Meet Julia Broad - a 5"1 hurricane of a photographer that swears a lot and is brutally honest.

We cover all the buzzwords (and then some) in this episode: imposter syndrome, burnout, her photography, how 2020 changed her life and how she copes with the current pandemic, female empowerment and what it takes to support other women including her most recent 20 WOMEN OF 2020, integrity and we also took a detour to The Philippines, Balut, and its resilient people. Head over to www.belindaesterhammer.com/podcast for more and follow me on instagram www.instagram.com/belindaesterhammer 

I met this week's guest - fitness entrepreneur Madeleine Chu - in my gym and she quickly became a favourite trainer of mine and we discovered that we share many similarities - from both being mixed Cantonese-Caucasians to our entrepreneurial spirit and to us both having lost our dad.

Tune in to the episode and learn…

• How an injury became her lucky escape from her dream of becoming a ballerina

• Her journey to becoming a sports entrepreneur

• What it felt like growing up in a small town in the UK as mixed Caucasian and Cantonese

• The turnover time of baking organic doughnuts

• How there’s a lesson in every moment of sadness

• How she took time out for herself and received bad news which put her on a completely different path in life

• How her dad’s death changed her life and perspective

• Lessons from dealing with loss

Head over to www.belindaesterhammer.com/podcast for more.

I always said that getting a divorce is easier than splitting up from a startup cofounder. My podcast guest Enkhe confirmed my hypothesis.

Learn from my guest Enkhbolor Gantulga what a previous startup split and her own divorce have in common; how she co-parents her daughter across different countries, especially now during COVID-19 and how before 2011 Mongolia didn't even have a word for startup.

Find out more about the Mongolian startup ecosystem and how she worked on building a startup ecosystem in 2011 with the godfather of the Mongolian startups Oko D.

For the show notes visit www.belindaesterhammer.com/podcast