Curito Connects

Jenn speaks to Donny Mac, the founder of Freedive Taiwan, The Freedive Cafe Podcast and Thrivers Podcast. We talk about how mental health is a modern pandemic, that the chemical imbalances in our brain and nervous system trigger our issues, and that through 3 fundamental areas: prioritizing nutrition, physical fitness, and the higher principles in life, which includes the development of your mind...

Jenn speaks to Singapore-based yin yoga, meditation teacher, host, and voice-over artist Steph Bovis. We talk about navigating career changes and how all your experiences at the end of the day sum up to what you do. How accumulating emotions and energy results in an awakening period where some of us go on our eat, pray, love journey to acknowledge and nourish ourselves. Why finding space to work o...

Jenn speaks to Szuti Tsai a Taiwanese architect, interior designer, and cat lover about embracing change whenever you encounter life challenges, choices, and scenarios. Born and raised in Taiwan, Szuti shares her experience being a foreign student in Amsterdam, adapting to cultural norms, adjusting to her new life there, and when she chose to move back home several years later. What it means to gr...

Jenn speaks to Reiting Lee, founder of the Oriental Hybrid the first of its kind, a Chinese and Arabic platform in which Reiting and her team help guide you and your business needs through the digital world easing cultural barriers. Reiting was born and raised in Taiwan but spent time living in 9 different countries and this talented woman also speaks 15 languages! We talk about racism, embracing...

Jenn speaks to Cristina Holopainen, co-founder of a modern yoga school and studio, Urban Ashram based in the Philippines and, founder of an award-winning wellness retreat center, Maruia River Retreats in New Zealand. A heartfelt conversation held in this episode where for the first time, Cristina publicly shares her experience with her late daughter, Olivia's diagnosis with edward syndrome at 21 w...

Jenn speaks to Dublin-based James McGann, co-founder of Frankie Health. Frankie Health is a startup that supports therapists and companies alike in addressing mental health issues and provides therapists and employers a way to address individuals' mental health needs. James shares his own mental struggles, discovering meditation, looking back at how his experiences connected the dots to creating F...

Jenn speaks to Icy Liu, founder of Ungrafted Podcast and Asian Wine Professionals. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Icy went off to study at Columbia University in NYC, spent time on wall street, then moved out to France to pursue a career as a wine professional. We talk about misconceptions we may have of others, being more open-minded, body image issues and battling eating disorder in her 20s,...

Jenn speaks to Rachel Fearnley, co-founder of Pineapple House Bali, The Whole Health Project, and a Manifestation Abundance Coach based out of Bali. We talk about her decision to become a single parent when she found out she was pregnant with her daughter, Yemaja, the importance of finding your community at times of vulnerability. How to embrace changes that approach us in life, and how her busine...

Jenn speaks to her LA based yoga teacher Joan Hyman, we talk about what keeps her anchored during turbulence, how to build a positive mindset for finding resilience in oneself. As well as how to be adaptable in times of life challenges and our current pandemic where she pivoted from traveling around the world conducting teacher trainings 8 months out of the year to teaching on zoom and creating Th...

Jenn introduces her story and why she started Curito and this podcast, Curito Connects! When we strip off the labels, expectations, and conditioned habits, we are all on the same human journey. While this journey is unique and personal, you are not alone. Here you will find stories that inspire and empower from Curito Connects, something that Jenn feels strongly about. Her own journey led her to t...