"I was like, well, I have kids and I eat food. So if that makes me qualified, then, okay, I'm game." However, that wasn't Julie Wade's initial response. When the now senior director of marketing at Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe was offered a position in the food service industry, an area she had limited experience in, her first instinct, like many women, was to say no, I'm not qualified. But after some urging from her former boss, she ultimately said yes. In this episode of Brand Insider: BTS, Julie tells me how after taking the chance, she immediately started learning everything …

"The parts that I've had to learn and develop is probably a little bit more self-confidence, a little more assertiveness, you know, stereotypically, like a lot of Asian women, they're not necessarily raised to use your voice very loudly." Yin Woon Rani certainly learned to use her voice and then some. Born and raised in Singapore, the CEO/CMO of MilkPEP has earned recognition from numerous industry awards; including YWCA's Woman of the Year and Brand Innovators Top 50 Women in Marketing. In this episode of Brand Insider: BTS, Yin admits that learning to speak her own mind has been a …