Alex was a candidate on The Apprentice Asia in 2013. After finishing third out of 30,000 applicants across Asia, Alex, who was then working for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) as the APAC Director for a leading liquor brand went on to work as the Head of Business Development for Tony Fernandes’ Caterham Group. It was there where he experienced the hybrid of both the corporate and entrepreneurial world and found the motivation to kickstart his own meal plan business – YOLO. In this episode, we cover;

• Challenging F&B norms
• Pivoting during the pandemic
• Playing the long game in the start-up world
• The process of finding investors
• Nutrition and fitness

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We all know journaling has numerous benefits some of which include;

• Increased clarity and awareness
• Gratitude
• Reinforcing learnings
• Recording your wins
• Processing sad emotions for release vs repression
• Giving a safe space for working through confusion and decision making
• Allows for planning and goal-setting to increase execution
• Allows you to re-experience and reminisce good times
• Increases creativity which in turn leads to productivity

In this episode, I chat to Jamie from "The Kind Friend", a wellness company that aims to help people live a more mindful life through kindness by offering well-being journals and workshops. Companies that have embraced The Kind Friend journals include Google, Spotify, Facebook, Accenture, Linked In, and much more.

Previously, Jamie was the regional partnerships lead at Carousell and founded two education businesses in Australia. In this episode, we also talk about the importance of journaling for self-renewal and personal growth, we re-define the concept of wellness and mental health and we also look at how she started selling the journals through eCommerce.

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In this episode, I speak to Shaq and Niaz, co-founders of Millennial money. Most millennials find managing money quite difficult. Millennial Money UK creates and curates content relating to personal finance targeted at young people. Financial empowerment often comes from better understanding and education. But not enough of us seek help in financial planning, despite the advantages it can give. We’ve all grown up with the notion that money makes the world go round, yet so few of us really feel comfortable, or qualified, to engage in the money conversation. They’ve created a community sharing so much educational content to help people become more financially savvy. To meet your financial goals, we need to be able to better track and budget our spending, and alter our daily spending. And whilst many of us have been working from home and thus saving money on commuting, eating out and general shopping, maybe it’s time to divert most of that ‘saved’ money towards investing to be able to make more money. Our finances also affect our mindset directly. There’s peace of mind in knowing that our finances are in good shape – and the feeling of stress when they’re not, or when we’re not sure - so if you’re feeling like you’re in that space, this episode is perfect for you. We talk about how you can become more financially savvy with your own money, saving, investing, why you should pay yourself first and much more.

Watch 'The Power of Compound Interest' Video here (as referenced in this episode) Find another startup story Website: anotherstartupstory.com IG: @anotherstartupstory | @tangkarmen Facebook: facebook.com/anotherstartupstory

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