Jonathan Toyad is a video games journalist and the content director of Kakuchopurei, one of the most prominent video games news sites in this region. He joins us to share how he made a career in video games content creation in Malaysia.

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William Tiong, a Malaysian music business creative currently residing in Boston. He’s currently completing his final year in Berklee College of Music. In this episode, he joins us to talk about his passion for music, which only bloomed when he was pursuing A-Levels, his idea of success and whether pursuing music for your tertiary education is a good move.

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Professor Dr Azhar Ismail, the Vice Chancellor of Nilai University is an entomologist who was recently awarded the US Alumni Impact Award at MACEE’s Homecoming Gala 2023. He joins us on this episode to discuss why he’s so passionate about insects and how he defines success.

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Richard Wee grew up wanting to be a lawyer. He says it's the concept of fairness and later justice, that drove him to pursue this career. What's interesting is, he also found a way to incorporate his love for sports into his legal career. He joins us on this episode to talk about his journey.

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Eunice Martin Lim is a food stylist and professional food photographer. She’s the founder of Through My Lens, a production house which has served over 100 brands since 2014. She joins us on this episode to share her journey and how her idea of success has changed over time. 

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Liew Xian Jiong is the Co-founder of Biang Biang Noodle Bar, where they serve a type of ‘hand-smacked’ noodle that originates from the Shaanxi region in China.  In this episode, he joins us to share his journey. We chat about why he decided to leave the advertising field despite pursuing so passionately in university, working for his dad’s construction company and finally opening his own noodle bar.

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Dr Chua Sook Ning, is a clinical psychologist, researcher and founder of Relate Malaysia, an NGO that raises awareness on mental health, provides mental health services and does advocacy too. She joins us on the show to share why she’s so passionate about psychology and how she defines success.

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Samson Thomas (who goes by Saint TFC) is an emcee and rapper for close to two decades now. On today’s show, he talks about what it means to be a Tamil rapper in Malaysia, the challenges he has faced and what it meant to him and his family when he was called to rap in an Indian Malayalam language film. 

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Carmen Lim is a para swimmer. In 2015, when she was merely 15 years old, she broke the 50m record in the ASEAN para games and this year, she won three gold medals at the event. On top of being a brilliant athlete, Carmen is also a law graduate from Cambridge University.

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Yang Fairuz is the Chief Commercial Officer at Iraya Energies, an organisation that gathers and transforms unstructured data of the subsurface of the earth and surface facilities to find and produce the best sources of energy, using AI-enabled and cloud-native software. She joins us on the show to discuss what the jargons in the previous sentence mean, why she decided to become a geophysicist and how her career evolved since then.

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