LocKDin with Idris Din

Today's episode dives into Jasmine’s journey on she took control of her life after leaving her role, her experience with hitting virality on social media and how life for her is like as a Creator Educator.  Jasmine and I met through our mutual friend Ian who was my guest on the podcast previously as well!     She recalled her experience from doing a 30-day challenge on social media, and what...

Today's episode dives into behind the scenes as an Author, the role of a publishing house, how your surroundings  can influence your creativity and why discipline is important when things get rough.  Nadia works as an Employment Lawyer and balances her time as an Author. In fact, her first novel won the Waterstones Children Book Prize in 2023!!  We’ve met a few times over the years but really...

  Today's episode is a SPECIAL one because it’s my One Year Anniversary where I looked back on the past year of growing and doing this podcast.    This episode is hella unfiltered, pure brain dump of my reflections, learnings and what’s next.    Big thing for me were my takeaways from podcasting for a year, and I think it’ll be helpful for anyone else to hear about them, regardless of whateve...

Today's episode dives into Social Media marketing, the importance of knowing your why behind your side hustles and the value of leveraging analytics to test, learn and iterate on your content. Jane works as a Social Media + KOL (Influencer) Marketer by day and balances her time with Personal Growth content.  We met at an event hosted by Malaysian Diaspora in May, and we've been hanging o...

Today's episode is filled with some MUSIC, deep discussion on the Malaysian music scene, and Sales as a career. Kane and I met at a house party where he was performing and I was sooo excited that I literally just stood next to him most of the time to watch how he did his thing. Luckily he liked me LOL and we kicked it off ever since, and we realised we had mutual friends which was CRAZY!!  Ka...

Today's episode is filled with MAGIC, storytelling, and philosophy. I met Vicente very recently at a chess event, he showed my friend and I some fucking cool magic tricks, and after talking to him more I was like you gotta be on my pod. And I'm so thankful that Vicente joins me today, who's a full-time high school teacher, runs his own education tuition business ANDa also is a Magic...

Can’t ya’ll believe 2 more months and we’ll be halfway through 2026?? JHEEZE  Anyway, Kyle Odefey is in the house with me today. Kyle’s an awesome dude, when he’s not producing/directing/leading all things video at Synthesia, he’ll be working on his short films as that’s been his passion for a long time. Kyle went to film school and has since been working full time in a role that marries both worl...

LocKDin dives into the journeys of those who balance a 9-5 while pursuing creative side hustles.  We are ending March with a BANG brothers and sisters!!  Joining me today is my fellow March baby David, who I've known since uni and he's always been an amazing person and friend. He started out in recruitment and most recently has launched his own startup, but along the journey has also lau...

LocKDin dives into the journeys of those who work a 9-5 while pursuing creative side hustles.  YO YO!! We’ve COOKED up another LocKDin episode and it’s with Ved Luhana!  My man Ved’s a freaking smart and cool guy - he works as a Product Manager and hosts his own podcast focusing on the deeptech space.  I was INTERNALLY geeking out for this episode as I love staying close to the AI development and...

Welcome back to Episode 6 of LocKDin! Sheena Lee is in the house yo!! Not only is she an awesome chiropractor who's recently launched her own practice in under a year (I can vouch for how good she CRACKS me up - get it? XD) , she also creates really engaging content relating to her work, her life, and her family business. We talked about a lot of things. From diving in to the importance of au...

We are back with Episode 5 of LocKDin!  We’re joined by Lewis Matthew who balances a full time Media career with a music side hustle.  What does it mean to express yourself creatively in life? That underpins the core theme of this episode along with some takeaways of how that can apply to life. 🎧 This episode is for you if you’re interested in music/or are a musician and want to hear from other m...

BOOM!! Episode four of LocKDin! Joining me in this episode is theasianfilmmaker / Ian who balances a full-time marketing career a with a videography side hustle.  We talked through his journey, his abundance mindset, what he's done to get better at his craft and how he got to where he is today. 🎧 This episode is for you if you’re interested in videography and what mentality it takes to get b...

GANG - We are SO back with episode three of LocKDin!  This time, we’re joined by Shi Qi — also known as Qiwiie 🥳 From balancing a full-time teaching career to building a fast-growing content creation brand on the side, Shi Qi shares how she managed both worlds before finally making the leap into full-time content creation. 🎧 This episode is for you if you’ve ever dreamed of going full-time with...

In the second episode of LocKDin, we learned about Manav and how he's life has gone since starting out his podcast whilst balancing his Travel PR career. We went through transferable learnings, the importance of knowing when to take a break and the importance of committing to just starting!!   Manav links:  Instagram TikTok Youtube Spotify LinkedIn Episodes links with Me!! ( Youtube / Spotify...

In the first episode of LocKDin, Sobin shares his unique journey on life as  sustainability analyst and a stand-up comedian. We talked about the challenges and joys of balancing a full-time job with his passion for comedy, the importance of consistency, and the lessons learned throughout and transferable learnings as well.  Sobin links:  Instagram TikTok Youtube LinkedIn My links:  Idris Creative...