The Modern Crone – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Sascha is an entrepreneur, engineer, and science enthusiast. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the National University of Singapore. With a broad interest in science, his career has been a symphony of innovation and interdisciplinary discovery. 

In 2021 Sascha found himself at the lowest point he had ever been. It was a period of profound struggle, but amidst that darkness, he made a promise to himself: to find a way out, to document every step of that journey, and to share those insights openly. 

Join us as we get to know this incredible human, his darkest hours and the choice he made for life, the steps he took to reinvent his inner landscape and become a beacon of light for others.

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https://www.instagram.com/saa_chaa_chaa/

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So grateful for the The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Studio and Reel production:

Kymberly Sng

kymberlysngcm@gmail.com

Lucy Baldwin has spent her life exploring relationships, communication, and the human mind.

With a background in Cognitive Science and a love for spiritual and philosophical exploration, she co-teaches online courses on magic and shadow work and creates in-person transformational experiences.

Lucy is a mother of five, and she and her husband run a few different businesses together.

Lucy believes meaning comes from human connection and creating luminous beauty. Her mission is to help others find the intersection of beauty and joy.

Join is as Lucy shares her journey into the magical arts, through curious play and working with plant medicine; her beautiful explanations of planetary deities, invocation and evocation, and how we all can be witches; how magic synergises into her busy life as mum of five and tech start up CEO; what she is seeing with the healing of the witch wound in her communities and her direction in supporting the role of the priestess…and so much more.

You can find out more about Lucy here:

Website

Instagram

Facebook

So Grateful for the The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Studio and Reel production:

Kymberly Sng

kymberlysngcm@gmail.com 

Cynthia Koh, is one of Singapore’s most acclaimed actresses with 32 years of captivating performances in over 78 drama series. Not just a versatile powerhouse on screen, she’s also a certified Bach flower remedy practitioner and sound therapist . With her deep insights into sound's healing powers, Cynthia crafts transformative experiences that nurture the soul.

Join us as Cynthia shares her fascinating story of fame and purpose. We dive into some super juicy topics:

• Cynthia’s exploration of her spiritual side and how this has taken a significant space in her life as a popular healer.
• How incorporating sound therapy, water, Bach remedies and Reiki helps with both diagnosis and healing of her clients
• How acting plays a significant role in her life as a career and also a channel for self-discovery
• The darker characters she has played and the impact on her life
• How trust and integrity are cornerstones of her messaging as an influencer
• Ageism in the acting industry
• Cynthia’s personal spiritual practice 

… and so much more!

You can contact Cynthia here:

https://www.purepotentialtherapy.com

And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! 

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Yun Chen

Join us as Yun patches in from her family home in China to share with us her journey to Singapore as a young teenager via a scholarship, and then chooses Singapore as her home. Hear about her fabulous ability to redefine herself, through mastering each role she has taken and attracting sponsorship from her employers. Yun shares with us the importance of determination and work ethic, yet in balance with rest and inner work. Learn about her coaching approach that combines ontology, positive psychology and systems thinking as a powerful offering for leaders and teams to find congruency within. We touch on the power of language and sensation to cultivate resilience and clarity, how the relationship that you cultivate with yourself is key to all relationships and the role of daily meditation and cleansing rituals in her success.

Fanny (Chen Yun) is a seasoned Executive and Life Coach with over 17 years of corporate experience in Change Management across Data, Customer Analytics, Risk Analytics, Regulatory Reporting, and Climate Risk within the banking sector. Originally from China, Yun moved to Singapore as a teenager on a full scholarship and graduated with first-class honours in engineering in 2007. Her passion for continuous learning led her to further studies in Strategic Marketing and Positive Psychology, while leading cross-functional teams in delivering complex projects and driving organizational change in her corporate job.

In 2020, Yun received a scholarship from her employer for coaching training and certification, which sparked her transition into an internal Executive Coach in an international bank, supporting leaders in achieving professional and personal growth. With an ICF-ACC Credential and on her journey toward the ICF-PCC Credential, her passion pushed her to expand her coaching practice in 2024 by launching The Coaching Wave (TCW). Through TCW, Yun helps clients embrace their authentic selves, cultivate resilience and achieve fulfilment, using a holistic coaching approach that integrates ontology, systems thinking, and positive psychology.

Yun’s unique journey from academia to the corporate world and now coaching equips her with a comprehensive understanding of leadership, transformation, and sustainable growth. She said, “I find purpose and joy in coaching.”

You can contact Yun here:

Website: 

https://www.thecoachingwave.com/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yun-chen-12199b23/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/fanny.c.yun

And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! 

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Stephanie Chok, PhD

Join us as Stephanie shares her journey into advocating for the vulnerable, how her PhD field work in the construction industry in Singapore propelled her from her volunteer work, into systemic change in law and politics and pursuing social justice. We talked about volunteering and altruism in the home, the importance of purpose and hope, the caring human nature and how she sees the difference between religion and spirituality. Stephanie talks us through the functions of HOME from shelters, to legal aid, medical aid, connection and training. I’m so grateful to have a deeper understanding of some of the issues our migrant workers deal with and to share Stephanie's inspiring story.

Stephanie Chok has more than 10 years of research experience working and volunteering in various non-governmental organisations in Singapore, with a focus on migrant workers' rights and income inequality.

She is interested in criminal justice reform, income inequality and social protection for marginalised communities and is the Executive Director, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME).

You can contact Stephanie here:

Website: www.home.org.sg

L​inkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniechok/

And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! 

 The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Claire Leow

Join us as Claire shares her story of advocacy for vulnerable communities and historical sites; how her background in journalism at Bloombergs evolved into giving voice for the voiceless; the power of storytelling and accurate and personal historical narratives; the beautiful customs and rituals of Bukit Brown cemetery; the relationship between geomancy, the zodiac and eternal rest; the meaning of Qingming as a reconnection for the living and the dead; the role of Singapore’s Tomb Keepers; Claire’s current humanitarian work with Airlink…and so much more!

Claire Leow is a former journalist. She was the chief reporter for Bloomberg in Southeast Asia before becoming the bureau chief for Bloomberg Indonesia, where she lived for 8 years. She returned to Singapore to find heritage under threat, and campaigned first on the Railway Corridor, the historic former railway lands owned by Malaysia until July 2011. This is the most successful civil society campaign in recent history. 

By the end of the year, she was the lead campaigner to save Bukit Brown Cemetery, the largest and oldest cemetery in Singapore and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. She formed All Things Bukit Brown to raise awareness of the intrinsic value of the site, and successfully won an application for a World Monuments Fund listing in 2014. Here is her TED talk. 

With her interest in war history, she also published a book, World War II at Bukit Brown (Ethos Books), and is editing a second edition for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Singapore in 2025. She has rallied a group of volunteers who have collectively guided more than 27,000 people to the site, including academics, researchers, archaeologists and sociologists. 

Claire’s walking tours are under the banner “Between Monsoons” to reflect the contemporaneous history and connect those aspects to modern Singapore. 

Claire currently works for Washington, DC-based Airlink Inc., a 501(C) aviation-based  non-profit that specialises in the logistics of humanitarian response. Airlink is responding to natural disasters as well as conflicts.

You can contact Claire here:
Claire@betweenmonsoons.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Megha Singh

Join us as Megha shares her story from studies and early career in India, to becoming a seasoned coach and community builder in Singapore, her initiation into motherhood and how this evolved into working with female founders, her take on women, altruism and the money-mindset, how she manages to be so massively productive, her beautiful spirituality that blends origin practices with modern perspectives, and so much more!

Megha Singh is a Business Growth Coach; Fractional Consultant in the areas of Marketing, Communication and Community Building; an Independent Board Director and a Professional Speaker. 

She has over 17 years of work experience across startups, SMEs and MNCs like Shell, Sephora, Meta, Publicis Group and Honeycombers.

Through her company, Megha has worked in a variety of roles including Project Management, Community Management, Relationship Management, Marketing, Communication, PR, Events, Partnerships, Business Development, People Management and Pitch Training across industries including Lifestyle, Entrepreneurship Development, Education, Media, Energy, Impact & Art.

Megha has also been building vibrant communities since 2015 including CRIB, Trehaus and Launchpad.

She has a Master’s degree in mass communication and loves the arts - word, visual and motion. 

 Mom to 2 boys, she is currently working on her first book. 

She is also a trustee on the board of Swayam Foundation, an Indian NGO that is creating learning and work opportunities for people in the country. 

You can contact Megha here:

Website: https://www.b-inc.asia/

Instagram: @bincbymegha

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bincbymegha/

Email: megha@b-inc.asia

And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! 

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Ed Howard

Join us as Ed shares his incredible journey from Corporate Law and Banking, to being ordained a Zen Buddhist monk in Japan, to now bringing Zen principles of mindfulness and non-duality to industry leaders. Discover a refreshing take on 'Zen' and how we can adopt Zen's ancient principles into modern busy lives. 

Born in the North West of England, Ed Howard relocated to Singapore in 2016 bringing with him extensive experience in investment and wholesale financial law and regulation including roles at Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, SMBC and Standard Chartered. Having lived for five years in Japan after university, he was ordained in the Soto Zen tradition and completed a Master’s degree in Advanced Japanese. 

 In 2024, having graduated from incubators with the Founder’s Institute and ACE he set up Kokoro Business Performance, combining almost 30 years of Zen and other techniques with a deep understanding of the corporate world, executive coaching and consultancy. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, he currently offers online and in-person speaking engagements and seminar programmes and 1-1 coaching. Kokoro is also building online AI driven tools for large businesses, aimed at providing techniques to prevent burnout in employees and leaders by discovering what really matters whilst developing resilience and an innovative mindset. 

You can contact Ed here:

info@kokorobusinessperformance.com

www.kokorobusinessperformance.com

www.linkedin.com/in/edward-howard-a86aa823/

And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! 

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Random Cool People I Know with, Suparna Kapoor

Join us as Suparna shares her incredible experience of hiking to Everest Base Camp earlier this year (2024), learning to hold fear, how Lord Shiva influenced her experience, and how her psychic awareness amplified on the mountain.

Suparna is a personal trainer and specialist in pre and post-natal fitness, dedicated to empowering women on their fitness journeys. Her passion for fitness began at 18 while living in India, where she wanted to get healthier and lose weight. This path led her to become a certified Reebok Step Aerobics instructor, and shortly after, a certified personal trainer. For over eight years, she worked as a freelance trainer, helping men and women from all walks of life achieve their fitness goals.

However, her true transformation came during her second pregnancy, when she faced unexpected challenges during and after childbirth. This experience set her on a journey of self-discovery, reshaping her understanding of what it means to be fit and healthy. Now in her mid-40s and a mother of two, she draws from her personal experiences to help guide women through their own unique processes, focusing on strength, balance, and well-being at every stage of life.

Suparna's contacts:
Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/kapoorsuparna?igsh=MTVxbnNnaHIycXN3aQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Email : Suparna.kapoor@gmail.com

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Season 5: The Spirit of Love with PhD Student and Commentator on Gender and Sexuality Representation in Australian Film and Society, Issey Kane

Issey Kane, is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne who is researching the intersection of public and cultural policy to explore the fifty year-long project that is curating Australia's national identity through film. 

Raised in Singapore from an early age, Issey embarked on her academic journey at the Australian International School before graduating from the International Baccalaureate program in 2016. She pursued her passion for the arts, earning a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Media and Communication and Film and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne. Continuing her scholarly pursuits, she obtained a Master of Arts and Cultural Management in 2022 and has just begun her PhD as of February 2024 after spending a semester teaching at the University in film and visual media classes. 

 Beyond the surface of cinema, Issey's research delves deep into the nuances of representations and aesthetics within National Cinemas. Her focus lies in deciphering the cultural resonance embedded in films and understanding their impact on audiences. Of particular interest to her, as a lesbian, is the portrayal of gender and sexuality in these national films, and the industrial landscape that shapes their narratives through policy on funding, distribution, and exhibition.

 Through her work, Issey strives to uncover the intricate connections between film, culture, and identity, shedding light on the broader socio-political landscape of Australia through a contemporary and historical lens. 

Join us as we explore Issey’s journey as a young lesbian in today’s world and the subtle prejudices that still exist; the queer identity in public spaces; the importance of self-censorship when travelling; the continuous nature of ’coming out’ in a hetero-normative standard of most societies; the impact of Pride and D&I movements for young gay lovers; the impact of institutional gender dynamics; what’s the best way to navigate the queer gender labels; the importance of honest representation of self and listening…and so much more!

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com