Creating Every Opportunity: Recent Episodes
Serene & Kai
Welcome to CEO, creating every opportunity. A podcast that shares practical career tips from inspirational stories and real setbacks we wish we knew sooner. Here are your hosts. Serene, a powerful entrepreneur and career coach at work, a sweet friend in life. Kai, a creative learning designer and a fearless kickboxer. Let’s create every opportunity to be our own CEO in career life!
Anxiety can be cumulated from little things in our life until it becomes unbearable or overwhelming. Many people started to feel self-conscious when looking at themselves all the time in the unlimited Zoom meetings. It led to appearance anxiety. Sometimes our work or relationships haven't met our goals, or we can't meet our expectations in life also causes stress. In this episode, we want to talk about identifying and releasing anxiety and some practical tips that can come in handy.
We might hope we had more credentials on our profile the moment we need to submit a resume to apply to a school or a job. Credentials can be evidence of our professional skills. But with the right mindset and plan, they are stackable and achievable. In this episode, we want to share our stories and three practical strategies for building up credentials.
Saying "no" doesn't come naturally especially in the workplace. It may take us years before we are comfortable to say this simple, two-letter word out loud without feeling guilty about it. Some of us have a hard time saying no to the things we are unwilling to do. At other times, we don't realize we need to say no until we are overwhelmed by saying yes to everything. With that in mind, we want to share some tips in this episode on how to say no at work based on our audience's real stories.
Successful communication requires trust, mutual understanding, and respect. Empathy is one of the best approaches to establish a respectful communicative environment and help us avoid misunderstandings and break biases. In this episode, we want to share some stories about the power of empathy. When we give others a chance to hear their stories and understand their culture, we also give ourselves new opportunities to grow.
The number of social media followers becomes the new treasure. We see many online influencers live a glamorous lifestyle, but is that the whole story?
In today’s special episode, Kai and Serene want to show you the different aspects of influencer’s work. Serene shares her eight-year experience as an education influencer with over a million followers. Takeaways of this episode are :
🖥How to build a social media presence?
📱How to work with different platforms and understand its algorithm?
⚠️Downsides of being an influencer that people rarely know about.
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A comfort zone is a controlled environment where our behaviors fit a routine and pattern that minimizes stress and risk. But in real life, we are constantly faced with uncomfortable situations. Job interviews, sales pitches, and even dating require us to take a leap of faith and leave our comfort zone. If you are wondering whether it's worth the effort, hear our own two stories on why we stepped out of our comfort zones and the magic outcomes it brought.
One of the most critical aspects of life is saving money. However, schools never teach us how and there is so much financial information online that it is easy to get lost. Without savings, retirement is more complicated, sending kids to school seems impossible, and vacations feel like an unaffordable luxury. In today’s episode, we will discuss ways to save money, establish budgets, to handle financial management. In this episode, we will talk about making our money work for us, rather than us work for our money.
Zoom fatigue is real. We surveyed over 150 working professionals for their thoughts on virtual meetings, "long, tiring, and inefficient" were the top three words they used to describe them. In this episode, we want to share effective ways and practical tools for a more productive online meeting.
🤔Do you feel intimidated when networking with strangers?
🤔Have you ever sent an outreach message and never heard back?
🤔Are you struggling with how to give an impactful introduction?
If you answered " yes", then this episode "5 Steps to a Star Networker” is for you!
In this episode, we will help you turn your shortcomings into shining points and develop your skills to become a star networker!
“The person who always remembers my birthday is my insurance company.” Many people receive more birthday wishes from business memberships than their friends. As we walk into adult life, friendship becomes more precious than before. Without notice, the people we used to hang out with all the time fade away. In this episode, we want to share stories, provide tips to strengthen your friendships, and send you a warm reminder to take action. The highlights of this episode are:
- Nurture your friendship like a gardener.
- Fun activities you can do with your friends virtually and in-person.
- Serene and Kai’s friendship journey.
Working from home (WFH) has become the new normal for many of us. Talking to people from various industries about their WFH experience, we wanted to dedicate one episode to discuss the common challenges of WFH and how we can improve our WFH experience.
The highlights of this episode are:
💻Tips to avoid WFH burnout.
🔨Tools to design your home office.
⏳Create rituals to set up work-life boundaries.
🎛Effective and free apps to reduce screentime.
In this episode, we will talk about 3 tips to cope with uncertainties in work life.
- Always have a back-up plan.
- How to find and develop your side-hustle.
- Control the controllable.