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A simulcast episode with Nerdy Fangirl Podcast, where Ray and I talk about Trese, a Filipino animated series adapted from a comic book illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo and writer Bujette Tan. Ray is a fellow otaku from Cebu, who is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. We shared our thoughts on the animated series, whilst Ray provided depth and background about the comic book, Filipino mythology, more particularly, the story of the creation based on Cebuano mythology. Stay tuned at the end of the episode where he shares his recommended Filipino authors and their works.

 

 

 

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Ray: And I feel that in the Philippines, we've somehow lost a lot of that connection. Our stories  our myths connect us back to that past, connect us back to the greatness that was

Glee: I'm the, bad cop, good cop kind of conversation.

Hey Zesties, welcome to the simulcasts episode of the gleeful talk show and the nerdy fan girl podcast. This episode crosses over topics that would fit the two podcasts. So I thought that might as well do a simulcast. Right? And so today we are going to talk about a Filipino animation series adapted from a comic book series, entitled Trese, which is now available on Netflix . So I haven't read the comics yet, but I'm glad to be talking today with my guest slash co-host, who has read the comics and watch the anime as well. He is  currently based in New Zealand, but which is also from my hometown Cebu. Please welcome Ray Don Lim.

Hi Ray. Welcome to the show.

Ray: Hi glee. Glad to be here.

Glee: Great. Thank you for being on the show and yes. So Trese before anything else? We'll try not to be, talking a lot of spoilers. So would that Zesties these will still, we will still like to watch it, but can you talk about what, in a nutshell, on a nutshell, what Trese is about.

Ray: So Trese is actually a mid two thousands comics that was created by sir Butch and  Bellissimo. It's basically action detective story that revolves around Philippine mythology. The main character is Alexandra Trese. She is the I believe the Babaylan-Lakambini . Basically she keeps a balance between the human world and the world of the the spirit world, basically in the Philippines.

So the anime is a little bit more action oriented than the comics. Let the guys out there know, but it's beautiful. It's something that we could call our own. And it's something that I on a personal note wish could be a little, could be more mainstream, internationally.

Glee: Great. so you've mentioned about Babaylan-Lakambini, and I know you are also fascinated about Filipino mythology. So for  for the benefit of our Zesties, So what is buh-bye land beanie or, I mean, these words might be separate on their own. I think?

Ray: Yep. So ,Lakambini, I'm not entirely sure. But Babaylan that basically priestess or yeah, priestess in our old times and I might be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge Babaylans can only be women and you know, they are our connection to the gods. So. Yes while our pre-colonial times in the Philippines of men did ruleas Datus, but our women also had very prominent roles.

They were basically our connection to the gods. So Trese here is kind of like that connection, I would say to, to the

Tania Ahkin, a certified holistic health practitioner and hormone coach shares her journey towards holistic health. She shares:

- How she became vegan to being plant based

- An overview of Reiki

- What it means to be mindful

- Her tips on how to be holistically healthy, and more!

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Tania: So Reiki is a universal life force And I know this sounds like really, we re you know, kind of what, what is this? But quantum physics have, discovered that we are energy

Glee: Hey Zesties!Welcome to the Gleeful Talk SHow where we share zesty stories to cultivate the happiness. And here within, in this episode, we are going to talk all about holistic health and Reiki. Our guest for today is a certified holistic health practitioner and hormonal coach who incorporates Reiki in the practice of holistic health.

She is passionate about inspiring people to live a healthier lifestyle. Please welcome Tanya Alkin. Hi, Tanya. Welcome to the show.

 

Tania: Hi glee. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.

Glee: Thank you for coming in the show and yeah, holistic health.

can you talk about what holistic health means?

 

Tania: Yeah, of course. So holistic health is looking at the whole picture of the person. So not only their body, but their mind and their spirit, because that's what we are.

We are try beings, mind, body, and spirit. And so we combine those three aspects into the healing modality, as well as a few other things like detox strategies, just simply because of the chemical world we live in. You know, soul work as well. We incorporate functional and herbal medicine to help support the body even further.

So yeah, things like that movement, obviously, because yeah. We're not meant to be so sedentary.

Glee: Oh, yeah. Great. And when did you start your holistic health journey?

 

Tania: Yeah. So basically I guess I've always been into the natural way of doing things. I haven't always been, you know, clean eating and looking after myself.

No, definitely not. But but yeah, you know, it's always been a part of me to do things the natural way first if I can. And so when I had my first daughter, she was around 18 months old and I decided to Really look at the chemicals that were in food, especially packaged food. That that's what I was kind of focusing on.

Anything with numbers in them, anything with names that I had no idea what it was. I started to eliminate from my diet and that also included things that I put on my body as well. Like bath and beauty products. Also things like cleaning products, I just. I got rid of it all and I replaced it with natural cleaner and greener products.

And so after doing that and feeling like I was ready for the next step in my health journey, I started noticing that there were a lot of people going vegan. And I was really curious as to why, because, you know, we're always taught. We get our calcium from dairy and we get our iron from, meat and, and I thought, well, how can they go vegan and still be healthy?

You know? And I looked into it. I literally typed into Google, like, why is everyone going be

that's me?

Well, like, you know, obviously there was the animal cruelty aspect of veganism which I think we all kind of know that part, but, but yeah, there was also all these health benefits. I was very skeptical about that, but but you know what, I took it in any way and tried to keep an open mind and yeah, the more I started researching into it, the more I thought, oh, I'm really interested i

Relationship topics are fascinating and entertaining at the same time. 

This episode circles around the topic of interracial dating, where Lawin of Pop Your Cultural Cherry, speaks about his thoughts and experiences around this topic.

We'll hear about:

- How he met his partner

- Did he had pre-dispositions about dating someone from a different culture

- How did they manage to harmonize any cultural differences to make the relationship work

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Lawin: Cause I know people in the Philippines also. Who also are like this. I don't think it's a matter of race or where you're from. It's just Filipino guys are just better in hiding it.

Glee: hey Zesties! Welcome to the Gleeful Talk Show where we share the stories to cultivate the happiness and hero with it. This episode is just a general chat about dating, particularly with someone from a different culture. There are several layers to this topic and it sits close to my heart because I'm married to someone from a different culture.

So I am curious about what others' experiences are, and I might be sharing some of my experience , in other upcoming episodes soon. My guest

for today is a fellow podcaster who is currently based in Germany and runs the podcast. Pop your cultural cherry, which aims to give its listeners a unique perspective of life in Europe with an Asian or Filipino twist, please welcome Lawin.

Hi, Lawin welcome to the show.

Lawin: Hello. Thank you for having me.

Glee: Thank you.

 I know that you're currently in Germany and you have found your love life there. So today we would dig in a little bit more on your love life and your insights to share for Zesties. And of course, feel free to ask some of the things that you'd like to know as well

Lawin: Okay.

Glee: so may I ask where and how did you meet.

Lawin: Yeah.

So 2017 I started to do my masters, my MBA in the Netherlands. It was in a small city near the German border called Maastricht.  It is one of the most popular students cities in, in Netherlands and Netherlands is not a big country and they have maybe like, I don't know, a dozen students cities, and I was in one of them, which was close to the German border.

 Probably four months, four or five months after I started, I met my current girlfriend Jenny she at the time was working in that city. So. What happened was I was a student, but she was working for a German company, but in the Netherlands. So the company that she was working for is a very big like automobile company, a German automobile company, which is nothing special because there are dozens of German, automobile companies.

But she was living there for. A couple of months already. And basically what happened was as I was studying. And she was working, there were, there are a couple of events that happened in the city. So these events are actually international organizations.  Have these sponsor, these events, and one of these organizations is called InterNations.

I don't know if you're familiar with that,

Glee: I am familiar with it. Yeah.

Lawin: Yeah.

there's a lot of InterNations chapters or branches all over the world in different cities. So I attended this Internations event and She also attended the same international has

Such a fun, enjoyable and informative conversation with Louise Hopkin, a professional home organiser based in Canada shares her expertise on:

- why do accumulate so much clutter?

- how to achieve calmness in our lives through decluttering our own space

- how to avoid fuzzy brain

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Today we explore why we accumulate so many objects in our homes that sometimes we don't need and how we can manage and let go of these things.

Our guest is a professional home organizer who has been helping people for five years, decluttering their homes. To provide calmness and balance of the mind, spirit and soul. She is originally from New Zealand and now living in Canada with her family, she loves to learn and find ways to make life simple and enjoy the moment.

Please. Welcome Louise Hopkin. Hi Louise. Welcome to the show.

Louise: Hi.  Glee Thank yo

Do you want to understand yourself and others?

Why do others react differently than we expected?

Our guest, a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines and entrepreneur shares about the book she've read called Personality Plus by Florence Littauer. We talked about the four personality types namely the Popular Sanguine, the Powerful Choleric, the Peaceful Phlegmatic and the Perfect Melancholy.

Learn more about the combinations and how do we interact harmoniously with other personality types.

The types are not used for labelling, but a way to provide some context into our our colourful personalities.

 

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Khen: Yeah. Actually I'm this personality type temperament theory.

I've got that in the book personality plus from Florence Littauer she's an American author and have been studying personality for 25 plus years already. And I'm really, amazed with this book because. It has comprised all the behaviors for me to know more about people. So the four personality types, according to her and to the book is that we have sanguine when we call them popular sanguine.

When we have the perfect melancholy, the powerful choleric and the peaceful phlegmatic. So there are two impairments and according to Florence she said that every person has inborn temperament. So these are our raw material. This is who we are, but , we are harnessed and being changed through circumstances, experiences, and environment.

That's why we create different personality types. So there will be combination of the fourth temperament that makes sense. People  unique and becomes who they are. So that's basically the personality equip the environment theory.

Glee: Oh, all right. So there are adjectives  before the temperamental.

 could you take us through what comprises, why they are described that way?

Khen: I believe Florence need that name  to describe every personality. So for example, a sanguine when Florence, the author made it called popular because sanguine, when personality are really very enthusiastic.

They are popular because they become life of the party. So, as we go along, as we thought through with each personality, maybe you would be thinking who are those people? So I'll just share some of the characteristics of sanguinebites. So they are expressly active and they're really loved people.  They get their power when they have a lot of people around them, they are outgoing and.

Mostly they're good in telling stories because they are fun. they're inspiring and charming. And probably they're also good on stage because they're really lost people. So, especially when you are outside they're really good in speaking. Also sanguine wins, have memory for callers.

So for example, even if it's very basic work like cooking popcorn, they make it more enjoyable. They make people happy and also sanguine twins are like a child. They are wide eyed and very curious, creative and colorful. Also sanguine greens are really cannot say no. So these are the negative things of sanguine Wednesday.

You cannot say no, because we are people pleasers. So they want to be people around them and it be in the end, they could not say no, they're always saying yes, even if they don't can handle every appointment that they said yes to. And because of their. Fun, and expressive personality.

They make friends easily, but feel your true friends becaus

We get to talk with Amy Yip, a Mental Fitness and Life Transformation Coach based in the US. She was in the corporate world for 16 years, and decided to quit her job at Google on 2020 to start pursue her dream of volunteering at Ghana, Africa.

One of her greatest learnings on her life journey so far is that: Your mindset, NOT your circumstance, makes all the difference in your happiness and success. 

Mental Fitness helped her find the courage to pursue her dreams then pivot her dreams during COVID, which ultimately led her to where she is today with a thriving coaching practice while embracing the digital nomad life. She is passionate about bringing this to the world. To help others strengthen their mental fitness. To shift from surviving to thriving. To find their passions, author their own life story, let go of what they think they should be doing and follow their hearts.

In this episode, we talked about:

- Mental fitness

- The saboteurs that cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness.

- Tips to develop mental fitness

- Bonus for women Zesties: The dilemma of having babies or not, and what society tells us

and many more!

 

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Kersly Potter, an independent singer-songwriter from Cebu, Philippines. Being her vulnerable self in this interview, Kersly shares her innermost thoughts and emotions about her life being an indie artist.

 

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Welcome to the New Season!

In this episode, we are joined by Tor Njamo, a spiritual development and well-being coach. We'll learn about the different ways to harness intuition and develop our overall spiritual well-being.

We talked about:

Visual Meditation

Past life regression

Crystal healing

Tarot reading

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Podcast: The Spiritual Link

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