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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: 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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Ep 93.1: Raising North Korean Entrepreneurs |...

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2022/09/25

North Korean women are entrepreneurs.Not the first thing you might think of, but a reality that STIMY’s latest guest - Geoffrey See - knows very well.So who is Geoffrey See?Here’s a quick run down 👇🏻Graduated from Yale University & the Wharton Business School; Worked as a Bain consultant;Co-founded Choson Exchange: a social enterprise that created the largest training program for female entrepreneurs in North Korea - which ended up being profiled in a Harvard Business School case study;Helped

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Ep 92: Life of a 4 Star General Who Founded the...

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2022/09/19

How do you get a Deputy Prime Minister* to give you RM 500 million (USD 105M)?By having the guts & conviction of a Tiger General. 👇🏻Several months ago, I interviewed General Tan Sri (Dr)’ Borhan bin Ahmad (Retired): a retired 4 star General & former Chief of Defence Forces in Malaysia - the highest military rank that one can attain.⚔️ This was the 82-year-old man who had:Established Malaysia’s special forces in the mid-1960s;Fought in the Congos, the Vietnam War (escaping days before the

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Ep 91: This Room is Filled with Crazy! - SPECIAL EDITION

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2022/09/11

Welcome to a very special STIMY Episode 91 & I'm delighted to see all the new STIMY followers this week!Instead of the normal guest format, this episode will highlight:The reasons behind why I started So This Is My Why;The kind of guests you’ll find featured;A very shocking incident last summer involving the Late Late Show with James Corden; and4 lessons learned from past STIMY guests. The short clips from 10 of STIMY’s past 90 guests will hopefully give you a feel for their episode, and

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Ep 90: Building the Bloomberg & Yahoo Finance of...

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2022/08/29

TM Lee is the co-founder & CEO at Coingecko - one of the world’s largest crypto data aggregators with over 150 million users in 2021 alone! But before becoming a founder, TM was first influenced by his brother to become a coder. He learned about Reddit and Digg, and even ended up studying computer science at Purdue University, where he was exposed to the likes of Jason Fried (Basecamp) - a huge proponent of the bootstrap mentality. TM tried many things. He wrote an aggregator in college until

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Ep 89: So You Want to Enter the Metaverse? | Tibor...

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2022/08/21

Tibor Mérey is a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), global co-lead on the metaverse, and a core member of Boston Consulting Group's Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT); and Marketing, Sales & Pricing (MSP) practices. He leads the TMT practice in Austria, where he focuses on digital transformation and technology-enabled growth strategies. Prior to joining BCG, Tibor co-founded a freestyle fashion startup in Switzerland.In this STIMY episode, we dive

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ICYMI: What's it really like being part of BAYC -...

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2022/08/10

ICYMI: Zeneca 33, prolific NFT investor & thought leader (he has 300k Twitter followers!) was on STIMY.He's a part of some of the most influential NFT projects around, including Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC), Cryptopunks, Goblintown, Art Blocks and more.We've all heard of BAYC/Jimmy Fallon.We hear (seemingly) everyone talk about being part of the Bored Apes community.But... what is it really like?What true value does it give Bored Apes holders?Are BAYC overvalued?Could BAYC's

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Ep 88: How Fortune 500 Brands Can Enter the Metaverse...

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2022/08/07

Diego Borgo is a metaverse & Web3 strategic advisor to Fortune 500 brands like Adidas, Salesforce, Unilever, Boson Protocol and more. Having featured a number of NFT founders & artists, this STIMY episode showcases how brands have and can enter the metaverse with Diego, who’s been in many Fortune 500 boardrooms & has his finger on the latest alpha: who’s done well, who hasn’t, how important “sustainability” is and ways to ensure that both employees and existing customers are onboard when

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ICYMI: Can Virtual Friends be REAL Friends?! - Dr...

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2022/07/26

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 why he thinks that the only way we can make REAL friends is through physical IRL interactions. Virtual friends?Meh, they're fake. But do you agree? 🤔Listen to the full episode here: 🎙️Apple Podcast:

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Ep 87: Building Evernote, Startup Success is Worse...

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2022/07/24

STIMY 87 features Phil Libin. Some things he’s most known for: Co-founder and CEO of Evernote, which he grew to become a beloved product for hundreds of millions of usersManaging Director at General CatalystCo-founder and CEO of All Turtles, a globally distributed product studio Co-founder of mmhmm, an all-in-one platform for making, watching, and talking on videos This is an episode that’s all about startups, growth, regret and why Phil hates the metaverse & thinks blockchain is bullshit and

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Ep 86.2: How to x100 your net worth in 1 year via NFT...

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2022/07/17

We’re back with Part 2 of STIMY’s interview with Zeneca 33!ICYMI: Zeneca is a former professional poker player (15 years!) turned NFT founder, investor and educator. He has nearly 300k followers on Twitter, founder of ZenAcademy, an NFT community that aims to create a safe learning environment for people discovering their place in web3, has a newsletter, YouTube channel and 2 podcasts!If you want to listen to Part 1, head over to https://www.sothisismywhy.com/86-1Things get juicy in this episode as

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ICYMI: Investing in Celebrities like Lady Gaga -...

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2022/07/09

ICYMI (in case you missed it) features some of our favourite moments from earlier STIMY episodes.Back in Episode 79, we met Nicole Quinn: General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners aka the "Celebrity Whisperer". Nicole led the Series A in Cameo and Lady Gaga's Haus Labs and seed rounds in Girlboss, Illumix and Sagely. She also invested in the Series B in Calm and Series C in Goop and sourced Rothy's and Zola.Here, Nicole Quinn shares how she did her due diligence on Lady Gaga as

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ICYMI: Why We Fall for Romantic Scams - Dr Robin Dunbar

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2022/06/28

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 why we fall for romantic scams against our better judgment (even when everyone around us is warning us against it!!).Listen to the full episode here: 🎙️Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/so-this-is-my-why/id1521191442?i=1000566279914🎙️Spotify:

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Ep 86.1: FOMOing into NFTs, BAYC, Cryptopunks &...

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2022/06/26

If you’ve been following STIMY recently, you’ll have noticed our recent Web 3.0 trend. Yes, the market is bearish. Crypto is crashing. But more companies & individuals than ever are entering the space. NFT NYC just ended. Soul tokens are coming…To make, hopefully, some sense of it all, STIMY is proud to present its latest guest - one of the most prolific NFT content creators & thought leaders around - to provide his take on all things NFTs:Zeneca → a former professional poker player (15

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ICYMI: Plan it like a WAR - Dr Finian Tan (Chairman,...

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2022/06/22

#ICYMI Back in STIMY Ep 30, we met Dr Finian Tan - Chairman & Co-Founder of Vickers Venture Partners - a $3 billion deep tech venture capital fund based out of Singapore. Some things he’s done: founder of J.Aron (APAC trading arm of Goldman Sachs)Deputy Secretary of Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, where he was tasked with creating Chairman of Singapore’s $1 billion TIF Fund, to create the Silicon Valley of the East in SingaporeExecutive deputy chairman of A*Star Founding partner of

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Ep 85: How many friends can you have? | Dr Robin...

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2022/06/13

How many friends do you have?50?100?Now how about close friends?If you’ll recall back in the early days of Facebook, everyone was busy adding every single friend, casual acquaintance and stranger that they came across as a “friend” until it became too much and a “purge” took place. A purging that was partly influenced by a burger chain and this thing called Dunbar’s number: which concerns the maximum number of friends that one person can have at any one time. The person who formulated it?Professor

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Ep 84: Becoming a Facebook Executive | Eric Toda...

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2022/06/02

Eric Toda has built the American Dream.He’s the Global Head of Social Marketing & Head of Meta Prosper at Meta as well as an advisory board member of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Prior to Meta, Eric was the CMO at Gap Inc, Global Head of Social Marketing and Editorial Content at Airbnb and Global Digital Brand Marketing Director at Nike. But Eric’s path has hardly been an easy one.He’s had to deal with racism his entire life, despite being a fourth generation American and

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Ep 83: From Running an Arsenal Review blog with 500k...

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2022/05/24

It’s always exciting for me to introduce another podcaster on STIMY, and today’s guest has not 1, but 2 highly successful podcasts:Creator Lab: an entrepreneurship podcast & growth marketing consultancy Not Investment Advice: a weekly business podcast covering the latest in business, tech & web 3Bilal Zaidi has interviewed some of the world's best, including people like Jim Mckelvey, the billionaire co-founder of Square, Tim Urban from Wait But Why, Kat Cole, president of Athletic

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Ep 82: The Law around NFTs & DAOs - Jamilia Grier...

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2022/05/17

Jamilia Grier is a privacy and regulatory attorney with over fifteen years of experience. She is licensed in New York and Connecticut and has worked in a wide range of industries including financial services, technology, hospitality, and manufacturing. She is also experienced in working with different countries and cultures and has significant expertise in cross-border transactions. She handles matters concerning corporate law and contracts and is well-versed in data privacy and protection.She

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