Your annual health checkup is a good start. But it’s not enough.

You’re in your 40s. Your doctor says you're fine. Your weight looks fine.
But your energy is low. Your sleep is off. Something just feels… off.

Amanda Lim sees this every day.
She’s a Harvard-certified coach and co-founder of Singapore’s first Metabolic Clinic, advising companies like Google, PayPal, and Medtronic.

Her message?
You can look lean and healthy, and still be metabolically unwell.

In Singapore, many people look slim and fit, yet we’re facing a diabetes crisis.

Most annual checkups don’t catch it. They miss key signs like:

• Skeletal muscle mass (SMI)
• Visceral fat
• Fasting insulin
• VO₂ max

In this episode of How to Live, Amanda and I unpack the real health reset for your 40s — metabolism, muscle, and how to build strength from the inside out.

Episode Shownotes
https://howtolive.life/episode/093-muscle-metabolisim-midlife-reset-with-amanda-lim

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Founders (and leaders) are addicted to solving problems. It’s their crack cocaine.
That’s what startup scaling coach Rob Bier, author of Smooth Scaling and coach to 40+ startups including six unicorns, told me.
And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
Fixing things feels good. It proves we’re still valuable. Still sharp. Still in control.

But the addiction comes at a cost.
It blocks us from building teams that solve problems without us.
And it traps us in an old identity—just when we’re ready to grow into something new.

We explore this and more in this episode of the podcast.

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Most career transitions are treated like cliff jumps.
You quit the job. Burn the bridges. Bet everything on your dream.

Shiv Choudhury chose a different path.

When he left BCG to build a billion-dollar business, he didn’t go all in.
First, he faked an app. It didn’t even work.
But it taught him one thing: customers wanted what he was offering.
That was enough to move to the next stage.

He calls it “pre-to-typing.”
👉 A way to de-risk big moves by testing the most important assumption before you quit your job or raise capital.

Shiv isn’t just theorizing.
He’s lived it — and thrived.

His career spans P&G, BCG, co-founding a fast-growing startup now valued in the hundreds of millions, and launching a successful private equity firm.
Every move was intentional.
Every leap was tested.

In this episode, he gives a masterclass in how to evolve your career — without blowing it up.

He shares:
✅ The “pre-to-type” method for de-risking ideas
✅ Why staying in your job can be the brave thing
✅ His framework for deciding when to prototype, scale, or kill
✅ How a childhood trauma still shapes his risk-taking
✅ Why humility — not hustle — has been his edge

If you’re in a transition — or quietly planning one — this episode is for you.

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https://howtolive.life/episode/091-the-art-of-career-transitions-with-Shiv-Choudhury

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