Bear Talk Jon Lee and Tiffany Sun

You never truly understand what life feels like or could possibly offer until you’ve experienced death. 

Sure, it isn’t the most pleasant topic to talk about, but let’s face it: Isn’t death inevitable? For each and every one of us? 

Unfortunately, one of our dear family members passed away not too long ago - and we were shocked. How can someone be so full of life one day and suddenly be struck by death on another? It seemed so random...and so unfair. But we realized, that’s how life is. 

So it made us wonder, what would happen if one of us actually died?

In this podcast, we talk deeply about death and why it’s so important to embrace it. Because not only does it make you appreciate the life you’re living, but it also makes you become even more determined to live it well. 

Gender stereotypes suck. 

Why should women sacrifice their freedom and independence to become housewives? 

Why should men be criticized for expressing their feelings and emotions? 

Why should we feel pressured, every single day, to fit in with what we don’t really believe in?

It doesn’t make any of us feel any better about the life we chose to live, which is why we’ve decided to question these gender stereotypes. After all, we believe that everyone deserves to be happy and to live freely without being judged. 

And we hope that, by sharing our past and self-development, you’ll be able to see a greater opportunity to becoming even happier and fulfilled - that’s if you decide to take on and challenge these existing gender roles and expectations. 

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been getting better and better at balancing our lives together - making time to relax, making time to learn, working on our own projects, working on our projects, spending time with family, getting in a good sweat. But we weren’t always like this. 

Somewhere, somehow, we’ve stumbled across the idea of setting a system to manage our day-to-day lives. It might seem restrictive, you might say, but actually it has brought us more satisfaction and free time (strange how that works, huh?) than we had anticipated…just because we’ve done what we needed done. 

And so, in this podcast, we’ll talk about how we set up systems to make sure we’re both headed in the right direction. This is something we’re still hashing out with each other - it’s not solid yet - but at least you’ll get to see, in real time, how we work with each other towards setting a system that’d help strengthen our relationship further. 

10 years ago, we were naive. 

We thought by being in a relationship, you had to sacrifice most of yourself - including your dreams and desires - to make your partner happy, to love them no matter what. But after going through a few stressful years of self-disappointment and dissatisfaction, we realized this wasn’t right.

Relationships shouldn’t be skewed to one person’s happiness, it should be equal. And so, in this podcast, we talk about how we overcame our past relationship struggles by sharing with each other what we believe (and have done that) could lead to a healthy and happy relationship: Making time for each other, learning something new, coming up with surprises (small gratitude notes, flowers, gifts)…there’s more but this is just the start.

If there’s anything we wish we could’ve cultivated early on, it would’ve been self-awareness. 

Why?


Well…if you can stop yourself midway to ask why you feel a certain way, why you believe in what you believe and do what you do, you can then move forward towards becoming a better person, because by then, you’d already know what you need to work on and how you’d like to live your life. \

But how does one build self-awareness in the first place?

In this podcast, we talk about a few ways of building self-awareness by combing through our past and pinpointing certain moments and experiences that’ve helped realize who we could be. Our favorites include: asking why, meditating, reading books, journaling/writing a diary.  

If you have any other ones that’ve helped you become more aware, please let us know - we’d love to give it a try. :) 

We traveled around Southeast Asia for 3 years - 2 years alone, 1 year together - hoping it would resolve the stress and unhappiness we had felt living to society’s expectations. It did. But somewhere along the way, we discovered something far more important: Traveling isn’t an escape, it’s a journey that changes you.   

It makes you realize that there’re millions of opportunities living another lifestyle, that you can feel fulfilled despite not having much, that the majority of people are kinder than you think. We’re very grateful to have learned so much about the world, about ourselves, that we believe traveling is something everyone should do more often - not just because it would widen your perspective but because it would give you a sense of inner peace, something we all want but something we all struggle achieving.