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I want to be a good one.
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I want to be a good one.
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Hi everyone.
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How many hours do you work per day?
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Oh, 24?
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24. 20!
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Managing Director of Panicam Vietnam, Mr. Alexander Kut.
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What is your horoscope?
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Sagittarius, take your time.
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You have a whole life ahead of you.
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You have a TV.
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Everybody knows you.
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I know so.
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And now you want me to open it with one hand?
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Effortlessly.
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Do you know how to cheers in Vietnamese?
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Mop, hai ba.
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Yo.
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I'll see you next time.
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Bye!
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How do you run a meeting?
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How do I run a meeting?
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That's a good question I should ask my team.
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I think it overruns too often.
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I'm very inclusive so I let everybody speak.
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What is the best professional advice you've ever been given?
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Stay true to yourself.
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Lovely.
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Would you rather have a beer with your Prime Minister Ruder or play rock music with your favorite brand, Euro?
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Play rock music.
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Who has the greatest influence on UNY?
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I think that's my wife.
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Sounds really boring, right?
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But no, my wife is a real good sparing partner, coach.
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I tell her everything and she gives a lot of feedback.
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Wow, that is the sweetest answer ever.
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20 years on the job,
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what is one thing you learned never to do as the managing director?
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Don't assume, listen.
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Mm-hmm.
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I love that Alex, cheers.
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Oh!
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I'm kind of...
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Wow, how many floors do you have?
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We have four floors by now.
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Four floors?
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A lot of Vietnamese digital rock stars that are working for globally.
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Lovely.
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Wow.
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What does your typical day look like?
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My typical day?
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Yes.
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I have an awful lot of meetings.
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A lot of meetings?
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Either on the screen with the region Singapore or Amsterdam in the afternoon or evening.
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And then face to face,
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I do travel a lot to Hanoi,
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like once or twice per month.
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What time do you start your day?
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6.15.
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How many hours do you work per day?
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24?
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20. And I also work in the weekend, but I don't mind.
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How do you keep your energy full of energy all day long?
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Yeah, that's self-care, very important.
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Self-care, what do you do?
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Do my sports, listening to heavy metal music,
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a bit of rest in the weekend and I'm fine.
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Makes sense.
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So it is a clean office.
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So at the end of the day,
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everybody has to put their stuff in the locker.
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Wow, really?
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So you take your stuff and you go see it wherever you want.
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I think in the end people are...
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Everybody knows you.
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I hope so.
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But that's my huge pleasure.
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This is nice, right?
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Yeah, it's so nice.
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I feel so honored and grateful.
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Alright, and here's my little office.
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After you.
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If I'm not here, people use it as a meeting room.
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Wow.
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So that's the idea of the open office.
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Can you show me some of your pictures?
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What do you like?
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This is the legendary Chairman Chao on whose shoulders we stand.
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So when Vietnam was opening,
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he moved to Europe, searching for an international brewer to start a business in Vietnam.
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So he met the Heineken team at the time and they came back,
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they studied part of what is now Heineken Vietnam.
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So it's on his shoulders that we stand.
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So I pay him an annual visit.
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Wow, that's precious.
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Yeah.
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Precious.
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What else do we got?
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All the products that we have.
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Can you put it in order from the thing you like the most to the list?
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I love Bia Viet, which is a brand that I love Heineken.
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Uh-huh.
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I love Tiger obviously.
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I know Strongbow will be at the bottom, right?
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Strongbow, this is a nice one.
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Do you remember the name of the artist that endorsed Strongbow?
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The singer?
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Yeah, the singer, the rapper.
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I know his face, not his name.
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He's tall, right?
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Yeah.
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Lenvaux.
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Good marketing.
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Strongbow here.
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Strongbow is also something I would...
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I know.
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You don't like pretty flavors.
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I'm a beer lover.
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I can't be?
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Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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Toilet, alec.
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Yeah, true.
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Perfect investigation.
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I would like to express how much respect I have for you and for your work.
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Because my dad and I are hands-down beer lovers.
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And every weekend I would buy him a box of like 24 cans of Hanneken as a gift.
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And he would be super happy would be super happy.
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He and I even had a video on my YouTube channel drinking Hanneken beers.
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Wow, well that's a big honor.
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Yes.
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And I think that's the beauty about beer, right?
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It's all about togetherness, bringing people together,
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sharing a story over a beer.
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So first question, what gets you excited every morning?
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How do you start your day?
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I start my day actually going for a round with my dog,
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going for a walk.
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I think that is somewhat my meditation.
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I enjoy that and then I'm ready to take the day heads on.
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I think Vietnam is a very vibrant,
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exciting, busy place so I like the quiet start in the morning
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and then I have to talk the whole day but at least my dog doesn't ask any questions.
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So always loyal to you.
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So you have been working for Heineken for more than 25 years and five years in Vietnam.
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Can you walk us through a little bit your career journey
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but how did you start and how did you get to this point in your career?
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Probably the new generation could not imagine a full career at one company.
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I really still enjoy working at Heineken.
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It took me all around the world.
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I've been 16 years abroad in Africa,
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in Greece, now in Vietnam.
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I have worked in so many different cultures.
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I think the social part and the people part is what really kept me going.
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That's really admirable because you know I'm 24 years old.
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Yeah, like all your life I've been in the beer business.
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That's incredible.
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We love that.
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Okay, so what would be one word to describe you as a managing director at Hennikin and you outside work?
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I think positive, positive energy.
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That's my mindset.
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Things can be tough.
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I always see the glass half full of course sometimes things are tough
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but i always see the opportunity nice what is your horoscope sagittarius
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that makes sense there's always a solution
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if you see a big problem in front of you make
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it take it into small steps at least start walking start taking actions towards the goal
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and then you'll find out you will achieve things.
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Sitting still is worse.
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So if you see a mountain,
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the big thing you look up to, then just start moving.
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As a young person, sometimes we get easily depressed.
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But yeah, just think about move forward.
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Yeah, I have three daughters that are Gen Z,
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two of them already in university.
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What I would recommend people who start their career, take your time.
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You have a full life ahead of you.
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Go for deep and meaningful experiences.
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It's like a marriage, right?
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In good times and bad times
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and in the bad times is where the learning sits so
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if you walk away from the bad times like i don't like this i'm going to change company
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and see if the grass is greener at the neighbors you miss out on
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that opportunity to learn so i think you can't build a career on instagram
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or tiktok you need to you know go for deep
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and meaningful experiences take it step by step that's really inspiring consistency
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and take it step by step step by step yeah what is the most Vietnamese things you have experienced so far?
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When I came to Vietnam and I heard about people putting ice in your beer,
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I said no one will put ice in my Heineken.
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Why not?
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I thought that was just such a weird thing.
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So I was, no, no,
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you cannot put ice in beer.
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Then of course after one night drinking with the sales team,
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I thought maybe better to have some ice in my beer.
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So I do ice in my beer now.
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Yeah.
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And then you try.
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Yeah.
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You like it now?
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Yeah, it's nice.
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It keeps It makes it cold and fresh, easy to drink.
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And you have never seen this kind of drinking style anywhere else in the world?
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No. All in Vietnam?
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No. And I do, when I'm back in Holland,
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I sometimes ask ice, I put it in my beer and everybody thinks I'm totally nuts.
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Wow, I'm so proud of my country.
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We absolutely don't put ice in beer in the Netherlands,
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or anywhere in the world for that matter.
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Here we are.
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Lovely.
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And now you want me to open it with one hand.
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If we're asleep.
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Wow, all right, cheers.
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Amazing.
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Cheers.
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Do you know how to cheers in Vietnamese?
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Moap hai ba.
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Coffee or beer?
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In the morning coffee, but the rest beer.
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What is your go-to food when you run short of time?
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In Vietnam would be like noodles.
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I like the street food as well.
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I like Banseo.
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Lovely, I love that!
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Vietnamese food goes perfect with beer.
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That's why I think beer is so popular here.
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What do you think about the way people mispronounce Heineken all over the world?
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For instance in Vietnam, Heineken.
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The whole world mispronounces Heineken.
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Even here in Vietnam, you can go to a nice restaurant,
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you look in the menu,
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it will say
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He-ni-ken or He-ni-ken or He-ni-ken or it's always wrongly spelled and in most of the countries it has a nickname.
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So in Vietnam would be Ken.
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In Greece where I also worked it's called Prasini which means green.
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So if I say can I have four greens then they will bring me four Heineken.
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As long as they drink our beer,
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it doesn't matter how they pronounce.
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Yes.
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Cheers.
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Yeah, cheers.
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So I know that as a managing director,
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you have a lot of things to deal with on a daily basis.
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I'm very curious about your most difficult decision you have made so far related to career.
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I've been on the go, right?
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And it's been really good for myself professionally,
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but it also gave a lot to my family.
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If I look at my children now,
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they're so open, so inclusive,
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they don't see race, they're really citizens of the world.
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Of course also my wife had to change her career.
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She was an entrepreneur before we moved abroad,
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which is now 16 years ago,
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and then she had to change her career to something that is movable,
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which she successfully did.
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So I'm super proud of that.
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I think the family impact of my career choices become more challenging.
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At the end of the day,
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what do you learn from that, especially in decision-making process?
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You need to do soul searching.
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You need to decide what's really good for you and your family or your set of values.
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So don't do something that doesn't feel right.
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You really need to take time to use the head and the heart to make the right decision.
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So that's not always easy, right?
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Because sometimes there's a trade-off with that.
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But yeah, that's the right thing to do.
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Cheers to all the decisions we have made and no regrets at all.
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What is the toughest decision that you have made?
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Whether to study abroad or not,
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I got a scholarship and I got to drop it and I stayed here.
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That's a brave decision.
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I normally don't have any regrets because I think that every opportunity or every experience is a lesson.
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Yeah.
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It makes us who we are.
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Yeah, true.
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Would you mind giving some advice to those youngsters who aspire
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to make it big like you there is a little book
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that i close to my heart and it's called the happiness advantage
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and it goes around the notion
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that a lot of people are wired like i need to work hard to make a lot of money
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so i can buy and do what i want
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and then i'll be happy
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that is let's say a bit of a standard line of thought to reach happiness the happiness advantage turns that around.
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It says you have to be happy or in a positive mindset to be successful.
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So it's not first be successful,
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work hard, get money and be happy.
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But it starts with happiness.
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And I think once you make that shift and reach your goals in an inclusive,
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a positive way, that is what drives results.
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That's what drives people forward.
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If you feel negative, drained energy,
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it's difficult to reach your goals.
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I totally agree.
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I think that energy levels affect tremendously the success of an organization.
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Yeah.
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And Hannigan is doing such a great job at that.
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Great energy here.
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Mok hai ba yo.
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Mok hai ba ung.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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Lovely.
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What does the ung mean?
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Drink.
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Drink.
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OK.
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Drink.
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Jump and jump.
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Thank you so much, V.
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Take care, good luck with your show and everything.
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Love Panikken.
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We should have a beer together with your dad one day.
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Let's do it!
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Oh my god, dad!
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Listen to that!
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In VIN!
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Oh my god!
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In VIN, right?
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I still have to visit,
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it's on my list, so I'll let you know if I go there.
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Oh my god, so thoughtful!
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Thank you so much!
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Please sponsor 10 bosses of Panikken beers.
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Easy, easy.
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Consider it done.
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In this lesson, learners will practice listening comprehension and speaking skills through a fascinating interview with Mr. Alexander Kut, the Managing Director of Panicam Vietnam. Through his insights about daily routines, professional advice, and personal influences, you will gain not only valuable vocabulary but also the ability to express yourself more fluently in a business context. This engaging content will help you learn English with YouTube while practicing shadow speech techniques for effective speaking practice.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Managing Director: The highest executive in a company, responsible for overseeing operations.
- Overruns: When a meeting or event goes longer than scheduled.
- Inclusive: Involving everyone in a group; open to different opinions.
- Professional advice: Recommendations or guidance related to one's career or profession.
- Sparing partner: A person who provides support and challenges you to improve.
- Listen: To actively hear and understand what someone is saying.
- Effortlessly: With ease; without requiring much effort.
- Cheers: A phrase used to express good wishes before drinking.
Practice Tips
To maximize your learning experience from this video, consider using shadowing techniques with a focus on Mr. Kut's speaking style. Since the video has a conversational and varied pace, it will be beneficial to play sections repeatedly to get familiar with the rhythm and intonation. Here's how to utilize shadowing effectively:
- Use a shadowing app to keep the video and audio synchronized while you practice. This can help you mimic the speaker's pace and pronunciation more effectively.
- Start by listening to short clips and repeating them immediately. Focus on the tone, rhythm, and any expressions that stand out, such as "stay true to yourself."
- Record your voice while shadowing and listen back to evaluate your pronunciation compared to the original. This method can help you fine-tune your skills.
- Practice in a relaxed environment, ideally while you replicate the speaker's body language and gestures; this makes learning more interactive and enjoyable.
By incorporating these techniques into your study routine, you'll improve not only your speaking abilities but also enhance your overall confidence in using English in a professional setting. Utilize these strategies on your favorite shadowing site to get started today!
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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