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Simon Ong

Simon Ong

International keynote speaker, executive coach, and bestselling author of "Energize"

Aug 24, 2026

5:39
Yeah.
5:39
So I'm not gonna stand out.
5:41
And so with 48 hours to go, I drop, uh, his name is Gregory.
5:45
I drop Gregory a, a direct message on Instagram and I say, "Hey, Gregory, if you happen to be doing Marie's hair this week, uh, could you nudge Marie to see if she's okay to provide endorsement? Uh, Penguin have sent an email, but I'm pretty sure she probably hasn't had time to read it yet.
6:01
The deadline is in 48 hours.
6:03
It'll be amazing, uh, if you're able to help.
6:05
No worries if not, uh, but just thought I'd put it out there just in case." And then 24 hours before, he dropped me a message back and he says, "Simon, I championed, I nudged her, I mentioned your book's gonna be amazing."

5 MINS LATER

11:35
Yeah
17:05
Tell me the story of how that came about.
17:07
So a lot of it is when I began reflecting on my own journey.
17:10
So once I got into coaching, as I started speaking more, I remember some people come up to me after I finished a keynote or presentation with not a question, but they would just say, Simon, I just got to say, I loved your energy and stage.
17:25
If I could have just a little bit of what you had up there, I think I could do so much more with my life.
17:30
And so it got me thinking, what is energy and how did I get to a point where people are commenting about my energy? And I remembered when I first quit the corporate world, one of the first things I wanted to focus on was my physical energy because I had very little of it.
17:46
I was surviving on little sleep.
17:48
I wasn't feeding my body right and I didn't have time to move it.

21 MINS LATER

38:51
Where did that come from? So

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