Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates

them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and

inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional

goals. Welcome back to the podcast.

Today I'm joined by Eric Sim.

Eric is a banker, speaker, author and founder of the Institute of Life.

Eric, welcome to the podcast.

I am thrilled to be talking to you today.

Thanks for having me, Adrienne.

I saw the question that you prepared.

It's so amazing.

You've done so much homework.

Well, I've got so many things that I'm going to discuss with you today.

We're going to talk about work and careers, how to strengthen your professional network, and

how the small actions that we take today can put us on a path to big career success tomorrow.

So Eric, firstly, you've had a very interesting career and life.

So can you tell us a bit about your career journey and then what led you to creating the Institute of Life?

I started out helping my father, who's a street food vendor.

He sold prawn noodle in Singapore Hawker Centre for over 30 years.

I helped him from elementary school all the way to university.

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