#53 Allen Wu - Yoga Master in Taiwan / Finding Yoga / Luke the Mentor / Yoga = Connection / Selling as an introvert

Wish I Knew . . .

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "

A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories.

I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got a real life Yogi to share his experience which started in business and turned towards being a yoga instructor. Today I have a wonderful conversation with my good friend Allen Wu.

Career Background:

• Started off in Finance
• Pair of internships one in HK and one in Taipei
• 6 years with TSMC, largest semi conductor company globally
• Finding his Yoga passion in Shanghai

https://www.facebook.com/allenwuyoga

Highlights

• Selling tea on the streets of Taiwan and being really good at it
• Reading customer reaction to know if it's good
• Repetition
• Rationale for choosing finance as a career
• Internships being life changing??
• The pace of Hong Kong and how he adapted
• Having courage to keep his own pace
• Talking slowly so people will listen
• Be yourself!!!
• Impact of the Global financial crisis
• Meeting people being an introvert
• Seeking other opportunities in Shanghai
• Discovering Yoga in Shanghai as something to do
• PURE Yoga classes and the awesome teachers
• Getting guidance on being a yoga instructor
• 200 hour yoga training was really painful
• Luke the mentor / influencer
• When you graduate you teach right away
• Bribing people with coffee
• Pounding the pavement for a teaching opp
• Looking at the students face to see if you're a good teacher or not
• Using the corpse pose to figure things out
• Yoga = connection
• Advice on yoga, just give it a try with repetition

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