Gleeful Talk Show

Tania Ahkin, a certified holistic health practitioner and hormone coach shares her journey towards holistic health. She shares: - How she became vegan to being plant based - An overview of Reiki - What it means to be mindful - Her tips on how to be holistically healthy, and more! Follow Tania on www.instagram.com/taniaahkin   Zestie survey: I'd like to know you better! https://www.surveymonkey.com...

Relationship topics are fascinating and entertaining at the same time.  This episode circles around the topic of interracial dating, where Lawin of Pop Your Cultural Cherry, speaks about his thoughts and experiences around this topic. We'll hear about: - How he met his partner - Did he had pre-dispositions about dating someone from a different culture - How did they manage to harmonize any cultura...

Such a fun, enjoyable and informative conversation with Louise Hopkin, a professional home organiser based in Canada shares her expertise on: - why do accumulate so much clutter? - how to achieve calmness in our lives through decluttering our own space - how to avoid fuzzy brain - how do we tell our parents to give new homes for their old stuff when the time comes - and so much more!   This episod...

Do you want to understand yourself and others? Why do others react differently than we expected? Our guest, a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines and entrepreneur shares about the book she've read called Personality Plus by Florence Littauer. We talked about the four personality types namely the Popular Sanguine, the Powerful Choleric, the Peaceful Phlegmatic and the Perfect Melancholy....

We get to talk with Amy Yip, a Mental Fitness and Life Transformation Coach based in the US. She was in the corporate world for 16 years, and decided to quit her job at Google on 2020 to start pursue her dream of volunteering at Ghana, Africa. One of her greatest learnings on her life journey so far is that: Your mindset, NOT your circumstance, makes all the difference in your happiness and succes...

Kersly Potter, an independent singer-songwriter from Cebu, Philippines. Being her vulnerable self in this interview, Kersly shares her innermost thoughts and emotions about her life being an indie artist.   Catch Kersley Potter on Spotify, Apple Music and on other music platforms. Instagram: @kerslypotteristic Join the zesty community on: Instagram: instagram.com/gleefultalkshow Facebook: fb.com/g...

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Welcome to the New Season! In this episode, we are joined by Tor Njamo, a spiritual development and well-being coach. We'll learn about the different ways to harness intuition and develop our overall spiritual well-being. We talked about: Visual Meditation Past life regression Crystal healing Tarot reading Connect with Tor: Instagram: instagram.com/tornjamo Website: www.tornjamo.com Podcast: The S...

Fundraiser link for the hospitalisation of my Father who is currently in the Philippines, please click below.     All your help is extremely appreciated!  ------ But the show must go on. -------- Glee shares the changes, lessons learned and what's ahead of her podcasting journey. Special thanks to Zesties who stuck around after all this time.  Welcome to the new Zesties as well!   Join the zesty c...

Fundraiser Link for my Father's Hospitalisation in the Philippines: Fundraiser: Help Us Save Our Father     ------ But, the show must go on ------- New season, new name, more exciting episodes! Re-branding to Gleeful Talkshow helps this podcast resonate better with #Zesties. Thank you for all the old and new #Zesties who have listened through my journey of creating this podcast. Join the zesty com...

Ramadan Kareem Zesties! Featuring Maha Musabeh of The Link Show, this episode shares some of what Dubai has to offer. There's certainly a lot, so this is definitely just a glimpse of it. The Host, Glee, lived and worked in Dubai as an OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) for around 3 years, and she shares some of the exciting things that she has experienced in Dubai - especially the food! Maha, a Dubai...

This episode explores the story of a budding Womanpreneur in the Philippines named Geezelle, and her passion to cultivate and revive the Filipino culture of drinking Sikwate (hot chocolate drink) using Tableya (local 100% dark cocoa).  She shares what sparked her into venturing into business, the struggles of a small, budding, local business and her tips for our Zesties who'd like to start their o...

Featuring Bryan, the co-founder and creative genius behind ElemntoPH, we delve into the mind of a creative, the process of doing a creative work, and even trying out a personality test called My Creative Type , plus so much more! I encourage our #Zesty community to try out this personality test and tag us on our Instagram! Follow Elemento at: Instagram: @elemntoph Shop: www.shopelemento.com Facebo...

How is it travelling in the 'New Normal'? Our guest, Katarina answers one of our #Zesties' questions.   Enjoyed the episode? Or Not? Let me know! Want to be share your experience at Vanilla Zest? You’re very much welcome to do so! :) Any topics you’d like to feature on the show? Please reach out!   Email: vanillazestpodcast@gmail.com IG: @vanillazestpodcast Facebook: fb.com/vanillazestpodcast Webs...

Menelyn, a highly skilled nurse with over 10 years of experience in both Philippines and Saudi Arabia, including experience in Infection Control, shares her experience on the after-effects of the Astra Zeneca Vaccine.  In Australia, both Pfizer and Astra Zeneca are available.  More information on The Australian Department of Health.   In the Philippines, the vaccines are available through the COVA...

Vanilla Zest Podcast proudly presents... an exclusive talk with Jona of Backpackingwithabook.com. Jona is an accomplished author, writer, poet, essayist and speaker, who maintains a travel column on TV5’s Interaksyon.com, and writes for Rappler and Sun Star Cebu’s travel section. She has also won numerous awards, including First Prize 2013, Palanca Awards (Cebuano Short Story Category) and 2013, S...

Sharing my own experience and readings about how to manage procrastination (tendencies). Have you read the book entitled The Power Hour by Adrienne Herbert? I've shared some insights from the book as well as my own take on "the power hour" for a nocturnal person like me. Happy listening! :)   Enjoyed the episode? Or Not? Let me know! Want to be share your experience at Vanilla Zest? You’re very mu...

JL has worn different hats whilst she was in the Philippines. From blogger, to social media manager, to Red Cross volunteer, to martial artist, she was a Nurse by training. In this episode, the blogger behind ViajeraCebuana.net shares her experiences from getting that job offer to working as a nurse in the UK in the middle of the pandemic. Learn from her wins and struggles being a nurse in Bury St...

and... Filipino Artist Got Inspired by a BTS' Song?   Source: Wikipedia

Stef initially planned to take up medicine in Jakarta. But like all plans, they change... She shares her journey in Australia, as well as her thoughts about relationships and culture. Tip: Listen to the very end of the conversation. You'll find some gem of advices and some funny tidbits. Buy us coffee :)

Cams and Cez share how they started out the habit of reading and how this developed from being a form of entertainment to a form of solace. They shared their favourite authors, their current reads and some bonus learnings for our Zesties and Zestmates - so listen until the last bit! As Glee (the Host of Vanilla Zest) is not a bookworm, she aims to draw the passion of reading from these two brillia...

This CurioZesty episode is me pouring out my heartfelt gratitude to those who have helped me and my family get through a very tough time last year 2020. Thank you to our family, friends, colleagues, and strangers who have given their time, effort, donations (blood and resources) for my Dad. Of course, none of these are possible if not for God Almighty!  Vanilla Zest would like to increase awarenes...

Glee and Cez have been friends for years. They first started their friendship because of a similar hobby - watching anime! It started when Glee approached her about Rurouni Kenshin and anything about anime. Fast forward to 2021, Glee approached Cez again to talk about an entertainment similar to anime - Webtoons, and the things in between! Buy us coffee :)

Many thanks for Christian and Josephine for sharing their wonderful story with us! If any of our #Zesties and #Zestmates would like to share their story, experiences or opinions about life, relationships, career or anything in between, please let us know! Email: vanillazestpodcast@gmail.com IG: @vanillazestpodcast FB: fb.com/vanillazestpodcast

The fun facts were sourced from:   https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Valentine https://westerlylife.com/february-is-the-month-of-love-and-romance/ https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/blog/link-between-saint-valentine-and-epilepsy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0121737217300833 https://worldstrides.com/blog/2017/02/6-valentines-day-traditions-around-the-world/