#109 - Why Your Story Matters (Even If You Think It's Ordinary)
How much can one stranger's story actually change your life? When Viv's husband suffered a serious burn last year, the thing that got him th...
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Voice Hugs is a podcast hosted by Vivian Van and Rowena Tsai on the journey to becoming our best selves and embracing all seasons of life with open arms. Join us as we share our reflections...
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#108 - Why We Isolate When Life Feels Out of Control
Why is it so hard to answer a simple "how are you” sometimes? You see someone you haven't seen in months, they give their little life update...
#107 - How Do We Live in an Age of Information Overload?
How do you make a decision when there are 24 kinds of everything and the algorithm has an opinion on all of it? 🌀 From the grocery store to...
#105 - How to Keep Going When Everything Feels Stuck
How do you get through a hard season when you can't see the end of it? There's an "unwritten rule" that says every long stretch of hardship...
#104 - Why You Stopped Dreaming Big (And How to Start Again)
How can we dream bigger when life has trained us to play it small? As kids we wanted everything, unapologetically—then somewhere along the w...
#103 - The 100-Year Calendar That Will Change How You Spend Your Time
Viv came back from a work conference with a story she hasn't been able to shake: a Japanese company’s chairman hands every new employee a 10...
#102 - How Do You Know You're Ready to Be a Mom? (Listener Email 💌)
How do you actually know when you're ready to have a baby? It's one of the biggest questions of your 20s and 30s, and no one really prepares...
#101 - The Truth About Our Podcast After 100 Episodes
100 episodes in, and we finally sat down and asked ourselves the questions we'd been avoiding: What have we built?? Do we still want to do i...
#100 - Our 100th Episode: Thank You for Being Here ♥️ | SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!
❣️ MUG HUGS LAUNCH + GIVEAWAY BELOW ❣️ Four years. One hundred episodes. We still can't believe we get to say that out loud 🥺 What started...
#99 - The Quiet Panic of ‘Falling Behind’
Am I behind? Am I stuck? Is everyone else moving forward except me? We received an email from you feeling behind in all aspects of life—from...
#98 - How to Be Single & Love Your Own Company
How do I be single? How do I date myself? How do I be alone? We’ve talked a lot about relationships in Season 3, but we have yet to tackle o...
#97 - The Communication Style No One Taught You (But Everyone Needs)
Alright, you know how we say "embracing all seasons of life with open arms" every single episode?? Well, we took a personality assessment an...
#96 - How Do You Know You’re With the Right Person?
We saw this quote about Beef on Netflix that said “everyone is with the wrong person” and it got us thinking “how do you know you’re with th...
#95 - The Hardest Part of Growing Up No One Warns You About
Our sweetest bbs, this one came out of us like a wave we didn't see coming 🥹 We mentioned in our 3rd Hugs Hotline (https://open.spotify.com...
#94 - What Deleting Instagram For A Week Actually Does To Your Brain
Our sweetest bbs, the day hath cometh. We’ve been wanting to talk about social media for many years now, and instead of just talking about i...
#93 - Quarter Life Crisis? Let's Talk About It | Hugs Hotline (ep. 3) ☎️
This week's episode is extra special 🥹 We're answering your Hugs Hotline voicemails from our bed, on our very first Voice Hugs retreat!! Th...
#92 - We're Having Another Baby!!! Pregnancy journey & all the feels
Okay so we've been keeping a secret 👀 One of us is pregnant… and we're finally sharing everything!!! From the moment she found out, to the...
#91 - Two Words That’ll Change Every Relationship in Your Life
Have you ever given a friend advice, watched them nod along, and then do the exact opposite? Or caught yourself nagging your partner about t...
#90 - The Loneliness Epidemic: Why It’s So Hard to Find Your People
Hi besties, when was the last time you made a new friend in the wild? We’ll go first: It’s been a long while for both of us. This episode we...
#89 - How to Romanticize Your Life Without Losing Reality
Ever come back from a trip completely convinced you need to uproot your entire life? Yeah, that was Viv after three days in New York 😅 This...