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So This Is My Why

A podcast featuring inspiring people about their journey to discovering and living their "WHY" or purpose in life. With your host & producer, Ling Yah, we deep dive into everything from finances to dealing with doubts and setbacks, and how to forge an unconventional career from ground zero! Expect to hear from entrepreneurs, artists, journalists, musicians, Hollywood actresses, VC founders and more. Visit www.sothisismywhy.com for more details!

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ICYMI: Boys Like Clubs, Girls Like Secrets - Dr Robin...

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2023/01/10

ICYMI (in case you missed it) features some of my favourite moments from earlier STIMY episodes.Back in Episode 85, Dr Robin Dunbar (Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford) shares how the way boys & girls handle relationships are completely different.The relationships that boys have is a lot more casual and club-based. If we belong to the same club, then we're friends.Whereas for girls? Well, girls need to be interacting with each other. Sharing secrets

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Ep 106: WTF? This is the best secret to unhappiness |...

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2023/01/08

Xavier Desmet is the Head of Digital Natives, Startups and Unicorns for Asia at Zoom.And in this episode, we talk about all:Tiger Mums (or for the French, “Jewish Mums”);Xav’s “WTF” moment when he realised that management consultancy wasn’t what he wanted to do with his life;His journey in the startup world and why he decided to leave Paris;Whether your life ends when you have kids;How words can change your brain;How Xav’s initial months at Microsoft were “absolute hell” and how that changed; The

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Ep 105: Sneak Peek into the STIMY 2023 Lineup!

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2023/01/01

Welcome to the first STIMY episode of 2023!For the 105th episode, we're doing a little sneak peek into some of the upcoming episodes and as always, they're varied, but interesting.With tons of insights to apply into our own lives.We've got:Xav Desmet: Head of Digital Natives, Startups & Unicorn for Asia at ZoomFabien Riggall: Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Secret Cinema (he took movies like Star Wars & Moulin Rouge, brought them to live & allowed the public to

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27:53

Goodbye! 😱

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2022/12/19

Welcome to Ep 104 of the So This Is My Why Podcast and this is... Goodbye! 😱At least to 2022.This will be the last episode of 2022 because it's time for a break :)That said, I didn't want to sign off without sharing a little something about what STIMY has achieved, and also highlight some special moments from STIMY episodes this year. Featured STIMY guests include:Ep 103: Nicole Levinson - Former VP of Marketing North America, LVMHEp 102: Notle - the ex-convict who once ran Singapore's

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Ep 103: The House of Yes | Nicole Levinson (Chief...

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2022/12/11

Nicole Levinson is the House of Yes.And unafraid of forging her own path, which includes being: 🔥 Chief Marketing Officer, audo🔥 Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing and Partnerships for Playboy Club, New York🔥 Vice President of Marketing, North America for LVMHBut who is Nicole Levinson?Nicole is the child of Holocaust grandparent survivors.She began her career in Christie's, then Sotheby's, before pivoting into the world of PR with Elizabeth Harrison of H&S, who told her, “Take

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Ep 102: Confessions of an Ex-Convict, Secret Society...

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2022/12/04

Notle Chew grew up a Crazy Rich Asian. Who later ended up joining the Secret Society & running one of Singapore’s first social escort businesses (and a successful one at that!) for almost 7 years before he ended up in prison.Which, as you can tell, is not a story you’d normally find on STIMY. But also a story I’ve really wanted to have told.Because I believe that we can learn so much from people from all different parts of society.And Notle’s life story is a cautionary tale, while also giving us

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SPECIAL: Questions from the Audience - Adrian Tan...

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2022/11/30

Welcome to a special Questions from the Audience episode with Adrian Tan!Adrian Tan is STIMY's latest Ep 101 guest, i.e.the King of SingaporePresident of Singapore's Law SocietyPartner at TSMP Law CorporationProlific LinkedIn writerAnd several weeks ago, I asked on LinkedIn & Instagram whether any of you had questions for Adrian.Turns out, 5 of you did!And here, Adrian answers them all.Highlights:1:01 Aaron Lim - Cancer treatment & mortality2:04 Jeff Ong - How cancer affected

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Ep 101.2: The Return of the King of Singapore [Part...

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2022/11/27

Adrian Tan, the King of Singapore & ultimate Linkedin Influencer, is back with Part 2 (check out Part 1 in the previous episode)!Here, Adrian shares how his career developed as a lawyer, why he hated his time as a General Counsel, thinks that lawyers should be legal influencers, how his LinkedIn posts go so viral and more.Highlights:1:58 Embarrassed by his bestselling books5:59 The non-confrontational litigator?10:01 Working with Davinder Singh, one of Singapore’s top litigators12:50 How to be a

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Ep 101.1: The King of Singapore [Part 1] | Adrian Tan...

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2022/11/22

The King of Singapore has spoken… to me! 😮His accolades are every Asian parent’s wet dream:👉🏻 President of Singapore’s Law Society;👉🏻 Partner at TSMP;👉🏻 Bestselling author of The Teenage Textbook & The Teenage Workbook, which were turned into a play, movie and TV series etc.; and👉🏻 LinkedIn writing extraordinaire (all his posts go viral & even hit the mainstream media headlines!)But who is Adrian Tan, really?How did Adrian Tan end up where he is?What was it like growing up in a HDB

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Ep 100: So Is This MY Why?! | ft Red Hong Yi (guest...

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2022/11/13

Welcome to STIMY’s 100th episode!In this landmark episode, Red Hong Yi (former STIMY Ep 2 guest) is back as the guest HOST!She brings the 🔥 & asks about my entire journey because since June 2020, STIMY has grown to:12k+ followers31k+ downloads35+ countries; A book offer; and 1 STIMY physical hangout. All in the span of 2+ years!!WOW. If you’ve ever been curious as to who I am, why I started STIMY, lessons learned, my 200k word novel and what’ll happen moving forward… then this is the episode

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SPECIAL: Audience Questions - Davy Liu (former Disney...

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2022/11/10

Welcome to STIMY's special Questions from the Audience episode!Remember Davy Liu, the former Disney animator from STIMY Ep 99?We collected some questions from you, dear listeners of STIMY, and had Davy answer them!To Nathan, Wei Choon & Josh Wong - thank you for being part of STIMY. :)0:24 At what point did Davy's parents change their mind about his profession as an artist?4:02 Thoughts on merging or converting Asian stories in a Western or global audience9:39 Challenges in creating

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Ep 99: Life of a Former Disney #LionKing #Mulan...

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2022/11/07

Davy Liu is a Chinese Forrest Gump.He’s also a former Disney animator who’s worked on Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, Atlantis and Star Wars, and is the founder of Kendu Films.Fun Fact: General Shang in Mulan was drawn based off Davy! There's an uncanny likeness between both fo them.Now. Given Davy’s illustrious career, you would’ve thought that he’s had a smooth career trajectory but that’s hardly the case.He struggled while growing up in Taiwan, where everyone was expected

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Ep 98: From Devil Wears Prada to Web3 High Fashion?!...

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2022/10/30

Devil Wears Prada is the closest thing I have to the world of high fashion.When I asked Francine Ballard how closely it mimicked reality, she said, “There is some truth to that.”And she should know.Francine Ballard has worked in the fashion industry for a while. She was the American Fashion Director at Time Inc (InStyle), Conde Nast (Lucky magazine), and PaperCity Magazine as Style Editor at Large, working with fashion and jewelry brands Hermès, Gucci, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Cartier among

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Ep 97: From Vaccine Research to Head of Strategic...

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2022/10/24

Jeremy Au is the Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Projects at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. And is also the host of the BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech Podcast!Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, Jeremy was CEO & Co-Founder of CozyKin, a VC-backed edtech startup, which was acquired by Higher Ground Education and scaled across multiple cities in North America. He was a Bain & Company consultant and has

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ICYMI: Bullish about Generative Art (Art Blocks) -...

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2022/10/19

ICYMI: Zeneca 33, prolific NFT investor & thought leader (he has 300k Twitter followers!) was on STIMY.If you've ever seen some of Zeneca 33's works/writings, you'll know that he's very bullish about generative art: a type of NFT where the art is generated entirely from code.A particular generative art project that he loves?Art Blocks.We unpacked all that in Zeneca 33's Part 1 STIMY interview & this ICYMI provides a glimpse of that conversation.If you want to listen to

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Ep 96: Being Mr Stingy | Aaron Tang (Blogger &...

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2022/10/16

Aaron Tang is a popular Malaysian blogger known as Mr Stingy (on personal finance & career), and the Country Manager of Luno - Malaysia’s first regulated cryptocurrency exchange.In many ways, Aaron’s career has been dictated by his “maximizer personality” & desire to make the greatest use of the resources he had. This has resulted in some pretty ingenious moves, including a use of multiple credit card schemes to pay off his RM58k student debt at the start of his career!In this episode, we

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Ep 95: From Launching Angry Birds Space with NASA to...

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2022/10/09

It’s not normal to make yourself redundant, right? 😳It’s hard enough applying for a job 😩, going through 5-8 rounds of interview 🤢before settling into your new role & figuring out how everything works.And what it takes to reach the top. 🧐It’s also not normal to work with NASA to launch a new product (Angry Birds Space🐦 !!) & have an astronaut 👨‍🚀 talk about it live from the International Space Station 🌚.🎉And yet, that’s exactly what Marja Konttinen has been up to. Marja Konttinen is

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33:25

Ep 94: Turning the Tables on... Me?! | Ling Yah x...

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2022/10/02

This is an interview where Freda Liu (former STIMY Ep 27 guest!), BFM 89.9 radio TV host turned the tables and interviewed.. me!About my personal journey, particularly with starting this So This Is My Why Podcast.It's still strange to hear myself speak even after publishing 94 episodes, but I do hope you find something interesting out of this interview! E.g. how I went from discovering what a podcast was to deciding to launch one, some of the highlights including interviewing James Corden's

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ICYMI: Can we have MORE than 150 friends?! - Dr Robin...

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2022/09/27

ICYMI (in case you missed it) features some of my favourite moments from earlier STIMY episodes.Back in Episode 85, Dr Robin Dunbar (Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford) is most known for formulating Dunbar's Number = the cognitive limit of a person in terms of the number of relationships they can handle at any one time.That number if 150.Lots of people disagree, particularly that one person can only have around 150.So what does Dr Robin Dunbar think

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Ep 93.2: Web3 for the Economically Marginalised |...

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2022/09/25

What does it mean to be the underdogs? One of the economically marginalised? Unable to open a bank account, cash a cheque… all the things that most of us would take for granted?Geoffrey See - World Economic Forum Young Global Leader & serial entrepreneur - knows this well, because of his extensive work as a social entrepreneur in North Korea via Choson Exchange.But after 11 years, Geoffrey knew that it was time to move on. And in this episode (Part 2), we cover Geoffrey’s journey into the Web3

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