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STIMY #58 ADHD - but make it a bean?! Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, I love the internet sometimes. You can find the most random (yet fun) things to use! Today's feature is thanks to YouTube educator extraordinaire, Hank Green, who recently released an ADHD-friendly promodoro timer called "Focus Friend". What is Focus Friend? It's a FREE app to download to help you stay focused & not use your phone for non-productive activities. Just log on (no account...

STIMY #57 2. Hours. Long Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, Full & frank disclosure - I'm not a Swiftie. I have nothing against her, I do like some of her more folksy music & I really respect how she's built her career. I've just never gone down the Swiftie rabbit hole. Let alone listen to a 2 hour interview with her (to be fair, it's her first time doing this too)! But I couldn't help seeing the social media craze surrounding the promo for her first podcast...

STIMY #56 Should we 'follow our passions'? Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, I spent this week editing the next STIMY episode (coming out this Sunday!) with the founder of Rotten Tomatoes - and it got me thinking about the whole pursuit of turning your passion into a career. Rotten Tomatoes has 3 co-founders. But it really started with one guy - Senh Duong. He fled Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon (battling pirates), lived in a refugee camp in Hong Kong before...

STIMY #55 Where is the funding? ☹️ by Cristina Mittermeier Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, A past STIMY guest recently reminded me of how it's been almost 5 years since I first started the So This Is My Why podcast ("STIMY"). 5. Years. It sometimes feels like 5 months. When I first launched STIMY, my hypothesis was that successful people have found their why. So if we want to be successful, we need to figure out how to FIND our why, what it takes to LIVE it...

STIMY #54 Hello from London! Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, I've been in London for 1+ months! Can't believe we're one third into 2025. London as a student versus London as a working adult is very different. Before, student life was all about hustling for the best student discounts/free stuff, booking that coveted library seat, attending lectures and/or completing the dreaded legal essays. Now? It's returning to a City that feels both familiar and foreign...

STIMY #53 Year of Travel Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, Can I be honest? ↳ I never thought I’d enjoy Japan. The first few times I came, I was ready to go home after a week. Which I've always found to be weird (for me) I love travelling and being in new environments but there was just something about Japan that made me go, “No, I’m good. I’ve had enough.” Then some dear friends moved to Japan (👋🏻 Saran & Jared!) and they invited me to stay with them to...

STIMY #52 Let's Hear It From the Horse's Mouth Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, Many marketing/branding 'experts' have called 2025 is the year of the creators - But let's be honest - it's be the creators' era for quite awhile now. Particular with the rise of platforms like TikTok, CapCut, and Lightroom who make it so easy to create, edit and publish high quality content for free. You still face a learning curve - it gets steeper the fancier you want your...

STIMY #51 What Are Other People Doing? Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, Happy New Year! Right now, most people will be asking themselves existential questions like: " Who am I?" "What am I doing with my life?" "Is it time to quit my job?" While there are no easy answers to the above, some my recent conversations have helped me to rethink how I measure my life and year ahead. You might find them helpful: 1. What does a 'successful year' mean to you? I've always...

STIMY #50 Wanna Hang Out? Read past STIMY Newsletter editions & subscribe here! 👋🏻 STIMIES, Can you believe that it's already December?! Scary. Since we're nearing the end of the year, I thought it might be time to do a final STIMY Hangout - which is happening next Saturday! If you're around Kuala Lumpur and would love to make new & interesting friends, you're more than welcome to join us: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 14 Dec 2024𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 2 pm𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: Somewhere in KL City Centre (Malaysia)𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞: Wicked meets...