Choose Work
Choose Work
Podcast Description
I’m Heidi, Founder of Heidi Coaching & Training. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
Each episode focuses on one specific work-related theme, explored in-depth over multiple episodes through interviews with Dutch or English-speaking experts or individuals with firsthand experience.
This podcast provides answers to questions like:
* How can I find work that aligns with my personality, talents, and values?
* How can employers promote Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace?
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various themes surrounding career development, including finding work that aligns with personal values and talents, promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and entrepreneurial inspiration. For example, episodes include topics like 'Giftedness in the Workplace,' as discussed by Dr. Sabine Sypré, and practical advice for managing personal finances while building a meaningful career.
I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights – empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.
In this episode, I’m joined by Sharmin Reehman — CEO and Founder of Elev8te — a company dedicated to building partnerships that drive a more diverse, innovative, and inclusive tech industry. Sharmin is also the City Leader for Founders Live Singapore, where she regularly hosts free pitching competitions for founders.
Half Indian and half Iranian, Sharmin has called Singapore home for the past 16 years. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience across banking, consulting, and government — and her bold transition into entrepreneurship — she shares candid lessons on failure, neurodiversity (including ADHD and dyslexia), and building companies that genuinely align withlife goals. We also dive into why diversity, innovation, and inclusion in tech matters.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction to Choose Work
01:00 Meet Sharmin Reehman and why diversity, innovation, and inclusion in tech matter
02:00 Sharmin’s career journey across banking, consulting, government, and entrepreneurship
03:00 Core career lessons: mentors, neurodiversity as strength, and falling forward
06:00 Shifting from proving yourself to making an impact and delivering value
09:00 Navigating bias, identity, and being an outcast in male-dominated environments
13:00 From corporate roles to founding Elev8te and embracing entrepreneurship
14:18 The steep learning curve—and fulfillment—of building something from scratch
16:46 Purpose, impact, and why entrepreneurship feels different from corporate work
22:00 Flexibility, productivity, and designing work around energy—not hours
23:30 The loneliness of entrepreneurship and how to cope with it
25:00 Building support systems and finding validation beyond titles and salary
36:00 Neurodiversity, ADHD, dyslexia, and big-picture thinking
41:55 How diversity fuels innovation—and why inclusion sustains it
43:16 Diversity, innovation and inclusion to build high-performance teams
49:43 Five-year vision: learning, travel, wellness, and global impact
52:54 Where to find Sharmin and how to connect
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