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Flooring plays a pivotal, yet understated role in making a house feel like a home. From ensuring stability and durability for outdoor deck flooring to smooth and neat solid timber flooring, Floor Culture covers all your flooring bases. Jerry Tan joins us in the studio to discuss the art of flooring and how Floor Culture aims to be the most recognized designer flooring provider in Malaysia. See omn...

Grub Cycle is a social supermarket dedicated to reduce food waste by selling edible surplus food from supermarkets and restaurants at below market price. We catch up with what they’ve achieved since their last chat with us in 2016, including their funding procurements, award wins, and goals for expansion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We continue our chat with SalesCandy CEO, Stanley Chee, about the nature of closing a sale, the local property scene and how it markets products, as well as the future of SalesCandy as a regional company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They help you close the gaps, with apps! A typical property sales cycle takes 6 months, and MHub believe that's too long. So they've taken it upon themselves to simplify the process through the use of apps. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Asian Entrepreneur is a non-profit digital knowledge platform discussing all things Asian entrepreneurship. Melvin Poh discusses how he’s expanded his business, how his platform has furthered entrepreneurship, and the next step he’s taking in making business knowledge accessible and available to all. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the leading brand in Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] in Malaysia and South East Asia, Proguard Safety provide every product pertaining to safety from literally head to toe. Dato NM Lee and Datin Cindy Choh discuss Proguard Safety’s achievements and goals for the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Failing Forward features real-life stories from entrepreneurs who have failed and are stronger for it. We kick off the series by speaking to Founder of PTT Outdoors Mike Chu, who went from burning cash on vanity metrics to champions of the AmBank BizRace in a year. C lick here for more episodes of Failing Forward.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The time it takes for a business to reply to a potential customer can make all the difference when it comes to sales. That window of opportunity doesn’t last long, which is why SalesCandy rapidly connects available personnel to interested persons while increasing the chances of a sale tenfold. We speak to SalesCandy CEO, Stanley Chee, about working in this niche space, capitalizing on unexpe...

Husband and wife team, Frank and Grace Wong, always saw designer furniture as something marketed exclusively to the über-rich, with furniture showrooms projecting a vision seemingly out of the everyday consumer’s reach. In order to take designer furniture to the masses, they founded More Design - a made-in-Malaysia online designer furniture shop looking to tackle the ASEAN furniture mar...

Many salespeople struggle with how to assess, calibrate, and improve their levels of sales performance. Jeevan Sahadevan, founder of Leverage Lab, shares 19 questions that you can ask yourself or your sales team to get everyone focusing on immediately taking control of their sales process and improving their sales, with the assistance of some case studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

We continue our discussion with Hemant Doshi about the gamification of financial literacy, the decision to keep things tangible in an age of tech-driven solutions, as well as the future of Praxis in an increasingly cashless world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Content Nation are a local creative content agency that delivers innovative marketing solutions to engage and grow your brand audience via content creation, web design, branding and digital marketing. With clients that range from MNCs to SMEs, we discuss how important digital strategies are for your brand, and what makes Content Nation stand out from the crowd. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Imagine a holiday in the Maldives, Greece or even Bora Bora, without burning a hole in your pocket. Impossible? Not according to Luxury Escapes. Since its soft launch in Malaysia six months ago, the online travel brand - known for its great-value exclusive offers to premium travel destinations - has seen over 100 thousand Malaysians joining the platform, making it one of the fastest growing travel...

Among his multiple achievements and accreditation’s as well as having graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Malaysia & Paris, Dato’ Fazley Yaakob is here to discuss his multi-cuisine restaurant SukaSucre Bistro, for which he received the Golden Chef Award. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How does appreciation translate into recognition? Why is it so important? And how can companies and individuals show appreciation in tangible, acceptable ways? It’s the last Monday of the month and, as usual, we have Human Equation founder Sheila Singam to discuss showing appreciation to enhance motivation and performance, with the use of case studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Praxis is a board game that helps players learn financial literacy. As a B2B solution, Praxis works for those in banking, insurance, and other financial institutions as a way of training staff to up their financial savviness. We speak to Hemant Doshi, CEO, Singapore and Malaysia, about balancing fun and business in Praxis to keep players engaged, gamification outside the digital space, as well as...

Founded in 2016, Atlas Solutions is a leading integrated security training and service provider in South East Asia. Atlas supplies UK and Internationally recognised protection officers in and around the Southeast Asian region. They are the first organisation in Malaysia who is able to train and certify individuals to the UK Home Office's Close Protection / Bodyguarding standards. With this certifi...

When the 1995 movie Clueless came out, moviegoers everywhere coveted Cher Horowitz’s virtual fitting room, where she could try on clothing from her closet on an avatar of herself. Two decades later, we’re closer than ever before to having our very own virtual dressing room in the form of BlinQ, an app aiming to combine augmented reality fitting rooms, online luxury brand shopping, and...

Nippon Delicious are the company to bring to Malaysia the traditional style of Bari-Uma (Super Tasty) Ramen and Kodawari Menya (Ultimate Noodle) to Malaysia. Established in 2013 with an initial startup capital of RM2.4 Million they now have a turnover of over RM8 Million per year with 6 outlets around the Klang valley. We speak to the co-founders about their journey so far. See omnystudio.com/list...

Malaysians love their coffee, and as the industry evolves and we become more discerning about our coffee taste - we have become more demanding. Audrey Raj speaks to Geoffrey Dalziel from Nespresso Malaysia about the evolving coffee culture in Malaysia, Nespresso’s strategy in dealing with their demanding customers, and the emergence of more cost-efficient competitors in the personal-use coff...

Minggu Muzik Malaysia is a week-long celebration of original Malaysian music with its inaugural edition to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 9th to 15th September. Sylvester Fan, founder and organising chairman discusses how the event intends to promote original Malaysian music, connect businesses, the challenges he faced in the organisation of the event, and how local brands can be part of this exciti...

Karl LaRowe and Ravi Vig discuss their book, “You Are Good Enough: Embracing Who You Really Are”, as well as share case studies on how their clients have utilised the concepts of “enoughless” and “enoughness”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s a spa. It’s a shelter. It’s a non-profit dog boarding service. We speak to Shannon Lam, founder of KL Pooch Rescue, about running a business that funds their animal shelter, as well as her aspirations to move to a bigger space in the near future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cycling Without Age is a movement started in 2012 by Ole Kassow - with a dream of wanting to help the elderly back onto their bicycles. It’s a movement in which the access to active citizenship creates happiness among our fellow elderly citizens and provides them with an opportunity to remain an active part of society and the local community - it has now launched in over 40 countries around...

Do you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at e-commerce businesses to get your products sorted, packaged, and sent out? Nadhra Fauzi, co-founder of TresGo, discusses how TresGo helps smaller-scale businesses with all the odds and ends of logistics, as well as how the company received support from external parties like the MaGIC Global Accelerator Programme and Cradle. See omnystudio.com/li...