Uncorked

A lot has changed, one of us is not so international anymore. The pandemic is over, life is somewhat reaching normalcy.. we are not in our twenties anymore... the girlies are getting gray (just kidding!).. but we're glad to be back and hope you chill out and uncork a bottle with us! Connect with us on Instagram and Youtube: @uncorked.podcastEmail us at uncorked.global@gmail.com

We are back with WINE TALKS, shorts with us drinking wine and vibing. Any and all factual evidence provided in the podcast may or may not be true. We're drinking wine and reflecting on how gloomy winter is, debating alternative facts, as usual,  critiquing social media as the millennials we are, and discussing the toxicity of social media while still (obviously) interacting with it..all of this while very much still living through a pandemic here in China. *Fun drinking game for you, drink every time one of us says "I don't know.." or "I feel like.." we have clearly been out of recording for a minute bear with us! More WINE TALKS coming soon!

This is a welcome back episode, for Uncorked, for me, for Kitso. We're all just glad to be back and this is regular programming. Look out for a fresh episode on what went on while we were gone, coming soon..maybe, one day.. New episodes coming as they come! We're just glad to be here, cold af now in Shanghai!If you have any questions, email us at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Earlier this year (August) I got the opportunity to interview Fatima Mallah Zadeh of FORMESportswear! We sat down and had a chat about her brand, how she got started, what inspires her and how she's continued to prosper in the midst of this global pandemic. Find out more about Fatima at https://formesportwear.com/Wechat Official Account @Forme Sports Wear

This week after months of silence Uncorked is back with some old news, but a lovely interview from Chef Nikki of Suga'hai. Suga’hai is the beautiful business blend comprised of husband & wife professional chef team, Randy & Nicole, currently in Shanghai by way of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. We bake authentic American restaurant quality desserts that can be delivered China-wide. Yes, we send sweetness to you wherever you are in China!Find out more at https://sugahai.com/ ! Follow Nikki and Suga'hai at sugahaichina on Instagram and Facebook. Be sure to follow UncorkedSH on Instagram and Facebook as well. If you have any comments or inquiries please connect us at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

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Big thanks to AskJerry! For giftingUncorked listeners with 10% off all orders. Type UNCORKED in at check out to receive your discount! Search AskJerry on WeChat to order nationwide in China!https://www.askjerry.cnHi there! This episode is accumulated audios of different people over the last couple of months. I asked a few people to send me audios and others I got to interview on the spot at a brunch (Area 501), listen in to hear everyone's perspective on how this pandemic has affected their lives. I apologize for the horrible audio quality! I was not able to record in a studio obviously and I wouldn't have been able to get so many people if I had to go and meet them. I hope you enjoy hearing about everyone's experience here in Shanghai. Please stay safe, stay inside as much as you can, wash your hands and stay positive! We will all get through this. Speakers: 1. Jess: She has lived in Shanghai for the past 5 years, she teaches her and practices Zumba. She shares her experience being in Shanghai the past couple months and how her side hustles have been effected. Wechat - jessyd920 Blog - blackgirlwhitegi.com Instagram - blackgirlwhitegi_bjj Facebook - www.facebook.com/BGWGBlog Email - blackgirlwhitegi@gmail.com2. Dean: Dean is a Chinese national. He lives and works in Suzhou, since the pandemic he has been home in Anhui with his family. He hosts many languages exchanges and believes in pursuing your passions as much as possible during this time. https://mall.xiangtuan.xyz/#/index?shopId=zaZ7GQ00Xh&spm=30.36.935&channel=h5Mall&ut=c&ud=wsaDwBVwEn&t=1584807594&connect_redirect=1&mstoken=f9a56649b8e9f981f9900439dffbe96c&msOpenId=obhVk0VTxqLoAV2xOvRTOxsLoheM3. Laure-Anne: This is Laure-Anne's second time on the show! She called in to chat with me about her time during the pandemic and how she's still been creating! Be sure to check out (frenchdragon) on Wechat to purchase her lovely ceramics. Also her Instagram (french__dragon). 4. Khay: Khay is an entrepreneur here in Shanghai, she sells soy candles and body butters. She talks about her personal and business experience during this time. You can catch her at BlackExpo in May! Wechat - QueensQuest Instagram - river_roots_organicArea 501 Brunch Audio (This audio is a doozy but we got some good commentary from various people who will introduce themselves. We also got to hear from the Area 501 owners Daria and Lillian! If you are in Shanghai be sure to check out their restaurant its delicious Caribbean food)Area 501Rm 1B, Bldg 12, 207 Mengzi Lu, near Liyuan Lu501地区 蒙自路207号12号楼1B室, 近丽园路Comments, questions or business inquiries, please contact uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Hi there! Uncorked is back!Excited to bring you this light hearted episode all about Disney! Angelique Michelle is a traveler, content creator and English teacher currently based in Shanghai! I sat down with her chatted about some of her favorite aspects of Disney after having traveled to every single Disney park around the world! We also dived into Disneychannel and all of our childhood faves! Tune in for a Disney filled episode! Find Angelique : IG- _angeliquemichelle Disney IG - _sequence8Stay tuned this coming week for a special chat on how our lives have been affected by the Cornavirus and how we've been getting along in Shanghai this past month. Comments, questions or business inquiries, please contact uncorkedsh@gmail.com

This week I sat down with Laure-Anne of French Dragon! French Dragon is a lifestyle brand here in Shanghai, specializing in ceramics, textiles and soon stationary! Find French Dragon on Wechat: frenchdragon and Instagram: french__dragon If you have any comments, questions or business inquiries please contact Uncorked at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

This week I sat down with Charmaine a Thomas who runs the I AM ENOUGH community in Shanghai. I AM ENOUGH is a creative story telling platform. Charmaine drops a whole lot of knowledge from her time (5 years) so far in China.We also touch on current events in Shanghai, the upcoming holiday schedule for 2020, frog hotpot and a very confusing story of how a Shanghaiese girl lost out on 500000rmb after being scammed by her bestfriend. Be sure to follow UncorkedSH on Instagram and Facebook. Also add my Wechat: meghanchristian if you are interested in being added to the Uncorked Podcast group! If you have any comments, questions or business inquiries please contact uncorkedsh@gmail.com All events mentioned will be posted on both Facebook/IG and Wechat!

This week we give you a few metro rules you may already know, now that rooftop brunch season is over, we’re sharing a couple of our favorite spots! Later we get into cat love and disciplining feline life. Maria Souza is a social ecologist who has traveled far and wide to land in Shanghai. She shares he journey of living in Brazil, England, Thailand and finally here with us in SH. She is an educator on many different topics. Her programs range from ecological values to eco feminism and mythology. Listen to find out more about her programs and how you can be apart of them. Find out more about Maria here http://www.mariaeduardasouza.com/ also look out for Maria’s mini program launch on Wechat in 2020! Add her on Wechat: mariamsouza for more information on her programs! For more Uncorked please follow us on Instagram and Facebook at UncorkedSH. If you have any comments or questions please email us at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Hey there ! This week I sat down with Laila Alieh of Wedding Fit Forever to discuss her transition from NASA to coaching brides on nutrition and fitness for their weddings. This What's Your Story was so interesting and inspiring! Tune in to find out more about Laila and be sure to listen to the very end for a special gift to all Uncorked listeners!You can find Laila at lailaalieh.com and (lailaalieh) on Instagram!For more information and updates on Uncorked in Shanghai, be sure to add WeChat: meghanchristian to be added to the Uncorked Podcast group. You can find more information on the interwebs Facebook : uncorkedsh and Instagram: uncorkedsh.For business inquiries / questions please contact at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

This episode is a whole 4 days late, my apologies!! This is a run down of some almost spooky happenings, we gave you the hierarchy of metro lines in Shanghai, a survival guide to being vegan in China and some half synopses of movies you probably don’t want to see.I was joined this week by Essence, also known as ExploringEssence. She helped me cohost this episode. You can find her on Instagram and YouTube @ExploringEssence.For more information and updates on Uncorked in Shanghai, be sure to add WeChat: meghanchristian to be added to the Uncorked Podcast group. You can find more information on the interwebs Facebook : uncorkedsh and Instagram: uncorkedsh.If you have any comments, questions or business inquiries please contact us at uncorkedsh@gmail.comAs always, thank you so much for the continued support!

What's Your Story is a brand new minisode series bringing you short stories of the ordinary person wherever I go around the world I want to bring stories and content of people who are doing great things in their life and have a story to tell about their journey thus far in life. These stories have inspired and motivated me and I hope they do the same for you!Find more information on Alice on Instagram: ladycafevino and her projects at For more information and updates on Uncorked in Shanghai, be sure to add WeChat: meghanchristian to be added to the Uncorked Podcast group. You can find more information on the interwebs Facebook : uncorkedsh and Instagram: uncorkedsh.If you are interested in sharing your story or have any business inquiries, please email me at uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Hello there! This is a short minisode interview with the founders of Boomi! Emmanuel Dean is from Indonesia and graduated from Colgate University, NY, in 2018, majoring in Economics and Chinese. Emmanuel has a deep passion for entrepreneurship as well as making a positive difference. He wanted to make a start-up that was not only profitable but also beneficial for the Earth. That was when he decided to found Boomi in the summer of 2018. He himself is still a novice eco-warrior, but as the company grows, so does his passion for living more sustainably.Miguel Angel Zambrano Boy is from Peru and is currently enrolled in NYU Shanghai studying political science. He is the mother nature of the team, as he has vowed to pay RMB20 to anyone who spots him using single-use plastic. His passion for living sustainably has propelled him to become a positive influence among his peers.Boomi is a Shanghai-based startup that provides starter-kits filled with eco-friendly products and knowledge-based services to empower people to find their balance between city living and sustainability. Boomi was founded with the goal of transforming the plastic consuming habits of individuals in the Asia-Pacific region. In Bahasa Indonesian, the word bumi means earth.Find out more about Boomi and founders Emmanuel and Miguel at myboomi.io ........This is the last episode of Season 1! Uncorked will be back with more exciting content in October. For the latest updates and announcements please join our Uncorked group on WeChat by adding me (meghanchristian), follow us on IG/Facebook (UncorkedSH). See you on the inter webs!For business inquiries please email uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Hello there! This week we covered a variety of summer-ish topics and drank our way through some interesting self-realization. This week we partnered with LAIBA beverages. LAIBA brings us unique bottled craft cocktails. Their flavors are impeccable (even for our unseasoned palates), these flavors are genuinely one of a kind. You can find LAIBA beverages all over Shanghai and different cities in China, they have also expanded to different countries in South East Asia! Be sure to check them out and find them on WeChat: LAIBA, on their Instagram: laibabeverages and their website: laibabeverages.com Be sure to check out LAIBA's upcoming event on August 24th, 2019. "Slice Slice Baby" they are partnering with Homeslice Pizza to bring you 3 hours of free flow cocktails and 2 slices of pizza. 180 rmb pre-sale, 220 rmb at the door. B1/F, 158 Julu Road, near Ruijin Yi Road. (please check my moments for the flier)Nadia Trabelsi of Coco & Clay joined us to discuss her impact on the sustainability market here in Shanghai with her all nature skin care line. Coco & Clay features powder clay masks and face oils that cleanse all of the dirt, grime and sweat from your skin and leave you feeling like you got yourself an at home facial! To find out more about Nadia and Coco & Clay be sure to follow her on Instagram (cocoandclay_cosmetics) as well as her WeChat: NadiaTee. Follow her and reach out for updates on her brand and where to purchase her products. We are saying goodbye to Kitso Rantao, this episode is her last gift to us. Be sure to stay up to date with her and her future projects via WeChat: summertimefine, Instagram: kitsorantao, and a website (coming soon, will post when the link is available)Journal With Me was postponed to August 31st so there are still tickets available at 325 rmb. Please add me on WeChat: meghanchristian for any Uncorked news and more information on anything posted above.

Like a moth to a flame, so are the days of our busy schedules, multitasking careers, keeping up with friends and the two million other things on our to do list. This week on Unlearn minisode, we remind ourselves that we can’t light fires with a burn out candle and unpack the pressure to romanticize burn out and fatigue. Tune in !

Welcome to the News mini- episode for the summer! We talk about Shanghai’s move towards a greener earth, new laws that are pretty mind blowing and the most unorthodox weight loss plan for the summer! You could lose a scary number of calories *wink wink* Enjoy ! To RSVP to the Podbabes event or to the Journal With Me event add Meghan's WeChat : meghanchristian.

Summertime! And the living is... mostly work, heat, summer-camp jobs and more work in Shanghai!This week we start with some summertime news or the lack there of and review two events: Podbabes Potluck and Being Her(e) Meditative writing retreat.We have two special guests talking to us about being business owners in Shanghai. Mariano Larrain teaches us about how wine, business and making friends work well together. And Marissa Tosoni takes us through how to be intentional in finding and running the type of business that you want. She also joins us for Unlearn as we chat about doing things for the first time despite what you’ve been conditioned to think about them. We end with some complicated recycling rules and introspection. Find @podbabeschina on Spotify, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.Add Kitso on 156 1894 3212 on We Chat to be added to the Being Her(e) group.Add @meghanchristian on Wechat to be added to the bullet journal group!

您好！我们在上海 和 我们每天 在 迷失在翻译中。（scroll to bottom for translation) Welcome to our Lost in Translation episode with two lovely guests! We come bearing fake news and good news for this summer and some people may or may not do strange things involving some kids and Weibo... (Chinese Twitter) We are joined by Michelle Ibharra who started the Podbabes Community, tune in and find out how the first Podbabes Brunch featuring Uncorked went! (more information below). Michelle also joins us for Unlearn, where we discuss why closure is for weaves and not for exes... and other intricate processes involved in getting closure. We are diving into being lost in translation and stumble through some Pinyin and choke on some English grammar too... Bill 老师 takes us through some intriguing Chinese culture points and tips. We are both officially on the hunt for a Chinese significant other because Bill 老师 says so, listen to find out why! (we lied, we're not even sure what it means, no one knows what it means... But it's provocative, it gets the people going) Get your podcasts resources by joining PodBabes ! Podbabes is a new podcast community for women who podcast and/or love podcasts, run by Michelle Ibarra! Get in touch with her on Wechat (michelleyibarra) to join the group!

Happy Dragon Boat Festival Everyone! This week we released a little early in light of the holiday... Maybe you are wondering what a Dragon Boat Festival is? We were too! Tune in and maybe you'll find out... Maybe. We've got some really weird news from China this week, that's all we'll say, in case you're eating.. We get really deep on Unlearn. They say, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life -well, they lied! We explore our conditioning and unlearning around the idea of fulfillment and purpose in career and life. And lastly we Uncork some pressing issues, like visa complications and saying NO! P. S: Just in case you don't believe the fake news stories to be completely factual and true.. Follow: PandaGuides on WECHAT. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! UncorkedSHIf you have any comments or questions, email us! uncorkedsh@gmail.com

Money, money, money! From the strangest things money can buy on Taobao and investing as an expat to becoming bffs with money using it as a tool for self care, this week we get well acquainted with how to handle your RMB! We know Shanghai is an expensive city, but your finances don't need to reflect that! Learn how exactly you can make the yuans work for you this week as we discuss the relationship we have with money and how to handle it better with Tamar Hela and Tommy Greb. Tamar Hela is a former publishing director who has lived in 3 different countries and started 3 different businesses in the creative arts and education. Her main passions involve the publishing industry, education, and complementary health and medicine. A published author of 3 books and professional editor of over 45 books, she understands the transformative power of storytelling. As an educator who is also a certified natural health instructor, she helps her students and clients to "change their stories" and become a better version of themselves...to save the world. After being in Shanghai for nearly three years, Tamar is growing the year-old campaign #LinkedInLocal Shanghai, which she hosts. She’s also recently launched “The Richest Women in Shanghai”, inspired by the book The Richest Man in Babylon. This community aims to empower women around wealth, investing, and owning their worth. Find out more about Tamar at: www.tamarhela.com.....Thomas Greb graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts with focuses in International Business, Finance, and Supply Chain Management. He also minored in Chinese. Then he started his career in the Jewish Tombstone industry in the US. He has been traveling to Asia since 2006, and moved to Shanghai in 2013. Now, Thomas co-runs Olivar & Greb Capital — an SEC Financial Investment Company that advises expatriates and companies in Shanghai. In addition, his firm invests in domestic Chinese industries such as creative design, F&B, and rural development. To learn more about Thomas and O&G, visit: www.olivar-greb.com.*Illegal egg donation is obviously what's illegal not IVF. Find out more information here:https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1678335/illegal-egg-donors-run-big-risks

We're taking a little deeper look into the lives of people living in Shanghai, bringing you what's happening in the city and share some extreme examples of super parents securing their children's education - the great and not so great extremities. Under our overall theme of Dating Experiences, we get into questions around our conditioning when it comes to sexual preference and take a trip to the Shanghai Marriage Market to understand the societal pressure to marry in China... Lastly, we have some amazing listeners who lent their beautiful voices to share their dating experiences, or lack there of, in the city!Join the conversation! Contact us at uncorkedsh@gmail.com