Mathieu Beth Tan
Hello! My name is Mathieu and I'm an educator and entrepreneur based in Singapore. Every other week, I send out an email around the ideas of faith, education, business, strategy, wisdom, parenting, philosophy and life. If you like to journey with me, please subscribe below.
Fix Your Relationship With This Thing In 2026 (& All The Years Beyond)
Fix Your Relationship With This Thing In 2026 (& All The Years Beyond) by Mathieu Beth Tan On top of my work at Gosh! Kids, I’m a part-time teacher at a local university. The core of this role is to deliver curriculum to undergraduates from various faculties. A smaller, lesser-known aspect — but no less important — is to read and grade assignments. That being said, I don’t particularly enjoy this part. And the reason is not because I have to read through 40 submissions, each at least 30 pages...
This Is A Reminder To Do This "Simple" Thing
This Is A Reminder To Do This "Simple" Thing by Mathieu Beth Tan Today is Gladys’ birthday. If you don’t know who she is, Gladys is the co-founder and head-educator of our company, Gosh! Kids. She's also my wife. I’m not great at math but, last I counted, she turns 35. Statistically, life expectancy is around what, 75, 80 years? That puts her close to the halfway mark. Numbers aside, I think there is nothing inherently special about the day we were born. At the same time, I also think there...
The One Thing More Powerful Than Fear
The One Thing More Powerful Than Fear by Mathieu Beth Tan It was on this day, three years ago, that I did something crazy. I would never say it was an easy decision, nor was it always smooth sailing. Call it what you want—faith, impulsiveness, recklessness—I’m glad I took that step despite what was at stake. In 2022, I uprooted my entire family from Singapore and relocated to Fukuoka City, Japan. I quit my day job, shelved Gosh! Kids, and, along with Gladys, carried our six-month-old into a...
It Means Nothing Until It Costs You Something
It Means Nothing Until It Costs You Something by Mathieu Beth Tan It was probably a passing comment that came across as ambitious and exciting, so I did not put much thought into it. But then I kept hearing it. From friends. From family. From fellow educators and business owners in the same industry. Rebrand your programmes, they’d said, to focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—core academics most parents in this part of the world want their kids to perfect—because,...
This Thing Has Cost Me So Much
This Thing Has Cost Me So Much by Mathieu Beth Tan I have this thing that bothers me. It bothers me so much that it wears me down to the bone, like a drug slowly poisoning me from the inside out. And after all these years, living with it day after day, it has cost me so, so much. What I’m talking about is my anxiety. Not just in one particular thing, but in almost everything. I often get nervous when I’m abroad for work. Not because I have to care for a toddler while running a camp for thirty...
Hello! My name is Mathieu and I'm an educator and entrepreneur based in Singapore. Every other week, I send out an email around the ideas of faith, education, business, strategy, wisdom, parenting, philosophy and life. If you like to journey with me, please subscribe below.