Note 2 Self

Saskia Starck

This is Saskia, and this is Note 2 Self — your weekly dose of everything that’s simply too long to text. Consider this your personal invitation into my inner circle, where I share my thoughts and quiet reflections that usually live inside my notes app. Each week I explore modern life through conversations about relationships, culture, mental health, identity, and the stories that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. Part personal journal, part cultural commentary, Note 2 Self is a space for honest reflection, thoughtful conversation, and the occasional pop culture deep dive.

  1. 4 ngày trước

    Karmic Connections, Anxious Attachment, and Learning the Difference

    Some connections feel different from the moment they arrive... like you've known this person before, like they were always supposed to show up. But there's a really important question worth asking: is this a karmic connection, or is it anxious attachment masked as chemistry? In this episode, Saskia unpacks the difference, and shares the story she's never fully told on the podcast before. A New Year's Eve in Byron Bay, a trip to Hawaii, a person she immediately connected with, and what it took to finally let them go. She traces the three markers she now uses to tell the difference between a deep past-life connection and the intensity that comes from her own anxious attachment, and why confusing the two cost her more time than she'd like to admit. She also opens up about being in a cocoon period right now: managing a lot, feeling overwhelmed, and trusting that the seeds she's planted are growing even when she can't see it yet. Plus: her first real Botox experience, her annual tarot reading, and the SNL bit she and Jeffrey can't stop laughing about. Join her for the ride. Referenced in this episode: SNL sketch: https://youtu.be/sTUmhxi6Mo8?si=HG79lRkxgn4_UvNY

    44 phút

  2. 21 thg 5

    Best Friends, Bachelor Nation, and the Difference Between Love and Anxiety

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia's cup is full, and not by accident. Her best friend flew back to New York for the weekend to honour their annual tradition of seeing their favourite DJ, Blondish, play live. It was, as it often is with the people who truly know you, exactly what she needed. The show didn't go quite as planned, with a hysterical "VIP" experience, but the music was transcendent, and that kind of friendship, the kind built over years of shared history and deep knowing, doesn't need a perfect backdrop. Saskia reflects on what it means to have someone in your life who sees you in full, and how quietly extraordinary that is. That idea, of what real connection actually looks like, runs as a thread through the second half of the episode, where Saskia turns her attention to Bachelor Nation. She's been rewatching an old Bachelorette season and she has thoughts. Having grown up watching the show and taking it as the fairytale that falling in love is all about, she now watches it with the rose-coloured glasses fully off. What she sees troubles her: a franchise built on the firework relationship, on anxiety mistaken for chemistry, on self-worth handed over to whoever holds the rose. The contestants aren't falling in love. They're trauma bonding. And for years, we were watching it like it was a fairytale. Love is not a feeling that either hits or it doesn't. It's an action. A choice you make when it's hard and unglamorous and not under the stars during a candlelit dinner in Paris. That's the episode. Tune in.

    46 phút

  3. 14 thg 5

    Beef Season 2, Childhood Trauma, and the Pain You Don't Know You're Carrying

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is fresh off a solo weekend in Brooklyn. Jeffrey away, apartment to herself, an afternoon wandering Prospect Park and sitting under oak trees. It should have just been a nice walk. But it led somewhere she wasn't expecting: straight into a therapy session about a flood that happened when she was four, a 100-acre rainforest property in Australia that was destroyed overnight, and eight months of her own life she has no memory of at all. What she thought never really affected her turns out to be one of the most formative things that ever happened to her. That thread, pain buried so deep you don't even know it's there, is what ties this episode together. Because it shows up again in her pop culture pick: Beef Season 2, starring Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan as a married couple whose opening fight is one of the most visceral, painfully real things she has seen on television. Saskia does a deep dive into what makes their relationship so triggering to watch, the line that unlocked the whole scene on set, what the show gets right about how we fight the people we love most, and why the final scene brought her to tears. She also gets into a part of the show that made her stop in her tracks... a Black Mirror-style hour set inside an American emergency room that quietly dismantles how women's pain is dismissed, undertreated, and disbelieved. And she closes with the thought she couldn't shake when it was all over. Pain that isn't acknowledged doesn't go away. It just finds another way out.

    55 phút

  4. 8 thg 5 ·  Nội dung tặng thêm

    BONUS: Met Gala 2026 Best Dressed

    In this special bonus episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is dropping a timely mini episode on the Met Gala. The exhibition, Costume Art, asked guests to explore the indivisible connection between body and garment, treating fashion as an embodied art form. The dress code: Fashion Is Art. And Saskia had a lot of thoughts. One thread she couldn't stop pulling on: how many designers, independently, arrived at the same answer: the female body as icon. Venus de Milo appeared twice. The Winged Victory. The Black Madonna. On a night asking where the body ends and the garment begins, something kept pointing back to how women's bodies have been depicted, celebrated, and mythologised throughout history. She thinks that says something. This is her full Met Gala wrap sharing some of her favourite looks from Sabrina Carpenter, Kim Kardashian, Anok Yai, Hudson Williams, Emma Chamberlain, and more, sharpest critiques, and one moment that stopped her completely. Because what we wear is never just what we wear. It's what we're saying.

    24 phút

  5. 7 thg 5

    Big Mistakes, Sisters, and the Longest Relationship Most of Us Will Ever Have

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is fresh back from Canada after a few days with a close friend who now has a 3-year-old and a 9-month-old, followed by a perfect spring afternoon wandering around Toronto with her cousin. It was the kind of trip that fills you with other people's lives and quietly reminds you how much you value the time that's entirely your own. (Also: Toronto gave her a final send-off she absolutely did not ask for, involving a park, a man in the sun, and the realisation that no city is ever quite as charming as it seems.) The trip flows naturally into her pop culture pick of the week: Big Mistakes, the new Netflix show from Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott that she has not been able to stop watching. What she loves most isn't the premise, a stolen necklace that spirals into criminal chaos, but the sibling relationship at the heart of it. The bickering through impossible situations, the younger sister desperate to be seen, the older brother without the capacity to give it. It's one of the most honest portrayals of sibling dynamics she's seen on screen, and it opens the door to this episode's main conversation. Because the real topic is siblings, specifically, Saskia's relationship with her younger sister Lily. Seven years younger, the cooler version of her, and the person she can't stop laughing with. Saskia shares what she's learned: the raw, unfiltered version of yourself that only surfaces with a sibling, the fights with no rules of warfare, the childhood triggers both of them are still untangling in therapy, and what it actually means to choose someone who was never supposed to be optional. Your sibling might be the longest relationship you'll ever have. Whether you tend to it is up to you.

    39 phút

  6. 30 thg 4

    Victoria Flexner: Edible History, New York Nostalgia, and Why Trust Beats Hope

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia welcomes her very first guest… and there could be no one better to open the door with. Victoria Flexner is a food historian, the author of A History of the World in 10 Dinners, and the founder of Edible History, a newsletter and supper club that does exactly what it says: tells the story of the world through what we eat. She is also, as Saskia makes very clear, one of the most interesting people she knows. What unfolds is a wide-ranging conversation between two close friends who haven't run out of things to say. Victoria talks about how she built a career by following her curiosity rather than a plan… starting as a hostess at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan and ending up as a food historian publishing her first book, with the goal of teaching through food. The two dive into New York City: its energy, its constant reinvention, the grief of watching neighbourhoods change, and why Victoria, a born-and-raised New Yorker, has decided it might finally be time to leave. They also get into the dinner party as a lost art, the way food creates community in ways that nothing else quite can, and what it means to build a body of work out of pure obsession. The episode closes with Victoria's note to self… and it's one that stays with you. Trust, not hope. Because what is meant for you doesn't need to be held onto quite so tightly. Tune in now. Follow Victoria & find her work:🌐 victoriaflexner.com📸 Instagram: @vflex📖 Buy A History of the World in 10 Dinners

    1 giờ 8 phút

  7. 23 thg 4

    Summer House, Why I Love Rave Culture, and Feeling Fully Alive

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is deep in her AI era... obsessed with finding ways to automate and streamline her life so she can protect the time and energy for the things that actually matter. The ones that fill you back up. The ones you cannot plan or optimise. And it's that idea that quietly runs through everything in this episode. From the Summer House betrayal that has consumed reality TV culture and the question of when, if ever, it is acceptable to date a friend's ex, to Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna sharing a stage at Coachella in a moment that made Saskia cry. This episode is full of the kind of pop culture that is really about something deeper. Connection. Loyalty. What it looks like when art gives a room full of people the same feeling at the same time. That leads into the main topic: rave culture, and three reasons Saskia loves it more than almost any other experience. The community, the energy, and the physical world that a great show creates. Because somewhere between the research on social bonding and a story about standing under pillars of fire at Burning Man feeling like she was on another planet, something becomes clear. We are all chasing the same thing. The feeling of being fully alive in a moment. And you cannot get that from a productivity tool. You just have to show up. Tune in now.

    39 phút

  8. 16 thg 4

    Artemis II, the Meaning of Life, and Ask Me Anything

    In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia opens with the thing that has completely taken over her brain lately: the Artemis II mission to the moon. The vastness of it all makes her feel both insignificant and strangely grounded. She reflects on sitting with the unknown, the anxiety of what we cannot see or define, and how sometimes it takes only 4 people seeing something to change the way the rest of us understand the world. She shares the words that stopped her from the Artemis crew's first press conference. Astronaut Christina Koch describing Earth as a lifeboat, hanging undisturbedly in the universe, and called every living thing on it a crew: a group of people inescapably, beautifully, and dutifully linked. And astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who said the three human experiences that stuck with them, and resonated with the world, were gratitude, joy, and love. Saskia then moves into her Ask Me Anything advice segment with two listener questions. First, what do you do when you have spent your whole life thinking about a crush and suddenly there is no one to think about and the silence feels both freeing and deeply strange. And second, how do you make your boyfriend's apartment feel like your home too without feeling like you are overstepping. Saskia gets into it, shares her own experience of Jeffrey moving into her apartment, and recommends a book she genuinely thinks every couple should read. Because whether you are staring at Earth from space or figuring out your half of the closet, it all comes back to the same three things: gratitude, joy, and love.

    43 phút
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This is Saskia, and this is Note 2 Self — your weekly dose of everything that’s simply too long to text. Consider this your personal invitation into my inner circle, where I share my thoughts and quiet reflections that usually live inside my notes app. Each week I explore modern life through conversations about relationships, culture, mental health, identity, and the stories that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. Part personal journal, part cultural commentary, Note 2 Self is a space for honest reflection, thoughtful conversation, and the occasional pop culture deep dive.

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Saskia Starck
  • Năm hoạt động
    2025 - 2026
  • Tập
    55
  • Xếp hạng
    Thô tục
  • Bản quyền
    © Saskia Starck
  • Trang web chương trình
    Note 2 Self

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