So This Is My Why Podcast
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- Ep 143: Khoo Swee Chiow (Singapore’s 1st Professional Adventurer) – On Why You’re Never Too Old to Take Risks & What Drives Him to Go On Insane Adventures!
- Ep 142: Lucas Lu (Head of Zoom Asia – ASEAN, South Korea, Hong Kong SAR & Taiwan): On rising to the top of the tech world & achieving what most haven’t had the opportunity to do
- Ep 141: Fong Wai Kheng (4th Gen Owner, Tong Heng) – Inheriting a 100-year-old confectionary business selling Singapore’s most famous egg tarts
- Ep 140: Loh Lik Peng (Founder & CEO, Unlisted Collection): How an ex-lawyer became one of Singapore’s top hoteliers with 9 Michelin-starred restaurants under his belt!
- Ep 139: SNEAK PEEK – Upcoming STIMY Singapore Subseries!
- Ep 138: Steve Chao (x2 Emmy-nominated War Correspondent & Investigative Journalist): On stories worth dying for + why he doesn’t believe in Prince & Princess Journalists
- Ep 137: Simon Alexander Ong (Bestselling Author, Coach & Business Strategist): Don’t Wait. Life Has Already Begun! And it was STUPID to call myself a Coach!
- Ep 136: Prestine Davekhaw (Founder, MalaysianPAYGAP & Disappearing Jobs): Figuring Out How Much People Earn + Not Wanting to be Friends with Famous Influencers Because…
- Ep 133: Adlin Yusman (Managing Director, Endeavor Malaysia) – If It’s Easy, It Must Be A Scam + Hunting for 100 Cockroaches?!
- Ep 132: Terence Lee (Editor-in-Chief, Tech in Asia) – The Inside Scoop on Asia’s $30 Million Media Empire
- Ep 131: Charlie Todd (Founder, Improv Everywhere) – Becoming the Greatest Professional Prankster
- Ep 130: Alvin Wee (Grammy/CAS/Golden Horse Award Winner – Hollywood music mixer) – Breaking into Hollywood coz Asians Take Sh*t Well?!
- Ep 129: Fabien Riggall (Founder, Secret Cinema) – Bringing Cinema to Life with Star Wars’ X-Wing fighter jets & Moulin Rouge underground bunkers
- Ep 128: Ewe Jin Low (Founder, TENTEN Design & Better Bamboo Buildings): Building a Bamboo SWAT Team
- Ep 127: Alejandro Navia (Founder, NFT now): Pain Makes Us Grow
- Ep 126: Paul Millerd (ex-McKinsey turned Solopreneur): Rejecting $200k/year for the Pathless Path?!
- Ep 125: Tanya Zakowich (Founder, Pink Pencil Math): From Building NASA Rocket Launch Pads to 1.9 Million TikTok Followers?!
- Ep 124: Jacqueline Novogratz (Founder, Acumen): Born for Crisis
- Ep 123: Dr Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro (Ex-Metaverse/XR Producer, Decentraland): Regret What You Tried, Not What You Gave Up On
- Ep 122: Peter Yong aka Mr Money TV with 153k subscribers: I’m NOT You Father + How to Build a 7-Figure Personal Finance Business on YouTube
- Ep 121: Dr Ong Kian Ming (Former Deputy Minister, Ministry of International Trade & Investment (MITI)): I’m OK, Man! Sheraton Move and Mahathir v Anuar
- Ep 120: Apolo Ohno (x8 Olympic Medalist & x21 World Championship Medalist): 40 Secs to Win & the Power of Psychotic Obsession to become the Most Decorated US Winter Olympian in History!
- Ep 119: Justin Byam Shaw (Chairman, ESI; Co-Owner of the Evening Standard & the Independent newspapers): Building a Media Empire
- Ep 118: Chen Chow Yeoh | The Uncharismatic Leader We All NEED
- Ep 117: Former US Congressman Barney Frank | Elected to the US House of Representatives with the Pope’s Help, reforming the US Financial System with the Dodd-Frank Act & Trump
- Ep 116: John-Son Oei (Founder & CEO, EPIC Collective): The EPIC Life in Building Homes for the Underprivileged in 3 days?!
- Ep 115: Lydia Fenet (Christie’s Managing Director & Global Head of Strategic Partnerships): How to become the most powerful woman in the woman & raise $1 BILLION for charities
- Ep 114: Alvin Chiong: Confessions of a former opium addict & secret society member
- Ep 113: Bryan Pham (Co-Founder, Asian Hustle Network): How to Build a 200,000+ Global Audience in 3 years!
- SPECIAL Questions from the Audience with Eric Sim
- Ep 112 Part 2: Eric Sim (former Managing Director, UBS) – How do you build a 2.9 million LinkedIn following & cultivate a portfolio career?
- Ep 112 Part 1: Eric Sim (former Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank): Confessions of a hawker son turned former MD of UBS with 2.9 million LinkedIn followers
- Ep 111: Amanda Cua (founder, Backscoop) – Building then hottest newsletter on Southeast Asian tech startups
- Ep 110: Ian Lee (co-founder, Syndicate) – How do you measure your life?
- Ep 109: Chrissy Hill (General Counsel, Parity Technologies) – Buying Lehman Brothers for £1.75 billion, working for Tony Blair & working in web3 with the co-creator of Ethereum & the Solidity language
- Ep 108: Gerald Sebastian (co-founder, Kok Bisa) – How to Build a 4.3 million YouTube channel
- Ep 107: Michelle Toh (Writer & Reporter, CNN) – The Story Behind the Story – How a CNN Reporter Built Her Award-Winning Career
- Ep 106: Xav Desmet (Head of Digital Natives, Startups & Unicorns for Asia, Zoom) – WTF? This is the best secret to unhappiness
- Ep 105: SNEAK PEEK into 2023 with upcoming STIMY guests!
- Ep 104: Goodbye!
- Ep 103: Nicole Levinson (Chief Marketing Officer, auto) – Building the House of YES & a Non-Linear Career through Christie’s, LVMH, Playboy & audo
- Ep 102: Notle Chew (ex-convict) – Confessions of Former Secret Society Member, Social Escort Business Owner & Ex-Convict
- Ep 101: Adrian Tan (President of Singapore’s Law Society & Partner at TSMP) – The King of Singapore
- Ep 100: So Is This MY Why?! – ft Red Hong Yi (guest host) x Ling Yah – on MY journey in building STIMY
- Ep 99: Davy Liu (Founder, Kendu Films) – Confessions of a a Former #LionKing #BeautyAndtheBeast #Mulan Disney Animator
- Ep 98: Francine Ballard (Founder, Metagolden; Founding Member, BFF) – From Devil Wears Prada to Web3 High Fashion?!
- Ep 97: Jeremy Au (Chief of Staff & Head of Strategic Projects, Monk’s Hill Ventures + Podcaster, BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech Podcast) – From Vaccine Research to Head of Strategic Projects in Asia
- Ep 96: Aaron Tang (Country Manager, Luno) – From blogging as Mr Stingy to running Malaysia’s 1st Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform
- Ep 95: Marja Konttinen (Marketing Director, Decentraland) – From launching Angry Birds Space with NASA to Throwing Parties in Decentraland
- Ep 94: How I started the “So This Is My Why Podcast” – My Personal Journey | Ling Yah x Freda Liu
- Ep 93: Geoffrey K. See (CEO, Poko & ex-Chairman, Choson Exchange, WEF YGL) – From Raising Female North Korean Entrepreneurs –> DAOs for the Underrepresented
- Ep 92: General Tan Sri Dato’ Borhan bin Ahmad (former Chief of Defence Forces, Malaysia) – The Life of a 4* General Who Founded Malaysia’s Special Forces
- Ep 91: This Room is Filled with Crazy! – SPECIAL EDITION
- Ep 90: TM Lee (Co-Founder & CEO, CoinGecko) – Building the Bloomberg/Yahoo Finance of Crypto
- Ep 89: Tibor Mérey (Managing Director & Partner, BCG) – Creating Metaverse strategies for Companies
- Ep 88: Diego Borgo (Metaverse Strategist & Web3 Advisor – Adidas, Salesforce, Nemus, L’Oreal) – on how Fortune 500 brands are entering the Metaverse & what how you can do it too
- Ep 87: Phil Libin (Co-Founder, Evernote, mmhmm & All Turtles) – on building Evernote, Why Startup Success is more brutal than Startup Failure & Why Blockchain is Bullsh*t
- Ep 86 Part 2: Zeneca 33 (Founder, ZenAcademy) – How Zeneca 33 managed to x100 his net worth via NFT investments in 1 year
- Ep 86 Part 1: Zeneca 33 (Founder, ZenAcademy) – FOMOing in BAYC, Cryptopunks, Goblintown, ArtBlocks as an ex-professional poker player
- Ep 85: Robin Dunbar (Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Oxford University) – How many friends can you have?
- Ep 84: Eric Toda (Global Head of Social Marketing & Head of Meta Prosper, Meta) – The Journey to Becoming a Facebook Executive
- Ep 83: Bilal Zaidi – Co-host of the Creator Lab & Not Investment Advice on landing high quality guests & working at Google
- Ep 82: Jamilia Grier (Founder, ByteBao) – The Law around NFTs & DAOs
- Ep 81: Mai Akiyoshi (Co-Founder, Curious Addys’ Trading Club) – Building a Cute, Educational & Interactive NFT platform for Web3 beginners
- Ep 80: Ee Ling (Executive Director, Global Programs (500 Global), Founder of Smarter Me & Young Founders Summit Asia
- Ep 79: Nicole Quinn (General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners) – The “Celebrity Whisperer” & Investor of Lady Gaga, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sophia Amoruso, Calm, Cameo, Lunchclub etc.
- Ep 78: Debbie Soon (co-founder, HUG) – From Being the OG Apprentice (Chief of Staff, ONE Championship) to the Web3 World with Randi Zuckerberg
- Ep 77: Lily Wu (Co-Founder, WOW Pixies NFT) – How to Start Two 7-Figure Businesses & WOW Pixies (first DAO to invest in women-led web3 companies)
- Ep 76: Nicole Yap (Co-Founder, 8SIAN) – How to Sell Out a 8,888 NFT Collection of Asian Women & Run it as a Business
- Ep 75: Mumu the Stan (Founder, MalaysiaNFT & NFT Artist) – From Opening a Stan Account to Selling her 1st NFT to Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park lead singer)
- Ep 74: Michael Lints (Partner, Golden Gate Ventures) – Raising USD 74M+ in Southeast Asia
- Ep 73: Lee Williamson (Regional Editorial Director, Gen.T, Tatler Asia Group) – From Ai Wei Wei to Creating Generation T for Tatler
- Ep 72: Vincent Wei (Head of Growth, VEED.IO) – Adopting a Growth Mindset in the Startup World
- Ep 71: Sabrina Ooi, Co-Founder & CEO of Calm Collective Asia – Surviving A Suicide Attempt & Thriving
- Ep 70: Daniel Cohen – Managing Director, Beigel Baker Limited – London’s Most Iconic Jewish Beigel Bakery along Brick Lane
- Ep 69: Nnenna Nwakanma – Chief Web Advocate, World Wide Web Foundation – on Creating a Free & Open Web for All
- Ep 68: Neal Freyman – Managing Editor, Morning Brew – Creating Content for 3+ Million Subscribers at Morning Brew
- Ep 67: Daniel Flynn, Co-Founder of Thankyou – Creating Viral Campaigns for Social Enterprises
- Ep 66: Lauren Hom – Designer, Illustrator & Hand Lettering Artist – on creating a thriving hand lettering career
- Ep 65: Ansgar Koene, Global AI Ethics & Regulatory Leader, EY – How AI is manipulating our behaviour & how we can regulate it
- Ep 64: Esther Wojcicki aka “Godmother of Silicon Valley” – the T.R.I.C.K. to Raising Successful People
- Ep 63: DJ Didonna, Founder of the Sabbatical Project – on How to Craft the ‘Perfect’ Sabbatical
- Ep 62: Hawker Chef Chan – on serving the world’s cheapest Michelin-starred real (x4 Michelin starred chef)
- Ep 61: Austen Allred – Co-Founder & CEO, Lambda School – building the next-gen coding school using ISAs (& no admission fees!)
- Ep 60: David Grief – Senior Clerk, Essex Court Chambers – on “making & breaking” the careers of judges & barristers
- Ep 59: Ooi Boon Hoe – CEO & Director, Jurong Port (one of Singapore’s 2 main commercial ports)
- Ep 58: Nigel Stanislaus (Celebrity Makeup Artist, Mr Maybelline & Judge on Australia’s + Asia’s Next Top Model)
- Ep 57: Robert James Ashe: Head of Post Production, CONAN Show
- Ep 56: Amra Naidoo – Co-Founder, Accelerating Asia & former Head of Corporate Partnerships at UN Women (Project Inspire)
- Ep 55: Karl Mak – Co-Founder, Hepmil Media Group (SGAG, MGAG, PGAG, Creators’ Network) – on building a meme business
- Ep 54: Yulia Brodskaya – Paper Artist & Illustrator
- Ep 53: Rahul Chaudhary – MD & CEO of the Chaudhary Group & Son of Nepal’s 1st & Only Forbes-Listed Billionaire (Binod Chaudhary)
- Ep 52: Kendrick Nguyen (Co-Founder & CEO, Republic) – on Becoming the Amazon of Private Investing
- Ep 51 Part 2: Nick Bernstein – EP of the Pete Holmes show & Big Boss of the Late Late Show with James Corden
- Ep 51 Part 1: Nick Bernstein – Senior VP, Late Night Programming (West Coast), ViacomCBS
- Ep 50 Part 2: Ning-Geng Ong, Chocolate Maker & Founder of Chocolate Concierge + Culture Cacao
- Ep 50 Part 1: Ning-Geng Ong, Chocolate Maker & Founder of Chocolate Concierge + Culture Cacao
- Ep 49: Dato’ Thomas Mun Lung Lee – Lawyer, founding partner of Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill & son of Tun HS Lee (Malaysia’s 1st Finance Minister)
- Ep 48: Oz Pearlman – Mentalist, Magician & Finalist at America’s Got Talent Season 10
- Ep 47: Lincoln Lee Ming – Social entrepreneur, co-founder of Rice Inc & winner of the HULT Prize 2018
- Ep 46: Azran Osman-Rani – CEO, Naluri Hidup, AirAsia X & iFlix
- Ep 45: Lim Pui Wan (“Picoworm”) – Life of a Miniature Artist
- Ep 44: Joe Sidek – Festival Director, George Town Festival & Chairman of Penang Arts Council
- Ep 43: Nicky Gumbel – Vicar, Holy Trinity Brompton & Pioneer of the Alpha Course (that has reached over 25 million people worldwide!)
- Ep 42: Wai Ken Wong – Country Manager, StashAway (Malaysia) – on all things investment/ETFs
- Ep 41: Richard Lui – Anchor & Journalist, MSNBC & NBC News (Peabody & Emmy Award winner)
- Ep 40: He Ruiming & Goh Wei Choon (Co-Founders of The Woke Salaryman) – on building a 400+k community on personal finance in ~2 years!
- Ep 39: Guy Kawasaki – Chief Evangelist of Canva & Apple on the Art of Brand Evangelism, and why he loves podcasting & Clubhouse
- Ep 38: John Yohan Kim – Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Amasia, Vlogger, Musician & Serial Entrepreneur
- Ep 37: Ng Kai Yuan – Co-Founder, Our Grandfather Story (Singaporean digital publisher that tells timeless, untold stories across Southeast Asia)
- Ep 36: Kyne Santos (Onlinekyne): Mathematician, Viral Tik Toker/YouTuber & Drag Queen (who competed on Canada’s Drag Race!)
- Ep 35: Chye Neo Chong – ex-Managing Director of IBM Malaysia
- Ep 34: Shawn Chong – Malaysia’s Top Mixologists, x3 Diageo World Champion Malaysian winner & founder of Omakase + Appreciate
- Ep 33: Maurizio Leo – Founder of The Perfect Loaf (Sourdough), Food52’s Resident Bread Baker & Co-Founder of Terminal Eleven
- Ep 32: Darrion Nguyen (Lab Shenanigans aka Asian Millennial Tik Tok version of Bill Nye the Science Guy)
- Ep 31: Kenji Chai Vui Yung – Malaysian Graffiti Street Artist (aka “Chaigo”)
- Ep 30: Dr. Finian Tan – Chairman, Vickers Venture Partners
- Ep 29: Darren Teoh – Head Chef & Owner of Dewakan, Asia’s Top 50 Restaurants in 2019
- Ep 28: Lily Xu Lijia – Chinese Olympian & World Champion in Laser Radial (Sailboat)
- Ep 27: Freda Liu – Malaysia’s Top Business Radio Host at BFM 89.9, Author, Emcee & Moderator
- Ep 26: Cesar Kuriyama – American entrepreneur & Founder of 1 Second Every Day (mobile app)
- Ep 25: Chong Chan-Yau – CEO of CarbonCare Innolab (on climate change) & President of the Hong Kong Blind Union
- Ep 24: Malek Ali – Founder of KL Classifieds, BFM 89.9 & Fi Life
- Ep 23: Sarah – Co-Founder of Beyond the Billion (global consortium of over 80 VCs)
- Ep 22: Alena Ose Murang – Sarawakian sape player, visual artist & heritage advocate
- Ep 21: Saw Teong Hin – Malaysian Director, Producer & Writer (Puteri Gunung Ledang, You Mean the World To Me (Hai Ki Xin Lor), 2017 SEA Games)
- Ep 20: Tan Kheng Hua (陳瓊華) – Singaporean Actress & Producer (Phua Chu Kang, Marco Polo, Crazy Rich Asians)
- Ep 19: Patricia Kelikani – x12 Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker & Christian Entrepreneur
- Ep 18: Dr Jason Leong – Former Malaysian Doctor turned Stand-Up Comedian & Star of Netflix Special (Hashtag Blessed)
- Ep 17: Louisa Gurski – Two-time British Olympian & 3-time World Championship Winner (Sprint Kayaker)
- Ep 16: Renyi Chin – Co-Founder of MyBurgerLab, MyPizzaLab & MyBobaLab
- Ep 15: Yi Jun Loh – Malaysian Food Blogger, Writer & Podcaster
- Ep 14: Joey Yap – Former Senior Inspector of Police of Hong Kong Police Force & Mother of Hillary Yip (STIMY Ep 13 Guest)
- Ep 13: Hillary Yip – 15-year-old Founder & Ceo of MinorMynas
- Ep 12: Danielle Kettlewell – Olympian (Australian Synchronised Swimmer)
- Ep 11: Morgan Then – Electronic Musician (Slumberjack)
- Ep 10: Benjamin Von Wong – Photographer & Social Artivist Who’s Generated 100+ Million Organic Views
- Ep 9: Rabi Malla – Social Enterprise Founder of KOLPA (Nepal)
- Ep 8: Barbara Woolsey – Freelance Journalist
- Ep 7: Jan Wong – Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of OpenMinds
- Ep 6: Ashley Dean – First Artist, The Royal Ballet
- Ep 5: Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt – Violist, Dover Quartet
- Ep 4: Sara Holden – Hollywood Stunt Actress
- Ep 3: Julian Tan – Head of Digital Business Initiatives & Esports, Formula 1
- Ep 2: Red Hong Yi – Malaysian Artist Who Paints Without A Paintbrush
- Ep 1: Chloe Buiting – Wildlife Vet & Conservationist
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