Episodes

Someone asked me recently, who are some of your favourite guests on the podcast and why? What have you learned from your guests and from creating and producing this seasonal podcast since 2020? It got me thinking so today you are in for a treat with this bonus episode. This is the final episode of Season 6 of the Womenpreneur Asia podcast. After this, I take a quick break before Season 7 starts in October. Most of the time, I end my season with a guest interview but this time, I decided that I'l...

Today’s episode is with a Singapore-based author, Winne Wong. Winnie is an educator and researcher and has had more than 10 years of corporate experience working with start-ups and tech companies. Her ebook launches today on Amazon, 9 June 2023 . If you love books, Winnie is offering her ebook as a gift to you at US$0.99 for the first 200 readers. In this episode, we talk about her book, her book writing process, and her findings and key learnings from her book titled “You Don’t Have to Look the...

Today's episode offers a unique and enjoyable twist. It was recorded on-site at the residence of our esteemed guest, Dato Judy Cheng Hopkins. She is a remarkable Malaysian woman with an illustrious 36-year career at the United Nations. She is also a Penangite who splits her time between Penang (Malaysia) and the US. She culminated her tenure as Assistant Secretary-General in charge of peace-building after conflict, working under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Prior to this role, she served as As...

Cultural authenticity. Helping brands talk to niche audiences respectfully and authentically. Today’s episode is with Afshan Nasseri, the Founder and CEO of Aam Creative is a dynamic digital marketing agency comprising a diverse team of 15 talented women of color, scattered across the globe. Afshan embarked on her entrepreneurial journey at the young age of 24, achieving remarkable success within just her second year of business, generating a six-figure revenue in US dollars and building a clien...

Today’s episode is with Nancy Tran, Co-founder and CEO of Medifood.io, Vietnam. Medifood started by supplying organic vegetables on a subscription basis but now produces healthy rice crispy snacks that are sold via subscription boxes. Besides producing for Vietnam, her rice crispy snacks are now available in North America. Prior to founding the business, Nancy was as market analyst at VNDIRECT Securities and marketing team lead at VEAS Exhibition & Advertising Services with focus on developing m...

Today’s episode is with a Singaporean freelance copywriter, Grace Goh. Grace has always loved travelling and she decided that a freelance writing and communications business suited her lifestyle most as she went all over the world. Grace was a digital nomad long before the term became trendy! A couple of years later, she even partnered up with a fellow Singaporean to establish a business to teach English abroad in countries such as Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar. While everyone was worried for their ...

Today’s episode is with Yolanda Lee who is the founder and CEO of Uncommon, a private network for female leaders headquartered in Singapore. It is a private, vetted space where women from different fields and backgrounds can unite and it is also a private, group coaching community aimed to help female leaders transform the future of work. Yolanda says that being a woman in leadership roles in fast-growing tech companies was great but it came to a point where “ all of a sudden all the women disap...

Today’s episode is with Soline Linh Le from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I’ve met many entrepreneurs who wear many hats but Soline takes the cake. She is an entrepreneur, a university lecturer, a woman leader, a community developer and a gender equality advocate. Most of all, she is an ecosystem developer and her story will explain how she did it. She first had the idea to start her business, Vietnam Dental Tourism when foreign friends commented positively about visiting Vietnam for dental treatme...

Today’s episode is with a New Zealand-born Samoan entrepreneur, Nora Swann. As the Director for Nora Swann LTD, Nora started many fashion initiatives from founding the largest high-end fashion show for the Pacific people in New Zealand (Pacific Fusion Fashion Show) to leading New Zealand’s first Pasifika modelling agency, Swann Modelling Agency. She started a wellness programme, Dressed In Confidence supported by New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development and Ministry for Pacific Peoples to em...

Today’s episode is with a Vietnamese entrepreneur, Milena Nguyen. She s a conscious business coach at Soulforest Education. Milena’s story is about tasting failure at a young age when her yoga studio closed after 2 years. You will love today’s interview as we discuss entrepreneurship from the perspective of inner and outer journeys. We spoke about permission and transitions and that entrepreneurship is learnable and why women should own their own brilliance. Her story began with a successful sti...

Today’s episode is with a Malaysian entrepreneur, Eleen Chan. Eleen is the managing director of Lifestyle Ventures Sdn. Bhd whose principal business is in supplying chili paste to businesses. When the business started in 2003, they supplied fresh chillis to customers but over time, ventured into processing chili. Her story truly has humble beginnings because she and her late husband started the business from home. Thanks to a benefactor who supported them, they grew the business into a factory w...

Today’s episode is with a Filipina entrepreneur, Anna Melissa Nava. Anna or better known as Mel is the co-founder and CEO of 1Export whose tagline is “helping businesses go global”. She was a fun and energetic person to talk to and didn’t shy away from recounting the early days of her business when she took on a ghostwriting job to produce the Philippine export guidebook so that she could make some money and keep her business running. Today she has a team of 55 people located in 2 countries, the...

This is episode 2 of a special two-part episode with Maaike Doyer of Epic Angels, a Singapore-based angel network in conjunction with International Women’s Day. Epic Angels comprise female executives and operators who want to give women the confidence to invest, by learning about the investment process, and understanding how other women invest. They focus on early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals and invest in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. In our previous episode, we talked abo...

Today’s episode is with a Singapore-based Dutch entrepreneur, Maaike Doyer who is the Founder and Managing Partner at Epic Angels. Although she is not Asian (as I only feature Asian women entrepreneurs in Asia), I made the exception and invited her to be part of this special International Women’s Day 2-parter episode. We get an insider look at what angel investing is about, how female startup founders in Asia can get funded via angel investing and how to get the attention of angel investors. Thi...