Liberatory Business with Simone Seol

If you've ever called yourself lazy, or wondered what's wrong with you for not being able to just sit down and do the thing — this episode is for you.
What if "procrastination" is just the wrong word for what you're actually doing? 
Maisie Cheong and I talk about:
Why we internalize the identity of "procrastinator"
What invisible work is, why it matters — and what our ancestors knew about it
Why the people who are always busy "getting things done" might be the least equipped to handle what's coming
How to get higher quality work out of yourself by changing the way you talk to yoruself
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Connect with Maisie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatmaisiesaid
Website: https://www.maisiecheong.com/

This is my love to courageous ones everywhere.
People aren't just listening to what you say.
They're listening to how you're saying it.
If you're saying something that's worth saying... whatever it is, say it with your full chest. 
Say it like you believe yourself.
It matters.

Why is the deepest business wisdom you can find NOT in an online course?
That's because it lives in Asian noodle stalls, kitchen hair salons, and family businesses run by aunties and uncles who've never heard of Canva. 
Let's learn from the quiet, unglamorous experts who've been turning high margins for decades.
Listen to hear more about:
Why the businesses that look like the "before" picture might actually be the "after" — and what that reveals about what we've been chasing
The four lessons that traditional family businesses can teach us that most online business advice directly contradicts
How a store owner managing 3,000 SKUs from memory and extending credit to 200 families exposes the limits of "relationship marketing"
What my always-overbooked, never-online mother-in-law knows about demand that most funnel strategies get completely backwards
So many of us are ignoring the people who've been quietly building generational wealth without a branding consultant in sight. This episode is your invitation to apprentice yourself to a much older, much wiser tradition of business.

I'm sitting down with two of my closest friends, and most effective pray-ers I know: Joey Liu and Danny Lim.
We're talking about how to understand prayer NOT as the performative, begging, outcome-obsessed version so many of us grew up with, but as a powerful spiritual technology. 
Listen to hear more about:
Why the version of prayer most of us inherited might be the very thing standing between us and what we actually want
How to pray from power instead of desperation — and why the difference changes everything
Danny's $300K prayer story — what he asked for, what he didn't ask for, and what happened next
What it means to pray to something that was never separate from you in the first place
So many of us are starving for a spiritual practice that feels true — not inherited guilt, not empty ritual, but something that actually moves things. This episode is an invitation back to that.
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Connect with Danny: https://dannybunny.co/
Connect with Joey: https://drjoeyliu.com/

My brother Billy Seol — software engineer, and Buddhist life coach — is one of the sharpest thinkers I know. 
And he has thoughts about AI I haven't seen anywhere else that really enlightened me, and I wanted to share them with you.
Listen to hear more about:
How we are exiting the Creative Age, and entering the Generative Age
The new group of people who will be marginalized by AI, and how we should protect them
How AI is being shaped by the Buddhist idea of karma, both at the individual and social levels
Measures we can take to reduce our digital footprint
If you've been trying to figure out how to be a conscious, ethical human being in this moment, I think you're gonna love this episode.
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Connect with Billy Seol at: https://www.julylifecoach.com/