It Changed My Life: Spurred on by a one-dollar fengshui fee

Joey Yap swore he would make it big one day - large corporations now pay him RM1 million

Joey Yap stumbled onto the abstract sciences as a teenager and started giving feng shui consultations. He made his first million by 26. Now, he is a best-selling author and one of the world's leading authorities on Chinese metaphysics.
Wong Kim Hoh
Deputy Life Editor
Updated
Dec 15, 2019, 06:15 AM
Published
Dec 15, 2019, 05:00 AM
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More than 20 years ago, while studying in Australia, Mr Joey Yap used to moonlight as a novice fengshui consultant.

One day, he received a phone call requesting his services from a Chinese man living in Joondalup, about half an hour's drive from the city centre in Perth.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on December 15, 2019, with the headline It Changed My Life: Spurred on by a one-dollar fengshui fee. Subscribe

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