3 Cities Rambling

Hello listeners! Welcome to another new episode! Today, I’ll like to discuss with my friends on the topic of work cultural differences. Since all of us have lived in different cities and/or work in different cities, I wonder what are some of your observations with regards to work culture and perhaps also discuss some of our wishlist on culture improvement or how we ourselves can be a positive motion of change in our companies to promote cross-cultural understanding. In today's episode, we also have a guest, Paul, who would be joining us in this discussion.

Hello listeners, we're so honored to have a special guest join us on today's episode. David Kim is one of the brightest and most creative people we know, and happens also to be Liz's elder bro! He currently works in the tech industry for an exciting autonomous vehicle company but also imparts his wisdom and musings on life in his blog DK Life Lessons, so be sure to check it out! Today, we'll be chatting with David about holistic health, exploring the different dimensions as he defines as physical, mental, social, financial, spiritual, emotional and intellectual! So let's take a checklist of our aspects of health together in this episode!

It's a year into COVID and 2020 has been such a significant time in history. Even though we're well into 2021, we still wanted to sit down and engage in the age old tradition of reflecting upon the past year and sharing with each other our biggest takeaways from the year. 

Hello listeners! It’s finally the last month of 2020. And I guess we’ve all gone through a lot of difficulties this year due to the pandemic, but we hope you guys can fill yourself up with good Christmas vibe and be prepared to welcome 2021! In today's episode, we'll discuss our MBTI personality types and see if we agree that our personality changes with time or with our environment. Lastly, we took a look at our personality fit with our partners and *gasp* would it be disasters looming for us? Let's find out.

Today, we’ll like to discuss a topic that is personal but something that humans crave universally- relationships. The desire for connection and affection has been magnified during these quarantine times and we thought it would be good to reflect on our relationships and share any insight we’ve learned throughout the years. What is important in a relationship? What does the influence of time bring? What have we learnt?

Hello listeners! Today, we’ll like to talk about quite a hot topic in today’s economy - and that is job hunting. So among us three, we all have quite our fair share of experiences in  job seeking and even career transitions and relocations. I remember our crazy days of applying for jobs together at cafes while studying, when we were all about to graduate from grad school. So today, we’ll like to share some of our personal journeys with you guys as a way of hopefully inspiring some ideas and perhaps even provide some encouragement if you’re currently in the process of a job search.

In today’s episode, I’ll like to hear from my 2 friends on a topic that is being hotly debated now, in the midst of the pandemic - the future of education! Since we are each uniquely situated for this question because each of us has had the majority of their schooling in a different country. I spent the bulk of my education in the US, Heemyung in Korea, and Stephanie in Singapore. So I wanted to ask - what was schooling like in your country? What does education mean to people in your country? What do you envision the future of education to be?

In this episode, we explored the Japanese concept of Ikigai - translated as the reason of being - or the purpose of living. From the four guiding questions of 1) what you love? 2) what are you good at? 3) what the world needs and 4) what you can get paid for, we strive to find life's guiding compass for fruitful living. However, do we all know the answer? Additionally, we also dug into the concept of pliable passion (from the book Range by David Epstein) and explored how passion and purposes could possibly shift and the danger of cognitive entrenchment and sunk cost fallacy.

Hello listeners, we're 3 great friends, who met each other while attending graduate school. While we have all since moved and relocated to 3 different cities, this is a podcast to document our friendship and journey through adulting. We hope to bring to you different interesting topics of discussion with each episode and would love to hear from you. Send us any comments/ideas at: [email protected]

In our pilot episode, we'll like to share with you listeners what we think of the cities we currently live - having been travelers and residents in different places - summarized by 3 key words or phrases.