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Hosted by Monica and Amanda · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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We’re all try-hards — at work, in love, in healing, or just getting through the week. Trying is hard, but it might be the most meaningful part of the journey. Hosted by best friends Amanda and Monica, Trying Very Hard is a podcast about slowing down to unpack and celebrate the messy, unglamorous effort behind growth. Each week, we talk to friends and experts about what they’re trying hard at — from building a business to breaking a habit — and the insights they’ve uncovered along the way. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing too much and not enough, you’re in good company.
Monica and Amanda hosts Trying Very Hard: The Podcast, a society show with 19 episodes published.
From equity sales trader to skincare founder: Audrey Wu on leaving investment banking, building her eczema-born skincare brand Elements of Cho from scratch, and figuring out who you are without a job title doing the expl
Amanda is officially six weeks into motherhood, and this episode is the unfiltered download. We get into the birth story: the unmedicated birth plan, the doula, the birthing classes, the epidural she swore she wouldn't n
Why does it take a dance floor to feel like yourself? In this episode of Trying Very Hard , we sit down with Nakul Malik — a third culture kid born in Mumbai, raised in Jakarta, educated in Vancouver, now in Singapore —
Body image isn't one thing. It's the comment someone made when you were nine. It's the era you grew up in. It's comparing yourself to a friend who isn't growing a human right now. In this episode of Trying Very Hard , Am
Ever romanticized a career that looks glamorous from the outside? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, Monanda sit down with Matthew Moore — football agent, South African globetrotter, and Monica's one true college frien
Did you decide to have children — or did you just assume you would? In this episode of Trying Very Hard podcast, Amanda and Monica get honest about having kids, not having kids, maternal ambivalence, and the default most
Who are you without your job title? It's a question most high achievers never stop long enough to ask. Sandra Wang did — not by choice, but because burnout and a pandemic layoff left her with nothing else to sit with. In
The relationship patterns you build in your twenties don't just disappear. They follow you until something or someone finally makes you look at them. In this Trying Very Hard episode, Amanda and Monica get honest about d
What if the body you're trying to build is the one that's slowly breaking you down? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we sit down with Naz Schifra (@nazhariaschifra) — co-founder of ELVTE (@elvtesg), coach, nutrition
Why are we so weird about not drinking? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we get into the sober curious movement, drinking culture, social pressure, and why alcohol still feels like the default setting for socializing
What does it actually take to stop hiding from the people you love most? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we sit down with our dear friend Jeshua John — one of the most thoughtful people we know — for an honest conve
Is self-love selfish? We're going to argue no... but it's complicated. In this episode of Trying Very Hard, Amanda and Monica get into what self-love actually is — and why it's not the same as self-care, not the same as
If you've ever been really good at escaping your own feelings, this one's for you. In this guest episode of Trying Very Hard, we sit down with Chris "Toto" Gunawan, Monica's friend since preschool, Jakarta local, and sel
We use therapy language all the time now. Triggered. Boundaries. Protecting your peace. But how many of us are actually in therapy, and how many of us are actually doing the work when we get there? Why is it so hard to f
What happens when you've spent your whole life being "the practical one," and then music starts demanding more of you? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we sit down with Kelvin Kuan (IG: kelvinkuanmusic) — banker, eve
Friendships in your 30s require something your school-age self never had to give: actual, deliberate effort. In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we sit down — just the two of us — to unpack something we've both been qui
She read 84 books in a year. And then she realized she was doing it wrong. In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we're joined by Raissa Smarasista (IG: @readwithraissa) — UX researcher, part-time librarian at Casual Poet
Why does career success sometimes feel underwhelming, even when you’ve hit the milestones? In this episode of Trying Very Hard, we explore quarter-life doubt, inherited ambition, and the quiet identity crisis that can su
Welcome to Trying Very Hard — a podcast about ambition, adulthood, identity, effort, and the messy beauty of caring deeply. We’re your hosts, Monica and Amanda, and in this first episode we share who we are, the stories
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