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Hosted by Katrina Gisbert-Tay · education · EN
The most interesting conversations happen in the messy middle - between who we were and who we're becoming. Hosted by Dr. Katrina Gisbert-Tay, medical doctor and executive wellbeing coach, Unpolished Wisdom celebrates beautifully imperfect conversations about career transitions, identity shifts, burnout and the quiet wisdom found in uncertainty. Each episode features honest storytelling with people navigating their own messy middles - no polished solutions, just authentic stories about reinvention, letting go, and discovering what matters as life reshapes itself.
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Booking probability
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Guest openness
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe most interesting conversations happen in the messy middle - between who we were and who we're becoming. Hosted by Dr. Katrina Gisbert-Tay, medical doctor and executive wellbeing coach, Unpolished Wisdom celebrates beautifully imperfect conversations about career transitions, identity shifts, burnout and the quiet wisdom found in uncertainty.
Unpolished Wisdom is hosted by Katrina Gisbert-Tay. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How Angel Investors Back the Future, with Erika Aquino | The Messy Middle of Purpose and Profit" (21 October 2026, 52 minutes), "The Messy Middle of Vulnerability: Scars, Not Wounds | Anna Ong on Storytelling & Leadership" (8 October 2026, 54 minutes), and "Range, Not Change: Expanding your Identity Without Losing Yourself with Marcus Marsden" (28 May 2026, 46 minutes).
Unpolished Wisdom publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for Unpolished Wisdom is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Unpolished Wisdom requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Unpolished Wisdom's contact route on record: public web form.
Katrina Gisbert-Tay hosts Unpolished Wisdom, an education podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Episode #4
What does it take to back a founder before there's a product, a track record, or a single number to prove you're right? Angel investor Erika Aquino joins Unpolished Wisdom to unpack the messy middle of angel investing...
Episode #3
Anna Ong, storyteller, applied improv coach, and founder of What's Your Story Slam, joins Unpolished Wisdom to unpack how vulnerable you should really be, and why the best stories share your scars, not your wounds...
<p>Marcus Marsden is Managing Partner of The Works Partnership and author of Start With Who. He'd built a career helping leaders ask the hard questions — until life asked them of him.</p><p>In 2019, Marcus unexpectedly...
<p>Dr. Loo Hui Voon is the doctor people find when they've already seen everyone else. An integrative and functional medicine physician, she's built a practice around seeing the whole person — the body, the gut, the...
Episode #10
<p>In this episode of Unpolished Wisdom, Dr. Katrina Gisbert Tay speaks to Siva Shankar Jayaraj. Siva grew up in a kampong in Malacca with no address and no plan — just an unshakeable belief that having nothing to lose...
<p>Dr. Suhina Singh grew up in apartheid South Africa where danger wasn't an exception — it was the baseline. Hypervigilance became her identity. Competence became survival. And for decades, her body absorbed everything...
<p>What happens when life doesn’t follow the timeline you thought you had to keep?</p><p>In this conversation, Bianca Yuzon Henares, multidisciplinary artist, dream pop musician, and mother - shares her journey of...
<p>Jessica Nomi Spain, board certified nutritionist, health coach, and mother of four, spent decades living without knowing her origins after being adopted at age four following her Korean mother's death. She opens up...
<p>Terrie Lupberger, ICF Master Certified Coach and author of "Uncommon Wisdom at Work," spent seven years writing a book that kept teaching her what she wasn't ready to learn in year one. She opens up about the...
<p>Dani Van de Velde, meditation teacher, intuitive healer, and author of Spirited, reveals that sometimes the whisper you keep ignoring isn't doubt—it's your soul asking for attention. She opens up about walking away...
Episode #4
<p>Lyn Lee, the first Asian woman to have served as Global Chief DEI Officer at Shell and bestselling author of Tiny Rice Grains, reveals that even with all her achievements, she still struggles with feeling truly seen...
<p>Corinna Vistan and Ian Takahashi are award-winning filmmakers who have worked on movies and tv shows such as The Suicide Squad, The White Lotus and the Marvel Studios films. Corinna made a decision that seemed crazy...
<p>Matt Collier, founder and CEO of DignifyX, discovered that the darkness we encounter often reflects something we need to see in ourselves. He opens up about leaving a toxic work environment without a backup plan...
<p>Cornelia Dahinten, a Singapore-based family therapist and conscious parenting coach, reveals that the secret to conscious parenting isn't perfection—it's presence. She opens up about raising three children before she...
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