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Lost & Found with Karmen Wiid
by Karmen Wiid
Your twenties are weird — beautiful, confusing, electric, exhausting. Lost & Found is a podcast for anyone stumbling their way through this decade, one lesson (and existential crisis) at a time.Hosted by writer and wanderer Karmen Wiid, this space is all about solo travel, self-growth, relationships, creativity, and the messy magic of becoming who you’re meant to be. From digital nomad life to heartbreak, identity shifts to spontaneous reinventions — we talk about it all, honestly and unfiltered.Whether you’re chasing a fresh start, healing your heart, or just trying to feel a little less alone in the world, you’re in the right place.New episodes every week. Come as you are.
Episodes
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Who Are You Beyond What You Consume?
In this episode, we explore identity in the age of aesthetics, algorithms, personal branding, and late-stage capitalism. From clean girl culture and curated online selves to Socrates, Marx, bell hooks, Kierkegaard, this is a conversation about who we become when we are constantly perceived....
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Wanting vs Being Wanted: Why Does Female Desire Still Make People Uncomfortable?
Bridgerton, Fifty Shades of Grey, the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights… oof are we getting into it. On the surface, it looks like we’re living in a moment where female desire is more visible than ever. But are we actually getting closer to understanding it… or have we just found new ways to...
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The Unlikely True Story of How I Ended Up Living on a Sailboat
A few weeks ago, I got on a boat with a stranger from the internet and somehow ended up living on a sailboat in one of the most remote parts of Indonesia. There were storms, there was a diabetic captain, a near-emergency evacuation, and a stretch of days where we were completely alone on the…
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How to Heal Your Relationship with Yourself After a Breakup
Breakups are fucking brutal! There's no getting around that. But what makes them even worse is that we don't just lose another person, we are also left with the realisation that we might have abandoned ourselves in the process of trying to keep them. And now they've left, and you have to learn to...
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How To Be Healthier (And Stick To It)
When did “being healthy” become so exhausting? After completing a year-long health coaching diploma and unlearning everything I thought I knew about discipline and dieting, my perspective shifted completely. In this episode, we talk about: – The concept of “crowding out” instead of dieting – How…
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What Actually Is the Meaning of Life? Different Philosophers Try to Answer
In this episode, we’re asking the biggest question of all: What is the meaning of life? I’ll talk you through how different theories and philosophies have tried to answer it, from evolution, hedonism, religion, existentialism, nihilism and more. This episode isn’t about giving you a neat answer....
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From Hitchhiking Afghanistan to Couchsurfing With Saudi Royals: Leon Harant on Travelling Differently
In this episode, I’m joined by Leon Harant, a long-term hitchhiker who has spent nearly two years travelling across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia without relying on traditional backpacking routes, flights, or money-driven travel. From hitchhiking through the craziest countries and camping in...
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8 Toxic Habits That Are Ruining Your Relationships (And What to Do Instead)
RELATIONSHIPS DON’T NEED TO BE CONSTANT HARD WORK! That’s a myth we tell ourselves to normalise shitty behaviour towards one another. In this episode, we confront the toxic habits that erode trust, intimacy, and self-respect, and keep us stuck in relationship patterns that feel heavy, confusing,...
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What You Need to Reflect on in 2025 to Have a Better 2026
+ Free downloadable PDF with reflection prompts You probably have a laundry list of goals for 2026. But how many of those goals are the same ones you had last year, and the year before that? Why haven’t you achieved them yet? And what makes you think this year will be any different? I want to...
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So… A Lot Happened, Let’s Catch Up (Bali, Wild Camping & the Hardest Goodbye of My Life)
It’s been a wild few months, and this episode is the full catch-up. There was a passport situation that had me low-key committing administrative crimes. Bali, where I hosted my first-ever group trip, learned to scuba dive, and swam with manta rays. Then I hitchhiked through Thailand with a bunch…
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Why Is My Skin Still Breaking Out in My 20s? And Other Skincare FAQs with Chief Cosmetic Formulator Eileen Botes
Today I’m sitting down with Eileen Botes, chief cosmetic formulator for Willa Krause Skin Care and DC Laboratories. Eileen has a background in molecular biology and biotechnology, decades of experience in the industry, and a rare ability to talk about skin with both scientific rigour and deep...
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How to Think for Yourself in an Age of AI & Algorithms
+ Free episode workbook In a world of hot takes, rage-bait, cancel culture, and instant certainty, thinking slowly has become an act of rebellion. In this episode, we talk about what we lose when we trade nuance for noise, how binary thinking flattens our depth in politics, in love, and even in…
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The Biggest Lies We’re Told About Our Twenties
Your twenties come with a lot of noise. Everyone has an opinion on who you should be, how you should love, how fast you should grow, and what your life should look like by now. But what if most of that advice… was never actually true? In this episode, we get into some of the biggest lies we’re…
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The Realities of a Nomadic Life and What It’s Taught Me About Love, Work & Home (A Brutally Honest FAQ Session)
My first FAQ episode! We’re talking everything: solo travel, love, work-life balance, loneliness, heartbreak, creativity, and what “home” even means when you’re constantly leaving it. This one’s honest and a little chaotic. Kind of like my life. If you’ve ever thought about packing your bags and...
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Rage to Reverence: How My Thinking About Feminism & Femininity Has Changed
From angry teenage feminist, scowling at boys who opened doors for me, to my misandry era, to now. In this episode, I trace how my thinking about feminism, and about being a woman, has changed over the past 12 years. We’ll talk about casual misogyny, bad sex ed, double standards, feminist theory,...
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So I Spent A Month Bartending in a Hostel in Vietnam… Here’s The Real Story
One little decision “for the plot” landed me behind the bar of a hostel in Hoi An, Vietnam. In this episode, I’m sharing the real story. From five-hour night shifts and crazy pool parties to found-family friendships, I’ll take you inside the chaos, the laughter, and the hidden curriculum of...
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Book Club: Cannibalism as Feminism? Digging Into A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
What happens when a woman refuses to be likable, palatable, or contained? In this episode of Lost & Found, we sink our teeth into Chelsea G. Summers’s provocative novel A Certain Hunger, a literary thriller about Dorothy Daniels, a glamorous food critic with big appetites: for food, for sex, and...
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Why Solo Travel Is the Most Empowering Thing You’ll Ever Do for Yourself
Why do I solo travel? It’s the question I get in my DMs more than any other. The truth is, it isn’t always easy. Yes, it can be lonely, intimidating, and even a little chaotic at times. But it’s also the most liberating, perspective-shifting, and life-affirming thing I’ve ever done for myself. In...
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How to Get Your Spark Back When You Don’t Even Recognize Your Own Life Anymore
This is the second instalment in our two-part Getting Out of a Rut series. It’s for those moments when you look around at your life and think, How did I end up here? When the spark is gone, the days feel copy–paste, and you’re mourning something you can’t quite name. In this episode, I’m sharing...
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How to Get Out of a Rut: 9 Practical Shifts to Feel Like Yourself Again
This is the episode I needed this week, so I made it for both of us. If you’ve been feeling off… low on energy, creatively flat, stuck in a loop of procrastination and you just need something to shake you out of it, this one’s for you. In part one of this two-part reset, I’m sharing 9 powerful,...
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Book Club: Desire, Ruin, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Love (on Madeleine Lucas’s Thirst for Salt)
Our first Lost & Found Book Club episode is here and we’re starting tender. In this deep-dive discussion of Thirst for Salt by Madeleine Lucas, we explore the slow ache of a relationship that never quite breaks, but hollows. We talk love and longing, emotional whiplash, age-gap relationships,...
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What 19th-Century Romanticism Can Teach Us About Navigating Our 20s and Feeling Alive Again
What if beauty wasn’t something soft and sweet… but something vast, dangerous, and soul-shaking? In this episode, we dive deep into the Romantic movement - not dating apps or romcoms, but the 19th-century revolution of artists and poets who believed that awe, longing, terror, and wonder were not...
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Story Time: Reading You "The Fifth Lover" (Think Sultry Nights, Doomed Prophecies & Ghosts in Silk)
A bottle of whisky, a palm reader, a prophecy. And a night that unfolded like silk around the hips. Slow, hot, dangerous. In this episode, I'm reading you my latest short story, "The Fifth Lover." From rooftops in Northern India to the dark dancefloors where we lose ourselves, this is a story…
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8 Powerful Mindset Shifts That Will Rewire How You See Your Life
In this episode, I’m sharing the mindset shifts I return to when I feel lost, tired, or just trying to ground myself in something deeper than a to-do list. We’ll talk about: The underrated art of trusting detours (and the psychology of hedonic adaptation) What discomfort actually means, and why...
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When Ambition Becomes Identity: On Critical Theory & The Quarter-Life Crisis
At 21, I walked into a philosophy class on Critical Theory, not because I was particularly curious about Marxism, but because the professor radiated something I couldn’t explain. Calm. Clarity. Joy. I didn’t know that one elective would unravel everything I thought I knew about ambition, success,...
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The Truth About Main Character Energy: The Beautiful, the Dangerous & the Delusional
In this episode, we explore the cultural phenomenon and philosophical roots of main character energy, both its empowering promise and its dark underside. Sparked by a moonlit conversation in Hanoi, this episode unspools into many threads. We talk about: What main character energy really means…
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From Broke and Burnt Out to Full-Time Travel and Writing: The Stories I’ve Never Told Before (and the Unlearning That Changed Everything)
You know how sometimes all you really need is something that shakes you by the shoulders and gets you so fired up you can’t not do the scary thing? And other times, you’re craving a deep, heart-expanding, soul-softening chat about life and meaning and why any of this matters. And then there are...
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I Travelled Solo Through India for 3 Months — Here’s Everything I Wasn’t Expecting to Learn, Love, and Leave Behind
You’ve heard the rumours, right? Seen the movies with chaotic streets, overflowing trains, and spiritual awakenings. Heard the warnings: it’s too much, too unsafe, too overwhelming. Well, I heard them too. And I went anyway. This is what three months travelling solo through India as a woman…
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Feeling Lonely, Lost, or Disconnected from Yourself? You Need to Hear This.
Ever felt like you're surrounded by people, but still weirdly alone? Like you're just... not quite you lately? Like something’s missing, but you can’t put your finger on what? This episode is about that feeling. The kind of loneliness and disconnectedness that leaves you feeling depleted and…
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Story Time: Reading You My Favourite Short Story I’ve Ever Written (Think Abandoned Manor Houses, Long Train Rides & Dark Forests)
Recorded during a monsoon evening in Delhi with chai in hand and the world quieting outside my window, I read you one of my favourite short stories - a piece I wrote when I was 22, while riding Greyhounds across the American South with an uncharged phone and a journal in my lap. Where the Women…
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Travel For Free (Yes, I’m Serious): Work-Exchange, Couchsurfing & Other Legal Hustles
Tonight, I’m recording from a tiny apartment in Delhi, a little dazed after surviving what might’ve been the wildest overnight bus of my life. But also feeling grateful. Because I’m reminded, once again, that travel doesn’t have to be expensive to be extraordinary. In this episode, I’m answering…
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5 Unconventional Tips to Stop Abandoning Your Goals And Finish Something
📚 Some very exciting news: my book Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide to Solo Travel is officially available for pre-order on Kindle! It’s part handbook, part workbook, part travel memoir. Check out the preview on my website or pre-order on Amazon Kindle to be the very first to get the book when it...
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The Politics of Desire: The Sex Education I Got from Philosophers (That I Wish I Got in High School)
Our desires, our turn-ons, our ideas of sex… where do they come from? And who benefits from them? Because sex isn’t just an act. It’s an archive of cultural conditioning. This episode is a crash course in feminist philosophy, critical theory, and the tangled relationship between sex, power, and...
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If You're Asking “Should I Break Up With Them?” You Already Have… And Other Unhinged Truths I'm Learning in My Twenties
I just came out of one of the most inspiring conversations with a friend and had to hit record. So today, we're talking about the kinds of lessons that shake your worldview and leave you wondering how no one told you this sooner. Some of what we cover: The breakup question that answers itself How...
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Solo Travel vs. Group Trips: How to Know Which One’s for You — and How to Make the Most of Both
What do you need more right now — to remember who you are, or to remember you're not alone? In this episode, we dive into the real differences between solo travel and group trips — not just the logistics, but the soul of the thing. From rooftop dance parties in Udaipur to quiet solo moments that...
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Rest Without Rot: How to Spend a Weekend That Actually Recharges You
We’ve forgotten how to rest and it’s costing us more than we think. In this episode, I dive into what it means to actually feel restored after the weekend, not just distracted, numbed, or hungover. Let's redefine what intentional rest looks like (spoiler: it’s not just doing nothing), we talk...
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The Truth About Closure And What You Actually Need To Move On
We think closure is a conversation. A final text. An apology. But more often than not, it’s silence—and confusion. In this deeply personal episode, I talk about the kind of closure I never got, what I learned from it, and why waiting for someone to explain their confusion might be the thing…
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7 Things That Don't Belong in a Life You Love
You can’t build a life that feels truly your own if you’re carrying things that don’t belong to you. In this episode — a part two to How to Build a Life That Feels Like Yours — I explore the emotional clutter we need to let go of: resentment, guilt-tripping, over-explaining, comparison…
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Reimagining Your Twenties: How To Create A Life That Feels Like Your Own
What if the version of success you’re chasing isn’t actually yours? In this episode, I talk about throwing out the blueprint, redefining your values, and choosing a life that makes you feel lit up, not burned out. I’ll walk you through: Signs you’re living on autopilot How to re-evaluate your...
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Welcome: Solo Travel, Self-Growth, and Saying Yes Anyway
It’s 3AM in a tiny Airbnb in Rajasthan, India. I have a full travel day ahead, a 7AM meeting on the books—and yet here I am, recording the first episode of a podcast I’ve been dreaming about for months. Welcome to Lost and Found, a space for anyone navigating the beautiful, confusing mess of…
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Your twenties are weird — beautiful, confusing, electric, exhausting. Lost & Found is a podcast for anyone stumbling their way through this decade, one lesson (and existential crisis) at a time.Hosted by writer and wanderer Karmen Wiid, this space is all about solo travel, self-growth, relationships, creativity, and the messy magic of becoming who you’re meant to be. From digital nomad life to heartbreak, identity shifts to spontaneous reinventions — we talk about it all, honestly and unfiltered.Whether you’re chasing a fresh start, healing your heart, or just trying to feel a little less alone in the world, you’re in the right place.New episodes every week. Come as you are.
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