Sara Jane Ho
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196 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Well, I would say that if you are really sick, if you've come down with something, then it's better to excuse yourself from a social gathering than to show up coughing and sneezing all over the other guests. Yeah, I think it's also it's also a you'd be surprised, but it's also a really handy way to cancel last minute. It's always that in kids, you know, there's exactly.
So let's say like you want it. You're single. You don't have the kid excuse. I know you can use that excuse. Yep. You know, you can't.
I think it's also contextual. If we were in Asia and somebody saw you and they said, oh, you've gained weight or, oh, you've lost weight or, oh, are you dating anyone out? When are you getting married? These are actually signs of care. And if let's say I saw a friend in China and the first thing he said, oh, you've gained weight, I actually would not be offended.
I would not be offended because it's a way of showing they notice you.
Yeah. People either take it extremely personally or they would just think very poorly of you. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And so that's why it's very contextual. There is no right or wrong. It's contextual.
I completely agree. And I say that in my book as well. And people think that etiquette is one big no. They think it's limiting. I have friends who tell me, oh, I have terrible etiquette. I'm too honest to have good etiquette. And I'm like, then you don't really understand the essence of etiquette. And when I say etiquette should be empowering and enabling, you can get what you want.
You can ask for what you want. You can set boundaries. You can go speak to the person you want to speak to. It's all about how you do it.
Well, North American on, I mean, it's kind of, it's exactly, that's true.
And you know what's actually very funny is that when I'm in China, I come across as much more strong, more aggressive. But it's funny because in America, people may not necessarily say that about me. But in China, I am. And that goes to show you again the contextual of it.
And it's like subconscious. It's even subconscious. And I remember like, so for example, I mean, when I'm in America, I speak with an American, my American accent comes out. But when I'm with an English person or somebody with a UK accent, then I sound more English. And in fact, when I read in my audio book, I sound more English. And I always wondered, oh, why do I do that?
I can't even help myself. And what somebody told me years ago was they said, actually, it's a form of good manners because you're trying to speak in a way to let the other person understand you better.
Subconsciously. So you're subconsciously switching over to that.
Also, UK culture, I mean that it's, you know, silence is golden. So people like quiet time. And, you know, there's a culture of never complain, never explain, right? So, I mean, it's just, it's very, it's very different. Whereas American culture is like, speak up for yourself, like complain if you want to, right?
I still do. If I'm not speaking on the phone or on Zoom, I will mute myself. And only when the other person finished speaking, then I unmute. So my sort of resting face is mute, basically. Like I'm always on mute unless I'm speaking. That's a great tip because then you don't interrupt somebody. Yeah. And then you don't have any background noise, right?
Like an ambulance passing by, or if somebody's in the house, right? That you're not distracting the other person. Because if the other person on the phone hears some distraction, they're going to be distracted.
No, I was at Perella Weinberg. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. So basically I interned for Morgan Stanley the summer of my, before my senior year in investment banking in Hong Kong. When I graduated, I moved to New York City and I worked for Perella Weinberg, which was the two founders, Joe Perella and Peter Weinberg. One came from Morgan Stanley, the other came from
When I was graduating from Harvard Business School and trying to think about what I wanted to do, I basically narrowed my choice down by geography. And I thought at that time, China was at that point a global power in 2012 with a lot of eyes on China. So it was becoming the second power, second to America. And it was very exciting.
And I'd lived in Beijing as a volunteer for a nonprofit before I went to Harvard Business School. So I spent one year there. And I thought me as a Hong Kong Chinese person, I really wanted to go experience this and be part of China and see what I could do. And so that was how I made my choice. I never considered anything else. I'm very much a here and now kind of person.
I never really think about, oh, what would I be doing otherwise? And in my mind, I was like, I'm going to do this and I'm going to make it happen and it's going to work.
Yes. Okay, so here's the thing. Everything I've done in my career has been across two realms. One is East meets West. The other one is female empowerment, helping women move through the world with confidence. And great spin. I love it.
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