{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F766467c3-f84f-4e50-9409-7f5a06300ae4","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Changing The Game with Wilson Casado - Esther Oh","description":"As the first half of 2022 closes, a new page in Changing the Game starts as I share a table with a guest for the first time, a moment I had the pleasure of sharing with the amazing Esther Oh.\n\nDescribing her background is a little hard since there seems to be very little she hasn\u2019t done.\n\nEsther has several qualifications in fields from IT to law, having worked in the boards and committees of several universities, and having received a ministerial appointment for reforming the TAIFF.\n\nHowever, what brings Esther to this episode of changing the game is less her extensive list of titles and achievements, and more the story of how she came to add \u201centrepreneur\u201d to her already prolific resume.\n\nThis story, unfortunately, starts with her having to go through a rather traumatic event:\n\nAgile 8\nEsther describes herself as a mother who\u2019s had her vision transformed by a series of traumatic experiences, and came to find an answer in technology for the issues that contributed to her tribulations.\n\nAgile 8, is the result of this broadening of vision, a company that combines AI with enhanced virtual reality to empower health professionals with something akin to x-ray vision, allowing them to work smarter, faster, and safer.\n\nHer story is the perfect example of how the hardest blows life deals us often prepare us with the strength to change the game.\n\n\u201cHow?\u201d you may ask? By making the commitment of not allowing what happened to us to happen to others.\n\nEmpathy can make an innovator out of anyone.\n\nSight Lost\nSo, what was the traumatic experience that lead to the founding of Agile 8?\n\nWell, let us begin by saying that Esther\u2019s son was a perfectly healthy boy who began to develop some sight issues.\n\nAs any mother would, Esther took him to a doctor, the first doctor, who was not aware of the gravity of the illness affecting her son\u2019s eyes, a mistake shared by the second doctor, a mistake which the third doctor affirmed could have been corrected had it been identified earlier.\n\nThis was how, while still a child, Esther\u2019s otherwise perfectly healthy son lost his sight permanently.\n\nVision Gained\nEsther went through what might be a mother\u2019s worst nightmare, to see her son suffer for the rest of his life due to an issue that could have been avoided were it not for a series of problems that impeded the ability of health professionals to operate at their best capacity.\n\nFirstly there was the knowledge gap that existed between doctors, as neither of the first two specialists, Esther visited had the same knowledge as the last one, which inevitably lead to the delay in treatment that cost her son\u2019s sight.\n\nThis is when she realised that the ability of frontline doctors to accurately diagnose an issue as soon as possible not only could have helped her son but could effectively be the difference between life and death for thousands of people.\n\nBut where this kind of suffering can enclose many of us in our own struggles, her background as a health professional and entrepreneur allowed Esther to see herself as part of a much larger problem. A problem she could give her best to solve.\n\nWhat is Innovation?\nAnd this is exactly how she defined innovation: problem-solving.\n\nTo be more specific, Esther defined innovation as problem-solving using through tackling it from different perspectives, that is, to find and try all possible solutions for solving that problem in the most efficient way.\n\nThis process starts with a deeper renewal and transformation of your mind. Where other parents could be \u201cwallowing in sorrow and blaming the doctors who didn\u2019t get it right\u201d, Esther took a completely different route.\n\nShe saw the severe pressure frontline doctors endured and decided that instead of adding to that the weight of her sorrow, she was going to make their jobs and lives easier through the implementation of technology.\n\nConclusion\nAt the end of our talk, the single most important lesson Esther Oh had taught was this: that suffering can enable you to make the...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/7a112c66-f693-49a0-91f1-dc6ccca99424/tC_dmo-F9aEbqDWZN2UZC3K6.png"}