Badass Asian Dudes

Yo dudes. What’s good? New episode of Badass Asian Dudes with Seibo Shen and Brandon Chien. ‍

This week i had the opportunity to chat with Seibo Shen and Brandon Chien of the Happy Asian Males Podcast.

Two super interesting, insightful dudes with a lot of knowledge to share. They have a podcast that you guys should check out called Happy Asian Males where they talk about all sorts of stuff like business, psychedelics, fitness, mental health, and a lot more. All stuff that I’m super interested in as well.

Seibo and Brandon are also both entrepreneurs. Seibo is in the cannabis industry and he designed his own vaporizer. Check out his company VapeExhale.com.

Brandon teaches self-development through olympic style weightlifting. Really interesting stuff. Check him out at TheArtofSelfAlignment.com.

My conversation with these guys was quite eye-opening and i learned a ton. I loved getting to know these guys and I’m sure you will too. We talk about a whole bunch of different topics and you’ll get to hear more about what they do and how they get started as well.

Some things we talk about:

• our entrepreneurship stories (including mine)
• psychedelics
• asian masculinity
• feeling fulfilled in your life
• and a lot more

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Yo! What’s going on guys? New episode of Badass Asian Dudes. ‍

This week’s guest is Andy Park, the founder of 7till8. 7till8 makes custom fit surf and dive wetsuits tailored to your body’s exact specifications. You just go on their website, send your measurements, and then they send you a custom wetsuit in a few weeks.

You see this a lot with clothing for example suits, shirts, jackets - but i remember when Andy and his former business partner came up with this idea years back - I thought it was pretty genius because custom and made to measure clothing was getting big in those days.

Of course just having an idea is nothing. The hardest part is executing it and actually turning it into something.

But what do you do if you have no experience with wetsuits and you’ve never made a wetsuit before?

And also how do you compete against the already established wetsuit companies out there like Body Glove, Billabong, and O’Neill that have been in the game for years?

All they had was the idea of creating a custom wetsuit company.

That’s the position Andy and his former business partner were in.

Some things we talk about in this episode:

• his kickstarter strategy and how they raised 20k
• creating a vision for your company
• key takeaways from his accelerator program
• what he would do if he started over from scratch

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Yo! What’s good dudes.

Here’s my podcast with entrepreneur Michael Koh of Tree to Tub.

Michael created an all natural-skincare brand with his buddy after graduating from college. The main ingredient of his brand is a berry that comes from Taiwan called the soapberry.

When you mix the berry with some water, it creates a natural soap. Michael and his friend created a company around this soapberry and does multiple millions of dollars per year.

In our conversation today, we talk about his entrepreneurship story but we also go into a bunch of other different topics. This conversation kind of goes all over the place but i like it because you get to learn a lot of his thought process and mindset for things other than business.

Some topics we talk about:

• why he loves and lives in Chiang Mai
• his number 1 question in life
• leaving the safety of Google to go down his own path
• what owning and operating a food truck taught him
• my first acid trip
• what it was like going on QVC and how it impacted his business

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Bros - what’s good?

New episode of Badass Asian Dudes is now out.

This week I interview one of my friends - his name is Alan Vantoai, and he’s an entrepreneur currently based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. You can check out Alan’s blog at zenhustle.com or check out his new company Telefuel.

Alan is incredibly thoughtful and purposeful with how he lives his life. i love how he breaks his life down into 4 buckets: health, wealth, relationships, and play and I also love the way he challenges himself and gets out of his comfort zone.

Some examples we talk about in our conversation is his first time trying stand-up comedy and his 30-day Youtube challenge.

in this episode we go through things like:

• Alan’s general life and entrepreneurship story
• what it’s like living in the USA vs Asia
• the challenges of dating in Asia
• thinking about what is most important to you in life and optimizing your life for that
• challenging yourself to step outside of your comfort zone
• why suspending disbelief is important in life
• why you should listen to crazy people
• the crypto bubble of 2017

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Yo! What’s up dudes.

This week is a new episode with Calvin Sun. I think Calvin could be in my personal top 5 “Most Interesting Man in the World.” He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, former MTV show host, dancer, medical doctor, and entrepreneur. There’s probably a few more that I left out.

Calvin is an ER Doctor in New York City and he’s traveled to 170+ countries. What’s crazy is that he traveled to 150 of those countries during medical school and residency.

While traveling, Calvin, started a blog documenting his travels which turned into a travel company.

That company is called Monsoon Diaries.

In this episode we talk about:

• how he dealt with his father’s death at an early age
• getting into medical school with a below average academic record
• radical honesty and where that has gotten him
• being present and in his words “fuck your dreams”
• how his trip to North Korea went viral
• his plans for his travel company
• and much more

This is a great episode. Thanks for listening guys.

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Yo dudes!

In this episode I interview Danny Tran. Danny is the founder of multiple 6-figure businesses under his belt...all at the age of 25. Find Danny on instagram @DannyTuTran.

I talk to Danny about his first business launching a watch brand on Kickstarter and making 6 figures. He then got sued and lost all the money he made. Oh shit.

We talk about the low point in his life and then how he went from rock-bottom to creating his successful digital marketing agency he runs now.

Towards the end of the interview we talk about mindset and also the best books that have changed his life.

I actually ended up buying the book he talks about and I try to implement it in my life right now.

Loved my conversation with Danny. Hope you guys enjoy.

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This week's episode is an interview with my friend Johnny FD of JohnnyFD.com.

Johnny has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, BBC, and several other publications.

He's known for quitting his corporate 9-5 job and then becoming a location independent entrepreneur. He has documented his whole journey on his blog.

Johnny is one of the most well-known digital nomads in the digital nomad scene - for better or for worse.

We dive in deep into his story and go super deep.

As soon as we start the interview he told me he doesn’t want to just do the regular interview he has done over and over.

So instead we talk about some sensitive, never before heard issues that he has never been public about:

• his struggles growing up as an asian guy in America
• his identity and insecurity struggles
• what it’s like dealing with his haters
• his biggest regret in life
• and then we end with some straight knowledge bombs that are seriously packed with value

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Thanks!

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My conversation with fellow community member Ken Huynh. Ken is an alumni of the Food-X accelerator and co-founder of venture funded food startup The Saucey Sauce Co. Find out more about Ken at www.kennethhuynh.com.

He is a venture partner at ARC Fund, which is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on tech and food. In his next venture he is a Public Speaking and Executive Presence Coach and Tech Innovation Advisor.

He was one of the first members to join the community and from his introduction post, he seemed like a sharp, driven, badass dude.

This was my first time talking to Ken, and I asked him to come up with a list of 5 things he wish he knew when he was 20.

I came up with my own list as well and so we go back and forth talking about some life lessons or keys to think about when you're in your 20s.

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Dudes! Really special episode with my friend TK.

TK and his brother grew up in New Jersey and then moved to China to start a sneaker brand. That didn't work out but their travels to Korea inspired them to start a streetwear brand mixing in traditional Korean elements.

Yes, a Korea inspired streetwear brand.

The brand is called IISE. IISE means “second generation” in Korean.

With no money, no experience, no nothing they built this brand from the ground up and even had a runway show at New York Fashion Week in 2018.

It’s been exciting watching their company grow. We dive deep into the origin story.

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Enjoy dudes!

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In today's episode I talk with my friend Chris Kim who has spent the last 10 years working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

At HBO he searched and cultivated multicultural talent: writers, directors, and actors.

He currently works at Disney working on multicultural audience engagement.

Because of these roles, Chris has a unique and inside look into the inner-workings of the entertainment industry and Hollywood.

We talk about Asians in media today, how to get better representation in media, the rise of China, and much more.

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