Navigating The Rise

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This week we have the opportunity to speak with Sunni Sukumar, Marketing Director at preHIRED.  We explored various topics on how he broke out of the limitations he had and practiced his grit to get to where he is now.  Some of those stories we heard from Sunni include: * How Sunni grew up scared of white people because of all the racism he faced as a kid. * His parents didn't teach him any Indian languages or the culture. They wanted him to be as American as possible to fit in America.  After all, his parents struggled to fit into the US culture even though they spoke good English and were highly educated). * Have severe social anxiety. That drove him to understand people better, which got him curious about marketing. * How Sunni defined marketing as the science of helping people embrace change. People need to hope that "this time can be different." The reason is that we've almost all tried to get a result many times before we finally do. That same kind of fear keeps us from straying outside

Our upbringing determines our identity and values. Every decision we make is affected by our beliefs growing up. As a result, it can become a constraint in a diverse workplace, where you have to learn how to put yourself in the shoes of someone from another culture. By learning how to respect each other’s differences and awakening our cultural awareness, we can achieve success in everything we do. In this episode, John Eing joins us to talk about how you can advance your career without compromising your values in life. He also discusses the importance of breaking cultural norms and stereotypes in the workplace. Also, he highlights the role of cultural awareness in our multicultural interactions in the workplace and society. This episode will teach you the importance of culture in living a happy and successful life. Tune in! Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn the three most important pieces of career advice John learned in his first job. Find out how our values and cultu

This week we have the opportunity to discuss with Angeline Wehmeyer on she went from making minimum wage with a master's degree to owning 1000's apartment units. Angeline Wehmeyer has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Her passion is to share her system with others to continually add more value and help them create a lifestyle filled with health & wealth, joy & abundance. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Surbhi Rathore.  Surbhi Rathore is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rammer, the popular AI platform that automatically generates actionable insights from meetings. Prior to leading Rammer to success, Surbhi was heading Pre-Sales and Implementation projects for the Intelligent Assistant from Amdocs pluggable on existing Telco Enterprise software solutions around the globe. She has earlier worked with Nevis Networks, where she oversaw the development and deployment of Endpoint Agent for Network Security across organizations.

This week we explored how to be an expert at various new technologies quickly with Amit Joshi in his entrepreneurial journey. Amit is an MBA+B.Tech graduate with 10 years of work experience in business strategy consulting and product management. He has been in the blockchain domain for 3+ years. He also worked on the implementation of blockchain in healthcare, payments, logistics, aerospace, crypto exchanges/funds, asset tokenization, among others. For any company, integrating innovation with your business model is key to delivering better products and services to your customers. If you’re looking into using emergent technologies in your business, you have to innovate and use your resources well. In this week’s episode, we’re chatting with Amit Josh, the CEO of the blockchain domain company HashPrix. Amit shares his entrepreneurial journey, and he lets us in on his knowledge on how to be an expert quickly at new technologies. He also talks more in-depth about how residing in different countries has helped sha

This week I have the opportunity to speak with Alex (Woo Seung) Sohn, Head of US Office, King Sejong Institute Foundation.  The goal of the organization for King Sejong is to share Korean culture through activities and Korean Language. Given the recent rise in K-Pop and K-Drama, many people are becoming interested in Korean culture.  But that is still at a superficial level.  To fully become more immersed in the culture, it is imperative to learn about the language.  One of the ways is that the Korean language is more of a context-driven language than a non-context driven language.  For example, in English and other languages, the sentence itself can quickly convey the meaning by itself. However, Koreans like to communicate a bit directly, and one word can mean different things depending on the context.  Because of those structures, not learning the language will take away many of the deeper nuances of the Korean language. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c

A show that uses culture to elevate yourself personally and professionally. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/navigatingtherise/support

This week I have the honor of having a session with Co-Founder and CEO of Reasi. Reasi automates property settlements so customers can transact real estate using only their phones. We've streamlined home closings and eliminated frustration in a $110 billion industry plagued by expensive fees and wire fraud. However, the deal is sourced; Reasi will close it efficiently and securely. John described how his Asian culture ensures his worth ethic. Given the state that Asians are still being discriminated to some extent, he believes that it is up to Asians themselves to put in the extra effort to bridge the gap. Like other successful entrepreneurs, he doesn't want to give anyone an excuse for any failures, even if the reason is something he can't change, such as his race. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

John is a web manager with over 10+ years of experience launching web sites, applications, and content to market. My passion lies in learning new techniques and technologies to improve business operations. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

This week we explored what it means to have strong emotional intelligence.  People usually associate emotional intelligence in how well we can read and understand other people.  Valerie gave her perspective in developing a strong foundation for emotional intelligence, and that begins with the self instead with others.  After all, how can we say we know about someone else when we don't even know about ourselves.  Additionally, we also explored how the people we don't like can be potentially what we don't like about ourselves.  Valerie mentioned how she was a hypnotherapist to get people to get over their fears and blockages.  Many times, it results from the lack of awareness and acknowledgement of the situation.  How many times have you noticed where you ignore the facts because you refused to acknowledge the situation? We also explored many ways to respond appropriately where we control our response as opposed being reactive.  Some ways include letting the emotion out a

This week we explored how to navigate the situation as a meek individual.  We investigated how it affects our work lives as well as our personal lives.  These effects have long term consequences, both good and bad, depending on the environment we are in and being exposed to.  We explored how can we deal with that situation in cultures where being meek is perceived to be incompetent as well as where it is highly valued.  Because of those situations, how to go about content switching between the two becomes vitally important.  As such, the conclusion boils down to personal development.  When we are consciously aware of our surroundings, we can look at the situation objectively and do context switching rather quickly.  Even if we mess up, we can readjust accordingly as opposed to constantly worrying what the next step will be. Regarding self-development, the most important thing is being self-aware.  In previous episodes, we talked about the role of context switching. In s

This week we explored how to build up the mentality of having a successful business when the traditional path either cannot or won't serve you.  Alex started his career where most of his income came from commissions, which means he gets paid based on results as opposed to time like a regular job.  That means he had to be creative in how he approaches his career.  Like most Asian households, he had a lot of communication challenges with Asian parents on what needs to be done where pleasing his parents meant making minimum wage.  He decided to chart his path into a real estate business where he gave his mindset on his approaches toward business.  He had this full commitment toward the company for 12 months of working 40-50 hours a week before deciding to call it quits.  He also took his lessons from his Asian parents on how they started enterprises to create a legacy of his. Listen here as we delve more deeply into how he used his Asian upbringings to get to where he is now. We als

Peter Lee has been in law practice for over 25 years. He practiced many different areas of law with current specialties in the following: Real estate transaction and litigation. Commercial leases and unlawful detainer actions. Construction contracts and disputes. Business consultation and litigation. Peter Lee shared his background and how his family indirectly influenced him to practice law. One of the significant thing that helped Peter pivot into law was doing well on the LSAT. That started his career into law and stayed in that field for a while. Like many people who began their careers without experiencing other professions, Peter also wondered if being a lawyer was the right career path for him. Because of that, his early years where he was tempted to find something else. The typical syndrome that "grass is always greener on the other side." Peter took time off to determine whether being a lawyer was the right path. During his time off trying to find himself, he finally realized that it is a blessi

This week we explored with engineer turned business owner in how she branched out in creating not one, but two businesses.  We examined how she went about creating her activities as well as what Asian traits she utilized to make her business successful.  Some sample traits mentioned including the cost conscious and the hard-working behavior commonly exhibited in the Asian community.  The perfection that was driven by our Asian parents helped her in addressing all the logistics in opening her first sandwich shop.  We also explored how the Asian culture of being obedient and humble hurt our climbing of the corporate environment, which also contributed to her desire to opening her businesses. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

Known as the "Career Whisperer" in Fortune 500 companies for being the most sought out coach for employee & team success, Shian Chuan is a certified Master NLP practitioner and a Peak Performance business consultant. Shian has mentored over 300 clients and is an accomplished trainer and speaker, having presented to 1000's of leaders around the world on behavioral science and human psychology. Originally from California, Shian has more than 11 years of training, coursework, and experience related to mindset, brain and body-based personal development, and alternative healing. To get in touch with Shian or for access to a stream of free insights and resources, visit www.shianchuan.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

There are actually 6 major regions in Asia.  I broke it down for you as well as the list of countries in each region. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

Languages alter your worlds in ways you can't imagine. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

This is a Japanese episode about the conflicting feelings between inner and outer display in Japan --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navigatingtherise/support

In this episode, Jerry Lee gave us some top tips on how to overcome some of the perceived limitations of being Asians.  Also, we addressed some of the cultural nuances that affected Asians in the workplace in the United States. Jerry Lee is an admin from the Subtle Asian Networking Group in the US, and he takes his experience in the group as a guide on how to overcome these potentially harmful perceived traits. Be aware of the Asian upbringings on, and values growing and try to understand them as strengths instead of weaknesses Asians tend to be a hard worker and put their heads down. That is great; however, the lack of challenging the status quo causes issues as that puts Asians in a bind is not being perceived super high value. As the chain of command or leadership roles continues to go up, the execution of the project is less important than the strategy part of the project. For example, highly paid leaderships are not paid to work in producing deliverables, but driving the overall direction on where t