Dianne and her family lived a typical Malaysian Chinese life in Klang, Malaysia. Life took a curious turn and she is now the Executive Director of Kitchell Construction and Project Management based in Los Angeles and the author of her own book, Leveraging Stereotypes To Your Advantage. Here’s her fascinating story!
Debbie Choa is one of the co-founders and chief operating officer of Projek57, a social enterprise in Malaysia that focuses on unity and youth. What made a lawyer like her turn to social entrepreneurship? What inspired her and her fellow co-founders to take this bold step to bring unity as a key solution to Malaysia’s racial polarisation problems? Here’s Debbie’s story!
Michelle Sin and Melissa Sin are my two guests for this week’s episode. These sisters are the third generation running a large manufacturing business that deals with roller shutters. Their grandfather started the business in 1957 and now the business is in their manicured hands. How do the sisters do it? Let’s find out!
Fiona married young and started her business early too. She started her own beauty salon and nail parlour, began an events management company, created the first river cruise in Sarawak, ran a wedding planning business, managed a construction business, supplied waste management equipment and more. This is Fiona’s entrepreneurial journey.
Penny Choong is the founder of Penny Essentials. She was focused on financial education when she came back from the Middle East. Yet life sometimes throws curve balls and she came to realise that she herself needed to be well first. She couldn’t help others if she herself wasn’t feeling absolutely her best. This is her story…
Saliza Abdullah is in the business of offering safety and security services in Malaysia, a business that her late mother bought and grew. She joined the business when she came back from the US and has since expanded the scope of business to include risk management, technology, training and consultancy. This is Saliza’s story….
Despite her financial studies background and working for a few years in London, Helen came home to Penang to work in the family business which dealt with the supply of car tyres. And yet her heart was always in the arts. Fortunately for her, her parents have always been supportive and this is how Helen started Blanc Designs. Get her full story…
I grew up in a family that was always in business. My father was a writer and publisher. I grew up in an environment where everybody was in some way involved in some kind of business. So I never felt the pressure that people feel when they’re giving up a full-time job and starting out…
Opening an F&B outlet, says Michelle, is the craziest thing she has ever done. It’s because both Michelle and her husband, Jamal, have no experience in the food business and she admits it is a capital intensive business. And yet, Dandy seems to have its formula perfected although the F&B business is a tough one.
One of the things I have learned is that some of the things that you go through in life, especially failure, is not something that you should be ashamed of. And unfortunately, I was ashamed of that for many years. Too many years. Today’s episode is about Boonsiri Somchit-Ong of Xtrategize Technologies Sdn Bhd in Penang, Malaysia.