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Lakhi Siap is a member of the Filipino Young Leaders Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs. His advocacy includes trying to get Filipino-Americans to try and come back to the Philippines. By training, he is a nurse. By vocation, he is a community organizer. By profession, he is a serial entrepreneur. His most recent project is the start-up Content Blend Studios. This eclectic mix comes together to create a truly interesting series of topics that all have little to do with each other but all form integral parts of today's guest.

DJ Migs Santillan has been a fixture of the Manila nightclub scene for the past decade. Through his commands of the oldies and contemporary music he has become well loved among those who would have him for private and public bookings. He is currently the Music Director for Magic 89.9 helping the station come up with its distinctive sound. In today's episode though, we get to see the man behind the DJ Booth. He talks about how he got his foot in the door of Disk Jockeying, the steps he would take thereafter and what a life built on music can look like.

On this episode of the podcast, our guest is John Lugtu. He is a Filipino from Cebu who currently resides in Canada. John is currently affiliated with the start-up called LumiQ. In this episode, we talk about the challenges faced by those who seek to immigrate, truth about the start up scene in North America and how the Philippines still figures into the lives of those who leave it.

Joy Garingo is the General Manager of the Company Cebu, a start-up incubator/co-working space. She charts her course from sunday school teacher, aimlessly unemployed with a degree, teaching english, and becoming a well-known component of the start-up industry. Along the way, we talk about the journey of finding purpose in the things we do. We also touch upon the constraints in the Philippines to greater and better startups.