

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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Jun 21, 2023 • 11min
10 Minute Guided Meditation for Positive Energy, Peace & Light
A 10-minute guided meditation for positive energy, peace, and light. Includes relaxation, visualization, and affirmations. Suitable for beginners. Visualization exercise for inner connection and cultivating positive energy. Guided meditation for gratitude, joy, and self-worth. Followed by Sonic and Bakers advertisements.

Jun 18, 2023 • 57min
234: Janet Wang: Discovering and Crafting Your Identity
Our individual experience and relationship with our culture can change with each season in our lives. It could be very different from the next person and that’s okay.
Janet Wang is a co-founder and co-host of AsianBossGirl, a podcast for the modern day Asian-American woman. On air since 2017, they share stories about their corporate journeys, cultural identity, dating stories, and more. She also hosts a mini-show, Living Well with Janet, AsianBossGirl umbrella, where she explores health and wellness trends as a Western person with Eastern upbringing.
In this episode, Janet Wang and Aileen talk about cultural identity, how this can evolve with our experiences, finding your career path, and finding the wellness practices along the way that work for you, your lifestyle, and your goals.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:45 How we started
5:33 Taking the leap
13:55 Mindset shifts
17:18 How did we know we were on the right path?
21:16 Discovering my identity
26:35 Connection requires deliberate effort
29:48 My journey to wellness
37:32 My routines and habits
40:53 Different ways to meditate
44:12 Merging my Eastern and Western backgrounds
48:50 Each body is unique. Find what works for you
54:59 This too shall pass
FIND JANET ONLINE:
Website | www.asianbossgirl.com
Podcast | AsianBossGirl
Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/c/asianbossgirl
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/janetdoubleu | https://www.instagram.com/asianbossgirl
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 234
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Jun 11, 2023 • 1h 2min
233: Start to Heal: Letting Go of Your Pain Identity with Inka Land
Your thoughts make up your reality. Positive affirmations, mindset, actions, and healthier living choices. All these play a part in both our physical and mental wellbeing. Join Inka and Aileen as they discuss how much taking care of our physical brains and bodies contribute to our mental health. A psychologist with a MSc in Neuropsychology, Inka is also a YouTuber, author, and educator inspiring people for better mental and brain health and wellness. She draws from her knowledge in science and experience in healing to share actionable advice on wellness.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:24 My story: Getting into the space of brain health and mental health
6:02 The start of my healing
10:32 Mindset Shift: Letting go of your pain identity
16:34 The links between Brain Health and Mental Wellness
24:18 Neuroplasticity: Developing your power to change your life
28:19 My daily routine
32:06 Supplements: What do we need to know?
36:12 Don’t overdo it
37:18 Dopamine vs Serotonin
48:18 The importance of genuine connections
50:24 What contributes to Longevity
45:35 Acts of Kindness: The Ripple Effect
58:47 Your thoughts make up your reality
FIND INKA ONLINE:
Website | www.inkaland.co
Youtube | www.youtube.com/@iaminkaland
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/iaminkaland/
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 233
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Jun 7, 2023 • 12min
Guided Meditation for Healing
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In this episode, we present a powerful 10-minute guided meditation for healing, letting go, and inner peace. Heal your heart & emotional wounds with positive energy visualization, energy healing heart chakra tapping, and positive affirmations. This healing meditation will help you cultivate gratitude, self forgiveness, and perspective for your journey.
Great for beginners and all levels.
Stay tuned for more guided audios every other Wednesday!
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Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 2min
232: Embracing the Power Within with Rachel Lim
Your biggest investment is yourself. Most of us don’t start out being great at anything. But we can learn, grow, and improve along the way. And if somewhere down the line you realise you’re not quite on the right path, you have the power to change that for your self.
Rachel Lim is the co-founder of Southeast Asia's leading womenswear brand Love, Bonito, an evolving brand taking on a meaningful approach to fashion.
Join Aileen and Rachel as they discuss what it really means to be a good leader, the importance or staying curious, and how you have the power to change the trajectory and path of your life.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:53 How it all started
8:54 Firing bullets before cannonballs
11:08 How Love, Bonito has evolved
12:45 Rediscovering our why
14:57 We are nothing without the team
17:21 Learning along the way
22:16 Finding the right people
26:33 Always learning and growing from every opportunity
29:04 The value in being curious
30:44 I am my own mountain to overcome
35:27 Turning inward and reflecting on myself
37:26 Success: All the it seems, and what it isn’t
38:43 It’s about the journey, not the destination
43:11 How I prioritise what to focus on
47:11 What I wish I knew earlier
50:42 Will I know who I really am?
51:33 What comes next?
FIND RACHEL ONLINE:
Website | https://www.rachreflects.com/
Podcast | RachReflects
Instagram | @ms_rach @lovebonito
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 232
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May 28, 2023 • 1h 8min
231: Kristina Bazan on Nourishing Your Spirit & Creativity
Art, creativity, spirituality, fulfilment — they’re all interconnected. Join Aileen and entrepreneur and creator, Kristina Bazan, as they delve into the realm of the spirit and the self to discuss how our relationship with our own energies can influence ourselves internally, the work that we put out, and the world around us.
Kristina Bazan is an entrepreneur, artist, and spiritual seeker, opening gateways of knowledge by bridging music, fashion, and spirituality merged with grace, passion, and beauty to showcase their interconnectedness.
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TIMESTAMPS:
2:22 The start of my eclectic story
4:36 Finding my community
7:25 Taking it day by day
10:36 The dance between business and the creative
16:46 A new chapter: A call to re-center
18:55 You can make anything happen
20:00 Art as medicine, to communicate, and transform
22:55 Your life is your greatest art
24:03 Reconnecting with my spirit and spirituality
30:34 This world is built on stories
35:20 Your voice matters
39:50 About my new book "Through the Veils of Mystery"
40:58 My experience with light beings
46:39 The integration period
50:08 Reconnecting with the power of feeling
51:51 Our feminine and masculine polarities
1:03:19 You are absolutely perfect
FIND KRISTINA ONLINE:
Website | http://www.kazabazan.com/
Podcast
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kristinabazan/
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 231
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May 24, 2023 • 12min
Money Affirmations | Attract Abundance, Prosperity, Wealth ✨ (Listen Daily!)
✨ Join the waitlist for my new app for affirmations & meditations → https://resonance.lavendaire.com
Enjoy these positive affirmations for money, wealth, abundance and prosperity. Listen to this daily to manifest more abundance and opportunity in your life. Reprogram your mind while you sleep, or use as daily morning affirmations.
Download the free audio here → https://lavendaire.com/money-affirmations
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May 14, 2023 • 1h 3min
230: Optimizing Your Productivity: The Power of $10K Work with Khe Hy
In this society, we are “addicted” to productivity and always being on the move, always having to be “busy” doing something. We often speak about rest, reflection and self-care as if it were the opposite to productivity and progress. In this episode, Khe Hy talks about how productivity is not the end, but the means, and how to work smarter and focus on the right things. Khe also discusses his philosophy and optimizing your life for ALIVENESS.
Khy Hy is the founder and CEO of RadReads, an online education company that helps professionals lead productive, examined and joyful lives. Khe is creator of the $10K Work productivity method and teaches the popular cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity. RadReads provides guides, trainings, and coaching for over 40,000 professionals to help them gain back free time, scale their impact and make their little dent in the universe.
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TIMESTAMPS
2:17 Looking back at the start on his journey as a creative
5:15 The Pebble in My Shoe
7:15 Optimising for Aliveness
10:17 The Lottery Test
13:11 The addiction to achievement
19:02 Reconnecting with my childhood self
21:43 Productivity and self worth - the means, not the end
25:37 The 10K Work Framework
32:38 Examples of 10K Work
36:05 Think about your work like a book
40:23 10K Work and 10K Questions
45:54 The first step is awareness
52:58 Aliveness and Flow
57:38 I was my own worst boss - your inner self talk
59:53 You don’t need to achieve something to be enough
FIND KHE ONLINE:
Website | radreads.co/
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/radreadsco/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/khemaridh
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 230
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May 10, 2023 • 20min
Guided Sleep Meditation & Deep Relaxation
✨ Join the waitlist for my new app for affirmations & meditations → https://resonance.lavendaire.com
In this episode, we present a 20 minute guided meditation and talk down for sleep and deep relaxation, including breathing exercises and gentle stretching to release tension and stress from your body and mind. Calm your mind, fall asleep quickly, and sleep better with this meditation, which is great for beginners and all levels.
Stay tuned for more guided audios every other Wednesday!
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May 7, 2023 • 1h 3min
229: The Healing Power of Gua Sha with Dr. Eileen Li
Gua Sha — there’ s so much more to it than just facial gua sha. We all get aches and ills in our bodies, but our bodies have built-in mechanisms to heal itself. In this episode, Dr. Eileen Lee talks us through the history of gua sha in Chinese medicine, understanding and communicating with our bodies so we can feel great and live our best lives to the fullest.
Dr. Eileen Li is a second generation acupuncturist & Chinese herbalist, and licensed physical therapist who is passionate about making acupuncture and Chinese medicine accessible, so that people can teach their bodies how to heal themselves.
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TIMESTAMPS:
2:22 Experience seeing Gua Sha as a child
2:46 Gua Sha - a traditional Chinese healing technique
3:46 What’s happening when you do Gua Sha?
5:22 The Benefits of Gua Sha
10:38 The meaning behind Gua Sha
14:58 Your body is it’s own pharmacy
17:32 How Gua sha helps with fevers
19:36 Tools right in your kitchen
22:23 Gua Sha for headaches
30:45 No system in the body is isolated
34:00 What is Gua Sha effective for?
38:36 Gua sha and foot health
42:08 Explaining the medicine and science behind some old Chinese cultural and traditional health sayings
47:23 Foot health in Eastern vs Western cultures
52:50 Covering up after doing Gua Sha
57:30 Taking care of my vessel
FIND EILEEN ONLINE:
Website
Instagram: @anew.acu
TikTok: @anew.acu
The video version of this interview is available on YouTube: Episode 229
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