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Sara Jane Ho

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
588 total appearances

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

Yes. Djokovic.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

Yes. Djokovic.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

Yeah, I was crazy busy just focusing on China, but I got a lot of overseas media interviews. So people are racing. So people did kind of know who you were in this space. Yes, yes. In 2013, Forbes, I was one of Forbes' 12 women to watch. 2015, BBC, I was on their list of 100 women. So how did they know of you? It was really just word of mouth.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

Yeah, I was crazy busy just focusing on China, but I got a lot of overseas media interviews. So people are racing. So people did kind of know who you were in this space. Yes, yes. In 2013, Forbes, I was one of Forbes' 12 women to watch. 2015, BBC, I was on their list of 100 women. So how did they know of you? It was really just word of mouth.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

Yeah, I was crazy busy just focusing on China, but I got a lot of overseas media interviews. So people are racing. So people did kind of know who you were in this space. Yes, yes. In 2013, Forbes, I was one of Forbes' 12 women to watch. 2015, BBC, I was on their list of 100 women. So how did they know of you? It was really just word of mouth.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

There was five years when I started my business, I never even came back to America. Because I was so busy. I was literally like, my weekends were the busiest. When people had time off was when I was busy. I was teaching all the time. I would fly all over China. So not just in our schools, but I would fly to like Chongqing, Xi'an, Fujian, all these places.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

There was five years when I started my business, I never even came back to America. Because I was so busy. I was literally like, my weekends were the busiest. When people had time off was when I was busy. I was teaching all the time. I would fly all over China. So not just in our schools, but I would fly to like Chongqing, Xi'an, Fujian, all these places.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

There was five years when I started my business, I never even came back to America. Because I was so busy. I was literally like, my weekends were the busiest. When people had time off was when I was busy. I was teaching all the time. I would fly all over China. So not just in our schools, but I would fly to like Chongqing, Xi'an, Fujian, all these places.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

I was doing like three cities a week to teach. And it was just, I mean, it was exhausting. So you are actually one of the people teaching at your schools. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we're a boutique school and we don't have a lot of, we have three teachers, but we had a lot of like, we'd bring a lot of experts, like styling experts.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

I was doing like three cities a week to teach. And it was just, I mean, it was exhausting. So you are actually one of the people teaching at your schools. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we're a boutique school and we don't have a lot of, we have three teachers, but we had a lot of like, we'd bring a lot of experts, like styling experts.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

I was doing like three cities a week to teach. And it was just, I mean, it was exhausting. So you are actually one of the people teaching at your schools. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we're a boutique school and we don't have a lot of, we have three teachers, but we had a lot of like, we'd bring a lot of experts, like styling experts.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

We'd have, uh, you know, well, Rebecca's, you know, a wine expert. We'd have, we have an art expert. So all these things teach their own modality, right? Yes. So what would be your modality that you would teach? Well, the thing I love most is Weston Table Manners. Yes. That's what I absolutely loved. And it was probably one of the, yeah, like the highlight classes that students really love too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

We'd have, uh, you know, well, Rebecca's, you know, a wine expert. We'd have, we have an art expert. So all these things teach their own modality, right? Yes. So what would be your modality that you would teach? Well, the thing I love most is Weston Table Manners. Yes. That's what I absolutely loved. And it was probably one of the, yeah, like the highlight classes that students really love too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

We'd have, uh, you know, well, Rebecca's, you know, a wine expert. We'd have, we have an art expert. So all these things teach their own modality, right? Yes. So what would be your modality that you would teach? Well, the thing I love most is Weston Table Manners. Yes. That's what I absolutely loved. And it was probably one of the, yeah, like the highlight classes that students really love too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

stop doing yeah so don't hold your knife like a pen you'd be surprised how many people do that they hold their knife like a pen okay like this don't do this well when you write it's like you'd be surprised a lot of people hold their knife like a pen okay how to show us how to hold it the way you held it is correct like this oh really yeah versus so versus like cutting like this okay okay all right so so i was right see there amanda i was right there you go okay okay go ahead

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

stop doing yeah so don't hold your knife like a pen you'd be surprised how many people do that they hold their knife like a pen okay like this don't do this well when you write it's like you'd be surprised a lot of people hold their knife like a pen okay how to show us how to hold it the way you held it is correct like this oh really yeah versus so versus like cutting like this okay okay all right so so i was right see there amanda i was right there you go okay okay go ahead

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

stop doing yeah so don't hold your knife like a pen you'd be surprised how many people do that they hold their knife like a pen okay like this don't do this well when you write it's like you'd be surprised a lot of people hold their knife like a pen okay how to show us how to hold it the way you held it is correct like this oh really yeah versus so versus like cutting like this okay okay all right so so i was right see there amanda i was right there you go okay okay go ahead

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

And so, okay, so here's something that people may not always know. So when you're at a restaurant, when the waiter gives you a menu and you've made your decision, you should close the menu because that is a signal to the waiter that you've already made your decision and he can approach you. If your menu still stays open, he thinks that you haven't made your decision yet.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

And so, okay, so here's something that people may not always know. So when you're at a restaurant, when the waiter gives you a menu and you've made your decision, you should close the menu because that is a signal to the waiter that you've already made your decision and he can approach you. If your menu still stays open, he thinks that you haven't made your decision yet.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 409: Sarah Jane Ho: Mastering Etiquette for Dating and the 20-40-2 Rule for Better Conversations

And so, okay, so here's something that people may not always know. So when you're at a restaurant, when the waiter gives you a menu and you've made your decision, you should close the menu because that is a signal to the waiter that you've already made your decision and he can approach you. If your menu still stays open, he thinks that you haven't made your decision yet.