What does it look like to choose courage over comfort and to embark on the road less taken? Amber Leong is the first Malaysian entrepreneur who pitched her light therapy lamp business on Shark Tank, a reality TV show where inventors and entrepreneurs pitch their products to real-life investors. 

Her moving and impactful pitch left the judges teary-eyed and she walked away with an impressive USD750,000 investment for a 20 percent stake in her company, Circadian Optics. 

While her success story seems like a fairy tale today, she navigated a lot of hardships and obstacles along the way. In today’s episode, we hear Amber’s fight for survival as she battled a life-threatening illness, the lightbulb moment that led her to leave her corporate job to start Circadian Optics, how she prepared for this pitch, and the lessons she learnt working with her investors, Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner