Soft Power Project

Sherry Fang
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The Soft Power Project is a podcast about the courage it takes to become who you’re meant to be. Through intimate conversations and personal stories, host Sherry Fang journals the journeys of women navigating reinvention, uncertainty, and growth. This podcast explores the messy middle — the quiet seasons, the pivots, and the moments that don’t always make it onto highlight reels. The intention is simple: to remove the shame around starting over and remind women that transformation is rarely linear. Through shared stories and practical insights, The Soft Power Project encourages women to trust themselves, embrace change, and move toward the next version of their lives with softness and strength. If you like to share your story on Soft Power Project, please fill out this from --> https://forms.gle/wE4it5KSXfu815dw9 ✨Soft Power Coaching Program✨ A coaching experience for high-achieving individuals ready to step into their next level of leadership without abandoning themselves in the process. This program is designed for high-achievers navigating career growth, executive visibility, leadership transitions, and identity expansion. Because moving from high performer to influential leader requires more than working harder. If you want to have a chat to see if you are ready for leadership embodiment, fill out this form -> https://forms.gle/BfPnrra7v1CuDCsC6 👉For any questions, please find me at softpower.you@gmail.com

  1. 6d ago

    Dream big before you are ready

    Eight years ago, I started praying every night to grow. I had no idea what I was asking for, or that the universe was listening the whole time. It just sent the lessons first. I recorded this while packing for New York and the first Soft Power Summit. Twenty years ago I left this city before I was ready, and now I'm going back to hold my first event here. I'm not a happy-go-lucky person, I never have been. Being positive takes real work for me, and I spent half my life holding peace for everyone else. Then came the divorce, the custody battle I'm still in, the career pivots, COVID. I asked to grow, and growth arrived carrying every lesson I needed. This is the thread running through everything on the Soft Power Project. Soft power isn't forcing yourself to be positive. It's trusting that the dream you can't see yet is still on its way. If you're in a season where you can't see the light, this one is for you. You don't have to manifest the way the gurus say. Five minutes, one walk, one coffee. That counts. What's the small dream you're holding right now? The first Soft Power Summit is in New York on June 20. Only a few spots left! Friends of the show can join with FRIENDS20: https://luma.com/q8i8ubvg?coupon=FRIENDS20 0:00 - Introduction and Personal Reflection2:53 - Journey of Self-Discovery5:53 - The Impact of Life Changes8:46 - The Birth of the Soft Power Project11:19 - Encouragement for Tough Times #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #SoftPowerSummit #WomenEmpowerment #PersonalGrowthLeave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagram Would you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    15 min
  2. Holding Grief and Joy at the Same Time with Maïlys Jox

    Jun 11

    Holding Grief and Joy at the Same Time with Maïlys Jox

    Maïlys Jox lost one of her closest friends, very suddenly. What came after was a slow journey from grief to trusting life again, and becoming a mother.Sherry and Maïlys talk about what happens when grief and joy arrive at the same time. They get into survival mode and the people who help you out of it, the album she wrote and recorded while she was pregnant, and the song that opens on her daughter's real heartbeat. They talk about the discovery that surprised her most: that joy and grief can live in the same heart, at the very same time. There is also the 20 to 30 minutes of silence she protects every morning, where her best ideas tend to arrive without a single sound, the family gatherings that turn into a mini orchestra, and the next album she is about to record, stripped back to just piano and voice as she returns to who she is.This is a Soft Power Project conversation about holding grief and joy at the same time. It goes somewhere unexpected. TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Grief and joy at the same time1:32 - Singapore roots and finding home3:00 - A sudden loss, then motherhood5:06 - Moving through survival mode10:44 - Music as a family language14:44 - Fear, joy, and choosing life17:48 - A daily practice of silence20:42 - Writing the album while pregnant25:54 - Choosing joy, returning to herself MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Maïlys Jox on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4F94HKOO2psDIoP2Dx9Z3GMaïlys Jox on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mailysjox/ ABOUT MAÏLYS JOX:Maïlys Jox is a French singer-songwriter, born in Singapore and now based in France. She grew up in a musician family, learned music young, and writes in both French and English. Her songs range from intimate piano-and-voice ballads to more upbeat tracks, drawn from her own life. https://www.instagram.com/mailysjox/ | https://open.spotify.com/artist/4F94HKOO2psDIoP2Dx9Z3G #SoftPowerProject #Grief #Motherhood #Healing #ChoosingJoy Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagramWould you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    36 min

  3. Jun 9

    The Girl Boss Era Is Over

    Around 2013, two books reshaped how a generation of women thought about ambition: Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso and Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. I never read Girlboss, but I bought Lean In right after I had my daughter, and just holding it made me feel like an independent woman.I believed that message. So when I got divorced at 35, I girl bossed it hard. I had to prove to myself, to the world, to the court, that I could do it all. From the outside it looked empowering. On the inside, I had lost connection to myself completely. I was performing, and I still didn't know who I was.A lot of women who have been through something land there. We hustle, we achieve, and eventually we sit down and say: I'm done. It's exhausting.This is what I keep coming back to on the Soft Power Project. We're not in the era of girl bossing anymore. We're in the era of embodiment, of soft power, of coming home to who we already are.If you have ever proven yourself right out of your own body, this is for you.What are you ready to do more softly? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316162/girlboss-by-sophia-amoruso/Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg: https://leanin.org/book 0:00 - The Rise of the Girl Boss Movement4:43 - The Shift to Soft Power and Embodiment6:15 - Welcome to the Movement #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #Embodiment #WomenEmpowerment Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagramWould you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    9 min
  4. Stop Waiting for Your Real Life to Start with Margo Aaron

    Jun 4

    Stop Waiting for Your Real Life to Start with Margo Aaron

    Margo Aaron kept waiting for her life to level out. The divorce, the custody fight, the single motherhood. She kept thinking she would feel like herself again once things calmed down. They didn't.Sherry and Margo talk about what happens when the hard thing doesn't end. When co-parenting isn't co-parenting but managing a constant antagonist. When the court system gives him the benefit of the doubt and hands you the suspicion. When loving your kid and finding motherhood brutally hard turn out to be two separate truths.Margo is a writer who lost her words for a while. This is the story of how she got them back. Not by pushing through, but by stealing five minutes of joy at a time. A frivolous book. A kitchen dance party. One night out a week, even when it broke her heart. None of it was a grand overhaul. It was small, and it was hers.This is a Soft Power Project conversation, and it goes somewhere unexpected.About Margo AaronMargo Aaron is a writer, speaker, and marketing expert who began as a psychological researcher before building her newsletter and community, That Seems Important. She writes about creativity, behavior, and what it takes to keep showing up when life doesn't go to plan.Instagram: instagram.com/margoaaron   |   LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/margoaaron   |   thatseemsimportant.comAbout Sherry FangSherry Fang is the host of the Soft Power Project.LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sherryfang83   |   Instagram: instagram.com/soft_power_project   |   YouTube: youtube.com/@SoftPowerProjectTimestamps0:00 - Welcome + the new normal2:37 - Survival mode vs. low-grade waiting7:48 - Code-switching and resentment11:58 - Motherhood is a job, not bliss21:13 - High conflict, not miscommunication28:03 - DEEP technique and gray rocking33:00 - Family court and misogyny48:05 - Reclaiming joy and creativity1:01:07 - Permission to enjoy + soft powerLeave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagramWould you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    1h 10m

  5. Jun 2

    I Spent Years Performing Confidence

    For most of my life, I thought confidence was a performance. The right body language, the right phrasing, looking sure of myself on stage even when I was terrified.I learned that version growing up between two worlds. In Taiwan, humility was the virtue: speak up only when you have something worth saying. Then I studied in North America and got the opposite lesson: just speak, it barely matters what you say. I spent years getting good at performing confidence. I never had much fun doing it.Now I teach communication back in Taiwan, and I keep meeting people with PhDs and real experience who still feel like it isn’t good enough.So I’ve been rethinking the whole thing. Maybe real confidence isn’t the loudest voice in the room. Maybe it’s the soft power of trusting yourself enough to speak the truth without softening it, and to say “I don’t know” without flinching. It’s the question I keep coming back to on the Soft Power Project, and I’m still figuring out what it looks like in 2026.If you’ve ever performed a certainty you didn’t feel, this one is for you. What does confidence mean to you? 0:00 - The Journey of Understanding Confidence4:03 - Cultural Perspectives on Confidence7:54 - Redefining Confidence in the Modern Age #SoftPowerProject #Confidence #SelfTrust #PersonalGrowth #SoftPowerLeave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagramWould you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    11 min

  6. May 28

    What I manifested last year is coming to reality

    In New York City on June 20, I'm hosting my first in-person event for The Soft Power Project. A three and a half hour Soft Power Summit, and the theme is coming home to yourself.I've been quietly manifesting this for a year. When I started this show, I was craving honest women's conversation. The real talk that happens before the recording starts, when we skip the small talk and say where we actually are. After eighty something episodes and around sixty women on the show, I wanted to bring that off the mic and into a room.The day moves through an arc: release with face yoga from Teja of Butter Be Kind, listen with nutrition from Tammy of Everglo Wellness, embody with boxing taught by Bella, a stunt woman who's going to close us out.I'm not building this alone. The women in this community made it possible.This is your invitation. Early bird seats are limited.What part of yourself are you ready to come home to? REGISTER:https://luma.com/q8i8ubvg?coupon=FRIENDS20 TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Announcing my first in-person event0:50 - Coming home to yourself1:30 - Release: face yoga with Teja2:30 - Listen: nourish with Tammy3:30 - Embody: boxing with Bella4:30 - The tote bag and the goodies6:00 - Why I wanted to bring this offline8:30 - The women who made it happen #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #SoftPowerSummit #ComingHomeToYourself #WomensWellness Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/commentsYoutubeInstagram Would you like to share your life stories?Please fill out this form. See you there~

    16 min
  7. When the Body Starts Speaking with Alica Glavanova

    May 21

    When the Body Starts Speaking with Alica Glavanova

    Alica Glavanova was 18, in her last year of high school, when the panic attacks started. The doctors ran their tests, handed her pills, and explained nothing. She did her own research, realized it was anxiety medication, and decided she wasn't going to take it. Right after school she started traveling. India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia. Somewhere in those years she found a different way to understand what her body was doing, and it became the work she does now. Sherry and Alica talk about what happens when you stop overriding your body and start listening to what it's trying to tell you. Alica decodes a rash that kept showing up on Sherry's knuckles and ears after stressful morning meetings, and what it meant that it landed exactly there. They talk about why symptoms so often surface in the healing phase, once the stress is already over, and about the one thing none of us can control alongside the one thing we always can. This is a Soft Power Project conversation about emotional healing, and it goes somewhere unexpected. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The body starts speaking1:18 - Panic attacks at 187:04 - Western medicine vs TCM8:29 - Growing up without roots11:32 - The seminar that changed everything15:13 - You have to do the work20:33 - Decoding Sherry's mystery rash31:35 - Finding the source of a symptom39:02 - A chaotic world and soft power MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Free German New Medicine masterclass (on Alica's Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/Carl Jung's dream analysis: water as a symbol of emotion ABOUT ALICA GLAVANOVA:Alica Glavanova is a certified complementary therapist based in Switzerland with more than a decade of clinical experience. After severe panic attacks at 18, she trained in traditional Chinese medicine, German New Medicine, hypnotherapy, and nervous system work. She now helps clients trace physical symptoms back to their emotional root, in person and online. https://www.instagram.com/shenmentherapies/ | https://www.shenmentherapies.com/ #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #Healing #MentalHealth #WellnessJourney Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form. For Soft Power Leadership Program, fill out this form.

    49 min

  8. May 19

    What I Couldn't Unsee

    The rage came up first. Then the grief. Then the shame for feeling either of those things, because no one had taught me what to do with them. I didn't have a name for what was happening, only that the water I'd been swimming in my whole life had suddenly become visible. Once I could see it, I couldn't unsee it. This episode is about that messy in-between time, when you start to see something the people closest to you aren't ready to see. There's a name for it. It's called an egregore. A pattern that stays alive because a group keeps feeding it energy, until it stops feeling like a system and just feels like common sense. If something is stirring in you right now that doesn't quite feel right, this is your permission to sit with it. What water are you starting to notice? TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The fish that didn't know about water 1:30 - Naming the egregore 3:00 - When you start to see it 4:30 - The rage and the grief 6:30 - The validation I was carrying 9:00 - The friend who couldn't see 11:30 - The cost of seeing 13:00 - Permission to sit with it   #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #SelfDiscovery #Healing #WomenPodcast Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form. See you there~

    14 min
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The Soft Power Project is a podcast about the courage it takes to become who you’re meant to be. Through intimate conversations and personal stories, host Sherry Fang journals the journeys of women navigating reinvention, uncertainty, and growth. This podcast explores the messy middle — the quiet seasons, the pivots, and the moments that don’t always make it onto highlight reels. The intention is simple: to remove the shame around starting over and remind women that transformation is rarely linear. Through shared stories and practical insights, The Soft Power Project encourages women to trust themselves, embrace change, and move toward the next version of their lives with softness and strength. If you like to share your story on Soft Power Project, please fill out this from --> https://forms.gle/wE4it5KSXfu815dw9 ✨Soft Power Coaching Program✨ A coaching experience for high-achieving individuals ready to step into their next level of leadership without abandoning themselves in the process. This program is designed for high-achievers navigating career growth, executive visibility, leadership transitions, and identity expansion. Because moving from high performer to influential leader requires more than working harder. If you want to have a chat to see if you are ready for leadership embodiment, fill out this form -> https://forms.gle/BfPnrra7v1CuDCsC6 👉For any questions, please find me at softpower.you@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Sherry Fang
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    95
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sherry Fang
  • Show Website
    Soft Power Project

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