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🎙️ Reflecting On This Past Year | Another Birthday, Another Life Lesson. 📝 August Reflection Leaning into the new season, forced me to reflect on my past year. There is so much that life teaches you, and you have to choose to be present to take it all in. To my surprise, there was more than I anticipated, which made me reflect on the fact that I want to try to be better and stay present in the mo...

🎙️ Growing Up As A Third Culture Kid featuring Peter Varberg 📝 Peter Varberg Peter is a Professional Sales & Leadership Coach at Southwestern Consulting. He is born in the Philippines and currently living in the United States, Peter has a unique worldwide view and a passion for serving people and helping them achieve their goals in life.  Aside from being a coach, he is a talented Cinematogra...

🎙️ A Journey of Resilience and Growth featuring Kjell Ooms 📝 Kjell Ooms' Origin Story [1. The Competitive Snowboarding Years] [2. Questioning Everything in Life] [3. Overcoming Fear and Expectations] [4. Embracing Change and New Beginnings] [6. Reclaiming Identity and Moving Forward] [7. Working with Purpose] ☎️ Resources. USA 988 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - Talk to Someone Now Nederla...

🎙️ Become a Beautiful, Handmade, Clay Pot: Inner Critic vs. True Self. 📝 6 points on "Building a Safe Container" and embracing Personal Growth. Sharing a lesson learned from the coaching certification program and its co-founder John Kim. The episode explores the concept of the Inner Critic and your True Self, by identifying the impact it has on your journey of personal growth, and tackl...

🎙️ The Journey to Discovering Your True Self: Ro's Personal Reflection 📝 7 points on how the concept of the "True Self" is multifaceted A personal journey of self-discovery and embracing my true self. The arts, particularly photography, advocate for self-discovery and turning personal experiences into timeless work. The episode explores the concept of the true self, contrasting it...

On today's episode, I'm excited to begin sharing more on the topic of EMPOWERMENT.  For the past month, I've been going back and forth on what it means to be empowered, how to empower someone else, and what I do to empower myself. I realized that it's a loaded question with a variety of answers and approaches.  Here I share a short story about a coaching session I had a year ag...

Erika Sweeting is a business owner, DEI facilitator, life coach, and mother of 4.  During our life coaching program at Lumia Coaching, Erika and I connected through our conversations around the topic of transitions, new beginnings, and how to figure out where to go next.  We are two coaches, each other client, and coach, and we are here to share some insight on our experience around: What is life...

Karla Pierrot is from the Caribbean, specifically Haiti, and Barbados. She is an immigrant to America, living in Boston, and works for a startup company called, Biobot Analytics. Together we are exploring the theme of Celebrating Yourself, by learning about each other's origin stories, the traumatic events that shaped us, how we navigate through America as uprooted, multicultural, women, and...

The story is about how I met my husband, our long-distance relationship, and how I came to America.  Leave me any thoughts or comments :) 👩🏽‍💻 Connect with Rochelle Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We appreciate your curiosity and supporting each and every story. Learn more about Ro, by clicking the link Follow This is Ro on Instagram @thisisropodcast To get in to...

This episode highlights my decision to leave the art world and start working at a casino, post-graduation.  Skills I learned on the job: dealing with aggression  understanding guests working around difficult scenarios getting to know me in a corporate setting A quick BTS of what it was like as a waitress navigating the gaming floor, and how this opportunity was a perfect segue into my new life cha...

Growing up in Asia, how did I realise I was biracial, what it means to be multicultural, and a handful of takeaways from my experiences, as I reflect on my time abroad, while living in America. With a little help from a friend, Marlene, I was able to start recording my podcast. This was the first story I recorded with her and I decided to keep it real with you, by including some of her takeaways a...

Chatting more about life after graduation, working on an artist-run group show called AKI goes Amsterdam, at W139. What life was like attempting to set off my art career, how that didn't happen, and what I did in the meantime. I speak frankly about the disappointments and how in that moment of despair, you find yourself in the right place at the right time, photographing a culture that you ne...

I speak vulnerably about what it's like starting this podcasting journey, that it's really hard and what I didn't know I needed to prepare myself for, before starting.  I had to call in backup - my dear friend Marlene, who lives all the way in Singapore, took 2 hours out of her evening to sit with me, prompt me and provide me with the space to share my story without reluctance and h...

In this episode, I am giving you a rundown of my life's timeline. To give you a sense of how I became an expat, third culture kid, living in Asia, and now in New York.  Holland Singapore Philippines back to Holland Art school & Holland Casino New York For years I've struggled with answering the question - "So where are you from?".  I feel as if my whole life has led me to t...

Is it hard for you to find relatable stories about being diverse, multi-racial, or even a foreigner? Join Ro and her friends, to chat more about how their path in life has prepared them for what they do today and who they have become, and get more insights about life, business, art, and being you.  If you're interested in sharing your experiences or would love to hear more on a topic, leave y...