S2E11: On community and caring for the Asian womxn - The Cosmos
Join us for an extraordinary finale of Season 2 as we welcome the remarkable founders of The Cosmos. Their work in amplifying Asian women's voices and cultivating an intentional, transparent, and authentic community sets the bar for what we aim to achieve as female founders in Asia.
About this episode
Welcome to the final episode for Season 2 of Chief Best Friends! I am delighted to have our guests today, the founders of The Cosmos, Karen Mok and Cassandra Lam. I had wanted both of them to come onto the show back in Season 1 but the timing was never quite right for all of us. So it is with great pleasure and fanfare that the stars have aligned for both of them to come onto the show.
On a personal level, I'm a big fan of the work they're doing in helping me understand the role of community for Asians and as women too. When I started this podcast, it was with the intention to raise Asian women's voices in both podcasting and entrepreneurship.
Being part of The Cosmos myself, I know first hand how Karen and Cassandra is shaping and growing the community that's rooted in intention, transparency and integrity. It is the standard I now use to measure the kind of gathering I hope to create for female founders here in Asia, and it's something I hope you can take away as we do the work we do in making this world a better place.
There is so much we can learn from Karen and Cassandra, I know you'll come out of this episode just as inspired as I am.
What you'll learn
- How to nurture relationships by being open and vulnerable
- How to keep in touch with your friends
- How to endure and persevere through the tough times in starting a business with your best friend and co-founder
- Embracing the intertwining lives with you and your chief best friend and how that has been a core in their relationship
- Why we need to be vulnerable and authentic to our chief best friend since they are the person that we’ve committed our lives to intertwine with by starting a business.
- The challenges, disappointments and disagreements of their relationship and how that has helped them to grow personally and professionally
- How being grateful for the setbacks improved their relationship and business.
- How to live up to the values that they’ve built on their company
Episode resources
- Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens and Angel Kyodo Williams (Book)
- Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image? By Emily Ratajkowski (Article)
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