.  To purchase a copy of her latest book, click here.

Selected as one of the Most Influential Negotiation Professionals Globally,  Lousin Mehrabi is an Inspirational Speaker, Trainer, and Board Advisor. She works with CEOs and decision-makers worldwide to help them get the best out of themselves and their teams. For over 23 years she has led high-stakes business negotiations. 
KEY QUESTIONS ASKED:
0:00 - Introduction
3:06 - How can women thrive in a male-dominated environment
5:20 - Being a female negotiator
7:10 - Covering up at work
7:54 - Do negotiators need to show vulnerability
9:43 - I found out my son has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
15:55 - How do we become better negotiator
18:17 - Should we hide our emotions when we are negotiating
20:58 - Negotiation stories
23:22 - Where can we learn more about negotiation
25:03 - How do you manage anxiety when you are negotiating
28:22 - One thing we can do to make our world better

Podcast veteran Regina Larko joins with Aaron Pang to talk about how we can use our voice to make global impact and save lives. Regina shares her humble upbringing, her podcasting journey, the occasional imposter syndrome she experiences and the importance for all of us to truly listen, become aware of those who are left behind. Regina lost two loved ones to mental health and that made her more determined than ever to make things rights: using her voice to make a better world.

Chhin Lee joins with Aaron Pang to talk about the common struggles behind parents and the key to maintaining relationships with our spouse. Parenting requires active communication, feedback with good intent and teamwork, listen in as Chhin shares her parenting journey, her hero, the conversations she had with other parents and how she and her spouse resolve the different challenges.
After a successful sales career, Chhin turned her parenting passion into her side hustle.  She became a socialpreneur and founded Little Monkey, Hong Kong’s first child-friendly facilities’ directory. 

Perry Lam sits down with Aaron Pang to discuss the power of storytelling and how it can be used to build relationships and humanity. Perry highlights the key elements of good storytelling to deliver the Contents, Context and Emotions and provides examples of where people tend to get it wrong.
"Never start with the S-word." That's a big no-no for storytelling.
Perry is the Founder and CEO of Lam Institute, an executive coach to CEOs and also trains young talents and TEDx speakers on storytelling. He was a Regional Director at DHL where he looked after all the country sales director in Asia Pacific and also launched DHL's first "Sales Force Academy and Leadership Center".

Waki Chuang joins with Aaron Pang to share his favourite books and why he thinks reading can help us build kindness, have an open attitude, provide us with a sense of serendipity and help us learn and develop a better version of us.
Waki is the founder of Reading Outpost 閱讀前哨站. A native Taiwanese and an avid reader who grew his email list from zero to more than 13,000 loyal followers in less than a couple of years.

Vincent Siu chats with Aaron Pang on how to make learning and education stick. He's going to share with us on the importance of reinforcing imagination with young children through analog play and and how parents, educators and leaders can make education and training more effective by making it fun. Vincent is the Founder and CEO of  Press Start Academy. 
Everyone loves having a little bit of fun.

Yifan He joins with Aaron Pang to talk about the progress of blockchain, how blockchain can improve society, issues with crypto-trading and his prediction of where blockchain is headed for the next ten years! Yifan is the CEO of Red Date Technology, the founding architect firm who built Blockchain Service Network (BSN).

Fyiona Yong chats with Aaron Pang on how to manage generational diversity and work through differences.  After a 14-year successful career at Shell, a Malaysian Chinese who grew up in Germany named Fyiona told her dad she wanted to leave her job and pursue something of her own. Her father said to her at lunch, "why do you millennials all like to chase after your dream!" Fyiona was intrigued by the question.  Through this discovery and conversation, she found out the crazy adventure that her father once did when he was 19 years old.
Fyiona is an intergenerational leadership coach. She works with leaders and young talents to help them understand each other better. Different generations have more similarities than you think.
Are we listening to understand or listening to respond and give advice?

Michael Crossland chats with Aaron Pang about how despite spending a third of his life in illness, he emerged seeking to bring a change in the world we live in.
Michael is one of the world's most sought after inspirational speaker and has shared the stages with Sir Richard Branson, Dalai Lama and Tony Robbins. He is the author of Everything Will Be OK: A Story of Hope, Love and Perspective. From battling all odds to surviving a rare form of life-threatening cancer, overcoming an impossible drug trial, fighting for his son's life,  Michael teaches us that we all are capable of achieving anything in life - if we simply replace fear with faith. Michael is a proud father of two children and firmly believes that a parent's love has no bounds.