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This is the conversation I've always wanted to have with Mo & Emily. On a late summer night in Iowa, after the kids have all gone to bed, we tucked into their family couch and talked about dating, sex and marriage. I fully embraced the  child-like wonder in me, and attempted to ask questions without giggling too hard. It has taken me 5 years of friendship to get comfortable enough to hear these stories for the first time, and it was a blast. We dove into the purpose of dating, the sustenance of romance amidst raising children, and how not to be consumed by your identity in one another. For anyone who knows me, Mo & Emily are basically my adopted parents; I've defaulted to them on many accounts, and can always trust them to guide me according to the Word of God. This episode is potentially more precious to me than anyone else in the world, but I'm not mad about it. Eavesdroppers, you are so welcome here.

Mike and Emily Mogard are parents to 4 beautiful and athletic children. Our paths crossed 5 years ago when I moved to Brunei to work for the family; what compelled me to uproot my life was the way they lived theirs. Unlike most children, these 4 were living proof that there was something worth coveting about how they saw life and decided to pass it on. In this episode, Emily shares the intimate details of how their youngest son, Zion, battled bacterial meningitis as a baby. I ask how Mike ensures that their pursuit in weightlifting and CrossFit is entirely their own, and not to please their parents. From which, we conveniently segway onto Calla's identity in being liberated of clothing options, take a detour to discussing social media and their unorthodox decision to allow their children to have Instagram accounts before finally landing on how parenting these four kids have changed both Emily and Mike. Recorded in Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. --- Unlike most podcasts, this series is purely selfish in that I am desperat

"What has changed since 6 months ago, when you were doing this for free? What has made you comfortable to ask to be paid?" Kimmy opens up conversation with me with a big question, and I knew we had to record this. As a master neurolinguistic practitioner and someone who taught communications for a living, Kimmy Moss grills me on the developmental growth in my life since I left Singapore 6 months ago.  The audio is admitted painful, but if you bear with it, I promise there are some incredible gems that you might find helpful in uncovering things that are holding you back.  If you made it through the entire episode, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You deserve a sticker. You really do. And if you're extra savage and want to hear more, tag @kimmy.moss and @melanie.sylim, so that we know the little pebble we threw into the interweb-space landed somewhere after all.  @kimmy.moss @rhetoricinmotion @melanie.sylim

An honest conversation between Carl Paoli & Melanie Lim (thats me) about the impact episode 1 of Fit For What has had on the morning of launch. Recorded over breakfast and general lack of sleep (from my part).

Ant Haynes is a name arguably synonymous with 'winner' in our neck of the woods - not too many athletes have 5 Regionals appearances under their belt, and multiple podium finishes around the world. Joined by Alex Younger, who is equally impressive in his own right, the duo dishes on the what it's really like training together. We chat about Instagram fame, sponsors and routines that ground them before a competition. -- Regionals series! Part 4 of 5 This week, top teams and athletes from Asia are flocking down under to compete at the Pacific Regionals. As a special tribute, we are releasing one episode every DAY, where we dive into the psyche of these athletes and what training means to them.

"Becoming the Fittest Man in Asia" - featuring Carlos Albaladejo Big smile, impeccable hair and even better manners maketh the man that is Carlos Albaladejo. He's made regionals every year since 2013, and moved to Korea in 2016 to continue dominating in a sport that he loves. We chat about the competitive landscape in Korea, his history with CrossFit and what sacrifices he's made to be on top of the leaderboard. --- Regionals series! Part 3 of 5 This week, top teams and athletes from Asia are flocking down under to compete at the Pacific Regionals. As a special tribute, we are releasing one episode every DAY, where we dive into the psyche of these athletes and what training means to them.

Regionals series! Part 2 of 5 This week, top teams and athletes from Asia are flocking down under to compete at the Pacific Regionals. As a special tribute, we are releasing one episode every DAY, where we dive into the psyche of these athletes and what training means to them. -- "How to take a team to Regionals, and keep going back" - featuring Jamie Light from CrossFit Asia. Gym owner and coach to team CrossFit Asia shares with us how they came to be the first gym to be affiliated with CrossFit in Asia, hosting the first few Asia Regionals and the deeper nuances of building team players.

Regionals series! This week, top teams and athletes from Asia are flocking down under to compete at the Pacific Regionals. As a special tribute, we are releasing one episode every DAY, where we dive into the psyche of these athletes and what training means to them. "How to get good at fitness, without letting it consume you," First on the roster, we have Elise Richmond from Unit-27 Phuket. Having failed to get onto the competition floor despite qualifying in 2016, Elise returns this year to handle some unfinished business. We chat about balancing cross-desert adventures with competing, and dig into her eating disorders in the past and find out how that has motivated her passion for health and fitness today.

This is easily one of my favourite episodes by far. Multiple-time Pacific Regionals athlete Emily Crutchley catches up with us between milk feeds, to talk about training during pregnancy. Having come from a highly competitive background and maintaining a stressful career as a lawyer, Emily shares intimate stories about grieving her identity loss, modifying training, and the mindset behind transitioning into motherhood without losing yourself.

Dudes - listen. If you want to be a good partner, or someday land a lady who treats you like a king, you've got to learn to emphatise with her. Through all the stages of womanhood. Women, even if pregnancy is lightyears away for you, this episode will help you emphatise with your mum & friends who have given birth and make you a better human being, overall. Trainers - I don't even need to start. This is part 1 of 3, in the pregnancy health series, where we hope to demystify do's and don'ts surrounding a delicate but productive period of a woman's life - pre, post and during pregnancy. We interview professionals and regulars alike, and take professional opinions into account to give you the 360 on what's what when it comes to training while gestating life. ---- Devina Pronolo @demunchkino is a personal trainer based in Singapore, at UFIT Orchard Singapore. Her background in fitness is in group exercise and powerlifting.

This week, I seek the wisdom of a peer to speak on money. Let me be the first to admit - this is not my finest hour; I find myself out of my depth, asking questions about what to do with the little I have saved, in hopes of receiving some practical advice on how not to squander time I could spend making my money multiply for me. Philip is 25 and deeply passionate about hedge-fund investments since the age of 16. Since then, he's managed his own portfolio, and has blessed others by helping them manage theirs outside his working hours. We chat about how he found his passion in banking (outside of the money), how his perspective of money has changed since given responsibility of someone else's finances and finally... what I can do, as a millennial, to make bank with what I have.

"We parent with a lot of freedom," It's no secret that I have a long history with the Mogards, and I'm very pumped to share with you a conversation I had with Mo regarding parenting and social media. Born and raised in Iowa, Mike & Emily Mogard moved to Brunei 7 years ago. Since then, they have created a fitness empire consisting of 3 gyms, an equipment business and raised 4 children concurrently. In this episode, we dive into Mo's beliefs about using freedom as a means to help kids discover their passion early, and their modus operandi for parenting in the age of social media.

Coastal Fitness HK Owner & Operator, Ed Haynes, joins us to dissect the business landscape of owning a gym in Asia. Ed shares with us why Coastal no longer commit to group induction of members, how the onboarding process for each member begins, and we dive into their i-Train program - an online coaching program, representing their newest expansion in an already impressive line of services. Last but not least, we chat about Ed's personal journey in experimenting working inwards in training, through meditation, breathing, cold showers etc. Recorded December 2017.

Professional magician, radio DJ, CrossFit coach and brand ambassador - Nadzri Harif makes the uninitiated wonder if one of his tricks involve duplicating himself, and/or travel through time. He wears many hats, but in this 60-minute show, we talk about his humble beginnings in pursuing magic as a career in Southeast Asia and how fitness overlaps with his love for storytelling.