

The Lavendaire Lifestyle
Aileen Xu
Life is an art. Make it your masterpiece.
The Lavendaire Lifestyle is a podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design. Hosted by Aileen Xu, this podcast shares insight & inspiration on how to shine as your brightest self and create your dream life.
Bi-weekly episodes on Sundays.
The Lavendaire Lifestyle is a podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design. Hosted by Aileen Xu, this podcast shares insight & inspiration on how to shine as your brightest self and create your dream life.
Bi-weekly episodes on Sundays.
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Aug 26, 2018 • 37min
88: Alternative Self-Help + Mental Health w/ Shannen Roberts
Let’s talk mental health. Today’s guest, Shannen Roberts, is the founding editor of The Strange is Beautiful (TSIB), a resource for accessible alternative self-help for mind obstacles (not “mental illness”!). Through the TSIB blog, zines, and events, Shannen and the TSIB staff create a positive community for understanding and healing your mental health. Aileen and ... Read more
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Aug 19, 2018 • 32min
87: Craft a Life You Love w/ Amy Tan
Want to make a living by creating? Just know that your path won’t be straight and isn’t going to look like anybody else’s. Amy Tan, creator and author of Craft a Life You Love, will inspire you to do just that: craft a life you love, a life full of creative energy and flow, even ... Read more
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Aug 12, 2018 • 36min
86: Bringing Color Into Your Life w/ Bernard Charles
Eat, live, wear color. This is how “The Color Mage”, Bernard Charles, lives his high frequency life. From poverty and struggle, Bernard found a home in the power of color therapy and psychology. Today, he's a LGBT thought-leader and author sharing that vibrant power with the world. Aileen and Bernard explore how to incorporate color ... Read more
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Aug 5, 2018 • 32min
85: How to Get Your Dream Job & Internship w/ Lauren Berger
Ready to get your career together? Today's episode with Lauren Berger will set you on the path of success. Through InternQueen.com, Lauren and her team helps students land the internship or job of their dreams. With 15 college internships under her belt, she's earned the expertise and title of “Intern Queen”. Aileen and Lauren share ... Read more
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Jul 25, 2018 • 34min
84: How to Align with Your Soul & Your Light ft. Rebecca Campbell
Soul, spirit, light. Regardless of what you call it, we all have an inner voice that's always calling us. Rebecca Campbell author Light Is the New Black, teaches us how to tune into that inner voice and let it help us navigate our lives. Rebecca also shares insight on learning to embrace the seasons of ... Read more
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Jul 15, 2018 • 28min
83: Shifting From Anxiety to Love w/ Corinne Zupko
The love and peace you're searching for is already inside you, waiting to be revealed. Today's guest, Corinne Zupko, had a lifelong journey with anxiety before revealing her own love through A Course in Miracles. Her book From Anxiety to Love shares the process she used to heal from her anxiety and start loving through ... Read more
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Jul 8, 2018 • 32min
82: Reconnecting Your Body + Mind w/ Ani Anderson
You are more powerful than you can imagine when it comes to controlling how deeply you are able to experience life. Today's guest, Ani Anderson, helps people tap into their full mind potential by reconnecting the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of living. Aileen and Ani explore why we think of the mind and body ... Read more
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Jul 1, 2018 • 39min
81: How to Succeed on YouTube w/ Erika Vieira
If you’re an aspiring YouTube influencer, this is the must-listen episode for you. We have marketing and sales expert Erika Vieira of Beauty and the Vlog sharing her insights on not only how to succeed on YouTube, but what it means to be a successful and fulfilled influencer. Through the Beauty and the Vlog podcast ... Read more
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Jun 24, 2018 • 28min
80: How to Become a Digital Nomad w/ TJ Lee
Want to work from your laptop in a different country every month? It’s not always as glamorous as it sounds, but it’s the incredibly fulfilling life TJ Lee created for herself in 2016. A digital nomad and solo female traveler, TJ shares her adventures and authenticity from around the world on her YouTube channel CupofTJ.
Aileen and TJ chat about what it’s like to sell everything and leave home to pursue your dreams, why being a digital nomad is actually hard and consistent work, and how to make the most of a lifestyle of freedom and adventure.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:15 – Knowing when to start: Why TJ quit her full-time job in tech
5:01 – The first steps to prepare for a digital nomad lifestyle
9:03 – Knowing when to stop: Why TJ is settling in Taiwan after two years of travel
10:05 – A not-so-glamorous week in the life of a travel vlogger
14:51 – The hardest part about being a location-independent freelancer
15:59 – Rebranding: Why CupofTJ is changing
17:00 – TJ’s creative video process + Tips for people who want to be better at YouTube
20:50 – “Asian Tourist Experiences Cat Park”: TJ’s proudest work
22:00 – TJ’s 3 top tips for aspiring travel vloggers
FIND TJ ONLINE:
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MENTIONED:
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Remote Year
Nomad List
Cat Party at Parque Kennedy, Lima! Peru Travel Vlog
How to Save For a Year of Travel & How Much
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QUOTES:
If you don’t do what you want to do now, when are you gonna do it?
It doesn’t feel like work…and that’s the joy of it.
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Jun 17, 2018 • 25min
79: Community Podcast Q&A #3
We’re back with the third episode of the Community Podcast! We have four members of the Lavendaire Lifestyle Community (from all over the world!) chatting about personal growth and lifestyle design: Calista, Amber, Claudia, and Esther. The episode explores not taking your work so seriously, dealing with cycles of productivity and laziness, the one question ... Read more
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