In this 40th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Victoria Nyanzi. She joins the WowFactor discussion on the Season 4 Finale episode to dive deeper into Building Timeless Personal Brands.

Victoria Nyanzi is a Personal Branding Coach and Founder of The African Sisters Network (TASN), a movement on a mission to empower 1Million African girls tell their stories boldly, build their brands unapologetically, and attract the right opportunities by 2040.

In this interview with Victoria Nyanzi, we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of The African Sisters Network.

2. Challenges faced while starting and managing The African Sisters Network.

3. Key ingredients for a Timeless Personal Brand.

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In this 39th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Phil Smith. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper on Growing A 7-figure Business As A Solopreneur.

Phil Smith is a serial entrepreneur and author, he has spent over two decades building a successful business career.

Phil has been named on the Inc. 5000 list five times as a solo entrepreneur and has been part of five significant acquisitions. Notably, he has partnered with Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank.

His latest venture, All In One Marketing.com, helps companies scale their digital marketing efforts without making costly mistakes.

In this interview with Phil Smith, we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of the different Solopreneur ventures.

2. Challenges faced while starting and managing businesses.

3. Key ingredients for starting and growing a 7-Figure Solopreneur business.

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In this 38th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Trent Booth. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into whether Leaders are Born or Made.

Trent Booth is an executive coach and keynote speaker with over 30 years of experience in leadership coaching, mentoring, and emotional intelligence.

Trent’s passion for being radically sold out to helping people has led him to study leaders from all walks of life; his work as a mentor and coach has been a catalyst for dozens of clients seeking personal and professional transformation.

As the founder of Veritas Leadership Group, his mission is to encourage, inspire, equip and coach leaders.

In this interview with Trent Booth, we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of Veritas Leadership Group.
2. Challenges faced while starting and managing Veritas Leadership Group.
3. The Essentials of an Effective Leader.

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In this 37th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Dut Majak. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into Building A Successful Ride-Hailing Business.

Dut Majak, the founder of Shilu Ana, a South Sudanese ride-hailing app, is a passionate entrepreneur driven by the desire to improve lives through digital solutions. A web and mobile app developer with an interest in cybersecurity, he thrives on launching new projects that make services more accessible, believing that success comes with focus, patience, and perseverance.

In this interview with Dut Majak , we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of Shilu Ana.
2. Challenges faced while starting and managing Shilu Ana.
3. What it takes to run a successful Ride-Hailing app in Africa.

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In this 36th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Justin Janowski. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into The Keys to Launching & Managing a Successful Coaching Venture.

Justin Janowski is the go-to guy for coaches who want to kick their business up a notch. He's the founder of Faith2Influence, where he empowers coaches, both Christian and non-Christian on how to make their coaching business thrive.

He has a passion for sharing this process with emerging Entrepreneurs to help them simplify and grow their businesses the right way.

In this interview with Justin Janowski about , we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of Faith2Influence.
2. Challenges faced while starting and managing Faith2Influence.
3. What it takes to run a successful Coaching Venture.

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In this 35th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Riggs Eckelberry. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into Leading the Water On Demand Revolution.

Riggs is a nationally-renowned entrepreneur dedicated to revolutionising the water industry, which has reached a critical breaking point in recent years despite being essential to the planet's survival.

Riggs is also the founding CEO of OriginClear, a public company revolutionising the global water industry by solving capital problems. Water On Demand™ enables investors to fund projects, and businesses to pay for water usage and provides clean water access through drop-in systems.

In this interview with Riggs, we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of OriginClear.
2. Challenges faced while starting and managing OriginClear.
3. The Water On Demand landscape.

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In this 34th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Fabio Miceli. He joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into Mattress Business Success in The Digital Age.

Fabio is the founder of Sonno, a company that provides sleep-related products and one perfect mattress for everyone's sleeping needs without the added cost of middlemen commissions or retail store markups. Sonno is currently based in South East Asia and is currently available in Malaysia and Singapore.

In this interview with Fabio, we go in-depth on:

1. The founding story of Sonno.
2. Challenges faced while starting and managing Sonno.
3. The Mattress business landscape in Asia.

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In this 33rd episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Immy Julie Nakyeyune. She joins the WowFactor discussion to dive deeper into Managing Effective Entrepreneurial Communities. Immy is Speaker, Global Goodwill Ambassador & the founder of Mkazipreneur, a community platform that promotes qualitative and quantitative women entrepreneurship through connecting, celebrating and empowering women entrepreneurs in Africa with a mission to close the gap of the untapped business potential of women in business by providing them with a community to grow from.  In this interview with Immy, we go in-depth on: 1. The founding story of Mkazipreneur. 2. Challenges faced while starting and managing Mkazipreneur. 3. How to increase the number of women entrepreneurs in Uganda

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In this 32nd episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Victor Uche Obioma. He joins the WowFactor discussion to take a deeper dive into how to manage and grow a family business.

Victor helms with over 12 years of professional experience across a host of global brands like BAT, Panalpina, Nokia & Samsung among others. Additionally, he is also the co-founder and Vice Chairman of Views Group Co & VicFaus Integrated Solutions (Division of Views Group Co), A family business chain. He is responsible and fully accountable for all commercial aspects of the VIEWS GROUP Co. business and operations.

In this interview with Victor, we go in-depth on:

1. Common myths around family businesses.
2. Reasons why family businesses fail & how to mitigate the failures
3. Key ingredients for a successful family business.

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In this 31st episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Yew Han Chong. He joins the WowFactor discussion to take a deeper dive into how to manage Global projects effectively.

He has a breadth of Global project management and this stems from Publicis Emil where he was the Regional Digital Program Manager and currently at RAPP Malaysia where he is the Regional Experience Director. His keen focus is leading the program delivery for Mercedes Benz across multiple countries.

In this interview with Yew Han, we go in-depth on:

1. What Global Project Management is.
2. The essentials of successful global projects.
3. Challenges & solutions around managing global projects.

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In this 30th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Carolyne Njogu an author and the founding principal at VPF Strategies, a strategic and leadership development firm helping professionals and leaders design and develop growth strategies to meet their goals.

In this discussion, we take a deep dive into Creating A Legacy of Kindness.

In this interview with Carolyne, we go in-depth on:

1. What Creating A Legacy of Kindness really means.
2. Why VPF Strategies was founded.
3. Challenges & solutions around managing VPF Strategies.

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In this 29th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Ivan Mark Kyeyune the Commercial Director of Albayan Media Limited trading as YOTV Channels, a leading one-stop centre for the best Ugandan live Television and Radio content accessible on a smartphone, tablet or computer anywhere at any time!

In this discussion, we take a deep dive into Digital Media Access in Africa.

In this interview with Ivan, we go in-depth on:

1. The idea behind founding YOTV
2. Challenges faced in the management of YOTV and the solutions.
3. Steps to boost local content adoption in Ugandan.

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In this 28th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Swee Lin Lee, one of the founders of PichaEats - an Impact-Driven Enterprise that rebuilds the lives of refugees in Malaysia through a sustainable food business. She majored in Finance and left her full-time job to start this business with her partners back in 2016, after witnessing the financial struggles among the refugee community.

Within a short span of 5 years, PichaEats has served more than 300,000 meals, reaching a total of RM 3.5 million in revenue, with 50% of the total amount going back to the community. In 2018, PichaEats made it as the national winner for Chivas Venture 2018 in Malaysia and was announced to be one of the Top 5 Winners Globally in Amsterdam. In June 2018, PichaEats was also announced as the global champion for the “Empowering Future Generation” award in Germany.

Swee Lin and her co-founders have also been listed in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018 and were awarded THE EDGE Inspiring Young Leaders Award, Prestige 40 under 40 Malaysia Malaysia and Zico’s ASEAN 40 under 40 - to name a few. Currently, she holds the role of both the COO & Product Development of the company, ensuring all operations and products run smoothly.

In this interview with Swee Lin, we go in-depth on:

1. Unmasking effective social entrepreneurship.
2. The current state of social entrepreneurship in Malaysia and how it can be improved.
3. The founding journey of PichaEats, its challenges and solutions.

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In this 27th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Aloysius Oo Bok Leong, a graduate from the University of Cyberjaya, The President Elect of the Rotary Club of Johor Bahru Sentral and the founder and Senior Physiotherapist at QI Physiotherapy based in Malaysia.

Aloysius' keen focus as a Physiotherapist is to help people recover from their disabilities as soon as possible and in this episode, we take a deep dive into Physiotherapy in Malaysia.

In this interview with Aloysius Oo, we go in-depth on:

1. A Layman's definition of physiotherapy.
2. Common misconceptions about Physiotherapy in Malaysia.
3. Challenges did you face when founding and managing QI Physiotherapy.

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In this 26th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Martin Tumusiime a graduate of Computer science from Makerere University Kampala, a tech entrepreneur and the Founder of the UGTechMag and Co-founder of the Yo-Waste App ( a location-based on-demand garbage collection service app in Uganda).

In this episode with Martin Tumusiime, we tackle the topic " Effective waste management"

In this interview with Martin Tumusiime, we go in-depth on:

1. Definition of Effective Waste Management.
2. Common misconceptions of waste management.
3. Actionable steps that everyday people can do to have effective waste management in their homes or offices.
4. Challenges and probable solutions of management of Yo-Waste App.

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In this 25th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Dr.Natalia Wiechowski, a Doctor of Philosophy and an Executive coach ( Forbes Coaches Council Member ). She additionally has a Master of Arts (Social Science) degree from the Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany.

At the age of 29 at the peak of her career, she quit her corporate job and went on a 9 month Sabbatical, this changed the way she thinks, speaks and acts.

She has a strong focus on coach-sulting people who have left corporate to do their own thing, this is umbrellaed in her Brand called ThinkNatalia.

In this episode with Dr Natalia Wiechowski, we tackle the topic " Effective personal branding"

In this interview with Dr. Natalia, we go in-depth on:

1. Definition of Effective Personal Branding
2. Unmasking common misconceptions of personal branding
3. Challenges faced by people when building personal brands and the possible solutions
4. Effective ways to build a personal brand without breaking the bank.
5. And many more.

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In this 24th episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Dato' Munirah Looi, she's among the Top 3 Nominees for the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2018, she was awarded among the 10 Best Inspiring CEOs in 2020' by Industry-Era, she's also a member of International Who’s Who of Professionals, a Life Member of International Business Leaders and Asia CEO Community and the Founder & CEO of Brandt International.

In this episode, we tackle the main topic of purpose driven entrepreneurship.

In this interview with Dato' Munirah, we go in-depth on:

1. What is purpose driven entrepreneurship?
2. Challenges of starting and managing Brandt International
3. What should be done to increase the number of Women entrepreneurs in Malaysia
4. And many more

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In this 23rd episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Joseph Owino the founder and CEO of Kawowo Sports ( a hub East Africa's for sports content ), MBU.Ug ( Uganda and East Africa's hub for lifestyle and entertainment) that are part of Owino Solutions.

On this premiere episode of the third season of the WowFactor Podcast the main topic of discussion was digital content leadership in Africa.

In this interview with Joseph Owino, we will go in-depth on:

1. Challenges he faced when starting Kawowo sports and mbu.ug
2. The future of digital content businesses in Africa
3. Why digital content businesses and businesses fail in Africa

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In this 22nd episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Khalid Gibran hailing from Sri Lanka, he is a Director at Xclusive Promotions, the Group CEO & Director of Retail ROI and the founder & executive director of his latest venture  "MyCookingStory", a community of home cooks in Malaysia that provides a targeted e-commerce store with quality cookware at affordable rates.

This episode is centred around the main topic of "Starting a Food Centric E-commerce store".

In this interview with Khalid Gibran, we will go in-depth on:

1. Challenges he faced when starting MyCookingStory
2. Why do e-commerce businesses fail
3. The future of e-commerce especially to food-centric businesses
4. And many more

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In this 21st episode of the WowFactor Podcast, I feature Dato' James Foo, he has founded 80+ startups in 13 industries, across 3 countries with four acquiring IPOs (Initial Public Offers), he has closed over 90+ deals globally with the largest valuing at USD600 Million, he is also an author of 2 books and the founder of two interesting ventures Authority Institute & New Profits.

This episode is centred around the main topic of "Entrepreneurship in Asia"

In this interview with Dato James Foo, we will go in-depth on:

1. The best time to start a business
2. Why Businesses fail and how to mitigate failure.
3. The difference between Growth and Scale of businesses
4. And so much more

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