Tag: Entrepreneurship

From Breadth to Depth: How to Create Opportunities in a Dynamic World (Part Two of My Conversation with Quynh Xuan Nguyen)

The world has been changing rapidly, so how can you develop your skills to work in such an environment? In this second part of our conversation, Quynh describes how she strategizes between depth and breadth in learning new skills in order to adapt to the changes in our world, whether those be limited job prospects or new AI technologies like ChatGPT changing the nature of work. Also, how do you find your way while still remaining true to yourself?

Her strategy has been to use breadth by developing skills across a wide variety of contexts to decide what she most likes to do in life and to adapt to the ways new technologies change work itself and the skills necessary for such work. As she gets older and more established, she then uses this to decide what areas she would like to explore in depth of the what she discovers that she enjoys most in life and also seems to pay well enough in the current economy. This is a resilient strategy in today’s changing world.

Here is more information about her life coaching, yoga, and self-improvement initiatives: https://songthanhthoi.me.

The Hustle of Finding Your Way in Life: Part One of My Conversation with Quynh Xuan Nguyen

How can you build a career for yourself when you have many interests in life? Quynh Xuan Nguyen has had many, many passions and is not the type of person who easily focuses on only one activity or job all day, everyday. In the first part of our interview, she describes how she developed multiple interests overtime to build several side hustles and careers ranging from becoming a yoga instructor to a banker to a data analyst, worked for different companies around the world, and what she learned from her adventures.

Multiple side hustles, I have found, are particularly common in Southeast Asia, like in Vietnam where Quynh lives. There many young adults such as her often must develop multiple careers and income streams to withstand unreasonable jobs, limited opportunities for advancement, changing economic conditions, and other societal trends she discusses in our conversation. These problems definitely occur in other parts of the world as well and may well be something you have faced. Not everyone enjoys doing one thing, or has the ability to do so in the contemporary economy, and her life provides helpful inspiration for how exploring multiple paths at once can build self-satisfaction and resilience.

Here is more information about her life coaching, yoga, and self-improvement initiatives: https://songthanhthoi.me.

Data Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Artist: Interview with Emi Harry Part 1 of 3 (Interview #4 in the Interview Series)

For my fourth interview in the Interview Series, I interviewed Emi Harry. This is the first part of three of our conversation. Emi Harry is the co-founder of Naina Tech Inc., a New York-based tech startup that is poised to launch an adaptive learning platform for early childhood education in the U.S. and Nigeria’s underserved communities. As a highly skilled data scientist and social entrepreneur, Harry is also on the board of Alula Learning, an EdTech learning management systems provider, and Manna, a health and nutrition company, both in Nigeria. She has had a diverse professional experience, having worked in the food, oil and gas, entertainment, and fashion industries in Nigeria, as well as the entertainment, non-profit, and education industries in the United States. Currently, she balances her time between working in tech, creative writing, and fashion designing.

Her educational qualifications include B.S. in Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Master’s in Social Entrepreneurship, Hult International Business School, San Francisco; M.Sc. in Data Analytics/Science, Fordham University, New York, and is on track to earn a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Pace University New York.

During this first part of our conversation, we discussed the data science company she founded and how she learned data science. 

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Data Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Artist: Interview with Emi Harry Part 2 of 3 (Interview #5 in the Interview Series)

This is the second part of my interview with Emi Harry as part of my Interview Series. In it, she discusses her experiences of racial discrimination in data science as a black woman, how she manages her dual background in data science and fashion, and how she leverages her storytelling and communication skills as a data scientist.  If you would like to start at the beginning of my interview with her, click here.

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Emi Harry is the co-founder of Naina Tech Inc., a New York-based tech startup that is poised to launch an adaptive learning platform for early childhood education in the U.S. and Nigeria’s underserved communities. As a highly skilled data scientist and social entrepreneur, Harry is also on the board of Alula Learning, an EdTech learning management systems provider, and Manna, a health and nutrition company, both in Nigeria. She has had a diverse professional experience, having worked in the food, oil and gas, entertainment, and fashion industries in Nigeria, as well as the entertainment, non-profit, and education industries in the United States. Currently, she balances her time between working in tech, creative writing, and fashion designing.

Her educational qualifications include B.S. in Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Master’s in Social Entrepreneurship, Hult International Business School, San Francisco; M.Sc. in Data Analytics/Science, Fordham University, New York, and is on track to earn a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Pace University New York.

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Data Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Artist: Interview with Emi Harry Part 3 of 3 (Interview #6 in the Interview Series)

This is the third part of my interview with Emi Harry as part of my Interview Series. In it, she discusses her dual identify as a data scientist and entrepreneur, including how what it takes to be an entrepreneur, her experiences starting a data science company and recommendations she has for any data scientists considering starting their own.

Emi Harry is the co-founder of Naina Tech Inc., a New York-based tech startup that is poised to launch an adaptive learning platform for early childhood education in the U.S. and Nigeria’s underserved communities. As a highly skilled data scientist and social entrepreneur, Harry is also on the board of Alula Learning, an EdTech learning management systems provider, and Manna, a health and nutrition company, both in Nigeria. She has had a diverse professional experience, having worked in the food, oil and gas, entertainment, and fashion industries in Nigeria, as well as the entertainment, non-profit, and education industries in the United States. Currently, she balances her time between working in tech, creative writing, and fashion designing.

Her educational qualifications include B.S. in Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Master’s in Social Entrepreneurship, Hult International Business School, San Francisco; M.Sc. in Data Analytics/Science, Fordham University, New York, and is on track to earn a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Pace University New York.

Links to the first two parts of the interview:

To learn more about Emi Harry, check these out: