Winnie Wong (her LinkedIn) is the author of Amazon #1 New Release - You Don't Have to Look the Part: How East Asian Women Thrive as Entrepreneurs (link).  Winnie is also a business leader, educator, researcher, investor, and philanthropist. She has over a decade of corporate experience working with start-ups, scale-ups, and big tech companies.  An advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in entrepreneurship, Winnie has mentored foreign domestic workers in entrepreneurship and...

In this episode, we have a special guest - a career change coach who has helped numerous individuals successfully navigate their career transitions. If you're a millennial in Singapore looking to make a career switch, this episode is for you. Former VP at BlackRock, career change coach Jennifer Ong shares her own personal career change story, insights on career and career change and provides the breakdown of her 1:1 career coaching program which has successfully helped her students from...

During a career switch, it is common to assume that one needs to take a pay cut when joining a completely different industry to "start from scratch".  Or in job hunting, the candidate with the most relevant job experience should be the most obvious choice.  Both not necessarily true. If you're currently in the service industry looking to pivot to a corporate job or if you feel like your current career is stuck, this episode is for you.   Jasper Lim is currently the Assistant Vice...

In this solo episode,  I share the 3 lessons I learnt during my time at Lazada Nov 2019 - Jan 2022. I had front row seat watching the world rushing to pivot to e-commerce when Covid19 brought the world to its knees in early 2020. Lazada is one of the biggest e-commerce operators in Southeast Asia. They were founded in 2012 and they currently operate in six countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Opinions expressed in this podcast are solely my own...

It is one thing to have a career change. It is another to do it while you're uprooting your life to move to another country with no social network. It is one thing to start a business. It is another to start a social enterprise where you're chasing other outcomes other than just financial sustainability. Simon Lieberum has done all of the above.  If you are curious about sustainability and social enterprises, this episode is for you. And if you love local Singaporean kopi, you're in for a...

Not everyone can easily and/or necessarily need to make drastic career changes immediately to get more fulfilment. You can start a side hustle or passion project  while keeping your day job.   This episode is about side hustles and hustling. Bethia Wee is the Sales Development Lead for small and medium businesses at Aspire. It is self-described as the all-in-one finance operating system for businesses in Southeast Asia. Aspire was founded in 2018 and so far it has raised nearly $200M from...

Hi everyone, this is another special solo episode. This is a recording for a presentation I did for Singapore Management University (SMU) students in Jan 2022. It consists of three main parts: Brief summary of my career journey so far (skip this if you’ve heard Ep 12)My experience interviewing and getting my current role at ShopifyMy 4 Advice / takeaways on careerAlthough the recording was prepared for SMU students, most of the career takeaways are still very relevant for early to mid career...

Yaohong Ch’ng is the Head of Data and Engineering at January Capital, a venture capital (VC) firm based in Singapore. He is responsible for building data-driven solutions that will complement January Capital’s investment process. Before that, he was the Head of Data at StashAway, a digital wealth manager that has assets of more than USD $1 billion under management. As employee #2, he helped build the company’s flagship product since day one as team lead and later on, as an engineering...

Sean Goh  is the co-founder of UglyFood, Singapore-based food startup whose mission is to eliminate food waste and revamp the food ecosystem. UglyFood aims to make sustainability a part of people’s everyday lives. They operate in the fruits and vegetables space by selling excess or ugly produce, their own branded products, and sustainably sourced goods. Before UglyFood, Sean spent 12 years across various role at Shell, a multinational oil and gas company. In between his time at Shell, Sean...

Hi everyone, this is a solo episode where I will share my career journey thus far. I will tell you why and focus on the 3 career transition chapters: From banking 🏦 to laser tag 🔫From employer to startup employeeFrom untimely departure to ecommerce industry in Covid19Let me know what you think / contact me directly at [email protected]. Do kindly let me know your thoughts of such solo episodes - and what other topics you'd like me to cover.   Subscribe to bonus podcast content and career...

Hi everyone, this is a special episode (more of such to come) - to give everyone a quick review for 2022 and let everyone know what to expect in 2023. We launched a newsletter - click here to subscribe! 3 things to do after listening to this episode: Rate and review this podcast wherever you are listening or watching from - go ahead, don’t be shy and leave us a 5 star review :)Spread the word for us - please share our content with your friends out there - and follow us on Linkedin and...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen, more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR, a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. Terng is also the co host of the Business Over Drinks podcast, modelled after the countless business...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen, more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR, a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. Terng is also the co host of the Business Over Drinks podcast, modelled after the countless business...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen, more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR, a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. Terng is also the co host of the Business Over Drinks podcast, modelled after the countless business...

Imagine this: you’re at the peak of your career. You have a great job, maybe even a great boss, and you’re making good money. You’ve made it. Most people would say that this is where life gets easier—you’re already successful, now all you need is a little more money and fewer hours at work and everything will be perfect. But there’s one guy who didn’t think so. He quit his job and started over from scratch because he wanted to find greater purpose in what he did every day. We wouldn’t blame...

Imagine this: you’re at the peak of your career. You have a great job, maybe even a great boss, and you’re making good money. You’ve made it. Most people would say that this is where life gets easier—you’re already successful, now all you need is a little more money and fewer hours at work and everything will be perfect. But there’s one guy who didn’t think so. He quit his job and started over from scratch because he wanted to find greater purpose in what he did every day. We wouldn’t blame...

“Imagine you are now dead, what would people say about how you lived your life?” If you think career change is only for those in their early careers or with unfortunate circumstances, you need to listen to Joval’s inspirational story. Joval Gan is currently co-founder and chief revenue officer of Advocado, a cloud-based loyalty consumer engagement platform for small and medium enterprises. In his first job straight out from university, he joined a direct sales and marketing company, where he...

If you think career change is only for those in their early careers or with unfortunate circumstances, you need to listen to Joval’s inspirational story. Joval Gan is currently co-founder and chief revenue officer of Advocado, a cloud-based loyalty consumer engagement platform for small and medium enterprises. In his first job straight out from university, he joined a direct sales and marketing company, where he ended up spending 14 years, during which, he moved his family abroad to start the...

Best Jittida Haputpong is Vice President of Business Development at Igloohome (at time of recording), a tech startup from singapore which produces smart access solutions. 🔒🔒 Best and I are ex-colleagues at Igloohome. (In this episode, we use Igloohome and Igloocompany interchangeably - Igloohome has been rebranded as Igloocompany). My opinion on Best - she is incredibly smart 🧠; she was a great colleague and leader. I’m really glad to have worked with her. Some of the things we spoke about...

If you are curious about joining the tech startup scene 🧑‍💻, aspiring to be an entrepreneur or thinking about making a big career change 💼, do not miss this episode. Matthew Low started his career at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore in 2009 before moving on to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). He stumbled into entrepreneurship which led him to build a content marketing agency. In 2016, he became...

Aaron wong graduated from Singapore management university with a summa cum laude in corporate communications. His first job out of university was at Changi Airport Group being a senior associate at Airport operations management, a role that was completely unrelated to what he studied. He was part of the team which successfully operationalized Changi Airport's newest passenger terminal then - Terminal 4. Aaron then joined HubSpot as an associate customer support specialist. HubSpot is a...

Why would a top graduate quit his lucrative and stable career in an established company to join an unknown and unproven startup? Why would someone, after slogging hard for more than 10 years, arrived at the peak of his career, enjoying the fancy expat lifestyle, quit everything and returned to his home country with his wife and young daughter with no job and no backup plan? What's technology got to do with locks, seafood and tofu? What actually goes on behind joining a startup, what's the...