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 shares her personal experience with a medical intuitive reading that brought her face to face with her eight-year-old self and the words she did not realise she needed to hear: “You’ve abandoned the dream.”
What begins with a sudden pain in her stomach opens into a deeply emotional exploration of inner-child work, creativity, home and the dreams we carry from childhood. Saskia reflects on seeing her late grandmother during the session, reconnecting with the home she still holds in her heart and recognising that her childhood dream did not disappear. It simply changed shape.
That same question appears from another direction in Charli xcx’s new album, Music, Fashion, Film. The album does not provide neat answers. Instead, it follows Charli as she questions her relationship with art, the line between performance and her real self, the influence of fame, her role as a wife and what any of it is ultimately for. Through the album’s closing words from David Cronenberg, Saskia reflects on how much time we spend evaluating ourselves, afraid to put ourselves out there and afraid to fully live.
Because no one lasts forever, and perhaps there is freedom in that. What matters most are the people in our lives, and the art we choose to share should feel like freedom. We can try new things, keep reinventing ourselves and stop treating every creative impulse as something that will define us forever.
Show Notes
Saskia’s medical intuitive reading was conducted by Laura Wilson, the naturopath she has worked with for several years.
- Learn more about Laura and her services: https://www.laurawilsonnaturopath.com.au/
- Follow Laura: https://www.instagram.com/laurawilson_naturopath/
Please note: Medical intuitive readings are a spiritual-wellness practice, not a medical diagnosis or treatment. Saskia is sharing her personal experience and what the session brought up for her.
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