Vinh and Ali Show: Recent Episodes
Vinh Giang and Ali Terai
Vinh Giang is one of the world's top keynote speakers and communication teachers. Ali Terai is the Founder and CEO of Future Golf, an award winning passion business. In this podcast, Vinh and Ali discuss the books and lessons that have shaped their lives.
In this episode with Vinh and Ali discuss Die with Zero by Bill Perkins
Topics Include
- The value of investing in experiences and memories
- Living for the present vs planning for the future
- Aligning how we spend money and use our energy in relation to the chapter of life that we're in
- Experiences that we don't want to miss out on due to waiting too long
- The quality of our interactions and the impact this can have.
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In this episode with Vinh and Ali discuss one of their favourite books, Outliers - The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
Topics Include
- What makes an outlier
- The often overlooked advantages that lead to success
- Champions and how important they were in helping us in our journeys
- Being aware of opportunity and acting on it
- Practical intelligence and situational awareness
- The 10,000 hour rule and mastering a skill
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In this episode with Vinh and Ali deep dive, Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Topics Include
- How to form a vision and purpose
- Exploring Arnold's mindset and ability to transform.
- Overcoming naysayers
- Doing the work and getting reps in
- Risk and how to approach it.
- Importance of giving back
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In this episode with Vinh and Ali discuss, Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
Topics Include
- What makes a company or organisation a Small Giant
- Vinh and Ali's alignment to the Small Giant approach.
- The importance of saying No
- Passion within the workplace as a fuel source.
- How not to go crazy as an entrepreneur
- The importance of fun
- Team culture and management - measuring performance
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In this episode with Vinh and Ali discuss Diary of a CEO - 33 Laws for Business and Life by Steven Bartlett
Topics Include
- Building blocks of success - the 5 buckets
- The importance of teaching when trying to master a skill
- The importance of our self story
- Being absurd to get attention
- Use pressure as a privilege for motivation
- Dealing with negative feedback
- A few lessons form Vinh and Ali's childhood.
- Vinh and Ali trying to name 3 of their best and worse traits - unsuccessfully 😂
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In this special episode with Vinh and Ali are in the hot seat answering questions Live from the audience.
Topics Include
- Books that shaped us
- Improving your communication skills when English isn't your first language
- A quick guide on small talk
- Natural talent vs hard work
- How to deal with burnout
- Vulnerability fatigue
- Quotes that changed our lives
- Dealing with adversity
- Impact of AI on communication and storytelling
- Keeping young people engaged
- Staying calm
- Timing - when to give up vs keep going.
*Recorded July 21, 2023
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This episode explores Rick Rubin's - The Creative Act.
A quick side note, this is one of our favourite new books in long time. This book impacted us both greatly and we hope the ripple effect continues with our listeners.
Topics Include:
- The creative process - seeds, experimentation, crafting, completion
- The mystical plane of creativity and tapping into the subconscious mind
- The artists way
- How Vinh and Ali create
- Sharing and distributing the things we create
- The essence of creativity and keeping it pure.
- Awe and Inspiration
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This episode explores the classic bestseller, Start With Why by Simon Sinek.
Topics Include
- Lessons we've learnt about leadership
- The WHY behind what Vinh and Ali do
- The Golden Circle - Why, How, What
- The difference between manipulation and inspiration
- How to find your 'why' by finding the pieces of the puzzle and collecting all the dots.
- The Celery test - using what aligns with you to guide your decisions
- Leadership is a combination of art and science
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This episode explore The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Â
Topics Include
- Why is power important?
- Trusting friends vs using enemies
- Make your accomplishments seem effortless
- Infection - avoid the unhappy and unlucky
- Master the art of timing
- Take bold action
- Reinventing yourself
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In this episode Vinh and Ali dig into the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R Covey
Topics Include
- Proactivity vs Reactivity - choice and control
- Golden eggs and the goose
- Circle of influence
- Quadrant 2 Thinking
- Our habits and being honest with how important they are to us
- Creating Win / Win outcomes
- The emotional bank account - credits and debits
- Sharpening our tools
- Synergy and alignment in our lives
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This episode is all about small business and entrepreneurship. The E-Myth by Michael E Gerber is always near the top of the most recommended business book list.
Topics Include
- Vinh and Ali's entrepreneurial journey - How this book has shaped us over the years
- The Technician, The Manager and The Entrepreneur.
- The different stages of entrepreneurship.
- Why McDonald's is so amazing.
- Working on your business vs working in it.
- The six rules to win at business
- The importance of processes and systems.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali dig into the book Think Again by Adam Grant.
Topics Include
- Hippo - Questioning the highest paid persons opinion
- Rethinking and unlearning
- Having a challenge network to increase the quality of your moves. The power of expert advice from multiple sources
- The value of imposter syndrome
- Managing overconfidence and aligning confidence with the appropriate tools and skill level
- Humility and how it help us become more open to a wider range of perspectives
- 4 key negotiation tactics
- Upgrading your operating system
- Chris Pratt following Vinh on social media
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In this special episode Vinh and Ali reflect on 2022 and the key lessons they learnt. Tune in for a very open and raw conversation.Â
Topics Include
- Vinh's social media following going from 10k to 1m+
- Investing time, energy and money in relationships.
- Highlights and challenges in 2022.
- Favourite books
- A message to our kids
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F%$# by Mark Manson.Â
Topics Include
- The things we care about and why.
- Problems we should and want to solve.
- How to prioritise resources like time, energy and bandwidth.
- Our values - the why behind our actions and who we are.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel . An open chat about how they think about money, their personal experiences and some of the tactics that they've learnt and applied over the years.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. They explore concepts around embracing the present moment, dealing with past and future, creativity, improving the quality of the journey and much more.Â
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In this episode Vinh and Ali have a good old fashion chin wag. Exploring topics that interest them and answering questions from the audience.Â
Topics IncludeÂ
- Emotional Intelligence - how to improve it
- Old friends and new
- Dealing with comparison
- Habits (Journalling)
- Arrogance, Confidence and Humility
- Recent travels and adventures.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman. They dive into one of the most powerful books when it comes to love and relationships.Â
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In this special episode Vinh and Ali reflect on a few personal matters that they've dealt with recently and how they've navigated the situation. Exploring topics like death, grief, acceptance and moving forward. Using the international bestselling book Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Albom to help guide the discussion.
Topics include:
- Perspective on how the world continues to spin, even as we all experience some of the more challenging moments in our life.
- The beautiful moments that we can embrace and share with strangers. We're all connected. The benefits in being open.
- Using death and loss to write our next verse, making the most of this life.
- Ali shares some of the special moments from his final weeks with his mum and the lessons learnt from her recent passing.
- The importance of building those around us up, filling others with belief and the different types of generosity.
- Vinh shares his families recent experience with navigating multiple miscarriages.
- Forgive and be kind to yourself
- It's ultimately your choice how process any situation.
- The difference between avoidance, detachment and acceptance. Stepping into a tough situation to move forward.
- It's our responsibility to live our life.
- The family we are given and the family's that we build.
- How relationships can still evolve post death. Our loved ones light will continue to shine through everyone they touched.
- A few rules for a successful relationship and the importance of having amazing people around you when dealing with a tough situation. Upgrade your relationships.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
This is a leadership book with a twist, using experiences from their experiences in the special forces and sharing the lessons through war stories and corporate application.
Topics include:
- The concept the of Extreme ownership in leadership, the cons of not taking extreme ownership. The benefits of getting to the truth of a matter.
- Handling politics and brand perception in leadership.
- Exploring the concept of 'no bad teams, only bad leaders'.
- The power of the superstar.
- Characteristics of great leadership and the varying styles.
- Are you an A Grade Player in an A Grade Environment - a few tools to assess your alignment.
- What do people ask you for advice? A tool to help uncover what you're an expert at.
- The importance of keeping it simple.
- Debrief meetings for feedback - a game changer.
- Storytelling in leadership, how to get more emotional buy in. Vinh shares some real life examples.
- Managing Ego and understanding how relative our perspective often is.
- Openness and honesty for growth and progress.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Will Smith autobiography Will.
As one of the most iconic performers of our generation, Will Smith's biography was alway going to be an epic story. There's a lot to learn from his self awareness, vulnerability and reflections.
Topics include:
- Deconstructing the game you are playing and finding the most impactful moves. Emulating those who've walked the path before you.
- Play chess, not checkers. Find the most powerful move. The 80/20 Rule.
- How Vinh used a high impact move to rapidly fast track his speaking career.
- You are the first time you have happened. Live your life.
- Only take advice from those whose advice matters and is credible. Protect your dreams from those who don't understand your dreams.
- Take imperfect action, do things before you're ready and make the most of opportunities.
- Collect and connect your dots. Try a lot of things to get your list of dots.
- Develop your next move before your current move is finished.
- The two key human problems.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Dale Carneigie's classic How to Win Friends and Influence People
The core idea in this book is that you can change other peoples behaviour by changing your own. It teaches you the principles to better understand people, and become a more likeable person, improves relationships, win others other and influence behaviour through leadership.
Topics include:
- The difference between feedback and criticism. Building the bank of good will.
- Are you motivated by The Carrot or the Stick. The power of internally driven motivation.
- One of the best guides for how to read a non-fiction / personal development book.
- The power of books to help solve problems
- The time when Ali and Vinh used this book to generate an amazing outcome.
- The power of showing appreciation and a few practical tips for how to do this.
- Telling stories to build rapid rapport
- Take a personality test to improve your self awareness
- To really connect find the balance of being interesting and being interested.
- Negotiating for a win-win outcome.
- If you're feeling a strong negative emotion, cool off or reconsider before sending it.
- Know people's names
- Play to the upside of peoples potential and their growth. Appreciate your champions and be a champion for others.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Brené Brown's, Daring Greatly. Our first author to get a second episode.
Topics include:
- Scarcity and being enough
- Uncertainty, anxiety and the difference between expectations and the reality of where we are in the journey.
- Gender and how men and women experience vulnerability and shame differently.
- Emotional variety - high and lows vs consistency.
- Attachment and the impact it has on our happiness,.
- The stories that define our lives.
- A practical approach to building rapport quickly
- Different types of vulnerability and how to be vulnerable.
- Shame, examples of shame and how to deal with it.
- Dealing with haters and negativity.
- A few tips on Parenting
- The importance of expressing the truest version of who we are.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss the Seth Godin's classic, Purple CowÂ
Topics include:
- The importance of being remarkable.
- The factors that make something remarkable.
- How increase the chances of having people spread and share your ideas.
- Connecting with the early adopter.
- Purple cows and what makes something a purple cow.
- Marginal improvements vs purple cows.
- Taking stock of when you've been involved with something remarkable.
- Positioning, differentiation and being the first.
- The death of mass marketing vs targeted digital advertising.
- Dealing with the failure of your purple cow attempt.
- Only take feedback and advice from those who are in the arena.
- How to share authentically.
- Measure your expectations, play to the upside and take sensible risks.
- The importance of communication when pitching ideas (Vinh does an on spot pitch).
- List 3-5 ways that your are unique and potentially remarkable.
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This episode is a little bit different, Vinh and Ali have an open chat answering audience questions.
- Our morning routines.
- How often Vinh farts.
- How our partners have supported us on our journeys.
- The number one quality we wish we had from each other.
- Have we ever had delusions that we were a lot better at something that we actually were.
- A way that we are often misunderstood.
- Our top THREE books
- Annoying habits that we dislike in each other
- What we are focussing on and curious about at the moment.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins.
Topics include:
- Accountability mirror
- Owning your story
- How our childhoods shape us
- Turning hardships into fuel - fight vs flight
- Setting yourself mental and physical challenges
- Does having the Can't Hurt Me mentality lead to happiness?
- Callousing your mind
- Progress - tracking and documenting your actions
- Breaking down projects in versions - V1, V2, V3 method
- Aiming for Everest vs Aiming for Base Camp
- Vinh's amazing proposal to his wife Pei Wen
- Interviewing your parents or people who knew you when you were younger to help colour in your story.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Four Agreements.
Topics include:
- Human domestication - the impact this has on ourselves and the people in our lives. Specifically how we impact our kids.
- Dealing with negativity - mirroring
- Being impeccable with your word.
- The importance of not taking things personally
- Forgiveness
- Finding your fuel source
- The importance of asking questions and not making assumptions.
- The reverse gift - using abundance and generosity to rewards yourself.
- Doing your best, taking action and being kind to yourself and your efforts.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Austin Kleon's book Steal Link an Artist.
Topics include:
- How to use emulation to develop skills.
- A thorough example of how Vinh approaches mastery and skill development.
- Nothing is truly original.
- Imposter syndrome and faking it until you make it.
- You are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with.
- Using boredom to find inspiration
- Do good work and share it with people.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
This is an episode about life and who we are as a species.Â
- A deep dive into energy - how to create and manage it.
- Journaling for clarity
- Storytelling and myths and how they shape us.
- Our place in the world
- Luck and timing - how much control do we really have?
- Are we already cyborgs and in a simulation 😂?
- Finding truth where we can
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Essentialism by Greg McKeown.
This is an episode about prioritising and choosing what's most essential in our lives.Â
- The power of saying 'no'
- Optimising how we use our time and energy
- If you don't prioritise your life, someone else will
- Less is better
- Saying yes to the top 10%
- Make one decision that eliminates 1000.
- Zero based budgeting.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Where do thoughts and ideas come from?
- How to collect and connect the dots.
- The power of desire to drive our actions and level of motivation. Including the 6-step process to turn desires into outcomes.
- Volunteering to showcase your value and to get your dream job.
- Belief - where does it come from?
- Mastermind - creating or joining a group where you have a common interest or outcome.
- How the past, present and future defines our purpose.
- Having fun, using our imagination and the importance of play.
This book was written in 1937 and there are some aspects that aren't relevant in today's society. However there are still a lot of principles that hold up today.Â
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- How to productise yourself and leverage your work
- Tactics to become an 'expert'
- Passion vs Mastery
- Becoming a perpetual learner
- The power of reading and how we approach it
- Philosophy and spirituality -Â Stoicism and rational buddhism
- Desires - the external things we want and whether they impact our happiness.
- Happiness - a skill that be learnt and practiced.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Wealth Creation and the accumulation of wealth that results in happiness.
- Attachment to the external world
- Long term thinking and compound interest
- Investing for happiness
- Freedom and what it means at different stages in life
- Self care
- Self awareness
- The games we play, adding playfulness to life
- Find what you can be the best in the world at.
- The importance of fun.
We loved this book so much we did a part 2!
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In this episode Vinh and Ali have an open and honest conversation on the topic of parenting.Â
Sharing some of the key lessons, approaches and experiences that have shaped them as parents.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali focus on the concept of 'Recalibration'. Which is essentially the continuous process of pausing, re-aligning and re-defining our lives.
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The final episode of season 1 is a discussion about habits and routines.Â
The guys explore James Clear's bestseller Atomic Habits and also reflect on how they manage routines and habits in their lives.Â
- Setting a goal isn't enough - changing habits require a system and process.
- The importance of fun and rewards in changing habits.
- Tell yourself a vivid story to change habits.
- Book recommendations on changing habits.
- Examples of habits that we've changed and how we did.
- How your habits are linked to your values.
- Tracking your habit changes - use metrics and data. Gamify it!
- The OAK Method to achieving and changing anything you want.
- Questions to ask yourself to better manage your time and energy.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss. Gabby and Hezi Leibovich's book Catch of the Decade which outlines their entrepreneurial journey that eventually led to them building and selling digital business that had a total value of $1billion+.
- Starting at the market
- Mazal - the concepts of luck, timing and location
- Art of Entrepreneurship
- Incorporating strategic planning and design into our personal lives.
- Being connected to those we love during the holidays.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali explore Brene Brown's, The Gifts of Imperfection.Â
- Importance of play and how to schedule play into our lives.
- How to change habits
- The difference between Joy and Happiness
- Gratitude and abundance
- Overcoming scarcity, shame and fear.
- Digging Deep and setting boundaries.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali discuss the 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.Â
- 80-20 rule, being impactful over being productive
- Lifestyle Design
- Focussing on Freedom, connection, growth and memorable moments
- What would you do if you had $100m
- The importance of working to live, not just living to work.
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In this episode Vinh and Ali explore Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You.
- Is encouraging someone to pursue their passion bad advice?
- Does Mastery lead to passion or does passion lead to mastery?
- How to achieve mastery.
- The importance of autonomy, competence and relatedness.
- Using passion to get started and mastery to keep going.
- Chronic job hopping.
- Doing what you love vs what you’re good at.
- Is your passion financially viable.
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The first episode of the Vinh and Ali Show. Where we discuss Paulo Coelho’s The AlchemistÂ
- The importance of pursuing your personal legend (your purpose)
- Looking for omens (the signs)
- Focusing on the journey rather than the destination.
- You are the author of your own story.
- Listen to yourself to find the truth.
- Investing in self-awareness.
- All change starts with you.
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