Front & Female looks back at its most popular profiles of the year and highlights key takeaways from our interviews with some of the region's most inspiring, influential and interesting women
The year 2023 was a bumper one for Front & Female, with a slew of inspiring interviews with influential individuals who span the globe and boast expertise in various fields.
Our most popular profiles included features on business leaders Sonia Cheng of Rosewood Hotels, whose Hong Kong outpost was named second best hotel in the world by World's 50 Best and the Best Hotel in Asia 2023; Anne Jakrajutatip, the Thai transgender businesswoman who made headlines when she acquired the Miss Universe organisation in late 2022; and Tan Sri Tengku Noor Zakiah, 97 year-old advisor at Kenanga Group and co-founder of Kenanga Investment Bank, who made history sixty years ago as the first licensed Malay female stockbroker in Malaysia and whose investment bank just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Then there were interviews with entrepreneurs, like Taiwan's Winnie Lee of publicly listed tech company Appier, and scions helming family businesses such as Mariana Zobel de Ayala of the Philippines. And away from the business world, you loved our stories on YouTubers Kimono Mom and Inga Lam, while actress Nadine Lustre's profile and a no-holds-barred piece on model Mia Kang also inspired.
Below are 2023's most popular Front & Female interviews, along with one takeaway from each subject ranging from advice to personal and professional learnings, though make sure to click through to read the full stories as these women each have so much more to share.
Kimono Mom
“I’ve never rejected anything I’ve been through," says Moe, who is better known as Kimono Mom to her 1.6M subscribers on YouTube. "I embrace every single one of my failures. Everything I’ve done allowed me to be where I’m at today.”