WBW 38: Talent Without Work is Empty. So Work as if Everything Depended on Work part 2 of 2

We're living in the Intellectual Age, where not only information abound, but the synthesis of these ideas into something new and creative. Whether to make life easier for all, become wealthy or to see through the launch of a new idea, whatever your objective, you have about the same chance to be successful as the next guy. Yet to have an edge, combine your smarts with the old school value of HARD WORK. Watch this WBW, part two of two featuring Armand "Superman" Bengco of the Colayco Foundation for Education, as he talks about work, ideas, the intellectual age, and how a businessman, employee, start-up or supervisor, clerk or CEO can become their own Entrepreneurs.

Who Is Armand Bengco?

Armand Bengco, also known as Superman, is the executive director of the Colayco Foundation for Education, Inc. (CFE), a foundation dedicated to the promotion of financial literacy among the working class, the average income earners, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), and students. It is into publications, seminars and workshops, various media e.g. radio, tv, newspapers, internet and SMS.

Having graduated from San Beda College with a degree in Marketing, he regularly conducts seminars, talks and workshops, as well as hosts and guests on local AM radio, in line with the foundation’s advocacies. He considers himself an enterprising strategist and a basketball enthusiast.

Armand "Superman" Bengco is also a director at the Kalayaan sa Kakapusan Service and Multi-purpose Cooperative (KSK SMPC), an investment cooperative among OFWs and ordinary income earners established to provide access to higher yielding financial instruments not available to small savers and investors.

Currently, Superman, together with the entire CFE has recently launched One Wealthy Nation (OWN), a thrust for the global community of Filipino savers and investors committed to taking control of their financial lives. OWN provides the community ready access to accurate and reliable information, a practical and speedy fulfillment mechanism on a broad range of affordable retail investments as well as other services and products.

Watch out for the seconde part of WBW 38 and find out why we coined him as a natutong playboy - an experience he shared which is definitely a must-watch.

Show notes:

Entrepreneurship is not about a situation you're in, but a mindset. How do you think employed individuals can practice entrepreneurship in their own ways?

• Not everybody owns their own thing, but everyone can be enterprising.
• There are 24 hours in a day, so even if you have your day job, use the rest of your time for your passionate pursuits. Time is the greatest equalizer so use it wisely.

"The Board" message

Work Hard, Party Harder, Pray Hardest

Extra clips

What do you consider your greatest success?

• Having great mentors
• Mentors on different aspects, before spiritual, then on his professional life, he first got mentored by the now Deputy Secretary General of the House of Representatives, Ricardo Roque

Stopped schooling

• From studying in a glamorous school to being set back to a "second-tier" school provided him a very difficult experience
• Became a glorified security guard called a house detective when he left college
• Saw his classmates going to the hotel he worked him and sometimes it became awkward, but it did not dampen his spirits
• Francisco Colayco is now his great mentor, someone who is probably preparing him for the next half of his life
  

What do you consider your greatest failure / challenge?

• Not trying.
• Was 5 foot 9 during college and really loved playing basketball, but was too intimated with the 6 footers to try out in the team
• In work, also in his love life, it's the failure of not trying harder
• Even in his first school of choice, from La Salle Zobel to Ateneo for college, he didn't try because he was affected by the "taboo" idea of a La Sallian attending Ateneo

My first feeling of failure

• "It's about the love of my life."
• Had 12 or 13 relationships by age 18
• Then he met someone who he wanted to be with in the future
• Di natuloy ang relationship
• Your weakness is your strength and your failure your success depending on how you see it.

For part 1 of 2, click here.