The COVID-19 pandemic we're all living through is scary and life-changing. The pandemic is now at its 2-year mark, and has been one of the most challenging events that have occurred in most people's lives. Since March 2020, every person has had their life shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way.   

Join us in this episode as we look back at how we each coped with the pandemic across different parts of the globe, how the pandemic has changed us, what life lessons we've learnt, and what we'd like to achieve once the pandemic ends!

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Welcome to Season 2 of Asian Miles Apart! We are so thrilled to be back with more exciting content and conversation with you all! In the first episode of season 2, we took the opportunity to reflect on the year 2021 and discuss our goals for this coming year. We rate our happiness on a scale of 1-10 and reflect on how well we take care of ourselves this year. We look back at the challenges and hardships we faced, but also take time to celebrate our achievements and talk about the one thing we are most proud of in the year 2021. We share what was the most worthy investment of our time and money this year! 2021 was also the year we launched the podcast, we talk about how running the podcast has impacted our lifestyle.  

Join us as we talk about the highs and lows of the year 2021: Pyin dealing with demanding jobs in the first half of the year, Reg's tale of rom-com, Krystle's obsession with finding dry land.

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*Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions on mental health, depression, anxiety and suicide. There are some detailed and graphic talk on some of these issues, so before you proceed, listener discretion advised.  

Mental health is something that has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years, and over the years, society has become more and more aware of what it means. A person's mental health is so important. It is linked to your physical health and ability to function on daily basis and should therefore be looked after. There is sadly still a stigma around mental health issues, and very often, people who are struggling with their mental health dismiss it as a problem or are even afraid to talk about it, but this is actually a more common issue than we think. In fact, according to the UK Mental Health Foundation, 1 in 6 adults has experienced a common mental health issue in a given week.  

Join us this week as we talk about what mental health is and whether society has evolved its understanding of mental health, our experience with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and how we have learnt to overcome and manage triggers that may impact our mental wellbeing.

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Is anyone on Reddit? To one of our hosts, Reddit can be a very addictive forum. To those who are not aware, Reddit is basically a social platform where users can ask questions or share content which would get up/downvoted , and there you can find many interesting threads (really like a gossip forum sometimes!).   Join us this week as the other hosts get introduced to the world of Reddit, and we take turns answering some questions asked on the forum, including some dating horror stories, Bridezillas and "what-if"s.

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There are SO.MANY. gems in this episode, where do we start? 

Carlos Tello - The founder of the successful mexican-based E-Commerce business 'Tienda Komet'. While working and living in Hong Kong, Carlos started the venture with his co-founder Rodolfo, who is in charge of operations in Mexico. This year, 'Tienda Komet' was taken to the next level when Carlos and Rodolfo took part in Shark Tank Mexico and secured 6 million pesos (USD300k) in investments from the Sharks! Tienda Komet is an online marketplace that essentially deals with products returned by customers and in turn, liquidates them in the Komet online store by making them available to Komet's customers by selling them in batches or surprise boxes.  

Carlos has such interesting views. He has an amazing ability to describe business strategies in a way that made it so easy to understand even for business amateurs like us! In this podcast we talk a lot about our lives living abroad and the culture shock we faced as asians living in the UK. We sat down with Carlos not just to talk about his entrepreneurial journey, but also his life in Hong Kong as a foreigner/expat! We are excited to have Carlos to talk a little bit about his experience as a Latin-American living in Asia! We will include a link of the youtube video of Shark Tank Mexico where Carlos & Rodolfo were featured on our website, be sure to check it out.

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Personality tests are all the rage right now. For most, we are almost always interested in understanding who we are. Human beings are fundamentally complex and no one person is the same. Rather ironically, personality tests help break down who we are as human beings into simple frameworks and puts us into different personality buckets.    After close to 20 episodes, join us today as we talk about the results of our Myer Briggs test and how our characters, pattern of thinking and behaviours embody our individual selves. Curious about who we are? Listen more to find out!

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As women, we face many unique challenges, or inconveniences, with our bodies. This includes anything from our periods, the infamous PMS, the somehwat mandatory removal of body hair and many more... Every woman's experience is different, and there are countless options of managing these bodily issues! Are you team pads/tampons/something else? Do you wax/shave? Why is it so difficult to find a comfortable bra?   

Join us this week as we discuss our journey of discovery and experimenting with the many ways of dealing with our periods (plus the moodswings), to getting rid of body hair and our hopes of finding a comfortable fitting bra.

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Our habits have a huge impact on how we live our lives - Warren Buffett once said " Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

No habit is too small! In this episode, we discuss bad habits we have noticed in ourselves and what we have done to change our habits to improve ourselves.

Join us this week as we talk about some of our habits (mainly bad ones) in key areas of our lives, such as our finances, health, home organisation etc. We give some useful hacks as to how we improve ourselves and increase productivity in these areas.

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The rite of passage to adulthood for many of us is likely going to college or university. There is a common saying that university is going to be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life; from shaping your perspectives as an adult, a place where you'll make lifelong friends to a platform that builds a strong enough foundation to get you ready for the cold... cold world out there.

As mere teenagers, we were expected to decide on a career path almost too soon. Yet, many of us recall being excited about the prospects of going to university and putting in the work, time and effort to go through the university applications cycle and college interviews.

Join us this week as we reflect on our past decision to further our studies at university, the highlights back in our university days (yes, it's been THAT long) and the silly mistakes we vowed never to commit ever again. Any clue what a TV anchor, a teacher and a ballet dancer have in common? Listen more to find out!

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