Powered by Shopify, this week’s guest is Swee Lin Lee, one of the clever brains behind the refugee platform, PichaEats. Founded after volunteering in a KL refugee living centre with her two business partners, Swee Lin created a solution to the problem of young children abandoning their education to support their families. 

In this episode, we sit down with Swee Lin to hear about her journey to entrepreneurship and how not being interested in her university studies changed her life path.

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Today’s guest, Zaure Rozmat is the CEO of Kazakhstani media startup The Steppe, a media outlet with a focus on education, technology and cultural economics, without the gossip, tabloids and clickbait. 

As a self-described risk-taker, Zaure’s pathway to entrepreneurship isn’t unexpected, but what she’s created with The Steppe is. In this episode, Zaure shares how motherhood inspired her business journey, the importance of creating a trusted voice for the young, and how to navigate career burnout.

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Today’s episode discusses mental health and may be triggering for some listeners. If you need support, help is available. Contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Today’s guest, Samantha Pratt is the CEO and Founder of KlickEngage, an organization that uses SEL to limit the impact of complex trauma on student achievement. Drawing on her own mental health experiences, Samantha sits down with us to discuss the impact of growing up between Cleveland and Tennessee, why schools don’t have the tools and language in place to support childhood trauma and the path to change it all.

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In true New Yorker form, today’s guest is fast and bright. Kaitlyn Barclay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scout Lab, a boutique full-service creative agency building purpose-driven brands for founders with a vision. Since its launch in 2017, Scout Lab has worked with some of the biggest and most progressive brands including Adidas, Wix.com, WordPress.com, Venmo and Alibaba. 

We sit down with Kaitlyn to discuss her ‘master of none’ attitude towards entrepreneurship, how to move from doer to leader, and why we need to stop using the term ‘imposter syndrome’ and start doing.

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When today’s guest, Skyler Mapes visited her now-husband’s parents in his hometown of Le Castella Calabria, she also met their orchard of olive trees - while not as personable, they were just as intimidating. Upon returning to Texas, Skyler couldn’t forget the taste Calabria had left, so she decided not to leave it and relocate to Italy. 

In 2017, EXAU Olive Oil was born - a family-owned direct-to-consumer olive oil brand. It’s good, really good, it’s one of Oprah’s Favorite Things, and soon-to-be yours. But there’s more than oil to be shared in today’s episode powered by Shopify, and there’s more to Skyler than her taste in olives. As one of the first black female olive oil producers, Skyler reflects on the ways culture, history and family have shaped her identity and voice, and how to navigate starting a business in a space you’re unfamiliar with. 

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We are so excited to share the news: we have a sponsor! The leading global commerce company, Shopify has come onboard to help us power the entrepreneurial success stories of peers around the world. To mark this huge milestone, our CEO and Founder Michelle Akhidenor has taken to the mic alone to reflect on what this sponsorship means to her, how she made it happen and what she learnt from her two-year pursuit.

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In 2015, Adelle Archer lost her close friend and mentor to pancreatic cancer. That's when she heard about turning loved one's ashes into diamonds and created Eterneva. 

In today’s episode, Adelle recounts how a conversation about grief inspired an idea that celebrates life, how to stay committed to our business during periods of self-doubt and external disapproval, and what it’s really like to pitch on Shark Tank.

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Shireen Jaffer is the co-founder of Edvo, an edtech company empowering people with the tools to think for themselves and forge their own stories. But two minutes into this chat, we thought she could give Oprah a run for her money.

In this uplifting and (damn) motivating interview, Shireen gets real about what actually matters in the real world as opposed to what school and society tells us. She shares her tactics on how to gain clarity on what we want and why committing to ourselves is hard but not impossible.

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Lisa Qu  is a fashion designer hailing from Australia but based in NYC. Lisa launched her eponymous label in 2018 when she was a student at Parsons School of Design. 

In this intimate episode, Lisa reflects on the unspoken expectations that come with being a child of immigrant parents, navigating through the struggle of thinking ‘we’re not enough,’ and the truths The Devil Wears Prada got right.

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• Learn more about Lisa Qu - https://lisaqu.com -
• Learn more about LQ Collective - https://www.lqcollective.com -
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Sarah Chen is a venture capital aficionado who can drop a six-figure dollar amount into Excel and mean it. As the Co-founder of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, Sarah is working to mobilise $1 billion dollars of funding into female-founded companies. In today’s episode, she’s telling us how.

In this ep, we also cover accidental feminism, the importance of critical thinking and how to build a community to help you achieve your goals.

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• Tune in to Sarah's podcast with top US-Asia founders, funders & execs so you too can make #BillionDollarMoves: https://tinyurl.com/bdm-itunes
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