BIG THANKS to Jeremiah for joining me on this podcast session – it was a really a privilege for me to dive a little deeper into asking about his POV onto the video production agency landscape in Singapore, as well as his thoughts on what it takes to build meaningful relationships with clients in a sustainable manner.  

Videography is something that I’m extremely passionate of but I’m really more interested in the working dynamics with business clients; it has always been a fascinating one for me, particularly how one works well with each other to achieve the desired end goal.  

Jeremiah shares more about his journey in starting his own video production agency – Cinema Verite Group, as well lessons learned along the way as the founder of this company – his company had previously worked with many notable brands, including HSBC, Foodpanda, Lazada, Circles.Life, Harvey Davidson, DBS Bank, UOB, Standard Charted Bank, Siemens, Huawei and Simmons – this is probably a list of dream clients to work with and I’m simply in awe of the work that they do.

A BIG THANKS to Mitch for joining me on this podcast session - we briefly worked with each other in the Nas Daily Media Company and as soon as I knew he was in Singapore (only temporarily for a month!!), I wanted to catch up with him over a podcast session where I could learn a thing or 2 when it comes to being a influencer/content creator on social media platforms - Mitch mostly publishes his videos on Facebook, where he has over 160,000 + followers and had amassed over 50 + million views of his videos on his Facebook Page, Mitch Summers.  

He shares about how he transitioned from working in the traditional tech & software industry to being a social media content creator (crazy story....!!), tips for content creators who are starting out on their journey, as well as his thoughts on quality vs quantity content creation - I ask him about the little nuances between making videos on Facebook and YouTube, and his content strategy for the future :)  I hope this conversion will be helpful to future content creators out there!!

a big THANK YOU to Sherrine for joining me on this podcast!  

If you're ever a student intending to go to any type of Singapore-based business schools, this conversation is mainly centered around how exactly life is like in NUS Business School - Sherrine and I were groupmates back there and I had learned a great deal from her perspective in how life was like for her at NUS Business School. 

We talk about our experiences in university (her experience in joining case competitions organised by Unilever/P&G, how to be a dean's lister haha), as well as how she went around pursuing a career in FMCG at Mondelez International, where she's currently under the graduate trainee programme. I hope this conversation will be helpful to young Singaporeans interested in studying in business schools as well as existing undergraduates who are in a similar position to where Sherrine & I was (in finding a job and our career routes)

A big thanks to Daryn for joining me on this podcast sessions - I'm really fascinated by crypto though I'm not a part of this industry but learning more about it through talking with people in the industry has been definitely exciting.  We talk more about the truths about NUS Business School in terms of environment, curriculum and advice that current undergraduate/ new freshmen can take from this conversion - Daryn shares a lot more how life is like working as a trader at QCP Capital which is in the Fin-Tech Crypto space. If you're ever interested in going into this industry, 

I'm sure that this conversion would be helpful to someone out there :) We go into option future trading principles which are additional tools to play in the crypto space, as well as general investing principles that Daryn believes.  We end off talking about random topics - books that we read, our opinions on spirituality as well as dabbling into the topic of psychedelic, Life & Death, racism between Asians, politics and a THEORETICAL discussion on loosely held opinions if drugs and LGBT rights will ever be legalised during our lifetimes.  

We made a few factual errors pertaining to books read haha but the jist of it is definitely still there!

A big thanks to Daryn for joining me on this podcast sessions - I'm really fascinated by crypto thought I'm not a part of this industry but learning more about it through talking with people in the industry has been definitely exciting. 

 We talk more about the truths about NUS Business School in terms of environment, curriculum and advice that current undergraduate/ new freshmen can take from this conversion - Daryn shares a lot more how life is like working as a trader at QCP Capital which is in the Fin-Tech Crypto space. If you're ever interested in going into this industry, I'm sure that this conversion would be helpful to someone out there :) We go into option future trading principles which are additional tools to play in the crypto space, as well as general investing principles that Daryn believes.

We end off talking about random topics - books that we read, our opinions on spirituality as well as dabbling into the topic of psychedelic, Life & Death, racism between Asians, politics and a THEORETICAL discussion on loosely held opinions if drugs and LGBT rights will ever be legalised during our lifetimes.   We made a few factual errors pertaining to books read haha but the jist of it is definitely still there!

I apologize in advance for the title - these questions are deep and I feel that answers to them are really unique to who you are and your circumstance.  

Thanks so much to Khye for joining me on this podcast - we talk about his journey in how he landed up in Singapore from Melecca as a scholar and his career journey from working in a recruitment company to being in the insurance field. He shares challenges and struggles in his career and how he turned to find answers with online mentors via YouTube where he discovered answers that reframed his macro-perspective onto how he could be fulfilled in his career.  

I believe this conversation will be helpful mostly for youth adults like me early in their career when we are so full of zest ready to take on the world - perhaps we could take some time to prioritize what matters to us - whether if its monetary, relationships, community goals, I think its important to take some time to reflect on what makes us tick in a way which makes us feel excited in a sustainable manner.

I wanna thank Andy Ang for taking the time to join me on this podcast session - he shares his initial enrollment into a polytechnic course which wasn't suited for him, and the pros & cons when it came to changing his career direction in becoming a marketer instead. He also shares CRAZY entrepreneurial stories where he started an e-commerce shop selling army-related products to NSFs - one thing I learned from our conversations is probably to take action on business idea jamming ideas; Andy had discussed MANY great business ideas back in his schooling days and predicated several business ideas that came to fruition in the past few years - fingerprint payments, shared-driving economy, and mobile payment services

We talk about his involvement as an undergraduate at the Singapore Management University; I found out it's compulsory for undergraduates to do community service which is fascinating and Andy shares his extensive experience in leading community-service projects during his university days, learning lessons from it and how it made him fond of children and him now being a father!! Lastly, he talks about how traveling changes one's perspective and how it may be necessary for one to be more open-minded in general. I hope it's useful to someone out there!!

A huge thanks to Leslie Koh for joining me on this podcast session – his expertise revolves around the insurance space and he is well-versed with almost 10 years of experience in this field.  

We mostly talk about the insurance industry and I believe this podcast would be helpful to those ever thinking of becoming a financial advisor – while the commissions and paychecks that come with it are huge, to say the least, therein lies great responsibility onto the type of products that you choose to sell to your clients. 

Leslie shares his inception journey on why he chose to become a financial advisor and the stories of the common pitfalls and mistakes that junior financial advisors make – money, convince, confusing, conning or coping with a multitude amount of rejections. 

On a second note, I do believe it's important to get yourself covered at every step of the way, particularly those that relate to hospitalization or clinical bills. We talk about macro-marketing concepts that financial advisors should embark on and how they can go about marketing themselves to potential clients – lastly, he ends up sharing the best and worst advice he’d ever received, as well as the goals he’d like to achieve this year.  Do check out Leslie’s content – he provides much useful content when it comes to protecting yourself 😊

A huge THANKS to Lauren for joining me on this podcast session - I reached out to her via LinkedIn and was mostly interested in learning more about what HR is - it's not exactly the most enticing thing for undergraduates to major in Human Resource, and I think there's a quite a big difference when it comes to being taught HR in schools and actually implementing HR policies that make a tangible difference in businesses.  

Lauren runs her own business, (Transform.Recreate) that caters to helping SMEs create better HR foundations according to their business needs and shares her story of how she got into this business - coming from a corporate background, it equipped her with an in-depth and yet wide-ranging experience of what it takes to have good HR for companies of all sizes. She is also the co-founder of GotKimZua (gotkimzua.com), an e-commerce Singapore-based joss paper store incepted in May 2017. She also has her own podcast, #tryeverything, where she shares stories of people who had overcome their failures to become successful in their own ways. Definitely go check it out and have a listen!  

We mostly talk about the importance of HR, common misconceptions about it, Lauren's accidental story into HR consulting and role models that we look up to!

Had the biggest privilege of having Mr Zainal on the podcast – if you aren’t sure, he is a Member of the 12th Parliament of Singapore for the Pasir Ris East Constituency which is part of the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. He is a politician from Singapore’s main governing political party, the People’s Action Party and is also currently serving in the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) as the Assistant Secretary-General. Zainal is a graduate of Nanyang Technological University with a Master of Arts in Educational Management, through which he has served for 20 years in the education service before embarking on his political career.

In this episode, we primarily talked about how Singaporean youths can better prepare themselves for the working world, red flags that they need to look out for, and lastly his work in representing the people of Pasir Ris Punggol GRC – the challenges he faces being on the ground as well as the immense satisfaction he gets from making real macro impact onto the lives of Singaporeans.