Note 2 Self
Podcast Description
Welcome to Note 2 Self—your weekly dose of everything that’s simply too long to text. Listen to Saskia Starck and Cat Waterman talk about everything from pop culture, and unhinged life experiences, to navigating the chaos, calm and contradictions of being millennial women.
Your hosts are two Australians who've been living in New York City for 10 years, and they hope you'll leave Note 2 Self with some laughs, levity, and something to think about.
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The podcast covers a variety of themes including pop culture, personal experiences, and the complexities of millennial life, with episode examples featuring discussions on fashion trends, unique living situations in New York City, and humorous anecdotes about relationships and technology like ChatGPT.
This is Saskia, and this is Note 2 Self — your weekly dose of everything that’s simply too long to text. Consider this your personal invitation into my inner circle, where I share my thoughts and quiet reflections that usually live inside my notes app. Each week I explore modern life through conversations about relationships, culture, mental health, identity, and the stories that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. Part personal journal, part cultural commentary, Note 2 Self is a space for honest reflection, thoughtful conversation, and the occasional pop culture deep dive.
In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia returns from Europe after a trip that began as wedding planning and became a question about the life she wants to build around marriage. After a sleep-deprived, slightly sick start in Paris, she and Jeffrey head to Bordeaux to tour wedding venues, where one ceremony space leaves them both in tears and makes the wedding feel real for the first time.
From there, Corsica offers four days of mountains, ocean, incredible food, and enough quiet for Saskia to hear what city life has been drowning out: she is exhausted by the pace of New York and craving more nature, space, and stillness. In London, she reunites with her mom, tries on wedding dresses for the first time, and discovers that becoming a bride feels less like a cinematic transformation and more like another identity she is learning to define for herself.
Back home, Return Flight Theory gives Saskia a lens for understanding why travel can make a familiar life look different. She can appreciate the home she and Jeffrey have built while still listening to the possibility that the next version of their life may need something new. Because every feeling does not require an immediate decision. Sometimes it simply asks to be noticed.
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