Simon Alexander Ong on Energizing His Readers

Today I’m super excited to share my Q&A with Simon Alexander Ong, the author of Energize: Find Your Spark, Achieve More and Live Better, his debut book, which is due to be published by Penguin Books UK on 21 April 2022 and is available for pre-order.

Simon Alexander Ong is an award-winning coach and motivational speaker, he has been interviewed on Sky News, BBC and Forbes. In 2018, Barclays UK featured him in a nationwide campaign asking him questions on how families could embrace better lifestyle habits. His insights have seen him featured in HuffPost, Forbes, Virgin and the Guardian. Simon regularly speaks at organisations and keynote public events and conferences. Some of these have included The Peter Jones Foundation, The World Business & Executive Coach Summit 2020 and the LSE as well as Virgin, Salesforce and Microsoft.

Everything that Simon does is built to energise people to see their world differently and to awaken their imagination of what is truly possible so that they can live a better story.

Q: What led you to writing Energize and can you tell us a little more about the focus of the book?

A: During the early conversations that I had with my publishers, we brainstormed a few ideas that I could write about and the one title that we were both attracted to was the idea that ‘Energy is Everything’. There were two experiences that led me to putting this idea forward. The first is that there was a period in my life where I was running on empty — I was…