EP 06 ·
Who Am I Now?
Ka Wai Cheung spent 18 years building a software company. The day he sold it, he felt relief. Then, almost straight away, a harder question showed up: who am I now?
In our first guest episode, Ka Wai tells Michael and Brian what happened when the plan ran out. In the same few months he became a full-time dad to two young kids, finished a years-long home renovation, started driving his father-in-law to his appointments three days a week, and welcomed a cousin moving over from Hong Kong. He was doing a lot, and very useful, but he wasn’t feeling useful. Somewhere in there, he lost himself.
What came next wasn’t a new title. It was learning to live in the next five minutes, to keep his craft in a smaller dose, and to stop playing someone else’s game. Michael has a particular view of this one: he and Ka Wai were business partners in the company Ka Wai sold.
This week’s question: who were you five minutes ago, and who do you want to be in the next five?
Tell us on Instagram at @bhtcollective.
Coming
Emily Wilkins survived emergency surgery in 2017, then went back to the same life and asked, “Why can’t I make this work?” How a week in Florida, a notebook and a deck of tarot cards led the founder of Marketing Metal to the pivot she chose.
No big questions this week. Michael and Brian just hang out: how they really met, growing up outside Cleveland and in Detroit, what they’re hilariously bad at, the sounds that drive them up the wall, a lightning round, and what they hope you’ll come to see in them.
We all react. Michael and Brian on the space between what happens and what you do next: where you feel it in your body, how to tell real reflection from kicking the can down the road, and the one question that turns a reaction into a response.
