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Hi! I'm Sarah, a working mom of two 👨👩👧👦 🇸🇬✝️
If you're seeking work-life balance inspiration or ever wondered, "Can one have it all?", this podcast is for you. Join me every other Wednesday as I uncover inspiring and thoughtful stories of modern working mommas in Asia who have made bold career moves while putting family first.
Follow along and let's Make It Work together! 💪
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👋🏽 Hey there, I'm so glad you're here! ✨ Make It Work 🎙️is your go-to podcast for real conversations with ambitious women redefining success to make space for what matters most—family. 💼💖 🎙️ You can expect bite-sized but power-packed episodes (<45 mins) designed for busy mommas on the move. New episodes drop every other Wednesday! 💡 On my socials, you’ll also find specially curated parenting humor, work-life wisdom hacks, and the best podcast highlights! Follow along for laughs, tips, and stories to help you make it work! 🌟 And a little about me, Sarah Wong... 🌟 Mom of 2 - Life now with 2 kids under five = beautiful mess 🧒🏻👧🏻 🌍 Home - I’ve lived and worked in Singapore (my current home), India, France, and the U.S. 🎓 Work - INSEAD MBA & first female hire at a Silicon Valley health tech unicorn 🦄. Currently building a dynamic portfolio career! 💡 Interests: Health tech, mentoring women, work-life integration, the future of work, and faith-driven work. 🧗♀️ Rock Climbing Buddy? Always looking for partners who don’t mind a kid or two tagging along. ✝️ Faith: Follower of Christ (am married to a pastor - which alone could be another podcast..😅) 📌 Connect with me in all these places! DM or email me with questions, collab, or just to say hi. 💌 Anyhow, I’m so grateful you’re here. Here's to you, Making It Work! 🧡💙 PS. The podcast started in September 2023, not 2022! 🤦🏻♀️ (hello #mombrain) (intro, podcast, mom, mum, motherhood, about me, parent) #intro#makeitworkpodcast#podcast#workingmoms#mom#mumpreneur#aboutme
Job Sharing Saved My Career! Why Women Should Question Feedback They Get! - Khatija Aslam | Ep22
Season 3 · Episode 22
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 • Duration 39:13
Khatija Aslam is a job-sharing Global Innovation Marketing Lead for Zespri and Founder of Moxy, a platform that ignites important conversations about building inclusive workplaces. Originally from Pakistan, Khatija is a mom of 3 girls. She grew up in Malaysia and has called Singapore home for over 18 years now.
With close to 15 years in corporate life, Khatija was inspired by her own experiences and the stories of other career-driven women, to found Moxy, with the goal of creating environments that support all working women, particularly mothers, in balancing their career and family responsibilities. Moxy has partnered with organizations like Lean In, LinkedIn, and others, striving to foster meaningful behavior change and push for more family-friendly workspaces.
Khatija and I chat about:
🌟 What job sharing is, how she found her job sharing role and advice if you are looking for such roles
🌟How to tell you boss when you are pregnant
🌟 How Moxy’s card game has helped to spark uncomfortable but much needed conversations around building inclusive workplaces for working moms
🌟How she shares the mental load with her spouse in their own family life
🌟Questions to ask in a job interview to find out exactly how females-friendly workplaces really are.
If you want to get help / advice on how to navigate asking for a part time or job share role then get in touch with Khatija
👋 Connect with Khatija: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khatija-aslam/
👋 Moxy: https://itsmoxy.com/
Helpful resources:
1) Simple questions to ask your future employer : @64b59b9fcb2a3337b2bd1322/t/664c9484cdb56372e43152c6/1716294789224/MU+x+TMP+-+TOOLKIT+PDF++%281%29.pdf
On Parenting Well In A Digital Age with Carol Loi | Ep17
Season 2 · Episode 17
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 • Duration 37:03
Carol Loi is a much sought-after expert in an all-important area that has profound impact on our lives as modern working parents - digital wellness. From learning how we and our children can develop healthy relationships with our devices, to figuring out how AI will affect our kids - Carol has the answers. She is a Singaporean mum of 2 young adult daughters and has been teaching on digital wellness for the past decade. Blending her personal story with the tools and advice that she regularly gives to families and organizations, you’ll hear fantastic implementable steps on how we can better parents in this digital age.
Come listen!
In this very practical and insightful interview, Carol also shares on:
🌟 Mom guilt and Carol’s strategies for managing and transforming guilt into positive actions
🌟 Digital Wellness:How to develop a healthy relationship with digital devices in the home
🌟 Interesting and implementable family rhythms to help build trust
🌟 The significance of having family SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for safety and communication
🌟The value of regular feedback within the family, similar to work appraisals.
Our latest episode “On Parenting Well In A Digital Age with Carol Loi" isavailable on:
On Raising Kids Whilst Building Empires with Chris Edwards | Ep16
Season 2 · Episode 16
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Duration 33:53
Chris Edwards, originally from Australia, lived in Singapore for 11 years, where she had her three kids and launched the well-known Honeycombers website. She is now based in Byron Bay, Australia, and most recently has launched her fourth business, Launchpad, an all-in-one platform and community looking to provide the necessary tools and support for impactful entrepreneurs. From advice on finding good people in your life to tips on how to juggle it all, this conversation is packed with valuable insights. Hint: there’s more “life” in the “work-life balance” equation.
In today’s candid and thought-provoking conversation, Chris delves into:
🌟The importance of prioritization and why she lives by the 80/20 rule
🌟Work-life balance or “life-work balance” as she likes to call it and starting the day by doing something enjoyable
🌟How she effectively retired her husband from his corporate job and how they balance roles in family life
🌟Valuable strategies that can be leveraged both in the workplace as well as around the dinner table
🌟Last but not least, the significance of surrounding yourself with good people in life and how she does it
Don’t miss out the special promotion for listeners to gain ONE MONTH FREE access to Chris’ Launchpad community of business owners (now 700+ members strong)! Use the promocode ‘makeitwork’ (not case sensitive) to join the “world’s kindest startup community”!
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On Limits, Burnouts, & Workplace Adversity with Karen Tay | Ep 15
Season 2 · Episode 15
Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 36:40
Karen Tay is a Singaporean transplant in San Francisco, USA, and a mom of two. She is the founder of Inherent, a platform dedicated to supporting women through career transitions and workplace challenges. In our intimate conversation, Karen shares her journey from being a senior public servant in the Singapore government to joining corporate America and becoming an entrepreneur. We discuss her viral Her World article entitled “Modern Motherhood: The Blessings of Not Having It All”, revisit some of her darkest times in her personal and professional life, and explore the lessons she's learned since then.
Join us as we reflect on her work supporting women through workplace adversity and uncover enduring wisdom about navigating difficult transitions, career breaks, and making impactful comebacks. Tune in!
Karen also opens up on:
🌟 Navigating the challenges of balancing career aspirations amidst limitations in moving to the US as a young family
🌟 Her personal journey through burnout during COVID
🌟 The importance of healing and nurturing personal relationships during times of strain
🌟 Lessons from providing first aid to women in workplace adversity through Inherent
🌟 How to navigate career breaks and make a comeback
Strength Through Vulnerability: How A Difficult Pregnancy and Loss Shaped Me with Amra Naidoo | Ep14
Season 2 · Episode 14
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 35:14
Amra Naidoo is an Australian mother of an 18-month-old, currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, after years of living and working in Singapore. She is also the co-founder and General Partner of Accelerating Asia, a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Southeast Asia. In our conversation today which is full of personal and professional inspiration, Amra shared openly about many areas including how, despite her priding herself being an avid fitness enthusiast (practicing Muay Thai, Brazilian Jujitsu, aerial arts, AND yoga sometimes 6 days a week), her pregnancy, recovery and a miscarriage later literally stopped her in her tracks and taught her some of life's toughest lessons. 🥋🤰🏽✨
In our conversation, Amra also opens up on:
🌟How Accelerating Asia’s 4 day work week and unlimited leave has impacted productivity
🌟Why she decided to move to Thailand from Singapore whilst pregnant and cultural differences observed
🌟Her unique philosophy in hiring nannies
🌟Her story of a difficult pregnancy, recovery and miscarriage later on
🌟The importance of consciously designing one's life and career.
Relaunching Careers: Personal Lessons and Cross-Cultural Insights From Enabling 4,000 Professionals With Carolina Yeo | Ep13
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 • Duration 33:25
Carolina Yeo is a Singaporean mom of two living in Germany, and founder of &ahead, a talent platform that has enabled more than 4,000 professionals who have taken career breaks to relaunch their careers. Our episode covers a wide range - Carolina reflects on her early corporate life in talent management that brought her all around the world before becoming a young mom in a country where she could barely speak the language- whilst working on her startup. Drawing from her experience of working with thousands of career relaunchers in Singapore and Germany, Carolina also shares about how the two countries' societal contexts impact career and family choices, and why she thinks fathers need more support as caregivers.
In our conversation, Carolina also opens up on:
🌟Her global journey from Singapore to Germany
🌟Simultaneously managing the zero-to-one phase of baby and startup
🌟Finding community and family overseas
🌟Empowering career transitioners through the &ahead platform
🌟How policies in Germany and Singapore affect career and parenting choices
🌟Her Takeaway Lesson: The importance of cheerleaders in your journey
Redefining Success: Through Corporate Leadership, Fractional Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Motherhood - Rachel Tan | Ep12
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 • Duration 31:50
Rachel Tan, an e-commerce whiz based in Malaysia, has made waves in leadership positions at the likes of Shopee, L’Oreal, Nuffnang and Oxwhite, the Malaysian retail company famous for selling 2,500 white shirts in just three hours. She's also the founder of In Real Life, a digital publishing platform, which was sold in 2020. But that's not all. Rachel's story takes a unique turn after welcoming three children into her life. She realized the potential to merge her love for nurturing kids with her marketing prowess, leading to the birth of The Nurts, an innovative venture that offers books, toys, and games designed to foster precious parent-child bonds. For those intrigued by the concept of fractional work, Rachel also shares her journey of securing a two day a week marketing leadership role at Oxwhite, whilst growing The Nurts, her own business inspired by her kids.
Rachel is also extending a special offer to listeners of Make it Work for products purchased on The Nurts' online store. Valid until 30 June 2024, use the code, MAKEITWORK10 for a 10% discount with a minimum spend of RM 120 (~ USD25)!
In our conversation, we chat about:
🌟Juggling Mum-preneurship and 3 kids
🌟Fractional Work: How Rachel Found a 2-day-a-week Marketing Leadership Role
🌟Combining Work and Play: Starting The Nurts
🌟The 3 Most Important Relationships
🌟The Importance of Knowing Thyself
🌟How to Overcome Self-doubt
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Building The Support System For Moms That We Always Wanted with Rajani Patel And Anu Shenoy From Veira Life | Ep11
Episode 11
Monday, April 22, 2024 • Duration 30:13
Rajani Patel and Anu Shenoy are the co-founders of FemTech Startup Veira Life. Presently based in Singapore, they have diverse backgrounds - Rajani was an engineer turned stay home mom and later pursued a career path in early childhood education whilst Anu is a former management consultant. What they share in common is that they both took career breaks to care for their children and later found their second calling to start Veira Life, an online platform which provides personalised coaching for mothers from pregnancy through to their post-natal journey, early childhood parenting and transitioning back to work. Or in their own words, creating the support system they wish they’d had. Join us as we chat about how they are filling a gap for women and empowering spouses along the journey too.
Today, Veira Life is extending a very special offer to listeners of Make it Work. Use the code MIWFREE to get access to all their virtual prenatal classes FREE when you register on their website.
In our conversation, we also discuss:
🌟How they navigated multiple career changes
🌟Veira Life: Anu and Rajani’s venture to change the way support is given to mothers
🌟The biggest lesson learnt after interviewing hundreds of mothers across geographies and age groups
🌟What keeps them motivated as first time entrepreneurs in their 40s and 50s
Building Your Professional Village: Navigating Career Shifts, Parenthood, and Workplace Dynamics with Nila Bhattacharyya | Ep10
Season 1 · Episode 8
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 • Duration 34:10
Nila Bhattacharyya is currently based in Bangalore India with her husband and 3 year old. Prior to embracing motherhood, Nila's career spanned diverse roles; from serving as an oil rig engineer in Brazil to working as a global-traveling management consultant based in the United States.
However, following the arrival of her first child, Nila made a pivotal decision to return to India, leaving consulting and starting a new career in product management for a healthtech company headquartered in the United States. Join us to hear how and why Nila made these significant shifts to balance family needs whilst staying true to her career ‘north star’.
In today’s honest and practical conversation, Nila also shares about:
🌟The structured framework guiding her career transitions
🌟Candid observations of parenting in the US vs India
🌟How she expanded the proverbial village to her workplace, breaking taboos by integrating pregnancy openly into professional life early on
🌟How embedding frameworks such as “Jobs To Be Done” and “Operational Key Results” help her prioritize her parenting goals
03:07 Motherhood: An Internal Shift In Perspective Toward Work
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2) The flexibility advantage blog - if you are thinking about what flexibility means the momproject provides a good framework https://blog.themomproject.com/flexibility-advantage-0
Some resources on Asking for Flexibility in the Workplace : https://blog.itsmoxy.com/how-to-ask-for-flexibility-in-your-workplace-clvf2zmh8001ji3a1upnc2g0n/
Resources for Job share : https://www.mom.gov.sg/-/media/mom/documents/employment-practices/work-life-grant/job-sharing-implementation-guide.pdf
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Chapters
00:26 Intro
00:38 Introduction to Khatija Aslam
02:33 Khatija's Personal Life and Fun Fact
03:39 Career Changes and Job Sharing
05:03 Why Purpose Becomes So Important After Parenthood
09:32 Job Sharing: What Is it??
14:39 Supportive Partnerships and Family Dynamic
17:41 Introducing Moxy: Building Inclusive Workplace
