21 episodes
Outside Your Comfort Zone Fernando Cao Zheng
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Every Monday, Fernando takes you outside your comfort zone to gain perspective on useful topics or talk to people who are doing something unconventional to find out why they do what they do. This acts as a documentation of everything he finds useful. Follow @outsideyourcomfortzone_ on Instagram for more.
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#021 Why ADHD is Often Misunderstood
Join me with my guest Emma this week for an interesting discussion providing context to what it's like living with ADHD, how many people don't understand it properly, and how it impacts everything from daily life, relationships, education, and work.
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#020 Working Full-time While Being a Full-time University Student
Join me with Vicky this week to find out how she balances all her projects, why she does so much, and how she deals with criticism.
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#019 A good mindset for if you ever feel behind in life, how to identify what you actually want, and a sustainable way to make progress
Another solo podcast this week, I'm interested to hear what you think!
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#018 How to find and secure a job that you would actually be interested in doing
Join me with my guest Dan this week where we discuss our experience of applying and securing graduate roles at a large investment bank and Consulting firm respectively. The aim of sharing this is to give those who are still in search of jobs an effective method to finding a career path that they find interesting and would want to work in. We also discuss why networking is important and the opportunities it can lead to help you get where you want. Also, we discuss how to find what you actually want to do as a career.
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#017 Easy steps to sort out your personal finances
Join me with my guest Dan this week where we discuss how to raise your income, reduce expenses, increase savings and investing, why its important to learn as early as you can, and start saving and investing now. We're not financial advisors so take this advice with a pinch of salt and towards the end Dan's shares a hack to how you can grasp the basics of personal finance easily which is really all you need to know. Other topics discussed include:
How we manage our finances to still enjoy the things we like but also be frugal.
Is a student loan a good or bad debt to have? and is it better to pay it off early or pay regularly?
Why investing is not as complex as it may sound and how we invest safely. -
#016 Why hustle culture is not sustainable, how I am dealing with burnout and overthinking, and the mental challenges of showing my work
Welcome to my first solo episode! I talk about how I see chasing success quickly and how it has affected my life and well-being, how I am going to avoid burnout and my challenges with overthinking and showing my work publicly.