Flagship programs

A mini MBA. A cozy retreat. A plan you can live with.

Business principles applied to personal finances, guided by your own dreams and aspirations. Enjoyable and insightful — replete with stories and real examples that demonstrate the principles and the results.

Flagship Program

The Ikigai Hack

Find joy, excellence, purpose and financial peace of mind in work and life.

Ikigai translates to “a reason for being.” The Ikigai Hack leads you to it. Financial freedom becomes the key to unlocking your Ikigai.

This flagship program is like a mini MBA and a cozy personal retreat rolled into one — business principles applied to personal finances, guided by your own dreams and aspirations. Ikigai is for all.

  • Financial freedom
  • Household balance sheet
  • Cash flow
  • Investing
  • Living your Ikigai

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Joy, excellence, purpose and financial peace

What the workshop helps you do

Less anxiety. A clearer plan.

A strategic approach to financial peace of mind — practical enough to use as soon as you step out of the room, strategic enough to bring you to the finish line.

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One formula

Simple math. Life-changing to apply — with discipline and intentional action.

2

Two powerful tools

What successful businesses use, you can use too.

3

Three simple steps

A sequence you can begin applying right away — reduce stress, build your foundation, and plan for the life you actually want.

This workshop will help you

  • Have a clear understanding of where you are and the direction you will take
  • Set your financial and personal goals in a meaningful fashion
  • Develop a strategic mindset that keeps you on track towards your goals
  • Avoid confusion by setting priorities and knowing what to focus on one step at a time
  • Reduce financial stress and anxiety
  • Improve overall mental health and quality of life

How it feels

“It was incredibly easy to understand and follow — of course, as long as you're willing to stay disciplined. They broke down what financial freedom really means and what it actually takes to get there.”

Mary Lou Cunanan · Workshop participant

More from participants

Corporate · Triple bottom line

Financial Freedom Trainer Alpha

Business sustainability depends on its ability to deliver the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. Ensuring the financial well-being of the people in your company is key to enabling your executives to deliver their best work.

Success in personal finances requires a specific skill set that can be learned and applied. With financial peace of mind comes greater motivation, productivity and the capacity to make sustainable lifestyle choices. Put your people first — sustainability and profitability follow.

Going beyond financial literacy, this program offers a strategic approach to personal finance. We use a proprietary framework and simulation model that makes it unlike any other personal finance course in the market today.

Bring it to your organisation

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Financial Wellness workshop · A strategic approach to financial peace of mind

Live training tool

Step inside the simulation.

Financial Freedom Trainer Alpha is the simulator we use during training. Choose a character, manage a household's cash flow, weigh debt against investing, and watch how small decisions compound over the months.

Open the simulator Runs in your browser. No sign-up.

Workshops & custom programs

Built around your people and your moment.

We can customize programs to fit your needs and budget. Our expertise spans personal finance, investing, real estate, change management, strategic mindset, innovation, technology and Zen meditation.

Career

Big Career Transitions

A risk/reward framework for humanising one's experience in work-life changes — grounded in change management, made for the person in the middle of it.

Practice

Zen Wellness Retreats

A grounding session drawn from a decade of Zen practice — the quiet foundation behind clear thinking, calm decisions and creative work.

Expression

Innovation and Creativity workshop

Innovation training delivered in a high tech fashion through app creation, hands on robotics and use of AI. Reigniting and stimulating creativity to increase the capacity for innovation. No engineering PhD required, just a willingness to learn.

Our expertise

  • Personal Finance
  • TechnologyAI, Coding, Robotics, IoT
  • Investing
  • Strategic Mindset
  • Real Estate
  • Innovation and Creativity
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The work of Chewy Yap — creativity, made visible
Chewy and Bai Yap at the Asia Leaders Awards, holding Sherwin's Men and Women of Power and Purpose award
Bai and Chewy Yap

Keynote speaking

Invite our founders to your stage.

Engage your teams on Ikigai, financial freedom, technology, creativity or leadership — with stories from two lives lived on purpose, and lessons that came from experience rather than theory.

From a room of twenty to a corporate conference, the message stays the same: be well, be free, and live your Ikigai.

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Programs

Which room are you in — and where do you want to be?

Tell us about your team, your stage or your next chapter. We'll help you find the right starting point.