Season 6
Listen to all our episodes of Season 6 here or on Spotify.
Each season runs for 14 weeks with a new episode airing every Friday, 5pm (GMT+8).
S06E013: Winnie Wong, Author & DEI Entrepreneurship Advocate, Singapore
I worked with a developmental editor once a week who would read everything that I wrote and helped me structure the book and build our table of contents, where all these stories were part of the second part of that book, which is the keys to success as female entrepreneurs East Asian ones. winnie wong…
S06E012: Dato Judy Cheng-Hopkins, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Malaysia
The mentor has no skin in your game. Whether you succeed or fail, you know, he or she is happy you succeed. But that’s about it. A sponsor has a stake in your success and usually in the best case scenario, the best way I can describe it from my own experience, a sponsor is…
S06E011: Afshan Nasseri, Founder & CEO of Aam Creative, US & Pakistan
I wanted to show American Indians that there’s actually a really cool way to discover your culture that doesn’t have to be through your parents’ lens because a lot of kids grow up understanding their culture from their parents’ lens. And sometimes it’s not in the best way.There’s really cool things going on that kids…
S06E010: Nancy Tran, Co-founder & CEO, Medifood, Vietnam
During my university time, I did a lot of volunteer work. One of it was a chance to go to the Mekong Delta and I had a chance to speak to the farmers at the delta. They were doing unsustainable farming and the soil was really bad. A lot of the farmers had cancer and…
S06E09: Grace Goh, Freelance Copywriter, Singapore
I did not have a clue what I was doing. I was just like, oh, you know, you have grammar errors there. Let me fix it. I didn’t know what a press release was, what a blog post, what a website was. But I just started doing [writing] and I fell into it and over…
S06E08: Yolanda Lee, Founder & CEO of Uncommon, Singapore
It was just a dinner that I started with, not necessarily with the intention of turning it into a business, but really starting to plant the seeds of that community and understand the needs of women like me. So it happened very organically through that process of me orienting towards the things that really matter…
S06E07: Soline Linh Le, Strategic Board Member, Vietnam Dental Tourism, Vietnam
I lived overseas for quite a long time and sometimes we learn about the trends and styles of new tourism products through our international friends. My friends from Singapore and France were the ones who told me that dental treatment in Vietnam is very cheap and they have a number of friends going to Vietnam…
S06E06: Nora Swann, Director of Nora Swann LTD, New Zealand
I grew up in a traditional Pacific Island household, I went to church and I pushed the boundaries with my outfits. I always got in trouble from my mom. Too short, too revealing, too much cleavage, not enough clothing. But I wasn’t trying to challenge my mom. I just really loved fashion, not knowing that…
S06E05: Milena Nguyen, Conscious Business Coach, Soulforest Education, Vietnam
Two years after opening the studio, I had to close it because we were barely getting by. Actually I told everybody the reason for closing was that I wanted location freedom which was true but it wasn’t the full truth. The other reason for closing was that we were struggling so much financially and that…
S06E04: Eleen Chan, Managing Director of Lifestyle Ventures Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
We started off by having a so-called “office” in the smallest room of our apartment. We thought the idea could work but we were wrong because when our suppliers and customers came to our office, they were shocked because they saw my eldest son, a baby then, playing in the hall! eleen chan Today’s episode…
S06E03: Anna Melissa Nava, Co-founder & CEO of 1Export, The Philippines
It started with that where it was like I asked people to pay me something like $300 and I will do anything export-related that you need me to do. So basically I am at your beck and call, but you have to pay me [to settle your compliance problems]. Anna Melissa Nava Today’s episode is…
S06E02: International Women’s Day Special with Maaike Doyer of Epic Angels, Singapore
When I just arrived here in Asia, people were telling me that I had to invest $50,000 in one startup. No, you don’t. That’s a little bit old school, I have to say. And right now with the current technologies, with the way you can organize finances, you can already invest with as little as…
S06E01: International Women’s Day Special with Maaike Doyer of Epic Angels, Singapore
As an angel investor, typically you come in pretty early in startup. With Epic Angels, you would only invest $1000 or even $5,000 per startup. So you invest small amounts and you’re there really to help that ecosystem to the next level. maaike doyer The first episode of Season 6 is in conjunction with International…
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