10x vision by Mina Fung

Why would anyone want to be in the criminal justice system? What does it take? As a criminal defence barrister, how did Karlia Lykourgou even find the inspiration and time to start a side business in fashion?

Elena Haskins is a parallel entrepreneur who can show us how things can be done differently.

Building a business is hard. Growing a startup is even harder. With so many variables that could potentially speed up your fall or accelerate your growth, how do you choose what to focus on? What do you need to know for clarity?

In this episode on financial remodelling for downturn economy (startups & small businesses), you'll learn about the remodelling with these fundamentals:

Side hustle is a popular term nowadays, but how exactly do you go to build one? How do you use your skills from your professional training to run your own side hustle or business? How to have a career & business on parallel tracks? What about the health care system we have learned to care about during the pandemic?

Kate Field is an emergency doctor in Tasmania, Australia. She also trains ER doctors while running a farm with her husband, Iain Field (a PhD himself). Kate's interview  is released in two parts.

The stay-at-home economy and remote work/services will continue to take its foothold in our new normal lives. While we need to keep pace with the news, the changes on health care, the pandemic and and the economy, we also need to keep a dynamic view and perspective at both macro and micro levels.

I'm dedicating this episode to all my fellow entrepreneurs fighting to stay afloat to serve others and the health care workers fighting to save lives. In particular, a fearless leader and entrepreneur, Kelsey Moreira and an emergency doctor, Kate Field, fighting the covid-19 crisis in Australia.

In this second part of our conversation, Erika and I talk about how highly educated, powerful and intelligent women can get trapped in a life cycle and crash into the ground. Also, how we can regain our power by reaching out to others and get the support from other women.

In a world of very few female pilots, how did Erika Armstrong make it to the commercial airline captain seat at the age of 30? What was her biggest obstacle when climbing up the aviation ladder?

Eric Sim helped his dad sell noodle on the street of Singapore growing up. He failed both Math & English at School and received discouraging remarks from his teacher. 

Hélène Lesterlin is a fox, in the sense that she has multiple-interests and able to transform herself for any new domain she desires to explore.

Jessica Powell, former Google VP turned music software startup cofounder, author and writer, shares her journey at Google and in the tech industry. Her fictional novel, The Big Disruption, has a unique view of the Silicon Valley and its culture, with fresh insights and humour.

Will Woods, former management consultant turned entrepreneur, now is the Founder & Chief Storyteller of Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours. He's business is growing with  12 employees.

Kelsey Moreira, former manager at Intel turned entrepreneur, shares how she ditched her 10-year tech career to start and run Doughp, a cookie dough business. She started with only $2,000 for a cookie dough cart and cookie dough materials.

Nora Dunn, former financial planner turned professional traveller, shares her stories and strategies on building businesses, generating financial security before 30 and creating a beautiful life travelling the world full time for 12 years. Now Nora  has just set up a home base in Toronto Canada and still travels for half of the year. 

Ric Lindberg, self-proclaimed data nerd, is the host of "Relationship Power at Work" podcast. He has been serving global organizations as one of the top European technology consultants for over 10 years. He is passionate about helping technical leaders reaching their potential by deepen their understanding of their work environment and people they work with.

After getting her Master in International Business, a short stint with banking and an international NGO, Julie Murat knew that working for corporations or large organizations was not for her.

Kim Ransom approached me for a podcast crossover and that's how I learned about Kim and invited her as my podcast guest. I knew very little about Kim before my interview of her. What surprises me while interviewing her is her humility, besides all of her achievements.

Karena de Souza, now a strategist, speaker and coach on future of work for GenZ, shares with us on how to stay relevant even when you don't know what future holds for you. Her insights, drawing from her scenario planning experience at Morgan Stanley and developing through her experience as a parent and an entrepreneur, are relevant to anyone wanting to advance their work/life/business.

Amy Williams, now founder & CEO of Good-Loop, is changing and shaping the landscape of global brand advertising by empower consumers to give chartiable donation using advertisers' money. It's truly a win-win-win situation for all parties. As an online advertising platform, Good-Loop helps use the advertising money to solve the world's problems.

Haylee Galloway was a corporate HR specialist before she got sick with fibromyalgia. While she's in the midst of doing medical testings, her employer fired her. Two weeks after being fired, her condition improved. With 2 young daughters, Haylee had to figured things out quickly.

Amy Giddon, former President of Rushcard and Vice President of American Express turned entrepreneur, shares how she took her opporutunity at Bain & Compan early on in her career as a shortcut to advance her career in Bain and later to Vice President of Amercian Express without a business degree or an MBA.

Can change thinking guide you to a new path? In this episode, I share why and how I started my 10X Vision podcast, including using a fundamental principle of economics to explain a changing trend in people's career journey. You'll want to know about this trend.

As a former managing director of a global advertising agency, Simon Ratcliffe shares how he started his career, built on his inclination he called luck and accelerated his career and business trajectory, with a success exit from his business he co-founded with a colleague.

How does a scientist, former technology executive and a podcaster operate at the intersection of her knowledge, wisdom and passion to shape learning as a culture?

Ben Brooks, former corporate executive turned entrepreneur, shares his career journey, his lessons learned in building his tech startup, Pilot, and how Pilot became profitable in 2 years with incredible corporate customers like Pandora, Pinterest and MetLife.

What do kindness, connection and technology have to do with a lawyer, philosopher, and venture capitalist? In this episode, my guest, Jane Murray, lawyer and former venture capitalist turned entrepreneur, shares her career reinvention and how she started her startup Peacebeam in 2016. Now Peacebeam has a tribe of fans and an exciting collaboration with the London School of Economics for their entrepreneur programs.

Can change thinking guide you to a new path?