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Send us Fan Mail In this finale episode, I did a synopsis of each episode with each and every one of the wonderful guests, friends, and ally who have joined me this season. Each of these stories and life journeys has helped me look at mine with more curiosity and empathy, elements that we can all use more of as we walk and carve our own unique and beautiful paths. To all my listeners, avid and new...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, dearest ones. I know many of us are still processing some really hard and difficult emotions while still reeling from the results of the Presidential Elections here in the US earlier this week. I'm here to make space for that, to share with you how lonely and isolated it had me feeling, and offer up some suggestions of what you can consider doing to channel these emotions...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Lovelies, today's episode features a solo session, of me sharing and processing through something that has been hanging on my heart these weeks. I reckoned there are others of you out there who're doing this hard thing of figuring and knowing and getting it, so I decided to say more about it in this safe space and community curated and made possible because of you lov...

Send us Fan Mail Rita Lim-Solhaug is a globetrotter whose journey from Singapore to Norway in 2010 with her husband, Gisle, and their younger son, Gregory, sparked an evolving love for food and cultural exchange.  Her immigrant journey later saw her moving to Florida followed by Texas, where she continues to bring her love for good and people together through volunteering with groups supporting ot...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode, I'm joined by a fellow Singaporean, one who claims herself to be "a very normal human and mama", but yet, there's something about the way she discussed and processed the things we touched on in our conversation that I saw a unique sparkle of a spirit alongside a healthy dose of stoicism that intrigued me.  Jess Goh Wee Teng is an art and cra...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode, I’m honored to be joined by a fellow Singaporean and kindred spirit, Lina Lie. Lina is a certified parent coach, a positive discipline parent educator and the founder of The Heartful Mama LLC. She is on a mission to support parents and caregivers of spirited and highly sensitive children, raise their kids with a lens rooted in nervous system science, brain deve...

Send us Fan Mail Join me and Dr. Lifong Woo, Holistic Life Coach and Certified Metaphysician, as we discussed:  How the decision to move her entire family to the US as a result of a job posting led to her involvement with community-building efforts for fellow Singaporeans living in Houston, TX Her view on the access to possibilities between Singapore and the US and how it ignited an awareness in h...

Send us Fan Mail Join me and my beloved friend KJ as she returns to this space for an intimate, vulnerable, and important conversation where she shares details, observations, and insights through one of the scariest and most traumatic health struggles she has lived through these past months.   Other areas we covered:  How her people-pleasing tendencies almost cost her her life How the experience w...

Send us Fan Mail Join me and certified health and life coach, Kathy Mou, as we dived into: How to ditch productivity and lean into introducing more ease and space in your day depending on how you feel  Kathy's go-to philosophy: The ‘Bliss Soft Life’ Kathy’s philosophy, what it is about and how to embrace it in your life, in particular, that of an immigrant or as an AAPI member of society   Wh...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, I'm joined by a special individual whom I shared an almost instant affinity with, someone I had the honor to experience an in-person recording for the first time back in our homes in Singapore, and someone I want in my circle for a long time to come if she'll have me.  Rae Fung is a speaker and coach who guides rising leaders to own their voice....

Send us Fan Mail My guest joining me on the pod today is a wholesome one.  Ahad Budhani is an Analytics Professional hailing from The Netherlands. Having lived in 4 Countries already, Ahad has been trying to find his place in this complex world. He might not know all the answers yet but he's trying his best to make sense of it as he goes along. At the time of this recording, he became a newly...

Send us Fan Mail In this 1st episode of a new season on the podcast, I bring you a poignant yet candid conversation with the stunning and tenacious human, Crystal Bui, a prolific news reporter across 10 years and 6 states with her most definitive work seen in the reporting of George Floyd's murder in 2020, a recently minted Amazon bestselling author of her memoir 'More To Tell' and...

Send us Fan Mail Hey treasured ones. I hope you’re enjoying some respite and relaxation during these last days before a new year ushers in.  Sticking with the theme of newness and beginnings, I thought it would be fitting to dust off my recording nook and share a raw and unedited minisode on the podcast via a bit of a back story of this podcast and the journey it has embarked me on thus far. I als...

Send us Fan Mail One thing that almost never fails to uplift me every time I’m in a rut or feeling discouraged is to be in community with fellow allies and like-minded creatives who embrace not just the well and shiny parts of human-ing, but also the darker and trying parts.  My guest on the pod today may just know more than a thing or two about human-ing and healing and I couldn’t fathom a more t...

Send us Fan Mail I’m going to try my very best not to fan-girl too much as I introduce today’s guest who’s joining me on the pod today. Bold, resilient, wise, and a heck of a trailblazer are but some of the words that I would use to describe her. Today’s guest is none other than the one and only, Sheena Yap-Chan. Sheena’s a keynote speaker, a consultant, and a freshly minted best-selling author at...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had those conversations where you’re connecting with them for the first time, but yet it feels like you could talk to them until the end of time, in a way that feels spacious energetic yet easy? My guest joining me on the pod today was all that, and then some for me.  This unicorn of a human on the pod today is Clara Nah. A fellow Singaporean, Clara is a solo-preneur...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is home to Part 2 of the conversation with Denise. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Part 1 and if discussions on suicide do not cause extreme triggers and trauma for you, I encourage you to tune in. Then, join us back here for this one, where Denise and I expanded on how her new life in Bali - the uprooting, transition, and all the in between’s, how she dev...

Send us Fan Mail Today's story on the pod is one that belongs to a very dear friend, both to me and also to this community, Denise Michelle. Denise is The SelfLove Alchemist®, an Award-Winning Transformational Life Coach, Rapid Transformation Hypnotherapist, #1 International Best Selling Author, creator of HypnoHealing®, Think and Grow Rich Instructor, and Self Love Expert with a background i...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s HOC podcast, I’m joined by a repeat guest on the pod, the vivacious and endearing Claire for a light-hearted and candid conversation around topics that still bears forms of stigma in society today - anxiety, burnout, and rest.  Claire is a holistic business and mindset coach by profession and passion and a physiotherapist and movement expert by trade. After spending...

Send us Fan Mail This is a story that had me feeling deeply wrapped in hope, light and warmth at the end of it, the kind that leaves me in awe, admiration and respect, the kind that stirs and inspires you to reconsider and break open norms and boundaries, the kind that makes you think “Wow, she’s someone I want to emulate when I become a mother.” Joining me on the podcast today is Samantha Ong, fo...

Send us Fan Mail In this Good Friday episode, I'm featuring a conversation with a special and sparkly individual, someone who's pivotal in the higher sound quality you've been hearing in this new season and by now, a close ally and family to my podcast and passion project, Anne Garcia. Anne is the Owner and Head Cheerleader of her agency, Dklutr.  After leaving her corporate work du...

Send us Fan Mail In this Thursday-ish episode, I’m showing up in my pretty worn-out, a tad jetlagged and sluggish (allergies season!) being, coming to you with an episode sharing a recent catch-up sesh with a dear friend, who also is a repeat guest on my podcast, Sylvia Cheng. The pull to share this conversation stemmed from my reach for reminders to notice and relish moments, things and people ar...

Send us Fan Mail Ever made connections because you chose to act on it then found yourself thinking after how remised you would have been if you haven’t, because you met yourself a kindred spirit in that experience? Yep, Leslie sits right in that category for me in more ways than one and I look forward to the next time we sit down in person over coffee or finally take her up on her offer to climb s...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to the idea of embracing radical self love and self empathy as one of the essential steps to help us move through roadblocks and make attaining our desires and aspirations more accessible, I couldn’t think of a stronger advocator to join us on the podcast to enlighten us than Claudia.  Claudia Chan is a Mindset Life Coach who works with women to help them explore wha...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, dear ones. Thanks for joining me back in here. I’m hanging with you here solo today to share my experience with these colder, darker, gloomier, and what many call hibernation months of winter, and along with that, 5 tips, practices, and tools that helped me maintain equilibrium physically, mentally and emotionally while at it.  Also, since we’re at the dawn of Chinese New Y...