Badass Asian Dudes

Michael, Victor, Seibo, and Nick talk with Jason Wang, co-founder of Caviar, which was acquired by Square, co-franchisee owner of Halal Guys, and venture capital investor with a focus on technology and food. He's also a food and travel extraordinaire, having travelled non-stop for the past 4 years.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Jason's entrepreneurial story started with ad clicks on anime websites
• Dealing with instability starting up Caviar
• Dealing with discomfort of having friends drop out of stable careers to start a business
• How Jason and his founders adopted the mentality, "If you never quit, you never fail."
• How it's important to have other people to support you through hard times

Connect with Jason:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwang815/
• https://www.facebook.com/jwang815
• https://www.instagram.com/jwang815/

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Connect with us:

• Join the other 1000+ Badass Asian Dudes on Facebook and register for one of our Saturday Social Hours: http://facebook.com/groups/badassasiandudes.
• Get on the waitlist for the Emotion Dojo for Asian Men, a brotherhood of fulfilled Asian males working on their emotional intelligence: http://bit.ly/emotiondojo.

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Gavin Masumiya is the founder of Flowmasters, a weekly virtual experience that combines public speaking, personal development/coaching, and freestyle rapping, aimed to help people find their flow state.

In this episode, we talked about:

• How Gavin found his calling in facilitation, coaching, public speaking, and freestyling
• How Gavin's crushed childhood dreams led him into personal development
• What is Flowmasters?
• How to build creativity
• Letting go of internal and external judgment
• Becoming badass by turning the mirror inwards

Connect with Gavin:

• Join the Facebook Flowmasters community and jump into a Flow Session: https://www.facebook.com/groups/flowmasterstribe/
• Hire Gavin for mindset coaching: https://www.gavinmasumiya.com/

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Connect with us:

• Join the other 1000+ Badass Asian Dudes on Facebook and register for one of our Saturday Social Hours: http://facebook.com/groups/badassasiandudes.
• Sign up for the newsletter to learn about the Asian male diaspora: http://badassasiandudes.com/newsletter.
• Get on the waitlist for the Emotion Dojo for Asian Men, a brotherhood of fulfilled Asian males working on their emotional intelligence, creativity, and problem-solving skills: http://bit.ly/emotiondojo.

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Victor and Michael talk with JD Chang, the founder of Crushing the Myth, a platform to amplify Asian speakers.

In this episode, we talked about:

• JD's mission to bring Asian American perspectives to a global audience
• JD's transition into nonprofit activism raising awareness to his Asian American identity
• Why is it important to have a stage for Asian Americans?
• Are all Asians conservative in growth mindset or just Asian Americans?
• A badass Asian dude should be happy and/or content
• Asian American men have the challenge of being invisible
• How Asian American males can breakthrough their obstacles

Connect with JD:

• On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrydamonchang/
• Join the speaker series: https://www.crushingthemyth.com/

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Connect with us:

• Join the other 1000+ Badass Asian Dudes on Facebook and register for one of our Saturday Social Hours: http://facebook.com/groups/badassasiandudes.
• Get on the waitlist for the Emotion Dojo for Asian Men, a brotherhood of fulfilled Asian males working on their emotional intelligence: http://bit.ly/emotiondojo.

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Seibo, Victor, and Brandon talk with Calvin D. Sun, ER doctor in NYC and entrepreneur about how he balanced med school and being an ER doctor all while traveling to over 170 countries and starting his own company.

In this episode, we talked about:

• How Calvin developed emotional resiliency growing up
• How Calvin rebelled against becoming a doctor, then became one anyway
• Using journaling to deal with emotions as a shy, emotional kid
• Asian American men also desire self-expression, but don't have the tools or language
• Subconscious beliefs and behaviors also get passed down through generations of DNA
• How one girl changed everything for him
• Traveling alone developed emotional intelligence and love for himself
• Life is not a journey or destination, it's a dance
• Calvin was not a great student, but got into med school for his ability to be with people and to LIVE
• There's always a third option
• His happiness came from being able to create his life his own way

Connect with Calvin:

• Travel with Calvin: https://monsoondiaries.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/monsoondiaries/

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Connect with us:

• Join the other 1000+ Badass Asian Dudes on Facebook and register for one of our Saturday Social Hours: http://facebook.com/groups/badassasiandudes.
• Get on the waitlist for the Emotion Dojo for Asian Men, a brotherhood of fulfilled Asian males working on their emotional intelligence: http://bit.ly/emotiondojo.

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The original founder of Badass Asian Dudes, Chris Kim, retired to focus on other parts of his business and transitioned the group to a new group of BADs.

Introducing Victor Ung, former tech consultant turned cannabis wellness coach for Asian men and host of the Human Up podcast, and emotional intelligence geek.

Seibo Shen, father of 2, cannabis entrepreneur, co-host of the Happy Asian Males podcast, Executive Coach, and wannabe freestyle rapper.

Nick Hong, Engineering Manager at Medium, writer, and psychedelic nerd.

Michael Wu, Software Engineer at Stripe, major chef and party host.

Brandon Scott Chien (absent from this episode), Movement Coach and co-host of the Happy Asian Males podcast, and all-around weird dude.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Victor expanding his definition of badass with internal accomplishments rather than external
• Mike becoming a badass by expanding social circles
• Mike enriching himself and others through food
• Nick modeling Bruce Lee's mental game to becoming badass
• Seibo looking to impress other people, but losing control of his own self-worth and happiness
• Evaluation is just as important as the action
• This is a community of Asian men for Asian men, you don't have to do it alone
• The future of the Badass Asian Dudes brand and community

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Connect with us:

• Join the other 1000+ Badass Asian Dudes on Facebook and register for one of our Saturday Social Hours: http://facebook.com/groups/badassasiandudes.
• Get on the waitlist for the Emotion Dojo for Asian Men, a brotherhood of fulfilled Asian males working on their emotional intelligence: http://bit.ly/emotiondojo.

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This week's interview is with Charlie Chang. A 27-year old entrepreneur from Los Angeles. Find Charlie on instagram at Charlie__Chang or on Youtube at his channel Charlie the Entrepreneur.

After talking with Charlie, what I love about him is he just jumps into things without knowing anything. I’m the complete opposite. I have to buy the course, find the community, read tons of books, etc - before I ever get into anything but Charlie just dives right in. And from those opportunities - other opportunities just magically seem to show up. Half the battle is just showing up and Charlie is a great example of that.

We talk about his entrepreneurial journey and all of his side hustles he has and how he got started with them. In this interview we talk about his photography hustle, clothing business, amazon fba e-commerce business, and his real estate brokerage.

We also talk about self-improvement and how that has changed his life. We go into his morning routine, books he loves, and the things that have made a huge impact on his life.

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This week’s interview is with Victor Hsu. Victor is the founder and designer of Facto Shoes, a luxury men’s footwear brand handmade in Europe. Victor is a top contender for my personal “Most Interesting Man in the World” and if you follow him on instagram @VictoHsu, you’ll soon see why. Seems like the guy is always traveling to interesting places, eating at the best places, and having the most fun.

After graduating from NYU, he worked in the fashion industry in NYC as a buyer moving overseas to Tokyo and launching his own footwear brand. Teaming up with the factory in Italy that produced some of the world’s most famous and expensive shoe brands, he built a premium quality brand at a more accessible price point sold in department stores like Saks and Bergdorf Goodman.

His travels to Europe for his shoe brand had him traveling to Portugal frequently where his second act began…building luxury villas.

Victor had been dabbling in real estate investing during his times in New York and Tokyo. While living in these cities, he found that he had an eye and passion for real estate. These lessons from brand and real estate investing took him to a little known area of Portugal called Vila Nova de Gaia.

Falling in love with Vila Nova de Gaia and seeing a big future for the area, Victor started developing his own home there. He now helps and facilitates other international investors who want to build their own villa. Interested in being his neighbor?

We get into his whole entrepreneurship journey in this interview and i think you guys will really enjoy it. this conversation is like listening and learning from your wise older brother who’s just done a lot of cool shit all over the world.

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This week’s episode is with Eric Yang, an entrepreneur from Paris currently based in Bangkok. Eric puts together virtual summits and does consulting for people who want to do their own. Find out more about him and his services at EricZYang.com.

What is a Virtual Summit? Think of it like an industry conference where he gathers attendees, speakers, and sponsors - except his are all online.

Through these virtual summits, Eric has generated over $350K and 40,000 virtual summit attendees without spending a dollar out of pocket.

Eric has put on virtual summits in industries like real estate, cryptocurrencies, design, and more.

He’s the go-to-guy if you are interested in doing something like this in your industry and as you’ll find out - they are really profitable and help build your influence and credibility in your industry.

If you’re a young dude who wants to be an entrepreneur that doesn’t know where to start - you have to listen to this one. There’s so much gold in here if you follow what Eric did while he was a student.

The week after our interview together, we met up in Bangkok at an entrepreneurship conference i like to attend yearly. He was coincidentally one of the speakers where he gave a talk about his virtual summit strategy.

Eric is one of my new favorite dudes. I think my big takeaway from our interview is don’t be afraid of asking - you never know what the answer might be. Sounds obvious but obvious things need to be hammered into our heads once in a while for you to really take it in.

In this episode we go through:

• How Eric’s business failures led him to doing virtual summits
• How Eric got thousands of dollars worth of conference tickets for free
• Why Eric decided to drop out of college
• The exact strategies Eric used to get huge names to talk at his summits including his word-for-word script
• Eric’s hack for building influence
• What Eric thinks is the next big thing

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New episode with the unbelievable life story of a guy who went from accounting job to Wushu World Champion to working with martial art legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li. This is an interview with Alfred Hsing who is now an actor and stuntman in Hollywood.

This is an interview with my friend Alfred Hsing (Personal Website, Instagram). He is the first American to win a gold medal at the World Wushu Championships. Wushu is a Chinese martial art that has thousands of years of history.

After winning the gold medal, Alfred got a job living, working and traveling with Jet Li where he got to be a part of Jet Li’s daily life and meet celebrities and business leaders all over the world. Alfred actually lived in Jet Li’s house.

It doesn’t stop there.

After his time with Jet Li, Alfred made the hard decision to leave and joined Jackie Chan’s stunt team where they worked on a movie together.

But before all that - Alfred was just a normal dude working at KPMG after graduating from UCLA.

How did he go from normal accounting job to working with Jet Li and Jackie Chan? That’s what we get into in the interview today and it’s a long long journey.

In this episode we talk about

• his journey to becoming the first American to win the world wushu champion while working his accounting job
• the struggles he faced when trying to decide if he should quit his job
• how he got a job living, working and traveling all over the world with Jet Li and meeting people like Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Jack Ma
• the lessons he learned from Jet Li
• why he ultimately decided to leave his job with Jet Li and join Jackie Chan’s stunt team
• what Jackie Chan is like in person
• some great stories of his times with Jackie Chan and Jet Li
• we end with some overall lessons and thoughts he’s learned in his life for achieving unbelievable things in your life

Thanks for listening. If you want to connect with Alfred, find him on instagram @AlfredRocks.

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Yo what’s up dudes.

New episode of Badass Asian Dudes. This week I have Asian dating & confidence coach Danny Kim. Contact Danny on instagram @CaptainDanielKim.‍

Before we get into the interview, i just want to say that Danny is the real deal. i went out with him a few times and i have to say that I was quite impressed with his confidence and naturalness when approaching and connecting with women. I think he would be a great resource to talk to if you are trying to step up your game…which is why I interviewed him for the show.

I think you guys will really like the episode. Here are some highlights:

• how he went from chubby, unattractive teen to dating coach
• the steps he took to get better in his dating life
• how to be more attractive to the women you want
• how to get over the fear of approaching
• his favorite cities for dating (the last one surprised me)
• and much more

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