Dinah Salonga is a dream girl in every sense of the word. A tech innovator in her youth, she made a daring career shift in her 50s. Now, into her 60s, she’s living a literally idyllic life in the province after the pandemic rendered geography irrelevant. It’s the type of life—and her sense of ease—that many of us aspire to have.

Niña Terol is a startup—if you could say that about a person. She is full of grit, always a work in progress, passion-fueled, and raring to go. She sums up 20 years of accomplishments into a few choice words: communicator, connector, changemaker, and creative catalyst.

“You’re on mute!” has been the catchphrase of video calls and Zoom meetings, after all. According to Heather, this seemingly trivial phrase reveals a much deeper insight into how people communicate.

Qin Yunquan was not born to fight. “Being a doctor was my first choice,” she recalls. “Unfortunately, I’m not a great academic person so I couldn’t qualify for medical school.”

But perhaps she chose medicine subconsciously because it feels like the only concrete profession where she could express what she really wanted to do: Yunquan wanted to save lives.

The events that brought Andrea Edwards to where she is today stem from a series of very deliberate choices.

The Australian ‘digital conversationalist’ is a woman of many voices: a musician, a content marketing expert, a PR consultant, a blogger, a motivational speaker, an author, a mum and wife and an entrepreneur.

It’s a list that can go on forever.

Camille Escudero does not want to talk about herself.

Even when she divulges details of her personal healing or the anxiety moving back in with her mother, the conversation eventually ends with anything but her.