Comfort & Growth with Crystal Lim-Lange

Have you ever wondered how some people seem to bounce back from hard knocks or cope with so many challenges without letting it get them down? In this mini-workshop episode, Crystal shares some science-based strategies, tips and practices to optimise your grit and inner strength. Using her 5 Gardens of Resilience methodology, which she has taught to tens of thousands of people, we will go on a journey to discover how we can grow a bumper crop of resilience resources so that when life hands us hard things, we feel prepared to face them with confidence. Highlights ————— 00:00 Intro 02:07 Resilience definition 05:00 5 Aspects of Resilience model 05:00 Mental resilience 10:30 Emotional Resilience 14:25 Emotional expression + how to deal with emotional flooding 17:42 Physical resilience 23:00 Spiritual resilience 26:00 Wonder and awe 27:50 Social Resilience 33:30 Switching gardens Useful links —————— Negative thinking styles article https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/unhelpful-thinking-styles-cognitive-distortions-in-cbt/ Self-love and self-compassion https://open.spotify.com/episode/44QKP5kfI0or1kex6rrZ1W?si=8dd529aacfe546fe (Book) Awe - Dacher Keltner https://www.amazon.sg/Awe-Science-Everyday-Wonder-Transform/dp/1984879685

This week, we delve into the extraordinary journey of Jianhao Tan, Singapore’s OG YouTuber superstar and founder of Titan Digital Media. Despite his introverted nature, Jianhao has amassed a staggering 7 million devoted fans, captivating audiences with his unique blend of humor and relatability. Jianhao reflects on his remarkable rise to prominence, shares his origin story about growing up in Cambodia and Vietnam, and then returning home to Singapore and discovering a passion for making videos. With candor and insight, Jianhao shares the challenges he encountered along the way, from overcoming self-doubt to navigating the complexities of fame in the digital age. Beyond his professional endeavors, Jianhao provides a heartfelt glimpse into his personal life as a devoted family man sharing poignant anecdotes about balancing his career aspirations with the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood. Join us as we embark on an inspiring journey with Jianhao! Highlights ———— 02:56 Jianhao’s origin story - growing up in Cambodia and Vietnam 07:20 150 million views per month 0830 Starting a business at 21 from the piano room 1100 Adversity bonds people 1200 Balancing advertising and being a creative 1300 How to price yourself as a creator 1455 Mentoring other influencers 1700 Becoming a parent 1735 Buncha and meeting his wife 1900 Navigating boundaries between public and private life 2226 On Oversharing 2400 Managing different types of people 2615 Titan Academy hits 100 episodes and the importance of celebrating 2812 Milestones that matter and balancing act 2934 Working with a PA 3100 Being a stoic and stoicism 3230 The self-awareness deficit Find Jianhao at: Youtube ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@jianhao⁠ Instagram ⁠instagram.com/thejianhaotan⁠ TikTok ⁠tiktok.com/@thejianhaotan⁠ Facebook Page ⁠facebook.com/thejianhaotan⁠ Twitter ⁠twitter.com/thejianhaotan⁠ Twitch ⁠twitch.com/thejianhaotan⁠ And check out ⁠https://thestarry.co/⁠ Debbie’s jewellery line of high quality diamond simulate pieces for everyday wear!

This week we are going to take a practical and insightful deep dive into difficult conversations and storytelling at work with regional communications expert Shruti Bose, Head of Communications and Public Affairs Asia Pacific for Roche Diagnostics. Shruti shares real life stories of influencing stakeholders using empathy and storytelling as a secret weapon, not taking conflict personally, and her tips for having difficult conversations at work. I also loved her groundedness and attitude of gratitude, and hope you are inspired by her story too! Shownotes On the National Women’s Checkup Week with Singapore Cancer Society https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rochediagnosticsasiapacific_sgcheckup-xproject-everywoman-activity-7064820493081608192-OM52?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Get screened - link to Singapore Cancer Society https://www.singaporecancersociety.org.sg/get-screened/breast-cancer/mammogram.html Highlights ======== 01:00 How we met in the Biopharma industry 03:20 Shruti’s childhood and how it shaped her 03:52 The Fs of Life challenges - Fairness, Failure, Fear 06:00 On losing her voice 08:43 How she came to work for the Biopharma sector 13:20 Intellectual vs social friction and not personalising 15:30 - reading too much into a situation 18:00 - On asking for support 18:55 - Her difficult conversation at work with her stakeholders 20:00 - Don’t be married to an idea 21:58 - What you can and can’t control 22:54 - On our unconscious bias 23:58 - Gratitude Quotient GQ 25:00 - The worst time to be grateful is after you lost it 26:25 - Happiness, freedom and courage 27:43 - Launch of National Women’s Checkup Week 30:30 - Not every conflict needs to be resolved 31:00 - Storytelling model - CAP - Connection, Appeal, Proof 33:00 - The power of storytelling at work - examples in real life, Jack Ma, Indra Nooyi 35:00 - Creating demand for what we need 36:40 - Word of the year!

Want to be a luckier, calmer, more productive person in 2024? You’ve come to the right place! Join Crystal and Dr. Greg as they share their best little mindset hacks and rituals for success and positivity! In this episode, we’ll talk about developing a lucky identity, arigato in and out (or the joy of spending money), “off gassing walks”, magic sleep music and much much more! Enjoy this fun episode and let us know what you think! Resources: The “Arigato In Arigato Out” book we mentioned on money is Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money Kindle Edition by Ken Honda The amazing deep sleep music is https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vJYui0LnaQQEK8PamfKrp?si=93c3a1fa13c14161

We are super privileged to have with us Elaine Yew, one of the world’s most respected leadership advisors, making a rare appearance on social media! Although Elaine prefers to shun the spotlight, she is very well known to industry insiders as the go to person for advice on senior leadership, succession planning, board advisory and any sort of problem that keeps powerful organisations and leaders up at night. In this episode, we cover practical advice for anyone who wants to develop more gravitas, confidence and impact at work, and also delve into deeper topics such as developing your own leadership identity and how to navigate a bicultural Asian and Western context, especially for Asian women! Hope you find this episode as engaging and practical as I did :) 00:00 Introduction 1:40 Elaine’s career 4:49 On having a unrelated career to what you studied and unfair advantages 5:55 Passion and originality 6:13 Egon Zehnder’s research on what the 4 factors of potential in people - Curiosity, Insight, Engagement, Determination 9:00 Navigating male dominated workplaces 13:12 Leadership styles - embracing the range and the “AND” 14:50 Jo Chew’s Masters thesis on how Asian women in Singapore and Malaysia make it to the top of their careers in a bi-cultural context 16:00 Tea Pouring Boss B*tch story 21:33 On the quality of energy in leadership 24:00 Developing your own identity at work - defining who you are, not who you are not 25:15 Being realistic about whether you can bridge the gap or not 25:35 On dealing with people dehumanising or objectifying you the workplace 27:00 Consciously conveying to other who you are about and sharing about yourself 29:25 How to develop gravitas 30:55 The importance of arriving and connecting in the boardroom 32:05 On not rushing yourself - Crystal’s childhood story 35:49 Setting the tone of a meeting 37:00 The ability to adjust to different time parameters, prioritise and synthesise important points Resources: Jo Chew’s thesis on female Asian leadership https://flora.insead.edu/fichiersti_wp/InseadEMCtheseswave34/98788.pdf Call number link on the Insead catalogue: https://librarycatalogue.insead.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=98788

Learn how to use a powerful visualisation technique to envision and prepare yourself for success in 2024! This was one of the most popular tools from our recent round of sold out workshops on Manifesting Success, and Crystal takes us through some of the biggest misconceptions about visualisation, and how high-performers use the tool to create the conditions of success. Prep exercise Do this exercise before you go on to the Time Episode visualisation exercise in Ep 24 First write down a goal. Then write down 3 most likely obstacles or challenges that will derail you. For each of those 3 challenges, come up with 1-3 action plans to overcome them. E.g. I want to be a mindful person and practice 30 mins of mindfulness every day. 3 likely challenges - I may forget, my kids may yell and disrupt me, I may get bored with this Action plans - I will set a timer on my phone, I will have a backup plan to do a body scan at night before sleeping if I don’t get to practice, I will do my mindfulness in the shower if my kids are yelling, I will find an alternative way of practicing mindfulness with my children, I will switch to mindful listening at work, I will try a different type of mindfulness every month etc. Inspirational Quote (applies to men too!) “The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert Resources: Watch these videos of high-performance athletes at the Winter Olympics sharing about their visualisation process How Conquer an Olympic Biathlon https://youtu.be/uzpOFOjbkBw?si=mylyTbJsJjyNgoQ9 Before the Start of an Olympics Doubles Luge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDmRwjBryu0 Before She Skis the Cross-Country Course https://youtu.be/pZf24MEemKI?si=I52BpK8bb_RAMy8X Olympic Athletes - Mental Imagery - Before The Snowboard Cross Gates Open https://youtu.be/pZf24MEemKI?si=I52BpK8bb_RAMy8X

Settle in for the ride of your lifetime with our signature power visualisation exercise and be treated to the tools and inner technology that I use with my coaching clients. If you haven't done the prep work in Ep 23 - please listen to that first! After this episode, journal, write and draw the most important and meaningful images, words and phrases that came to mind and share them with me on IG! Wishing you so much love and light! Thanks for being with me on this journey and I hope you slay all your 2024 goals with self-love, grit and resilience! Much love, Crystal

One of our favourite podcast guests - Juliana Chan, Very Cool Scientist and Queen of LinkedIn, is back again in this episode to discuss 2 major life crises that changed her life - her dad’s illness and her miscarriage. *Content warning- We discuss the details of miscarriage and processing grief in this episode In this candid and very real chat, we delve into how how we dealt with these confronting times, and what we chose to learn from them. We also explore how we can move from Victim mindset to Responsible Mindset and own our narrative. Juliana is also starting a new Find Your Superpower Linkedin Bootcamp! For more details see the link below: ⁠https://www.julianachan.org/find-your-superpower-community⁠ Highlights: ————— 1:41 Juliana’s 2 big life changing experiences 03:00 Juliana’s relationship with her dad 05:00 On helplesslessness 07:00 Post Traumatic Growth 09:09 Walt Disney’s 3 chairs 11:10 Processing her father’s illness 12:00 The power of awe & Dacher Keltner 13:00 On moving from control to surrender 16:46 Sending our daughters to girls schools vs mixed schools 21:00 Juliana shares about her miscarriage 26:41 Ambiguous loss 27:45 Crystal shares about her miscarriage. 28:55 On shame 31:30 On victim mindset vs responsible mindset (*I learned this exercise originally from Gareth McIlroy) 35:20 Juliana’s LinkedIn Bootcamp Resources: --------------- Juliana’s Find Your Superpower Linkedin Bootcamp! ⁠https://www.julianachan.org/find-your-superpower-community⁠ Dacher Keltner’s book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Hardcover – January 3, 2023 ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Awe-Science-Everyday-Wonder-Transform/dp/1984879685⁠

The iconic Daniel Priestley is back for part 2! The bestselling author of several of How to Raise Entrepreneurial Kids, Oversubscribed, Become a Key Person of Influence and Entrepreneur Revolution, Dan Priestley shares his candid views with us on thinking like an entrepreneur and preparing your mindset for the future of AI We discuss - Why SG's youth are less likely to want to become entrepreneurs compared to other countries - How to encourage kids to be entrepreneurial thinkers - Dan's childhood entrepreneur origin story - 3 essential mindset shifts you must have for the future of AI - Dan's latest projects Find Daniel’s work at: ⁠https://danielpriestley.com/⁠ Daniel’s Amazon author page ⁠https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-Priestley/author/B00699HDBA?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true⁠ YouTube - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/KeyPersonOfInfluence/videos⁠ LinkedIn - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/⁠ We discuss: - Why SG's youth are less likely to want to become entrepreneurs compared to other countries - How to encourage kids to be entrepreneurial thinkings - Dan's childhood entrepreneur origin story - 3 essential mindset shifts you must have for the future of AI - Dan's latest projects Find Daniel’s work at: https://danielpriestley.com/ Daniel’s Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-Priestley/author/B00699HDBA?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/KeyPersonOfInfluence/videos LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielPriestley Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dpriestley

Work-life bestie is in fangirl mode this week as she interviews Daniel Priestley, the author of several of her all-time favourite business and leadership books- Oversubscribed, Become a Key Person of Influence and Entrepreneur Revolution. This episode is full of fresh and truly original insights from Dan, and we cannot recommend it more highly whether or not you are an entrepreneur, because in the age of AI, everyone needs entrepreneurial thinking skills! Find Daniel’s work at: https://danielpriestley.com/ Daniel’s Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-Priestley/author/B00699HDBA?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/KeyPersonOfInfluence/videos LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielPriestley Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dpriestley

Your work-life bestie interviews her "Gen Z bestie" this week, Sahur Saleim is a social media star and CEO of her own beauty brand, Sahurs Art and she is just 25!!! In this episode, Sahur shares her journey to launching her own inclusive and cruelty-free beauty brand, talks about overcoming fear and ignoring trolls, upholding her values, thriving despite supply chain challenges in Covid times, and even gives Crystal some practical makeup tips! Find Sahur at IG & Tiktok @sahursart and check out her amazing, cute and cool makeup products at https://sahursart.com/

Rachel and I sold out of 3 months of stock in 1 day when we launched our I AM WELL wellness planner and journal, and we are here to answer all your many questions about journalling, productivity and our plans for I AM WELL! Thanks so much for supporting us on our journey, we are blown away by the amazing response and are working on how to restock soon! Find out more about I AM WELL at https://www.rachreflects.com/shop-i-am-well-journal See less

P.s. NEW LAUNCH of I AM WELL wellness journal and planner! order through our website at shop.iamwelljournal.com In our first LIVE episode, Crystal fields all your burning work life questions, moderated by MAS startup Elevandi’s Andralynn Tan! We will talk about how to define success, how to speak up and press your internal unmute button. How to make yourself stand out, deal with difficult colleagues and more! Timestamps 2:45 - Reaction vs Response 5:56 - How do you define success? 8:30 - How passions change over your life 10:00 - How do we find our voice at work? And why is it so hard for Singaporeans to speak up? 11:47 - AI Revolution means we have to develop our personality to stand out 13:15 - Equity sales and learning to make client calls 14:29 - The Singaporean Internal Mute Button 15:34 - On the importance of preparing and research 19:08 - How to approach people who are not willing to listen 21:33 - How to interrupt skilfully 22:29- How to give feedback to abrasive colleagues

Crystal shares her take on having good boundaries, and one of her most important productivity secrets - the Eisenhower Matrix! Recorded on the road in Italy with Greg wandering around packing in the background just for extra randomness :)

In this high-energy episode, media entrepreneur Adrian Ang, better known as SGAG's Xiaoming, spills the backstory on how he turned his love for memes into a multi-country media empire spanning more than 200 team members, and shares his best tips on balancing work, marriage and parenthood! On a deeper level, we also explored what it was like for Adrian to process grief and strong emotions as he shared how him and his wife dealt with the miscarriage of their first pregnancy, as well as the wondrous joys and daily challenges of being a parent to his adorable son "Ploop Ploop"! Join us for this lively, inspiring and very real episode and follow Adrian, Co-founder of HEPMIL on IG & Tiktok at @sgagxiaoming !

On today's episode we discuss all things wellness related - hormones, healthy eating while on the road, Intermittent Fasting and how to manage stress better with Holistic Nutritionist Riyana Rupani! Riyana is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Founder of Everyday Foods, Mom of 3 boys and Foodie who loves to help others with their food and lifestyle choices. Join us to discover how simple hacks like eating foods in a certain order, chewing well and listening to our body can make a powerful difference to our life and happiness! You can find Riyana at: IG - @healthyishandhappy https://www.healthyishandhappy.com/

In this episode, we explore how you can find your voice, overcome the fear of speaking up and develop a grade A reputation. Our guest expert, my dear friend Juliana Chan is truly a rarity, and I’m so glad to have her on to probe her for her expertise and productivity / self-care secrets! Juliana is not only a brilliant academic and scientist, but also a super-savvy entrepreneur, mom and founder & CEO Of Wildtype Media Group, Asia’s leading STEM-focused media company. As a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, she is always flying around the world to moderate panels and give keynotes, and is an expert in public speaking and communications. In this "bestie-style" episode, we share our candid thoughts about everything from how Asians can speak up more, developing a mindset for success, practical tips for LinkedIn (including how NOT to be a Humblegagger) and the down low on the life of an working mom entrepreneur. Juliana is launching a new e-book and video course, The LinkedIn Success Mindset, this week. It discusses three laws—the law of abundance, the law of attraction and the law of reciprocity—and how they can be applied to LinkedIn. From now until the end of the month (31 October 2023), all Comfort & Growth listeners will receive a 30% discount code on Juliana's LinkedIn courses with the code CRYSTAL30OFF at ⁠https://www.julianachan.org/courses⁠ Highlights ========= 04:30 - How Juliana found her voice in Boston 06:27 - Why we need to speak up for success 10:25 - Advice to get over success blocks and limiting beliefs 12:41 - Importance of showing up online 19:38 - Linkedin - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly! 21:40 - Humblebragging and how to voice it 26:22 - Abundance vs Scarcity Mindset 29:42 - A day in the life of Juliana - Routines & Rituals for Success 33:17 - Working with a hybrid team - how to keep motivated and aligned 36:24 - Exercise for sanity & self-care 39:50 - On whether to scale her company or not 45:07 - Juliana’s new book! Juliana’s links are: 🔗 LinkedIn: @julianachanPhD 📸 Instagram: @julianachanPhD 🧵 Threads: @julianachanPhD 🎵 TikTok: @julianachanPhD

How do you bond with your boss if you don’t smoke or drink? Do I have to talk tough and walk tough at work? How do I speak up and take a stance? Must I always buy the birthday cakes and serve refreshments at meetings just because I’m a woman? So many of you wrote in to demand a survival guide for working in male-dominated work cultures, so I asked my old friend, ex Debt Capital Markets banker John LeFevre to join us. John is a New York Times bestselling author of Straight to Hell, which was published by Simon and Schuster, and had the movie rights bought by Paramount Films. He started the cultural phenomenon known as GS Elevator on Twitter, a satirical account discussing banking culture, which grew to more than a million followers on social media. John drops some of his unabashedly frank wisdom, stories and real life advice in this episode, and you can find him at Twitter: @JohnLeFevre Instagram: @realGSE All of his content: www.the-graze.com

Get ready to dive into the juiciest, most unfiltered episode of the season so far! We're answering all your burning questions about that (often intimidating) journey of choosing a partner. Crystal & Dr. Greg spill the tea on what truly matters when picking your potential love interest, managing your expectations and getting realistic, and the art of manipulation and defusing tense situations, for good, of course! Also, learn how to work together with your partner in harmony and create a love story that'll give the rom-coms a run for their money. Tune in, take notes, and get ready to level up your relationship game. You don't want to miss this one! 🔥

In this candid AMA episode, Crystal shares her journey to 230K+ followers in a year, and answers your questions on what the key factors are to being engaging, authentic and developing your own voice, how to deal with trolls and negativity, how to develop thought leadership and more! Get on the waitlist for my thought leadership course and get access here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z_w1Z6hmHk0CQ1BZAz1PcvYyRTO5GOvoakqtBSCZFok/