Inspire
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
Karlee “Willow” Davies on Finding Her Calling as a Tour Guide
The sun’s golden shafts pierce the mackerel clouds. New Zealand is one of the first countries to welcome a new morning. An eclectic posse of... Read More
The Travel Love Story of Earthstompers Bosses Hendrik & Chrissy Human
He was from Cape Town, she was from Kansas City. He was the tour guide, she was the traveller. Hendrik Human and Chrissy Wolfersberger-Human met... Read More
Eric McLaren: From Print to Footprints
Cruising past Cape Town’s landmarks like Vredehoek and Three Anchor Bay always brings to 53-year-old Eric McLaren’s mind fond childhood memories of playing “Cowboys & Indians”,... Read More
Founder of TheSmartLocal Bryan Choo Shares His Success Recipe
TheSmartLocal began as a humble travel blog, and today it is one of Singapore's most authoritative voices on all things lifestyle. The man behind its... Read More
Tattooist Sumithra Debi: Creating Art Beyond Skin Deep
The tattoo gun fires up, emitting a spine-tingling buzz. For Sumithra Debi (Su), the sound has been a kind of music since she was 15. Human... Read More
Bhas Karan: From Army Commander to BODYATTACK Instructor
My body stoops over my knees as I seek a momentary respite. A torrent of sweat pitter-patters on the floor like rain on windows —... Read More
Haukur Thorsteinsson: Life on the Off Road
6:10am and the lazy sun has yet clambered to its zenith. Haukur “Hawk” Thorsteinsson is already up. He downs the famed Icelandic hotdog — his... Read More
Altruistic Donor Lin Dilun “Loses” a Kidney but Gains a Second Family
In screenwriting, the superhero-saves-the-cat trope is one that raises the ire of professional readers. But at one point in his life, that was Lin Dilun’s... Read More
Sharina Bynes: Braving the World as a Freelance Emcee and Choreographer
Aah, the ’90s: an era marked by the complete domination of cookie-cutter pop stars. It was a brand of intoxicating bubblegum-pop grandeur: cheesy rhyming couplets,... Read More
Nazri Mohayadin: The Journey of Losing 45kg
There I was, a few paces from the steely, mammoth X-ray machine. This was 2008, when I was a strapping Military Policeman deployed in the... Read More