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Misfits: Wisdom from Unconventional Individuals
by Bryan Victor
This is the podcast where I speak to the rebels, the outliners and the unconventional. These people are the folks who see things differently, who have gone off the beaten path and found their pursuit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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#48 Steve Schlafman, The Journey to Ikigai, 10 Years of Sobriety, Transition Coaching Models
Steve Schlafman (@schlaf) is a work-life transition coach. He’s certified with various coaching and therapeutic schools and programs including (but not limited to) The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Coaching for Transformation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Nonviolent Communication…
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#47 Seth Godin, How to Live a Life of Meaning and Significance
Seth Godin (@thisissethsblog) is the author of 21 bestsellers book. That includes Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. His blog (which you can find by typing “Seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. In 2013, Godin was inducted into the Direct Marketing...
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#46 Designing designers with Chris Lee, Asylum Creative
Chris Lee (@chrisasylum) is the founder of Asylum Creative, since 1999. His client list includes Aesop, Johnie Walker, Sony, Hublot, Harley-Davidson and more. The cross-disciplinary studio design logo, website to entire hotel and cafe interior. Most notably, The Warehouse Hotel, 4fingers and…
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#45 Lin Tan — Journey to a $2,000/h Master Coach, Difference Schools of Coaching, Healing, and More
Lin Tan, MCC is an executive and mentor coach and also a founder of Collective Change Institute (CCI). She is the youngest Master Certified Coach (ICF) in Singapore, making her 1 of 6 Master Coaches in Singapore. Lin also served as the president of ICF Singapore in 2020. Her clients include DHL,...
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#44 Making Celebrity Friends, Monk Mode and Marketing Deep Dive, Nate Green
“You don’t want to do what they do, you want to see how they see”. – Nate Green Nate Green, is an author of multiple books, marketing strategist at Precision Nutrition and a recovering fitness junkie. Nate barely graduated high school with 1.7 GPA. Despite all odds, he became one of the most…
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#43 Adventures and Advice From A Former World Class Pick-up Artist, Tynan
Tynan, is an entrepreneur, personal coach and minimalist nomad. He is the author of best-selling books, Superhuman by Habit and Forever Nomad. Tynan also pioneered the idea of Empire housing, to share homeownership with friends. With this, he brought an island in Canada and homes in Hawaii,...
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#042 The Becoming of a 27 Year Old CEO Coach & Matchmaker, Nina Barber
Nina Barber, is an executive and CEO coach & matchmaker. In 2 years, she is billing $2,500 - $10,000/month per client for her coaching services. She is also the founder of Prismaticco, a matchmaking service for startup executives to find coaches. Nina has also co-founded a social enterprise, Nika...
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#041 How to Have Great Sex in a Long-Term Relationship, Dr Stephen Snyder
Dr Stephen Snyder is a sex and couple therapist for over 30 years. His goal, to help you have great sex. He is also the author of Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship. Stephen is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of...
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#040 Derek Sivers on Tinder Dating Strategies, Finding Purpose and the Art of Singapore
Derek Sivers, is a kind of a reluctant entrepreneur, circus-clown musician turned author. In 1998, Derek created CD Baby by helping his friends sell their CDs. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby…
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#39 The 25 Year Old Doctor that Amassed a 500K YouTube Following, Ali Abdaal
Ali Abdaal, is a YouTuber and junior doctor in the UK. His YouTube channel has more than 30 millions view and 500K subscribers. He is also the founder of 6med, the largest medical exam preparation crash course in the world. Ali holds a doctorate from Cambridge University. In this conversation, we...
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#38 The Decision Coach from the Inaugural Team of Seth Godin’s altMBA, Michelle Florendo
Michelle Florendo, is a coach for Type-A professionals and executives. She has served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin’s altMBA, guest-taught on Stanford’s famous Design Your Life course, and is a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Michelle is also a mother of 2, admits...
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#37: Remote Work, Learning to Code & Happiness – Steph Smith
Steph Smith (@stephsmithio), 25 is a senior analyst working on Trends, tracking up-and-coming trends. After less than a year of learning to code (while having a full-time job), she has won the Golden Kitty award for inclusion, on Product Hunt. Steph writes a blog about remote work, women in tech...
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#36: Khailee Ng — Conversation about Necker Island, Marriage and the Gig Economy
Khailee Ng is a managing partner of 500 Startups, a venture capital firm. He has led more than 180 startup investments, with a few “unicorn” successes such as Grab and Bukalapa. Khailee has previously founded Groupsmore which got acquired by Groupon and Says.com, which got subsequently acquired…
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#35:The 34 Years Old Internet Millionaire Who Sold Everything Away, Alvin Poh
Alvin Poh is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Vodien, a cloud hosting company. Vodien was founded in 2002. It was later acquired by Dreamscape in 2017, and was valued for S$ 30million. Shortly after being a millionaire at 33 years old, he sold most of his belongings (including his Lamborghini)…
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#34: Conference Hacking, Self-Awareness and Personal System with JR Hinds
JR Hinds is the owner of Hinds and Associates, specialising in employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Today, over 90% of his business is developed through referrals. He has a private pilot’s license and flies a Cessna 172. He also jumped out of an airplane twice (but never one that he was...
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#33: The Magician Behind the Higher Education Revolution, Michelle Jones
“I don't think we ask deep enough questions and give young people enough credit for being able to have those answer within themselves.”– Michelle Jones Michelle Jones is the founder of a higher education institution, Wayfinding Academy. It is a new 2-year college aiming to revolutionize higher...
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#32: Building a Million-Dollar Design Agency, Daniel Lim
“It is not a failure if there are lessons to be learnt from it.” – Daniel Lim Daniel Lim is an entrepreneur and business coach. His coaching and training practice aims to help people to redefine success, build businesses and do work which is aligned with their values and purpose. Daniel's former...
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#31: The 25 Years Old Kid that Took the AI World by Storm, Annabelle Kwok
Annabelle Kwok, 25 is the founder of NeuralBay, an Artificial Intelligence company that specialises in vision analytics. She consults with companies on A.I. driven solutions and was previously the founding CEO of SmartCow. At 20, she travelled alone for 6 weeks to Togo, West Africa. She has…
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#30: The Psychiatrist Who Started the Addiction Management Department at IMH, Dr Munidasa Winslow
"No one says that decided to start drinking because my ambition in life is to be an alcoholic. It’s rubbish.” – Dr Munidasa Winslow Munidasa Winslow is a psychiatrist and the executive director of Promises Healthcare. He has been practising psychiatry since 1988 and is known for his work in...
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#29: The Couple that Built JobsCentral and Cashed Out, Lim Der Shing and Huang Shao-Ning
Lim Der Shing is currently a private investor, Venture Advisor with Jungle Seedplus and board member with several organizations. Huang Shao-Ning is the Managing Partner of Hub Ventures Fund and a Partner at Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading company builder. Together, they are the…
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#28 - From Building the Red Rhino to Creating an Iron-Man, Peter Ho
Peter Ho is the CEO of HOPE Technik, an engineering company specializing in Unmanned systems, Defence, Bio-medical, Smart Logistics and Special Vehicles. The company has delivered over 400 projects across 18 countries to date and projects included (but not limited to) the last 4 versions of Red...
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#27: The Singaporean Toymaker Who Kickstarted to the Global TED Conference, Michael Sng
Michael Sng is the principal designer of Machination Studio. He is the creator of the Codename Colossus - a Walking War Machine with 435 individually 3D-printed parts. Michael is the first Singaporean who spoke on the main stage at the TED Conference (2016) in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelor of...
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#26: Claire Chiang - The Woman Behind the Banyan Tree Resort Group
“If you allow all these barriers and challenges around you to impact you, you’ll never walk out of the house and have terrible mental health. So, get over it.” – Claire Chiang Claire Chiang is the co-founder of Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts. She was the Singapore's Woman of the Year (1999). She…
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#25: ShiGGa Shay - The Hip Hop Artist From Singapore Who Made It
Pek Jin Shen, 25, better known by his stage name ShiGGa Shay is a Singaporean hip-hop artist, songwriter, director, and music producer. In 2012, ShiGGa was named the "Unsigned Talent of The Week" by WorldStarHipHop. He was the first Singaporean hip-hop Artist that made it to iTunes top chart with...
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#24: The Architect Behind the Iconic People's Park Complex, Tay Kheng Soon
Tay Kheng Soon is the founder and principal partner of the architect firm, Akitek Tenggara. In the span of his career, he was responsible for many iconic buildings around Singapore. Some of these include (but not limited to) People's park Complex, Golden Mile Complex and KK Woman's and Children...
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#23: The Head Writer of Esquire SG, Wayne Cheong
Wayne Cheong is the head writer for Esquire Singapore. He is a two-time recipient of the MPAS (Media Publishers Association of Singapore) "Journalist of The Year”, for both 2014 and 2015. He has interviewed numerous iconic personalities, including Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Dev Patel, Colin Schooling,...
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#22: The Polymath Civil Servant Who Writes Poetry and Innovates, Aaron Maniam
Aaron Maniam is the Director (Industry Division) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore. He has received numerous awards including (but not limited to), Asia Society’s “Asia 21 Young Leaders’ (2006), Singapore Youth Award (2012), and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2013).…
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#21: Benny Se Teo on How to Turn Your Life Around From a Heroin Addiction
Benny Se Teo is the co-founder of Eighteen Chefs. Benny spent 10 years getting in and out of prison. At the age of 45 in 2005, he opened Goshen and started cooking professionally. Benny is also the author of Honest Good Food - a book where he shares his collection of comfort food recipes that are...
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#20: The Most Terrifying Couchsurfing Host… and What He Taught Me, Richard Chong
Richard Chong retired from the Australian Army at the peak of his military career as a Paratrooper after more than 13 years of service, serving in multiple deployments at several theatres of conflict around the globe. He is also a practitioner of several martial arts codes including Krav Maga,...
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#19: The #1 Dating Expert in South East Asia, Violet Lim
Violet Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Lunch Actually, the largest dating company in South East Asia, which started humbly in Singapore. Since 2004, Lunch Actually has acquired 5 companies and now have offices in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Bangkok. She is also the CEO of esync,...
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#18: From Running a Flea Market Stall to a BMW at the Age of 21, Gina Tow
Gina Tow is the founder and owner of Happy Rollies. Happy Rollies was started in 2015 and has since grown from a humble flea market stall selling ice cream at Geylang Serai market to having 20 ice-cream carts and 2 mini-vans now. Gina Tow has since developed other food items such as Churros,...
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#17: The First All-Inclusive Hawker School for the Disadvantaged, Koh Seng Choon
"Success is a satisfying state of the mind, failure is when you stop trying." - Koh Seng Choon Koh Seng Choon is the founder and managing director of Dignity Kitchen, Singapore's first hawker training centre for people with disabilities and the disadvantaged. Dignity Kitchen has trained over 400...
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#16: Adrian Pang - The Singaporean Actor who Waltz into Hollywood
Adrian Pang is an artistic director, actor and host. He is also the co-founder of PangdemoniumTheatre Company with his wife, Tracie Pang. He has won “Best Actor” award at the national Life! Theatre Awards and the 14th Asian Television Awards (ATA). Adrian has appeared in numerous local and...
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Ep15 - Bjorn Shen: Singapore's Most Rebellious Chef
“Chefs need arrogance, business that wants to build a brand needs arrogance” – Bjorn Shen Bjorn Shen (IG: @bjornshen) is the chef-owner of Artichoke, Bird Bird and an ice-cream brand, Neh Neh Pop - their Instagram feed make my stomach growl. Bjorn Shen is also the author of the Artichoke cookbook...
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Ep 14 - How to Live Thoughtfully with Passion, Kuik Shiao-Yin
Kuik Shiao-Yin is the co-founder and creative director of The Thought Collective. It is comprised of various companies – School of Thought, which offers tuition for General Paper and Language Arts; Food for Thought, a socially ethical restaurant chain and Think Tank, a branding and content…
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Ep 13: Jack Sim, The Sh*t that Put Him on the United Nation Map
Jack Sim is the founder of the World Toilet Organization (WTO), Base of Pyramid Hub (BoP Hub), World Toilet College (WTC) and the Restroom Association of Singapore. At the age of 40, he attained financial independence after creating a series of 16 successful businesses. Thereafter, he decided to...
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Ep 12 - Meet the Bestselling Author of The Teenage Textbook, Adrian Tan
Adrian Tan is the author of The Teenage Textbook and The Teenage Workbook which were both national bestsellers. The two books sold over 50,000 copies. The books were made into a film - The Teenage Textbook Movie, which topped the box office in Singapore for four weeks. In 2015, The Teenage…
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Ep 11 - The Godfather of Singapore's Boutique Hospitality, Loh Lik Peng
Loh Lik Peng is the owner and director of Unlisted Collection. His career began as a litigator during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He mainly dealt with company bankruptcy. His transition to hospitality occurred in 2000 when he bought a property, now known as Hotel 1929, on a bargain and...
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Ep 10 - The World Renowned Beatboxer from Singapore, Dharni Ng
Dharni Ng (@dharniofficial) started beatboxing at age 15.He studied at Temasek Polytechnic Singapore. In 2011, he won Emperor of the The Mic in Canada. He is the first person in history to win The Grand Beatbox Battle Championship twice in a row. He has also has opened for artistes like Black…
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Ep 9 - Daniel Ong: The Radio DJ Who Built a Million Dollar Cupcake Empire
Daniel Ong is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Twelve Cupcakes, with more than 40 stores around the region. He was a well-loved radio deejay from Singapore's MediaCorp Radio 987FM and won the most popular radio personality awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Daniel also managed the radio…
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Ep 8 - The 21 Year Old Founders of Staple Magazine, Emily Tay and Clara Lee
The 21 Year Old Founders of Staple Magazine, Emily Tay and Clara Lee. Their pilot issue is themed Dizziness of Youth, whereby the notion of “arriving to an age” or the awkward manoeuvre between childhood to adulthood is the topic of interest. We dived into topics including: - The world of...
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Ep 7 - The Banker Who Became a Carpenter, Plane and Bevel | Rafie Chua
Rafie Chua is the founder and creator behind custom furniture studio, Plane and Bevel. In a fast paced consumerism society that demands for cheap and the good, he left banking and dived into this sunset industry of woodworking. He has since created a sustainable business. Rafie's creation can…
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Ep 6 - Security Guard to Stand-up Commedian, Fakkah Fuzz
Fakkah Fuzz is undoubtedly one of the funniest man in Singapore. I first saw him years ago in a Freestyle Rap Battle where he is “Eminem–Roasting” the opposing rappers. I was cheering. Fuzz, unlike any of us, he DID not do well in school in Malacca. After coming back to Singapore, he took…
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Ep 5: The Adman who Brought his Son to TED, Calvin Soh
Calvin Soh is one of the most sought after admen in Singapore. He entered the advertising industry at the bottom of the rung as a traffic and worked his way up to becoming the vice chairman and later chief creative officer for Publicis Asia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Ep 4: Owner and Barman of Spiffy Dapper, George Cherian Abhishek
George Cherian Abhishek is the owner of The Spiffy Dapper, the WORST bar in the world and Dapper Coffee that created the Unicorn Tears and Merlion Blood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 3: The 60 year old woman who travelled the world, Betty Lee
At the young age of 60 years old, Betty Lee packed her bag, sealed away her belongings and embarked on the next chapter of her life – travelling solo for the next 400 days of her life! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 2: The contender for Mount Everest, Jeremy Tong
Jeremy Tong is a traveller, adventurer and mountaineer. He has conquered many mountains throughout his 12 years of climbing. Some of these mountains include Mera Peak in Nepal, Aconcagua in Argentina and Lenin peak at Kyrgyzstan. He currently plotting his way to the highest mountain in the world,...
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Ep 1: Consultant to the kingdom of Bhutan, Dr Loretta Chen
Dr Loretta Chen is a person with the most extensive range of life experiences I’ve ever met. You might know Loretta as a consultant for Bhutan or the director of thought-provoking theatre shows, but that’s a tiny piece of the story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is the podcast where I speak to the rebels, the outliners and the unconventional. These people are the folks who see things differently, who have gone off the beaten path and found their pursuit.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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