"Don't ask for permission, just beg for forgiveness." In this episode, we chat with the incredible Lily Wu on her attitudes towards entrepreneurship, creativity, and beyond. Lily is currently Startup Partner Lead at Stripe, 2x 7-figure entrepreneur, and is a co-founder of NFT project Wow Pixies. We learn how growing up with artist parents shaped her attitude towards risk and creativity, how she found jobs and projects that help her live her dream life, and her newfound passion for the dynamic new world of NFTs.

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Find Lily Wu on Instagram at @itslilywu and on Twitter at @nftlily. Learn more about Wow Pixies at https://linktr.ee/wowpixiesnft.

In this episode, we catch up with creative powerhouse Iwani Mawocha on all things change. We talk about her breakthroughs in her personal life and artistic pursuits, and how these dramatic shifts in thinking has shaped her work and life path. She shares how she has learned to cope with setbacks, her thinking about failure, and how she has been moving from away external validation.

Iwani is a professional voice actor and a model signed to NOW Model Mgmt, with training for stage and screen acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Singapore Repertory Theatre. She is also a UX/UI designer, VTuber, and has 4M+ likes on TikTok.

It's been a couple of months since we ended Season 1 on an incredible note, we're finally back - feeling recharged and ready for the next leg of this adventure. We're no experts, and are so excited to be beginning a season with inspiring, authentic, and fun guests! 

We share our reflections on how the lessons from Season 1 has guided us through the last year and discuss life updates that set the stage for Season 2. We started Season 1 in a time of massive change, Robin was going through a break up and starting a new job, while Roslyn was entering a new relationship and finding closure in her previous one. One year on, both of us have found ourselves going through even bigger and better transitions yet again. 

Season 2 will mirror the challenges we face in our lives at that very moment. We can't wait for you to join us in this journey of self development and discovery!  

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This is one of our most intimate conversations to date. In our chat with Kanchana Gupta, we cover all grounds from deeply personal musings on meaning and mortality, to the practicalities of career change.

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Kanchana is a corporate consultant turned visual artist who has exhibited her artworks in 3 solo and many group exhibitions. She is a mother to 2 children, spiritual seeker, an avid hiker and reader and also the founder of an upcoming platform that helps women find right mentors outside their organization. Kanchana has traversed and continues to manage multiple paths and careers. 

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Find Kanchana Gupta on her website at https://kanchanagupta.com/ or on Instagram at @kanchana_gupta.

As a former TV producer who left Singapore to journey across South America, Malika Avani is no stranger to adventure and taking big risks. We were immediately drawn to her stories of self-exploration, self-discovery, and healing across South America. From hitchhiking to the Amazon across no man's land to discovering ancient healing modalities, Malika has found her authentic purpose as a nomad and wellness facilitator. She shares her reflections on identity, community, and understanding yourself. 

Malika is currently a facilitator of authentic and vulnerable safe spaces of expression through drumming, singing, voice works grounded in earth-based circular ritualistic living. She is the founder of The Healing Drum, a vehicle to impart knowledge and wisdom through cyclic womb-based living centred around the indigenous soul, ancestry, heritage and the self. Malika is currently based in the ancient Mayan city of Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico.

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Find Malika Avani on her website at thehealingdrum.earth or on Instagram at @thehealingdrum.earth.

We're all in the same boat — languishing. When you don't feel that sad, but that happy either. We both felt low energy for a bit and couldn't figure out. We're learning how to be ok with being, to be ok with not being great all the time. We are slowly gaining our energy back after what has been a stressful period for the two of us. We talk about listening to your mind + heart, feeling your feelings, and how we cope with uncertainty in uncertain times. We want to start a conversation on coping with languishing, how to sit with these feelings. And most importantly, show that you're not alone.

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Deepika Mulchandani is a registered counsellor and psychotherapist based in Singapore and Bali. Deepika helps clients work through their distress by drawing a combination of perspectives and techniques from research-based modality including Family & Systems Therapy, Attachment theory, Mindfulness and Yoga-based principles. We uncover some of the signs of a strong, resilient relationships: emotional awareness, recovering from conflict constructively, and cultivating a safe space. We discuss how parental influences and upbringing informs our partner choice and our "protective behaviours" in the face of stressful situations. For the women who don't fit the mould of femininity, Deepika stresses how important it is for us to reclaim our own values and define what it means to be a woman.

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Find Deepika Mulchandani on her website at https://www.theopenconnections.com/ or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theopenconnections/

What is Toxic Masculinity, what does Healthy Masculinity look like? We all know the trope — men are taught to 'man up', be confident, and avoid expressing their feelings. In this intimate episode, Edric Subur, shares how toxic masculinity hurts men too. We take a deep dive into his tumultuous growth journey of unlearning deep societal conditioning to reach a healthier masculinity. He sends the liberating message: yes, you can be masculine while embracing vulnerability, weakness, and feelings. He shares how Tony Robbins, burning man, and men's circles helped him in this journey. We uncover the power of community, support, and safe spaces in getting to your most healthy sense of self. Formerly at Twitter and Google, Edric is now the founder of Warmspace.io, a social platform that engineers serendipity for deep emotional connections.

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For some, therapy is a matter of life and death. For others, it's a means to greater quality of life and self-awareness. Our first ever mental health-focused episode has licensed therapist Shruti Verma as a guest. As a mental health practitioner with over 5 years of experience, she shares how therapists create a space for clients to feel safe, heard, and supported. We dive into the definition of holistic wellness and the Robertson and Microys balance wheel as a way of quantifying and measuring all aspects of one's wellbeing. If you're interested in peeling off all the layers of your personality and digging deep, we discuss the pros/cons of shadow work and its intersections with spirituality. 

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Matchmaking, but with a modern take? Our episodes on conscious breakups were so popular, so we knew we had to put out another episode on dating — especially with Robin back in the dating game! We chat with the founders of Not.A.Dating.App (NADA), an innovative solution for people who are tired of dating apps. We discuss what's wrong with dating in Singapore, the NADA approach vs popular, algorithmically-fuelled dating apps, the dating pool in Singapore, and our worse date stories (buckle up!) We share our dream list of things to normalize in dating, along with what's ok and what's not. If you're frustrated by dating culture or simply seeking ideas for better dates, this is the episode for you!

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