Episodes
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Episode 01
Kalyan Vaidya
Navigating a Career Move Across Two Continents
Kalyan on the change moment of moving his career across continents, and the pattern that carried him through it.
Episode 02
Jack Carney
Trust, Freedom, and Turning to AI Through Grief
Jack on rebuilding a life and a practice after losing his partner, and why trusting yourself first is the starting point for everything else.
Episode 03
Francis Laleman
Embracing Impermanence to Navigate Change
Francis on why impermanence is simply the natural state of life, and how patient, mindful observation beats forcing a fixed story of "why."
Episode 04
Clive Miller
Complex B2B Sales and the CLEAR Method
Clive on the CLEAR framework for complex sales, why salespeople talk too soon, and rebuilding a business after nearly running out of money.
Episode 05
Prasoon Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO, BillionBricks
Prasoon on building BillionBricks and the pattern behind founder-level reinvention.
Episode 06
Roger Wei
Serial Entrepreneur, Board Advisor, Executive Coach
Roger on changing industries every five years, and the pattern that carries him through each one: face it, accept it, adapt it.
Episode 07
Lydia Sun
From Corporate Training to Film Production, Nothing to Lose
Lydia on reinventing a career in her 40s and 50s, and the mindset that carried her through: "you have nothing to lose, but if you win, you win everything."
Episode 07 · 中文版
孙丽丽 Lydia Sun
从企业培训到电影制作，没有什么可失去的
丽丽谈四五十岁重塑职业生涯，以及支撑她走过这段历程的心态："你没有什么可失去的，但如果赢了，你将赢得一切。"
Episode 08
Licardo Chan
General Manager, North Asia, Curium Pharma
Licardo on compressing a 12-24 month product launch into 58 days, and the belief that there's always a way.
Episode 09
Edwin Song
Co-founder & CEO, Moodie.ai
Edwin on going from corporate executive to solo founder at 51, and why every entrepreneur needs "wise people" in their corner.
Episode 10
Dr. Sunil Wimalawansa
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology & Human Nutrition
Dr. Wimalawansa on walking away from a safe academic path, and a career built on keeping things simple: "the more you complicate it, the more it fails."
Episode 11
Zhao Ying
Managing Director, WhichMBA.net
Zhao Ying on 20 years navigating complexity as a Shanghainese entrepreneur, her new DBA on the Book of Changes, and her project to visit 100 cities across China.
Episode 12
Alvaro Montoya
Founder & CEO, Akkadu
Alvaro on surviving repeated pivots as a startup founder in China: with five months of runway left, he rebuilt Akkadu as an AI-powered live translation product and went from 15 people to 2, profitable and growing.
Episode 13 · 中文版
张正明 Erik Chang
创业、AI与内在身份，如何走出双轮并行的纠结
专注创新与创业的企业教练 Erik 坦诚分享：同时服务大企业创新团队和初创企业家时的纠结，如何回到"我想成为谁"，用"人生是一场体验与学习的旅程"把两套业务整合成相互促进的"双轮"，以及他在AI时代的真实应用。
Episode 14
Jeroen van Overbeek
Founder, Social Impakt & Co-Founder & CEO, BaliCoop
Jeroen on leaving a 20-year corporate career to bring clean drinking water to remote communities in Indonesia: how he found the bottleneck when demand for his filters jumped 30 times after the 2018 Lombok earthquake, and what it took to go from running a large business to selling filters from the trunk of a small car.
Episode 15
Carsten Iversen
Founder, AI Dancemation® · AI Filmmaker, Germany
Carsten on moving from leading a small quality assurance team to AI filmmaking in about two years: how playful AI images for his team turned into a new creative career, why change arrives week by week in his field, how he works with ChatGPT as a partner, and his advice for anyone afraid of AI: stop speculating, relax and trust the ride.
Episode 16
Alex Weber
Founder, Only (super)Human Applied Learning Technologies · California, US
Alex on coming back to the US after about 18 years in China and feeling like an immigrant in his own country: how he moved from “I don’t fit anywhere” to “I can be a bridge”, and why he treats emotions as feedback and his heart as a barometer for decisions.
Episode 17 · 中文版
吴承儒
烦恼来了，其实是生命在提升
厦门画家吴承儒老师分享儒释道智慧如何帮助我们面对变化与焦虑：把烦恼看作爬坡，是智慧与心性提升的时候；过去的让它过去，未来的不必过度担忧，把每一个当下过好。他还谈到如何带孩子走出去看世界，用信任和关爱陪伴孩子成长。
Episode 18
William Anderson
Managing Director, The TeamWorks · London, UK
William on the moment his first company nearly failed and he had to decide whether to back it or sack it: how letting go of control led to 15 healthy years, why he now sees every challenge as a sphere with many doors, and why he makes bold statements so his team will challenge them.
Episode 19
Amit Soundalgekar
Founder & CEO, AROHAN · India
Amit on gravitating towards simplicity to deal with complexity: how a failed first business taught him to study, reflect and apply, why he gives up control of small decisions to focus on why, and how losing his father led him to organic farming and a purpose he sums up in four words: we live to give.
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