Hutong Moments: Recent Episodes
Jordan and Dalida
The modern world can be a dizzying experience. Hear two long-time Beijing residents from the gritty Hutongs, life coach Dalida and screenwriter Jordan, talk about their strategies, methods and sometimes their wisdom in creating their own compass that helped them navigate their own path.
It's been a minute. Jordan and Dalida took a break for the past couple of months but we're back and ready to be more consistent this year. We catch up on all the happenings - NFT's, web 3.0 and the metaverse and what this does to our minds and most importantly our bodies. Enjoy.
The past, the present and the future. Dystopia and Utopia. Our 20th episode is one of our best. Enjoy!
Jordan and Dalida reunite after a short hiatus and share their updates. Identities are broken down. Individual wants vs societal needs are broken down. Come have a listen and join us to get lost in the traps of the modern world.
Dalida and Jordan have some chats about the devil and the angel aspects of our ego and how to manage them. Who should I listen to? Jordan talks about his first screenplay as well, a Matrix ripoff.
Following our rat conversation, we get more serious and speculate what the future will be like but more importantly how to deal with the past and present.
Dalida and Jordan talk about rats and how they've infested our cities and influenced our stories.
Dalida and Jordan are once again not in the same city so through zoom we talked about climate change, how we receive our news and how it changes our perceptions. We connected that with the topic of what is knowledge vs. wisdom. vs enlightenment?
Jordan and Dalida talk about the voyage to space and how it changes perception, the flow state and how each of us has our own and what our rituals are for creative thinking.
Dalida is in Dali and Jordan is in Beijing. The two meet to reflect on their times in Dali and how its changed throughout the decades and what it means to visit a place so close to nature.
Dalida and Jordan talk about how animals act, some new shows/movies we're watching, how everything is connected, the future of children and etc...Enjoy!
Jordan and Dalida get deep into the influences their upbringing had on their identity. Serbia, Calgary and Beijing are all interconnected.
Jordan and Dalida talk about having your reputation put into question, negative core beliefs, gratitude as an antidote to negativity, the role of the fool, going against conformity and foreboding joy.
Jordan and Dalida talk about their Labour Day holiday, the Heroine's journey, what it means to challenge the norm and the patterns of human nature.
Last week we suffered a crippling blow since we recorded a new episode but it didn't record and it lays rested in the deleted world. Fortunately, this week were back with a new episode, talking about traveling and what it means, what is community, Jordans experience in Nepal, Dalida's experience of VR and what is real or not real?
Jordan and Dalida talk about their memories of reading and discovering books and connect it to how we live in the modern world.
Our computers power ran out halfway through and we talk about what it means to run on 1% battery in the modern world. We touch on the hero's journey, what "home" means and what it means to be "different" vs "the same".
Jordan and Dalida get into how to survive in the modern world, becoming your true self, labelling shame and pressure, finding balance and accepting failure as a part of life.
Jordan and Dailida update each other after a two-week hiatus. Consciousness, VR and gaming all connect to whether our reality is simulated or more real than we thought.
Jordan and Dalida talk about the future of gaming, life in the Hutongs and relate it all to consciousness and the ego.
Hear Jordan and Dalida talk about living in China, celebrating the Spring Festival, working with Inner Critic and living the moment.
It's All About Dali (Yunnan)
Serendipities, Communities, Quality of Life
The Pace Here is So Intense/ Six Days a Week
Competition and Aloofness
Being Invisible
Be[ar]ggar Hug/No Help
Mental Health
Aloofness/You Are Possessed
Do Not Help
Who Called?
School Safety
I Am Not Chinese
Family
Spring Festival/Permission Not To Go Home/No Pressure
'29 The Role of a Woman
'33 Talk to a Friend
'35 Back in the Loop/Inner Critic
Procrastination/When Shame Builds Up
Self-Compassion/Who Is Saying That?
Thank You, Inner Critic
My First Memory
I Need To Get It Out
Things Happen
50' Bells
Dear Drill Sargeant
You Win Some And You Lose Some
It's Going To Be Ok
Perfectionism
1' Jordan Michael
Artist is Dead, Long Live the Artist
Just Use It for Good
1'7'' Call To Create
1'23'' I Used to Think It Was Easy
Did we start? So, we just talk...
This episode is (a little bit) about Jordan and Dalida's journey (partially) and just exploring the moment. Episodes are recorded in Nugget Studio in Beijing.
Being in control
About shame and fear