A list of all the episodes you will find in the So This Is My Why podcast that features people with an entrepreneurial background, including show notes, links and other episodes that you might find interesting.
Lee Williamson is the Regional Editorial Director of Generation T, Tatler Asia Group and currently oversees three of Tatler’s flagship brands: Gen.T, Front & Female and Asia’s Most Influential. He was previously the Editor at Time Out Beijing and Editor-in-Chief at That’s China and was selected as a WAN-IFRA Young Media Leaders Fellow 2020.
Vincent Wei is the Head of Growth (Product & growth) at VEED.IO, one of the fastest growing startups by revenue in the world with a recent raise of $35M from Sequioa.
Sabrina Ooi is the co-founder and CEO of Calm Collective Asia – a community that was established during Singapore’s first circuit breaker to talk about all things mental health in Asia. She is a mental health expert by experience, having achieved personal recovery and well-being through her journey with bipolar disorder.
Sabrina regularly hosts Calm Collective’s community engagement talks and peer support circles. She has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Tatler, and CNA, and was named a Gen.T Honouree in 2021.
Daniel Cohen is the Managing Director of Beigel Bake Limited – London’s most iconic Jewish beigel bakery shop located at Brick Lane near Shoreditch.
Nnenna Nwakanma is the Chief Web Advocate at the World Wide Web Foundation.
She is also a Nigerian FOSS activist, community organiser, co-founder of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa. In 2018, she was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in the field of digital government and has over 15 years of experience working with the UN in areas such as the information society, gender and digital equality.
Neal Freyman is the Managing Editor at Morning Brew, a new media company that provides informative and digestive business news to over 3 million subscribers. He oversees Morning Brew’s flagship product – a daily newsletter, as well as the weekend light Roast edition and native advertisements.
The Morning Brew happens to be one of my favourite newsletters so I was excited to dive into the behind-the-scenes with Neal!
Daniel Flynn is the co-founder of Thankyou & one of Australia’s most well-known & respected social entrepreneurs. He shares the highs & lows of being an entrepreneur.
Lauren Hom is a California-born designer, illustrator & hand lettering artist with a 250k strong following on Instagram. She is known for her use of bright colour palettes & playful letterings and has worked for clients such as Starbucks, YouTube, TIME Magazine, Google and AT&T. She has also been recognised by Communications Arts, the Art Directors Club, the One Club, the Type Directors Club and the Webby Awards.
Esther Wojcicki is an author, journalist, educator, vice-chair of the Creative Commons Advisory Council and founder of the highly regarded Palo Alto High School Media Arts program (the largest journalism program in the States).
She is also known as the “Godmother of Silicon Valley”. And has raised 3 daughters, regarded as some of the most successful women in Silicon Valley.
– Susan, the CEO of YouTube;
– Janet, a Fulbright-winning anthropologist & professor of pediatrics at the University of California; and
– Anne – co-founder of 23andme, who was listed as number 93 in Forbes List of World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2020!
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DJ Didonna is the founder of the Sabbatical Project and former Director of the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab‘s (EFL) Business Development and Operations.