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Unpolished Wisdom
by Katrina Gisbert-Tay
The most interesting conversations happen in the messy middle - between who we were and who we're becoming. Hosted by Dr. Katrina Gisbert-Tay, medical doctor and executive wellbeing coach, Unpolished Wisdom celebrates beautifully imperfect conversations about career transitions, identity shifts, burnout and the quiet wisdom found in uncertainty. Each episode features honest storytelling with people navigating their own messy middles - no polished solutions, just authentic stories about reinvention, letting go, and discovering what matters as life reshapes itself.
Episodes
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The Messy Middle of Vulnerability: Scars, Not Wounds | Anna Ong on Storytelling & Leadership
Anna Ong, storyteller, applied improv coach, and founder of What's Your Story Slam, joins Unpolished Wisdom to unpack how vulnerable you should really be, and why the best stories share your scars, not your wounds. After 15 years on a banking trading floor, Anna walked away to live a year as if…
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The Messy Middle of Divorce: How to have a Boring One
Iman Ibrahim, divorce strategist, accredited mediator, and founder of Over It Club, joins Unpolished Wisdom to unpack what it actually takes to end a marriage without losing yourself in it. After 19 years inside the legal machinery of divorce as a family lawyer in Singapore and England, Iman…
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The Messy Middle of Leadership: Leading Self and Others Through Uncertainty
Angela Cusack, Master Certified Coach and author of Discover the Matrix, joins Unpolished Wisdom to unpack self-leadership, alignment, and how to lead others through real uncertainty. After 25 years in a successful corporate career, Angela walked away with no plan — driven by one question she...
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Range, Not Change: Expanding your Identity Without Losing Yourself with Marcus Marsden
Marcus Marsden is Managing Partner of The Works Partnership and author of Start With Who. He'd built a career helping leaders ask the hard questions — until life asked them of him. In 2019, Marcus unexpectedly found himself leading a company he'd never planned to run. Four months later, COVID…
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Physician, Heal Thyself with Dr. Loo Hui Voon
Dr. Loo Hui Voon is the doctor people find when they've already seen everyone else. An integrative and functional medicine physician, she's built a practice around seeing the whole person — the body, the gut, the trauma, the invisible threads connecting it all. But for a long time, nobody was...
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The Power of the Pivot: Reinvention, Identity and Starting Again with Siva Shanker Jayaraj
In this episode of Unpolished Wisdom, Dr. Katrina Gisbert Tay speaks to Siva Shanker Jayaraj. Siva grew up in a kampong in Malacca with no address and no plan — just an unshakeable belief that having nothing to lose was its own kind of freedom. That belief carried him to Nike, where he spent 11...
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When Your Body Keeps the Score with Dr. Suhina Singh
Dr. Suhina Singh grew up in apartheid South Africa where danger wasn't an exception — it was the baseline. Hypervigilance became her identity. Competence became survival. And for decades, her body absorbed everything her mind refused to feel. Then the pandemic hit. Chronic inflammation,...
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Choosing Yourself in Every New Beginning: Motherhood, Identity and Creative Reinvention with Bianca Yuzon Henares
What happens when life doesn’t follow the timeline you thought you had to keep? In this conversation, Bianca Yuzon Henares, multidisciplinary artist, dream pop musician, and mother - shares her journey of creative reinvention, identity, and learning to begin again in unfamiliar spaces. From…
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Coming Home to Yourself with Jessica Nomi Spain
Jessica Nomi Spain, board certified nutritionist, health coach, and mother of four, spent decades living without knowing her origins after being adopted at age four following her Korean mother's death. She opens up about the narratives she created to survive—that she was chosen, that everything…
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The Path to Becoming with Terrie Lupberger
Terrie Lupberger, ICF Master Certified Coach and author of "Uncommon Wisdom at Work," spent seven years writing a book that kept teaching her what she wasn't ready to learn in year one. She opens up about the collective myths we live by—that more is better, that separation protects us, that our...
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Navigating the Space Between with Dani Van de Velde
Dani Van de Velde, meditation teacher, intuitive healer, and author of Spirited, reveals that sometimes the whisper you keep ignoring isn't doubt—it's your soul asking for attention. She opens up about walking away from a successful finance career spanning continents when the dissonance became...
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The Stories that Shape Us with Lyn Lee
Lyn Lee, the first Asian woman to have served as Global Chief DEI Officer at Shell and bestselling author of Tiny Rice Grains, reveals that even with all her achievements, she still struggles with feeling truly seen. She opens up about discovering that the narratives we inherit about success,...
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Behind Movie Magic with Corinna Vistan and Ian Takahashi
Corinna Vistan and Ian Takahashi are award-winning filmmakers who have worked on movies and tv shows such as The Suicide Squad, The White Lotus and the Marvel Studios films. Corinna made a decision that seemed crazy to everyone around them—choosing to leave Hollywood success at its peak, leaving...
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Transitions and Thresholds with Matt Collier
Matt Collier, founder and CEO of DignifyX, discovered that the darkness we encounter often reflects something we need to see in ourselves. He opens up about leaving a toxic work environment without a backup plan, confronting the narratives he'd been telling himself, and learning that the people…
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The Mirror of Parenting with Cornelia Dahinten
Cornelia Dahinten, a Singapore-based family therapist and conscious parenting coach, reveals that the secret to conscious parenting isn't perfection—it's presence. She opens up about raising three children before she had the therapeutic tools she has now, making imperfect choices, and discovering...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The most interesting conversations happen in the messy middle - between who we were and who we're becoming. Hosted by Dr. Katrina Gisbert-Tay, medical doctor and executive wellbeing coach, Unpolished Wisdom celebrates beautifully imperfect conversations about career transitions, identity shifts, burnout and the quiet wisdom found in uncertainty. Each episode features honest storytelling with people navigating their own messy middles - no polished solutions, just authentic stories about reinvention, letting go, and discovering what matters as life reshapes itself.
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The most interesting conversations happen in the messy middle - between who we were and who we're becoming. Hosted by Dr. Katrina Gisbert-Tay, medical doctor and executive wellbeing coach, Unpolished Wisdom celebrates beautifully imperfect conversations about career transitions, identity shifts,...
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Unpolished Wisdom is created and hosted by Katrina Gisbert-Tay.
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