In this episode of Starting Out, listen as I ask Neeq’s all about her solo travel experiences and some advice and tips for our listeners. If you’ve ever been solo travelling or plan to in the future, we would love to hear about your experiences and plans!

In this episode, we recount Chinese New Year traditions from our childhood, the significance of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, and what traditions we would like to pass on in the future. We wish you prosperity, happiness, and good fortune in 2022!

Living intentionally is the name of the game. It wouldn’t be a Starting Out episode if we didn’t reflect on 2021 and the lessons it gave us. Moving forward, we discuss what is on our vision boards to get us closer to our aspirations.

Premiering November 28 - HBO Lifetime Movie of Neeqs life (and a few vanilla updates from Corinna’s end). This week, tune in to listen to all the juicy things that Cor and Neeqs have been up to, why we took a break from our pod, and how we feel now. Trust us, you don’t want to miss these juicy updates.

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To get ahead of our future book club: The Defining Decade by Meg Jay - https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-defining-decade-why-your/9780446561754-item.html

The hopeless place in question is school, lol. There is pressure to find a man, graduate, get a career, all before you turn 22. For women, there is an extra sense of urgency as these are the prime years of a man because once you graduate, all the good ones will be taken.

According to that timeline, that is not the case for most people. In this episode, we will be discussing the societal pressures of finding the one you will be marrying in school.

Introducing our first guest ever on the pod, Mackenzie from Nibble to Nourish!👏⁠

Corinna has been great friends with Mackenzie for several years. In this episode, we catch up with Mackenzie on what she has been up to. We have a heart-to-heart conversation about Mackenzie's career switch, her relationship with nutrition and wellness, and where she wants to go in her career. ⁠

Find Mackenzie Here:

🌍  Website / Blog - http://nibbletonourish.com/

📸  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nibbletonourish/

How do I build successful money habits in University/College so I don’t have to eat only bagels for this semester? Tune in today to hear about our experiences with managing finances!

What if we stopped the endless scrolling as it is the biggest time-suck out of our lives? Well, we did just that (for 30 days). In this episode, Corinna and Aneeqah finished reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, took that thought, implemented a 30-day social media detox, and reported the findings. Join us as we talk about what we cut out, what the process is, and the positive effects we felt afterwards.

Downtown Toronto, the Financial District, having your office on Bay Street, and commuting downtown - it all sounds lavish and fancy, but what happens if you don’t get a job in a big city during your first/second year of University/College?

Join Cor and Neeqs in this episode as we recount how we didn’t secure a job in the 6 during first year, what that meant for our morale, and what our actual first jobs were and what we ultimately learned from that experience. We also go over other skills you can leverage on your resume and in job interviews that will help you tenfold in securing your first job.

Demoralized? Indeed - especially when a lot of our classmates secured fancy jobs in the big city. We survived, and now we’re thriving. This is our story.

Cor and Neeqs talks about what creativity means in the workplace, the pressure of constantly feeling like employers are expecting you to create groundbreaking and million-dollar profit-generating ideas (on a Monday), and feeling scared or shy to talk about your thoughts and ideas to your co-workers. We talk about the hardships we faced in our first jobs and lessons we learned while continuously finding different sources to spark creativity.

Our big takeaway for our listeners - if your environment does not allow you to pursue and implement your ideas, that will seriously stifle your professional development, self-esteem, and future willingness to share your ideas with others.

If you have any other ideas, tips, or tricks on how to continue to be creative and find different points to springboard off of, feel free to email us at [email protected], we’d love to hear your perspective! We hope you enjoy this episode!