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What is one thing you would do in your life if you had more confidence?

In our journey of self discovery, we often find ourselves grappling with the nagging question: “Am I good enough?” Feelings of doubt, imposter syndrome and lack of self worth often holds us back from moving forward to achieving our fullest potential and reaching our goals.

Kelli is a women’s leadership coach and speaker who helps women advance to the rooms where decisions are made.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck, and has coached and trained thousands of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love.

Kellie is also the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year.

Kelli’s here to guide us with her powerful stories and impactful strategies on how we can claim our confidence and advocate for ourselves in a way that is tangible and actionable.

More resources to help boost your peace, potential and paycheck here: DOWNLOADS | Kelli Thompson | Kelli Thompson | Women's Leadership & Executive Coach, Author & Speaker (kelliraethompson.com)

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“You don’t have ordinary lives, you have unexplored lives.’

Wise and impactful words from Matthew Dicks, a world-renowned storyteller, teacher and bestselling author.

Whether it’s to improve your presentation skills for a business pitch, holding the attention of a lecture hall, or just being a more interesting person, being able to tell great stories is a superpower that we can fortunately get better at!

In this conversation, Matthew shares stories, techniques and insights for effective storytelling including:

✅ What are the elements of a great story

✅ Homework for Life

✅ What do people often get wrong about storytelling

✅ First Last, Best Worst exercise

✅ The Five Second Moment in a story

and more!

This conversation with Matthew was thought provoking, moving and left us feeling more inspired to take a closer look at the storyworthy moments that make up our lives.

Watch Matthew Dicks's Homework for Life on the TedxBerkshires Stage here.

If you’re curious about how you can be a great storyteller, and some tools and tips you can use to build your own story library…stay tuned!

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How will AI disrupt the landscape of work and create job refugees? What does the future of Education look like in this technology-driven evolution?

With a career spanning decades in academia and innovation, we unpack these questions (and more!) with Professor Sanjay Sarma, the Chief Executive Officer, President and Dean of the Asia School of Business.

Sanjay served as the Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, where he oversaw OpenCourseWare and led the creation of MITx, MicroMasters, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative and the Jameel World Education Lab. Fun fact: He played a part in developing many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used as a staple in industries worldwide!

In this wide-ranging discussion, we dive into Sanjay’s journey from MIT to ASB and hear all about:

-The turning point that led him from Engineering to Academia, and the story behind his move from USA to Asia

-The failures that have taught Sanjay valuable lessons

-Why an MBA is still relevant

-Exploring Agile Continuous Education (ACE) as a more impactful teaching methodology

-Why Curiosity and a Growth mindset is the most important skills in a post-GPT world

HIGHLIGHTS:

8:05 The pivotal career turning point from Engineering into Academia

10:54 What led Sanjay to take up the role as CEO, President & Dean at Asia School of Business

15:07 The most rewarding and challenging parts of the role

19:02 What Sanjay learnt from a recent Failure

27:17 The power of Reflection

30:48 How to be a more interesting person

35:21 How will AI create job refugees?

37:24 Essential skillsets for young professionals to thrive in the post-GPT world

38:22 Growth mindset is who we are

40:10 Is the MBA still relevant?

42:47 What Agile Continuous Education (ACE) would look like

48:44 What would the success of ACE look like?

50:38 The challenges of the ACE model

53:20 The value proposition of an ASB MBA

59:30 Impact of Generative AI on public policy-making and design

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From fashion dreams to tech leadership as the President and Managing Director of SAP Southeast Asia, Verena Siow is truly a force of nature who knows how to design success on her own terms!

She has amassed a wealth of experience in sales, business development and startup ventures within the technology sector, spanning across the continents of Asia, the Middle East and Americas.

In her current role, Verena drives SAP's sustainable growth across the diverse markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and other emerging regions.

Verena holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. She is currently based in Singapore, where her leadership continues to make a significant impact on SAP's mission to help SEA run better and improve people's lives with sustainability at the core.

In conjunction with International Women’s Day this year with the theme: Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress, Verena shines a light on how women can design success on their own terms and claim their seat at the table!

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Raw, real and remarkable.

These are the three words we’d use to describe this episode with Michael Crossland.

Michael has been a fighter since birth, defying the odds of surviving not only a rare form of life-threatening cancer, but being the sole survivor of a horrific cancer drug trial.

His battle continues to this very day, having spent nearly ¼ of his life in hospital. Michael is a true fighter, and despite only being told what he could not do, he continually shows the world absolutely everything that he can accomplish.

Michael is one of Australia’s most inspirational and sought after and globally renowned speakers and we’re so grateful that Michael decided to come onboard to share his remarkably inspiring story of overcoming extreme adversity to achieve incredible outcomes in both his personal and professional life, truly Against All Odds!

Trust us when we say that Michael’s story will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye and a smile to your heart.

Spoiler alert, you might want to get some tissues for this!🥹🥲

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In this episode, we recap everything that went down last weekend during KL Podfest 2024.

If you haven’t heard, KL Podfest is Malaysia’s very first podcast festival, aimed to create a platform for creators to showcase their unique perspectives, stories and talents.

Spoiler alert: we had the opportunity to be a part of it! 🙏

We had such a great time there, we wanted to take y’all along the ride with us🫶🏻

From moderating a panel discussion on Running a Podcast Network, having a surreal “go-with-the-flow” moment with one of our favourite Malaysian podcaster, to distilling everything we’ve learnt over the past 2.5 years to run a workshop on Launching a Podcast... and more!💯

It’s only February but we already know this event will be one of our top highlights of 2024 ✨🥲

P/S: We’ve got some exciting events lined up so stay tuned on our socials if you’d like to be a part of it!

For those celebrating, Gong Xi Fa Cai & Happy Chinese New Year from us to you, enjoy celebrating the long weekend with your loved ones!🍊🧧🏮

Lydia Fenet knows how to own her power in a room.

Lydia is one of the world's most accomplished and sought-after auctioneers and has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits globally alongside celebrities such as Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and Hugh Jackman.

Over her two-decade long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer.

She has been named one of New York’s most influential women by Gotham Magazine and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vanity Fair and more.

Lydia is currently the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best in class charity auctioneers.On top of that, she is the bestselling author of Claim Your Confidence & The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You.

Trust us when we say you don’t want to miss this episode! Lydia drops a ton ofinspiration and unfiltered advice in our chat with her.

We get the inside scoop on her wild career journey as a charity auctioneer (including how she bombed her very first auction!), learning to know her worth and tripling her salary, and the accident that changed her life.

Highlights:

02:27 A day in the life of Lydia

08:58 A crash course into the world of auctions

11:00 Lydia’s first auction didn’t go the way she expected

17:19 Why you need to ‘sell as yourself’

18:19 How to apply Lydia’s “Strike Method” to claim your confidence

23:48 The painful way she learnt to ask for her worth

27:29 Your company is not your family

29:58 Why you need to be comfortable getting uncomfortable

34:58 The major accident that changed her life and what she learnt from it

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Welcome to Season 5 of Actsplore This Podcast!

The first episode of the new year 2024 is always a cathartic, nostalgic and illuminating one for us.

It’s where we reflect on the year 2023 and set our intentions for the year ahead.

Whether 2023 has been a year of wins, painful struggles or everything in between, we invite you to be intentional and join us to reflect on some of these prompts yourself:

1. What are you grateful for in 2023?
2. What do you wish to Let Go from 2023 and Invite In for 2024?
3. What are 3 things you will do for yourself everyday to build the life that you want?
4. What is your Word or Phrase for the year ahead?

And of course, we wrap up the episode with our surprise question to each other - it’s a good one so you won’t want to miss it!

We hope this episode inspires you to do your own reflection which can help to set the tone for the rest of 2024. We’d love to hear what your Word or Phrase for 2024 is, so tag us @actsplorethispodcast when you tune into this episode!

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What does it mean to be a Friend and weather through different seasons of life together?

Get cozy with us in our Season 5 finale episode as we wind down for the year and reflect on the topic of Friendship ✨

We spill the beans on our own friendship journey and discuss the role of Friendships in our lives - the highs, the lows and the downright unpredictable.

In this unfiltered chat, we get real about friendship breakups, the reality of doing business with friends, and put all our cards on the table with a game where.. spoiler alert: we share our audacious goal for 2024!!!🌚

As we wrap up the year with this episode, tag a friend who has been your partner-in-crime through thick and thin and tag @actsplorethis on social media so we can all exchange stories of our how friendships have grown us together! 🤩

We are excited to be back in the new year with more awesome content for you, so #watchthisspace! 🔥

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How did a young boy from a low income household who failed English at school and who grew up thinking he’d take over his father’s prawn noodles store go on to become Managing Director at UBS Investment bank and write an award-nominated business book? Spoiler alert: it wasall in the small actions taken!

A key opinion leader on LinkedIn with over 2 million followers, Eric Sim, served as a managing director at UBS Investment Bank and also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Currently based in Singapore, Eric founded the Institute of Life with a mission to help young professionals achieve success at work and in life. As part of that mission, he published a self-improvement book: “Small Actions: Leading Your Career to Big Success”, which was nominated for the Business Book Awards in London in 2022.

In this episode, we dive into Eric’s story and hear all about:

• Lessons he learnt growing up in a low income family as the son of a prawn noodle shop owner
• How he carved a successful career in banking despite being an engineer by training and knowing nothing about finance
• How he developed his portfolio career and the actions we can take to develop a successful portfolio career
• How we can become the CEO of our lives
• The ‘secret sauce’ behind his thought leadership process!
• ..and many actionable ways on how Eric Sim unleashed the power of small actions to achieve big success!

Episode highlights:

03:09 Eric’s bartending stint and his iconic ‘coke & bourbon’ story

06:18 What it was like growing up in a low income family as the son of a prawn noodle shop owner

11:20 His journey towards overcoming his inferiority complex

15:57: Eric’s most defining Failure and what he learnt from that

19:18 The right ‘moves’ Eric made to attract step-up opportunities in his banking career

28:35 How to develop a successful career portfolio

33:23 His inspiration behind ‘Small Actions’

35:30 What it means to become the CEO of your life

41:27 Eric’s secret sauce on creating content on Linkedin

You can connect with Eric here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simeric/

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