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Capturing once in a lifetime moment and each encounter is one of a kind and unique. Life designer is looking to genuine and meaningful human connection, and telling candid human stories. In each episode, I will interview an amazing talent coming from all around the world across all different industries. They are artists, creatives, professionals, entrepreneurs, slash everything, and they are all on their journey to pursue their mission with a passion. It's their story-telling about how they ...
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Bella Is Back In 2023: Living In The Present and Creating Experiential Moments
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I am so thrilled to have Bella back on Life Designer for the finale episode in 2023! Bella and I made this cute little pact to make an annual podcast—completely unscripted like girl chit-chat, yet very sophisticated conversations. It's an intimate gaze into our personal growth and introspection every year. This marks our third episode in the third …
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How to craft an enriched and vibrant life I Luella Pu: Interior Designer / Serial Entrepreneur I Part One
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Today’s guest , Luella is A ultimate life designer, who not only curates space through the lens of interior design but also crafts a life within the container of good life. She is an interior designer based in UK with10 pages of her work featuring in the local prestigious publication ‘style at home’. As a serial entrepreneur, she pivot into differe…
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How to craft an enriched and vibrant life I Luella Pu: Interior Designer / Serial Entrepreneur I Part Two
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In the Part Two, Luella shares intimate insights into her experiences with relationship-building, parenting, self-care, and more. Relationship-building took immense amount of efforts but the reward is worth it, because the right partner also become your best mentor. That being said, personal growth should continue to perpetuate regardless of one’s …
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Conversation with Musician Zenith (Part One)
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Growing up in New Zealand and being the only Asian kid in the whole school, Zenith experienced years of bully at primary school. It led her to develop an initial interest in how the human psychic and mind work, and she set herself up for pursuing psychiatry at a very early age. It’s a choice inherently driven by her intention of helping those strug…
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Conversation with Musician Zenith (Part Two )
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All musicians are searching for their voice in music. The minute it’s found, the choice of living life with music becomes eternity. Zenith found her voice in music which is to make an emotional connection with her audiences. As a musician, Zenith never shines away from performing confronting piece and she also fully embrace playing dreamy piece lik…
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I started my 2022 home project which somehow extends its scope into renovation, interior design , decluttering and organization from last June around. It was probably my biggest project in 2022 which grounds me on a very deep and personal level. It was over half year of hustle, stretching my creativity, mentality , even physical strengths to a new …
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Conversation with Entrepreneur Kaitlin Cuevas: Founder of Think Happy, Co. / Podcaster of The Think Happy Podcast/ Former Marketer
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It was such a delightful and uplifting journey to produce this episode with Kaitlin, a joyful and empowering woman who believed YOU are in the driver’s seat of your own life-, and happiness is something we each create for ourselves! She built her coaching business ‘ The Think Happy’ , teaching women intentional methods to reclaim their lives & sust…
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The One and Only Bella Is Back: Travel Creates New Reality
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I am so thrilled and honored to have my first returning guest for this Podcast, the one and only Bella is back! Bella is a Creative Strategist based in NYC. I interviewed her Last year around this time. A year went by, Bella and I are both growing and evolving which leads to this amazing episode about ‘ travel creates new reality ’! Bella shared he…
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Conversation with Beverly Price: Founder of Nastava Jewelry/Founder at Her Self Expression/ Transformational Coach
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Coming from a upbringing where education around self-love and confidence seem to be missing, Beverly price discovered her path from self-expression to self-empowerment in later her adulthood. The road to self-empowerment comes with pain and struggles, but Beverly said, without being self-empowered, she wouldn’t have that strengths to pivot to Jewel…
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Conversation with Amy Lyle: Comedy Writer/ Author/ Comedienne/ Actor/TV Host/ Ted Speaker (Part Two)
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Amy's initial intention of writing a book was to get some press and have her screenplay picked up by Hollywood. It was such a life-defining moment when she realized her book actually brings so many joys and creates an escape for her readers. Her two books (Book of Failures / We're All A Mess, It's OK) also are a big commercial success: both are num…
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Conversation with Amy Lyle: Comedy Writer/ Author/ Comedienne/ Actor/TV Host/ Ted Speaker(Part One)
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From the outside look inside, Amy is such a multi-hyphenate, wearing lots of hats. She pivoted a big way from finance to the creative world where she is currently thriving! This is another inspiring story that if you dare to dream and the dream will come true! It all started her role shift from a working person to a stay-home Mum, which promoted he…
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Conversation with Miki Sakai: Artist/Photographer at Miki Sakai Photography/ Architect (Part One)
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Growing up and moving around a number of countries, (Tokyo, NY, London, Buenos Aires, and now Sydney), Miki describes herself living a nomadic lifestyle as a Global Citizen. She made a conscious decision from a young age that not being fixed to her own belief, judgments or thoughts, truly embracing diverse ways of thinking and living, because somet…
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Conversation with Miki Sakai: Artist/Photographer at Miki Sakai Photography/ Architect (Part Two)
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Miki Sakai Photography creates a one of kind photoshoot journey for each of her clients. Storytelling is the heart of Miki’s craft. The way she tells a story is to capture the authentic and unposed moments in a session (family portraits, wedding, branding,etc). Drawing inspiration from everything (traveling, movies, books, conversations with others…
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Conversation with Chloe Kang: Former SBS Media Specialist /Ogilvy Account Director, Museum Corporate Communications and Engagement Manager
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Chloe has had a wide range of interests since she was a kid. Her curiosity in nature eventually led her to land in Media/ PR industry. Breaking into Australia's mainstream broadcasting news outlet SBS ( which is the major network to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services) as a migrant, her success in the local media in…
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Conversation with US Software Engineer / YouTuber 'HackBear' Terry Chen
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Terry Chen pivoted his way to become a sofware engineer, standing halfway through completing his degree in management engineering. It started with side projects at university which got him into coding and programming, and eventually, he decided to pursue software engineering as his profession. To shift gear in the middle like that, it means filling…
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Conversation with US Fitness/Nutrition Coach / Founder of Fitme Community Christy Campbell
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Authenticity and realness are rooted in Christy gene which got her easily connected to people who are real and accept her authentic side. She also incorporated realness into core values for her company fitme which is to provide women with practical and doable nutrition/ exercise coaching. Christy addressed that the absence of realness instill a fak…
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Conversation with Ballet Dancer/ Instructor /funder of balletcolourful Fenella McKirdy
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Starting ballet at five years old, Fenella nurtured her love and passion for ballet through years of professional training and dancing. Back to her early training periods, younger Fenella encountered a few negative teachers who questioned her pursuit, telling her to give up. Negative comments like that (particularly from instructors) can severely h…
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Conversation with Solicitor/Zumba Instructor Neda Buckland
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Growing up watching movies every day, Neda developed her initial desire to become an actress. She did drama courses and played in school, which she enjoyed. But she met an actor who told her it takes a burning desire to become an actress, which she didn't see herself possess. Then her stronger desire to be involved in the filming industry behind th…
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Conversation with Chocolatier/Perfume Engineer Joseph Atallah
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Chemistry has come into Joseph's Life naturally from learning it as a subject in school to pathway into his early career as a food scientist and perfume engineer. Tracing back to 1994, he built his chocolate brand' 'Kimberley Chocolate' with a mission to make high-quality chocolates accessible to our community. 'Kimberley Chocolate' features high-q…
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Conversation with Artist/ Entrepreneur/ Funder of Sumi Threads Henry Feng
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Henry Feng is an Artist and Entreprenur based in Sydney, running his fashion Brand' 'Sumi Threads'. After spending eight years in University with one step away from completing his Ph.D., Henry realized working in academia was not his true calling. Stumbling upon a tattoo apprenticeship course by accident opened his eye and mind to understand art ra…
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Conversation with NYC Google UX Designer Leecy Li ( Part One)
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Leecy finds her true meaning and value as a UX designer, which combines her passion for technology and design to produce a product /service that improves quality of people's lives. She followed her inner voice, making a significant jump from quitting her job in Motorola in Beijing to study at Parsons, eventually landing her feet in Google as a UX d…
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Conversation with NYC Google UX Designer Leecy Li ( Part Two)
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In Part two, Leecy shared her experience in hosting 'Talks at Google' with Yiying lu. She took the plunge, putting herself out there as a representative of our unique culture, with the mission to bridging gaps for deeper human connection. I strongly resonate with what she said: Hate comes from ignorance and fear of being unknown. When we are genuin…
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Conversation with Content Producer/Musician Rowan Fitzpatrick
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It was such a huge honor to have an interview with Content Producer/ Musician Rowan Fitzpatrick! He was also my classmate from the Radio and Journalism class last year! It’s a fun and light episode where we had so many laughs and flashback memories! Since graduating last year, Rowan has continued his radio journey as a volunteer in a community radi…
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Conversation with NYC Content Strategist Bella Jiang
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It’s a huge a honor to have Bella joining my podcast today who is a creative strategist based in NYC. From discovering her strong passion in art as a kid to choosing a major or career in specific, she has always been a risk- taker person who makes her own major life decision, regardless of different voices all the way along. We see her living her d…
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Conversation with Bilingual MC/Voiceover Artist/ Model Haruka Shinno
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Haruka is a Japanese and English speaking MC/Presenter/Voiceover Artist based in Sydney. In today's episode, Haruka shared her life transformation journey that truly touched my heart. What impressed me the most is that she has always been her life decision-maker, which takes tremendous courage, strong willpower, and most importantly, actions. We se…
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Conversation with HK Cross-Border Lawyer Sherman_mommy
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In today’s episode, Sherman_mommy shared her life-transformation story from self-focus only to loving others. Living in a fast-paced and stressful place like HK, She was once a ‘selfish person’ ( as she described herself) who just aimed at being more competitive at work and getting better herself. As the biggest turning point of her life, becoming …
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Power Up Under Lockdown: Girls Talk with Ailsa Pearce and Wanjia Zhang
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During the lockdown, I often recalled what happened to my life in the last 6 months. Apart from work, I also had lots amazing life experience involved key words such as Zumba, Podcast, Musical, Dining etc., They were all fun and exciting which they were, but what you didn't know behind is I was in a self- battle every day. It took tremendous streng…
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Conversation with Terry Ng about his Life-Searching Journey
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It's a huge honor to get this interview with Terry Ng from HK. Here are some key takeaways for today’s show: Terry shared his spiritual journey which coincides with ancient Chinese philosophy yin/yang. The Yin/Yang symbol is composed of the white and black sides, two opposite forces and characters. To apply this concept to understand humanity, Terr…
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Conversation with My Zumba Teacher Jeison Cuellar
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Here are some today’s key takeaways : I am personally attached to this episode on a very deep level. so many times I am feeling on the edge at work while the idea of going to Zumba after work got me through those tough days. I can easily lie on the bed after busy work , feeling exhausted but not fulfilling. But this added small routine not only bri…
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Conversation with Serial Entrepreneur: Danny Da Rocha
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Key takeaways from today’s show: As a young, passionate serial entrepreneur, Danny is on his journey of building his business empire by taking small steps and through long years of hard work. His hobby, being a DJ, led him to his first start-up: DJ DAROC, then he identified the market gap and created a Mutil -media and events agency ‘Gigahire’ wher…
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Conversation with Japanese Florist : Setsuko Yanagisawa
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Setsuko is a Japanese florist based in Sydney, specialising in IKEBANA (traditional Japanese flower arrangement) and European style as well. In today's episode, Setsuko shared her life story about passion, struggling and encounter. Key takeaways from today's show: I want to quote what Kristen Kish, the winner from top chef, said about passion : pas…
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