Lost & Found with Karmen Wiid

This is the episode I needed this week, so I made it for both of us.

If you’ve been feeling off… low on energy, creatively flat, stuck in a loop of procrastination and you just need something to shake you out of it, this one’s for you.

In part one of this two-part reset, I’m sharing 9 powerful, practical shifts to help pull yourself out of a rut and remind you who the hell you are.

We’re talking: how to shake off stagnant energy, work hacks that spark momentum instead of guilt, and tiny tweaks that break the loop and make you actually want to show up again.

Part two drops Monday, and yes, we’ll go deeper into the psyche, the philosophy, the identity stuff. But this episode is the reset. The beginning. The spark.

Let’s get you feeling like yourself again.

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Our first Lost & Found Book Club episode is here and we’re starting tender.

In this deep-dive discussion of Thirst for Salt by Madeleine Lucas, we explore the slow ache of a relationship that never quite breaks, but hollows. We talk love and longing, emotional whiplash, age-gap relationships, unequal power dynamics, aestheticized sadness, and the fantasy of becoming someone through someone else.

Why do we stay in relationships that hurt so much? Is it love or just projection? And what does it cost to be the one who feels more?

If you’ve ever looked back on a past relationship and realized you were building a life out of longing, this episode is for you, whether you've read the book or not. 

Plus: our August book club reveal (it’s sharp, feral, and unforgettable).

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

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What if beauty wasn’t something soft and sweet… but something vast, dangerous, and soul-shaking?

In this episode, we dive deep into the Romantic movement - not dating apps or romcoms, but the 19th-century revolution of artists and poets who believed that awe, longing, terror, and wonder were not distractions from life but the very point of it.

This isn’t your high school English syllabus. The Romantics were obsessed with danger, desire, melancholy, and the sublime… that dizzying, breathtaking feeling that reminds you you’re still alive.

It was an art movement that inspired revolutions - the French, the American, the Haitian. Because to feel deeply in a disenchanted world is political.

And today, in an age of algorithms, apathy, and endless scrolling, it might be exactly what we need.

This episode is your reminder that feeling is a form of resistance. And aliveness is an art.

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A bottle of whisky, a palm reader, a prophecy. And a night that unfolded like silk around the hips. Slow, hot, dangerous.

In this episode, I'm reading you my latest short story, "The Fifth Lover."

From rooftops in Northern India to the dark dancefloors where we lose ourselves, this is a story about what we remember and what we rewrite. About possibilities and dead ends. About the high of being young, untethered, and briefly, beautifully, unbroken. 

Until it all unravels. 

Is it a story or a memory? Real or constructed?

You’d have to listen to figure that one out for yourself.

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In this episode, I’m sharing the mindset shifts I return to when I feel lost, tired, or just trying to ground myself in something deeper than a to-do list.

We’ll talk about:

These are the beliefs that have held me through heartbreak, solo travel, reinvention, and becoming someone new, again and again.

If you’re somewhere between the breakdown and the breakthrough, between who you were and who you’re becoming, then this one’s for you.

Come sit with me for a while...

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At 21, I walked into a philosophy class on Critical Theory, not because I was particularly curious about Marxism, but because the professor radiated something I couldn’t explain. Calm. Clarity. Joy.

I didn’t know that one elective would unravel everything I thought I knew about ambition, success, freedom, and identity.

Two years later, I was living in a hippie commune in rural Nicaragua, showering outside, swearing off money, and trading work for food, trying to figure out what I really wanted when nothing familiar was there to define me.

In this episode, I explore the philosophy that radically changed my twenties, and might just shift something in you, too.

Drawing on the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, we talk about how capitalism doesn’t just shape what we do - it shapes how we dream, how we think about happiness. 

But we also explore the nuance: what it means to be a content creator and a critic of the system. What it means to hold ambition and awareness. And how to navigate all of this without self-abandonment or moral purity.

This one is deeply personal. It’s philosophical, yes, but more than that, it’s an invitation.

To question what you’ve been told is normal.

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In this episode, we explore the cultural phenomenon and philosophical roots of main character energy, both its empowering promise and its dark underside. 

Sparked by a moonlit conversation in Hanoi, this episode unspools into many threads. 

We talk about:

This episode is both an invitation to live boldly and a gut-check on ego and empathy.

Plus, a beautiful little cameo by some of my friends on what makes them feel like the main characters in their own lives.

Thank you to Annie, Maatai, Claire, Tiaan, and Henry.

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You know how sometimes all you really need is something that shakes you by the shoulders and gets you so fired up you can’t not do the scary thing?

And other times, you’re craving a deep, heart-expanding, soul-softening chat about life and meaning and why any of this matters.

And then there are those times when all you want is an unhinged conversation with a friend that reminds you how young, dumb, and wildly alive you still are.

Yeah. This one is all of that - in one conversation.

In this special episode of Lost & Found, I’m sharing a deeply personal conversation from when I was a guest on the Kindred Roads podcast — a show I’ve long admired for its soul-filled stories from travellers, creatives, and people building beautiful, unconventional lives.

We talk about:

This episode holds stories I’ve never shared before - from romances in Argentina to motorbike crashes in Nicaragua, to what it really feels like to chase freedom and find belonging around the world.

Whether you’re mid-breakdown, mid-reinvention, or somewhere in between, this one’s for you.

Listen the original Kindred Roads podcast episode here

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You’ve heard the rumours, right? Seen the movies with chaotic streets, overflowing trains, and spiritual awakenings. Heard the warnings: it’s too much, too unsafe, too overwhelming.

Well, I heard them too. And I went anyway.

This is what three months travelling solo through India as a woman really looks like. It was messy. It was heart-achingly beautiful. And it changed me in ways I never expected.

In this episode, I speak honestly about the magic I experienced, the discomfort I leaned into, and the lessons I learned the hard way - from Mumbai’s creative chaos to Udaipur’s quiet grace, from trusting strangers to learning how to say no, from falling in love with food again to remembering what awe feels like.

India unraveled me. It made me braver. Softer. Louder in all the right ways.

I always reflect in my journal at the end of a country - what I learned, what I’m taking with me. So consider this your peek inside my journal.

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Let’s Stay Connected:

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Ever felt like you're surrounded by people, but still weirdly alone? Like you're just... not quite you lately? Like something’s missing, but you can’t put your finger on what?

This episode is about that feeling.

The kind of loneliness and disconnectedness that leaves you feeling depleted and lost.

In this one, I get into:

The different types of loneliness (and how to tell what yours is really asking for)

How to go from craving connection to actually loving your own company

What philosophers and poets teach us about solitude

And how to attract authentic, intentional and meaningful social connection

I see you. I’m here. Let’s figure it out together.

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Let’s Stay Connected:

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

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📕 Join The Lost & Found Book Club