When the pandemic struck, people got stuck — not just at home, also in their job/career, their relationships at work and family. People are experiencing signs of anxiety and depression. More people are contracting the Covid-19 virus, some even experiencing near-death. While some are coping with the death of loved ones.
We need to find ways to RISE UP from our own situation …. So that we can help others RISE UP as well.
The solution: A reminder of our greatness. A “tutorial” on how to bring out the best in us.
Our Response
In the past year, we learned from World-Class Filipinos. Our members (called “Risers”) professed gaining renewed perspective and belief in themselves as World-Class Filipinos. We invited several guest speakers, including:
- Bro. Bo Sanchez – Catholic Lay Preacher; Founder of The Feast, a Catholic Community with members around the globe.
- Hidilyn Diaz – Weightlifter, Silver medalist 2016 Rio Olympics. Gold medalist Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
- Budjette Tan – Founder and Creator of “Trese”, global cult-hit graphic novel, soon to be a Netflix show; Creative Director at LEGO Headquarters, Denmark
- Iliac Diaz – Founder of Liter of Light, solar artworks with global impact
- Gregorio Villar – NASA engineer who is the head verification and validation engineer for the entry, descent and landing of 2020 Mars rover.
- Nico Hernandez – Director of Asia Award Winning Documentary “The Last Manilaners”
- Anthony Francisco – Marvel Studios senior visual development artist who designed Guardians of the Galaxy’s Groot, Loki, Captain Marvel, and other Avengers characters
- MK Bertulfo – Founder & CEO of FHMoms, a community of 300,000 Filipina home-based moms.
- Rebecca Bustamante – Motivational speaker, author of “Maid to Made” and President & co-founder of Asia CEO Events.
- Atty. Alex Lacson – author of “Five Hundred Years Without Love” and “12 Little Things Our Youth Can Do to Build Our Dream Philippines”.
Author and multi-merit awardee international humanitarian worker.
Founder/ President /CEO AYP Holdings, Inc.
CEO, Linkserve Solutions BPO
Public Affairs Lead for East-West Seed Group
Awarded on 26 April 2021 by His Majesty King Willem Alexander of Netherlands through Ambassador Saskia De Lang, the Knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau
Manotoc made his name in sportscasting as a basketball analyst for the PBA games with PBA on Viva TV, PBA on ABC and PBA on NBN/IBC from 2000-2004. He is currently a journalist with ABS-CBN North America News Bureau Chief.
elino “Jun” Palafox, Jr. are an Architect, Urban Planner, Environmental Planner, Author, Educator, Philanthropist, Writer, Publisher, Architectural Activist and he practices several advocacies.
A staunch advocate of good governance and development effectiveness, Former Commissioner Heidi L. Mendoza is a respected and internationally known auditor who works tirelessly to identify and root out corruption. She is a certified public accountant who has served the Commission on Audit for over 20 years, a former Undersecretary-General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight, a professional lecturer and trainer on Fraud Investigation and Corruption, and an author.
Dr. Peter Esperanza is the man behind The Numberbender, a popular YouTube channel which houses over 1,000 curriculum based math videos both in English and Filipino. He was awarded the Apple Distinguished Educator for 2015, and was recognized as Barstow Teacher of the Year in the same year. He was also awarded by Kababayan Today as their very first Filipino-American Community Hero in 2015.
CEO & Founder of Filipina Homebased Moms: the first and biggest freelancing group for Pinay moms with 340,000 members nationwide.
Filipina nurse in the United Kingdom, was the first to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after it received an approval for use in the UK.
Lawyer, bestselling author of 12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country”
The Man who creates Marvel Heroes. Senior Visual Development Artist for Marvel Studios. Creator of Baby Groot and costume design for Black Panther.
Budjette Tan is most-known as the writer for the “Trese” Netflix’s first Filipino animated series. Worked in the internal creative agency at one of the most-beloved toy companies in the world – LEGO.
EDL Systems Engineer, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Spent 7.5 years building and testing a system that will land a car-sized rover on Mars
Sustainable construction entrepreneur. Founder, My Shelter Foundation & Liter of Light
Janice Crisostomo Villanueva, founder and CEO of the first-ever multi-platform mom resource and community in the Philippines, Mommy Mundo.
Irish national who is Pinoy at heart. Co-founder of the “Rise of the Pinoy” advocacy group.
Award-winning director of “The Last Manilaners.”
Rebecca Bustamante is a former domestic helper in Singapore turned one of the most accomplished female entrepreneurs in the ASEAN region. She is President and co-Founder of Asia CEO Events, the largest and only national business event series in the Philippines. She helps organizations inspire their employees to become world-class individual contributors and leaders.
Janitor turned Transformational leader and Life & Wealth Coach, Founder of I Am + Coaching & Training Systems
Tyrone Dizon is the Feast Country Builder for the US and Bahamas. He is a Field Applications Engineer, a father of 6 and husband to Em-Em Dizon.
Numerous awards and commendation from Front Runner Agency and Manila International Airport Authority – known as “MR. HONESTY”. ” HONESTO ng BAYAN” , Ronald Gadayan … “Katapatan sa Kapwa, sa Bayan , at higit sa Lahat sa Diyos na dapat pamarisan ng karamihan.
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Testimonials
Spending my precious early morning time productively with very supportive and positive people. It's such a wonderful feeling as I look back on what happened since I joined the club! I published my first book, organized my first online IT Summit, had an opportunity to be a sharer in the recent Heal Online Summit, started a private group called +Constant. I am also co-leading an interest group called KaLikha, learning more about business in the Entrepreneur's Circle, meeting world-class Filipinos and so much more!
I have LEARNED TO: Appreciate more -My husband, my children, my family. People around me whom I deal with in my daily life -My gifts, talents and everything that I have Unlearn things and focus on the most important ones -Choosing my battles and focusing on the things that is more of value -Enough of the negativities and self-destructive thoughts Love and believe in myself - Self Love is my gift to myself and with God’s maneuvering power I am inspired and empowered to give more and offer more Enjoy the present moment, not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future Forgive and to let go of past hurts -I am able to bury my past hurts where they should be and I use it as a compass for me to be the best version of myself everyday. Yes, there are times that I fail but I rise up knowing that there is a brighter tomorrow to look forward to Have a more intimate relationship with God -Morning dates with him makes my day complete Take ACTION and COURAGE to get out of my COMFORT ZONE -My gifts I have to share so others maybe blessed
A lover of learning, a creator and collaborator of ideas, people and solutions that all makes sense in the end. Indeed, my inner world creates my outer world, and when your inner world is as exciting as this, then the world could be your playground. Because of the World Class Filipino Summit I was able to meet and connect directly in the virtual space with the likes of Liter of Light CEO Illac Diaz, patriotic book author Atty. Alex Lacson, FHMoms founder MK Bertulfo, good governance advocate Commissioner Heidi Mendoza, Mommymundo founder Janice Villanueva, and Irish CEO but Pinoy at Heart Mike Grogan, co-founder of Kaizen Leadership Asia and so many more world class Filipinos that just make me in awe with so much great learnings and possibilities on how to apply it my daily life.
Patriotic philanthropic architecture Felino "Jun" Palafox, Jr. is in the house! So much HOPE, INSPIRATION and COURAGE received from 5am.... And still ongoing (until 8am) Fighting corruption is corporal works of mercy.
Happy to wake up very early today and listen to Atty. Alex Lacson, author of books "12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do For His Country" and "500 Years Without Love". It was great learning from him at the World-Class Filipino Summit. Sharing with you some of my takeaways. If you want to be part of the summit as well (it's for the whole month of June), please join the World-Class Filipino Champions Facebook Group for more details.
I had an awesome, inspiring and very powerful Saturday morning during the World-Class Filipino Summit (WCFS). So grateful to have met online, asked questions, learned and inspired by powerhouse world-class guest speakers as they shared their very inspiring stories about RESILIENCE and how it helped them on their journey towards being world-class. Thank you so much to all the WCFS guest speakers for inspiring and enlightening us with your passion to serve others despite of the challenges.
Today I learned about the power of RADICAL LOVE, how the power of little things that we do today can help shape our life, the lives of the youth, and ultimately, our country. Change is an inside out job, indeed!!! It is good to be reminded that as a World-Class Filipino, I must be a Builder of Hope, a Channel of Blessings and I can only do these things as I keep myself connected to the Source of all that is good. God's leadership must reign in us that we might be the salt and light of this world. Thank you, Attorney Alex Lacson for all that you do and for writing and sharing all these for us LIVE at today's session in Rise Up! The 5am Club! - Win the Morning, Win the Day! #ru5ac today #WCFS #RISE #Integrity #ALAB ❤️?❤️?❤️?❤️?
I recently watched a talk on Financial Literacy by Bro. Bo, and it hit me about hanging out with the VIPs.. to know more about them and start living like them. Very Inspiring Persons(VIP) Sharing some of the inspiring quotes I learned at #WCFS Speakers: Illac Diaz "Share your LIGHT to the world." "Why do you look at the problems,not on the POSSIBILITIES?" Rebecca Bustamante "If we do it, everything can be done. It's all in the ACTION." "We are in charge of our time. Where do you spend that TIME?" "Remove the word FEAR." MK Bertulfo "Reach out with mentors. Whatever knowledge you have, SHARE it." Coach Russ "Do anything to invest in yourself." Comm. Heidi "We don't meet people by accident."
Powerful speakers and so many great insights on resilience and on being world-class Filipinos. Thank you to our panelists, Commissioner Heidi Mendoza , Life Coach Russ Juson, and FHMoms Founder MK Bertulfo, and to our host, Coach Rezza Custodio-Soriano, for the inspiration, positivity, and wisdom. Just, wow! Sharing this invite to everyone, too. Watch the discussion inside the World-Class Filipino Champions FB group - it's super inspiring, super engaging, super real! And a lot of fun - iyak tawa level!
Getting up close and personal with people nga sa TV ra nako makita sa una, grabe ka-overwhelming! I thank the Lord everyday for leading me into this amazing community! If you want to experience this, too, simple ra kaayo just join this group World-Class Filipino Champions and get to know more about world-class Filipinos, their advocacies and realizing we have more in common with them than we think. They are also human and pareho ra ta naay struggles and fears pero what sets them apart is naa silay determination ug courage and they are hopeful about our country as well! Hayy grabe, thank youuu MK Bertulfo, Illac Diaz, Rebecca Bustamante, Life Coach Russ Juson and of course, ma’am Heidi Mendoza for saying yes! You are all truly world-class! Trailblazing, pathfinding and pioneering in your fields so that it’s easier for others to follow!
Trese Wohoo! I got a chance to listen to Sir Budjette Tan. Grabe had to listen to the creator himself, I totally dive in the moment, para ako ngbalik sa childhood ko na nakikinig sa bedtime stories. Trese, gawang Pinoy nkkproud. Grateful sa message niya "It might not feel progress until you take action, Keep track of little steps, do not stuck in waiting place, prepare yourself, eventually the right bus will come, that bus will not stop for you., You will run to get to that bus.
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