Ep 143: Becoming Singapore’s 1st Professional Adventurer - You Never too Old to Take Risks! | Khoo Swee Chiow
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by Ling Yah
4d ago
Would you die for your passion? Most wouldn’t but for 58-year-old Swee Chiow, Singapore’s first professional adventurer, it’s a question he must face every day. And it all began when he caught a glimpse of Mount Everest from a plane. He was working in IT (Singapore Airlines) then, but he decided from that one glimpse that he wanted to climb Mount Everest - a dream that took him a mere 10 years to achieve! The journey was hard. He knew nothing. So he read many books & even went on a 10-day mountaineering course at Mt Cook that he flunked because he wasn’t fit enough! In 1998, he joined Sing ..read more
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Ep 142: I've Done Something Many Haven't Had the Opportunity to Do | Lucas Lu (Head of Zoom Asia)
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by Ling Yah
1w ago
Meet Lucas Lu - Head of Zoom Asia. And also a fellow Sarawakian! Lucas has had an illustrious career going from GM of Systems Technology Group at IBM Malaysia where they closed large deals within the first 6 months, leading to Lucas winning ASEAN Rookie of the Year - his first big recognition. He ended up staying at IBM for 10 years and won 2 Global Golden Circle Award before moving on to become: General Manager, Astro GM (Tech Sales Malaysia), Oracle Senior Director (APAC Enterprise Commercial Sales & Industry), Microsoft Prior to his current role heading the Asian arm of Zoom, coverin ..read more
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Ep 141: Inheriting a 100-year-old family business | Fong (Co-Owner, Tong Heng)
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by Ling Yah
2w ago
Sponsor: Descript - an AI-enabled software that makes it possible to edit weekly videos efficiently because it transcribes a 1.5 hour interview in 1 minute - and allows all editing to be done via the transcript! To find out more: https://www.descript.com/?lmref=sjT9JA * It’s not every day that you get to inherit a 100-year-old family business, but that’s exactly what Fong Wai Kheng has done. Fong is the fourth generation of his family to run Tong Heng - Singapore’s top confectionary shop most known for its trademark ? diamond-shaped egg tarts.  Ask pretty much any Singaporean (I did), and ..read more
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Ep 140.1: The No-Nonsense 'Lucky' Hotelier?! | Loh Lik Peng (Founder, Unlisted Collection)
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by Ling Yah
3w ago
Want to know how a lawyer became a successful hotelier with 40 hotels & 9 Michelin-starred restaurants in Singapore, London, Ireland, Shanghai & Sydney?! Look no further than today’s STIMY guest: Loh Lik Peng, the founder of Unlisted Collection. Lik Peng grew up expecting to be a doctor, like his parents.  But ended up practising as a commercial litigator for 3 years. During that time, the world was hit with the Asian Financial Crisis and a rundown property called Hotel 1929 came onto the Singapore property market. Hotel 1929 was located in Singapore’s red light district and Lik P ..read more
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Ep 139: Sneak Peek - Singapore Subseries!
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by Ling Yah
1M ago
It’s finally happening! The launch of STIMY’s special Singapore subseries. Where you’ll be hearing from a range of fascinating Singaporeans/Singapore-based tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and daredevil adventurers on how they’ve built their careers, their journey in finding their why and the legacy that they want to leave behind (if any!). We ran the whole gamut: the media broadcasting space, F&B (what it takes to build an empire of nine 1 - 3 Michelin Starred restaurants + inheriting a 100+ year confectionary brand), hospitality, tech and so much more. To whet your appetite, you’re getting s ..read more
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Ep 138: I Don't Believe in Prince & Princess Journalists - Steve Chao [x2 Emmy-nominated investigative journalist & Al-Jazeera Senior War Reporter]
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by Ling Yah
1M ago
Steve Chao was just a kid from Toronto who loved reading encyclopaedias. Who later chose a career that would lead him to the middle of opium fields during harvest time surrounded by hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Just another “day in the life” of his career as a x2 Emmy-nominated and multiple award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker who’s led programming for the likes of CNN, Al Jazeera, VICE, CTV (Canadian Television), CBC, ABC News, Tencent & Channel 4. Steve has also spent decades covering conflicts, including America’s longest war in Afghanistan, and produce ..read more
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Ep 137: Don't Wait. Life Has Already Begun! | Simon Alexander Ong (Bestselling Author, Coach, Keynote Speaker & Business Strategist)
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by Ling Yah
1M ago
Simon Alexander Ong grew up often feeling like he didn’t fit in. Which is weird when you look at his CV: He graduated from LSE before going to work at Lehman Brothers (until it fell into administration) then a hedge fund as a junior trader. Along the way, he attended a 2-day coaching seminar that transformed the way he saw coaching and kickstarted his journey into becoming a bestselling author, international keynote speaker and business strategist.  His work has seen him invited onto Sky News and BBC to be interviewed, while he has been featured in the likes of Forbes and Harvard Business ..read more
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Ep 136: I don't want to hang out with famous influencers because… [Prestine Davekhaw, Founder of MalaysianPAYGAP & Disappearing Jobs]
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by Ling Yah
2M ago
Prestine Davekhaw knows how much you earn. Thanks to a viral IG platform she launched called MalaysianPAYGAP, where she has Malaysians anonymously submit [payslip verified] details about their job, including: Their salary + benefits (if any) How they landed that job The realities of doing their job Advice for those wanting to do the same So you can see why people are obsessed with MPG. ? But what about the person behind MPG? Well, Prestine grew up in a drug-infested home with her grandmother, who was her best friend. She was told that her father was a dangerous man and that it was good that ..read more
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Ep 134: Build Your Why - STIMY Updates, Highlights & A Special Offer?!
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by Ling Yah
4M ago
Welcome to STIMY Ep 134! Today, you have the pleasure of hanging out with me. ? What we'll cover today: What I've been up to in October (8 STIMY in-person interviews in Singapore), November (first conference panel & personal branding client wins) and December (6 STIMY interviews) I'm also in the midst of prepping for a new course! Tentatively titled "Build Your Why". It's based off my learnings from working with my existing 1:1 personal branding clients, where I noticed that people often struggle with: People often think they're boring (when they're not) They're too shy to share th ..read more
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Ep 131. Becoming The Greatest Professional Prankster - Charlie Todd [Founder, Improv Everywhere]
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by Ling Yah
5M ago
Meet Charlie Todd - a professional prankster & also the founder of Improv Everywhere (a New York City-based prank collective with a twist!). Rather than pranks that embarrass people, Improv Everywhere organises large-scale pranks that create chaos & lots of joy in public. The kind of thing that’d make you go, “You’ll never believe what just happened!” E.g.  ✨ A bunch of strangers ride the subway - without pants!   ✨ 200 people freezing in place for 5 minutes in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal - with 37 million views on YouTube!  ✨ A man going to work in his socially di ..read more
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