For many, we dream of leaving our 9-5 to chase our dreams or to become our own boss. However, taking the actual leap of faith and leaving that 9-5 can seem a little scary. Especially when it’s such a high risk move. 

For Emilija from Maple & Ochre photography (who we met through our wedding planning journey), not only did she leave her 9-5 job but she also tried many business ventures along her journey before she landed in her dream job, photography. 

Listen in as she share how she battled through the challenges and changes as she went from petrography to archaeology, cake decorating, sticker cutting and eventually landing at working working for herself, full time.

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Having relationships and friendships is so important for a person to be able to discuss their problems, make memories with them and share fun moments with them. Sometimes we call these friends or even best friends.

However, similar to the episode “The problem with identities and labels” Amelia doesn’t like to label her friends into definitive categories where as Sam does see some of his friends in certain tiers.

So this episode we discuss 2 different perspectives. Let us know who you resonate with more?

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It’s been a hot minute but we are so ready to be back for 2023 with Season 2! We’ll do a little catch up about what we got up to over our holiday break and then being no stranger to our Asian peeps out there. Lunar new year/Chinese new year is also going to approach us real soon on the 22 Jan!

Every family and their background tend to also have their own traditions that they follow for the LNY. So tune in today and listen to what kind of traditions we grew up with and how we learnt things that we shouldn’t say the hard way.

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Looking for a podcast to build better & strengthen your mindset to help build better relationships? Well you have found the right podcast! This podcast is hosted by Sam and Amelia all the way down under in Brisbane, Australia.

Just like you, we’ve gone through life and individual experiences that has brought us to where we are today. Everyday is a day where you can learn from your experiences and sharing our perspectives is what makes us. US.

Which is why we look forward to bringing guests from all walks of life on our episodes to share their personal stories & journeys too!

Every Tuesday we release episodes around relationship, wellness, lifestyle and culture. All encompassed around how growing your mindset in these areas can help you build better relationships within yourself or with those around you.

If there are any topics you'd like us to discuss, guests you'd like us to have on or questions you have for us. We are are community and without you, there is no us.

Listen to our episodes on any streaming platform of your choice AND we do videos on Youtube too! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Love, Sam & Amelia

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Wow, we don’t know about you but, this year has really flown by like lightning ⚡. Nonetheless, we achieved a lot, we experienced a lot and we most definitely learnt a lot! We also had some amazing milestones that we celebrated this year like getting married and starting this podcast just to name a few.

2022 was definitely a building block we needed because without the challenges that came with the year. We would not have been able to get to the opportunities we’ll have in 2023. So we can say we are really excited to see what 2023 will bring us. 

With that being said, we’ll end our year with a retrospective around what went well, what could have been better, what are some things we can work on and topping the tree off with some goals we want to achieve in 2023.

Make sure you stick around as we’ve collated 3 of our top favourite 🎙️ bite sized conversations with our guests so hang around to listen to these inspirational conversations from Pete, Anita and Jaz and we’ll share what we loved about these conversations. 

As advocators for giving yourself well deserved breaks, we will be wrapping it up for the year over the Christmas break and we will be back with a bang 💥! 

Even though we aren’t releasing episodes over the break, feel free to listen to any of our 60+ episodes as we did create these for you to listen to at any point in time. 

Thank you for the awesome year and we can’t wait to meet and chat to you all in the New Year, peace out ❤️!

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The holiday season is such a great time to get together, spend quality time with the loved ones but it can also be daunting for some. Especially for those who are calorie and money conscious. Christmas is known to be the season for giving but for the Asian community, Lunar new year is also right around the corner so this time of the year would mean a lot of outgoing expenses too.

Which is why we wanted to talk about some of the things that helped us change our mindset and also some of our tips on working around being more present and enjoying the Christmas & new years holidays. Obviously all the recommendation is what has worked for us and not everyone does Christmas the same way.

Let us know what is your favourite way to celebrate Christmas, do you guys give gifts or do you prefer quality time with friends and family?

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I think we can all agree that saying no to people can be really difficult. It usually comes with a sense of guilt which in return makes you feel inclined to say yes. But just like working out in the gym, saying no is a skill that can be trained. The more you do it the easier it gets.

Sometimes it is also finding the balanced of not saying not too much either. So how exactly can we confidently say no and not feel bad about it? This episode, we will discuss exactly this. Coming from different perspectives as Sam has some good tips on how he manages to say no with out the guilt. Whereas Amelia will share a lot of common questions many people have with how to say no confidently?

Let us know if you also struggle to say no, or if you feel you are confident in it. What are your top tips you would share to others?

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When we think about our life and our experiences, there can be various events that occur where it can challenge our mind and trigger our feelings of jealousy or envy.

Some may use this feeling or trigger as a motivator to push and strive to be the best versions of ourselves and for some become overwhelmed and/or feeling inadequate. The common reasons where this may happen are usually around career, relationships, social status and money. 

However, did you know that jealousy and envy can exist simultaneously but they are actually 2 different emotions. 

While it is fine to feel jealousy and envy as long as you understand the feelings and know how to overcome them. However, it’s when you let those emotions take over you and it leads to either you creating negative thoughts towards yourself or towards others. This is the area we want to talk about.  

Join us as we discuss what our thoughts are in the differences between the two, how we kept these feelings in check and how did we push on when those feelings got overwhelming and made us felt inadequate.

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Getting to know people through deep conversation is always good. However, understanding them through imagination is next level, especially when it creates no limitations for you to explore their minds.

Which is why we got together with Jaz to chat about our top 3 genie wishes, with the only rules that we can’t wish for anything to be infinite or endless. Surprisingly most of our wishes were so similar! We definitely got carried away with our conversation after announcing our 3 wishes, from robbing banks & talking to sad cats and imagining the voices of animals.

It’s definitely a light and fun episode you need to wind in or wind down for your Friday. Let us know what your 3 genie wishes would be!

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What always intrigues us is how similar and also how different superstitions and myths can be around the world. Since we have our friend Jaz who comes from an Indian background, we wanted to share the different cultural superstitions we grew up hearing about and see how they compare with each other. Sam will be sharing his Thai and Vietnamese beliefs and Amelia will share the Chinese beliefs

From wearing eyeliner on the back of your neck to not being able to wear green hats, it’s interesting how these myths become something that gets carried down in generations. What’s even crazier some beliefs share similarities between some cultures that aren’t even related.

Some of the superstitions did actually turn out to be true for some of us and the stories will shock you. Listen to the episode to see if you knew any of these superstitions!

We’re also interested to know what interesting superstitions you guys have grew up knowing in your culture?

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