This is an interesting conversation for me as we explore culture and life across multiple continents and hear it from someone who has set foot there rather than seeing it from social media or foreign media.

The news cycle has been distressing but as humans, oftentimes it is not representative of the full story, even if it comes from an elected official. Hoping this conversation can shed light on the nuances between actual people on the ground vs media portrayed stereotypes.

A couple of years ago, Kunal decided to leave his corporate job to experience cultures and life on another continent. Started as just attending the World Cup, but init ended up spending months in Colombia, Canada, and eventually settling in Moscow, Russia.

We spoke about:

Sarah Wong is a podcast host of Make It Work, a new podcast featuring inspiring stories of working mums in Asia who have made career shifts for their family. She is currently based in Singapore and is a working mother to 2 young kids. Prior to returning to Singapore, she spent 6 years overseas - studying for her MBA  first and then working for a health startup-turned unicorn in Silicon Valley. 

In this episode we covered:

🌟How ‘hustling’ and not taking no as an answer had served her well since pre-university days till she landed her dream job in Silicon Valley

🌟Why she thinks value-based care is a game changer in health care for all of us

🌟Key learnings of the healthtech and insurtech space in Asia and the US 

🌟The story behind her podcast “Make It Work” and what she would write in her love letter to working mums

Links to articles mentioned in the episode - 

What is Value Based Care and why does it matter?: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-think-weve-reached-tipping-point-value-based-health-sarah-wong/

Medicare spending per capita has declined and no one knows why:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/huge-decline-spending-medicare-begs-question-why

Value Based Care  in Asia:

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2020/sep/the-march-to-value.html

In this episode, we speak Stef Sy, the Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines that builds advance machine learning and data platforms for businesses. Their internal tagline is making sci-fi into realities

In this conversation, we speak about A.I and its use case in HR. One of the fascinating use cases is really just-in-time learning, where we are able to provide employees with information and coaching at the time when it is most needed.

Here are some other conversation points during our chat:

#A.I #HR #learninganddevelopment

This is a special episode to me as I speak to a dear friend Douglas. We spoke about several aspects that we don't usually talk about so I'm glad we took the opportunity to do so.

We spoke about:

Hope you at least found a few new books to read!

In this episode, I had a chat with a fellow COO and Health Tech veteran, Jordan Masys.

Jordan's journey took him from Canada to Ethiopia, Taiwan and Boston.

In our conversation, we spoke about:

Hope you'll enjoy this internationally diverse conversation!

In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Tan, the dynamic founder of The Nurts, a brand born from a passion for empowering parents and children through thoughtfully designed products. Rachel shares her remarkable journey, leaving a stellar career in marketing with renowned brands like, Shopee, L'Oréal and OxWhite, to embark on a mission to nurture personal and child development.

In this episode, we covered areas such as:

1. Her lessons learnt from her illustrious marketing career

2. What inspired her to start the Nurts and amazing stories from parents and users alike

3. Her entrepreneurship journey and taking calculated risks to start something like this

4. What type of legacy or impact she would like to leave behind via The Nurts for parents and children

All these and more!

There's just 1 more story about a young boy in this episode that absolutely warms your heart so tune in.

In this episode, we sit down with Sam Kon, a seasoned E-commerce Consultant with accreditation from Alibaba Business School & Taobao University. He is also the CEO of Beyond Infinity Consulting, an e-commerce consultancy.

Sam's story is a story of infinite mindset, grit and following your passion.

We spoke about:

1. How his family background in commerce influenced his mindset around trade and business. He even made his first deal when he was 9 years old!

2. How psychology wasn't quite what he intended but led to his many adventures later and exposure in various areas.

3. How he faced over 200 rejections in less than 1 week to pursue a path in coffee and his mindset to keep going

4. His interesting journey in e-commerce that brought him to Alibaba Business School and Taobao University and eventually becoming the go-to person for sellers in the e-commerce space.

5. Some unexpected learnings and behind-the-scenes learning in e-commerce and covering some trends.

In this episode, we speak to Pin Chin Kwok.

She's a global leader when it comes to health tech and even became the CEO of a brain health startup but also a person with a lot of heart as she ventured for many years in the social impact space.

Coming from a finance background, we follow her career since her high-flying career with the Citi Group in the US & Singapore and what are her views on life and leadership

We also spoke about:

All these and more!

Hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did speaking to her.

In this episode we speak to Dr. Joel. He's a clinical psychologist with more than a decade of experience and currently serving as the director for The Mind Psychological Services & Training, president of the Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychologists (MSCP), and provides his insights on Lite FM as well.

Some aspects that we covered:

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