Busy Bee Diaries: Recent Episodes
Thi Weigel
Busy Bee Diaries is a podcast series about motherhood, pregnancy and beyond. It is a place where women, expat and local, across Asia can connect, share and talk freely about their moving, fascinating and inspirational stories.Busy Bee is a community where we have open and heartfelt conversations about the challenges, obstacles and taboos that come with career, parenting, relationship, and life in general. Every week, hosts Thi Weigel and Diandra Cappelut introduce you to brave and beautiful women, who will share their stories with us, about all these moments in between those perfect looking social media posts without a filter. Join us for the tears and LOLs as we navigate through this roller coaster journey. Thi Weigel, founder and co-host of the Busy Bee Diaries podcast has 15 years experience in the Health Insurance and Medical Assistance industries. Having worked with an International Health Insurance Group for the last 8 years, Thi felt like she needed a change from the corporate world. Having recently found out that she is pregnant, yet not ready to trade her career, she is taking this break to explore new paths. Thus the Busy Bee Diaries podcast is born – a platform giving voice to Women and Mothers.
In this episode of Busy Bee Diaries podcast, you will be hearing from Kaila.
Kaila Krayewski lives the ultimate digital nomad lifestyle on tropical Koh Phangan in Thailand with her husband and her wonderful two-year-old son. She runs her virtual writing school, the Digital Nomad Writing Club, and content agency, from the tranquility of her office by the beach.
Sounds like a dream isn’t it?
She will share with us her motherhood journey, the pros and cons of living and raising a child on an island destination like Koh Phangan in Thailand.
Kaila is an amazing writer; you can connect and check out her work at:
https://www.digitalnomadwriting.club/how-to-become-a-paid-copywriter
And her YouTube channel
https://youtube.com/c/KailaKrayewski
Thi Weigel
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Wishing you all Happy Holidays!
Welcome back busy Bees! Let me introduce you to our new guest, Wimintra.
Wimintra is definitely a busy bee!
She is a mom to a wonderful girl calls Jordan. She is an entrepreneur. Wimintra is the founder of Hotelintel.co (https://hotelintel.co) and WIMINTRA Company limited (https://www.wimintra.com). Hotelintel.co is a one-stop portal for news and intelligence for things hotels, hospitality and industry related investment.
Wimintra is also running a pro-tech startup and doing venture building at Whatnot Startup Studio (https://whatnot.co). Yet she still finds time to launch her new clothing business Whooshe.inc (https://www.instagram.com/whooshe.inc/)
Having to undergo an emergency C-section is stressful and can even be traumatic as a first-time mom, but at least when you decide to do it in an international hospital and one of the best hospitals in the country you expect proper high standard measures in place and the healthcare providers to manage the pain during the surgery.
In this episode, Wimintra will open up about her traumatic C-section or what her husband called hospital horror. She has experienced the most terrible caesarian operation due to anesthesia failure. Indeed the anesthesia administrated was not enough hence it did not work. She felt herself being cut open while still conscious, she felt every single incision during the operation.
No doubt this story could send chills up anyone’s spine.
Wimintra is of these women I like to call kick ass women who are not easily scared or intimated. Despite this traumatic experience, she was back on her heels and ran her business after a week of postpartum recovery.
Tune in!
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In this episode we have Symphony.
Symphony is the South East Asia Campari brand ambassador. Symphony is Malaysian, she moved from Singapore to Bangkok two years ago while she was pregnant of her first child.
She will share with us her long labor experience from a planned natural delivery to a C-section and her personal story about postpartum depression coping with the loss of her mother.
She found strength through self-care and self-acceptance.
Pregnancy and maternity bring a mix of feelings, and not all of them are good. It’s okay, even when it does not feel okay, it’s OKAY.
Just like Symphony’s story, we need to normalize postpartum depression and the mental health challenges of being a new mom. PPD happens to so many women but unfortunately we don’t hear much about it, we don’t speak about it. In 2021 and in some parts of the world, it’s still a taboo, even feeling ashamed to talk about it.
A reminder to be kind to ourselves no matter what is happening in our lives, give the permission to be a beginner again, to start all over again, to take small steps. Trust the process of getting through it and seek help if needed.
There is always another way, the way of kindness, the way of slowness, the way of self-acceptance.
Thi Weigel
The confinement month is an extended period of rest for mothers postpartum lasting anywhere from 26 to 45 days in which mothers and their babies are confined to their homes and cared for by other women; traditionally mothers or mothers-in-law step into this caretaking role, but hiring a confinement nurse or checking into a confinement hospital have become new norms in our modern society.
Diana had her first child four years ago, and decided to fly in a confinement nurse from Malaysia to help taking care of her and her baby during postnatal recovery. You will learn in this episode this special journey and how the postpartum confinement has helped her to recover from the labor.
There is no doubt that having a baby changes your life. When you are a workaholic and have a career before baby, the question is mulling inside you whether to stay home or going back to work after a short maternity leave. We believe this question, whether is hard or simple, has resonated inside all the mommies out there. How to let go of this guilty feeling and how to feel at peace with your choice for your career path. Our guest Diana will share with us how she re-evaluated her priorities from being a career girl to a full time mom.
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Creator: Thi Weigel
Hosts: Diandra Cappelut, Thi Weigel
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