Curito Connects Jenn Huang

Jenn speaks to Australian based multi-disciplinary practitioner Darinka Maja. Darinka shares with us her personal story working through complex trauma and how her experience led her on the path of healing and how she found her way. From the loss of her mom shortly after her birth, to choosing to leave her dad at the age of 13, learning how to cope with social anxiety and more, Darinka hopes that her journey and offerings can help more people find insights, clarify and direction in their own life.

Jenn speaks to Ariana Ost a jewelry designer, healer and founder of Ariana Ost. Born and raised in NYC, Ariana enjoyed growing up surrounded by museums and traveling with her father. Her love for fashion and design, history and old world atelier ultimately inspired her to get a degree in design from Parsons which led her to work for her father who ran a jewelry business in NYC. In 2009 she lost her mom to cancer and this experience led her on a deep-end healing journey. Ariana shares with us her journey and how she made sense of her grief, she is so passionate about healing the world through fashion forward aesthetics, motherhood, leaving a legacy and how these are elements that drives her to continue to build the business she started with her father in 2016.

Jenn talks to Austrian born now residing in Taiwan, Gabriele (Gabi) Seewald co-creator of AWOVEN - Journeys that Connect. From Austria to Taiwan and everything in between, Gabi shares with us how an accident during the birth of her daughter in 2010 damaged her nervous system that led her on this decade long healing journey and reconnecting with nature’s intelligence. What she learned during this process, how she embraced the changes and how she has taken this experience into her work and offerings she practices today in Taiwan and globally.

Jenn speaks to Taiwan based British photographer Duncan Longden. Originally from Oxfordshire, Duncan has spent his career working in various roles we dive into the challenges that he encountered taking that leap of faith to quit his job in the UK to move to Taiwan, restart a new life out here as a photographer, and the challenges and obstacles he faced in both his professional and personal life and why it is important to seek support and find tools to cultivate a healthy mindset and be able to learn to pivot each time you are faced with challenges.

Jenn speaks to Christine Chien (CC), founder of 10m Souls (千萬靈魂 ). A successful founder of a multimillion dollar real estate firm, CC has since found meaning in touching thousands of souls: people and animals through her recently published book and work she is doing through 10m Souls. She shares her life journey and how liberating oneself from conditional experiences to living in unconditional quantum happiness and how this is what she hopes to empower others to do!

Jenn speaks with American freelance journalist based in Taipei, Kaitlin Menza. From the East Coast of the US living the life of travel, dining, exploring and sharing it as a writer and former editor at Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Seventeen to finding love, getting pregnant, moving to a new country and becoming an expat, Kaitlin shares how she has navigated these major life changes and continues to share all the wonderful things life and the world has to offer through her writing!