Podcast appearances and mentions of due quach

My interview with Due Quack was a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit to rise above difficult circumstances and a passion to help and support others to do the same. She shared her story from her family s harrowing escape from Viet Nam when she was six months old. To their life in poverty in a gang ridden area of Philadelphia, with gun shots and violence a daily occurrence. From her further traumatic experiences at Harvard, to her rise as an international consultant, and ultimately finding a way to heal through mindfulness and meditation, our conversation was inspiring and filled with hope. Join us on the Caf of Delights to be enlightene

Due Quach is the founder and CEO of Calm Clarity, a social impact organization that helps people overcome adversity through nurturing a mindset of growth, leadership, and resilience. She's also the founder of Collective Success Network, a nonprofit that provides support to low-income first-generation students.  When Due was a toddler, her parents moved her family from a Vietnamese refugee camp to an impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood. She overcame adversity and went on to graduate from Harvard and pursue a successful corporate career. However, she soon learned the high-flying corporate life wasn't for her. After going on a journey to discover her life's purpose, she decided to return to Philadelphia to help people from underserved neighborhoods recognize their potential.  Want to hear the complete, unedited interview with Kevin and Due? Subscribe to Philly Who? on Supercast for access to that, to the Philly Who? Community Discord, for free event tickets, and more!

Due Quach (pronounced ‘Zway Kwok') is an inspiring social entrepreneur and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy. Due uses neuroscience and mindfulness to guide organizations to tackle complex social challenges like addressing unconscious bias, healing trauma and building resilience, and building genuine inclusion. A poor refugee from inner-city Philadelphia, Due turned to neuroscience to heal the long-term effects of trauma, graduate from Harvard College and the Wharton School of Business, and build a successful international business career. Aurora + Kelly sit with Due to talk about the Collective Success Network that she started to mentor and empower low-income, first-generation college students to successfully navigate college and enter professional careers. Elevate your brain - and day - with Due's inspiring story. You can find more information about Due's work at www.calmclarity.org. Get a copy of Calm Clarity here. Find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @theoptin.TwitterInstagramFacebookProduced by Rachel IshikawaMusic by Jordan McCreeHosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce SorgIf you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-opt-in/support

KCBS Radio afternoon anchor and A2A founder Jeff Bell spotlights Due Quach, founder of the non-profit The Collective Success Network. The organization supports first generation college students who experience culture shock. Prior to settling in Philadelphia, Due and her family lived in a refugee camp for two years after fleeing Vietnam. 

KCBS Radio afternoon anchor and A2A founder Jeff Bell spotlights Due Quach, founder of the non-profit The Collective Success Network. The organization supports first generation college students who experience culture shock. Prior to settling in Philadelphia, Due and her family lived in a refugee camp for two years after fleeing Vietnam. 

Due Quach (pronounced “Zway Kwok”), is the Founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018. Through her social enterprise, Calm Clarity, she guides organizations to incorporate valuable insights from neuroscience and mindfulness to address unconscious bias and build a high-performing and inclusive culture. She also heads a second nonprofit, the Collective Success Network, to mentor, support, and empower low-income, first-generation college students to successfully navigate college and enter professional careers. Having started life in poverty as a refugee in inner-city Philadelphia, she turned to neuroscience to heal the long-term effects of trauma, graduate from Harvard College and the Wharton School, and built a successful international business career. Her inspiring story is featured in The Portal, a new documentary film about meditation as a portal for healing and transformation. In this episode, Stew and Due talk about her remarkable struggle for survival and how it led to her discovery of the mental and spiritual tools that saved her. They talk about her role in the documentary, The Portal, and about its aspirations to bring more healing to our world. Due describes the basics of her Brain 3.0 model, a clear and simple method, that draws on both the latest scientific research as well as ancient spiritual traditions, for understanding how we can use mindfulness meditation to strengthen the brain functions that keep us calm. And she talks about the growth and impact of the Collective Success Network. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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We talk with Calm Clarity founder and CEO Due Quach about the neuroscience behind bias and concrete steps to overcome it.

If you've ever wanted greater peace and joy in your life, then do we have the Calm Clarity show for you! Today I'll be talking with Due Quach, founder and CEO of Calm Clarity, Harvard and Wharton graduate and the author of a beautiful new book on calming your mind, Calm Clarity. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about a mind hackers guide to rewiring your mind and shifting into brain 3.0. Calm Clarity Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How Due Quach escaped Vietnam as an infant? How her family traded one war zone for another? How she developed PTSD and how the PTSD manifested in college? How she got into Harvard and what happened to her while there? Why did she feel her mind was betraying her? What does it mean to turn inwards toward your mind? What is Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0 and Brain 3.0? How did Due end up going to India? What did she learn about her mind from visiting Dharma Sala and India? How'd she become a brain geek? What did she learn? What's your Inner Godzilla? What's your Inner Teen Wolf? What's our Inner Sage? What's the importance of knowing neurons that fire together, wire together? How do emotions affect rational thought? What are early mind-hacking changes? What does laughter have to do with anything? What's it mean to tune into your inner compass How do we begin to build brain 3.0? What does oxytocin have to do with anything? How does meditation help? What's an easy way to begin meditating as a mind-hacking technique? What's it mean to tune into the inner critic and to the inner sage? What do humility and gratitude have to do with anything? For More Info Visit: CalmClarity.org For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Due Quach, founder of Calm Clarity, is one of few people with a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business who started life in poverty. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity, she decided to pursue her dream to help people overcome adversity and build resilience. To gain a deeper understanding of the transformative benefits of meditation practices, Due studied various meditation traditions in India and became a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher. Due developed Calm Clarity, a neuroscience-based leadership and resilience program, by interweaving meditation techniques with insights from scientific research. Calm Clarity is a social enterprise, meaning that when clients pay for Calm Clarity's services, they are also supporting low-income students to benefit from the training.

Kathryn interviews social entrepreneur Due Quach, author of “Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy”. Quach shares her innovative program to deal with toxic stress and adversity by turning to neuroscience and meditation. Quach has used these tips herself, having escaped Vietnam as a refuge and was raised in inner-city Philadelphia. Quach is a Harvard and Wharton alum and creator of the Calm Clarity Program. Kathryn also interviews Iranian immigrant Marina Shakour Haber, author of “Dream a Better Dream: Change Your Mind to Save the World”. Today the American Dream is falling out of reach - especially for minorities. Our once-optimistic and hopeful society has become toxic and negative with increasing levels of divisiveness, racism, bigotry, misogyny and isolationism. Haber's inspirational memoir is a unique take social activism, offering personal self-help strategies as a tool to transform the social problems in America.

Kathryn interviews social entrepreneur Due Quach, author of “Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy”. Quach shares her innovative program to deal with toxic stress and adversity by turning to neuroscience and meditation. Quach has used these tips herself, having escaped Vietnam as a refuge and was raised in inner-city Philadelphia. Quach is a Harvard and Wharton alum and creator of the Calm Clarity Program. Kathryn also interviews Iranian immigrant Marina Shakour Haber, author of “Dream a Better Dream: Change Your Mind to Save the World”. Today the American Dream is falling out of reach - especially for minorities. Our once-optimistic and hopeful society has become toxic and negative with increasing levels of divisiveness, racism, bigotry, misogyny and isolationism. Haber's inspirational memoir is a unique take social activism, offering personal self-help strategies as a tool to transform the social problems in America.

This week we interview Due Quach. Due is a refugee from Vietnam and a graduate of Harvard College and the Wharton MBA program. Due overcame the long-term effects of poverty and trauma by turning to neuroscience and meditation. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity investments, Due traveled throughout Asia to study various contemplative traditions and then created the Calm Clarity Program to make mindful leadership accessible to people of all backgrounds. Due is the author of, Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy.We discuss:How can we find meaning or believe that we have meaning?Do you feel that everyone has the power to change our mental state in a way that can be positive, productive, and happy?How do we progress out of focusing on fear or the downside of things?Learn more about the Calm Clarity Program at https://www.calmclarity.org.

Rewiring the brain to handle stress and deliver value will always be important.  Due Quach addresses the journey toward Calm Clarity through Harvard College and Whartan Business School and into the entrepreneur space.  Due is the author of Calm Clarity. From a traumatized refugee to an overachieving workaholic to a pioneering social entrepreneur, Due’s unique journey shows how genuine transformation is possible and accessible using the Calm Clarity framework, a powerful distillation of modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom. Today, she shares her insights and experiences to bring Calm Clarity to everyone, including senior leaders, professionals, educators, workforce development programs, first-generation college students, and inner city teens. Reach out to Due at: https://www.calmclarity.org/

Due Quach of Calm Clarity talks about the different brain states which can greatly affect success, provides advice for social entrepreneurs and discusses how the sector has changed.

Content warning: trauma On the list of topics that I wanted to cover on my podcast, dealing with trauma was one of the most challenging to do as it would require someone who would be open and ready enough to share their past on our platform. Serendipitously, I had the honor of interviewing Due Quach, author of the viral Medium piece, “Poor and Traumatized at Harvard” and founder and CEO of Calm Clarity, a program that dedicates itself to showing us “how to control negative urges, deal with toxic stress, and overcome adversity by tapping into the true potential of our brain.” “Master mind-hacking with Harvard graduate, non-profit founder, and social entrepreneur, Due Quach in CALM CLARITY: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy  (Penguin/TarcherPerigee; Trade Paperback Original; ISBN-13: 978-0143130970; 384 Pages/$17.00; May 15th). Part memoir, part guidebook, Due's personal healing journey from PTSD inspired her to develop the Calm Clarity program that corporations and universities across the country are now using to help stressed out employees and disadvantaged students like Due. It is chock full of science-based tips, tricks, and activities to improve your brain, and the Vietnam refugee and Philadelphia native leads readers from the destructive natures of Brain 1.0 and 2.0, to Brain 3.0, or what she defines as the ultimate calm clarity.” A refugee from Vietnam and a graduate of Harvard College and the Wharton MBA program, Due Quach overcame the long-term effects of poverty and trauma by turning to neuroscience and meditation. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity investments, Due traveled throughout Asia to study various contemplative traditions and then created the Calm Clarity Program to make mindful leadership accessible to people of all backgrounds. She’s also the author of the new book Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy. Due also founded the Collective Success Network by convening first-generation college students and professionals to create innovative approaches to address the challenges faced by first-generation college students from low-income communities.   Follow Due and her Calm Clarity program here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calmclarity Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/calmclarityorg/ Instagram: https://twitter.com/calmclarityorg Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/calmclarityorg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ftPxJaYUNS5Mc494lHNqg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/calmclarity   Follow Project Voice: facebook.com/projectvoiceaaw instagram.com/projectvoiceaaw projectvoiceaaw@gmail.com  

If you've ever wanted greater peace and joy in your life, then do we have the Calm Clarity show for you! Today I'll be talking with Due Quach, founder and CEO of Calm Clarity, Harvard and Wharton graduate and the author of a beautiful new book on calming your mind, Calm Clarity. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about a mind hackers guide to rewiring your mind and shifting into brain 3.0. Calm Clarity Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How Due Quach escaped Vietnam as an infant? How her family traded one war zone for another? How she developed PTSD and how the PTSD manifested in college? How she got into Harvard and what happened to her while there? Why did she feel her mind was betraying her? What does it mean to turn inwards toward your mind? What is Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0 and Brain 3.0? How did Due end up going to India? What did she learn about her mind from visiting Dharma Sala and India? How'd she become a brain geek? What did she learn? What's your Inner Godzilla? What's your Inner Teen Wolf? What's our Inner Sage? What's the importance of knowing neurons that fire together, wire together? How do emotions affect rational thought? What are early mind-hacking changes? What does laughter have to do with anything? What's it mean to tune into your inner compass How do we begin to build brain 3.0? What does oxytocin have to do with anything? How does meditation help? What's an easy way to begin meditating as a mind-hacking technique? What's it mean to tune into the inner critic and to the inner sage? What do humility and gratitude have to do with anything? For More Info Visit: CalmClarity.org Due Quach On How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain For Happiness & Calm Clarity! + Guided Meditation | Health | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Mindfulness | Buddhism | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

In this episode, our dialogue guest is Due Quach.  A refugee from Vietnam and a graduate of Harvard College and the Wharton MBA program, Due overcame the long-term effects of poverty and trauma by turning to neuroscience and meditation. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity investments, Due traveled throughout Asia to study various contemplative traditions and then created the Calm Clarity Program to make mindful leadership accessible to people of all backgrounds.  We explore these kinds of topics on a daily basis - including a discussion of this episode - in the Awarepreneurs Community. We'd love to have your input as part of the conversation! 

Due Quach is the founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy. Due was a refugee from Vietnam, a graduate of Harvard College and also of the Wharton MBA program (Class of 2006). She overcame the long-term effects of poverty and trauma by turning to neuroscience and meditation. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity investments, she studied various contemplative traditions in India and other parts of Asia to create the Calm Clarity Program, which makes mindful leadership accessible to people of all backgrounds. She now leads Calm Clarity workshops in inner-city high schools, university lecture halls, and corporate executive board rooms alike. Due is also the founding chair and executive director of the Collective Success Network, a nonprofit that supports low-income, first-generation college students in achieving their academic, personal, and professional aspirations by connecting them with mentor role-models. Stew and Due discuss the burgeoning research on meditation, calming the mind, and the brain. And they explore how calming techniques affect us at work and in the rest of our lives. Due shares her riveting, harrowing story of climbing out of poverty and deprivation, feeling out of place at Harvard, not knowing how to manage success, learning how the brain reacts to trauma and privation, and discovering how to calm her own brain and find clarity. They talk about her mission to help others find a path from deprivation to success through a mentoring network she’s building and her teaching a practical method for how to gain calm clarity and the strength to persevere. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Due Quach, founder of Calm Clarity, is one of few people with a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business who started life in poverty. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity, she decided to pursue her dream to help people overcome adversity and build resilience. To gain a deeper understanding of the transformative benefits of meditation practices, Due studied various meditation traditions in India and became a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher. Due developed Calm Clarity, a neuroscience-based leadership and resilience program, by interweaving meditation techniques with insights from scientific research. Calm Clarity is a social enterprise, meaning that when clients pay for Calm Clarity's services, they are also supporting low-income students to benefit from the training.

Due Quach, founder of Calm Clarity, is one of few people with a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business who started life in poverty. After building a successful international business career in management consulting and private equity, she decided to pursue her dream to help people overcome adversity and build resilience. To gain a deeper understanding of the transformative benefits of meditation practices, Due studied various meditation traditions in India and became a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher. Due developed Calm Clarity, a neuroscience-based leadership and resilience program, by interweaving meditation techniques with insights from scientific research. Calm Clarity is a social enterprise, meaning that when clients pay for Calm Clarity's services, they are also supporting low-income students to benefit from the training.