Vinh Giang (who happens to be a world-famous speaker) shares how he made a global pandemic disappear by pivoting his entire life, family, and business. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Vinh Giang – Mad Scientist, Obsessive Magician, Disobedient Dad.
Timestamps
0:48 – Tell me about your tattoo.
3:30 – “I feel like America was home for me.”
4:15 – The journey of becoming a magician.
5:25 – “If I left my packet of cards at home, I left my confidence at home, I left my personality at home, I left everything at home.”
10:35 – “I said, ‘Can you come home with me and tell my dad the exact same thing you just said? That was brilliant.’”
15:30 – How do you create luck?
16:55 – “That’s the price you have to pay to be an early mover.”
21:40 – “That’s how most of the top performers become top performers. They were preparing when everyone else was sleeping.”
24:50 – It wasn’t that you were just doing magic. You were magical.
26:53 – “From my mom, to her ‘I love you’ is ‘Have you eaten yet?’”
29:35 – “I’m just an empty human being. I’m just a showman with no substance…”
31:15 – “It’s like riding a bike and only using one pedal.”
34:01 – “We’ve got to stop trying to put things in boxes all the time because life is way more complicated than that.”
39:30 – “Lenny is funny. You’re not funny, stop trying to be like Lenny.”
46:34 – “That one sentence made me decide to stop speaking and to come home.”
51:50 – The focus is on creation. Not wealth.
54:20 – How do you get your students comfortable with unknown?
55:25 – “A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.”
58:12 – “Do improv.”
Links
https://www.stageworkshop.live/virtua…
https://www.facebook.com/askvinh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinhgiang
https://www.instagram.com/askvinh
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.