Welcome to the Rebound Stronger Podcast.

My name is Fauzi and I am your host.

I am so excited to finally launch this podcast.

I want to start by asking you, have you ever fail?

I am sure most of us has experienced failure and setbacks.

Some people even have faced so much adversities

It can be childhood full of abuse,

being involved with gangsters or drug addicts,

went into jailed,

lost arms or legs,

loss of someone we love,

failure in relationship, or business,

bankruptcy , and many others.

Sometimes when we are in the middle of crisis,

it is difficult for us to see a way out,

to see a hope or the positive side of the situations.

I have the same problem.

I asked God, why why God,

I didn’t think I did anything wrong.

Why these things has to happened to me.

A little bit about myself,

I have been working as chemical engineer for about 14 years in energy industry mainly in oil and gas. Now I work with one of the biggest engineering company in the world.

And recently I moved into its consulting division.

I originally came from Jakarta, Indonesia.

But now settled in Singapore with my wife and two girls.

I am really dedicated with my present job, in the past I slept many times in the office to get things done.

A little background why I started this podcast

The first half of 2015 was the lowest point in my life,

It started good.

I was trusted to become a project manager for a small study for the first time.

I was so excited, we finished the first phase which I thought ended well.

While executing the second phase,

issues started popping up up, budget overran, client was upset.

I almost shutdown. I beat myself even more when I was down blaming myself for my inexperience.

I was so occupied with the project, I couldn’t see anything good in life anymore.

I felt like there is no point of waking up in the morning everyday just to face problems after problems which kept on piling up.

My wife said something which got me thinking.

Yes, I still have family and friend who really care about me, despite whether I am doing well at my job or not.

It wasn’t the first time that I felt so down.

The oil and gas industry situation didn’t help also.

As the oil price kept on dropping,

the industry shrinks massively,

job cuts are on the headlines of every major publications.

I saw the my colleagues had to leave one by one.

Slowly, I start mapping out what I need to do, who can help me to bring both the project and my life back on track.

I discussed with colleague and listened to the client. I worked with the team and my business manager to deliver the client expectation.

And ultimately we closed and delivered the project.

I know my ability to deal with this low periods will determine my future.

There will always be another low point in the future.

I will not get anywhere if I couldn’t handle these low points well.

I really need to change and get my life back in order. I am still learning.

I read lots of books, listened to so many podcast episodes,

take actions by joining several online groups.

I Started to appreciate more people and things around me.

Looking back, I really think that my difficulties weren’t really that bad.

I have seen people faced much worse situation,

yet they overcome and even become more successful after going through those difficulties.

Sometimes, we only see success moments,

when athlete receive gold medal,

when actor receive Oscar, when the start-up founder sold his business for 100 million $.

Success is an iceberg illusion.

The success moments, the celebration we see, it is just the tip of the ice berg,

we do not see the below part of the iceberg,

the cry, tears, sweat,

frustration, disappointment,

failure, persistence, hardwork,

all of those which came before the success.

I really like a quote from Michael Jordan the NBA legend:

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

So what’s my vision with this podcast

I want to learn and find out how to rebuild my life and take it to the next level.

I want to surround myself with positive people.

I started reaching out to many successful people,

people who has overcome adversities, against all kind of odds,

yet they persist and become stronger.

With this podcast I document my journey in , rebuilding my life, finding myself and true passion.

I want to share my conversations with these amazing people

I personally choose the people I want to interview based on their life experience and achievements.

Many of them are successful entrepreneur, speaker, coaches who has built successful business.

I believe that we can learn something from the guests I interview.

I hope the stories told by the guests might resonate with listeners who will then take action based on the advices.  

How you can benefit from listening the podcast?

I am a big believer of taking action, action speak lauder than word.

Don’t just listened, it is easy to be inspired for a moment,

but as easy as it comes most of the time the motivation is also easy to disappear also at the very next challenge we face

Build momentum, Start somewhere, start moving to the direction of our goal.

It will not be easy, it will not be perfect, just like this podcast which far from perfect.

But the sense of making progress toward our goals it’s really worthwhile.

No matter where we are we can always change our future, we can have a better future.

Launch Period and Frequency

This episode is part of the launch period,

on the first day I will launch 3 episodes including this.

During the week launch period, I am going to release 1 episode every day.

Subsequently my goal is to launch 1 episode per week.

Call for Feed Back

Feel free to email me. Go to reboundstronger.com/contact,

that goes to my inbox directly.

I would like to hear from you,

what would you like to hear more on this podcast,

perhaps you have guest who do you think will be a great guest for this podcast.

So shoot me an email.

Each episode is provided by show notes, so heads to the website reboundstronger.com to get the show notes which will cover key learning points from each guest and additional resources related to the episode.

So welcome, I really appreciate you time,

Thank you for listening to the Rebound Stronger Podcast.

Let’s journey together.