‘I’ve given up a lot,’ says the woman who led Aware’s transformation

On the surface, Ms Corinna Lim reads like a serial overachiever: top law student, former national squash player, tech entrepreneur who raised seven-figure funding, lawyer behind Singapore’s first domestic violence Bill, and the leader who grew Aware from a six-person outfit into a multimillion-dollar, 30-strong force for gender equality.

In person, she is less iron-lady feminist than wry, self-aware confessor who talks easily about fear, failure, burnout and the quiet toll of always having to be “on”.