The PHILSME Business Show returns for Season 4 with a stronger editorial direction centered on the leadership journeys behind business success. This new season shifts the spotlight to the stories of Presidents, CEOs, founders, owners, and top executives whose personal and professional paths offer hard-earned lessons for Filipino entrepreneurs building through uncertainty, ambition, and change.
The season marks a clear step up from the show’s earlier runs, following multiple Spotify Creator Milestone recognitions and its inclusion in Good News Pilipinas’ Top 20 Filipino Business Shows to Watch in 2026. With a more elevated guest lineup, a new production location, and richer story framing, Season 4 reflects how the PHILSME Business Show is maturing into a stronger platform for leadership-driven business conversations.
A More Elevated Theme for Season 4
Hosted by CEO Trixie Esguerra-Abrenilla, the new season is designed to go deeper than standard founder interviews or promotional guesting. Its central theme is leadership through lived experience — the difficult choices, defining moments, reinventions, setbacks, and values that shape how business leaders think and lead.
Instead of focusing only on what these leaders built, Season 4 explores how they became the people capable of building it.
That shift matters for entrepreneurs who are not just looking for tips, but for perspective — especially from leaders who have navigated scale, pressure, visibility, and reinvention in their own fields.
A Season Built Around Stronger Voices
This season features a lineup of highly visible founders, executives, and thought leaders from different industries, each bringing a distinct lens on growth, influence, and business-building.
Among the featured guests are:
- Reymond “Boss RDR” Delos Reyes, President and Founder of RDR Business Solutions and Growth Circle International, known for helping entrepreneurs and creators turn their ideas into powerful brands
- Dean Pax Lapid, Chairman and CEO of IT-SPAC and AIOS.PH, whose multi-industry entrepreneurial journey spans tech, agribusiness, fuel, and distribution
- Valerie Fischer, Co-founder and General Manager of Pinas Sadya, who merges marketing, brain science, and Filipino product entrepreneurship into a distinctive business voice
- Hannah Granda, Chief Operating Officer of Sine Haraya, whose work in filmmaking and visual storytelling brings a creative leadership perspective into the business conversation
- Boni De Jesus, Founder of LTL Consultants and the Kapayaman Community, who brings decades of financial advisory and values-driven mentorship to SME growth conversations
- Eli Abella, Founder and Human Potential Coach, whose work around resilience, biology, and whole-person transformation adds a different dimension to founder and leadership performance
Together, these interviews position the season as more than a guest lineup. They form a curated set of leadership stories that speak to the real emotional and strategic terrain of entrepreneurship.
A Special Episode at the Heart of the Season
One of the season’s most meaningful highlights is a special episode in which PHILSME Media Director Angie Quadra-Balibay interviews CEO Trixie Esguerra-Abrenilla herself.
In that conversation, Trixie opens up about one of the most defining chapters behind PHILSME’s evolution: how she channeled her grief following the passing of PHILSME founder David Abrenilla into the expansion of PHILSME’s platforms, content, and business-building mission.
Rather than simply telling the story of an organization, the episode reframes PHILSME through the lens of continuity, legacy, and leadership under emotional pressure — a subject that will resonate deeply with founders carrying both business responsibility and personal loss.
“This season is rich because the stories are rich. Behind every successful founder or executive is a deeper human journey — the kind of truth, struggle, and breakthrough that can really move and guide other entrepreneurs.”
— CEO Trixie Esguerra-Abrenilla
Expanded Conversations Through the PHILSME Network
Season 4 also widens its perspective through interviews led by Angie Quadra-Balibay, bringing in leaders from key PHILSME Business Network member organizations.
These include:
- KD Dizon, Vice President and Head of Globe Business
- Chelsy C. Nepomuceno, Regional Marketer at Zoho Corporation
- Gracia Lualhati, Marketing Head of JK Capital Finance
These interviews help broaden the season beyond founder stories alone by bringing in the voices of business enablers and ecosystem players whose work supports SME growth from the inside.
“As Media Director, what excites me most about this season is that we are not just documenting businesses — we are documenting the human stories, leadership layers, and lived decisions behind them. That is where the real value is for our audience.”
— Angie Quadra-Balibay, PHILSME Media Director
New Setting, Higher Production Value
Season 4 is filmed in a new location: the Minotti Manila showroom by Living Innovations PH in Bonifacio Global City (BGC).
The new setting was chosen to better match the tone of this season’s conversations. With Season 4 centered on leadership journeys and personal backstories, the Minotti Manila showroom offers a more comfortable, intimate, and refined environment that supports deeper and more reflective interviews.
Produced with shoot and editing support from Sine Haraya, Season 4 also benefits from a more cinematic visual treatment that complements the depth and tone of its conversations.
Many of the stories featured this season are drawn from the broader PHILSME Business Network — a community of founders, executives, solution providers, and business enablers whose leadership journeys reflect the realities, ambitions, and evolution of the Philippine SME ecosystem.
Why This Matters to Entrepreneurs
For Filipino entrepreneurs, leadership content becomes most valuable when it moves beyond surface-level motivation and into the realities of building something meaningful.
That is where Season 4 appears to be strongest.
By focusing on the stories behind decisions, growth, reinvention, grief, influence, brand-building, and resilience, the PHILSME Business Show is offering listeners something many founders actually need: context, perspective, and reflection from people who have already carried the weight of leadership.
In a business environment where many SME owners are navigating uncertainty, rapid change, and personal pressure all at once, these kinds of conversations can be just as important as tactical business advice.
Why It Matters to the PHILSME Audience
Season 4 reinforces PHILSME’s role not only as an events and business platform, but as a growing media and storytelling platform for the Philippine SME ecosystem.
As PHILSME expands its content footprint across podcasting, publishing, interviews, and entrepreneur-facing media, the Business Show becomes a stronger extension of its larger mission: to connect Filipino entrepreneurs with insights, solutions, partnerships, and real stories that support long-term growth.
The season’s stronger leadership focus also aligns naturally with PHILSME’s broader 2026 direction — one that is increasingly centered on depth, legacy, and business-building with meaning.
As the new season rolls out, the PHILSME Business Show is not just returning with new episodes. It is returning with a clearer identity — and a stronger reason to listen.
About PHILSME
PHILSME is a national business platform designed to connect Filipino entrepreneurs with solutions, partnerships, and opportunities that drive sustainable growth—locally and globally.
The 18th PHILSME Business Expo & Conference will be held on May 22–23, 2026 at the SMX Convention Center Manila.
