Hi, I'm Wen.
Founder of SushiVid, accidental entrepreneur, and lifelong student of my own head. I write about building a business, staying well while doing it, and everything I figure out along the way. More about me →
2026
- It Was Never About Discipline I was stuck at 60kg for years. After seven weekly Mounjaro injections with my doctor, I'm at 55kg. Here's what it felt like, the side effects, the hair loss, and what I'd tell a friend.
- What Are We Rushing For? The Chinese word for busy, 忙, is made of the heart and the word for perishing. I'd spent ten years optimising my time — and quietly losing my heart.
- I Thought I Had To Be Serious To Be Taken Seriously Ten years in software, wearing the same basics every day so I'd never have to think about it. At 40, I started a jewellery brand. It isn't a pivot. It's a recovery.
- I Thought I Was Too Late My Whole Life Too late at 26. Too late at 30. Too late at 41. For a long season, "too late" was the lens I saw everything through. Then I put it down.
- No Dating Until Series A At 30, I made a rule: no dating until I raise my Series A. The market never signed the agreement.
- I Started My Company To Prove Someone Wrong An investor who believed in me before I had an idea — and someone who didn't believe in me at all. My company was born from both.
- Wrong About Success At 25 I thought I'd marry rich. At 40, I'm my own husband. The honest audit — and the one thing I got right.
- The Dream Kept Getting Smaller In year one, I thought SushiVid would become the JobStreet of influencer marketing. I was wrong about almost everything — except one thing.
- Catching Up With AI. Again. The funny thing about AI is that the moment you think you've caught up, you're behind.
2024
- Embracing Resilience: My Battle to Save My Business in 2024 2024 has been WOW! I finally sat down and faced my new reality. I know now my company is steep in…
- New Lifelong Commitment And so it begins... 7 days before I turn 39, a new milestone. A new lifelong commitment. Not a…
- Grow Them, Don't Steal Them A colleague asked me recently, why don't I poach from our competitors? Navigating the startup…
- Life as a Player Today, I want to talk about a revelation I got from my Hungarian friend, Peter. When I got home and…
- The Power of Language in Leadership: Choosing the Right Terms for Your Team In the realm of leadership, every word spoken carries weight. How we address our team members not…
- What are friends? What does it mean to be friends? I met my host sister Lucia a few months ago in Vigo and we got to talking about friendship and I…
- Letter to self: Embrace Trust Dear Current Self, I've taken some time to reflect on our entrepreneurship journey, and I can't help…
- Navigating Purpose: Evolution of the Meaning of Success Interestingly, as I continue on my reflections I've found that my perspective on success have…
- A Personal Journal Entry: How Are You, Wen? When I embarked on this sabbatical, I had a couple of questions prepared for myself that I wanted…
- My Date with the Question: What Is My Purpose? This is a question that has haunted me my entire adulthood. I know the use of the word "haunted…
2023
- My retirement plan Growing up sucks! In our 20s, we had to deal with the idea of adulting. We got our first full-time…
- 3 weeks in therapy, how do I feel? Just a little under 3 weeks since I started therapy, my take? I'm not sure if I'm getting closer to…
- I finally signed up for counselling So I did it! I finally signed up for counselling. While people seem to tell me not to talk about it…