Chief Best Friends

Chief Best Friends

This is not a typical podcast on entrepreneurship. It's a podcast to figure out business success while cultivating meaningful friendships. How can we mix the personal and the professional? What does it mean to be champions to one another? Why do we need genuine allies? Hosted by Niki Torres, she brings women's stories of breaking glass and bamboo ceilings, of navigating life changes and careers, and of the emotional rollercoaster that is startup life. Chief Best Friends is about work wives and work besties everywhere.

Episodes

S2E11: On community and caring for the Asian womxn - The Cosmos

February 15, 2021 • 74 mins
What better way to end the season than with The Cosmos co-founders, Cassandra Lam and Karen Mok. They share a thing or twenty about shaping and growing a community rooted in intention, transparency and integrity.
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S2E10: On the joys of motherhood, friendship and building a coliving platform - Relogo

January 4, 2021 • 47 mins
Co-founders of Relogo, a search platform for coliving spaces, talk about motherhood and why it's a superpower when building a business.
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S2E9: On defining success and falling with grace - Rachel Kelly Davis and Danella Yaptinchay

December 23, 2020 • 51 mins
Rachel and Danella comes to our show today to share what it took for them to make things work even when things aren't working.
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S2E8: On empowering our well-being through voice - Kintsugi

November 23, 2020 • 53 mins
Kintsugi is a different kind of mental health platform that uses voice biomarkers to measure and predict our well-being. Grace and Rima, co-founders of Kintsugi, share with us why there is beauty in our cracks and imperfections.
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S2E7: On going from zero to property hero - Ohmyhome

November 9, 2020 • 43 mins
Race Wong and Rhonda Wong are sisters and Ohmyhome's co-founders. They share how they turned their MVP that once offered a free service to what is now a full-service prop-tech business that's transacting thousands of homes that has a combined value of close to two billion Singapore dollars.
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S2E6: On being friends first and growing a clean cosmetics brand - Liht Organics

October 26, 2020 • 52 mins
Liht Organics joins us on the podcast to talk about Asia's appetite for clean beauty, being friends first and why we shouldn't believe the myth that friends and business don't mix. Liht Organics founder Nerissa Low and her two chief best friends, Michelle Lee and Stephanie Tan, show us why three's definitely not a crowd for this Singapore beauty brand.
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S2E5: On building a business in the midst of a global pandemic - Pory

October 13, 2020 • 42 mins
Starting a business is hard enough as it is, try starting and growing one in the middle of the pandemic. Sam and Luannie of Pory.io share their story of building a side-hustle after their day jobs moved them into part-time roles.
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S2E4: On vulnerability and integrity during challenging times - talenTtrust

September 28, 2020 • 66 mins
Tess Mackean, CEO of talenTtrust and Sunita Kaur, APAC VP of Twitch and board member of talentTrust, drops into our show to talk about vulnerability and maintaining integrity during challenging times. They also talk about volunteering and what it means to help charities remain sustainable.
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S2E3: On helping female founders gain access to capital - IFundWomen

September 15, 2020 • 40 mins
The co-founders of IFundWomen, focuses on women helping other women. They're on the podcast to talk about the lack of access to capital for female founders and how they've built just the thing to address that.
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S2E2: On what it takes to build global brands - Supernova

September 1, 2020 • 29 mins
Supernova, the brand behind some of the best super brands—think Coco & Eve and Sand & Sky—joined me on the podcast to talk about investors and what it takes to build the new generation of beauty brands.
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S2E1: On why it’s normal to have friendship strife - Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

August 17, 2020 • 36 mins
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow are headlining this new season of Chief Best Friends, sharing with us what it takes to build, maintain, and navigate a changing friendship. This amazing duo is behind popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend and is out with a new book, Big Friendship.
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What's new for Chief Best Friends this Season 2?

August 11, 2020 • 1 min
Chief Best Friends is back with a new season! You will hear from ladies who gave us Shine Theory, who are fighting workplace discrimination, who are building a fundraising platform specifically for women by women, and so much more.
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S1E9: On diversity and shifting the balance of power - SoGal Ventures

September 22, 2019 • 43 mins
What do you see when I say venture capitalist? Most likely a guy, probably in his 30s or older. What if, I told you, that when Pocket and Elizabeth started SoGal Ventures, they were the complete opposite of that stereotype. In fact, it was so against the grain that the people closest to them thought they wouldn’t make it. What others saw as a crutch, they took as their unique selling point. SoGal Ventures dubs itself as the first f...
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S1E8: On embracing heritage through fashion - East Meets Dress

September 8, 2019 • 33 mins
Jenn and Vivian run a bespoke fashion store called East Meets Dress. They create and develop cheongsam dresses in the hopes of bringing back traditional garb but made for the modern woman. What makes their story amazing is that they didn’t come from a fashion background. They grew up in a typical Asian household and had originally wanted to become doctors and go into finance. However, they came across the idea of East Meets Dress t...
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S1E7: On breaking the bamboo ceiling - Rock The Boat

August 12, 2019 • 36 mins
If you are looking for other Asian-hosted and Asian-produced podcasts, then you’d want to subscribe to Rock the Boat. We have today Lucia and Lynne, the power ladies behind this amazing show. You’ll get to hear why gathering communities is important in the causes we believe in. And also the double whammy Asian women have to deal with in the corporate world: think glass ceiling and bamboo ceiling, the latter being something Lucia wi...
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S1E6: On finding your person wherever they may be - Heart of Home

July 28, 2019 • 38 mins
Heart of Home Workshop is run by Clare Barker and Yasmina Cowan. Heart of Home is all about at-home indoor photography. It’s a very specific niche, if you asked me, but I love the way they see the home as an extension of ourselves. The thing that makes them such an interesting pair, is that they run a business in separate corners of the globe. Their friendship blossomed online, while apart. Even their business was started this way....
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S1E5: On working with each other's quirks - Sam & Soph

July 14, 2019 • 34 mins
We have Sam Lo and Sophie Ong in our show today. I’m lucky enough to be friends with both of them and I couldn’t help but bring them onto Chief Best Friends because I think they embody the future of work. Kind of like a collective, where each individual is a company of their own but would sometimes work together for certain projects. For most of our episodes we’ve had women co-founders who run their own business together. For Sam a...
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S1E4: On changing gears - Red Shoe Stories

June 23, 2019 • 41 mins
It was a great pleasure to speak to Naomi and Frances, sisters and co-founders of Red Shoe Stories, a publishing company that’s helping bring diversity in picture books for children. Their fascinating story have origins in both their personal and professional lives. Coming from a corporate world, working long hours and never seeing their families, they realised that they have to change something to bring back balance to their lives...
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S1E3: On not having failure as an option - WeBarre

June 9, 2019 • 24 mins
Super privileged to chat with two successful, smart and beautiful women Anabel Chew and Linda Tang, co-founders of WeBarre. Their studio brings together ballet technique, yoga, pilates and strength training in an invigorating workout to transform your entire body. It is the workout that celebrities swear by including Madonna, the Victoria Secret’s Angels and even Ryan Gosling. We learned first-hand how sharing the same passion and ...
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S1E2: On trusting each other - Sarah and Schooling

May 26, 2019 • 41 mins
Excited to bring this podcast closer to home with this episode. We speak with Sarah Tang and Alison Schooling of Sarah and Schooling. This was definitely one of our most fun interviews, with the energy and buzz of their friendship almost oozing out of the computer. As co-founders and ardent supporters of Singapore’s literary scene, they are actively involved in designing books and publications across multiple genres. It’s so refres...
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