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In this episode of the Hello Mentor podcast, we sit down with Ziet, an engineer turned corporate finance expert who launched a massive financial media platform in 2020 to elevate financial literacy in Malaysia. Now leading a 12-person team with over 300,000 followers, Ziet breaks down complex economic concepts into highly relatable stories from decoding stock market basics to explaining the sudden drop in local durian prices.
He unpacks his core philosophy of "incentive-based thinking," shares brutal truths about the hidden dangers of early loan commitments and illiquid property assets, and reveals why mastering skills like AI prompting is the ultimate first investment for young professionals. If you want to understand how the modern economy actually works and how to build a high-ROI portfolio, this episode is your masterclass in wealth building and critical thinking.
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In this episode of the Hello Mentor podcast, we sit down with Natalie Chai, a multifaceted content creator and bilingual MC who carved out a highly unique niche, hosting and simultaneously interpreting for Korean celebrities. Natalie's journey began unexpectedly when a random gap year at Yonsei University in Korea at age 17 led her to a part-time gig interpreting for K-pop groups like Super Junior. Fast forward to 2022, a daunting push from the Korea Tourism Organization forced her to seamlessly merge her English MCing and Korean interpreting skills on stage, a high-pressure challenge that ultimately defined her career.

Beyond the glitz and strict orchestration of the Korean entertainment industry, Natalie drops invaluable wisdom on why you don't always need a grand dream to succeed, how to strategically weaponize stress and accountability to master new skills, and the true power of finding your Ikigai. Whether you are an aspiring polyglot (she speaks over five languages!) or a professional trying to navigate a nonlinear career path, Natalie's candid stories will leave you inspired to leap at every learning opportunity.

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Let's be honest, you've definitely stopped mid-scroll to watch this guy walk up to a random stranger and ask, "How much is your outfit worth?" Yep, we finally got Sam Wong in the studio for this episode of Hello Mentor, and his story is way wilder than you'd expect. The guy literally walked away from a UK applied physics degree and a super safe corporate finance job to build his brand from absolute scratch. If you thought he just pointed a camera and got lucky, you're way off. He breaks down how he treats his videos like an actual science experiment, combining his physics-trained brain with this intense, borderline delusional belief in manifestation. And you can't even argue with it, considering it landed him exclusive interviews with David Beckham and Jeremy Lin. He gets brutally real about the mental gymnastics you need to survive when the algorithm suddenly hates you, how he cracked the code for that insane half-a-million-ringgit outfit breakdown, and why you sometimes just need to take massive, scary risks. If you ever wanted to know what it actually takes to turn pure curiosity into a full-blown career without losing your mind, you really need to hear this one.

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Stepping away from a safe accounting degree to forge his own path, Malaysian content creator Ming Chun transformed his love for local food into a thriving personal brand and restaurant business. Known to his audience as the "Ayam Guy" after reviewing over 50 ayam gepuk locations, he systematically built a loyal following by sharing authentic, relatable reviews. Instead of quitting his day job on a whim, Ming Chun balanced his family's signage business with late-night editing, securing a financial buffer before going full-time.
Spotting key gaps in traditional recipes like tough meat and bone hassle, he engineered a modern version featuring tender, boneless, crispy chicken thighs, which he validated through a pop-up that drew massive 5-hour queues.Now operating his storefront, Gepuklah, in Damansara Uptown, Ming Chun proves that young Malaysian professionals don't need "perfect timing" by starting small and building trust first, you can scale a side hustle into a real business. 🎙️ Watch the full episode on Hello Mentor to hear the full story (Link in Bio)
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In this episode of the Hello Mentor podcast, we sit down with Arieff Yong, the content creator globally recognized for his hilarious character skits and spot-on British accents. Arieff gets incredibly candid about his unpredictable career journey, sharing how losing his dream job as a Singapore Airlines flight attendant during the COVID-19 pandemic left him surviving on just $500 a month before ultimately being retrenched.

Returning to his hometown in Johor with no income, a simple prank video of him ordering fast food at a drive-thru in a British accent went completely viral, transforming a lifelong hobby into a massive career in the creator economy. He also strips back the glamorous illusion of social media, revealing how the hidden psychological toll of constant online criticism severely damaged his confidence to film in public. Yet, instead of stopping there, he explains how he leveraged his deep algorithm expertise to co-found a 30-talent creative agency, proving that sustainable business success requires far more than just going viral.

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In this highly inspiring episode of Hello Mentor, we sit down with Jing, the co-founder and CEO of BilaBila Mart, Malaysia's fastest-growing convenience grocer. Jing opens up about her turbulent childhood, marked by financial instability and family trauma, which forced her to grow up fast and start working at just 15 years old for RM4 an hour. We dive deep into her winding career path from the corporate tobacco industry to selling insurance and the jaw-dropping moment a former business partner told her to "just ask your husband to feed you," prompting her to walk away and build her own retail empire instead. Launching BilaBila Mart just two days before the 2020 MCO lockdown, Jing shares the brutal realities of pivoting to a grocery model to survive, why she believes childhood trauma fueled her ultimate "survival instinct", and how she successfully scaled an unapologetically homegrown, hyper-local convenience chain to nearly 130 stores across the country.
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In this episode of the Hello Mentor podcast, we sit down with Eddie Tan, the founder behind the popular bakery brands Cake Tella (known for its alcoholic cakes) and Keto Cakes. Eddie’s culinary journey began unconventionally, a self-described poor student who found his passion in a culinary arts program , he initially trained as a hot cooking chef, even securing a spot on a competition team and working at the Michelin-starred DC Restaurant. Despite lacking baking experience, an encounter with a popular, yet underwhelming, homemade cheesecake ignited his entrepreneurial drive, leading him to learn baking from the ground up. Today, Eddie has built a thriving business over the last 14 years , pivoting successfully through the MCO lockdowns and now balancing his time between B2B supplies, running his personal brand "Eddie Ming," and cultivating his true passion: grooming the next generation of culinary and business talent.
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In this episode of Hello Mentor, we sit down with Adam Izzy, the content creator and musical storyteller who has spent the last ten years building a unique online presence that blends comedy with high-quality music production. Long before his videos started going viral on TikTok, Adam’s career path took him from hosting weddings for just RM100 a night, to producing music, and eventually becoming a national radio announcer.
In this episode, he shares his honest take on the illusion of job security, how being an introvert shapes his content creation, and the six long years of quiet, hard work it took before his videos finally blew up online. We also look at the realities of the Malaysian creative scene, and why finding your specific purpose is the only thing that keeps you going when the algorithms and views fade.
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Bryan Low, a content entrepreneur and creative agency founder who turned his early financial struggles into a massive online presence. Originally from the small town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Bryan's business journey started back in university when he urgently needed to repay a debt, leading him to discover e-commerce and dropshipping. Fast forward to 2022, a severe knee injury left him stuck in a leg cast. To pass the time, he decided to document his recovery on TikTok and share his story of how he turned a RM400 investment into RM100,000 in revenue during the MCO. That video went viral, eventually growing his following to over 1.4 million across social media. Despite his massive online following, Brian is actually an introvert who constantly pushes himself out of his comfort zone, whether that means selling RM10 bags at a local pasar malam or forcing himself onto stages to learn public speaking. In this episode, Bryan shares the real side of the creator economy, the difference between just getting views versus having actual influence and the leadership lessons he’s learned while running his own creative agency.
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He grew up on a rubber estate in Tawau, Sabah, a place often called the final frontier where the roads weren’t even paved, the dial-up internet cut out every twenty minutes, and the nearest big city felt further away than Bali. Yet, from that quiet corner of the country, Richard Ker taught himself how to build websites, accidentally started a one-man global e-commerce business fixing iPhones out of a Beijing Starbucks, and spent twenty years living and working across the UK and China. When he finally came back to Malaysia, it was with one clear mission: to help entrepreneurs tell their stories.

Today, as a content creator with nearly half a million followers and the founder of his own social media marketing agency, Richard’s career is built on a simple belief, that storytelling is the oldest technology we have, and if you master it, the opportunities will come to you. This episode is for every young Malaysian who feels like they’re too far away from the action to build something big because Richard is living proof that you can start from anywhere, even the furthest edge of Sabah, and still make it.

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