Curito Connects

Jenn speaks to Spanish chef and restaurant owner of Juju Spanish Gastrobar, Pablo Lorenzo Ten! Pablo shares with us how from dreaming of becoming a movie director to living in Xian, China teaching English to falling in love and moving to Taiwan to then discovering his talent for cooking and opening a restaurant in a foreign city that one should keep an open mind to embrace the opportunities that presents itself as life is full of unexpected surprises! (Recorded on March 12, 2024)

About Pablo:

Born and raised in Tenerife, Spain, Pablo Lorenzo Ten was always hungry and curious about the world. Movies have always been one of his biggest passions which led him to major in media and communications. After graduating he wanted to travel and explore the world so he moved to London and obtained his certification to teach English. With this on hand, it allowed Pablo to work, travel and experience what the world has to offer. In 2010, Pablo decided to relocate to Taiwan where his partner resides and found his true professional calling: cooking. Today Pablo owns and runs JUJU Spanish Gastrobar in Taipei serving authentic Spanish cuisine to share with Taiwan.

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Jenn speaks to Romanian bred, Taiwan based Talida Van Boxstael, founder of Light of Ki a palo santo company that empowers seekers to start and deepen their spiritual practice by bringing mystical palo santo to modern spiritual seeker from around the world! Talida breaks down her spiritual journey in correlation with her life chapters and and how it has taught and shaped her and linking the past and present together in the integration of your life now and the business she created. She shares insights on childhood trauma, career path, motherhood, healing modalities, spirituality and energy work! (Recorded on April 17, 2024)

About Talida:

Talida founded Light of Ki, a Palo Santo Spiritual Tools Boutique based in Taiwan. She is passionate about getting spirituality off the pedestal and bringing magic into the mundane. She has lived in 9 countries over the past 20 years with her husband and three kids.

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The Secret

Oprah Daily Show

A Court of Thorne and Roses 

Abraham Hicks Law of Attraction Podcast 

A Bit of OptimisonSimon Sinek Podcast 

We Can Do Hard Things Podcast 

Good Inside Podcast 

Tim Ferris Podcast 

Jenn speaks to Taiwanese American Jessica Hwang, a purpose coach and host of Permission to Flow podcast. From her personal experience of leaving corporate America, calling off an engagement, and being completely burnt out, Jessica will share how this led to where she is today offering a space to help other women find their dream life by defying convention to create the life you want. (Recorded on January 25, 2024)

About Jessica:

Jessica Hwang is a Purpose Coach, host of Permission to Flow podcast, and an 800-Hr Dharma Yoga Certified Instructor.  Jessica's work as a coach is focused on helping first and second-generation women in corporate pivot to creative careers. She helps her clients reconnect with their dreams and pursue careers filled with creativity, passion, and purpose.

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When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

Clarity and Connection by Yung Pueblo

The Mastery of Love by don Miguel Ruiz

Bhagavad Gita Pocket Edition

Jenn speaks to classical trained Taiwanese flutist Jenni Tsai. Born and raised in Taiwan, Jenni began her musical journey at a young age having been a childhood prodigy with her chosen instrument early on to discovering improve and jazz to navigating the professional musician career path. She shares her upbringing in Taiwan, the obstacles musicians face, balancing motherhood, mother daughter relationships and fighting racial stereotypes within the family. (Recorded on February 5, 2024)

About Jenni:

美國新英格蘭音樂院長笛演奏碩士

參與上海JZ爵士音樂節，杭州花朵音樂節，台中爵士音樂節，兩廳院夏日爵士派對。

演出足跡略述：林肯爵士樂上海中心，台北國家兩廳院，波士頓愛樂管弦樂團，新加坡Victoria Hall。

合作音樂家略述 : Jerry Gonzales/Walter Blanding/Laura Fygi/Jeremy MonteiroTina May/Arno Hass 等葛萊美提名或獲獎樂手。

音樂軌跡從台灣到美國到中國，古典到爵士與流行，音樂廳到小酒吧與音樂劇樂池。

2017年於國家演奏廳演出長笛獨奏會"經典不設限"票房告捷

2021於國家演奏廳與爵士長笛家Rit Xu演出台灣國際長笛藝術節之爵對愛笛音樂會

現任東吳大學音樂系兼任教師

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Jenn speaks to Honduras born and raised Taiwanese entrepreneur, Tiffany Wang founder of Herbgens a Taiwanese based company combating plastic straws one reed and grass straw at a time. Tiffany shares how her upbringing shaped her, from her early days in Honduras, Vietnam, Taiwan and the US to how she viewed the world and her place in it to how she threaded her own experience to find her self and identity today. (Recorded on August 22, 2023)

About Tiffany:

Tiffany Wang was born and raised in Honduras where she discovered her love for nature and animals while playing with worms in her backyard during her childhood. After studying Photography and Communication and Design at Parsons in New York, she is now combining her love for nature and designs together to spread awareness about single use plastic and finding solutions on how to reduce it. In the meantime, she is focusing on selling grass and reed straws in Taiwan as the coffee and tea drinking culture in Taiwan is immense and they all mostly use plastic straws for cold drinks! After living in places that do not depend on single use plastic and use leaves instead like Honduras and Vietnam, Tiffany believes that small changes add up and even the replacement of plastic straws is a start. She would also like to create events that bring many ecofriendly brands together in order to build a community that can create awareness together and support each other.

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Jenn speaks to California musician and Kirtan artist Joss Jaffe. Growing up with a yogi mom, Joss was introduced to the world of yogic philosophy, mantras and meditation at a very young age. In 1998 at the age of 17, Joss traveled to India to study classical India and Nepal music. He shares with us how this experience brought many learnings to him in which he incorporates into his music today to spread around the world because sharing music, particularly kirtan music where the audience joins the format of call in response is a very powerful way to connect with our souls. (Recorded on February 27, 2024)

About Joss:

Joss Jaffe performs as a Vocalist, Tabla player and Multi-Instrumentalist. As a composer and producer he has created innovative albums including Svara Mandala, Echosystem and Dub Mantra to critical acclaim. Joss has collaborated with numerous artists including Grammy Award nominees Jai Uttal, Silvia Nakkach and Dave Stringer as well as Grammy Award winning Reggae artist Mykal Rose of Black Uhuru. No Depression, Vents, Top Shelf, the UK’s Om Magazine, Yoga Journal and other prominent publications.

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Live at Yoshi's Oakland

Live at Sedona Yoga Festival 

Performing in Seoul South Korea

Ambient Tabla

Animated Music Video by Maureen Kuo (TW)

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Jenn speaks to Australian based multi-disciplinary practitioner Darinka Maja. Darinka shares with us her personal story working through complex trauma and how her experience led her on the path of healing and how she found her way. From the loss of her mom shortly after her birth, to choosing to leave her dad at the age of 13, learning how to cope with social anxiety and more, Darinka hopes that her journey and offerings can help more people find insights, clarify and direction in their own life. (Recorded on January 22, 2024)

About Darinka:

Darinka - is a multi-disciplinary practitioner offering Vedic Astrology consultations & Wholistic Remedial Massage, aimed to facilitate alignment, harmony & clarity. In 2017, she completed Komilla Sutton's three-year foundation program in Jyotish and some additional advanced courses, and have given lectures at her international Fresh Talents of Jyotish conference. She has been practicing bodywork and massage for over 10 years. Her treatments blend and integrate Remedial, Deep Tissue, Myofascial release, Ka Huna & Lomi Lomi, Craniosacral Therapy and Abdominal Massage. Additionally, she completed 200 hours of yoga teacher training in India and 300 hours of Vedic counselling with Dr. David Frawley. Her offerings are for individuals who are looking to gain greater insight, clarity & direction into their path & purpose in this life.

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 Under a Vedic Sky Podcast

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 Komila Sutton 

The Alchemist 

 Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown 

The Greatness of Saturn by Robert Svoboda

Jenn speaks to Ariana Ost a jewelry designer, healer and founder of Ariana Ost. Born and raised in NYC, Ariana enjoyed growing up surrounded by museums and traveling with her father. Her love for fashion and design, history and old world atelier ultimately inspired her to get a degree in design from Parsons which led her to work for her father who ran a jewelry business in NYC. In 2009 she lost her mom to cancer and this experience led her on a deep-end healing journey. Ariana shares with us her journey and how she made sense of her grief, she is so passionate about healing the world through fashion forward aesthetics, motherhood, leaving a legacy and how these are elements that drives her to continue to build the business she started with her father in 2016. (Recorded on April 15, 2024)

About Ariana:

Ariana Ost is a design atelier based in New York City created by Ariana Ost and her father in 2016. The mission is to elevate the everyday by creating decorative objects infused with soul, conviction and healing energy. The companies purpose is to fill a whitespace in the wellness market for decor with a contemporary aesthetic and resonance with mindfulness.

Ariana loves working with her Father Jack and her Maltipoo dog named London at their dreamy Flatiron Studio in NYC. In addition to being a female entrepreneur, Ariana is also a wife to her husband Eric and mother to her precious daughter Aurelie, and charming son Julian.

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Dr Joe Dispenza

The Choice by Edith Eva Eger

Jenn talks to Austrian born now residing in Taiwan, Gabriele (Gabi) Seewald co-creator of AWOVEN - Journeys that Connect. From Austria to Taiwan and everything in between, Gabi shares with us how an accident during the birth of her daughter in 2010 damaged her nervous system that led her on this decade long healing journey and reconnecting with nature’s intelligence. What she learned during this process, how she embraced the changes and how she has taken this experience into her work and offerings she practices today in Taiwan and globally. (December 15, 2022)

About Gabriele:

Gabriele – short GABI (Taiwanese for coffee) is a ‘Weaver with the Web of Life’, a ‘Collaborator with Humans and Nature’ and one, who brings Light into the Worlds and Hearts through Education, Facilitation, Transformation. Connection, and Collaboration. She co-creates and co-facilitates retreats for self-healing and nature-connection and a founding member of AWOVEN – Journeys that Connect – the vehicle that Gabriele, Leiven and Carol are currently weaving together that will meet people, teams and groups to bring them on journeys that connect us back into our true places and purposes in the highly intelligent, benevolent and caring web of life that we all are part of.

Gabriele was born and raised in Austria and has lived in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei since 2001. She is the mother of three wonderful human beings, the author of Taiwan. The hidden Jewel., published in her German mother tongue in 2018 and she holds a Master of Arts Degree in Intercultural Competencies. She is fluent in spoken Chinese, English and German. She is a permanent resident of Taiwan and a citizen of Earth and a vivid practitioner of Eastern & Western Tai Chi, Flow and Heart-to-Heart Dialogue.

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Wild Rhythms, Deb Matlock: Sacred Nature Connection

Song of Sophia - Living School of Divine Nature, Eliza Maora

School of Sacred Earth Wisdom, Vasama Gaul

Earth: The Art of Peace - Balance over Conflict in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War by Philip Dunn

Jenn speaks to Taiwan based British photographer Duncan Longden! Originally from Oxfordshire, Duncan has spent his career working in various roles we dive into the challenges that he encountered taking that leap of faith to quit his job in the UK to move to Taiwan, restart a new life out here as a photographer, and the challenges and obstacles he faced in both his professional and personal life and why it is important to seek support and find tools to cultivate a healthy mindset and be able to learn to pivot each time you are faced with challenges. (Recorded on August 17, 2023)

About Duncan:

Duncan is a commercial photographer/videographer from the UK now based and working out of Taiwan. He has spent many years involved in the industry and has great experience having worked with all kinds of clients from individuals all the way through to some of the worlds largest brands. Living in Taiwan enables him great access throughout Asia.

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Joe Rogan

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