The Making of a Purpose-Driven Founder | Yunha Kim
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dive into the captivating tale of Yunha Kim. An immigrant who exceeded expectations, yet felt unfulfilled despite having every hallmark of success. From thriving in Wall Street's corridors to becoming a passionate entrepreneur, living with 5 workmate-roommates as they built from scratch. Yet, fulfillment evaded her until she combined tech and a personal challenge - her own battle with chronic insomnia.
Today, we unpack Yunha's incredible journey, from the pressures of Shark Tank to becoming a beacon of change in the tech industry. Discover how she's not just building apps but impacting lives.
You can find Yunha at: Website | Sleep Reset Instagram | Yunha's Instagram | Episode Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That deeper sense of purpose is what keeps you in the game when things are super hard because like entrepreneurial journey is like |
| 0:09.2 | Up and down, right? There are times where you love your job. There are times where you hit your job, right? |
| 0:13.5 | But if I have that strong mission behind it, like I know that my time is being spent on the right things by helping people with their sleep at scale |
| 0:22.5 | It like keeps me going and keeps me motivated. It's so rewarding. It's a cool job. |
| 0:30.8 | So imagine arriving in the US at the age of 14 alone |
| 0:35.5 | Without your entire family who was on the other side of the world |
| 0:40.1 | Working incredibly hard to live up to the expectations to succeed at the highest levels and then doing exactly that |
| 0:47.6 | Excelling in school and in a high profile job then realizing this was never truly your path and then making a |
| 0:54.5 | Big decision to pretty much blow it all up in the name of blazing your own path and then succeeding on an entirely different level |
| 1:03.4 | Well, my guest today Unicam has navigated many ups and downs since arriving in America alone as a 14 year old immigrant |
| 1:11.0 | She worked hard to land a job in investment banking in New York making great money having a big name job and |
| 1:16.6 | In great apartment all the trappings of success and still there was something missing |
| 1:22.0 | She felt increasingly called to do her own thing and to the surprise of many left what seemed to be a dream job to |
| 1:29.3 | Found her own business and spend years living and working with five other roommates who were also her workmates in a small |
| 1:36.6 | apartment to build their first business |
| 1:38.6 | It was an amazing experience |
| 1:40.6 | But it also taught her that owning her own business |
| 1:43.2 | It just wasn't enough |
| 1:44.2 | It had to be in service of something bigger. So when she exited that first company |
| 1:48.7 | She immediately set to work building a popular meditation app simple habit that was really about helping people |
| 1:55.9 | Find peace, but along the way her own chronic insomnia |
| 2:00.0 | It really started to take its toll no amount of ambition could outrun her constant |
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