To celebrate spooky season, I'm sharing the history of Halloween, horrifying folklore stories told in Philippine culture and my personal experience with spirits of the otherworld. What are your favorite creepy folktales originating your culture? I'd be thrilled to hear about them via the following contact form: https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠⁠

Creativity allows us to give birth to new and innovative ideas – not only as artists, but also as businesspeople. However, everyday obligations and information overload on social media risk generating creative blocks preventing us from honing into our inner artists. In this podcast episode, I'm sharing about my personal struggles with creative thinking and 3 actions I take to unblock them.

You're interested in doing some creative brainstorming with me? ;) If so, I'm inviting you to contact me via the following form:

https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠⁠

As a multicultural woman of color who works in the male-dominated tech industry, and who has Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), feeling included used to be challenging for me. Hence, feeling included and helping others feel included as well, has been one of my greatest priorities and passions. In this podcast episode, I'm revealing my personal emotions, feelings and thoughts on inclusiveness and call-to-actions to make each other feel included, in both our personal and professional lives.

Tell me about a story when you felt included. What and who made you feel a welcomed and celebrated part of a community? Please feel free to share your story with me via the following contact form:

https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠⁠

During your summer holidays in France, you've become so passionate about its culture that you're now motivated to learn French? Génial ! One of the questions I'm asked the most frequently, is how I managed to speak 4 languages fluently (English, French, German and Tagalog). In this podcast episode, I'm sharing about my passion for languages and my personal advice on how to learn languages, in both effective and realistic ways. If you have any questions or if I can help you out in any way, please feel free to contact me via the following form:

https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠⁠

Intercultural relationships are relationships between people from different cultures. While rich with opportunities for learning and growth, they can also present various challenges and risks due our differences in values, beliefs, communication styles and societal norms.

Out of all the countries where I lived as an expat, the Netherlands is the one where I've so far stayed the longest. I'll be celebrating my 6-year expat anniversary here this upcoming November 2023.

Welcome – or bienvenue rather – to a new FunkenMarie podcast episode. My father is French. He was born near Paris and raised in a lovely French region neighboring Germany which is called Lorraine . Today, my parents happily live together in a popular French-Celtic destination by the Atlantic Ocean named Brittany (in French: Bretagne).

More than 7,000 islands. A multilingual cultural melting pot with Asian, Spanish and US-American influence. Welcoming, inspiring and fun-loving hosts who are talented karaoke singers, too. Sounds too good to be true? Not in the case of the Philippines!

In this FunkenMarie episode, I'll be taking you on an adventure to the Philippines, which is one of my homecountries, next to Germany. I'll be revealing some heart-warming and some mind-blowing fun facts making me a proud 'pinay' (Tagalog word for 'Filipina').

You'd like to share your personal story with Philippine culture with me? If so, I'm inviting you to submit this via the following contact form:

https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠⁠

A cultural melting pot, pride parades, carnival, media and entertainment, musicals, content creation, gaming and home to a World Heritage Site - these are the first associations which typically cross Germans’ mind when thinking of our country’s fourth most populous city: Cologne - or in German ‘Köln’ or in our regional dialect ‘Kölle’.

My name is Marie, and I'm your podcast host. As such, I'm delighted to welcome you and e-meet you here on the FunkenMarie podcast!

In this introduction episode, I'd like to walk you step by step through the following questions: What can the FunkenMarie podcast offer you? Who is Marie?

I'm whole-heartedly interested in learning about you, dear listener. Hence, if you're interested in starting a conversation with me as well and in case you have questions or feedback for me, I'm inviting you to reach out to me me via the following contact form:

From meditating daily to reducing our social media consumption – our habits can have a critical impact on our well-being, health and overall satisfaction in life. Given that the start into a year inspires a lot of us to define new year's resolutions, this podcast episode is dedicated to habit-building strategies that have proven themselves as effective to me personally. If applicable, what are other strategies that help you build successful habits? Please feel free to share them with me via the following contact form: ⁠https://www.goddess-of-technology.com/contact⁠