Jan 11, 2024
#102 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Amy
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Amy, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and her body.
10 Facts About Amy
(at the time of the project)
* 51 years old.
* Amy is from Hong Kong, and she came to Australia when she was 10 years old with her family.
* She speaks Cantonese, not Mandarin.
* Amy was educated in Australia. After finishing primary and high school here, she went to UNSW to do her bachelor's and her MBA. She also just got her Doctorate in Business Administration from Geneva Business School.
* Amy loves ballet. She goes around the world chasing ballet. She’s been to Moscow twice to see the Bolshoi.
* Amy loves fashion, and she loves sparkles as well. Bling- bling.
* Amy’s favorite color is pink, the ballerina pink.
* Amy teaches MBA students. She’s been teaching for 15 years now.
* Before that Amy was an accountant. She is a CPA and she’s been teaching accounting to undergraduates as well.
* Amy’s goal for 2024 is that she wants to get on the board career. So, she can teach 50% of the time and then have another 50% of her time dedicated to the board.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the My Body My Story project. And today with us in the studio, Dr. Amy Lee. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair, and I'll be asking her a few questions. Hello, Amy. Welcome to the studio. Welcome to the project.
Hi, Alex. Thank you for having me in. Yen. Nice to see that is CEO. And thanks for having me again.
So let's start and let's tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Okay, well to kick it off. I'm 51 years old, and I'm turning 52 in April. So 10 facts. The first fact is that I'm from Hong Kong, and I came to Australia when I was 10 years old with my family a LONG TIME AGO A long time ago. Yeah, so more Aussie, then Chinese. Second fact is that because of my heritage, I speak Cantonese, not Mandarin. And then the third fact is that I was educated here. I did my primary school of rising Charles. And then I did my high school and my sisters have an undersea wattage. Yeah. And then I went to UNSW to do my bachelor as far as my MBA. And then my four fact is then I just got my Doctorate in Business Administration, with Geneva business school over in Geneva and Barcelona. They have a campus in Barcelona and Madrid. The fifth fact is that I just came back from graduating there. So I attended a graduation ceremony at Geneva as well as Barcelona. So the six fact is that I love ballet. I go around the world chasing ballet. I've been to Moscow twice to see the Bolshoi. I saw the Spartacus, Carmen and the Hunchback of Notre DOM. And then the seventh fact is that my favourite colour is pink. The ballerina pink, obviously, yes. And I like sparkle sparkles as well. Bling bling. The eighth fact is that I'm Elektra, doing MBA and teaching MBA students. Some of my students are CEO, academic dean, senior managers. I've been teaching for 15 years now. And before that I was an accountant, which is my ninth fact. And my tenth fact is that my horizon for 2024, my goal is that I want to get on the board career. So I can teach 50% and then have another 50% of my time dedicated to board, like governance and making sure that CEOs are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
Whatever you teach them to do.
Yeah, teaching them Yeah. Teaching them ethics.
So, you are teaching ethics?
yeah. I am teaching them ethics and governance and operational improvement strategies. Yeah. I'm an accountant by trade. That's my base. Yeah. I'm a CPA, so and I've been teaching accounting to undergraduates as well. Yeah.
Yeah. Do you find this job rewarding?
At the beginning, it was hard. It was very hard. You need a lot of patience because you know the work, you know the stuff, but they don't. And you have to keep repeatedly teaching in various way to make sure they understand what you're saying. But after a while, like many years later, we get the hang of it. And then then you know how to return patients into passion? Yeah, an exchange of ideas is gold. Because they have something that you never thought of, because you thought we thought I will know at all. But sometimes they will look at it in a different angle. And they say how me is how about this? Yeah, they were, oh, that's refreshing, so that you learn from them as well, yeah, you learn from them, you get to understand what they saying. And it's humbling to see them improve. That's why I don't like to teach. High, like very intellectual students. I like to teach one that is hardworking, but be dumb. Because they will improve and they will become improve. Yeah, they're happy, I'm super happy. And that's why now that I teach, like very senior managers, I get really excited when some of them become CEO, like break the glass ceiling. Yeah, that's excitement. Because this is finally I'm adding values to the career and, and that they're getting something out of the education.
Great. Okay, so let's move to the ageing and body image questions. And what does ageing means to you to 51?
Well, physically, the body does, does not, it's like an ancient, like, you know, the older you get, the more maintenance you need. And you tend to have, like, you know, in the, when you're younger, or you have maybe a gin GP that looks after your general health. But as you get older, you have specialists, like, you know, for example, I have diabetic, so I have endocrinologist. And then then, of course, I have my GP of 30 years, they look after me, then I have a dentist, I have a whole team of medical professionals that look after me to make sure that I run well. And I think what people have told me when you hit 40, all the symptoms of ageing will start creeping, creeping up. And, and it's true. Like I'm, I'm 50 now, and I'm trying to keep it as really healthy as possible. But you can feel like you know, the metabolism is slow. The like, you know, your more, your immune system may not be as strong as before. And, you know, you guys have to watch what you eat. Your energy level may not be as strong as my other students were much younger and more energetic. So yeah, physically, the signs are there. And you have to take care, greater care by Nonie have a good medical team, but you have to look after yourself really well. But emotionally, it's all depend on how you your approach your attitude. If you're young at heart, then it's always the way to go, I think.
But if you could go back to any age, what age it would be, why, and what advice would you give yourself?
I would, I would go back to age of 30. Like you know, 30 is when you really have made your mark your first mark, because you finish uni you probably have a master on the way to Ghana master. So and then you qualify you got experience. You're in the middle management. And the advice I wi…