Are you feeling lost? Well, you've come to the
right place. Welcome to Lostish, where we, Rose
Chachko and Emanuella Kathreptakis share what it's
really like navigating your 20s. We're two semi
-lost girls figuring out careers, relationships,
wellness, purpose and everything in between.
Each week we dive into the highs, the lows and
the lessons of chasing your dreams, finding happiness
and learning to embrace the uncertainty. We're
not here to pretend like we've got it all together.
We're simply just figuring it out with you. And
it's finally come to fruition. It has. I think
what we should start off by saying is like, we're
just two ordinary girls. Yep, no influences.
We don't have a following on Instagram. We're
just literally kind of lost. We're lost. We're
lost, hence why we're here today making this
podcast. Yeah, so why did we decide to do this?
Well, Rose and I met four years back. Four years
back. Day one of university and we're about to
graduate with our bachelor's in media and communications.
Which kind of means nothing. Yeah. And the reason
we say that is because... We recently came to
an epiphany that we're coming so close to the
end of university which should be this like eye
-opening, wow I know exactly what I'm gonna do,
we're like in our early 20s, just graduating,
we've got that paper in our hands, but we don't.
But like what now? What now? We really don't.
What do we do with this piece of paper? We're
genuinely so confused and we had this conversation,
we were like, we were actually... in Fiji doing
a volunteering program which was amazing and
we were sitting in the pool right after volunteering
at one of the schools and we were like what the
hell are we doing with our lives? We are exactly
where it's supposed to be right now in a pool
in Fiji Should we change our career path? Like
what do we want to do? We're coming so close
to the end of university and I think we very
quickly realized that it's a very very universal
experience. Oh for sure anyone that you talk
to is like I don't know what I'm doing even the
most successful people like I have a lot of friends
who are very very successful and they're still
so confused in life and they're still like yeah
I've got this and I've got a beautiful relationship
and I've got you know money and I'm doing my
dream job, but I still don't know if you hear
from everyone though even celebrities even anyone
actually a Tate McCrae interview that I watched
of her saying that one of her songs was inspired
by a conversation that she actually had with
her dad okay about how she literally doesn't
understand how people can go their whole life
not fulfilling their dreams and I was like That's
wild. That was another epiphany moment that I
had that wanted me to start this podcast. It's
actually just one of my fears really is I get
to the end of my life and I haven't done what
I want to do. And even if I don't know what I
want to do, I'd hope I'd figure it out by the
end of my life, which is a long way away, hopefully.
yeah so i guess the name lostish came from this
exact feeling that we're having right now is
kind of kind of being lost like having a sense
of direction being able to get through life if
we didn't even pursue our dreams we could stick
around in the jobs we had now our dead -end jobs
you know going around in all these circles and
we'd probably end up you know living the life
that a lot of people end up living um but we
didn't want to do that so we decided to call
it lost -ish because we're kind of lost that's
where the name came from and the reason why like
we wanted to do this was not only to help people
around us like honestly if anyone listens to
this if one person listens to this and gets something
out of it that's all we can ask and it sounds
very cliche but it's genuinely very very true
we're doing this as a journey to help ourselves
and to help everyone who listens in the podcast
yeah in the process and you know it could be
for people in their 20s it could be for people
in their 30s if people in their 40s listen to
this like great like this is something that can
help everybody and it can help us as well yeah
so we're really really excited and obviously
this is the first episode so it's just a little
trailer just a little introduction where we're
going to cover some topics such as we're going
to talk about relationships wellness mental health
happiness finding your path ditching the script
and just going what with what you're you what
you want to do in life yeah we definitely hope
we can spark some inspiration for you guys and
we thought that we would be sort of a good example
because we have very different, we've experienced
very different things in our lives but I think
in combination it's a very powerful thing to
bring together and hopefully we can. be of inspiration
to some people. And I think that also ties into
why we chose our podcast photo. Why did we choose
our podcast photo, Manuela? Well, I'm happy to
answer. It was my idea. So we were picking between
so many different photos and we thought, oh,
what are we going to go for? Do we want to go
for the like more like striking, close facial
expressions, like in your face kind of thing?
And we know it's not the most serious thing about
this. However, We are perfectionists. And this
was something that we had asked quite a few people
before and then came to the realization that
why did we choose the latter? Well we thought
okay first of all I don't think and I may be
completely wrong maybe I'm not looking at the
right podcasts but I have not seen a podcast
with a ladder on it and I thought okay it can
be something that distinguishes us a little bit
from the rest Because that ladder is kind of
to symbolize we wanted to symbolize we wanted
to be a motif of kind of Like growth and and
leading going up starting from the bottom getting
to the top and we thought okay And all the steps
along the way all the steps along the way. It's
a no -brainer, but Because our thing was like
lost kind of lost each we were like we still
we're still powerful We still know what we're
doing. Yeah, partially. We still you know are
taking the steps to get there, which is why the
outfits were what they are. You got that contrast.
You got that, you know, corporate girlies, but
on a ladder with a red background, which kind
of makes it playful. Anyway, enough about the
podcast photo. We are so excited to start this.
Like we genuinely are. We're going to have...
We were so nervous. We actually were. We were
like, oh my God, like I feel like I'm about to
perform in front of an audience. But no, it's
literally just us on this couch. No one around.
We're in an empty space in an empty room with
like two lights. We just wanted to make it super
cash and we want you guys to go on this journey
with us and we can kind of all help each other.
I also want to mention that we're going to have
some really amazing guests on the podcast, some
familiar faces that you may know as well. And
hopefully that'll grow along the way. Yep. Yep.
Absolutely. And then, you know, who knows where
it could go from there? Who knows? We're just
doing this because we want to and we love it.
And if this could help one person or if one person
sees this and goes, I actually need this and
I really, really resonate with what you guys
are saying. We've done our job. Yeah. Fully agree
with you. Fully agree. Well, I'm excited. Yeah.
Well, stay tuned. Stay tuned. For more episodes
of Lost Ish.