The RJ Ledesma Podcast

Abba Napa is the Co-Founder & Creative Director of The Moment Group, a younger and dynamic F&B Operator & Developer. It created and opened its first three homegrown restaurants within eight months of its launch and since then persisted on commencing one restaurant every 56 days.

The Moment Group was established in 2012 and is home to 2,500 employees, 12 food brands, and 45 shops. Some of its most recent launch was its cook-at-home line, Moment the Grocer, new fried chicken brand Cuckoo, and its in-house delivery website momentfood.com which is supported by its Mo'Go delivery fleet.

Abba earned her degree in Management from Ateneo De Manila University and later took up Restaurant Management and Culinary Techniques at the French Culinary Institute in New York. Her initial endeavors are retail, wherein one of her most prominent ventures is the Tropical Retail Company, through which flip flop brand Havaianas made its way into Philippine malls. 

Learn more about The Moment Group and how they dealt with the impact of the pandemic and how they adjusted their operations through the new normal in this episode of The Rj Ledesma Podcast.

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Founders and CEO of Angkas Angeline Tham and George Royeca sit down with us this week to discuss their operations and how they pivoted the business during the pandemic. We will also hear how they coordinated with the government on laws and regulations in the motorcycle taxi industry. 

Angeline Tham is a serial entrepreneur who launched one of the top online auction outfits in Singapore. She conceptualized the foundation of Angkas when she arrived late to several meetings due to traffic. 

George Royeca is a firm advocate of inclusive mobility and sustainable shipping. He is a champion of local brands and an award-prevailing visible storyteller. Last year he was awarded as one of The Outstanding Young Men. He also led the "Ingat Angat Tayong Lahat" campaign which is part of the private sectors support for TaskForce T3 (Test, Trace, Treat). 

With its partnership with the Philippine Red Cross, Angkas became the first professional motorcycle taxi service in the Philippines to aid the delivery of humanitarian interventions such as first aid, blood needs and other responses related to the fight against the COVID-19. They also launched their food delivery service with the hope of providing income to their bikers amidst the wide community quarantine. 

Learn more about Angkas and how they dealt with the impact of the pandemic in this episode of The Rj Ledesma Podcast.

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Gerry Choa is the President and Chairman of Pro-Friends, one of the country’s leading and fastest growing real estate developers in the country.  Pro-Friends was founded in 1999 by Gerry along with a group of friends whose shared vision was to create communities and transform lives. From being a provider of housing units in small pocket developments in Cavite, it has grown to include medium rise condominiums, estates for low, middle and higher end markets, and, now, a flourishing township in its portfolio. Since its establishment and as of the first quarter of 2020, PRO-FRIENDS has built 57,000 houses for Filipino families. They are well-known for their property developments in Cavite and Iloilo, which include Lancaster Estates and Carmona Estates. Pro-friends currently has 36 ongoing projects and 52 completed and successful communities.

Gerry is a past president and current board adviser of the Subdivision and Housing Developers Association (SHDA) and was a former director of the Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association (Creba), two of the largest organizations of housing developers in the country. 

Gerry has been generous in sharing his real estate development knowledge to the next generation of developers, and he will be sharing a few of his insights on our podcast and in an upcoming real estate development masterclass held in collaboration with SHDA. Find out more about his success stories and how he navigates through the new normal in this episode of The RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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This week, we are joined by Anthony Leuterio, CEO and Founder of Filipino Homes. A graduate of Computer Science from the University of San Jose - Recoletos. Moreover, he is also a motivational speaker, real-estate influencer, marketing consultant, realtor, and investor. 

Anthony has been a recipient of over a thousand awards and accolades. He's the first E-pro certified dealer within the Philippines licensed through countrywide affiliation of realtors. Last year, Filipino Homes was recognized as the top 1 realty in the Philippines.  In 2016, Leuterio Realty & Brokerage was shortlisted for the International Europe Business Assembly (EBA) Awards as “Best Enterprise” and its CEO Anthony Gerard O. Leuterio for the “Manager of the Year” medal.

He is leading the ABREP (A Better Real Estate Philippines) movement to reform, and leverage digitalization to upgrade the practice of real estate industry in the Philippines.

Learn more about Anthony and his success in the next episode of The RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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This week, we are joined by Patrick Lim Fernandez, a Feng Shui expert and advocate of classical schools of Feng Shui and Chinese Metaphysics. Patrick holds degrees in Management Engineering from Ateneo de Manila University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles with advanced analytics from MIT and Stanford University.

Patrick combines classical Feng Shui principles and traditions with a historical past in business, Finance, and actual estate to produce fundamentally sound Feng Shui recommendations that are analytically driven while promoting success in money and good business fortune.

Learn more about the Feng Shui of business as Patrick joins us in the next episode of The RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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Founder and CEO of Podcast Network Asia Ron Baetiong sits down with us this week as we discuss how he managed to secure a $750k seed funding for the company and more.

His beginning wasn't always an easy ride. After founding two startups prior, he gained experience and skills needed in building Podcast Network Asia.

Through hard work and hustle, Podcast Network Asia raised a $750k funding from Lisa Gokongwei, president and CEO of Summit Media; Foxmont Capital; and Ventura Discovery; and local live-streaming platform KUMU - allowing the biggest podcast network in the Philippines to expand its reach to South East Asia in 2021.

Learn more on the story of building Podcast Network Asia from the ground up and how he was able to get funding in this episode of the RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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This week's episode will not just feature one, not two, but three guests in one sitting!

We're joined by Ms. Joyce Yu, the President & CEO of True Blends Tea & Coffee, whose multi-branch coffee shop that's now a top of mind destination for honest-to-goodness tea and coffee concoctions started out as a cozy cafe cart in the Ateneo de Manila High School cafeteria.

By her side is Mr. Mark Joseph David, the President and CEO of PAL Maritime Corporation, who is a second generation partner in the company, which his family acquired in the early 2000s - he became the President of the company in January 2020.

To complete the trio, we have Mr. Andeed Ma, Regional Lark Product Specialist with more than 12 years of experience in enterprise sales, solution architecting, operations, and sales enablement for large enterprises in the SaaS environment under his name, and is currently helping Lark to expand its presence in the Philippines.

Find out more about their success stories and how each one works under the circumstances of the new normal on this episode of The RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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Gerry Santos is the founder and CEO of Mr. Freeze, and the current title holder of Entrepreneur of the Year in the Asia Leaders Awards (and has been for three consecutive years now). One of his first recognitions in the industry was when Mr. Freeze was chosen among 5000 SMEs as the Most Outstanding SME Partner by MERALCO Luminary in 2011.

Despite having these big awards under his name, Gerry has never hesitated to help his community out by tweaking his father's business model to include a livelihood program set up for tricycle drivers, sari-sari store owners, and household help who want to increase their income for them to be able to market Mr. Freeze in their communities and other urban areas.

Hear more about how he built his ice business to be one of the top in the country on The RJ Ledesma Podcast. 

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An author, a publisher, an inspirational speaker, a TV and radio host, a husband, and a father - Bro. Bo Sanchez has pretty much done it all, but did you know that he is also a micro-entrepreneur?

As a big believer of uplifting other micro-entrepreneurs for the betterment of his country's economic problems, he engages with small businesses and real estate, and as well as teaches and writes about financial literacy.

Bo talks about how he founded his series of step-by-step guides on financial abundance and spiritual security, the Truly Rich Club, on The RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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For this week, we'll be sitting down with 917Ventures’ Managing Director Vince Yamat.

917Ventures is the largest corporate incubator in the Philippines. And leverages on the rich asset base of Globe Telecom, the No. 1 telecommunications company in the country.

Its mission is to improve the lives of all 109M Filipinos by building, operating and scaling start-ups that tackle the biggest pain points. 

917Ventures focuses on 4 verticals: FinTech, E-Commerce, HealthTech and AdTech. Their portfolio includes GCash, PureGo, KonsultaMD, HealthNow, AdSpark, Rush, FreebieMNL and Zeal. 

Do you have a startup idea that helps solve a problem in everyday life? Find out about VELOCITY, their Venture Builder Program starting this January 2021 and how it can help you leverage Globe’s “unfair advantage.” 

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