Category: Entrepreneurship

  • A Life Less Ordinary: Taking Batik to New Places with Fern Chua

    A Life Less Ordinary: Taking Batik to New Places with Fern Chua

    Fern Chua is the award-winning founder of FERN, a Malaysian sustainable and high-end fashion label rediscovering the elegance of the ancient Asian fabric art form, Batik. Fern and I chatted earlier this year on the unexpected path that led her to Batik, the challenges building and growing her team of artisans from the ground up,…

  • Tina Zaman: Creating Tight 5 Comedy, Australia’s First Anti-Racist Comedy Club

    Tina Zaman: Creating Tight 5 Comedy, Australia’s First Anti-Racist Comedy Club

    Tina Zaman is a comedian, writer, teacher and founder of Tight 5 Comedy, a unique platform in Sydney’s comedy scene. Tight 5’s comedians of colour and allies have entertained thousands of fans handpicked for their originality and social impact, empowered to explore both their comedic and cultural identities in careful curated venues from theatres in…

  • 5 Life Lessons I Learned Working at Apple

    I had just one dream to accompany my suitcase as I left my hometown, Sydney, for London in August 2010. As a 21 year-old aspiring songwriter and producer fresh out of university, I intended to make London my new home and writing hits for Beyoncé and Beyoncé-tier artists my new career. Standing by for Beyoncé’s…