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In this episode you hear from Dr Jamie Chiu, founder of The Brightly Project. In 2016 she rightly made it on the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur list and was also selected as one of Hong Kong’s 100 most influential young leaders in the Hong Kong Tatler’s Generation T. Find show notes at www.hashtagimpact.com/podcast6
As a clinical psychologist and counsellor, she has worked with hundreds of at-risk teens struggling with depression and anxiety. She spent her doctorate years researching the factors of youth depression and suicide and investigating the effectiveness of school-based mental health programs.
In this interview, for the very first time, she shares details of her newest initiative #IWTK, an anonymous question-asking platform for every unsure moment and difficult situation in teenage life. “This is for all the times we wished we had someone to turn to. Someone who will not judge us, or make us feel unimportant”, it reads on her website. No matter what the question, Jamie shares her experience, advice, and support to help youngsters get through it all.
She is talking us through her inspiration when founding The Brightly Project, her marketing strategies, biggest challenges and things she would have wanted to know before starting out. You will also find out why a guy people in Hong Kong refer to as the Flyer King is such an inspiration to her.
#MENTIONED in this episode
- A useful resource for her lean social startup: Justin Wilcox: FOCUS Framework: How to Find Product-Market Fit
- Here is the picture of the beautiful LOGO of the #IWTK initiative we discuss towards the end of the interview, taken on the day we met in December last year.
Follow Jamie and her amazing work with The Brightly Project on their official website and Facebook. Jamie is also blogging on Medium. Her posts are thought-provoking. Head over and check them out here.
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