Wicked Thoughts with Fleire Castro

Fleire Castro interviews Gama Rae a.k.a Paeijwei for this season's Creators and Creatives.

Paeijwei is a former professional gamer who collaborates with publishers, media companies, and ecommerce brands to promote video games through live streaming and content. She is currently engaged in freelance content creation services for local and international clients. She hopes to someday create a platform to share stories of freelance journeys to promote a freelancing community.

Fleire Castro interviews Marvin Viagedor for this season's Creators and Creatives.

Marvin is the band vocalist for the reggae band Big Marvin and the Wigiws since 2002. Expert branding specialist. Busking Advocate.

Fleire Castro interviews Ara Chawdhury for this season's Creators and Creatives.

Ara Chawdhury is a Filipina filmmaker, human rights activist, and tarot reader who takes her comedy seriously. She produced a stoner film, SUPERPSYCHOCEBU with prize money she won for her short film, OPERATION PRUTAS at the Sinulog Film Festival, during Duterte's bloody drug war and is currently seeking political asylum in Northern California. Her directorial debut, MISS BULALACAO, won YCC best first feature and best screenplay at the Cinemaone Originals Film festival.

A chat with Dominic Dosdos of the local Cebu band Forgetful Bob. The Cebu punk + hardcore band shaped their music with a fresh new sound that echoes to every listener no matter the genre they prefer.

They have a single released soon called "Days".

Days is an unapologetic love letter to your significant other who is far away. It's about reminiscing the days when you were right beside each other and how you took that for granted because you never knew you'd ever be apart. It's about longing for that person to come home. When the pandemic hit last year, the song suddenly perfectly reflected the situation of most people dealing with the quarantine, not just people going through LDR. It will resonate with you.

To wrap up the season and Women's Month, host Fleire Castro and co-host Connie Barrientos-Carey talk about the topics of Season 2 and the highlights of the conversations from our guests from Sutukil Valley and the Humans of Cebu.

This interview was done by David Alfonso Castro, my son, with my mom, Fely Bation in Cebu, Philippines. The recording was supposedly for StoryCorps but reviving it here on the podcast as one of our Wicked Thoughts special episodes.

We interviewed her days before the pandemic quarantine and travel lockdown. This was when we realized that her trip back to Los Angeles was not going to happen anymore. She had to stay in our tiny unit in Cebu City, Philippines together with my aunt for three months after this interview.

My mother is a senior residing in LA and working as a nursing assistant to elders. She left the Philippines around 2001 leaving her husband and four young children to look for work and greener pastures in America.

Here she shares her story on how she survived being an immigrant and eventually a resident in the USA away from home and family.

She was able to go home to Los Angeles, USA after the March 2020 lockdown in the PH. She plans to retire and travel soon.

How is the Cebu startup community doing? What are the challenges and opportunities in running a co-working space in Cebu? What are the trends in community management and education as advocacy?

Fleire Castro and co-host Ms. Connie Barrientos-Carey interview guest Ms. Joy Garingo, the General Manager of The Company's two co-working spaces in Cebu. In this episode, she shares her joy in being immersed in the community and spills some more tea in the recent challenges in running a co-working space.

How do you navigate your career and life as a working single mom? What are the things to note in the dynamics between men and women in the workplace? What are some tips for positioning yourself to win?

Fleire Castro and co-host Connie Barrientos-Carey interview guest Ms. Rica Serenio, Digital Marketing Consultant, food content creator, and endurance athlete. In this episode, she shares her journey as a working single mom and the challenges she faces in the workplace, and the solutions.

Are social enterprises finding tech valuable? How does a working woman do career transitions? Where does data fit in various industries?

Fleire Castro and co-host Connie Barrientos-Carey interview guest Ms. Hannah Amora, co-Founder of NGO Let it ECHO and logical empath. In this episode, she shares her journey from corporate to social enterprises, all the while keeping data and tech insights applied in her work.

Can you use design to bring about the value in business? How do you use it to validate ideas for startups and businesses? How does community building help? Fleire Castro and co-host Connie Barrientos-Carey interview guest Mr. Francis Alturas, Co-founder and Chief Design Officer of Abstract Digital. In this episode, he shares about his entrepreneurship journey, his design agency helping venture-backed startups, and the challenges of managing a team in the middle of a global crisis.