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SPECIAL PROMO FOR SINGAPORE-BASED LISTENERS of 35% off ANY FACIAL FOR 1ST TIMERS TO KEW ORGANICS & SUGAR K SPAS ! To enjoy this amazing promotion, WhatsApp MIW35 to +65-8805-0065 to make an appointment or quote MIW35 when booking online.  Offer valid until 30/6/2025. For more information, please visit www.keworganics.com . —----------------- Lily Kew is an award-winning entrepreneur and founde...

Ask Me Anything Part 2 is here! I answer the questions: Chapters: 00:20 - Top tip for structuring your day 02:01 - How do you stay calm in frustrating calls? 03:06 - Lessons to tell my new mom self 06:33 - Do you have a dream guest? #askmeanything #askmequestions #qanda #qandasession #questionsandanswers #questions #mom #momlife #momlifestyle #parenthood

You asked and I answered in this first part of Ask Me Anything! 💙 Watch to the end to hear what has been the most unexpected thing for me since starting this podcast! I hope you enjoy this slice of my personal story! ✨ Chapters 00:25 - How Did You Start The Podcast? 03:09 - How Do You Choose Your Guests? 05:50 - Which Has Been Your Favourite Episode To Record? #askmeanything #askme #askmequestio...

Merve Hokamp , is a mother of two, an avid traveler, and an expat originally from Istanbul, Turkey now living in Dublin and married to an American. She is an ICF (International Coaching Federation) -accredited executive coach and the founder of Leadrise Coaching . Prior to that, she completed her MBA from INSEAD, and spent 11 years at Google leading Customer Success and Project Leaders in global t...

“One of the messages I share with a lot of women that I meet is that, when you are making a decision of whether you want to continue working, stay at home, or be a mompreneur, at any point in time, you have to really know what it is that you want for your life stage. It's very easy to be influenced by what  you hear around you, right? But ultimately, you know yourself best. You know your own f...

Sher-li Torrey is a Singaporean mom of 2 - a 16-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son. She is best known as the founder of Mums @ Work and Career Navigators , organizations dedicated to supporting and empowering mothers as they return to the workforce. Inspired by her own journey to find flexible work arrangements as a young mother 14 years ago, Mums@Work has since grown into a vibrant community...

“…I'd always had a successful career and was always achieving and they just collided. I didn't feel like I could be the mother that I wanted to be, I also felt like at work I wasn't the person that I was before and that was when I started to get panic attacks, and that was the point where I was like, this isn't how life is meant to be like this.” Sara Pantry is a UK transplant in S...

Carol Loi is a much sought-after expert in an all-important area that has profound impact on our lives as modern working parents - digital wellness. From learning how we and our children can develop healthy relationships with our devices, to figuring out how AI will affect our kids - Carol has the answers. She is a Singaporean mum of 2 young adult daughters and has been teaching on digital wellnes...

Chris Edwards , originally from Australia, lived in Singapore for 11 years, where she had her three kids and launched the well-known Honeycombers website. She is now based in Byron Bay, Australia, and most recently has launched her fourth business, Launchpad , an all-in-one platform and community looking to provide the necessary tools and support for impactful entrepreneurs. From advice on finding...

Karen Tay is a Singaporean transplant in San Francisco, USA, and a mom of two. She is the founder of Inherent , a platform dedicated to supporting women through career transitions and workplace challenges. In our intimate conversation, Karen shares her journey from being a senior public servant in the Singapore government to joining corporate America and becoming an entrepreneur. We discuss her vi...

Amra Naidoo is an Australian mother of an 18-month-old, currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, after years of living and working in Singapore. She is also the co-founder and General Partner of Accelerating Asia, a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Southeast Asia. In our conversation today which is full of personal and professional inspiration,  Amra shared openly about many areas includin...

Carolina Yeo is a Singaporean mom of two living in Germany, and founder of &ahead , a talent platform that has enabled more than 4,000 professionals who have taken career breaks to relaunch their careers.  Our episode covers a wide range - Carolina reflects on her early corporate life in talent management that brought her all around the world before becoming a young mom in a country where she...

Rachel Tan , an e-commerce whiz based in Malaysia, has made waves in leadership positions at the likes of Shopee, L’Oreal, Nuffnang and Oxwhite, the Malaysian retail company famous for selling 2,500 white shirts in just three hours . She's also the founder of In Real Life, a digital publishing platform, which was sold in 2020 . But that's not all. Rachel's story takes a unique turn aft...

Rajani Patel and Anu Shenoy are the co-founders of FemTech Startup Veira Life . Presently based in Singapore, they have diverse backgrounds - Rajani was an engineer turned stay home mom and later pursued a career path in early childhood education whilst Anu is a former management consultant. What they share in common is that they both took career breaks to care for their children and later found t...

Nila Bhattacharyya is currently based in Bangalore India with her husband and 3 year old. Prior to embracing motherhood, Nila's career spanned diverse roles; from serving as an oil rig engineer in Brazil to working as a global-traveling management consultant based in the United States. However, following the arrival of her first child, Nila made a pivotal decision to return to India, leaving consu...

Sharon Fan , a Canadian-Taiwanese, had lived and worked in Asia, North America, Europe before taking charge as the Managing Director of the Taiwan office of a fast growing regional health tech startup. Leading a growing team, she dedicated herself to 15-hour workdays until a significant change reshaped her priorities: motherhood. Opting for a transformative career pivot, Sharon chose to return to...

<Continued from previous episode> Claire Harbour is a mother of four, an avid traveller with an equally interesting career path. She has worked as a strategy consultant, a retail director and a headhunter. Now as a coach, she is on a mission to help women cope with change and find their very own ‘a-ha’ moments in life. Claire recently completed The 100 Women project, where she coached 100 yo...

In Claire Harbour’s own words, she “fits in everywhere and belongs nowhere”. Claire holds French and British passports but really is the quintessential global citizen, having lived in almost 20 countries and can speak 8 languages. Claire started her career in Asia, was once the General Manager for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy in the UK, and since entering coaching 20 years ago, she has now coached...

Joanne Tan leads an unconventional life as a working mum by most standards in Asia but is totally thriving in it. She moved to Singapore from Australia four years ago with her family, is a certified and practising counsellor of her own practice The Cultivated Life Project , and also homeschools her three boys (3, 6 and 8 years old). Yes.. I know.. How on earth does she do it?? Join me in today’s r...

Welcome to Part 2 of our Special Coaches & Counselors Series!  Originally from India, Vandana Ahuja, HR Adviser, Executive Coach has now called Singapore home for over 6 years. Formerly a Human Resources leader in corporate teams for three decades, Vandana currently runs her own HR consultancy Metamorph Dynamics Consulting . Vandana is also a certified executive coach with the International Co...

Charlotte Teo is Singaporean working mum to three kids ages 9, 12, and 42- with the 42-year-old being her husband - and the founder and Head Coach of Whatssup Charlie Coaching and Consultancy that focuses on coaching bold working mommas  “on the Path of Good To Great”. After a 17 year career as a marketer to big brands, Charlotte experienced a “halftime moment” in her professional life which led h...

“So previously, I wanted to be in a place that was always exciting and that I grow etc cetera, the kind of things you hear about a lot, of course with a nice paycheck and stuff like that. But then I think what happened with motherhood is like, more and more, not just in work, but I think more about what kind of planet or earth or society are we leaving for our kids..” Noriko Shindo is Japanese who...

“...I was at some point in time presenting to the board of really big companies in Asia, and two weeks later I was sitting with a newborn screaming and crying and I didn't know how to breastfeed..”  Anna Joke Breimer Bharati, originally hailing from the Netherlands, has called Singapore her home for over a decade. She is mother of three (under five years old!), and has embarked on a remarkable...

Fannie Lim is a former Stay Home Mum to 3, entrepreneur, and now NGO leader in Singapore. In this episode, she shares insights about: 🌟 Navigating the challenges of being a stay-at-home mom after a successful career.  🌟 Balancing work and family commitments in the nonprofit sector.  🌟 Embracing leadership roles and the dynamics of working alongside a supportive spouse.  🌟 Discovering transfera...