I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Welcome to slow more. Welcome back. My guest today is of Asian origin, born and raised in the UK, which drove him to work his backside off, to learn and study and earn degrees and then

start in the financial sector in a way that I think life perhaps didn't support very much.

So around 14 months from the day he started work, he was hit with the one of the biggest financial crisis in history,

taking him out of that belief that being

in a corporate job for life is a way to go.

He chose a coaching, speaking career

that took him time to get to where he did,

but definitely, I think was worth it for quite a few of us.

His book, Energize, came out in 2022 and was an instant bestseller.

And his ambition in life is to help as many people as he can connect the heart to the mind.

Simon Alexander Ong is truly a remarkable thinker that uses true wisdom rather than glamour and shine to communicate a message

that can make all of us more productive, happier, and hopefully more energized.

I think you will love this conversation today.

I've researched Simon's work and I think we will find quite a few gold nuggets so without further I do Simon Alexander

on. So I jumped right in and I actually know from your life that you also, I mean in an interesting way, are have lived a

very life different to your parents, let's say.

So you were born in the UK, originally Chinese Malay, and you were one of the early ones in, you know, in your school being from China.

And so your life is very unexpected to make perhaps your cousins or you know

for relatives I see that also a bit you know having been raised in emerging markets as a bit of

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