Meet Clinton, the visionary leader behind GlobalTNF and co-founder of Rainmaker. In a fast-paced, results-driven world, few entrepreneurs champion the deeper values of connection, health, and sustainable success quite like Clinton. He shares the true meaning of lifestyle freedom, and how his personal transformation inspired the creation of a system-driven, science-backed approach to health and performance.
From nurturing meaningful networks to empowering individuals worldwide to achieve holistic well-being, his vision for the future is bold, refreshing, and deeply rooted in building communities founded on trust, authenticity, and a shared purpose.
What inspired you to start GlobalTNF and how did your personal fitness journey influence the development of your system-driven programme?
GlobalTNF in short is a global community centred around the term TNF. From a programme approach, we aim to help the whole world globally to be trim and fit, hence TNF—Trim and Fit. But we also want to have a community where health and fitness professionals come together.
At GlobalTNF, we operate as a team. A team stands for Together Everyone Achieves More—T.E.A.M. I truly believe that if you want to do great things and achieve a big vision—which for me is a global vision—we should come together.
Share your modality, your approach—you are a dietitian, a nutritionist, an exercise expert, or a supplement expert—let’s all come together as a community, and be aligned with our tagline: Lifestyle Freedom Together.
If you Google “Lifestyle Freedom Together,” you can see that GlobalTNF champions this movement. We have many health and fitness thought leaders from the fitness, nutrition and wellness space coming together as one community, united in achieving Lifestyle Freedom Together.
For myself, I lost nearly 10kg of body fat and everything was measurable. My personal fitness journey taught me that we can only duplicate in others what we have duplicated in ourselves. Because I achieved an amazing transformation through a system-driven, science-backed approach—I was inspired.
That’s why we take a partnership approach to our community as well. TNF also stands for “Together and Free,” where individual practitioners unite with a shared objective—helping their clients achieve lifestyle freedom together. They can leverage our pooled resources, technology, and processes, allowing them to break free from being stuck in their own jobs they have created as solopreneurs or self-employed by aligning with the strong support system we provide.
If I can do it, people who are more credentialed than me in health and fitness, with their authority and influence, can reach out to even more people globally to adopt this methodology and help more people to be trim and fit and to be together and free.
How do you approach building global communities around lifestyle brands and what are some key elements needed to engage Millennial and Gen Z audiences effectively?
You need to fulfil the three High Ts. First, you must build a High Tech community. Today, if you don’t infuse technology into your community-building approach, you cannot be a global community because you cannot scale. You are limited to how much influence you can exert locally. Tech is necessary for automation, communication, and now AI integration, for scaling processes and communication effectively.
The second is you must have High Touch. The human element is crucial. Community building is about human connection. You must create as many face-to-face interactions as possible, both online and offline. Scientific evidence shows that when people meet face to face and form deep, meaningful connections, it benefits mental, emotional, and physical health.
Last but not least, you must have High Trust. High Trust means being a values-driven community, aligned with principles of integrity, authenticity, and credibility. It also means demonstrating results-driven, measurable, and data-driven approaches.
People always ask me what are the key elements in engaging Millennial and Gen Z audiences effectively. This is because of my track record engaging Millennials and Gen Zs, especially from my time in fashion retail, e-commerce, entertainment consulting, and later in beauty and wellness where I consistently did 7 figures revenue annually.
The truth is, it doesn’t matter whether you are engaging Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z, or Gen Alpha. Human beings always have fears, frustrations, wants, and dreams. Your job, if you want to engage a demographic, is not just to engage based on demographics, but to understand their psychographics.
You must fully understand their fears, frustrations, wants, and dreams. You must be able to speak their narratives. Once you build that trust and rapport, you can engage them effectively—whether it’s for business, politics or religion.
As the co-founder of Rainmaker, what was the key gap in the entrepreneur ecosystem you were trying to fill?
I find that there’s a lot of emphasis on just results. But let me be very honest. If you go back to Business Fundamentals 101, and if you look at the culture outside of Singapore that really does big business, especially in big markets like China and Indonesia—it is about relationship first.
I feel that this is a major gap and is probably causing us to lose our competitive edge because we are so transactional. At Rainmaker, our fundamental philosophy is friendship first, business second, because the fundamentals of relationship building are still built on trust and relationship.
We need to start by building a community of people aligned with these values. It’s not that results and KPIs don’t matter, but we believe that with strong foundation of good relationships and trust, results will flow miraculously and effortlessly.
So when Richard and I looked at the networking climate, we thought why don’t we create a community that comes back to the fundamentals of friendship first, business second, and create an ecosystem centred on values.
Our five core values are Love, Authenticity, Respect, Kindness, Youthfulness (LARKY). Think about this, if someone displays LARKY 100%, this person will be highly favoured, greatly blessed, well-loved and respected. I believe if you connect people with these like-minded values, miracles will happen.
So when Richard and I looked at the networking climate, we thought why don’t we create a community that comes back to the fundamentals of friendship first, business second, and create an ecosystem centred on values.
How do you see health and fitness transformation playing a role in entrepreneurial success and personal branding?
In a world of instant impressions, people judge your credibility before you open your mouth. Your skills and knowledge take time to prove—but your physique shows up first. Like it or not, how you care for your body signals your discipline, alignment, and whether you live what you teach.
If you’re a coach, consultant, or leader, you’re not just selling ideas—you’re selling execution. And execution starts with self-discipline. A neglected physique raises silent questions about your habits and integrity. But a well-maintained one speaks volumes: it reflects consistency, control, and proof that your systems work.
This isn’t about beauty. It’s about effort. Physique is built—not gifted—through what you eat, how you move, and the discipline you apply daily.
You’ve worked with over 1,000 clients. What common challenges do you see among professionals trying to optimise their health as well as network?
Standard answers: they are busy, have no time, or no money. Honestly, I think this is a common challenge. As long as you are a high performer, you value your work and you are competent in it. If you don’t have the time, I can understand because you have many priorities.
When it comes to finances, the truth is, the reason why you lack financial resources often comes down to your personal discipline and habits. We live in a time where making money is a science. If you really want to work hard—especially being so blessed to live in Singapore—there’s no lack of money-making opportunities.
But the biggest challenge high performers face in improving fitness, health, or networking is that they are so narrowly focused on their grind. Many high achievers are stuck because they are drained by long hours and are very sedentary, or they go from one networking event to another but walk away without real relationships.
That’s where my work comes in. You need to find a provider who can assure you with a system-driven, science-backed method that is repeatable, sustainable, and measurable. Otherwise, if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you will keep getting the same results. Albert Einstein said, “If you want different results, you must do something you have never done before.”
What has been one of your most memorable transformation stories from your clients or community members?
I think I’ll mention one—Wen Yang. His story is inspiring. When I first met him, he was a scrawny teenager with big ambitions. Very small-sized, not confident. But he had leadership potential—he was selected for the SAF scholarship and was top of his cohort at OCS. I saw the transformational potential in him.
Over the years, I mentored him from a client to a mentee, and eventually after NS, he gave up a prestigious scholarship and chose to join my company full time. Now in his late 20s, he has built a very strong client portfolio spanning Singapore to Vietnam. His clients include ONE FC champions, top MMA fighters, doctors, chiropractors and nutritionists. He has transformed holistically—physically, emotionally, professionally and financially.
He’s humble, grounded, charismatic, and an inspiring leader. He’s also been invited to speak on many global stages where audiences are in the thousands. His transformation is a true testimony that with the right mentorship and system, you can change your life drastically.
What do you think makes a good entrepreneur?
A good entrepreneur has a strong instinct and sensing of supply and demand forces. That’s it. An entrepreneur need not invent a product—they need to match supply with demand in a profitable fashion.
If you understand supply and demand well and can do it efficiently and effectively, you will constantly be profitable. That is what defines a good entrepreneur.
What’s your vision for Singapore in the next five years?
It sounds political, but I think from a business perspective, I can more or less see the strategic positioning Singapore can occupy. I am grateful to our government, our infrastructure, and the predecessors who laid down all these amazing foundations for us.
My vision for Singaporeans is that we must position ourselves to be the hub for everything—not just finance or trade, but everything.
Singaporeans need to realise we are the ones who make up Singapore. We must become the medium, the hub itself. But I am a little worried. I think Singaporeans are getting too comfortable, not very adaptive to change, sometimes a bit insular. If you see fast-growing economies, their people are super adaptive.
We used to be a true talent hub because of bilingualism—it’s deteriorated now. Today, many Singaporeans are no longer bilingual. Our strategic advantage is being a neutral bridge between East and West.
I hope Singapore can develop talents who are resourceful, multilingual, culturally adaptive, and strong in technology, language, and business. Otherwise, we risk losing our competitiveness. Only then we can live up to the legacy our forefathers like Mr Lee Kuan Yew set for us.
Connect with Clinton: GlobalTNF and linktr.ee.
