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Naina Kapoor
As a Performance Coach to High-Achieving Entrepreneurs and Young leaders, my aim is to make everyone realise the Power of Introspection so that they can reach their ultimate professional and personal goals, themselves. With the help of the most renowned authors and leaders in the world on the topics of personal development and honing a successful mindset I am hoping you can take a moment to Stop, Think and Reflect. In Series 1, I summarised learnings from the books myself. In Series 2, there way 1 Entreprenuer or Intraprenuer each episode to discuss the one book that has impacted them. In Series 3, we are talking to 1 Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur each episode about the best and worst decisions they have EVER made.I'm taking feedback as I go along with these podcasts so that I can continuously tweak them for you, so don't hesitate to drop me a note naina@nainakapoorco.com! Get your earphones ready, and let's roll.
Stuart Thornton, the CEO and co-founder of Asia’s leading omnichannel Buy Now Pay Later company, hoolah. They are live in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and soon in Thailand, Korea and the Philippines. hoolah lets consumers get the things they want or need responsibly by splitting purchases in short term interest-free monthly repayments; the company helps solve a merchants greatest challenge of consumer visits, conversion, basket size and loyalty; and they create an enhanced value proposition for their customers.
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Ashwin is the founder of AdaKerja.com an app that helps MSMES also known as UMKMs in Indonesia to Recruit staff, Manage Attendances and Perform Payroll. It ls the leading platform for the blue collar category in Indonesia with over 700k members. Ashwin has previously worked at LinkedIn and the commodities and consulting industries before . He's young, hungry, is a new father, and is working on providing jobs for the next billion people. I am looking to learn from him with you guys on the best and worst decisions he's made.
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Miguel Latore is the Managing Director of VISTRA Indonesia, Founder and CEO of the market entry company Global Expandia (which was acquired by VISTRA), and Founder of the Job Portal and Professional Career services provider, MatchKerja. Miguel is a CEO, Managing Director, Entrepreneur, Investor, Teacher, Mentor and a great human being who also aspires to own his own basketball team one day.
Let's hear from him on how he invests in education, builds trust in people and stays resilient.
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The first episode of this series is with my father.
Dad, or more famously known in Singapore as Tony Singh, has been in the family business since the 1980s and since then the business has grown tremendously. His role revolves managing the Finance and Day to Day operations of the 43 stores across Singapore.
As the Managing Director Sports Fashion & Performance Sports, Singapore, he spends alot of time thinking about his life and is one of the most pragmatic people I know who makes decisions for the long haul. Many look up to him for advice.
I agree and disagree with some of what he said, but speaking to a family member, it was evident I was a nervous wreck!
This is an ode to my Dad and his Dad for passing on family values that I will forever be grateful for.
Hope you enjoy hearing from him, stay tuned for the episodes to come with other Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs!
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I've been working on listener feedback and I wanted to give shorter episodes a shot.
This series will be short, punchy episodes with 2 MAIN, BIG questions. The aim is the same; to make everyone realise the power of introspection so that you can reach your personal and professional goals yourself.
I am on this journey to continuously learn from people, introspect about how it can be applied to my life so that I can to be better and I want to take you along with me on this journey.
In this series I am taking you on a journey with some influential Senior leaders (intraprenuers) and entreprenuers in Southeast Asia. I want to hear from them on the BEST and WORST decisions they have ever made. These bad decisions made them come out stronger, the good decisions set themselves up for the success they are living in today.
Through this series, you can also stand a chance to WIN a mentoring session with some of these amazing people. Stay tuned for more information on this.... Meanwhile, let's make you an introprenuer.
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Our guest for this podcast is Stephanie Lee. Stephanie holds a a Masters in Philosophy and currently, works at Buffer, a fully remote and distributed company. As the Team Experience Manager, her role revolves around crafting an impactful company experience through events and engagement, and she also manages Buffer's remote work toolkit and operations. She speaks on topics such as vulnerability and psychological safety in the workplace as well as how to optimise your remote team operations for effective and efficient collaboration without losing the human element.
As a professional coach as well, Stephanie helps individuals get unstuck in order to achieve their personal and professional goals. She is all about creating a safe space for her clients to be vulnerable and engaging both the head and the heart to bring about an impactful change.
Stephanie also has 2 podcasts:
- Entre Nous, co-hosted with her friend Marcus, is all about the baffling and fascinating things about human life.
- Every Human Heart, is a more personal one, focusing on life, love, mindset shifts, the choices we make, and how we can stay in the driver’s seat of our lives.
To check out the book, Daring Greatly, that we talk about click here.
Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is a weakness and argues that it is, our most accurate measure of courage. She uncovers ways in which we can embrace vulnerability for ourselves, in the workplace or as parents and the benefits of doing so.
Connect with Stephanie on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn
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Timestamps3:09- Summary of Daring Greatly
4:26 - How Stephanie became passionate about this topic
7:21 - The myths of vulnerability; it's a weakness and it's all about sharing everything?
16:30 - Our defending mechanisms against vulnerability
22:28- Shame, Self Worth, Shame resilience
32:45 - Vulnerability in the workplace
41:44 - Difference between shame and guilt
45:15 - Stephanie’s advice to managers and employees of the workplace on being vulnerable
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On this Episode we have Emily Orcullo. She is an experienced supply chain leader for more than 20 years across different businesses and markets in Asia-Pacific. Emily is best known for her strong passion in developing people in an organization enabling future leaders, she truly believes that's her calling. She currently works as the Director of Customer Logistics APAC at Lego, leading a team of logistics consultants across 5 different markets. She is an experienced coach for high performance at work, mentoring talents, and a strong advocate in developing impactful learning & development programs for organisations.
In todays episode, we cover topics such as what is an "ikigai", why do we need it, how coaching can help you discover it, how to find your “flow”, the importance of mental stimulation, balancing stress and new challenges, and building resilience and anti-fragility. All these that help you live long, happy, fulfilling lives according studies from the book ikigai.
To check out the book, ikigai, that inspired this Episodeclick here.
To check out the ikigai diagram, click here.
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Timestamps00:30 - Who is Emily?
4:45 - When did Emily start thinking about her ikigai
6: 30 - How would you know you are getting closer to your ikigai
8:45 - How Emily came up with her life mission
13:00 - Phycology, Psychoanalysis, Morita Therapy and Coaching;
How does Coaching help you discover your life purpose
17:52 - Finding and being in your "Flow"
24:15 - Keeping your mind active to slow the ageing process
29:00 - Balancing new challenges and stress
33:15 - Building resilience
38:00 - Building antifragility with examples with the year of COVID
45:15 - Last thoughts from Emily
48:36 - Emily's best decision of her life
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On this Episode, we have Rahul Daswani, Head of People and Culture, Open Government Products, GovTech, an organisation that builds technology for the public good. He is also the Singapore country advisor for the Center for Asia Leadership, and teaches Adaptive Leadership across South-East Asia, including workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Rahul regularly speaks on panels on the future of work, future workforce, enhancing organisational performance and building capabilities. He is a trained life coach, and has coached clients to achieve new insights in areas including career, relationships, resources and leadership.
As an influential part of Open Governenment Products he is surely an intraprenuer.
In todays episode, We cover topics such as what makes givers rise to the top, how they expand their networks, work in collaboration with people, and how they prevent themselves from burning out or being a doormat.
Stay tuned to hear more about it, introprenuers I hope you enjoy this episode!
To check out the book, Give and Take, that inspired this Episode click here.
Take the test to find out how much of a Giver, Taker and Matcher you are here
Timestamps
00:30 - Who is Rahul?
2:30 - The Kind of Books he Reads
4:20 - Synopsis of Give & Take
6:45 - Is Rahul a Giver, Taker or Matcher?
7:45 - How can you tell who is who?
9:49 - Givers that give a lot are either successful or fail, really?
12:19- The benefits of giving when expanding your network
21:22 - Givers rise with collaboration
29:19 - Preventing burn out as a giver
38:36 - Preventing being taken advantage off as a giver
47:30 - Rahuls wise last words
50:40 - Other recommended book 3 body problem
53:00 - Rahuls best decision in his life
Connect with Rahul on LinkedIn or Facebook.
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This is a follow up Episode on the previous one on Atomic Habits by James Clear.
"We all deal with setbacks but in the Long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. With the same habits you will end up with the same results. But with better habits, anything is possible"
We cover 2 things in this Episode:
- The difference between Systems and Goals
- How to make a good habit and break a bad one
For a documented version of this, check out this link.
Have fun listening introprenuers!
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Summary of BookFor those of you who have not read it, James talks about how 6 years after he had been hit in the face with a baseball bat, flown to the hospital, placed in coma, he was selected as the top male athlete in his university and awarded by ESPN, an honour given to only 30 players across the country. When started working, he began publishing articles about the habits he built over the years and not long after coaches in the NFL, NBA and MLB were reaching out to him. He then went on to start the a habits academy which became the premier training platform for organisations and individuals interested in building better habits.
The book draws on biology, neurology, philosophy, psychology to create a step by step actionable way to building better habits not for days or weeks but for a lifetime. It’s called atomic habits as it talks about how a tiny change, a marginal gain that are the building blocks of remarkable results. The concepts in the book help to fulfill your potential whether your goals centre around health, money, productivity, relationships or all of the above. I think the way it was written was extremely applicable to the goals we have in every aspect of our life.
On this Episode, we have Adam Haluska, Head of Marketing at a Pre-series A startup Greenhouse.co, a technology platform helping startups and entrepreneurs find reliable corporate service providers in APAC. He has seen the company through since the beginning and has been part of a few fundraising rounds.
His role revolves around building and executing marketing strategies, product management, product marketing, user and customer acquisition.
With a background in business modelling, lean development, design thinking, product management, marketing, and content creation, Adam is a quick learner. He says he can learn any skill quickly, and I have witnessed that first hand!
In this Episode, Adam talks about his journey overweight to fit. But it's an ongoing journey and at the end of the episode, he has a request for you to keep him accountable for the one habit he wants to kick.
To check out the book, Atomic Habits, that inspired this Episode click here.
To check out the resources on building habits click here.
Timestamps
00:30 - Who is Adam?
3:00 - The Kind of Books he Reads
5:13 - Synopsis of Atomic Habits
8:40 - Compounding Habits/What habit did Adam commit on?
17:08 - Systems when building habits
23:09 - Identity based habits
28:10 - Overcoming a “Valley of Disappointment”
34:15 - Keeping habits Novel
46:53 - Other recommendations Naval Ravikant and Why we sleep
48:18 - Adams best decision in his life
53:20 - The habit Adam wants the world to keep him accountable for
Introprenuers, I hope you enjoy this episode!
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IMPORTANT: There will also be a bonus episode after this with step by step ways to build habits so stay tuned to hear more about it.
On this Episode, we have Viktor Kyosev, Chief Operating Officer of a Pre-series A startup Greenhouse.co, a technology platform helping startups and entrepreneurs find reliable corporate service providers in APAC. He has seen the company through since the beginning and has been part of a few fundraising rounds.
His role revolves around Operations, Strategy, and Business development, fundraising and so much more.
He is a high achiever is always looking to upskil his knowledge by reading and educating himsef. He releases a newsletter, called the struggle, where he shares his learnings and views about startups, entrepreneurship, and technology.
If you are keen to subscribe: https://viktor.substack.com/
If you are looking to expand your business across APAC and need a reliable service providers: www.greenhouse.co
In this episode, we talk about the learnings from The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz and some examples from Viktor's and Ben's life.
To check out the book click here.
To learn more about the other book Viktor mentions No Rules Rules.
Introprenuers, I hope you enjoy this episode!
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In Series 2, I speak to people who have a business or have a large influence in their organisation, aka are an Entrepreneur or an Intrapreneur.
In each episode I will speak to 1 leader and cover 1 book that has impacted or influenced them.
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World-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen's How Will You Measure Your Life is a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights designed to help any reader—student or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or child—forge their own paths to fulfilment.
The book uses research done at the Harvard Business school and in some of the worlds other leading universities. It's been rigorously tested in organisations of all sizes around the world as well.
In this podcast, I summarise 3 business theories that could be applied to our personal life. I look forward to hearing from you on how it's shaped your perspective .
If you are serious about this, strongly suggest popping in your earphones!
Have fun Introspecting and I look for to your feedback.
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"You might be tempted to try to make decisions in your life based on what happened in the past or what has happened to other people. You should learn all that you can from the past; from scholars who have studied it, and from people who have gone through problems of that sort that you are likely to face.
But that does not solve the fundamental challenge of what information you should accept and which you should ignore as you embark into the future. Instead using robust theory to predict what will happen has a much greater chance of success. The theories in this book are based on a deep understanding of human endeavour - what causes what to happen and why. They have been rigorously examined and used in organisations all over the globe, and can help all of us with decisions that we make every day in our lives, too”.
This is a continuation from the first episode which was about building Internal Self Awareness.
Dr Tasha Eurisch is an organisational psychologist, researcher and a New York best-selling author. With studies from other psychologists she wrote Insight for anyone who wants to make the leap from self-blindness to self-insight, and in turn, reap the rewards of smarter choices, stronger relationships and a better life. She believes that there are people who think they are self-aware and actually are and her vision is to create more of the latter.
In this episode I summarise her learnings on how to build External Self-Awareness as well as who are the kind of people who live in this Self-Deluded world.
To help understand the baseline of your self awareness, this link would help www.insight-quiz.com.
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Dr Tasha Eurisch is an organisational psychologist, researcher and a New York best-selling author. With studies from other psychologists she wrote Insight for anyone who wants to make the leap from self-blindness to self-insight, and in turn, reap the rewards of smarter choices, stronger relationships and a better life. She believes that there are people who think they are self-aware and actually are and her vision is to create more of the latter.
She goes as far as saying “self-awareness is the meta skill of the 21st century”! I picked this book to start off with as I thought what better way to start off the series than to understand the importance of Introspection for Self Awareness.
In this episode I summarise 4 of her learnings on how to build Internal Self-Awareness. In the next episode, we will cover her thoughts on how to build external self awareness.
If you are serious about this, strongly suggest popping in your earphones!
Have fun Introspecting and I look for to your feedback.
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In Series 1, I summarise the best learnings from authors and leaders to get you understanding the importance or introspecting.
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