Business & Entrepreneurship

A list of all the episodes you will find in the So This Is My Why podcast that features people with an entrepreneurial background, including show notes, links and other episodes that you might find interesting.

Dr Jason Leong - Former doctor turned Malaysian stand-up comedian and star of Netflix special Hashtag Blessed - Episode page header

Ep 18: Dr Jason Leong (Doctor turned Stand-Up Comedian & Netflix Special Star of Hashtag Blessed)

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Dr Jason Leong is a former doctor turned Malaysian stand-up comedian star who has been enthralling his audience since 2010 when he did his first open mic gig at Zouk KL. He has since become the first Malaysians to win the 7th International HK Comedy Competition 2013 & win the title of Crowd Favourite, performed at Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Asia and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, opened for Harith Iskandar’s To Know Malaysia is to Laugh Malaysia at Stadium Putra, and also was the first Malaysia who performed a full professional set at Hollywood’s Laugh Factory and New York’s Gotham Comedy Club.

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Ep 16: Renyi Chin (Co-Founder of MyBurgerLab, MyPizzaLab & MyBobaLab)

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Yi Jun Loh is a Malaysian cook, food blogger, writer and food podcaster. A Cambridge-educated engineer, he immersed himself in food after graduating by learning to cook in Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, USA. He is now based in Malaysia, obsessing over food culture and kooky food ideas through his recipe blog ‘Jun & Tonic’, which was nominated for the Saveur Blog Awards in 2018. He also hosts ‘Breaking Bread’ on BFM, his own podcast, ‘Take A Bap’ and can be found regularly contributing to Food52, Taste and Saveur.

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Joey Law - Former Senior Inspector of Police, Hong Kong Police Force & Mother to 15-year-old founder and CEO, Hillary Yip

Ep 14: Joey Law – Former Senior Inspector of the Hong Kong Police Force & Mother to 15-Year-Old CEO, Hillary Yip

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Joey Law is a former Senior Inspector of Police of the Hong Kong Police Force and mother to 15-year-old Founder & CEO, Hillary Yip. She talks about life at the force, the challenges of running her own online bookstore & mum blog, motherhood and being a parent to a young teenager CEO.

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Ep 13: Hillary Yip – 15-Year-Old Founder & CEO of MinorMynas

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Hillary Yip is the 15-year-old founder & CEO of MinorMynas, an online startup she founded at the age of 10 that aims to be the platform for kids to connect and learn from one another. Learn what it takes to be a child entrepreneur & how she balances all that with homeschooling & being well, a teenager!

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Rabi Chandra Malla - founder of Kolpa - Nepali social entreprise based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ep 9: Rabi Chandra Malla – Nepali Social Entrepreneur

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Rabi Chandra Malla is a Nepali social entrepreneur and founder of KOLPA World – a Nepali social enterprise based in Kathmandu, Nepal. KOLPA sells natural, organic and handcrafted products using skills passed down from generations from tribes like the nomadic Raute tribe and the Terai people from the Tharu region of Nepal. Learn how Rabi’s journey began and how he built this incredible social enterprise from the ground up!

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STIMY Episode 7 - Jan Wong - Malaysian Forbes 30 Under 30 Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of OpenMinds Resource

Ep 7: Jan Wong – Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur & Founder of OpenMinds

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Jan Wong is an entrepreneur, youth advocate, and founder of OpenMinds; a 8years bootstrapped, data-driven martech company based in KL, Singapore and Hong Kong. Starting at the age of 17, he has ventured into eight businesses, a part time lecturer at theAsia Pacific University (APIIT / APU), a certified e-commerce consultant, published an academic journal during his Masters degree, sits on the Academic Advisory Board of KDU, Sunway Collegeand Sunway University, a regional keynote speaker in events and conferences, a mentor for multiple startup communities including Techstars Global and NEXT50 Singapore, a regular contributor on BFM radio, a 2-time TEDx speaker,recognized as one of the top 10 new generation businessmen to watch in 2020, listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017 list and recently published his first book campaign on Building Your Digital Net Worth.

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