🇵🇭🤔🎭 Filipino film & audio drama producer (stranger!) Matt on favorite collaborations + asking: what about the idea of name fluidity? (017)

Co-Host: Matthew Curran @tyresidon | Host: Xinyi Xan @xinyixan 📮  Pen Pals Club | 👋🏼 Come Say Hi! @dontbestrangers   | 🎉 Never Miss an Ep & Support for Free: Sign up for the Newsletter Hello & you’re listening to episode 17 of Don’t Be Strangers, a social experiment focused on learning to create more meaningful connections. I’m your host XinYi, and anyone of any background is welcomed to apply to come on to co-host an episode. As a gentle reminder, if you’ve been meaning to join us for our Pen Pals Club, sign ups for March is open until the 25th.  You come find all the information and more on the instagram page @dontbestrangers! Today we’re speaking with yet another stranger, Matt who was an absolute joy to speak with. This is going to be a fun one as we dive into topics such as (1) Matt’s experience growing up mixed race (2) nicknames and what they reveal about our relationships (3) our favorite creative collaborations (4) his audio drama Project Gnosis and (5) things we have in common. With that, this is Matt... [ FULL TIMESTAMPS + SHOW NOTES HERE 🔗 ] Thank you Matt for such an interesting and thought provoking conversation. If you’d like to connect with him, you can reach out directly on instagram @tyresidon OR if you’d like a personal introduction, you can always say hi to me @dontbestrangers. Again, sign ups for the pen pals club for March is open until the 25th of the month! I’d love to write to you if that’s your thing. Voice Vlogs entry no. 3, today is Friday Feb 11, 2022, and I’m a week out until my vacation to Oaxaca, Mexico. It’s pretty rare that I re-visit a place because the logic I follow in my head is... “Why return somewhere when it’s more interesting to explore someplace new?” But I just fell in love with Oaxaca from my time there in October last year and I really wanted to share it with my husband so... that’s that. Last night I meet up with Pallavi who was a friend that I found via a FB group when I was temporarily moving to Chicago for 5 weeks last May. We didn’t actually have the opportunity to meet when I was out in Chicago and shortly afterwards she moved to San Francisco. But we kept in touch and she happened to be in town in Mexico City so... almost a year later since I first reached out... we grabbed dinner together last night. Life is incredible, isn’t it? The only other thing that’s been on my mind lately was that Abhas of episode 9 has introduced me to this idea of hypnotherapy, and I’m keenly interested to use it to help with some chronic stress that I’d love to find the source of and heal from. All in all, life’s good and I’ll speak with you again soon. Until then, don’t be a stranger!