Half Bloom
where we delve into the questions that are hard to answer and discovering ourselves through the lenses of language and culture, while of course, often brewing or drinking some coffee.
Episodes
8 episodes
How to play with your burnout
Words are powerful—but the labels we put on ourselves can keep us trapped. In last week’s episode, I talked about laziness. Today, we go deeper into burnout:What’s the real difference between being unmotivated vs. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:58
Why you're *lazy* and how to stop
Are we actually lazy—or do we just lack a reason to move? In this episode, I unpack the real causes behind so-called “laziness,” from perfectionism and fear of failure to losing sight of your ‘why.’ I share personal stories from my coffee journ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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22:29
How forced breaks can change your mindset
Hi friends :)In this episode, I talk about how going through a forced break (in my case a hospitalization) allowed me to rethink what's important to me and what I needed to direct my attention and energy.When we're so busy with li...
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Episode 6
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20:08
Run counterintuitively to find your true self
Thinking against what your primitive emotions tell you may actually lead you to the results you want. But bearing through and keeping everything within yourself, for some people in particular, is incredibly difficult. For those people, I promis...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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22:17
Wander off and say I love you
We often let our minds wonder and sometimes we lose focus or concentration. When we were able to ask questions and lean into our curiosity sometimes those questions can lead to creative answers or projects. Of course, those questions are not al...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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20:12
What are your magical moments?
Interactions between one another, and the little messages that we leave behind with one another as we pass through each others' lives, whether verbal or non-verbal, develop reactions in some sort of way.There are magic moments in our day...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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18:30
Leaving my own cafe: sofa to kotatsu
Building something from scratch is always good experience, but when you have expectations of yourself from others and yourself, it can easily get disheartening and confusing.Everything I had thought about this cafe turned out to be diffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:30
What happens after the first dream?
As we go through our journey of life, we use our dreams as motivators to get from step one to step two. Then from step two to step three. But what if we walk 52 steps and realize that that dream that we once had is not our dream any...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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