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Cover The fourth season of Gen.T’s Crazy Smart Asia podcast featured guests including Singaporean trans artist Sam Lo and hip-hop artist Yung Raja (Photo: Getty Images)

In the fourth season of our award-winning podcast Crazy Smart Asia, we had hard-hitting conversations with our guests. Here are some of our favourite moments

Season four of our award-winning Crazy Smart Asia podcast featured a lineup of seven Gen.T honourees. With wit and thoughtful reasoning, they opened up about their journeys and challenges. As they self-reflected, they also shared ideas and insights on managing personal emotions, improving the self and growing a business.

For this week’s episode, we published a compilation of some of our favourite quotes from each of their episodes. Click the player below to listen to the soundbites or subscribe via Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Yung Raja, hip-hop artist

On doing a ‘vibe check’

“A vibe check is very important. People don’t talk about it enough. Energy is real, man.”

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Joel Neoh, managing director of CircleDNA

On servant leadership

“Servant leadership. It’s not about who’s the boss. Actually, as a founder, as a CEO, and now in my role as an MD, the bigger the role is, our job is to actually make sure that we serve our team.”

Megan Lam, founder of Neurum Health

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Megan Lam opens up in our podcast about founder well-being, discriminatory investors and blanket burritos (Photo: Neurum Health)
Above Megan Lam opens up in our podcast about founder well-being, discriminatory investors and blanket burritos (Photo: Neurum Health)

On championing mental health

“Give your mental health the level of gravitas that it deserves like any other resource in your company.”

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Sharul Channa, comedian

On manifesting confidence

“The moment you’re confident, people are going to be willing to listen to you.”

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Sam Lo, artist

On daring to be different

“Be an alien. So technically do not adopt any identity and kind of look at things from the outside.”

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