9 episodes
Life As Ryan Madrid
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- Society & Culture
The Life As podcast gets people to share things about their lives, from which other people might find something useful, meaningful, life-changing, or just funny. It's a conversation among locals, about the world, to the world, maybe mundane, but actually relevant. Recording in the Philippines just this 2019.
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Life in Improvisation
What if learning jazz is the biggest hack in life?
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End music: Nearness of You by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
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Contact at lifeaspodcast@zoho.com
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Life As a Late Blooming Artist
Why is it that one needs to find him or herself in an uncertain, uncomfortable situation, in order to bring out the artist inside?
This is a two-in-one podcast, featuring two remarkable guests, Gizelle Batomalaque and Janet Meinke-Lau. Their lives compare and contrast interestingly, but converge at one distinct detail: art.
Find their works here.
Gizelle's Instagram page - @bespectacledpebble
Janet's website - www.janetmeinkelau.com
The thumbnail is a pretty cool species of a snail found at the museum that Gizelle works in (Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel U).
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No Harm In Trying?: Life After Taking a Jab at the USA
An industrious Gab Palanca tries his hand at building a life in the west coast and tells his story of a brief but transformative period in the economic giant. Through thick and thin, he never ideated on giving up, but a realization of importance made the trip back home to the Philippines the last.
Bass guitar performance by Gab Palanca
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Life Across the Pacific...with dreams of coming back
America is distant, but its allure is not up for debate. It overcomes logic with its own persuasiveness, and the chance to live and work in the States is one aspired by many. Gab Firmacion is the first guest to unpack the Filipino-American dream and share his story of hardwork, homesickness, and the cool things about living in the US as an immigrant.
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Life As a High School Valedictorian-turned-Online Freelancer
They say that planning is half the battle. But is life a battle, a life that needs to be planned? Regielene S. Gonzales, a PhD and former professor of Biology tells us of her early years of innocence and joy, that which she has sought to keep up to today and hopes others might do the same, with or without a plan. After all, life is not a battle.
Highlights:
5:20 Early life, living inside a suitcase
11:45 Entering UP Diliman, BS/MS Biology then and now
33:50 PhD, first encounter with sadness and loneliness
45:26 Seeing her career in a different light
1:00:40 Regielene's vegetarianism, more about compassion, with a bonus of a strong immune system
1:10:35 Current life as an online freelancer, philosophy on wealth
1:16:55 Waking up in the morning, looking forward to something
1:22:00 Valuing flexibility in her life
1:27:27 (Best part of the interview)
1:28:30 Life not married, but with a life partner
1:35:41 Putting one's own happiness first...with a catch; a mother's care lasts a lifetime
1:39:27 Parting words for friends and prospective graduate students
1:41:55 Epilogue by Ryan Madrid
Reference:
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Life As a Former Seminarian
What happens after finishing college when, instead of going even faster in life, you chose to go at it slower? That might just land you in a seminary. We speak to a reflective Markus Alcantara, who spent a brief time with the Jesuits, quick enough so he can let us know early enough, that life is less about the answers but rather more about the questions.
Music written by Ryan Madrid.