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Straits Times
07-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Straits Times
Health Check Podcast: Building up your adulting skill for mental health
(From left) Founder of Character & Leadership Academy Mr Delane Lim, program lead for CHAT Ms Lee Yi Ping and ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo. PHOTO: JASPER YU How can young people build up their mental health and cope with societal pressures while they are adulting? Health Check Podcast Building up your adulting skill for mental health Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you. We all know that adulting is not easy, but why is adulting hitting the mental health of young people so much these days? ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo explores this with two guests in this episode. They are: Ms Lee Yi Ping, the programme lead and principal Case Manager at Chat, Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health in Singapore. This service by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) serves as a first-stop touchpoint for young people seeking mental health support. Programme lead for CHAT Lee Yi Ping (right) talking at the second installment of ST Podcasts Live. PHOTO: JASPER YU Mr Delane Lim, the founder and executive director of the charity Character & Leadership Academy, which runs youth development, mental wellness, and suicide prevention programmes for young people. Mr Lim himself contemplated suicide at 25 and he knows just how tough adulting can be. Founder of Character & Leadership Academy Delane Lim (left) talking at the second installment of ST Podcasts Live. PHOTO: JASPER YU They discuss what one can do to manage the challenges that adulting brings, whether it is related to identity, work or relationships. Ms Lee and Mr Lim also share their own experiences. This episode was recorded live - and filmed in front of a live audience - at The Projector at Golden Mile Tower, as part of the ST Podcast Live! Sessions celebrating 180 years of The Straits Times in 2025. About 100 people attended the live broadcast at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower. PHOTO: JASPER YU Highlights (click/tap above): 1:30 Is adulting harder today than it was in the past? 5:40 Managing the pressure of 'having it all' by a certain age 10:50 Delane's brush with suicide at 25 16:23 Yi Ping on feeling burnout 19:08 Navigating social media safely 22:15 Advice to their younger selves Check out ST's new series, No health without mental health: Read Joyce Teo's stories: Host: Joyce Teo (joyceteo@ Produced and edited by: Amirul Karim Executive producers: Ernest Luis and Lynda Hong Follow Health Check Podcast here and get notified for new episode drops: Channel: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: Feedback to: podcast@ --- Follow more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: ST Podcasts website: ST Podcasts YouTube: --- Get The Straits Times app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: Google Play:
Straits Times
23-04-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Game of life: Must success always be about good grades and jobs?
Is Singapore ready for diverse pathways to success so that young people can feel accomplished in their own ways? In Your Opinion Podcast Game of life: Must success always be about good grades and jobs? Synopsis: Every month, The Straits Times takes a hard look at Singapore's social issues of the day with guests. In this special edition of In Your Opinion - filmed in front of a live audience - two youths share their experiences in starting up a business, and whether school grades would determine success at the workplace. About 100 people attended two recordings at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower on the evening of April 15. The special In Your Opinion podcast live recording was organised in partnership with the National Youth Council (NYC), in support of the SG Youth Plan – an action blueprint created by youths, for youths and the world that they will lead. About 100 people attended the live broadcast at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower. PHOTO: JASPER YU The 45-minute dialogue (including a 15-minute Q&A session) was a part of The Straits Times' In Your Opinion podcast. Hosted by ST assistant podcast editor Lynda Hong, the podcast features two young entrepreneurs - Ms Adella Yeo and Mr Nabill Shukury. The session on April 15 is the second instalment of ST Podcasts Live. PHOTO: JASPER YU Currently an account manager at a software company, Ms Adella Yeo Rae-Nyse had co-founded MatcHub, a startup that matched fellow NUS students to find suitable job roles based on their personality. A part-time student with SUSS studying marketing, Nabill Shukry Johary juggles school with a business he started up in 2021 with his father - Cheekies, a home-based delivery service of healthy meals for the Muslim market - in a bid to help his family move out of their one-room rental apartment in Tampines. Highlights (click/tap above): 1:56 Journey to entrepreneurship 7:35 The point of going to university is not just for the paper qualifications 10:28 How academic grades play a part post-school 16:15 Challenge the conventions of success 27:10 Advice for youths to forge their own success The audience were also treated to finger food and free merchandise. PHOTO: JASPER YU Every voice matters, and if you want to share ideas and have your voice heard, you can do your bit in the SG Youth Plan Quest at: To find out more about NYC's upcoming engagement sessions, you can head over to: Read ST's Opinion section: Host: Lynda Hong (lyndahong@ Produced and edited by: Hadyu Rahim Executive producer: Ernest Luis Follow In Your Opinion Podcast here and get notified for new episode drops: Channel: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: Feedback to: podcast@ --- Follow more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: ST Podcasts website: ST Podcasts YouTube: --- Get The Straits Times app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: Google Play: ---
