The MET Axe-Sharpening

We are finally back and with a brand new episode recorded live in the UK. In this episode, our host had a conversation with his fellow colleague, Umberto Ton, who is currently pursuing a Post-Production course together on how he came about pursuing this course. Prior to pursuing this course, Umberto had worked in the plastic moulding industry for 10 years. In 2020, he was supposed to embark on a new journey to Australia. However due to the pandemic, everything changed.

In our sixth episode of our Life Series Talk, we have two sisters; Victoria and Valerie Ng share with us about how their family and themselves have adjusted to life abroad since leaving Malaysia about 9 years ago.

If you have any questions for Victoria & Valerie after listening to this episode, key in your questions in the Q&A section below and we will get a respond from them.

The last time round, we had Sabrina Tan, co-founder of Elevat8 share with us about how Elevat8 was started and founded. In this episode, we are glad to have Sabrina back with us this time joined by her other co-founder, Evonne Lim to share about how they and the team have cope with the challenges during the pandemic. 

In conjunction with Malaysia Day, our host sat down for a casual chit chat with some close friends about volunteerism during the pandemic, what projects have been hold up or postponed due to the pandemic, what challenges they are facing and what ways could the government do better to support than they are doing now.  We also have a special Malaysia Day performance by Ajoi. 

Happy Malaysia Day to everyone

P.S - We apologize for the sound quality. This was a impromptu session that was just planned and done on the spot.

Deborah Chris Raj is a full-time Content Manager at a digital performance agency for 4 years now.

As a passion project, she started King Kanvas as a platform to share her journey of faith, in hopes to empower people with truth in love, one conversation at a time. She also began producing the Pocket of Wisdom Podcast (under King Kanvas) to invite friends and working professionals from different walks of life to share their testimonies or topics of expertise girded by Christian principles. She also enjoys writing and performing spoken word poetry when the opportunity arises.

In this episode, we find out what or how King Kanvas came about and how even in the work place, Deborah is continuing to inspire others.

In this episode, we have Joshua Devaratnam (founder of The Courage Catalogue) share with us about how Courage Catalogue came about & the vision/goal of the podcast.

In this episode, we hosted a fellow podcaster, Ezra Jalin to talk about Teh-O-logy, life in the pandemic, theology and also a brief throwback to the time our host and Ezra had worked together for a Training Video project.

Ezra is a multimedia designer, activist, podcaster, social theologian and mental health advocate. He also serves in a church plant called CityLight Malaysia. Apart from that, he's completing his Master's degree in Biblical Studies in 2022. 

You can follow Ezra's podcast, Teh-O-logy & Explain Conversations on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other podcast platform you can find.

Kicking off our new season, the MET is blessed to have our own host former lecturer now friend, Winston Lim to come share with us about his life journey from starting his career in sales to being a corporate communication executive to currently as a lecturer in IACT. Winston has a strong passion/heart for education which you get to hear all about it in this episode. Audience also would get to hear some funny moments of our host story when he was one of Winston student to reconnecting with one another after graduating.

Apart from his role as a Marketing Communications Lecturer presently, Winston has also recently started his own podcast channel called Kopitiam Conversations with already 3 episodes released thus far. You can follow them on Spotify, Google Podcast, YouTube, Instagram and as well as on Facebook.

In our final episode for the season before we head off for a short recharge, we are honored & blessed to have Kevin Gever from Manilla, Philippines to come share with us. 

In this special part II of the Mentors Impact, we are blessed to have our host other mentor, Abel Cheah to come share about how he started out in TFM to joining Alpha Malaysia which is where our host had met him to now as COO of Alpha Asia Pacific & Service Pastor of HTBB. Tune in to find out more especially how his impact on our host was also the reason how the MET came about. 

In this special episode of the Mentors Impact, Casey Wai (Director of Wai Associates) shares with us of his career path journey and what is leadership and mentorship all about. 

In this episode, we have a fellow podcaster, Calvin Cheah from Malaysia who now resides in Cambridge, UK shares of his journey in hosting the Daily Bible Reading Show. Tune in to hear what is it all about.

On this episode, Jovina Chan, founder of Jov Makeup Artistry, shares with us of how she started Jov Makeup Artistry while she also have another hussle and also at the same time leading a Connect Group in Kingdom City. 

Hendhy Hutomo, Creative Lead at The Collective Jakarta, shares with us about his work and faith journey.

In this first episode of the MET Life Series Talk, Jevon Lim shares about his story of how he got inspired in starting up the Blue Juice Company & also navigating the challenges he faced prior to the Blue Juice Company which is very encouraging. 

Tune in to hear all about it including how he overcame the loss of his sister and then his father while he was still pursuing his study. 

In this latest episode of the MET, we have the founder of BunJenJen Designs, Rowena share with us about her journey in starting this inspirational art designs and interior design and interior decorating services.

In this episode, we had a special guest speaker all the way from Thailand to share about his life story from being the voice over for many movie characters such as Finding Nemo, Chronicles of Narnia, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and etc to journeying to States to continue/further his studies for the next few years and how God had blessed him to being a full time teacher.

The MET welcomes back Ryan Tan, who spoke on our session before about how he had come into the insurance line & shared with us a bit on the importance of insurance. In this episode, Ryan comes to share with us his expertise & knowledge on Financial Planning.

In this episode, Sabrina comes to share of how Elevat8 came about and some encouraging advise to the audience during challenging times.

In this episode, we have the amazing & talented Zoe Wong to share about herself, featuring with Isthmus, how she started a small business called Oclay.Art while pursuing her Degree course. Give this a listen as there's so much inspiration in her story.

During the pandemic times like this, some of our daily exercise or sports routines have been affected due to the restrictions by the authorities in order to flatten the curve.   

One of the many restrictions is that close contact sports or sports that involve many people are not allowed to be conducted during this time and further more, activities such as badminton & tennis are also not allowed. However, the authorities understand the importance of mental awareness and as such walking & cycling is allowed albeit with strict SOP's in place. But what if you are someone who is not keen to get out of your home but want to keep fit? What if you don't have those basic equipment like treadmills at home like others do? How & what can I do to keep fit?   

Well in this video, we have Mackenzie Yap who will share some of the things you can do to stay fit without the need of you of having any equipment's at all. Mackenzie also looks at some of the fitness myths & determine whether they are true, plausible or whether it is busted.

R.Suban, child psychologist & founder of PowerSub One-Stop Mental Health Care Services, comes to share with us of how & what ways has the pandemic affected people & how has it shape things up for an individual’s life. 

R.Suban is a highly committed and result-driven child psychologist. With years of hands-on experience in the psychological field, he is an all-rounder, having helped children and adult in various mental health stages via his therapy methodology used and counselling. He has participated in various psychological conferences, forums & workshops. He believes in putting theories and current life development into practice thus he is passionate about sharing his knowledge having years of experience in various conference, forum and workshops.

PowerSub provides a wide range of mental health care services for all age groups. The services include psychological consultation, psychotherapy, counselling and psychological assessments for a variety of mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and psychotic disorder. In addition, assessments for children such as WISC-5 intelligence test, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessment, autism spectrum disorder assessment, learning difficulty assessment and parenting style inventory are also available in the centre.

For more info, you can head to https://powersubpsychology.com/

In our final MET Special for 2020 , we have Monte John Matt share about his life as a DJ.