The Zhen Way Podcast
by ZhenWei
Ready to satisfy your curiosity? Join me as I dissect insights from leadership, career, tech, culture, mental health, and more each week. With a background in psychology, a career spanning banking, consulting, and health tech, and a love for exploring nuances in life. I'm here to share captivating stories that I've encountered. Building this platform in the open allows me to scratch my own itch and share some learnings with you. Tune in to explore a world of diverse perspectives and unravel the mysteries of human experiences. Enjoy!
Episodes
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Ep 15 - The wandering "Professor's" adventures from South America, Canada to Moscow
This is an interesting conversation for me as we explore culture and life across multiple continents and hear it from someone who has set foot there rather than seeing it from social media or foreign media. The news cycle has been distressing but as humans, oftentimes it is not representative of...
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Ep 14 - From Health-Tech Unicorn to Heroics of Working Moms: Conversation with Sarah Wong
Sarah Wong is a podcast host of Make It Work, a new podcast featuring inspiring stories of working mums in Asia who have made career shifts for their family. She is currently based in Singapore and is a working mother to 2 young kids. Prior to returning to Singapore, she spent 6 years overseas -...
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Ep 13 - The Techno-Optimist and A.I for the Future and Now: Conversation with Stef Sy
In this episode, we speak Stef Sy, the Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines that builds advance machine learning and data platforms for businesses. Their internal tagline is making sci-fi into realities In this conversation, we speak about A.I and its use case in HR. One of the fascinating use...
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Ep 12 - The "Radical" PhD Candidate that Serves Refugees Differently: Conversation with Douglas
This is a special episode to me as I speak to a dear friend Douglas. We spoke about several aspects that we don't usually talk about so I'm glad we took the opportunity to do so. We spoke about: How a book in the school library set him on the path to study psychology The path that he took that...
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Ep 11 - The Reluctant Physiology Major that Build An Emergency Response System in Ethiopia & Health Research Platform: Conversation with Jordan Masys
In this episode, I had a chat with a fellow COO and Health Tech veteran, Jordan Masys. Jordan's journey took him from Canada to Ethiopia, Taiwan and Boston. In our conversation, we spoke about: How he was reluctant to be in the healthcare space but ended up loving it The encouraging and...
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Ep 10 - The political problem solver: A pet insurance product manager from a legal background
In this episode, our conversation with Jo Fan covers a coupe of areas: 🎓 Explore Jo Fan's inspiring journey from law graduate to trying to make law services make accessible. 🌟 Why he thinks that product management is a highly political role 🚀 How his passion to solve various type of problems…
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Ep 9 - From Marketing Maven to Nurturing Innovator: Rachel Tan's Journey with The Nurts
In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Tan, the dynamic founder of The Nurts, a brand born from a passion for empowering parents and children through thoughtfully designed products. Rachel shares her remarkable journey, leaving a stellar career in marketing with renowned brands like, Shopee,...
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Ep 8 - A coffee chat with Sam Kon, the “Accidental” psychology major that became an e-commerce thought leader
In this episode, we sit down with Sam Kon, a seasoned E-commerce Consultant with accreditation from Alibaba Business School & Taobao University. He is also the CEO of Beyond Infinity Consulting, an e-commerce consultancy. Sam's story is a story of infinite mindset, grit and following your…
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EP 7 - From Global Health Tech Innovations to Personal Impact: A conversation with a health-tech leader on life and career
In this episode, we speak to Pin Chin Kwok. She's a global leader when it comes to health tech and even became the CEO of a brain health startup but also a person with a lot of heart as she ventured for many years in the social impact space. Coming from a finance background, we follow her career...
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Ep 6 - A Conversation with Dr. Joel: President of Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychologists & Men's Mental Health
In this episode we speak to Dr. Joel. He's a clinical psychologist with more than a decade of experience and currently serving as the director for The Mind Psychological Services & Training, president of the Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychologists (MSCP), and provides his insights on Lite FM…
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Ep 5 - A Conversation with Lizzie: How did a Psychology major became the CEO of a marketing agency?
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of personal branding and entrepreneurship. Our guest, Lizzie, shares insights on how personal branding benefits both individuals and their companies. How she started her journey as a young entrepreneur before she even graduated as a psychology major!…
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Ep 4 - Conversation with Xian: The Unusual Combination of Music, Risk Management & Education
🌟 Join us for an insightful episode as we embark on the journey of Xian, an early career educator with a unique background and a sincere passion for nurturing young minds. 📚 Xian's story weaves together threads of music, risk management, and a commitment to education since she was in primary...
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Ep 3 - Conversation with Nabilah: How a Psychology Major ended up being an Innovation Consultant & Product Manager
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Zhen Way podcast and I’m your host ZhenWei. This podcast is all about the stories and fascinating insights, as I explore areas in life, career, and tech. For those of you who just jumped in, I spent the last decade in health tech, consulting, and…
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Ep 2 - Conversation with Chiawei: How a psychology major ended up being a software engineer in Germany
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Zhen Way podcast and I’m your host ZhenWei. This podcast is all about the stories and fascinating insights, as I explore areas in life, career, and tech. For those of you who just jumped in, I spent the last decade in health tech, consulting, and…
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Ep 1 - Building in the open and how a psychology undergraduate landed a senior tech role
Welcome to the first episode of The Zhen Way Podcast! In this episode, we're going through 3 things: 1. Some introduction about myself 2. Why and how am I going about building a podcast in 2023 3. How I landed a COO role in the health tech space as a psych undergrad -------- Some of the resources...
About this show
Ready to satisfy your curiosity? Join me as I dissect insights from leadership, career, tech, culture, mental health, and more each week. With a background in psychology, a career spanning banking, consulting, and health tech, and a love for exploring nuances in life. I'm here to share captivating stories that I've encountered. Building this platform in the open allows me to scratch my own itch and share some learnings with you. Tune in to explore a world of diverse perspectives and unravel the mysteries of human experiences. Enjoy!
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ZhenWei