Your Grit Story

Your Grit Story

By Eric ChanBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Your Grit Story episodes

  • Growing the Last Mile of Life Marketplace | Regina Tan | Immortalize co-founder
    Meet Regina Tan. 👩🏼

    🌤️ Rising from a near-death experience, Regina Tan left her high-paying job at Bloomberg and embarked on a meaningful mission with childhood friend, Hiddi Chan to start Immortalize.io to digitalise 💻 the Last Mile of Life Marketplace, bringing high quality 👍🏻 providers to us to help with legacy planning.

    #Immortalize #Startup #LastMileOfLife #LegacyPlanning #EstatePlanning #YourGritStory

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    1 hr 3 min
  • #Changemakers | From Banking to Doing Good with Purpose | Walter Oh | boxgreen co-founder

    Our 2nd guest on the #ChangeMaker series is a founder who left a cushy job in banking to start a #SocialEnterprise as a vehicle of change, creating healthy snacks and doing good from the get-go.

    The social entrepreneur is Walter Oh, co-founder of boxgreen.

    Not a stranger to the #startup scene, Walter Oh is one of the EDGE - Youth Wing of ACE 35 Under 35 (2020) and he was part of the Startup Grind Singapore team. In recent years, he has been advising and investing in #sustainability and #socialimpact startups. 🌍 

    Giving back has always been the mission for boxgreen. Empowering the lives of marginalised communities such as the ex-offenders and single mothers, co-founders Walter Oh and Andrew Lim are among the DBS Bank Foundation Fellows. In the early years, they also garnered support from raiSE SG, NVPC - Towards a City of Good, and Yellow Ribbon to tide through the waves. 🏄🏼

    Building a positive and inclusive work culture, boxgreen is awarded the 2021 Singapore Best Workplaces Award and certified a Great Place To Work® Singapore. With a spirit of giving back, the team also volunteers at Willing Hearts 💝 and The Social Kitchen! 

    + Follow Your Grit Story for more episodes coming of the #ChangeMaker series!

    #boxgreen #SnackGoodDoGood #SocialEntrepreneurship #Founders #Entrepreneurship #YourGritStory #BeInspired

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    51 min
  • #Changemakers | Building a Future where every dollar spent could be building a better world | Ee-Lin Chua | Fairmarch co-founder

    Imagine every dollar spent can contribute to a better world.

    That is the future that our first #podcast guest of 2022, Ee-lin Chua, co-founder of Fairmarch has been building for the past few years! No better way to kickstart the Your Grit Story #ChangeMaker series!

    Together with Victor Chua and Jorena Tan, they are building a community that connects like-minded people who want to do good with businesses that drive social impact.

    Being a differently-abled team that embraces #diversity and an #inclusive work culture, they have supported over 330 beneficiaries! 

    Driving towards the mission of doing good, Fairmarch partnered with SG Enable to host a Gift Market to showcases products made by talented makers and artists with disabilities from over 20 social service agencies and social enterprises such as SPD and TOUCH Community Services!

    What is really #inspiring is that Ee-lin Chua is doing this on top of a full time job at PropertyGuru Group leading Business Intelligence! That's whole lot of #Passion and #Perseverance.

    #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #inclusivehiring  #differentlyabled #ChangeMakers #YourGritStory #BeInspired

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    31 min
  • Creating a World Without Keys | Anthony Chow | igloocompany co-founder

    Imagine a keyless world. That is what Anthony Chow and the igloocompany team are working towards.

     In October 2021, igloocompany has set up presence at United States and is embarking onto a journey to deploy 1 million devices in the country. Exciting times for the Singapore startup, holding the Singapore flag high, bringing the company across shores to expand globally!

    In this 8th episode of Your Grit Story, Anthony shares with us:

    - his journey in starting and #rebranding igloocompany with multiple verticals
    - how #software helps the company to solve problems at scale 
    - how to bring the #team together to achieve greater things together
    - what he looks for in #talents joining the thriving team

    #igloocompany #Startup #Founder #AWorldWithoutKeys #YourGritStory #Inspiration


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    31 min
  • Making Mentorship accessible for all | Felix Lee | ADPList co-founder

    Not everybody has access to knowledge. Not everybody has access to mentorship..

    Our next guest on our Your Grit Story Podcast 📹 Episode 7 is a “relatively young” founder who aspires to democratize mentorship for all.

    Only at the age of 24, Felix Lee has already exited a startup when he was 20 and he is building the next big platform for mentors and mentees to connect and learn. Just launched in 2020 about a year ago, ADPList has grown rapidly to more than 4000 mentors from over 70 countries, meeting and sharing their experience with over 20,000 mentees. 

    In August 2021, the team atADPList has raised US$1.3 Million funding from prominent investors like Surge, Sequoia Capital, ready to propel growth of the platform and community further, benefiting even more people globally.

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    46 min
  • Diving Deep Into Mental Health | Bjorn Lee | MindFi co-founder
    The guest, Bjorn Lee and host, Eric Chan Jq have known each other for 10 years (since 2011 when Eric is attending NUS Overseas College in Silicon Valley) and they caught up to chat about what happened from 2011 till today. 

    Bjorn founded an EdTech company back in 2011 when in Silicon valley and took a toll on his health, which gave him a wake-up call, to rethink about what is important in life. Passionate to solve a problem in a space that he is interested in, he started MindFi in 2017, faced huge challenges and almost gave up. After a silent retreat at Phuket, he was invigorated to refocus with a huge pivot, rising up to build a compelling product to gain traction in the market.

    In 2021, the team at MindFi has raised its seed funding of 1 Million dollars from prominent investors and they are in the recent batch of Y Combinator. MindFi has been scaling up rapidly since the start of the year, creating social impact to individuals and catering to the demand in the growing market.

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    38 min

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Welcome to Your Grit Story, where we chat with founders, leaders and changemakers who live by passion and perseverance to make the future a reality. Let’s be inspired by the stories of Grit!

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