35: Simone Heng: Brand Yourself and Do Not Be Afraid To Own Your Voice

<p><strong>FWEP00035 Simone Heng</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Ignite your passion and pursue what excites you!</strong></p><p> </p><p>(1:22-1:35) You know it’s funny, I think I wanted to be a speaker from a very young age but I always like, that is your post entertainment career job like I always knew that after entertainment this would all I would do. </p><p> </p><p>(1:49-2:08) There’s no way if you don’t pick up, you know, read a blog or listen to a podcast that you don’t realize that there’s a huge distractive shift that is happening in old media. I couldn’t ignore it anymore and I was like I want to be part of the new wave. I think I always did a kind of no, it was about the timing.<br> <br> (2:23-3:07) I think I was definitely exposed to thought leaders all throughout my life, I think I chose to ignore some of the really good advice from thought leaders than just being young and a bit vacuous. I don’t know if it’s about that I am always aware that that industry existed but I didn’t know much information about the industry and that took a lot of work. Cause you have to learn an industry before you just jump into it. One big piece of advice if you can’t live doing a full-time hassle and you’re thinking about living for your side hassle, a speaker that you know actually Eric Feng told me that this is the best advice ever, Eric said to me Simone, do not leave your full-time hassle for your part-time hassle until your part-time hassle is earning more than your full-time job.<br> <br> <strong>What are the challenges you faced?</strong></p><p>(3:28-3:38) I think, firstly because of the line of work that you have gone into my first issue is that I’m a minority female speaker and I look quite young for my age. </p><p> </p><p>(3:57-4:16)  I actually found that there are a lot of Singaporean event organizers, conference organizers who are female who wanna see another Asian female on stage and that’s the sisterhood. So they’d actually, really helped me get paid speaking gigs in the last 5 mon