I guess at the end, what we really wanted is to be loved and to be understood by someone who matters.

I’ve always felt things very deeply.

For most of my life, that meant emotional highs and lows that felt overwhelming — joy that felt infinite, sadness that felt permanent, anger that felt defining. As someone who is emotionally wired by nature, I used to believe that whatever I was feeling in the moment was the truth. And sometimes, I made decisions purely based on that truth — only to regret them later.

In this episode, I reflect on what it means to live as an emotional person in a world that often rewards stability and control. I talk about the mistakes I’ve made when I treated temporary emotions as permanent conclusions. I share a quote that stayed with me: “Life is about managing your emotions.” And it took me years to understand what that really meant.

Feeling annoyed doesn’t mean you don’t love someone. Feeling disappointed doesn’t mean everything is ruined. Feeling lost doesn’t mean you’ve failed. Emotions are real — but they are not final.

As a 27-year-old woman navigating work, friendships, and the dramas that come with personal relationships, I’ve learned a few small practices that help when emotions feel too loud. In this episode, I share a simple guide: check your body before your thoughts, sleep before you spiral, write before you react, and speak to someone who makes you feel safe.

This isn’t about becoming less emotional.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by what you feel — this episode is for you.

No emotion is final.

Before I applied, the challenge challenged me first.

This episode is about the quiet resistance that comes before action — the hesitation, the shrinking, the voice that asks, “Who do you think you are?” When I considered applying to a large, well-established company, I didn’t feel excitement at first. I felt small. I wondered if it would be inappropriate, even disrespectful, for someone like me to apply. As if simply trying would expose something I wasn’t ready to face.

What I was really feeling wasn’t a lack of ability. It was impostor syndrome — the belief that I didn’t truly belong in the room I was standing outside of. The fear that my confidence was borrowed, that my place was temporary, that sooner or later someone would realize I wasn’t “enough.”

In this episode, I talk honestly about that feeling — the quiet self-doubt that doesn’t shout, but slowly convinces you to step back. I reflect on the difference between humility and self-erasure, between being realistic and being unnecessarily cruel to yourself. I also share the moment when my thinking shifted: when I realized that while applying felt like a possible disrespect to others, not trying at all felt like a much bigger disrespect to myself.

This episode isn’t about success or outcomes. It’s about permission. Permission to try before you feel ready. Permission to take up space before you feel certain. Permission to move forward even while your confidence lags behind your courage.

If you’ve ever felt intimidated by an opportunity, paralyzed by self-doubt, or unsure whether you’re “allowed” to want more — this episode is for you.

Sometimes, the hardest part of a challenge isn’t the challenge itself.

Referenced TED talk in this episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXRYgjQXX0

In this episode, I start with a comment my supervisor casually made about me — that I seem smart, but if you really look closely, I’m kind of a fool. He probably didn’t mean it seriously. But the words stayed with me longer than I expected.

Because sometimes, I wonder the same thing about myself.

In a world that rewards strategy, calculation, and self-interest, kindness can feel like a disadvantage. Being considerate. Giving people the benefit of the doubt. Choosing empathy over efficiency. At times, it feels like choosing the losing side — or at least the slower one.

This episode is not about proving that kindness is morally superior, or pretending that being nice always leads to good outcomes. Instead, it’s an honest reflection on the quiet doubts that come with being a giver. The moments when you ask yourself: Am I being kind, or am I just bad at protecting my own interests? Would my life look different if I were a little more calculated? Is this world ultimately built for people who know how to take, rather than give?

I also reflect on a talk that explores the idea of givers, takers, and matchers — and how those who give the most often lose the hardest, but sometimes also win the most, in the long run.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt smart, capable, and thoughtful — yet somehow always a step behind. For those who are tired of choosing softness in a hard system, but still aren’t ready to let it go.

Maybe kindness isn’t a losing game.

I think it's really hard for grown ups living in 2026, to be fully conscious, have the awarness, creatical thinking without these tools, which is 1. Smartphone 2. Computer 3. Internet 4. AI, myself included of course. And I had so much emotional burden to organise my plans like the full time job + extra big-scale project that I'm recently working on. And I became even more  dependent on AI cus simply, it's so helpful and intelligent! 

I'm sure there's lot of people out there who has a similar concern about the modern technology, and hope our listeners enjoyed this week's episode. & of course, will have an excellent weekend! :D

Everytime big or small of things happen to me, it's hard to get rid of the feeling that 'uncertainty is overwhelming' but after I encountered one specific episode of the podcast, , I came upon with a expression, "Apprecitation of Uncertainty"

So sorry I couldn't find a link of that episode, but bascially she was trying to say that people should have more apprecitation of uncertainty because life of full of uncertainties and unexpected moments. So rather than being annoyed or neglecting it, apprectiating is the key to accept what's happening to you and to be able to figure out the next step. 

Hope you liked the episode! Thanks for listening and hope to see you again soon! :)

One of my favourite things about my life is that I have amazing group of friends. They make me want to be a better person for them, they make me laugh, they entertain me, they makes me cry when I need a really good cry. My experience of friendship has changed darastically from adolescence to adult years. And personally I loved adult friendships compare to my adolescence friendships and I wanted to share my thoughts about that. Also, I wanted to share about my 3 rules of friendship that helped me alot to make new friends and maintaining old friends of course. And those are...

Thank you so much for listening again, and happy new year! best of wishes and sending lots of love! :)

As a person who were always called as a 'bright kid' a 'positive/optimisstic' one for almost all of my life, I've discovered that those who are bright or the opposite personality is a perennial trait. I started to feel like maybe some people are born happy or born sad. Which means that having such perosnality is highly inherited. It sounds absolutely unfair, but as I searched for a scientific proof of them It turns out it really was true. 

Although, I wanted to write down my own mantra of 'how to stay positive ALL THE DAMN TIME' whenever I feel down and depressed. And those are

Hope you've enjoyed this episode, and again, those who are listening in 2026, then happy new year!! 

Again, thank you so so much for listening :D

Merry Christmas!

While I was journaling and writing new year's resolutions in the cafe, on Christmas day, I've decided I wanted to do an episode about the lessons I had learned in 2025. 

2025 was both tough and amazing year. And it taught me so many lessons that I'm gonna share with you in this episode. 

I hope everyone had a great christmas day, gonna have a peacful Christams holidays. Hope we can see you soon next week too! Thanks for listening again :)

Merry Christmas! x

"Your success in life higly depends on how wisely you spend your time alone"

What my coworker said to me on the other day clicked my head and it made me look back to myself in the past where I couldn't find happiness and stability in myself. I was constantly looking for someone to be around me, listens to me talking, to support me even tho I knew they weren't worth of my time and effort. I've worked on myself to be 'happily alone' since then, and honestly I'm still working on it and it's still hard. But now I'm finding myself to gradually improve and getting more support and love from myself not the others. 

In this episode, I've shared with my personal experience of coping lonliness, finding way to wisely spend my time alone. At the end, all I want is that I want to be someone who chooses me, who always prioritise myself. But of course, not in the selfish way.

Thank you so much for listening again! Hope we can see you soon too :D