Are you feeling lost? Well, you've come to the
right place. Welcome to Lost -ish, where we,
Rose Chachko and Emmanuella 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
lessons of chasing your dreams, finding happiness
and learning to embrace the uncertainty. We're
not here to pretend like we've loaded all together.
We're simply just figuring it out with you. Hello
and welcome back to the Lost Fish podcast. Today
we've got a bit of a unique episode which we
hope will be a little bit of a fun one to sort
of break up the longer more advice episodes that
we've been putting out recently. So we thought
we would do a little rapid fire get to know each
other where we've listed out about 15 questions
and we're just gonna ask each other. They're
not the normal questions they're a bit more some
of them are normal some of them are in depth
but we hope it would just be a little funny.
Break yeah a funny break from like talking about
some serious stuff and I think I think whenever
I listen to a podcast I want to know about the
person and I want to know their story and this
is not so much our life story because we could
be sitting here for the next decade talking about
that but yeah like Emmanuella said it's rapid -fire
and We haven't pre -planned any of these answers.
We literally got these questions online off chat
GBT being like Give us and get to know your questions.
It gave them to us. And now we're going at it
so that you guys can find out a little bit more
about us. Exactly. In a funny manner. All right.
Shall we get started? All right. Rose is reading
out the questions and then I'm going to answer
and then she's going to answer. Go. All right.
Question number one. Something people misunderstand
about you. Oh, OK. I think people initially when
they meet me, because I'm I'm an introverted
extrovert, but I'm introverted at the beginning
until I know someone. Um, so I think a lot of
people would think I was boring before they actually
get to know me because I don't talk much unless
you'd, I reciprocate energy. So if someone is
talking to me, I'll talk back to you. If you're
not talking to me, I'm not going to talk to you.
I kind of feel that as well. Like I think something
people misunderstand about me is people think
I'm, I'm very outgoing. People think I'm very
bubbly and, um, and confident when little do
they know I overthink. everything that I say,
and I struggle with crippling anxiety. And people
are like, how are you so confident in life? Like,
fake it till you make it, I guess, because your
girl is a massive over thinker. Question number
two. Am I saying it? You're saying it. First
ever heartbreak. My first ever heartbreak, God,
was actually my last heartbreak. It was my first
ever relationship, my first love, my first partner,
who I'm obviously no longer with, but we're not
going to be wasting any time talking about that.
What was your first ever heartbreak? I can't
say I've actually ever been heartbroken. Wow.
I've been upset, but like never. I've never experienced
what you've experienced. I'm very fortunate for
that, but I can't say I've never been heartbroken.
Heartbreak sucks guys, but bloody hell it makes
you grow so much as a person and realise your
worth. Anyway, next. Uh, one thing you secretly
love physical and personality wise about yourself.
Okay. I think physically, initially I used to
hate this about myself, but I actually really
like my height. I used to hate it. And then once
I started getting into modeling a little bit,
I was like, Oh, I kind of wish I was a little
bit taller even like, so I've started taking
advantage of that a lot now. And I really, really
like my, my height. I feel like it. Just comes
across a bit more confident. I like the clothes
I can wear because dude I thought you were gonna
say your eyebrows because you have the most beautiful
eyebrows I have ever seen in my life that always
say about me, but I don't know I haven't I mean,
yeah, I'm appreciating them more now, but I definitely
wouldn't say that that's one of my favourite
things. I like my eyes. I like my eye colour.
Beautiful eyes. Personality wise, I'm not saying
this to high me up, but I genuinely think I'm
a very genuine person. I don't do things maliciously.
I really just I like to I see the best in people.
You could dog me and I'll like I'll be like,
oh, but maybe there was a reason for it. You
play devil's advocate. Yes. Yeah. Yes, I like
to see the best in people, which doesn't always
work in my favour, but maybe that's why my circle
is so small. Turning it on to you, what would
you say is your favourite physical and personality
trait of yourself? Physically? Physically, I
like my smile. Oh, I love your smile. Yeah, I
like my smile. Which I don't know, like if people
say, I love your smile, but I think I like my
smile. Yeah. And personality wise, I'd say I'm
a very selfless person. I think I put. A lot
of people before myself and I care very, very
deeply. And when you're in my life, like I'd
die for you. Like I'm very real when it comes
to my friendships, my family, my relationships,
like you are my priority hasn't always been reciprocated.
But I think I think that's my my biggest strength,
but also a weakness in a way, because Sometimes
you do have to put yourself first and I struggle
to do that. People that know Rose Tashco know
this is the truth. Hey, what role do you play
in a group of friends? The mother. Wow. I'm the
mom. Yeah, I feel that. You're like my mom. You're
literally like my mom, but in the best way possible.
Yeah, what about you? I'm the therapist. Oh dude,
I'm such a therapist. Like all my friends come
to me for advice and I'm on the phone to them
for like. hours and hours and hours and I love
being the therapist don't get me wrong I love
it like I am so one to listen I'm so one to help
like I love it actually like had this thought
I was like maybe I should do a psychology degree
but I was like no no no I love acting way too
much so no next favorite country that you have
visited mine yes well I have visited I've been
very fortunate enough to visit a lot of countries
But you know what, like one I visited last year
has just stuck with me and it's New Zealand.
I really want I loved New Zealand, especially
the South Island, the South part. I was just
like mesmerized by its beauty. I think it's actually
quite an underrated country and it's not very
far from Australia. It's like a three hour flight.
Yeah, but it is magnificent. I felt alive. What's
your favourite country? Other than Greece, because
it would be biased to say that, but it genuinely
is my favourite country in the world, I would
say Fiji. I absolutely loved Fiji. I felt like
I was at home for a week when I was there. Not
going to harp on it, but people that know know
I loved it more than you could ever imagine.
Nationally, where are you from? I think I just
covered it. I'm Greek. Born in Australia, but
I'm fully Greek. Through and through. Yes, loud
and proud. I was born in Australia, but my background
is Ukrainian, so I can speak fluent Russian,
but yeah, parentals are from Ukraine, loud and
proud as well. Yep, so full European, through
and through. Okay, drink of choice. Okay, let's
go. We're talking alcoholic drinks now. Let's
do both. Okay, go. Alcoholic and non -alcoholic.
Neither of us are really drinkers, we'll just
say that. But if we were to pick, okay. Non -alcoholic
drink, I would go coconut water, because I just
love coconut water so much. Or matcha, I love,
specifically strawberry matcha, yum. Or alcoholic,
I'll go a pina colada. Okay, if I was to go.
Alcoholic it would need to be something where
I literally cannot taste the alcohol so I would
say something with Malibu rum so sort of like
Or like a vodka apple if not, I literally don't
drink anything else like I'll drink tea. I'll
drink juice I'll drink smoothies, but I'd say
water all the way. I'm such a tea go. Anyway,
okay celebrity crush. Sportacus from Lazy Jan
pretty. I honestly don't have one. I don't think
I have one. Not like I don't watch enough movies
and shows to be like, Oh, yeah. So that pretty
car. No, I actually don't have one. I'd say like,
if I had to pick one, maybe like old Leonardo
DiCaprio or something before he turned into a
little problematic. Sorry. No, I definitely say
like, Oh, Harry Styles from a young age. Yeah,
would you not? Did you not know that? I was obsessed
with Harry Styles. I had photos of him in my
bloody room and I'd, you know, I think I have
a plush toy of him as well and I'd sleep with
it every night. It was actually bad. Like I was
a direction, hard directioner. Um, or like a
young Brad Pitt. Yeah, I do like a young Brad
Pitt. It's beautiful. Okay. Uh, honest first
impressions of each other. Oh, okay. My first
impression of you, I think we ran over this in
the last episode, but I'd say, I thought you
were stunning. First of all, I was like, this
girl was a beautiful person. But I think first
impression of you was how smiley you were. You
would just smile all the time. You were constantly,
you looked like you were so excited to make friends,
like you were so smiley. Oh, that's so kind.
I'd say first, first impression without even
speaking to you. That's what I would have said.
My first impression of you, I obviously thought
you were gorgeous. Like I was like, Whoa, who
is this European goddess? Um, to be honest, I
thought you were quite quiet. Like you said,
I think you were like, you're an extroverted
introvert. And until I actually got to know you
is when I is when your personality shone through.
It probably doesn't show in this podcast, but
unless it's gotten a bit better now, I think
people would disagree now, but. In general, especially
at the bright age of 18, I was a shell of a human.
Yeah, I thought you were really shy. But then
when I once I got to know you, I was like, you're
actually one of the best people I've ever met
in my life. So this podcast is literally us just
hyping each other up. I kind of love it. One
thing each other has taught us without even trying.
Dude, you have taught me you have taught me that
real people actually exist. Stop. No, like you,
like I, there was a point where I actually have
lost a little bit of faith in humanity and I
was like, why, why is everyone just so fake?
why not everyone obviously I've got a lot of
beautiful people in my life that are not but
you were so real and you genuinely like you have
taught me that that exists you taught me that
real friendship exists and real love exists yeah
and soulmates you're a soulmate to me and i think
like no i really mean that like soulmates don't
just have to be romantic like you you definitely
come into my life to show me that that exists
and and you also you also taught me about my
worth i think you really really reinforce that
to me a lot and something that I've you know
self -worth and self -concept is something that
I've struggled with in the past and and still
you know I'm on the journey to kind of getting
to a place where where I you know love myself
wholeheartedly and you really really help me
with that. Nah guys you will never ever see Rose
or any of the people that I truly cherish in
my life come up to me and talk down about themselves
to me. I do not let that shit fly. No I love
it. Sorry. One thing you've taught me to go for
what I want, like you're an inspiring person,
you've taught me how to have fun, and you've
taught me what support and genuine friendship
looks like. Like you are honestly probably the
best friend that I have ever had in my life.
I wouldn't want to start a... podcast with anyone
else. Oh, now we're going the frickin' other
direction. One thing that drives you insane about
each other, go. No, you start. No, you can start.
What? Alright, I'll start. Okay, you start. I
think. I think this kind of ties into what I
last said, but I hate how much you overthink
things. Not so much with me. You overthink things
that you do. You overthink how you look in certain
situations. You overthink your relationships
with certain people. Just stop overthinking.
You're fine. God, thanks. No, but yeah, I do.
I do overthink a lot. And I think what drives
me, I think I was going to kind of say the opposite
for you. I think because you're so, yeah, you're
too carefree. You're so chill. Like, you know,
I'm a little anxious B and you're not. And I
love that about our dynamic because you really
bring me out of my shell. But I. I sometimes
I think to myself, I'm like, oh my God, why are
you so carefree about the situation? Like, oh
my God, last, last episode when our podcast wasn't
recording, so we were recording our podcast and
we actually weren't, but I thought we were and
we got through a half an hour of content without
actually pressing record. I was about to cry
and I was like, oh my God. And you were like,
babe, it's chill. Like we're just filming. And
I was like, how are you so carefree about this?
She was about to start crying. I was like, bro,
we just rebook and come back. It's not a big
deal. Yeah, so that kind of annoys me, but. But
I'm like that, so. I love you though. You can
suck it up. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Biggest role model?
My biggest role model. Okay, I say I'd have four.
Okay. So, my parents, my boyfriend and you. And
when I say that, I mean like if I was to pick
the four people that I genuinely take the most
inspiration from in my life. And I have different
reasons for each of you. My dad, I think, is
the person that I've carried the most life lessons
from. Like he's wholeheartedly a male version
of me and like intelligence and all of that.
Like I've taken that from my dad. My mom, I'd
say, has shown me strength. She showed me what
unconditional love looks like. If you know my
mom, she loves her kids more than anything in
the world and she shows it to herself, to others,
to... everyone. And also just kindness and generosity.
I'd say my boyfriend has shown me just how to
be an absolute beast, like how to never give
up on my dreams. People that know him know that
that probably comes across as well. He also has
his own podcast. He does have his own podcast.
We'll plug it. The Angel Arco Show. Go listen
now. Yep. And also just like, honestly, he showed
me love in my highest highs and my lowest lows
as well. Which is very important and very rare
to find especially at such a young age because
i met him when i was eighteen but yeah i'd say
more than anything it's like never give up on
your dreams dedication go go go like he's very
much like that and then i'd say you just. Again
like what i repeated when i was speaking about
you before just raw real friendship how to not
care what how to unapologetically be myself how
to not care what people are thinking like i don't
feel like i have to be judgmental judge i don't
feel judge sorry. around you um and just like
yeah true support like you're such a genuine
person you are you are oh my god this is that's
my answer now go on what's your biggest role
model like mine is very similar i definitely
say my family. For me, my family stems way beyond
my parents. My parents are incredible and they
raised me to be the person I am today. But my
grandparents, my aunties, my uncles who have
been through so much in their life, I genuinely
look up to them and I go, wow, you have worked
so hard to give me the life that I now have.
You've taught me resilience. You've taught me
trust. You've taught me love. Yeah, I'm just
like I think about it and I get emotional because
I just really really love and cherish my family
my parents My mom my dad my grandma my grandpa
Auntie uncles like cousins like yeah, that's
so that's that's family and then I go into my
friends and you And I know it's like oh, you
know, I said you got to say me well No, like
I genuinely mean mean when I say you have really
Like my trust in humanity has resurfaced because
of you and like you have shown me that That I
am worthy of love. I am worthy of friendship.
I am worthy of so much more And it's it's really
beautiful like you really uplift me and there's
never a dull moment I think people are gonna
listen to this episode and be like we should
be dating. Oh yes, they're true Honestly, please
boyfriend in Emanuella version. Come to Rose
because we're putting that out there for 2025
guys question. What's your biggest fear? Oh,
I okay. Hearing bad news. My biggest fear is
for someone to give me a phone call and it's
something about my family, something about a
sickness, something about an incident. Yeah.
I Not I don't care about claustrophobia darkness
ocean spiders none of that the moment I like
surface level something my heart sunk. Yeah.
Absolutely not well I was gonna say I've got
the biggest fear of death but like by a loved
one like I cannot fathom honestly and I know
it's a part of life but. Anyone in my life in
my family who's closest to me just like not being
there and the thought of that freaks me out.
Yeah, a lot. Also, one of my other biggest ones
is not fulfilling my dream. I thought you were
about to say fear of failure. Yeah, fear of failure.
And not so much in the sense of, to be honest,
failure is a beautiful thing because it shows
you resilience and you can pick yourself back
up and not give up. You only fail if you give
up, really. But yeah, I guess my fear is not
accomplishing my dream. Getting to where I want
to be in life and yeah, I think about that a
lot. I think about that a lot. But I also have
very much trust in in the journey I'm on and
in destiny and in the universe. Very spiritual
as you can tell. Before we go on to the last
question, let's just chuck in some more random.
Okay, random. Let's go. Favorite season. Favorite
season? Ooh, ooh. Summer. I'd probably say the
same. Yep. But then I also love, I love winter.
Or not, you could not catch me. I would say summer
or spring. Okay, summer and spring. Favorite
artist. Like singer? Singer. I have, oh my god,
you put me on the spot. I mean, at the moment,
it's who we both love, who is Tate McCray. Yeah,
Tate McCray. We're obsessed with her. We love
Tate McCray. I've been a hardcore. Khalid fan
Khalid. I grew up overseas in Dubai so everyone
used to call him Khalid there. But yeah Khalid
I've loved him you know they're nothing else
but him. If we're going more classic Amy Winehouse
is one of my favourite artists. I love a little
bit of Amy. You can tell you're a theatre kid.
Yeah you can absolutely tell I'm a theatre kid.
Okay let me ask you favourite clothing item?
Actually better question dressing up or dressing
down being comfy like being like Okay, I would
say dressing up is my I love dressing up Yeah,
but I don't do it very often. I think that's
why I love it I think if my job included dressing
up on a daily basis, I would hate it But I love
every couple months, you know dressing up and
doing my own like getting all pretty but on the
daily I guess dressing down. What about you?
Yeah, like Actually, no, I love dressing up.
And when I say I love dressing up, it's the process.
It's the getting all your girlfriends together,
all your mates, and you just like doing your
makeup. Yeah. And it's like the music's pumping,
you're drinking a little champagne, your lemon
sodas. It's so fun. And no one will ever understand
the feeling of having that girlhood. Playing
Miss Possessive in the background and feeling
like you're hot shit. It is really fun. What
about your favorite food? Oh, cuisine. Cuisine.
Okay. If I had to rank them, I love Italian.
Yeah. I love Japanese and I love Greek. That's
my top three. Yeah. No particular order. It depends
on what I'm feeling that day, but those are my
top three. Mine would be Italian, Japanese and
Thai. Oh, like Pad Thai, Pad See You, like Laksa,
like Yum. Give me some. Should we go on to our
last question? Yeah, let's go on to our last
question and wrap it up. One piece of advice
you'd give to anyone listening. Okay, so I think
I have a lot of advice that's specific to different
sort of things that we're going to cover in different
episodes like specific advice for friendship,
specific advice for relationships, specific advice
for, you know, whatever it may be. But I think
as a general quote that I've just lived by, is
everything that you lose in life is to make space
for something greater or something better. That's
always been something that I try to think like,
if someone comes up to me and says that something's
going wrong in their life, I'm like, yeah, but
it'll be fine. Like literally what Rose was saying
before, I'm like, yeah, but there's solutions.
Like nothing good will ever come from stressing
about something that you don't have control over.
Even if you do have control over it, who cares?
It's not that serious. Rejection is redirection.
Is that what you're kind of saying? Yes, that's
what I'm trying to say. Like just because it
doesn't come to you right now, just because you
feel like you've lost something so big in your
life, I promise you it's just to make space for
something better, even if that means healing.
In the sense of like, say that big loss in your
life was losing someone, for example. Well, you
will find beauty in it eventually. Yeah. And
I think that's why I've never experienced touch
wood any like mental health issues because I've
always from a very young age had that mindset
of things will be okay. Like literally don't
stress. It's not that serious. Life is not that
serious. We are the tiniest specks in the universe
that nothing matters. We're here for a short
time. Make the most of it. work hard and everything
will be fine. This might sound super cliche or
generic but you know what I always go back to
this always go back to this is that everything
happens for a reason and I wholeheartedly believe
in that even if it's something really bad. It's
either a learning thing or or it wasn't meant
to be you know like. everything truly happens
for a reason and you know whether it's you didn't
get your dream job or whether it's you like for
me you know I didn't get the role that I wanted
to get or like heartbreak like the person is
not your person or even losing a friend or like
it's I really think, and that goes on to rejection,
is redirection as well. I was going to say our
points balance each other off. Very, very much
so. I was going to say just when you were saying
that, I've noticed a big change in you since
when I first met. You actually take your own
advice now. I've realised now when you'll tell
me that you didn't get a role or anything, you're
like, oh, well, it wasn't my role. And I'm very
proud of you for that because at the beginning
it was not like that. You were like, why did
this happen to me? Like it's happened four or
five bad things have happened now. Like why?
What's meant to be will be. It really will. Everyone's
time will come. Trust, trust, trust the journey
that you're on. And there's no rush. Don't rush.
It's okay. You don't need to know everything
right now. You don't need to be where you want
to be in 50 years. Like just, just be present.
Don't. Yeah, don't rush. It's all right to think
ahead, but not not to the point where it stresses
you out. And then yeah, no. We don't condone
that on this podcast. No, we don't. Okay, that
concludes. We're gonna wrap it up there. We're
gonna wrap it up there, guys. And eventually,
I'm sure we'll be doing more of these because
there's hundreds of thousands of questions we
could come up with. And at some point we'll get
you guys to be asking us questions as well once
we slowly establish the pod. Anyway, we love
and appreciate each and every person listening
to this. It's been a journey and we'll see you
in the next episode!