I tested positive for Covid-19 last March 11, 2021. At first, I was hesitant to publicly share this. There is still a lot of confusion and negative stigma around dealing with this virus that maybe my first-hand experience could help shine some light on. Here is my story and I hope you could learn something from this episode.

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1:40 - Disclaimer

5:26 - What happened?

13:14 - Living in fear

16:40 - How I dealt with it

27:30 - Reinventing Yourself/Creating your own happiness

33:50 - Family dynamics

37:10 - Trusting in time

41:08 - How to treat others with COVID

50:22 - Final Announcements

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Councilor Tol Zarcal of the 3rd District of Manila joins the show to talk about the Philippines on its second year in the pandemic, his personal and professional experiences and much more insights. It’s my first time having a public servant/government official on the show.

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6:00 - Pandemic on it’s 2nd year

17:08 - What’s different with the approach this year compared to last?

22:40 - His journey on becoming a public servant

38:20 - Favorite thing about the job

41:03 - Helping out of genuine care vs. campaigning

45:55 - Mayor Isko Moreno’s brand endorsements

51:58 - Mayor Isko Moreno behind the scenes

54:28 - What’s next?

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Traffic in Manila is a tale as old as time. Joining the show is Summa Cum Laude Graduate and DOTR Railway Project Development Officer, Anna Tayag. What’s happening in this Build Build Build program of the government? We discuss this and her story and why she took this job.

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6:20 - Working in DOTR

16:05 - Why she chose to work for the government as a summa cum laude graduate

23:42 - Metro Manila Subway

39:10 - Biggest Challenge

40:35 - Work-Life Balance

45:46 - Adjusting from school to work

50:26 - What to expect in the near future

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Timmy Albert is a talented 22 year old singer-songwriter signed under Mustard Music, with millions of streams on Spotify and one of the cleanest set of eyebrows. We discuss his early success locally and internationally, his mindset when it comes to his career and how he shares his personal experiences on love through his music.

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1:20 - On having 2M+ streams on his song “Roses & Sunflowers” and dealing with early success

11:42 - On being under a music label

21:24 - Sharing his personal life through his music

29:40 - Mixing his relationship with his music

40:36 - Having a full-time career in music

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Joining the show is Chief Financial Architect at IFE Management, and my brother, Enrique Fausto. We talk about his career shift from Equity Research Analyst to Financial Architect. How did an earthquake help him realize this? What does a Financial Architect do? I enjoyed getting to talk to my brother, whom I see every single day, in this unique business-serious-like manner to learn about more about his story.

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0:45 - What is financial architecture?

10:08 - The career shift

22:00 - Starting his own business the “Originals” way

25:00 - Why he went in finance

30:36 - Helping people and structuring his job to do so

*38:48 - How the business runs

50:40 - What makes IFE different?

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Joining the show is my very own mother, FQ Mom, Rose Fres Fausto! We talk about her recent book, “Why Financial Education Alone Doesn’t Work.” Having been in the finance industry since 1985, this is the second book in her FQ Trilogy. We discuss the psychology of money, the data and proof behind it and what this book is really all about.

This is the first face-to-face episode for this podcast and I just love how there is no lag or technical errors that inevitably happens over Zoom!

You can get your own copy now by going to FQMom.com !

You can follow her @thefqmom on IG and facebook.com/FQMom

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4:40 - Going against what she’s been teaching for decades

7:44 - Understanding Mak & Emong

14:11 - The growing ease in spending through the years

17:23 - How the FQ Trilogy began

20:25 - The skill of simplifying complex ideas

22:22 - Purpose and legacy in life

29:12 - Behavioral Economics Principles (Loss Aversion)

38:00 - (Confirmation Bias)

47:31 - What’s the problem with relying just on financial literacy?

50:22 - What’s to come next

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Dani Zam who just released her first EP, entitled Eden joins the show. We talk about her music journey, the challenges of abruptly moving back to the Philippines after studying and gaining momentum in New York and much more. Many people have their own ways of dealing with the life changing pandemic that we are currently going through. Dani shares how this EP was her way of dealing with it.

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6:17 - The “start” of her music journey during the pandemic

10:24 - How Eden was born

18:40 - The “non-traditional” career path

24:50 - The experience of creating and recording Eden

36:15 - Music seriously?

42:30 - Dealing with negative feedback

53:19 - What’s next?

55:09 - Her song Dagat

You can follow her on www.facebook.com/danizammusic and @danizammusic on IG

You can stream the entire EP, Eden on Spotify!

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Rica Basilio is a teacher from Urban School for Children, a progressive, play-based preschool based on a social studies curriculum that started during the pandemic. We discuss the challenges of teaching online and the realizations she gets on the job while teaching her 4-5 year old students. It’s true what they say, that the teachers are the ones thatt learn so much from interacting with these young unadulterated minds.

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1:38 - Pandemic-style structure of teaching

4:56 - Why she wants to teach kids specifically

10:10 - Mixing typical kids and kids with learning disabilities in the same class

14:32 - Differentiating the role of a teacher as parent and educator

18:02 - Involvement of the family in teaching kids now

27:48 - Dealing with kids and the school’s progressive nature

You can learn more about Urban School for Children here: https://www.urbanschoolph.com

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Michael Perfecto is a photographer and a young creative genius, in my opinion. We danced together through High School and College, where he picked up a knack for taking photos as his way of remembering his life. He joins the show to talk about his career so far, as well as his realizations and aspirations in his craft.

*I didn't notice that my laptop microphone was the selected input so the audio quality isn't that good. My bad! :(

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8:28 - Money and work

13:05 - Taking photos as a way to remember

29:14 - Experience with Adidas and working with clients

35:52 - His approach to the subjectivity of photography

45:16 - Photo editing & manipulation

48:00 - What’s next?

51:55 - The most powerful photo he has seen

You can follow him @michael_perfecto on IG and check out his work at yellowstudio.ph

(c) Miguel De Guzman for the episode poster photo

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We have Renzo Concepcion, an onboarding specialist for CREXI, joining the show all the way from Simi Valley, USA to talk about his transition to the States, the common mindset of always hustling, the culture of comparison and dealing with an LDR. Renzo is my blockmate from college, someone I got to converse with more often during the pandemic, which is actually one of the factors that inspired me to pursue this podcast and have these type of conversations shared to the public.

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5:12 - Going through 300 applications before landing his job

24:51 - The transition of moving to another country

34:29 - Quarter-life dilemmas and the culture of comparison

48:32 - LDR and relationships

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