Clean Your Toilet Podcast

What happens when the life you built suddenly no longer fits? And how do you learn to love a body, a future, and an identity that look nothing like what you once imagined? In this episode of the Clean Your Toilet Podcast, Cheryl Miles, founder of Miles Nixon Media and author (“Smitten in the Kitchen, 60 Recipes for Love”) sits down with Benjamin Byrne, content creator The Smiling Afro, for a conve...

What happens when the person you love most also becomes the person who triggers you the most? And what if the relationship you’re trying to build publicly is the one you’re still learning to build privately? In this episode of the Clean Your Toilet Podcast, Lee Jing Lin & Liu Zhiqun, co-founders of KopiDate, join Benjamin Byrne, content creator The Smiling Afro to peel back the layers of moder...

Beyond a group or community, what does it truly mean to find belonging within yourself? And what happens when the parts of you that never seem to fit are actually the ones trying to lead you home? In this episode of the Clean Your Toilet Podcast, Andee Chua, Founder of OFFFORM, sits down with Benjamin Byrne, the Smiling Afro, for a conversation that cuts straight to the heart of identity, acceptan...

Three Brothers. One Bold Acquisition. And the Reinvention No One Sees. What happens when a celebrated actor trades script-lines and expands his creativity to shape vision, narrative, and growth at scale? In this special episode, Andie Chen — actor, filmmaker, producer and newly minted CMO of White Knight — sits with his real-life brother Adam Tan, the serial entrepreneur behind multiple media, F&a...

What if the real foundation of financial confidence wasn’t strategy or luck — but passion for the people and the conviction to stand the transformation it takes to make this dream a reality? In this episode, former NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian sits down with Kat Aziz for a conversation that’s surprisingly unpolished, disarmingly honest, and refreshingly human. Long before he led one of Singapore’s...

What does it take to become one of the most successful businesses out there integrated with passion and intention? In this episode of the Clean Your Toilet Podcast, Sant Qiu, founder of Maneuver Marketing, a 9 figure business, sits down with Kat to unpack a journey that didn’t begin with confidence, clarity, or even a dream — but with survival. Growing up a sickly child in a small Indonesian town...

How can pure, simple and joyful dedication to your craft become a business big enough to outgrow the version of you who started it? For Ong Jing Ting, founder of Puffs and Peaks Bakery, that question has shaped every chapter of her 10-year journey. What started as a small Instagram side-hustle she ran with her mother slowly expanded into two physical bakeries, a growing team, and a life far bigger...

When cruising in life becomes an experience of painful unhappiness and emptiness, and you see no other way out, stepping away from your familiar comfort to the unfamilar unknown can be the medicine you need to discover a new lease of life. For Anna Ong, creator of What’s Your Story Slam, her calling arrived in the most unexpected way — on a silent improv stage in New York. In this episode of the C...

Money is often a means to living with meaning and purpose. Taking it to the next level, what does it look like living and breathing money passionately, and impact livelihoods while doing so? For Reshveen Rajendran, CEO of Modern Wealth Academy, money was never just numbers — it was a money passion with a focus to uplift socio-economic statuses of folks wanting a better life, and it starts with a s...

What does it mean to inherit a business that wasn’t your dream — but becomes your responsibility, your teacher, and eventually, your purpose? In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Brillyn Toh sits down with Kat Aziz for a grounded, deeply human conversation about legacy, identity, and the emotional labour of running one of Singapore’s most beloved second-hand institutions: Hock Siong. Most people...

When does a hobby become a serious passion to monetize systematically, to live and breathe from? In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, botanical artist and founder of InOut Atelier, Ming Kuang, sits down with Kat Aziz to unpack what it really costs to build a life around the work you love. Before he was sculpting moss into miniature worlds, he was trained in architecture — steady job, clear path,...

When you’re a new mother running on fumes, juggling business calls between feeds, and losing track of who you are beyond the roles you hold — the smallest inconvenience can become the turning point. For Eugenia Ye-Yeo, founder of Nodspark, it wasn’t a grand moment of revelation. It was chipped nails, busy days, and the quiet frustration of wanting to feel put-together without sacrificing precious...

What if you could find alignment to your passion, and overcome your internal conflicts through an innerwork process? Anita Kapoor offers just such a short demonstration on how to do so with our anchor speaker Kat Aziz to access a different experience. In this intimate conversation, Anita Kapoor sits down for one of her most honest, unfiltered reflections on identity, meaning, and the lifelong jour...

When a flamboyant, colorful kid learns to hide himself because the world tells him he’s “too much,” you don’t just get a story about fashion — you get a story about survival. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Leonard Cheong, founder of Singapore’s first gender-fluid athleisure label, joins Barbara Latimer for a raw conversation about suppression, bullying, and the long road back to authenticit...

Food is never just food. For Yeo Min, pastry chef and author, every recipe is a story, every ingredient a memory, and every dish a link between past and present. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Barbara Latimer enters her kitchen of ideas to talk about heritage, identity, and what it means to preserve more than just flavors. Most people think the hardest part of choosing a career is mastering...

From prison officer to real estate entrepreneur, Melvin Lim’s (Property Lim Brothers) path was never straightforward. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, he and Barbara Latimer dive into the messy evolution of a career that began in uniform and grew into multiple businesses, including one of Singapore’s most recognized real estate brands. Most people assume the hardest part of entrepreneurship i...

Some people create because they can. Chiang Ming Yang creates because he can’t not. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Barbara Latimer dives deep with him into the obsession, exhaustion, and experimentation that come from pushing creative limits — and paying for it out of your own pocket. Most people think burnout is caused by overwork. For Ming Yang, it was caused by over-care. His path into f...

What happens when your career plan intersects with your family’s legacy? For Chan Weitian, a software engineer and startup founder, it meant swapping out code and venture pitches for laundry machines and customer tickets. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Barbara Latimer explores with him the messy truth of second-generation succession: duty, identity, and the quiet weight of stepping into a b...

When a kid who’s been called “lazy,” “stupid,” and “hopeless” discovers he might actually be a genius, you don’t just get a feel-good redemption story — you get a powerful reminder of how fragile and transformative belief can be. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Adam Khoo sits down with Barbara Latimer to revisit the messy beginnings of his journey: expulsion in Primary 3, rejection from ever...

Adulthood isn’t a straight line. It’s a juggling act — a little bit of survival, a little bit of dreaming, and a lot of mess. Joanne Xie knows this firsthand. As the founder of a lifestyle brand born during COVID, she never had a mentor, a map, or even much money. What she had was instinct, generosity, and a stubborn belief that she could figure it out as she went. In this episode of Clean Your To...

Most people think love is about romance, balance, or even compromise. But Leila Ng — childbirth educator, doula, trauma-informed space holder — offers a different lens: love is work, and often the kind you’d rather avoid. It’s like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, you discover hurt, history, and vulnerability you didn’t know were still inside. Tears are guaranteed. But so is growth. In this episo...

Ten years ago, Sophia Philippon-Tan was given a sentence, not a choice: acute myeloid leukemia, six months to live. Doctors spoke in absolutes, charts and probabilities. But Sophia felt something different rise up in her body: rage. A refusal. A quiet, stubborn no. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Sophia retraces the journey from patient to protagonist — from lying in a hospital bed surrounde...

As a senior operations manager, Angelia Ng was ordered to terminate a colleague. On paper, it was just a business decision. But to Angelia, it was a betrayal of values — a line she refused to cross. That decision cost her the role, but it also gave her something more enduring: a compass. Integrity became the strategy that would guide her life. In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Angelia reflects...

For two decades, Theresa Goh was synonymous with one thing: swimming. A Paralympian, national record-holder, and decorated athlete, she carried an identity that sparkled in medals and headlines. But when the cheering stopped in 2019 and retirement set in, she faced a quieter and more difficult question: who am I without the pool? In this episode of Clean Your Toilet, Theresa sits with Susan Chen t...

Marie Soh — mother of three, makeup artist, baker, former nurse — joins Susan Chen to unpack the expectations written into women’s lives long before they get to write their own script. This isn’t just about motherhood or marriage; it’s about the invisible ledger of obligation that Asian women are born into, and the courage it takes to cross out what no longer serves. In this episode of Clean Your...