Waking up on the 1st Alarm? Exercising 30 mins every day? 3 Balanced meals in a day?🤔😏😨🤯 How are some people able to do it?🙉 They call it: That Girl Lifestyle (or That Gym Guy Lifestyle for our male listeners) It's all about Self-Discipline - waking up at 6 AM, journaling, exercising, and living that hustle life🧘‍♀️🧗‍♀️💼⏰🥗⚖ ✔ Seems to be the new online trend these days- who wouldn't want to live that productive life? Doing things that help you get going every day and becoming "that girl/guy" who we all want to be?😎😏 So what does 🍌🌽🎙 members do to get ourselves going in the morning? What routine do we have?🤣 Does any of it help? - or is "That Girl Lifestyle" just a new buzz word and everyone's in on it for the trend?👀 Let's find out!🍿

Becoming a Mid-20s? Turning 25?😵 Oh~ the AUDACITY of AGING!! 🤧🤧🤧 Haha it's perfectly alright being 25...No, it's perfectly not alright.🙃 Am I doing what I want or have I accomplished nothing? Hold on, there's a name for this feeling, and it doesn't sound friendly – ever heard of the Quarter Life Crisis? They call it the period of uncertainty, aimlessness, and disillusionment that occurs in your mid-twenties and early thirties😵🤯🎢 Contributors include job searching, new living situations or relationships, and major life decisions‍🎓💻💎💍 Yeah, that familiar feeling of anxiety over the direction and quality of our life - super relevant to us now😅 Ready or not, we're going to talk about you life!🤸‍♀️🎭

It's an Endless Battle between Selfish 🆚 Selfless!!⚔️💥 How much does it really matter in the adult world? Or is it just a pain in the neck?😅💢 As children, we've been taught that these are opposite concepts of each other - often told that being selfish is "bad and immorally wrong", while being selfless is "encouraged and deserved to be recognized"👶👶👶 Of course, as we grow up, we realize it's not a black vs white concept and that there are moments when selfishness goes by without punishment and being selfless is not always recognized.🥺😵‍💫 In the adult world, the lines become even more blurry, and in this state of confusion we feel lost as to what is the right thing to do. So how do we strike a balance? And does this balance shift as we get older?🤔 You know it, Banana Corn is back on board to discuss - sit back and let's dive in🍿🎧~

Water🌊! Air!🌀 Fire! 🔥 Did you all know there are elements to zodiac signs? We are legit Avatar air-benders🤸‍♀️ aka the Naruto 火影忍者 ninjas 🥷🏼 today LOL In this month's light-themed fun podcast, we delved into the world of "Horoscopes"~ In our daily lives, we're bound to meet someone who LOVES to refer to horoscope readings right? Some people use it to predict personality, some to determine the fate of the month, and there are even those who use it to check out the luck of the day - hmm?🤔 Time for 🍌🌽🎙 to step into this unfamiliar world, check what's up and essentially take "a microscope into our horoscope"😏♈♊♋ (Get it?) Ready or not, let's dive in!🎧🍿

Hey everyone! You're long-awaited Lucky No.21!😎🍀✨ Based on popular demand, we're bringing back another episode on Life Updates! Our last June life updates episode in 2022 was quite a hit, especially among our listeners in China🤗💛 As we are moving through February with once again many changes happening at this point in our lives - well, what better time than now for us to give our half-year mark update?😏🥁🎬 Time for the Banana Corn🍌🌽🎙 crew to unlock their personal vaults of thoughts, and share each of our ups & downs for the past 6 months!🔓💭 We might also pop in some personal expectations we have for our future as well?🍿Ready or not, let's dive in!~

大家兔年快乐!🐰🧧 Happy BANANA CORN 1st ANNIVERSARY!!🍌🌽🥳🎉 Coming with a new SPECIAL episode this year – Dear Mom, We Had It TOUGH! In this episode, we explore the challenges that our parents face when immigrating to a new country, and the challenges we face as children of immigrants. Heard of the expression "Third-Culture Kids"?😏 Speaking from our experience, we'll uncover the unique struggles that immigrant parents must confront in order to create a better life for themselves and their families. We'll also explore how these struggles have shaped us, and the impact it has had on our identity, culture, and self-determination. Join us as we grapple with the complexities of immigration and the many facets of the immigrant experience.😎🎙 Dear Mom, you had it tough, we had it tough – but would we have the courage to do as you did?🌏 Let's find out👀~

I'm in Singapore. I'm in Shanghai. I'm in Edinburg. And now we are all separated!😅🙃😭 What's a better way to talk about loneliness than the current circumstance that we🍌🌽🎙 find ourselves living in different regions around the world?🌏🌍🌎 All by Myself - the common emotion of "loneliness" that everyone is bound to experience at least once in their lifetime🥺 At first a period of change is exciting because we can meet different types of people and develop new relationships - but when everyone else also going on their own adventures, you suddenly find yourself much more lonely than before - ironic isn't it?🤔 So are we alone or lonely? Do I lack love or just want attention from people? Is loneliness the reason why people search for partners in their life?💛👀💭 Just some of the Qs we'll be covering in this EP. Ready or not, let's begin!🍿🎬

Big Fails! Epic Fails! Embarrassing Moments! Memories that make us CRINGE in the middle of the night!🙉😖😨🥴🤡🤦‍♀️💭 Last episode was about maturity, and how at this point in our lives we feel like we're pretty much Mature-Ready. BUT let's be honest about it, no matter our level of maturity and how prepared we are for new scenarios, there is one thing that constantly happens in our lives – and we all hate it! Yes!! Those are…the embarrassing moments! The failure moments! The BiG Fs!😲😅 There's a saying though: “Embarrassment lasts a moment, regrets last a lifetime." Sounds like it's better be embarrassed from trying than regret not trying huh?🤔 So keeping that quote in mind, we are back with a new episode titled "Such a big F", where we'll be going over several Reddits epic-fail stories and sharing some of our own embarrassing moments along the way, so let's dive in!🍿🎙🎬

The play on word sounds in the title - did you get it? 😆 This month's topic was sparked by the recent updates we've been hearing from our high school friends and college peers - some are getting married, some having children already and some moving to new locations, essentially making big decisions in their personal lives💦💭🥴✨ Wow, people in our age group are truly letting go of their "young youth" periods - which got us thinking about how we are also getting ready or already on this path of maturity🕵️‍♀️ So when was that moment we thought we matured? Is maturity a ONE-time thing?🤔 Let our discussion begin 🎬- and hopefully through this, you may also reflect on your own path to maturity~

We are back from our 1-month vacation! With new plans and some job transitions, Bananacorn Team🍌🌽🎙 will now update a new episode every end of the month!😁 📢 So we return with a very popular topic K-pop 😎🎵 It's summer and it's the month of August - a time of craze for Kpop-fans! Groups & solo artists are releasing exciting new Summer-Hit songs, and this year we have the comeback of 2 legendary girl groups: GIRLS GENERATION and BLACKPINK!🤩🤩✨✨ "YEAH! Feels like K-pop is coming back!!!" But hold on, what do we mean? Sharing from the viewpoints of a Korean + 2 longtime Kpop fans, let's being our OPEN discussion 😏🎧 How much has KPOP changed over time? Why do people miss the old K-pop? And is K-pop...going downhill?🤔 Ready or not! Let's dive in!

Woah it's July already?😵🤯 That means...🍌🌽🎙 is passing the half-year mark! For a special number like Ep15, let's do it differently - turn things down a notch , cool things down a bit ,and just chillax😎🍹🧊~ Bananacorn podcast has talked about so many topics already, but there's one thing listeners realized the 3 of us have not yet touched upon - and that is: What on earth is going on in the life of our BananaCorn podcast hosts? What are each of us doing in life?🤔 Basically time for a quick update on our lives outside of this podcast world😜 Get your headphones, sit back, relax, and let's just chill🎧~

True or False: #Firstborns are Smarter?😏😁 Heard of Disney Encanto's song Surface Pressure?🎵 Ever been called a wisdom owl? Ever had a case of "Older Sibling Syndrome"?🤔 🍌🌽🎙brings back a fun episode on the ups & downs of being the oldest siblings. Who would have thought all 3 hosts are the oldest in each of our family - coincidence much?😎 #thestrugglesisreal for firstborns heh - hope this episode can refresh some good memories of those who have siblings, make you guys laugh, and relate to some of the points we'll bring up! Let's wait no more and just dive in!🍿~

It must be so COOL to be a Multi-lingual! YOu must know a lot of languages! "Many and none" Huh? "Ever heard of NO-lingual?"😅🥺 Yes! We are back with today's episode -"What multi-lingual? I'm NO-lingual!"🎙🎧 These days it's very easy to find multi-lingual around you - and we have 3 on this podcast!😎😆😏 We'll be diving into: our encounters with languages, how we managed to grasp them, and how our character changes when speaking a particular language.🤔 Though we might find ourselves smart by not needing subtitles when watching TV shows or movies, the question really is, are we truly multi-lingual? 👀#thestruggleisreal. So let's just dive in!🎞

Come join the parade - the parade of "What-if"s!!🤗🤩🥁🎵 As we go through life, many of us begin to see we're faced with limitations in our choices. From the kids filled with dreams, now we've become the so-called “boring adults" faced with the reality of "no" answers.🥴😩 BUT “What if” there never was a need to be tied down like that? "What if” limitations like these never existed? Would things have been different? Would YOU have chosen differently? An adventure, an encounter, a mutual love, a space for solitude, a chance to go out and breathe life! Come come, join the parade. Ready or not, here we go!✨🎷🥁~

So here's a question that gets us all baffled...where can we download motivation??🤔🤔🤔 You guessed it! Today we'll talk about the times when we felt demotivated in every aspect of life and the coping mechanisms of how we dealt with demotivation and redownload our motivation back.📡📲 This topic was inspired by our co-host's brother, who felt that recently he can't focus on his tasks - to him, it feels as if the simplest things would create stress and anxiety for him😵😓. Hence our keyword of "demotivation". So just like the brother, have you ever felt as if you're the only one who is demotivated in life? and that everyone looks like they've got everything pulled together 100% of the time? Of course, the reality is... we know it's not true. Hope this episode can alleviate some people feeling this way because it's hard to see behind the "demotivation door" when it's firmly close🚪 Enough intro, let's dive in!~