Ask The Duo Podcast

Happy anniversary to us! It’s official that we’ve reached double digits dating each other. With that said, we wanted to share our journey together as a couple and some of our biggest takeaways as we’ve grown together over the years. Not tooting our own horns or anything and we understand that every relationship is different in how you figure what works for each couple. However, if any of these tip...

This one hit home for us and we’re sure many of you can relate especially in the last few years where travel is out of the picture. It’s about taking breaks and we’re talking about proper breaks, not just the one of two days off kind of thing but to truly switch off and reset. This conversation started off from talking about our parents, how they lost themselves amongst trying to hustle. Although...

In order to be fully present for others and yourself, setting some boundaries and routines to keep yourself happy and maintaining good mental health is really important. These are called non-negotiables, a dedicated routine set of tasks that you simply will not compromise on and these routines are generally aligned with your values and principles. Which is why we wanted to bring in Peter Lin, our...

Right after discussion about our attachment styles, it sparked a conversation which led us to think about being in different life stages and how that may affect your relationship. The conversation is mostly around romantic relationships as we wanted to keep it short and sweet but some of these things we talk about can also be the same in friendships too.  Have you had a friendship or a relati...

Growing a bond and getting close to someone requires trust in each other. Today we'll use the attachment style theory (suggested by a listener) to discuss how we develop our relationships with people around us and each other. The attachment style was a theory developed by psychoanalyst John Bowlby and psychologist Mary Ainsworth. This study initially done to explore the bonds that infants form wit...

If you know Amelia, she likes to do a lot of reflection and that includes looking back into the past, analyse and see what you could’ve done better. So this episode she’s got the boys Sam and Samson to join together and talk about advice we’d give our younger self. A conversation which started as things we’d tell our younger self and then lead to to also uncovering a lot of childhood upbringing an...

Red flags can apply to both to day to day people we meet or in dating and what gets categorised as a red flag can be different for everyone. However, we don’t feel red flags should only be spoken about in relationships, these should carry across in general daily people you meet because at the end of the day. The person you potentially date are still going to be a human being. Being able to connect...

With the world hitting us hard with crazy inflations and potential financial crisis. This got us thinking about why money is so important to people and in life, why are most people obsessed with making money, becoming rich or say they wish they had money? We understand that having money does allow more freedom, not having to worry about your living expense and not having to live pay check to pay c...

Join us today, as we have Sam again from Dough Ma sharing more life experiences. Except this time with a twists! What started as a conversation sharing scary life and near death experiences about failed brakes and aggressive wild dogs, turned into a spooky, chilling ghost story session. If you enjoy these types of stories then this one is for you! -- We love seeing which episode/s you're enjoying...

Nothing says hard work more than running your own business. This episode we speak to a dear friend of ours, the owner of Dough Ma located in Mt Gravatt, Brisbane. Not only has it grow significantly within it’s first ALMOST 2 years of opening, his shop also made special appearances on places like Subtle Asian Traits (proud moment), Urban list and Must Do Brisbane to name a few! But down to the real...

Continuing on with our previous episode, this one we will decipher how the Myer Briggs personality test describes our friendships and relationships. There is so much to uncover in this Myer Briggs test that we could go on forever about it, especially because it's a relationship topic which is one of our passion!  One thing we can say for sure though, is both INFJ and ENTJ seek deep and meanin...

What’s another way to learn more about yourself or even track how you’ve grown, than to do a personality test. This one is a popular one from Myer Briggs which we’re sure most of you have heard of. If you haven’t feel free to try it yourself too! We’ve actually done this test around 5 years ago and some of the updated results have surprised us! Sam is an ENTJ-A and Amelia is an INFJ-A and turns ou...

As requested from some of our listeners, this episode we will be sharing our unqualified views on, friends with benefits, being monogamous and open relationships. Sam also shares his story with his experience of having friends with benefits and what that was like as well 😏. What Amelia is curious about though is, what are the differences between the three? What are our experiences with either of...

The question we want to ask this episode is, why are people so scared of rejection? Once you think of fear as just another feeling, you may start to see that all emotions are temporary. Nothing is forever, even happiness. When you start to change your mindset to seeing feelings this way, it may actually start to help put you out there and give things a crack. Even if you may get rejected.  So...

If you have been with us since day one, you may know that we both have a lot of similar characteristics, values and beliefs. However, one thing that is a little different is how we react to conflict, challenging moments or heated situations. Sam is a little quicker to react and can be quite assertive, whereas Amelia tends stay quiet (not because she’s too afraid to speak up) but more like waiting...

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve been to university but this thought recently popped back up because of Amelia’s sister who has just entered first year of uni. However, she did recently decide to drop out. Which got us thinking, did we really think uni was necessary? Was it a waste of time? Sam mentioned that he believed that uni wasn’t worth it and in fact he never finished uni but Amelia is...

Because you guys all love the juicy relationship topics. We wanted to bring back some more relationship questions, but this time we’re going deep! We won’t just be talking about our relationship, but digging back into the past as well 😉 This one will be a long one so grab your favourite drink or snack and join us!  -- We love seeing which episode/s you're enjoying so make sure you share &amp...

In society, people say that first impressions do matter and that first impressions are important but have you ever thought about, what counts as a first impression too? Does the first impression include the entire first encounter with a person or is that now just the first experience with a person? Today we’ll discuss these questions along with 3 different scenarios and we’ll see if we both agree...

For most people, they find themselves not even thinking twice before going out of their way to help a friend. However, when it comes to self care, this is something we put on the back burner and think we can work on it later. Whereas sometimes, we can go too far the other way and just self indulge and procrastinate. Which is why we wanted to discuss these 3 actions on its own then discuss how to f...

As we grow, the things that matters in our lives may vary and may change. What you find important today may not be something you find important tomorrow or in the next year. So today we both talk about what matters to us currently in our lives. This is also important because it is good to stop and reflect on the things that matter to you currently so that you can realise sometimes why you feel so...

Living and growing up in the world down under (Australia), of course we have to talk about the Aussie slang! Growing up, Sam has experienced hanging around westerners more than Amelia has but we have picked out a bunch of Aussie slangs that we both haven’t heard of and we will guess what the meaning of each one of these are. Play along with us and let us know which ones surprised you the most or i...

For us, we have only really thought that there was any other types of cheating outside of the most obvious, physical cheating. However, there are many out there that consider a few other actions that can take place which they also believe is a type of cheating. But the real question is, did you know that object affair 👀 is a type of cheating? We sure didn't. Tune in today to see what it is and le...

For many, finding the one is one of the things they have been searching for their whole life. However, for others they don’t believe such thing exists because there may be more than one. So today we will discuss this topic as we don’t believe that there is only one person or one soul mate for each person. Finding the one can be defined as finding someone who is perfect for you, understands you on...

Have you ever wanted to be able to ask stronger questions to get deeper and more meaningful answer or even just wanted to connect with someone on a deeper level. Asking the question why can help you build these deeper connections and forces people to think deeper. It’s great to use in many different settings not just in work. In our episode we use examples from a therapist/psychologist, creative i...

We wouldn’t be human if there weren’t some things that tick us off, grind our gears or have personal pet peeves. Especially on a bad day, some of these things can get to us and just make us completely lose it. So today we’ll be going through our top 5 things that grind our gears. This is just a fun episode to get to know each other better, we know that some of these are either things we can still...