Season 3
Dec. 30, 2021
S03E014: BONUS Episode with Dianne Lee, Los Angeles, USA
In this bonus episode that caps Season 3, I am speaking to Dianne Lee , a Malaysian-born woman who lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Dianne is an executive director with Kitchell Corporation, a construction engineering com...
Dec. 23, 2021
Debbie Choa, Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of Projek57, Malaysia
In this episode, I am speaking to Debbie Choa, co-founder and chief operating officer of Projek57, a social enterprise in Malaysia that focuses on unity and youth. Projek57 began when its founders were dismayed that racial po...
Dec. 16, 2021
Michelle Sin and Melissa Sin, SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad, Malaysia
In this week’s episode, I am speaking to Michelle and Melissa Sin of SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The business had its roots in Penang but since Michelle and Melissa’s father took over, they re...
Dec. 9, 2021
Tanya Rolfe and Christine Yu, Co-founders of Sophia, Singapore & Hong Kong
In this episode, I spoke to Tanya Rolfe and Christine Yu, two out of the three founders of Sophia. Sophia is a learning platform made for women who want to learn about money and investing and how to put their money towards ve...
Dec. 2, 2021
Fiona Marcus Raja, Founder & Managing Director of Borneo International Exhibition Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
This episode is all about Malaysian entrepreneur, Fiona Marcus Raja who is based in Kuching, Sarawak. She started five businesses in five years since she came back to Sarawak after being away with her family and caring for he...
Nov. 25, 2021
Penny Choong, Founder of Penny Essentials, Malaysia
Penny Choong of Malaysia is this week's guest. She is the founder of Penny Essentials, a business that helps people enjoy being healthy. Yet years ago, she was suffering from such severe migraine attacks that she couldn’t eve...
Nov. 18, 2021
Padmaja Vaswani, Founder & CEO of Siksha Group, India
This episode is about Padmaja Vaswani from India who manages 3 businesses focusing on learning and development, organisational development in addition to diversity and inclusion. Padmaja is the Founder & CEO of Siksha Group, ...
Nov. 11, 2021
Chalita Hongsakul, Managing Director of Wakingbee Corporation, Thailand
This episode is about Thai entrepreneur, Chalita Hongsakul. Chalita is the Managing Director of Wakingbee Corporation based in Bangkok, Thailand. She doesn’t call herself a fitness freak but came to start a fitness and active...
Nov. 4, 2021
Saliza Abdullah, Managing Director & CEO, BG Capital Holdings Group of Companies, Malaysia
This episode of Season 3 is with Saliza Abdullah, the Managing Director & CEO, BG Capital Holdings Group of Companies in Malaysia. Saliza manages a 100% woman-owned security services business - one which belonged to her late ...
Oct. 28, 2021
Titaporn Tuchinda, Managing Director of The Growth and Change Co. Ltd., Thailand
Titaporn Tuchinda is this week's guest and she is an executive coach, entrepreneur and investor in Thailand with more than one business! She is the Managing Director of The Growth and Change Co., Ltd, Thailand and founder and...
Oct. 21, 2021
Jayce Tham, Chief Businesswoman of CreativesAtWork Pte Ltd, Singapore
Jayce Tham co-founded CreativesAtWork with her sister, Fanny, in 2012 and the two sisters couldn’t be more different! Jayce spent years in the corporate world while Fanny was in the creative industry. The two Singaporean sist...
Oct. 14, 2021
Laura Phan, Founder & CEO of iZi Community, Vietnam
This week I speak to Vietnamese startup founder, Laura Phan, the founder & CEO of iZi Community. iZi Community is an online gamification and AI-based education platform made for learners who need snack-sized learning. Interes...
Oct. 7, 2021
Helen Tan, Executive Chairman of Blanc Designs, Malaysia
Following your dream. After working for a few years in London, Helen came home to Penang, Malaysia to work in the family business. Yet, her heart was always in the arts. She described how she would visit museums and art galle...
Sept. 30, 2021
Yuka Imanishi, Founder & CEO of CURIO Japan Inc.
Welcome to Season 3! We kick off our third season with Yuka Imanishi who is the founder and CEO of CURIO Japan Inc. Yuka's business started as a B2C business and soon after, became also a B2B business and now she even has a t...