Pauline
Nguyen

Pauline is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs - but with difference. She is inspiration with substance. She teaches with warmth and humour, telling her own story of what can be achieved through key alignment of thoughts and intentions. She has a high-performing Western business background combined with an Eastern slant of spirituality.

Pauline's achievements are all the more impressive for her having escaped Vietnam on a boat and survived a Thai refugee camp. This tumultuous childhood has given her a unique approach to success by re-engineering her beliefs and hacking cultural norms as well as invaluable skills of self-mastery, resilience and grit.

Pauline has become a master of her thoughts, behaviours and emotions and approached everything with an unshakable spirit. Her day-to-day professional life in orbit around her life principles, and not the other way around. This self-actualisation has carried her to prosperity while running the awarded restaurant Red Lantern, (the most awarded Vietnamese restaurant in the world) and writing her critically-acclaimed memoir Secrets of the Red Lantern which has since appeared in numerous bestseller lists.

Current Work

Pauline is an award-winning businesswoman and entrepreneur- In 2012, Pauline and Red Lantern won the Australian Telstra Business Award for Medium Business. She is also is an original ‘Rare Bird’ - one of Australia’s top 50 influential female entrepreneurs - and is included in Blackwell and Hobday’s global recognition of 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World.

Pauline has recently penned The Way of the Spiritual Entrepreneur - the 7 Secrets to Becoming Fearless, Stress Free and Unshakable in Business and in Life. Pauline describes her new book as a no bones, honest and forthright methodology of business, life and spiritual practice designed to disrupt standard ways of thinking, bringing the unconscious into the conscious and catapulting the reader into an optimistic mindset of abundance and possibility. Through direct experience, she knows that ‘happiness’ alone won’t solve our business problems. To be Fearless, Stress Free and Unshakable are more powerful traits. She believes that any person or organisation who follows The Way of The Spiritual Entrepreneur is destined to have a competitive advantage in business and in life.

Pauline is a certified coach and facilitator in Meta Neuro Linguistic Programming, Neuro Semantics, Integral Semantics and an acclaimed keynote speaker. She works with audiences to maximize joy and enhance personal performance in leadership by controlling the environment around them as well as inside them.

Previous Experience

Education: Pauline holds a BA in Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Awards and Acheivements: In 2012 Pauline won Debut Writer of the Year for her book Secrets of the Red Lantern - as voted by the Australian Book Publishing Industry.