When Rae Fung started her coaching business, older male mentors in the speaking industry told her she needed to dress more professionally to be taken seriously. She ignored them. She showed up the way she wanted. People with decades more experience – including a billionaire – paid her to coach them.
But getting there wasn’t linear. There was a season where she stopped posting for six months. Her revenue dropped. She had to ask herself what she actually needed – creatively, emotionally, mentally – before she could show up again.
Rae is a coach and speaker who works with rising leaders on owning their voice. She’s coached corporate directors, trained global teams, and hosted Singapore’s first ever live in-person talk show. In this episode, we revisit one of her earliest videos – the one where she was trying to look like an expert before she felt like one – and talk about what actually builds the kind of presence that makes people pay you.
Her research-backed insight: over 80% of first impressions come down to just two things – how competent and how warm you feel in someone’s presence. Most people only practice one.
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