Paano Ba 'To: The Podcast

In this solo episode, Bianca talks about one line that her friend Evan randomly told her 18 years ago that stuck to her for life—and why. “Well, that’s the price you pay for the life you choose.” Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive and powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato Follow Bianca on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/You...

For our Father’s Day episode, Bianca chats with her brother from another mother, host, entrepreneur and father of three, Drew Arellano. What’s his best and worst trait as a dad? Are they planning to go for baby #4? Does he spank his kids? Is there such a thing as “dad guilt” too? Lessons he’d like to teach his boys? Advanced Happy Father’s Day to all the dads! Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotif...

After the episode with Nico Bolzico on Creativity & Content, Bianca chats with creative Jaz Reyes and she shares the story of why and how her content is so unique and out of the box, and gives advice on how to lessen the dyahe of putting your content out there. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive and powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.faceboo...

Bianca shares the story behind a passion project that she has been working on—a documentary and tribute to her husband JC Intal as a gift to him on his retirement from the basketball. She reveals the things she discovered about her husband in the course of researching and doing interviews for the documentary, and shares the 3 inspiring traits she admires most in her husband. Watch “Ready To Launch...

A lot of what happens during the Miss Universe pageant, we don’t actually see as viewers. Rain Dagala and Em Millan, the styling team of this year’s Philippine candidate Rabiya Mateo, share with Bianca their candid take on what we might be getting wrong about beauty queens, behind the scenes stories and a lesson on taking on a huge responsibility. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive a...

What if you’ve been working for so long, but you aren’t getting the big breaks you’ve been dreaming of? In this throwback episode of Paano Ba ‘To from September 2020, Bianca talks to Dimples Romana, then fresh off her breakthrough role as Daniela Mondragon in Kadenang Ginto, as she shares her inspiring story and journey. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato...

Can creativity be learned? What to do when you get a creative or mental block? How to get your audience to stay interested? Bianca talks to entrepreneur and co-founder of #TheBulliedHusbandsClub Nico Bolzico and she share his thoughts, process and opinion on content creation. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive and powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group:...

Bianca shares a part of a talk she gave at the Cosmopolitan BeautyCon back in September 2019 titled “Please Stop Comparing Brown Skin To Fair Skin.” For close to two decades, Bianca has regularly been giving talks on the importance of being a #proudmorena, speaking in schools, women’s events and was also interviewed on the UK’s BBC OS Podcast. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive and p...

Many of you seemed to relate to the Existential Crisis episode… so here’s Part 2! In this solo episode, Bianca seeks advice from her past self by reading a journal entry she had about a quarter life crisis back in 2007. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive, powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato Follow Bianca on Twitter/F...

Paano ba magsimula ng negosyo during the pandemic? Bianca talks to Filipina entrepreneurs Ayn Bernos and Rizza Lana-Sebastian and they share HOW and WHY they started a business a the height of the pandemic and quarantine, what they did right, and what they didn’t do right. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive, powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.fa...

Where did you hang out in college? Back in the day, there was a “Bench Culture.” Bianca invites her best friend—who she met on the bench—to share what it was like, why back then, you literally could not sit with us, and the good things that came out of it. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/...

How to manage our feelings of anxiety and stress? Bianca speaks with clinical psychologist Dr. Joanna Herrera as she explains to us why it’s important to know how our nervous system works (6:32), and how connecting with others (10:50), awareness of our emotions and thoughts (15:10), and reframing our mindset (17:30) are key to regulating our stress. She also takes us through the “RAIN” practice (2...

In this solo episode, Bianca reads a journal entry from 2014 when she went through an existential crisis at 31 years of age. She looks back at it because she isn’t sure if she might be going through her nth (too many to count) existential crisis. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive, powered by Globe Studios! Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato...

Looking for a job? Online educator and podcaster Coach Lyqa Maravilla answers your questions on how to negotiate your salary (4.08), tips for fresh graduates in the new normal (8.45), how to choose between a good work environment and a higher salary (13.20), and most common mistakes that applicants do (20.01). Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is a Spotify Exclusive, powered by Globe Studios! Can check ou...

What to do when things don’t go as planned? What to think? How to deal? In this throwback Paano Ba ‘To episode from October 2020, Bianca asks advice from her brother JC and sister Aissa—publicly, for the first time! Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato Follow Bianca on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/YouTube...

"How do I stop overthinking??" A question all of us have asked ourselves especially when feeling anxious and pressured. NLP Trainer Carelle Herrera explains to us how the brain works and how we can better manage overthinking. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato To reach out to Carelle, message her on I...

“Is it normal to cry out of the blue?” “Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed and I just end up crying.” A lot of the messages and letters you sent in share these thoughts, and so for this solo episode of the podcast, Bianca tries Story Time. She shares a personal family story on the power of crying it out. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is powered by Globe Studios. Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group...

More than a year into the pandemic and quarantine, things still seem the same, but so different, too. Bianca invited Fr. Tito Caluag for a conversation on how he handles this pandemic anxiety emotionally and spiritually, and both share concrete practices that work for us — from the importance of naming our emotions (5:53), to realizing that emotions are neither ‘bad’ or ‘good’ (10:48), to sometime...

Unpaid Care Work, or doing the household chores and taking care of children or the elderly, usually fall on the lap of women. Bianca was so happy to meet working parents Ryx and Carla Nabos who really walk the talk when it comes to SHARING THE LOAD at home, and who introduced her to the concept of THE MENTAL LOAD. This concept (that they discovered from a digital comic on The Guardian) is such a g...

Encouraged by your feedback, Bianca does another solo episode for the podcast! She ends her birth month, March, by reading a journal entry she had in August 2010 about what she felt months before she turned 30, quarter life crisis and all. And now that she’s 38, she shares her message to those listening who might be feeling anxious or overwhelmed about turning 30, or 35, or 40. Paano Ba ‘To: The P...

Do you sometimes compare yourself to others? Or do you struggle when people compare you to others? Bianca invited the amazing Pia Wurtzbach for a conversation on this issue, still in celebration of Women’s Month! Pia shares her opinion on the feeling of “inggit” (4.25), what she really felt when she lost in Binibini 2014 (6.30), the hard truth we need to hear (10.05), and her honest thoughts on be...

The single skill that women need in order to thrive? The ability to let go. This is according to international speaker and author, Tiffany Dufu, and in this throwback episode of Paano Ba ‘To from May 2019, Bianca chats with Tiffany about her book, “Drop The Ball,” this concept of women “having it all” and “doing it all”, why we women feel guilty for many different things, and how we can learn to “...

Have you ever been asked why you’re not in a relationship/not yet married/having kids? Let’s talk about this sometimes insane pressure put on women to “meet” these “deadlines” that we’ve been culturally and socially used to. What if you’re in your 30s and single? What if you choose not to have kids? Bianca and her good friends Lynn Pinugu, Anna Oposa and Chely Esguerra dissect this issue and see i...

In this special solo episode of the podcast, Bianca turns to a page in her 2014 book, Paano Ba ‘To, and reacts to what she wrote as the 10 Most Important Life Lessons when she was 31 years old. She shares the stories behind why she chose those specific lessons, and adds 2 more to the list, more than 6 years after writing the original one. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is powered by Globe Studios. Join...

Have you ever been in a “toxic” relationship? Are you possibly in one? Why do we stay?? How do we leave? Bianca gets into a sensitive conversation with Iza Calzado to address the letter of Miss Love Is A Battlefield, sharing their personal experiences of being in toxic relationships and what they’ve come to learn from them. Why we defend these bad relationships (7:07), why “toxic” relationships ar...