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In a culture that shies away from discussing slip-ups, trip-ups and tumbles,  Alice Teoh, the owner-founder of Emma Lizs, shares hers.  Stepping on these sometime stumbling blocks, she climbs higher than she was before. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She is a founder-partner of her legal firm, she was president of a professional association and she chairs and leads several organizations that are working toward an accountable civil society. Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan shares her insights into being a female leader. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you are young, own little with almost nothing to lose and lots of years ahead to make all kinds of business mistakes, now is the time to jump into business. June Low tells how she took steps while in college to start her business and now six years on, she works on it full time. She is a trader, a brand owner, and she is enjoying a life that’s balanced. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

This young social entrepreneur escaped war in one country and tracked across several more before finding a home in England. Her curiosity, desire to find a way for peace to take root, an urge to connect communities, she started working with the young. Melody Hossaini was a candidate on the 7th season of a show called The Apprentice, the precedent to our regional version anchored by Tan Sri Tony Fe...

An entrepreneur’s journey from wealth to debt and then rising out of the ashes. Marriage features prominently in this journey and how it is both an stepping stone and an obstacle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Regardless whether it’s a stomach for risk or sheer naivete, entrepreneur Niki Cheng isn’t afraid of failure. A smile, charm, indomitable never-say-die spirit, she now expands from New York to KL. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professionals like doctors, lawyers and accountants in practice aren’t often seen as entrepreneurs but they are. They face some similar challenges like many start-ups when they decide to open their own practice. Some even tap on their specific skills and knowledge to go beyond. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Giving up a successful professional life to create a not-for-profit organisation to mentor women into entrepreneurship. While the focus is on workshops and training the Association of Bumiputera Women Entrepreneur Network of Malaysia (WENA) organises a walk-with-a-mentor programme. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2011 Runo Okiomah won the MIT Global Challenge Yunus Award originating a solution “that has the most potential to increase adoption of beneficial agricultural technologies among smallholder farmers to improve their livelihoods.” She shares how her ‘hybrid’ cultural journey allows her to cross disciplines and integrates the apparently separated and distinct. See omnystudi...

Elsa Pau shares the reasons for the starting the kinds of companies she does and also the not-for-profit organizations to benefit women. She was once named by AsiaWeek as one of the most influential women in Asia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A regional employment and salary survey points out that women still lag behind men -though the gap has narrowed- even when they have the same qualifications and in the same job role. But in the instances where women lead, the margins are not so large. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Growing the Skills of Women in Leadership and transforming the world of work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taking with her a 32-year experience in the profession, Alexandra Chin underscores the importance of having not only an Asian in the top seat of a global body but also a woman.  She shares her journey getting there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Balancing between not being exclusively bottom-line drive but simultaneously aspiring to go onto the international market. Doing well is always a balancing act. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Someone who is balancing between life as an entrepreneur and being the CEO of a not-for-profit organization. She is Yong Lee Lee, the CEO of Pink Ribbon Wellness Foundation, Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shaped by a family of educators, Kate Sweetman, shares about the importance of education to owning the tools of her own fortune and how that has led her to succeed in the world of work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Childhood is no insulation from life’s difficult obstacles. But these obstacles can be the building blocks to rise up, meet and step over present challenges. Past difficulties can be the present avenue to empathise. Hamidah Naziadin, Head of Group Corporate Resources at CIMB Group share her story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sharing with us her circuitous path into the area of leadership, Ripa Rashid points out the need to have a global perspective and relationship capital in order to lead today’s organizations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Office politics is a slippery slope and you might find yourself being bitten by what you said at the water cooler. Yet office politics is hard to avoid. What can HR do to protect employees and the organization from the negative effects.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Almost 60 percent of graduates from tertiary education are women, yet only 53 percent enter the workforce. However, in today’s Malaysian market, women make up only a little over 47 percent. HEARTS hopes to turn the tide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Head of a digital media company shares about her hobby and how it allows her to self-brand in an authentic way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whilst others assumed that Malaysians would not warm up to the idea of paying premium prices for high-end home appliances, one entrepreneur thought differently. The Malaysian consumer market has embraced premium-priced products like Dyson's cyclone vacuum cleaner and air multipliers (bladeless fans), SousVide Supreme water oven and the Laurastar ironing systems. Visionary Solutions taps into chang...

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...”  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inasmuch as companies believe in brand power, the barriers to brand building are many and systemic. So what stands in the way of Malaysian companies and what needs to be done to leap over these obstacles? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ritsuke Tominaga graduated with a degree in music and in particular voice to sing classical pieces. From music to a packaging business, and a world of the aesthetically. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.