Rand grew up in a family with 7 siblings as the middle child.
The age gap with the older children made her the "eldest of the youngest".

She initially wanted to be a doctor, then found an interest in property management. Her dad said she would be good in business, and that's what she went after.

She applied to her dream business school in Canada and was rejected!

What did she do? She picked another major at the university she wanted then expected to be able to transfer into the business program.
She would only be allowed to transfer is she got permission from every professor.
Started the program almost a month later and with an assignment due next week, she pulled off completing the assignments and catching up with studying for exams and getting an A to complete the minimum to transfer.
What they didn't tell her is that the minimum wasn't enough so she found another university to transfer to and had to complete 2 first year courses before she could continue her program.
She finally got into the program and now is back on track with her career currently working on an internship doing accounting for a... wait for it... property management company!

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Special Guest: Rand Enaya.

On this episode of the SIWIKE podcast, Luki and Chris have a conversation about Art, Accounting, Cybersecurity, Content Creation and Coaching. Chris is the co-founder of Uprotege. Uprotege is a start up that provides job help and career coaching to students, young professionals and experienced hires (https://www.uprotege.ca/)

Connect with Chris at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisachan/
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TIMESTAMPS:
01:28 - Chris as a kid
04:07 - First job was in consulting
06:11 - Wanted to get CPA
07:38 - Took the plunge to go into cyber world
11:04 - UProtege
13:32 - His SIWIIKE
16:52 - Future aspirations?

Special Guest: Chris Chan .

On this episode of the SIWIKE podcast, Luki and Alena discuss Psychology, Parenthood, Accounting and Coaching. Alena is a leadership coach who helps organizations turn managers into people leaders. She shares her journey from accounting to getting her psychology degree to become a therapist leading her to discover her passion for leadership coaching.

We speak about:
01:25 - Getting a psychology degree to become a therapist
02:16 - Her 11 year accounting career
02:32 - Alena as a kid and her love for reading books
06:18 - Wanting a career that allowed her to talk to people
07:39 - Both parents being engineers
09:47 - Being pregnant with twins in her last year
16:12 - University professor suggesting she would make a good CPA
19:03 - Her realization that accounting was not the career for her
22:21 - The transition from a big firm to small firm
26:36 - Feeling like there was a misalignment in her career
27:45 - Wanting to take someone average to high
32:53 - Using her skills to help leaders
33:18 - Her SIWIKE

Connect with Alena at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alenasviderskaia/

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Special Guest: Alena Sviderskaia .

On this episode of the SIWIKE Podcast, I am joined by Katherine Chong. Katherine is a product manager who is currently embarking on a journey to find her next career path.

She speaks about:
01:11 - Being a high achiever growing up
03:15 - Over analyzing her failures
05:01 - Getting into business because it allowed her to be creative
06:22 - Bumping into a tech startup on campus
08:41 - Her internship experience as a Tax accountant
10:43 - Deciding accounting wasn't for her
13:10 - Her struggle to choose what program to study next
16:35 - Transitioning to business development
17:52 - Her position as the director of content
20:19 - Realizing she was doing PM work but didn't know
28:03 - The pandemic giving her more time to reflect
31:08 - The art of networking
32:49 - Exploring many different career paths
39:13 - Her SIWIKE
42:08 - Self-doubt holding her back

Connect with Katherine at https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinelychong/

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Special Guest: Katherine Chong.

He shares some of the challenges from switching from accounting in his undergrad.

02:28 How he became interested in accounting and choice of "mathy" careers after not being interested in the science path

07:43 How law came afterwards as he didn't have many lawyer role models growing up

09:38 Choosing his undergrad wanting work experience from coop and finishing the program early

14:10 Landing his coop term largely through attending a conference

20:47 Doing his CPA.

21:00 Then moving from business to law school and the difference between the CPA exams and LSAT

24:09 Doing poorly on his first practice LSAT and thinking he wouldn't continue as a lawyer

25:05 Applying to Ontario law schools

26:59 Experiencing imposter syndrome in law school

30:24 Law firm hiring processes.

35:00 Matching areas of interest when getting into law full time

38:05 His SIWIKE

Listen to the video for more details
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Connect with Deron here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deronfung/

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Special Guest: Deron Fung.