How Different Sides of Yourself Show Through Everything You Do with Johnny Neang
You’re not just what you do to earn a paycheck. What you do to fulfill your passion, engage in your creative ability, and so much more helps make up the kaleidoscope of different colors and angles that is you. And ancient and modern tools are available to help you discover these different sides of yourself.
My guest, Johnny Neang, who participated in the same Vipassana retreat I attended, comes from a Buddhist family that immigrated to the U.S., so meditation and a focus on financial stability have always been expectations in his life.
But he’s also a non-conformist. While he wasn’t raised as a creative person, Johnny helps people find a space to tune into their creative dreams and balance passion and profit.
In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll hear about the root of all passion, why we crave creativity, how Vipassana can heal and help you discover introspective gifts, and more–all in pursuit of seeing yourself from multiple angles. You’ll also learn how he and I got on the path to Vipassana and discover what it can feel like to experience ayahuasca through Johnny’s story.
1:42 - Passion and profit on a spectrum, passion’s common denominator, and Vipassana as another tool to look at yourself from an angle
7:16 - How meditation is woven into Johnny’s culture and why the Vipassana retreat was still a shock to his system
11:51 - Why we value the creative so much and what has driven my inner journey over the last 18 months
22:35 - Why Vipassana is a (not the) answer, the bigger question that needs asking, and what instigated my desire to do the retreat
29:29 - My meditational arc and the three most profound things I experienced from finding Vipassana
42:40 - Johnny’s beautiful but terrifying ayahuasca experience and its commonality with Vipassana
49:08 - Introducing Vipassana to people as another universal tool for introspection
53:32 - How Johnny helps people turn their passion and creative ability into reality through UpperCloud and FutureNow
Connect with Johnny Neang
An-American entrepreneur and investor, Johnny Neang co-founded a thriving media agency while contributing to the people in his communities through charitable and pro-bono work. Johnny continues to build creative organizations in the media industry and scale the idea of storytelling through various digital mediums.
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