Pass the Power with Paige Parker

Paige’s intro for Spotify: As a graduate gemologist with the Gemmological Institute of America, Paige knows a real jewellery and gem pro – and her guest and friend Brenda Kang personifies this. They met back in 2008 at a Christie’s jewellery preview in China. Brenda worked with Christie’s for over a decade before returning to her home of Singapore to launch her vintage jewellery boutique Revival J...

Elroy Cheo is a co-founder of ARC, an NFT-gated members community that aims to bring curated groups of people together with a goal of creation collaboration by the collective. Elroy, wanting more females in ARC, met with Paige several times to educate her on the community’s goals and plans, and to ask if she would help bring more females into the space. Now, Paige is a friend of ARC, as well as a...

When Colin Low, an experienced private sector executive, takes on his first public sector role as Chief Executive of Singapore Land Authority (SLA), he must learn to balance his private sector focus on economic value with the public sector's broader mission of social and community use - an intimidating challenge that he embraces. Colin shares with me, Paige, how Singapore Land Authority are revolu...

Paige Parker’s lifelong curiosity in interesting, successful people continues to drive this podcast, along with her intention to offer Conversations of Hope. Join Paige as she talks with accomplished thought-leaders, gaining back story, wisdom, and tangible takeaways, so you may live life with more purpose and passion. The new season of “Pass The Power with Paige Parker” launches 22 January! Catch...

Join Paige as she talks with Ryan Lee, the Co-founder and Executive Vice President of The Pinkfong Company, the mastermind behind the viral “Baby Shark”, YouTube’s No.1 most watched video, with over 10 billion views worldwide. Ryan also is partnering with Nickelodeon on Season Two of the Baby Shark television show, a movie is set for 2023, he’s imagining a Baby Shark theme park, perhaps in Singapo...

Join Paige as she talks with self-made sensation Ron Sim, founder and executive chairman of V3 Group, which includes leading brands, like OSIM, TWG Tea and Bacha Coffee in the well-being and luxury gourmet segments, along with holdings in capital markets, real estate, and integrated healthcare. Ron grew up humbly, with his first job at nine years old selling noodles, but this fed his hunger to suc...

Join Paige as she talks with Mr. Edwin Tong, Singapore’s Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law. Minister Tong shares honestly on his youth, and how he didn’t do terrible well in school, then finding success as a lawyer only to transition to the political world, and his family’s importance in his life; they move on to cover gender equality, how the arts build a commo...

Join Paige as she talks with Dr. Georgia Lee, the Medical Director and Founder of TLC Lifestyle Practice, as well as founder of skincare line DrGL. Georgia shares on being a mom, wife, fashionista, and remaining a leader in the aesthetics scene after 30-plus years, while running two businesses simultaneously. She suggests we cut sugar from our diets, stick to SPF 30 or less, and how the aim for pe...

Join Paige as she chats, laughs and explores life, lessons, and love with Singapore born-and-bred Kane Lim, star of Bling Empire , Netflix’s #1 unscripted show of all time. Bling Empire explores the lives of wealthy East Asian and East Asian-American elites living in the US. With the reality show launching Season 2 on 13th May 2022, Kane, the “social glue” of the show, sits down with Paige to shar...

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Wrapping up Season Two with passion, purpose and peace, Paige is joined by the dynamic duo of Julien Royer and Wee Teng Wen. Julien is Chef-Owner of Odette, the three Michelin-star French restaurant recently tapped number one among Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Wee Teng Wen is founder and managing partner of The Lo & Behold Group, on the forefront of hospitality and lifestyle in Singapore, with...

Join Paige as she talks with Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, the first Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Health, as well as executive director of the Ministry of Health Office for Healthcare Transformation. He led Singapore in combating SARS, now serves as one of the top strategists in our ongoing battle against Covid-19, and was president of NUS for a decade. Their discussion covers crisis leadership...

This week’s engaging podcast episode has Paige talking with the always inspiring Aw Kah Peng, Chairman of Shell Companies in Singapore. Kah Peng drives energy transition, aiming for Shell to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. The two discuss Kah Peng’s practical choice of an engineering degree though music was a passion; her unlikely path to public service, how the arts and strong le...

Chatri Sityodtong, founder, chairman, and CEO of ONE Championship, and star of the Asian edition of The Apprentice, shares wisdom and insights with Paige to Pass the Power like never before. From the values aligned with mixed martial arts to Tiger parenting to finding the authentic path for life, this episode touches on it all. Chatri talks of the adversity he faced as a youth shaping him into a m...

Paige talks with Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, on this week’s episode on her road to public service, her belief that “we’re here for a bigger purpose,” and how we need to question what we can do for the larger good. Minister Fu shares how pragmatism led to her degrees, and how moving into politics, after being the CEO of PSA when Singapore’s port was the largest in the...

Filmmaker Boo Junfeng shares the challenges he faced as director of NDP 2021 (Singapore’s National Day Parade) during a pandemic, yet ultimately how he created a celebration that resonated at home, on screens, inspiring all of Singapore. Drawn to film in secondary school, mesmerized by the make-believe of Oscar films, he was encouraged by his parents to take a “well-trodden path”. Junfeng though,...

Paige talks with actress Oon Shu An, who personifies Season Two with her passion for theatre, her purpose evident by the people and causes she supports, and her peace still a work in progress. Together they deep dive into gender roles, birthright, authenticity, and the need for better representation on every level in every space. They cover her show on Click Network, Shu An’s favorite role to date...

Join Paige as she discusses business, fashion, and mindset with Rachel Lim, co-founder of Love, Bonito, one of the largest women’s fashion brands in the region. Today Love, Bonito, with a unique identity and mission, aims to empower its community of women, but it all began as a passion project for Rachel, at age 19, with a blogshop, that grew swiftly, leading Rachel to drop out of university in he...

Join Paige, who says this is one of her favorite episodes to date, as she talks with Piyush Gupta, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group. Piyush maintains that once we determine how we can make an impact, and be relevant, then we will have meaning and purpose, which will drive our passion. Discussing the pandemic, the need to take risks, and how the toughest decisions are always people...

Known as Singapore’s grand dame of Nyonya food, Violet Oon shares with Paige the significance of learning to cook in the 1960s with her aunties, because her career-woman mother did not cook “and there were no videos then!”, and how she proudly represents Singapore’s food heritage around the world. Violet discusses her career, as a reporter, then food critic, turned culinary magazine publisher, bef...

Pass the Power is back with another season, and yes, Paige is still curious about successful people! Season One brought us a lot of inspiring stories from today’s thought leaders. In Season Two, join Paige as she talks about passion, purpose, and peace with titans from various industries, whether it be in finance, fashion, art or food. Together, let’s Pass the Power!

Paige Parker recaps her journey through Pass the Power's Season 1. Stay tuned for Season 2! 

For the finale of Season 1, Paige chats with her eldest daughter 18-year-old Hilton Rogers and husband Jim Rogers covering everything from love, parenting, schooling/living in Singapore and gender equality to Jim and Paige’s Guinness World Record circumnavigation; plus, hear the scoop on why Hilton, formerly called Happy, dropped her nickname, why the family shares a passion for Mandarin, politics...

Join Paige Parker and serial entrepreneur Patrick Grove as he chats on his long-time passion for business and entrepreneurship, leading him to launch seven companies over the last 20-plus years, and how he dealt with Iflix, which didn’t work out as planned; becoming a CPA on his terms, Patrick’s mandate to follow one’s passion and the money will follow, and how his passions have common threads; th...

Join Paige Parker and Dr. Ayesha Khanna, co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI and Founder of 21C Girls, as they discuss her formative years in Pakistan, which fed her life-long love of learning; her move from Wall Street to data science in the “back office” before that was sexy, and why she built the best team to launch ADDO AI. Ayesha educates on AI – from how it automates routine, analyzes data, and ac...