Ask The Duo Podcast

In the first episode, we talked about diet culture and how it took a turn in Amelia’s fitness journey. Luckily she soon realised what it was doing to her body, her mind and her health. So in this episode, we continue to listen to her journey on how things finally started to turn around for her for the better and also how the pandemic actually helped her completely let go.

When you get into fitness, sometimes you do want your body to show your progress and your gains. Which is completely okay  but don’t get too caught up in a definitive number of calories and cutting so much that you lose yourself to food. Food isn’t the only important thing in the fitness equation. Know what works for your body and know how you are feeling that day.

She discusses a few of the influences that also took her out of the rabbit hole with the links below. If you have also embarked the fitness journey, these 3 girls are definitely worth listening to and learning from:

Natacha Oceane @natacha.oceane: uses great science backed approach to help people understand how to proper dieting works

Stephanie Buttermore @stephanie_buttermore- follow her to learn about her 'all in' journey

Georgie Stevenson @georgiestevenson - The owner of Naked Harvest and podcast host on Rise and Conquer from the Gold Coast, who also went through a similar journey and now practices intuitive eating and has great stuff around all things self help

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Sometimes when you get so invested into learning something, especially off social media and online. You may find yourself going down a rabbit and getting a little too caught up in thinking how are people are doing it is the right way for you. But when it comes to fitness and your body, everyone is different.

This episode, Amelia speaks about her once being someone who never once thought anything her own body image and appearance. But once getting into the fitness world with a passion to achieve high results in her fitness journey, everything changed for her. She eventually got lead down a rabbit hole of extreme dieting, being overly consumed by the diet culture and had a really unhealthy mindset about what she thought was “healthy”.

When are you in this cycle in believing that everything that you are doing to your body is good for it, you don't realise how clouded by these fitness recommendations that may not be suited to getting to your fitness goals. 

Amelia talks through her experiences being stuck in the diet culture and what it felt like at the time. This is something she once was ashamed to speak about but now passionately wants to help others that are either going through the same thing or is look at losing weight.

There are many ways to do it but extreme calorie deficits and cutting calories is not the best approach. Obviously this is not any sort of professional advice. Just a story from someone who was caught up in a never ending diet culture cycle and now wants to share the story to help many others have a better understanding of a better approach and better mindset to dieting and keeping fit. Also how to just love your body for what it can do for you. 

Here are the links to some of the people mentioned in the podcast who helped Amelia grow her knowledge in a healthy diet and regain her confidence in her body again:

Natacha Oceane @natacha.oceane: uses great science backed approach to help people understand how to proper dieting works

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWocc7i77oM

Stephanie Buttermore @stephanie_buttermore- follow her to learn about her 'all in' journey 

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9z5xqAP7ek

Georgie Stevenson @georgiestevenson - The owner of Naked Harvest and podcast host on Rise and Conquer from the Gold Coast, who also went through a similar journey and now practices intuitive eating and has great stuff around all things self help 

- https://www.instagram.com/riseandconquer.podcast/

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Digging a little deeper beyond how we met. We have actually never asked each other if finding an Asian partner was a choice of our own, or if it was something that our parents instilled in us.

In the Asian community, it is often an expectation from the parents that we have to find a partner that is also Asian, sometimes also in the exact same nationality but was this the case for us?

We also discuss what we particularly looked for as an ideal partner and discussed if that changed before and after meeting each other.

Did your parents have have some sort of expectations towards who you should date? Let us know what their expectations were.

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A love story we both love sharing (totally not biased) but it’s all around how we met. Unlike most start to a relationship where you meet off the street or meet at a bar. We actually knew each other and kept in touch for about 6 years before we actually started dating.

Join us this episode for a whole lot of crazy, funny, random and sloppy moments and how we actually ended up together. We’ll also be sharing snippets of our early encounters like Sam standing up Mi after knowing her for only about a month and Mi giving Sam a free phone after knowing him for about 2 weeks.

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It’s inevitable that as you experience life, you change and grow from your experiences. One of the main experiences in life that can influence how you grow is working. Which brings us to this episode, we discuss about our career journey and how it’s changed, not only the person we are but also how we work today.

Was the industry we’re in now always something we wanted to do? How was it dealing with racism on the job and being called profane names. Coming from quiet and reserve individuals to now being about to stand our ground and voice our opinions. Also why we worked the way we worked as Asians in Australia. How is the working style different? What changed us the most? Let’s find out!

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After watching the popular TV show that has been circling Netflix lately, Love is Blind. We wanted to discuss each other’s views on how important physical attraction is to us. Do we think physical attraction has a big play in us finding a partner or do we prefer to get to know someone, connect with them with deep conversations first?

We also chat about how arranged marriages teach us something about finding and working through a relationship. Amelia found some interesting research and data around arranged marriages and will be sharing these on the podcast. Link is also shared below:

Arranged marriage and divorce rate in the U.S: https://www.brides.com/story/modern-arranged-marriages

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This episode we grabbed together some common things that occurred in a typical asian cultured upbringing and answered if this happened to us or not. From wearing XL shirts from the age of 4 to 15, to having the expectations of being obedient and not being able to talk back to your parents and even high expectations in grades. Tune in today to see what each of our Asian upbringing was like and if we shared similar lifestyles growing up. If you also had some typical cultural upbringing memories you’d like to share too, let us know know in our DMs on Instagram @asktheduopodcast! 

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During our last decade in the work force, we've been told or have heard that you shouldn’t work at the same place or work with your significant other. However this was never a problem or a topic that ever came to mind until someone brought that to our attention. A few years ago when we were about to work for the same place. 

In this episode we want to see the two sides of working together with your significant other. We will discuss both the advantages and the disadvantages. We will also run through some of our personal tips on how to keep personal life and work life separate, how to keep your relationship strong and healthy and also how our Asian upbringing tied into our original point of view for this topic. 

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Today we're going for a bit of fun and doing the New York Times, (almost) 36 questions that lead to love. We say almost because we didn't realise there were so many dark questions in there. So apologies in advance but we didn't end up answering those, we wanted fun and light vibes.  In this episodes we got to answer questions such as: would you rather retain the mind or body of a 30 year old for the next 60 years, what constitutes for a perfect day, what friendship means to you and many more! There were some hard questions in there for sure that caught us off guard. We did promise unfiltered conversations so we answered these all on the spot. If you're interested in asking these questions to your friends or your partner, try it out with this link here.  

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Are you a believer that men and women can be friends or have you been put in a situation where your significant other was not comfortable with you hanging out with the opposite gender? Should there be boundaries? Does this answer change if you become good friends with an ex?  As a long term couple for nearly 10 years, we each discuss how we feel towards these questions and our experiences. 

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