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STIMY #45 The Madness Begins Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, There are 5,725 of you now subscribed to this newsletter! My mind is blown. 🤯 These are crazy times - I'll be recording 10 interviews in 6 weeks on top of everything else. The fourth interview was completed 2 days ago & next week, I'll be doing 3 interviews in one day! Sometimes, I wonder why I do this to myself. 😂 Some quick reflections: (1) Lighting Matters I never understood the importance of...

STIMY #44 Being Cocky Works?! Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES! As a podcaster, you dream of finding guests who are great storytellers with great stories to tell. It's a combination that is both rare and precious, and sheer dynamite when you find them! Like the latest guest to be featured on the So This Is My Why podcast. I'll let you in on a secret: I chased after this guest for a really long time. I first heard of him and his organisation PEMANDU in 2017 when...

STIMY #43 My First Big Move?! Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, It scares me sometimes how time flies. Growing up, I remember being told: Your school days will feel like forever, your university days will fly by and as you age, time will slip past you like quicksand. It truly feels like that these days. How did we end up in August? And how has STIMY the company already existed for 1+ years?! I still remember when I got my company registration certificate. It...

STIMY #42 Those Cardboard Beds Want to read past STIMY Newsletter editions? Click here. 👋🏻 STIMIES, Is it just me or is everyone obsessing over those cardboard beds & AC-less rooms in Paris right now? 😝 The Olympic Opening Ceremony is starting in a couple hours so it's only right to talk about the Olympics but since this is the STIMY Newsletter, we'll talk about it from a personal brand angle! ICYMI: Many Olympians are sharing snippets of their life online & it's been fascinating. I've...

STIMY #41 The Art of Networking & Quitting for Passion 👋🏻 STIMIES, Thank you to the ~60 people who attended last weekend's 6th STIMY Hangout! It was far more than I expected, especially as I haven't hosted a hangout for the past 1+ year (since I left law). Past STIMY Hangouts had attendees flying/driving up from Johor and Singapore but this time... we had a first-time attendee who flew in from Vietnam just to attend the STIMY Hangout! 🤯 Thank you for giving up your Saturday to hang out. I...

STIMY #40 I've Been Retrenched?! 👋🏻 STIMIES! First up, here's a reminder that today is the deadline for joining the STIMY Hangout that's happening next Saturday at 2pm: I want to join the next STIMY Hangout! If you can't submit the form by tomorrow but would still like to join, please email me. I'll need the numbers to start preparing materials and that takes time! P/S: The photo is a sneak peek of the location! We will have the chairs/tables removed so that there is plenty of space to mingle...

STIMY #39 A STIMY Course?! 👋🏻 STIMIES! I tried textured art for the first time at a bachelorette party last weekend. It was... interesting. We were split into two rows and to our shock, an instant 'theme' emerged: The 3 of us who were seated along the same row were the 'impulsive' ones. The moment we were handed our paint and plaster, we started slapping them onto our canvas without a plan in sight. As you can see from the photo above, mine was an unmitigated disaster. I was stressed the...

STIMY #38 Oh Lord, what have I done? 👋🏻 STIMIES! We've reached the (temporary) end of STIMY's special Singaporean sub-series with the release of last week's episode with Arthur Kiong, the CEO of Far East Hospitality! What's so special about this episode? Arthur has one of the ultimate rags-to-riches story, with a healthy dose of humility, luck and humour. Editing episodes is often the part I dread the most (and the reason why STIMY episodes don't get released sometimes). It's painful to spend...

STIMY #37 We Don't Need to be Woke?! 👋🏻 STIMIES! This week has been a little exciting. Part 2 of the STIMY interview with Woon Tai Ho (founder of Channel News Asia) was released, and it's been doing really well! Especially on YouTube. 31.2k views and 2,900 hours of watch time over the last 3 days. Now, I've had the privilege of having some things go 'viral', both on a big scale (1.27 million people saw my LinkedIn post when I announced that I was quitting law) and on a much smaller scale (as...