OCTOBER CONFERENCE: OMG! MEN AND VULNERABILITIES

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HOST: JACKSON TAN

LIFE COACH & MENTOR

Jackson is currently an Entrepreneur, Wellness Advocate, Mentor and Coach. In the course of his career, Jackson’s prolific work across APAC region, including a 14 years stint in Shanghai, China led him to become adept in navigating different cultural settings. This intercultural immersion eventually piqued his interest in diverse wellness practices, especially meditation, and led him on a personal journey to actively redefine his personal relationships with wellness and work, culminating in his desire to lead a more purposeful life. 

For Jackson, this represented a return to the themes that characterised his early professional career, where his stints in hospitality attuned him to the possibilities of improving lives through service and leisure.

Jackson yearned for an opportunity to create a meaningful enterprise, having spent years growing and scaling businesses. Tapping into his vast experience in identifying and solving unmet business needs, he decided to create solutions that could bring about lasting, sustainable joy and fulfilment. 

By combining his entrepreneurial spirit, global business acumen and a keen eye for innovation along with his passion for rediscovering and redefining what it means to live a well-balanced life, he has embarked on his current journey and that is to inspire successful executives to reconnect with themselves and in the process achieve clarity to mount their next breakthrough whether in Career, Business or Life. 

SPEAKER: JAY TIEGS

HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH

Jay Tiegs is a Certified High-Performance Coach, college professor, podcaster, speaker, trainer, and the founder of Do Hard Things Nation Apparel. Jay believes taking on complex challenges with persistence and commitment enables people to find great success in life. 

He holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army and is a transitioning veteran with 27 years of service, both enlisted and as a commissioned officer.His mantra, "Do Hard Things," has enabled him to overcome many struggles in life and achieve success in completing complex challenges.  This shift in perspective allowed him to go from a directionless teenager who grew up in a fatherless home to a commissioned officer in the United States Army, where he successfully commanded two units specializing in the leadership development of our nation's next generation of emerging military leaders.

He now shares his outlook on personal transformation as a speaker, trainer, and high-performance coach with the Lions Guide, an online academy empowering business owners and leaders to take their performance to the next level.

SPEAKER: JOON KIM

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT

"Education, learning, and school are related but distinctly different."

Joon Kim is an educational consultant that helps students and their families make informed decisions on matters of education.  He specializes in the areas of learning, motivation, and leadership development.

As the son of immigrant parents from South Korea, he has been advising students from elementary to graduate students over the past 24 years.  His extensive experience, continuing professional education and network ensures he is up-to-date on all trends and information.  According to his past students they most appreciate his balance of candor, truth, and encouragement.

SPEAKER: BRYAN PETERSON

SUCCESS MINDSET COACH

"I spent 30+ years in the restaurant industry and ended up burned out and unfulfilled. I then spent the last 5+ years working in the personal development arena and eventually narrowed in on the mindset side of things. 

I love teaching and mentoring so becoming a coach really aligned with all that I was doing for myself and I wanted to help others achieve the same internal and external successes that I have been able to experience. 

As of right I specifically help salespeople become confident in themselves and the sales process. I am fascinated with how the conscious and subconscious work together and how to change one’s self-concept. 

I have been married to my wife Sonya for 22 years and we have no kids but currently have 2 cats."

HOST: LANI KIM

LIFE COACH

A native Californian, Lani loves being at the beach. She especially enjoys exploring different beaches and nature with her family in their RV. Having an RV is lifelong dream come true. It took four years to commit to buying the family RV and money was definitely part of that journey.

Lani realized people carry stories about money in their heads. These stories create unconscious thoughts and habits around money. Recognizing these stories empowers us to decide how we want to think about and manage our money. 

SPEAKER: HEATHER FLAKE

LIFE & MARRIAGE COACH 

Heather is a certified life coach and specializes in helping women find more joy, connection, and peace in their marriage. 

Having worked with a money mindset coach, Heather found many tools and new thoughts that helped her to shift from a scarce to abundant mindset. 

She loves that there is more than one way to think about money, and cultivating a good relationship with Money opens so many doors. 

Heather is so pumped to share some of her mind shifts around money that have really helped and improved her life. 

SPEAKER: TREVOR RAMOS

COLLEGE FUNDING CONSULTANT

Trevor is a College Funding Consultant and the author of How to Get Free Money for College. In the past 12 years, he has helped families with 9th, 10th, and 11th graders to get scholarships and grants to attend expensive universities. His specialty is helping parents who make too much money to qualify for federal and state grants, but not enough to pay $27,000-$85,000 per year to send all their kids to college.

With a 2.8 GPA going into his senior year, Trevor received a $165,000 financial aid award to attend Boston University despite thinking community college was his only option. 

He holds a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting. He is a Certified College Planning Specialist (CCPS) through the National Institute of Certified College Planners (NICCP), and member and panelist for the Western Association for College Admissions Counseling (WACAC) where he trains high school counselors and private consultants on scholarships and financial aid.

SPEAKER: GUS CHOI

CHARTERED RETIREMENT PLANNING COUNSELOR

Raised by an immigrant widowed single mom, I entered the financial services industry to help my mother years after my father's passing rebuild her financial security. Having seen my mom go through her own financial struggles,  I'm passionate about teaching others about the cornerstones of financial security and independence. 

Outside the office I'm busy raising two kids: 15 & 12, playing golf, deep sea fishing, cooking and traveling with my wife. 

SPEAKER: LINDA MENSAH

CERTIFIED MONEY COACH & FOUNDER OF THE SIKA PLATFORM (TSP)

Linda  helps motivated immigrants to create the financial life they want. Within her practice she draws from her life as an African immigrant living in the UK and how she navigated her finances.

She talks about money in a liberating and non-judgemental way.

She focuses on:

Providing personal financial education and coaching for individuals;

Helping to break limiting money habits;

Normalising talking about money and making more of it; and 

Providing financial education( including hints and tips) which helps us support our families without stunting our own financial growth.

Looking at failure in our lives uncovers insights that are worth more than gold. Contrary to what we learn in school and experience in our work context, setbacks are part of every development process. Learning to develop the ability to turn failure into your resources is an essential skill for surviving and thriving in any situation. 

This has always been completely natural for Jutta. Her curiosity drove her to live and work in 14 cities in 7 countries on 3 continents which taught her that there are so many different ways to do something. Insights on her journey fuel her training programs on Ethical Entrepreneurship she has been teaching since 2005. 

Jutta loves to inspire people to collaborate and co-create and calls it the art of collaboration because she believes that we are here on earth to build solutions together.

Lani Kim is a California native who loves to travel with her family in their motorhome. Her fondest memories of traveling mostly include their unexpected adventures. However, this was not always how she viewed traveling. She used to detest traveling and all the unexpected changes in plans. She thought those experiences were indications of failure. 

Being taught at a young age that a plan is necessary and that following the plan reflects a person’s worth, she made it a point to excel in school and in sports. Mediocre results were unacceptable and she would find beat herself up when she missed the mark. Her self-identity was greatly challenged going from a high-achieving adolescent to a failing college student. 

This is the root of her passion to help moms who feel like failures or who are struggling with their self-identity.

Jackson is an experienced and successful Executive and Entrepreneur who built businesses from scratch but walked away when he was at the top of his game. 

He felt that the more successful he was, the more isolated it became and he was further away from who he actually is. Imposter Syndrome kicked in and he felt more insecure about himself. 

When he fell off the cliff, he completely shifted his life and went from Human-Doing to Human-Being.

Norma Frahn is a certified Life & Health Coach and founder of her Weight Loss Your Way coaching program and podcast. She teaches women how to create a weight loss process that is uniquely aligned to their specific lives, and gets to the root causes of their health and weight challenges.  

She approaches health and weight loss coaching holistically because one’s self-worth is more than a diet and number on the scale.Norma believes that fear of failure keeps us stuck in perfectionism and prevents us from moving our goals forward.  

She teaches her clients that failure is not something to fear, but rather to embrace because achieving their health and weight goals requires experimenting, failing and trying again.Fearing failure is normal, but it doesn’t have to stop you.  In every failure there is a gift or opportunity.  

Embrace that, and you will be unstoppable!

Nancy Sawyer is a Certified Life Coach helping women to Master Midlife by helping them to reclaim their identity and step confidently into their next chapter after challenging events such as experiencing divorce or losing a parent. She is a coach, speaker and group facilitator who also offers courses and teaches workshops.

Nancy has integrated her 25+ years as a business owner, her life experience, and challenging life lessons into a business that helps others through coaching, speaking, workshops and courses.

Nancy has learned to embrace failure as a part of life, and now views failure as something that provides lessons and insight into what’s needed to succeed. Failure is only information on what doesn’t work, and as one door closes another one opens. She will share a story of struggle in her business as she learned valuable lessons through failure.