
LISTEN TO THE LATEST SHE'S SO SUITE PODCAST
IN THIS EPISODE KRISTI AND MELISSA DISCUSS:
Balancing Career and Relationships
Best relationships enhance who you are, even if you're a CEO.
Importance of Partner Support
Find partners who support and celebrate your ambitions without you having to
diminish yourself.
Pursuing Financial Freedom
Start with a goal to design your life around personal happiness and freedom.
Overcoming Initial Challenges
The first year of any business venture is the most challenging and involves immense
learning.
Learning from Corporate Experience
Working in large corporations can reveal preferences for more autonomy and
creativity.
Nomad Lifestyle Advantages
Flexibility and travel are achievable with remote work, even while running a business.
Customer Support Is Essential
Engaging with customer support roles offers deep insights into user challenges, even
if it's not enjoyable.
Importance of Lifestyle Design
Design your business to support a preferred lifestyle, focusing on freedom and
happiness.
Transparency Creates Empowerment
Be open and transparent about your journey and successes to inspire and guide
others.
Strategic Hiring is Crucial
Avoid rushing into hiring; ensure that new team members align with your company
culture and goals.

Sponsored by: ClientSuccess and WednesdayWomen
Produced by: Manali Bhat
Listen to the She's So Suite Podcast:
Podcast Episode Overview:
Welcome to She's So Suite podcast! In this episode, we're thrilled to be joined by Melissa Kwan, the co-founder and CEO of eWebinar. Melissa has an extensive background in bootstrapping startups, nomadic living, and designing a life centered around freedom and happiness.
Melissa shares her experiences of navigating the challenges of starting multiple companies, including her current venture, eWebinar, an innovative platform that automates webinars for customer success teams. We dive deep into her journey, from her early days growing up in Hong Kong with traditional expectations, to her pivotal career moments and the personal philosophy that drives her today: you can have everything you want, just not all at once.
Melissa also opens up about working alongside her life partner, David, and how they have crafted an extraordinary life together, balancing professional success with a lifestyle of freedom and enjoyment.
Join us for an inspiring and motivational conversation as Melissa Kwan offers valuable insights and advice on entrepreneurship, lifestyle design, and empowering relationships. Whether you're aiming for the C-suite or designing your dream life, this episode is packed with stories and tips that could change your perspective.
About Melissa Kwan:
eWebinar Cofounder and CEO, Melissa Kwan, has spent 14 years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in B2B sales and business development, she has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.
Over the last decade, Melissa has come to believe that happiness should be the foundation of one’s career, not the other way around, and that the way to achieve this is by intentionally designing one’s life.
This belief was born in part from the soul-crushing experience Melissa endured giving the same webinar over and over again while onboarding and training customers for her previous SaaS company. She wanted to free others from the same trap by giving them a way to automate their repetitive webinars, so they could get their time back and spend it doing something else they value more instead of being tied to Zoom all the time.
Timestamps:
00:00 Balance and Empowering Relationships
05:43 Balancing Work and Family Dynamics
08:58 Cultural Expectations: Marriage or Profession
12:25 Hating Corporate Life at 27
15:35 Entrepreneurial Lessons in Youth
17:45 From Real Estate Tech to SaaS
25:52 Prioritizing Lifestyle Over Success
26:37 Achieving Lifestyle Freedom
32:04 Rediscovering Motivation After Success
36:02 Envisioning a Communal Future
38:59 Radical Transparency on Success
41:25 Valuing Founders in Startup Equity
43:36 Equity Splits: Try Before You Buy
47:09 Be Unapologetically Yourself
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