What is Life? With Martina

Send us Fan Mail Martina knew it in theory for years — I am not my thoughts & I am not my emotions. But Vietnam is where it finally dropped from her head into her body. This is what it actually took to get there. OK y'all, this episode is DIFFERENT. We're not in the middle of a road this time, we're sitting down by the lake with the background of mountains — a little tired and a...

Send us Fan Mail What our move to Thailand taught us about control, surrender, and the strange peace that comes when you finally trust life to take you where you're meant to go. OK so we recorded this one on a Monday morning. 5am dog walk. Ocean swim. Green tea. A few cigarettes (yes, I'm saying it — I'm not hiding anything 😂). Then we came home, put on matching outfits, and sat do...

Send us Fan Mail What Happens When You Lose Everything You Attached Your Worth To: My Breaking Point I Performed the Perfect Life for 34 Years. Nobody Knew It, Including Me! This episode is different. I recorded it solo without Tomash, no back and forth & no interrupting each other😂 Just me, alone with my phone on a random day when I felt like something needed to come out — and I just let it....

Send us Fan Mail How Tomash stopped resisting life and finally felt free without changing a single thing outside of him This is Episode 11 of What Is Life, and oh my god guys. This one hit different. We recorded this on a random street in Nha Trang, Vietnam. No plan. A security guard showed up at some point. We didn't care. Because what came out of Tomash in this episode is something he'...

Send us Fan Mail For 6 years I kept hearing criticism from Tomash. No matter what he said, no matter how loving he was — my brain turned it into an attack. Turns out? It was never him. This is Episode 10 of What Is Life, recorded somewhere on a beautiful road near Nha Trang, Vietnam — sweaty, freshly recovered from a bike crash, kidney pain AND slippery stairs — but we showed up anyway. 😂 WHAT WE...

Send us Fan Mail Tomash said he wouldn't be on the next episode. 24 hours later, here we are. In our last recording, he literally said "I won't be on the next one." Then I had a mental breakdown (one day before my period, perfect timing 😅). We both felt like maybe this podcast wasn't working. Maybe we should stop. Then something shifted. And here we are. Recording. Togeth...

Send us Fan Mail Okay, so... this episode? This one almost didn't happen. Actually, scratch that — it DID happen, but it was CHAOS. We recorded for 80 minutes. I cried. Twice. We took 2 breaks. Tomash felt like he had no space. I felt judged. He said he's not recording the next one with me. And honestly? I don't even know if he will. But here's the thing: we posted it anyway. B...

Send us Fan Mail This could be 4 different episodes tbh. We started recording with no plan and ended up talking for an hour about what I learned listening back to our podcast fights, why I thought I was a "bad person" my whole life, and how I bought a stuffed puppy to represent my inner critic. This is Part 7 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our balcony in Vietnam w...

Send us Fan Mail We started recording about why relationship conflict is GOOD... then we literally had a conflict mid-episode. I cried in the bathroom for 35 seconds. We came back. We worked through it on mic. We proved our entire point in real time. The most meta episode ever. 😂 This is Part 5 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our garden in Vietnam with Buchta snoring and a...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 4 of our completely unfiltered love story, our most chaotic & messy episode yet, recorded from our room in Vietnam (it's 42°C outside, we're melting in AC, send help). If you missed the previous parts: Part 1: Met in high school 2009, dated ONE WEEK, didn't speak for 12 YEARS Part 2: Reconnected 2020, 9 days talking nonstop, Croatia trip, moved in a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the episode where we go from "let's find a product to sell" to accidentally creating a multi-million dollar business in 17 days. (Or was it 9? We can't agree. Classic us. 😂) This is Part 3 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our garden in Vietnam with our golden retriever Buchta making guest appearances (you'll hear her snori...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our balcony in Vietnam with our golden retriever Buchta snoring in the background (you'll hear it, we promise). If you missed Part 1: We met in high school in 2009, dated for ONE WEEK in 2009 & 2010, didn't speak for 12 YEARS, and reconnected during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. We had our first &quo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the episode where my boyfriend Tomash shows up after spending 6 years telling me "podcasting isn't my thing." Surprise! 😂 We're sitting on our balcony in Vietnam (with river views, motorbike sounds, and zero editing) telling you our ENTIRE love story from the beginning. This is part 1. Spoiler: it involves one week of dating in high school, 12 years...

Send us Fan Mail In this intro episode, I (Martina, 33, human design manifestor 3/5, professional overthinker) finally launch the podcast I've been overthinking for 6 years. Spoiler: my boyfriend was supposed to co-host, then he told me "this is clearly YOUR thing" two weeks ago, so here we are😅 WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT: ✨ Why I spent 33 years thinking something was wrong wit...