Newton Cheng
Newton Cheng is a husband and father, competitive powerlifter, and Director of Health and Performance at Google. He has spent his career at Google developing, launching, and scaling global programs aimed at helping Googlers thrive, overseeing a global portfolio of the company's physical and digital health and wellbeing amenities. He explores how spaces, services, community, culture, and technology can support the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of Googlers, their families, and neighbors.
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Aug. 8, 2023
Unmasking Vulnerability: From Achieving Goals to Embracing Emotional Depth | Newton Cheng
Newton Cheng, Director of Health and Performance at Google, world champion competitive powerlifter, and father, shares his story of growing up in a traditional Asian American family and feeling the pressure to achieve success by checking all the boxes. He talks about how this pressure led him to pivot from a career in engineering to a career in health and wellbeing. "I'm not sure what happened, but in the moment, I started to cry, and I could feel like the tears just start welling up in my eyes, and I said, right now I'm struggling because the number of days that I'm proud of how I'm showing up as a father is going down and I don't know how to turn that around." - Newton Cheng
Guest: Newton Cheng