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Surface Time with Stephanie

Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving. These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind are open. It can be cheeky, intimate, educational, healing and even spiritual. These are stories of people doing amazing things and living their life to the fullest. Whether you are a diver or not, I hope that these conversations will at least put a smile on you and even better, that they stimulate and inspire you one way or another. Thank you & enjoy the confessions.

  1. 4D AGO

    S5 Ep3: I Hear, I Forget. I See, I Remember. I Do, I Understand.

    I hope that you have been practicing mindful breathing since the last episode. Even better, you have completed your Confidence Builder Worksheet and got personalised guidance from Stephanie. Today she will delve deeper into the topic of leadership. In particular, how scuba diving has impacted on her leadership attitude and style. Key Messages Everyone processes information differently. Everyone is on his or her own timeline.To enhance water confidence, first build new muscle memories.Situational leadership style – adjust communication approach in accordance with the level of experience and confidence of each individual.What is it that you are looking to achieve here? Like what outcome have you in mind? About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba diving, our love for the blue ocean and underwater world as well as the land side…everything that can inspire you to love life more. Book 30-Minute Free Consultation with Stephanie: F: https://forms.gle/DEQ8ojuFitVoi73k7 E: stephanie.luo@noeticleaders.com SUBSCRIBE to get constant inspirations: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/WVZ8Y Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/DwVYT Spotify: https://shorturl.at/qfx3U   Connect with us: IG: @surfacetimechats or https://www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats X: @surfacetimechat (no “s”, they are stingy with space!) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com W: https://www.surfacetimechats.com Voiceover by Shelley Avellino (a real person!) W: www.shelleyavellino.com FB: @shelley.avellino LK: www.linkedin.com/in/shelleyavellino IG: @shelleyavellino YouTube: https://shorturl.at/M1Hu1

    10 min
  2. S5 Ep2: Bonus Track - 7-Minute Guided Mindful Breathing Practice

    4D AGO · BONUS

    S5 Ep2: Bonus Track - 7-Minute Guided Mindful Breathing Practice

    A bonus track of Guided Mindful Breathing Practice. This is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Save this to your favourite. When you feel like a pick-me-up, use this track. About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba diving, our love for the blue ocean and underwater world as well as the land side…everything that can inspire you to love life more. Book 30-Minute Free Consultation with Stephanie: F: https://forms.gle/DEQ8ojuFitVoi73k7 E: stephanie.luo@noeticleaders.com SUBSCRIBE to get constant inspirations: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/WVZ8Y Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/DwVYT Spotify: https://shorturl.at/qfx3U   Connect with us: IG: @surfacetimechats or https://www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats X: @surfacetimechat (no “s”, they are stingy with space!) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com W: https://www.surfacetimechats.com

    7 min

  3. 4D AGO

    S5 Ep2: Breathe! Never Hold Your Breath!

    In the last episode, Stephanie shared some tactics on managing fear. Have you managed to complete and send in your Confidence Builder Worksheet? So today, she will talk about the importance of breathing consciously. Apparently, NITROX is the happy gas for scuba diving. Let’s find out why from her. Key Messages To live, we need to breathe. To feel alive, we need to breathe consciously.Never hold your breath underwater.Oxygen is a powerful medicine.Better alternative to calm a person down, “Breathe”.“Taking a deep breath” is a power tactic to break a heated discussion or tough negotiation.Mindful breathing About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba diving, our love for the blue ocean and underwater world as well as the land side…everything that can inspire you to love life more. Book 30-Minute Free Consultation with Stephanie: F: https://forms.gle/DEQ8ojuFitVoi73k7 E: stephanie.luo@noeticleaders.com SUBSCRIBE to get constant inspirations: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/WVZ8Y Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/DwVYT Spotify: https://shorturl.at/qfx3U   Connect with us: IG: @surfacetimechats or https://www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats X: @surfacetimechat (no “s”, they are stingy with space!) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com W: https://www.surfacetimechats.com Voiceover by Shelley Avellino (a real person!) W: www.shelleyavellino.com FB: @shelley.avellino LK: www.linkedin.com/in/shelleyavellino IG: @shelleyavellino YouTube: https://shorturl.at/M1Hu1

    16 min
  4. S5 Ep1: What is Your Greatest Fear?

    APR 2

    S5 Ep1: What is Your Greatest Fear?

    In this new series, Stephanie has curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective about life. Which are all intricately connected to all the roles we play. In this episode, the topic is about Fear. The little bugger that can be so powerful, it can paralyse us. Stephanie has found some hacks to deal with Fear. Let’s hear from her. Key Messages Fear’s full name is False Expectation Appearing Real.Fear can be managed by Confidence.7Ps = Proper Prior Planning and Preparation Prevent Poor PerformanceIn scuba diving, following safety protocol is the key to ensure that we are competent and confidence enough to manage our fear.Between Fear of Failure and Fear of Success, which is the greater devil? About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba diving, our love for the blue ocean and underwater world as well as the land side…everything that can inspire you to love life more. Book 30-Minute Free Consultation with Stephanie: F: https://forms.gle/DEQ8ojuFitVoi73k7 E: stephanie.luo@noeticleaders.com SUBSCRIBE to get constant inspirations: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/WVZ8Y Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/DwVYT Spotify: https://shorturl.at/qfx3U   Connect with us: IG: @surfacetimechats or https://www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats X: @surfacetimechat (no “s”, they are stingy with space!) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com W: https://www.surfacetimechats.com Voiceover by Shelley Avellino (a real person!) W: www.shelleyavellino.com FB: @shelley.avellino LK: www.linkedin.com/in/shelleyavellino IG: @shelleyavellino YouTube: https://shorturl.at/M1Hu1

    10 min
  5. Series 5: Living Life Fully with Transferable Experiences from Scuba Diving

    APR 2

    Series 5: Living Life Fully with Transferable Experiences from Scuba Diving

    Instead of my usual chinwag with other Diving Junkies, for this Series, I have curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective about life. They are all intricately connected to all the roles we play. About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba diving, our love for the blue ocean and underwater world as well as the land side…everything that can inspire you to love life more. Book 30-Minute Free Consultation with Stephanie: F: https://forms.gle/DEQ8ojuFitVoi73k7 E: stephanie.luo@noeticleaders.com SUBSCRIBE to get constant inspirations: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/WVZ8Y Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/DwVYT Spotify: https://shorturl.at/qfx3U   Connect with us: IG: @surfacetimechats or https://www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats X: @surfacetimechat (no “s”, they are stingy with space!) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com W: https://www.surfacetimechats.com

    5 min
  6. S4 Ep8: Adriana Basques on Creating Transferrable Life Experiences

    05/06/2024

    S4 Ep8: Adriana Basques on Creating Transferrable Life Experiences

    Adriana Basques, a corporate executive turned wildlife photographer. She has been using her camera to document moments of her encounters of beautiful creatures both on land and underwater. In fact, her photography specialty is split landscape photo – where top part is the land and bottom part is underwater. This allows her to share with everyone the wonders and beauties of this fragile blue planet. Through her work, she gives people a greater understanding and appreciation for the conservation. Perhaps it’s her Brazilian gene plus many other charms. Her passion for life is highly contagious. She is living her life fully and creating transferrable life experiences. A passionate campaigner in raising conservation awareness through her photography and teasing everyone’s curiosity with the wonders and beauties of this blue planet. And as a passionate advocate and mentor for women empowerment, she is influencing the new standard of behaviour, inside and outside the corporate world. On the note of women leadership, I have observed that the mentality has been shifting constructively. There is still a huge gap to close. And to narrow or even close this gap, it is down to each of us to raise the quality of our own self-awareness, self-confidence and self-compassion.  This is part of the journey of creating transferrable life experiences. So what would you say to these questions: “What moves me?”“What drives me?”From there, you should be able to start connecting the dots from the past to present and from present to future. Connect with Adriana Basques W: https://adrianabasques.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/AdrianaBasquesPhotography IG: https://www.instagram.com/basques/ E: info@adrianabasques.com Connect with us: W: www.surfacetimechats.com/ FB: www.facebook.com/surfacetimechats IG: @surfacetimechats or www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats E: faith@surfacetimechats.com

    47 min
  7. S4 Ep7: Flora Camiros, Michiko Fusato & Sherrie Garcia being Lady Pirate Divers

    12/14/2023

    S4 Ep7: Flora Camiros, Michiko Fusato & Sherrie Garcia being Lady Pirate Divers

    Recently, I went diving in Coron, Philippines. This place is famous for wreck diving where you get to explore some Japanese ships that were sunk by US Task Force during World War II in 1944. We dived with Pirate Divers for a week. I think on the second or third day after we finished diving for the day and on the way back to the resort, the lady crew members of Pirate Divers – Michiko and Sherrie - were making some concoction that is made mostly with Tanduay, Filipino national pride rum. Our DM Flora Camiros told me that they are making jungle juice. Then handed me a cup to try. After a few more rounds of jungle juice, I told them about Surface Time and asked if they would take part in Women who Scuba series. So after we wrapped up our last dive, we went to Black Island for BBQ…and this time some Jungle Juice made with Filipino Gin. This was an impromptu recording with Flora Camiros, Michiko Fusato and Sherrie Garcia from Pirate Divers on the beach of Black Island. By impromptu, all I had was my iPhone and the Voice Memo app and hope that the software will edit out some background noise. I love that they were spontaneous and generous in sharing their stories. We definitely have 3 intelligent women. Each holds a deep well of inner strength, resilience and big heart. Driven by their own passion. They are distinctively different from each other; yet we can find them relatable. And it further validates the beauty of having scuba diving as the common language. Speaking of spontaneity, have you ever acted on an impulse? What did you do when you were last being spontaneous? What did you gain or lose for being spontaneous? Connect with Pirate Divers W: https://piratediverscoron.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/piratediversbusuanga/ IG: @pirate.divers.busuanga E: info@piratediverscoron.com Connect with us: W: www.surfacetimechats.com/ FB: www.facebook.com/surfacetimechats IG: @surfacetimechats or www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats TW: @surfacetimechat (no “s”) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com

    28 min
  8. S4 Ep6: Carrie Miller on Being Powered by Tenacity

    12/07/2023

    S4 Ep6: Carrie Miller on Being Powered by Tenacity

    Carrie Miller, Storyteller, Author, Traveller. You may recognise her name from the previous episode with her and her husband, Chris Taylor, sharing their stories behind the book, A Diver’s Guide to the World. By the way, I was particularly delighted to find  my birth country, Taiwan with Kenting National Park as one of the 50 destinations in the book. Anyhoo, so Carrie is back and be part of the Women Who Scuba series. This time we chatted more on her journey of becoming a writer for National Geographic, her experiences of solo travelling and how those life experiences have shaped her as a person and as a woman. She certainly is the living expression of “tenacity”. Being is a gifted storyteller, she generously shared her stories and stories of people, places and culture that she encountered. In essence, stories are expressions of different life experiences. So through her words, we get to experience these vicariously. Also we may resonate with the stories and even identify the similarities and differences when comparing to our own. In that process, this is when inspiration, imagination and new perspective happen. And often we would refine our life narrative as a result. So, think of a time when something happened – whether it’s reading a quote from a book, a movie or an incident, anything – but this something may be small and yet so significant that it changed your perception about life. What is your story there? What details would you like to share with your audience? And why is that? Connect with Carrie Miller W: https://beneaththesurface.media/ IG: @beneaththesurfacemedia | @carrimiller_writer Connect with us: W: www.surfacetimechats.com/ FB: www.facebook.com/surfacetimechats IG: @surfacetimechats or www.instagram.com/surfacetimechats/ TG: https://t.me/surfacetimechats TW: @surfacetimechat (no “s”) E: faith@surfacetimechats.com

    47 min
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Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving. These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind are open. It can be cheeky, intimate, educational, healing and even spiritual. These are stories of people doing amazing things and living their life to the fullest. Whether you are a diver or not, I hope that these conversations will at least put a smile on you and even better, that they stimulate and inspire you one way or another. Thank you & enjoy the confessions.

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  • Creator
    Stephanie Luo
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 Noetic Production
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