Latest Chinaculture Podcast Episodes
#154 Managing the holiday blues [Adjusting Well]
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - December 02, 2015 09:40 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsThe holiday season can be a bit of a double-edged sword, can't it? For many, there's so much joy and expectation on one end and then massive let down and sadness on the other. Is this just an expat phenomenon, you think? It's not! In fact, the holiday blues are experienced around the world in ev...
#153 Teaching English in Shenzhen, China—What to expect, with Carl Smith
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - December 01, 2015 08:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsHave you ever considered moving to China to teach English? If so, you'll enjoy this discussion with Carl Smith, Associate Director of Studies at an English First training school in Shenzhen. Carl was looking for opportunities to apply his anthropology masters and gain experience working in forei...
#152 Simple living—Decluttering your life to find more joy with Pete Rogers
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 29, 2015 01:13 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsMost of us are brilliant at accumulating ‘things’ and filling each wall, bookshelf and crevice of our homes with them. Possessions signify status for some and security for others. As expats, I know first hand the hoarders mentality that grips so many of us. Look into any expat’s medicine or toil...
#151 The hidden power of negative emotions with Pete Rogers
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 25, 2015 05:42 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn our society, negative emotions like pessimism, anger, jealousy, guilt, anxiety and sadness are generally considered emotions that are best kept to our selves, suppressed or simply brushed aside. Don’t believe me? Well, how many times have you said, “Oh, I know shouldn't feel so angry about th...
#150 Laowai Chinese: Basic Numbers 0-100
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 25, 2015 05:21 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLearning numbers in Chinese is in some respects easier than English but total mastery of these suckers takes a bit of grit. In this show, I’ll walk you through how to craft the numbers 0 to 100. And give you a bit of practice time to stretch your brain a bit! For Show Notes on this episode and m...
#149 What the Chinese want in a leader with Morry Morgan
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 25, 2015 05:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIf you had to brainstorm a list of the qualities you believe to be most sought after in leadership by Chinese employees, what would you include? How about responsible? Motivational? Caring? Powerful? How might you rank them? I sat with Morry Morgan, co-founder of ClarkMorgan, and learned about a...
#148 [Sticky Steps 9] Wowing the audience with your voice
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 24, 2015 01:02 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWould you agree that there is unlimited power in your voice? Let's be honest, words and more pointedly, how you say those words, can have a massive impact on the delivery of your message. How many talks have you sat through where the content was solid, but the presenter's voice lulled you into a...
#147 [Adjusting Well] Stop blaming China—battling negativity
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 17, 2015 05:57 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsHow many times have you said or heard, “It’s so much easier back home!” It is? Really? Or are you living in a fantasy world where your former life in your home country was seemingly perfect, with no challenges, no tough days, no arguments, no disappointments and no setbacks. At least, NOTHING co...
#146 Developing legacy leaders with Pete Rogers
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 16, 2015 01:19 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAuthor Daniel Goleman identifies Self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills to be the five core competencies of Emotional Intelligence. For you CEO’s out there, or entrepreneurs…how many of you interview candidates for positions based on these criteria. How many of y...
#145 [Expat Finance 9] Protecting your wealth
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 13, 2015 05:48 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe’ve made it folks! This is episode 9 in our series on Expat Finance with Adrian Bliss. If you’ve listened up to this point and have actually begun to put steps in motion to build your wealth, it’s only smart to learn how to protect it, right? Well, that’s what we’re going to do in today’s show...
#144 Laowai Chinese—Mastering the 4 tones (practice)
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 11, 2015 02:22 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLearning to master the tones in the Chinese language is important but it’s a process. Go easy on yourself! Chances are you’re not going to be a tone rock star yet but to get you well on your way to being able to differentiate the tones, we’ll spend all of our time today in practice. In this foll...
#143 Limitless Chinese—Mastering the 4 tones (lesson)
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 10, 2015 00:02 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAhhhh yes, the dreaded Chinese tone. As we launch this Laowai Chinese podcast series for all you beginner learners out there, we’ve got to start with the basics. In my experience, tones are one of the most dreaded and intimidating parts of learning Chinese but training your ear to differentiate ...
#142 Leading a great Chinese sales team with Morry Morgan
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 09, 2015 01:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat does it take to sell effectively to the Chinese market? Sales guru, author and co-founder of ClarkMorgan, Morry Morgan certainly knows. Morry defies the odds as a laowai, consistently ranking top in sales to the local market and effectively leading his team. How does he do it? What qualitie...
#141 [Expat Finance 8] Benefits and risks of property investment
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 05, 2015 01:33 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsPeople love property and many of us grow up thinking that home ownership is one of those rights of passage into adulthood. While it very well may be, there are hidden costs and risks associated with property that you need to know. In this episode with Adrian, he talks us through all those extra ...
#140 Laowai Chinese: In a taxi (Beginner)
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 05, 2015 00:48 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSick of being intimidated by taxi transport in China? You’re not alone! In this episode of Laowai Chinese, I’ll walk you through all the basics you need to know to squash your fear of getting lost and prep you for your next big outing! This episode is great if you're hearing this vocab set for t...
#139 [Sticky Steps 8] Crafting the perfect PPT
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 04, 2015 01:55 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsOh the powerpoint presentation. It's my least favorite part of talks really, because it's so often used in the wrong way, isn't it? Many distract from the speaker himself as opposed to adding value to his message. Some speakers use the PPT as their note cards and bore us to pieces reading from t...
#138 Savor street food like a local with Jamie Barys
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - November 03, 2015 03:57 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat is one of my all time favorite things about living in China? Hands down… the food! With the multitudes of complex ingredients and flavors, tasting some of China’s finest cuisines is simply par for the course if you’re going to do China right… at least, it is if you’re like me and serious f...
#137 [Expat Finance 7] How to interview a financial advisor
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 30, 2015 06:17 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsI love Fridays and a big part of that is getting to launch an expat finance episode just for you! The question this week is: Would you know a qualified wealth manager if he or she were looking you in the eye? Before sitting down with Adrian, and hearing his tips on how to interview your financia...
#136 The surefire way to rev your productivity with Pete Rogers
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 29, 2015 00:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAll of us want to feel a bit more productive in our day-to-day lives. In fast-paced China there’s always another opportunity, another gig, another goal, another activity to get involved in… but at some point we all find ourselves in a productivity rut. What if I told you there is one thing that ...
#135 [Adjusting Well 3] Connect home, but live here
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 28, 2015 06:48 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAnyone else have wicked FOMO about missing what’s going back home? Is your facebook feed the first and last thing you check out each day? If so you’re not alone but now that you live in China, to adjust well to your new life you need to learn how to intentionally connect to the incredible commun...
#134 [Sticky Steps 7] Drawing the audience back in
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 27, 2015 01:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat do you do when you begin to lose your audience's interest? You know, people start looking at their phones, chatting with their neighbor, getting up to stretch their legs. What tools do you have in your tool kit to draw your audience back in and be the engaging presenter you want and need to...
#133 [Expat Finance 6] Mitigating risk
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 23, 2015 01:36 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNot surprisingly, there are some hidden risks to investing that you need to know in order to make the most out of your money. In this episode with wealth manager and financial advisor, Adrian Bliss, he walks us through half a dozen types of risk and gives us one Nobel-prize winning strategy for ...
#132 [Sticky Steps 6] Forgetting your lines
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 22, 2015 07:59 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsI'm willing to guess some of you have had that nightmare where you've been on stage at an important event and completely blanked on your lines. I know I have (more than once!) and even though I love presenting in front of a crowd in person, whenever these dreams hit, I wake up in a cold sweat, c...
#131 [Start Up Law 5] Dispute resolution in China
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 21, 2015 22:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLet me ask you a tough question: Do you know your rights if a lawsuit were to ever be brought against you or your business in China? I certainly didn’t and in fact, the idea of that happening brought more anxiety with it than anything else. Thankfully, sitting with lawyer and managing partner of...
#130 [Expat Finance 5] Wealth Management 101
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 15, 2015 23:03 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBy episode 5 in this Expat Finance series with wealth manager and financial advisor, Adrian Bliss, you should be feeling much better about your finances! This week, I have a couple of questions for you to check your understanding of financial jargon: First, what’s the difference between a privat...
#129 [Sticky Steps 5] Overcoming nerves
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 14, 2015 00:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAiyo... we've all felt 'em. Those dancing butterflies in our bellies that like to plague us right before we step in front of a crowd. Believe it or not, some nerves actually propel us towards our best, helping us deliver a killer presentation. But what do we do with those that hinder us, those t...
#128 [Start Up Law 4] Protecting your intellectual property
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 13, 2015 10:56 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIs Intellectual Property Right in China a joke? I mean, it doesn’t take long to form the biased conclusion that China is still a bit of an IP Wild, Wild West, right? Well, I was delighted and a bit surprised to be honest, to hear lawyer Patrick Dai’s take on intellectual property rights and the ...
#127 [Expat Finance 4] Mitigating investment risk
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 09, 2015 00:33 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLack of regulation in China rightly causes concern for expat investors. How can you mitigate your risk as you look to expand your investment portfolio while abroad? In this episode with wealth manager and financial adviser, Adrian Bliss, he discusses some questions you need to be asking before y...
#126 [Adjusting Well 2] 3 hacks for loving life in China
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 07, 2015 23:26 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn this week’s episode of Adjusting Well to Life in China, we’re going to walk through three quick life hacks that will help get you to the “I love my life in China” place faster than the average bear. For Show Notes on this episode and more visit us online at www.limitlesslaowai.com/adjustingwe...
#125 [Sticky Steps 4] Practice makes perfect, but how?
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - October 07, 2015 01:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhen you watch a pro athlete perform at her best, a musician nail a masterpiece live on stage, or a speaker flawlessly deliver a moving or motivational speech, what thoughts go through your mind? I know for me, the last thing I think about is how many thousands of hours of practice, practice and...
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