About That. (with Marga Ortigas)
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Episodes
An insightful and wide-ranging conversation with Epigram Award winning author of "The Accidental Malay", Karina Robles Bahrin, on everything from creating while running a business to 'Own Voices' narratives, writing in a second language, and being multi-racial in Asia. You won't want to miss this one!
After decades of working with one of the largest global news companies in the world, Guatemala-born journalist, Harris Whitbeck, boldly tells his own story in a new memoir.
He speaks to me from his home about death squads, dictators, and growing up gay in Latin America in the late 20th century. We also explore what its like to work in warzones, how using gadgets affects a story's impact on storytellers, and what he's l...
The Brontes, The Moriartys, and also The Serings. But besides their individual achievements as authors and writers, sisters Tweet & Tara Sering together penned the hit show "K-Love" for VIU, Asia's leading streaming service. It instantly became a hit with viewers.
With the success of their first -- joint -- screenwriting endeavour, Tweet & Tara join me to talk about the joys and challenges of working with a...
Our hosts talk coping, keeping busy, and staying hopeful - as they say farewell to Karla who is off on a new adventure.
Back on the podcast is special guest Nik de Ynchausti.
Music: Homestead, by Kai Engel
On this episode, we speak to Bhanu Bhatnagar from Save the Children International. Why aren't the Grown-Ups doing more for...
SPECIAL GUEST: Philippine senator Risa Hontiveros
News clips from : Euronews, ABS-CBN, Vice
We speak with journalist Patrick Winn, author of "Hello Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia."
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Neven Andjelic left his native Sarajevo when the communist republic of Yugoslavia was splintering. He sought asylum in the UK and is now a leading lecturer on International Relations and Human Rights. I catch him in Croatia.
Newsclip from Radio Free Europe<...
Why are autocrats & the far right rewriting the past? How powerful a tool is social media in this exercise? In the democratized world of information, are we seeing the demise of "objective facts"? And yes, we talk about the Marcoses and their creative view of Philippine history.
EPISODE MUSIC: "Over Midnight" by Lobo Loco.
With special guests, media executive Tanya Yuson and chef Karla Mendoza.
Please do pardon the audio quality. Recorded over the internet.
Music is courtesy of Purple Planet.
Last December, we took a trip to the Yukon. To say it was inspirational would be an understatement. There's something about the starkness of frost that is invigorating. I felt the same rejuvenation a few years prior on a visit to Mongolia in the d...
In this final episode, a leading personality on Philippine English-language radio talks us through her pioneering journey: how a summer job that wasn't going too well became the career of a lifetime.
Plus - the sorrows and surprises along the way.
How DELAMAR unintentionally managed to speak fo...
It has been said that change is the only constant in life -- and yet it is the one thing that many of us fear the most. In this episode, we speak t...
S2 Ep 6: NENA's Magic Mixes: Everything You Didn't Even Know You Wanted to Know About Essential Oils
Business executive Nena Wuthrich joins us to share her latest passion outside of the office: it's all-natural, chemical-free, can help a wide vareity of ailments -- and ancient.
Let's talk - Essential Oils.
Why is that as humanity has reached technological heights, many say they feel trapped in the black night of their soul?
There are ways to cope - without medication.
Psychoneurol...
Hear this unfiltered conversation about living honestly, finding contentment, and defining identity through clothing.
Are you an aspiring writer?
Or maybe you don't know what it is you want to do yet. How do you find your passion?
Meet British author Matt Killeen.
He's done it all. Advertising, store managing, graphics designing, music playing. He's even dabbled in stand-up comedy.
Gaby Tabuñar, Chairman Emeritus of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines, speaks about the things he's seen, the choices he's made, the world as he's seen it change, and what matters most...
Can you imagine yourself at a hundred?
We're doing things a little differently this episode - we hope you take the journey with us!
Spanish-Filipino musician Tirso Ripoll burst onto the Asian music scene in the early 1990s with the iconic rock group Razorback.
27 years later - Tirso is a businessman, a father, and still rocking with his band.
He says there is a way to do it all. Hear more in this super animated conversation. ...
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