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Surface Time with Stephanie
by Stephanie Luo
Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving.These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind are open. It can be cheeky, intimate, educational, healing and even spiritual. These are stories of people doing amazing things and living their life to the fullest. Whether you are a diver or not, I hope that these conversations will at least put a smile on you and even better, that they stimulate and inspire you one way or another.Thank you & enjoy the confessions.
Episodes
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S5 Ep6: The Year-End Reset & Launch 2026 with Clarity
What if I told you that 2026 will rewrite rules of the games? It will stress-test leaders (i.e. all of us) as well as be the launchpad for visionaries! Let's dive in! The eBook - "The Power of Unseen Leadership" - is now available on Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo....
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S4 Ep9: Fi Dinh on Work is Love Made Visible (Part 2)
Welcome back. This is the second part of the dialogue with Fi Dinh. Continuing on the subject of personal transformation and spirituality development, we delve deeper on terms like “Divine Feminine” and “Divine Masculine”. And how you embody them as you sail through your day. In essence, these...
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S4 Ep9: Fi Dinh on Work is Love Made Visible (Part 1)
During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Fi Dinh, a senior executive in the fund finance world, with the heart of the Ocean. I first met Fi through Women in Fund Finance, where she serves as the co-chair for APAC region. Very quickly the original agenda of our meeting got cast aside. Instead…
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S5 Ep5: What's Right About Being OCD?
Something about the ocean water. It somehow gets your happy hormones flowing. And activate your sense of wonder, curiosity and imagination. And today, let’s hear from Stephanie about the side effects that you may get from scuba diving. Key Messages In scuba diving, being OCD about your dive...
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S5 Ep4: Creation of a Team
In last episode, we were reminded that how everyone processes things differently at own timeline and the importance of adjusting our communication approach. Whether it is in the context of scuba diving or work environment. Today, Stephanie will talk about team. Yep, when scuba diving with your...
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S5 Ep3: I Hear, I Forget. I See, I Remember. I Do, I Understand.
I hope that you have been practicing mindful breathing since the last episode. Even better, you have completed your Confidence Builder Worksheet and got personalised guidance from Stephanie. Today she will delve deeper into the topic of leadership. In particular, how scuba diving has impacted on...
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S5 Ep2: Bonus Track - 7-Minute Guided Mindful Breathing Practice
A bonus track of Guided Mindful Breathing Practice. This is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Save this to your favourite. When you feel like a pick-me-up, use this track. About Surface Time, Confessions of a Diving Junkie Collections of conversations about scuba…
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S5 Ep2: Breathe! Never Hold Your Breath!
In the last episode, Stephanie shared some tactics on managing fear. Have you managed to complete and send in your Confidence Builder Worksheet? So today, she will talk about the importance of breathing consciously. Apparently, NITROX is the happy gas for scuba diving. Let’s find out why from…
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S5 Ep1: What is Your Greatest Fear?
In this new series, Stephanie has curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective about life. Which are all intricately connected to all the roles we play. In this episode, the topic is about Fear. The...
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Series 5: Living Life Fully with Transferable Experiences from Scuba Diving
Instead of my usual chinwag with other Diving Junkies, for this Series, I have curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective about life. They are all intricately connected to all the roles we play. About...
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S4 Ep8: Adriana Basques on Creating Transferrable Life Experiences
Adriana Basques, a corporate executive turned wildlife photographer. She has been using her camera to document moments of her encounters of beautiful creatures both on land and underwater. In fact, her photography specialty is split landscape photo – where top part is the land and bottom part is...
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S4 Ep7: Flora Camiros, Michiko Fusato & Sherrie Garcia being Lady Pirate Divers
Recently, I went diving in Coron, Philippines. This place is famous for wreck diving where you get to explore some Japanese ships that were sunk by US Task Force during World War II in 1944. We dived with Pirate Divers for a week. I think on the second or third day after we finished diving for…
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S4 Ep6: Carrie Miller on Being Powered by Tenacity
Carrie Miller, Storyteller, Author, Traveller. You may recognise her name from the previous episode with her and her husband, Chris Taylor, sharing their stories behind the book, A Diver’s Guide to the World. By the way, I was particularly delighted to find my birth country, Taiwan with Kenting...
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S4 Ep5: Hester Ross on Seeing the Big Picture
Hester was the person who got me off my procrastinating mode and started to produce Surface Time. When we did the recording, she has been on the “mummy’s break” from scuba diving for some time. I am sure that all mums who happen to be scuba divers can relate. One thing that really rings true to…
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S4 Ep4: Kate Padget-Koh on Self Expression
Kate expresses her creativity through many media, including paintings and upcycling. Water is an element that plays a huge part in her life and how she shapes her own autobiography. I love what she said: we can all be a piece of art ourselves. Speaking as a woman, when a woman knows herself well...
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S4 Ep3: Katherine Lu on Fuelling Life with Passion
Katherine’s passion for photography fuels her, whether it is for underwater, wildlife or otherwise. Let’s listen to her recounting the incredible experience of diving in Anilao, Philippine when Taal Volcano erupted and the spectacular black water dives when she captured the award-winning photo....
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S4 Ep2: Bei Zhou on Money & Investment
Since money and investment are the two words naturally connected to her profession as a private banker, it is inevitable that we chatted at length about them. The word “investment” tends to be given a meaning limited monetary terms. When we talk about returns of investment, it tends to be the...
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S4 Ep1: Karolina Isberg on Free-Floating Attention
You may recall from the episode with Magnus Akerblom-Wiker, where we spoke about one of his editorial photo of a diver holding a bunch of balloon in the Cenote, Mexico. Oh well, Karolina was that diver. My curiosity had to hear from her side of the story, her personal experience in that place. In...
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Series 4 on Women Who Scuba
When I first started producing Surface Time, my intention was simply to share the kind of heart-opening dialogues between divers through podcast forum. After producing a few episodes, I started to think that it would be a good forum to get more women who scuba to share their stories and wisdom....
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S3 Ep5: Sam Shu Qin & David Jones on Diving Against Debris in Singapore
During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Sam Shu Qin (founder of Our Singapore Reefs) and David Jones (from Jackson Square Aviation) about their collaboration in the project, Dive Against Debris in 2022. It started off with David’s shower idea about doing something that can help to protect the...
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S3 Ep4: Rob Christie, Alex Grioni and Andy Niven on being the Orderly Chaos Department of South China Diving Club
During the Surface Time today, I Skyped with the Dynamic Trio from South China Diving Club in Hong Kong. Rob Christie, Alex Grioni and Andy Niven. All four of us shared a special memorable dive trip to Timor Leste back in 2010. All of them have returned for a second visit. It just felt right to...
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S3 Ep3: Jonny Ma on being a Lifelong Learner
During the Surface Time today, I sat down with my friend Jonny Ma who was visiting Singapore, en route to London. We first met through Project X Team where we did all sorts of adventurous activities like rock climbing and scuba diving. Over the years, we kind of adopt one another as the...
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S3 Ep2: Matt Reed & David Joyce : Business Relationship like a Marriage
During the Surface Time today, I spoke with David Joyce and Matt Reed of Evolution Dive Resort in Malapascua, Philippines. So, for all shark-loving divers, Malapascua is the place to go for sightings of thresher sharks. It is a remote island with limited resources. Tourism, especially, scuba…
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S3 Ep1: Carrie Miller & Chris Taylor : A Diver's Guide to the World
Carrie Miller and Chris Taylor, the wife-husband team who have written a book called “A Diver’s Guide to the World”, published by National Geographic. The book is out in the U.S. on 6 December 2022. Before the chat, I was given a preview to one of the chapters. Immediately, I could see that this...
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Series 3 is all about the Power of Human Connections
Hello. I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie", Series 3. In producing this passion project, one of the motivations that have kept my enthusiasm going is the ongoing effort to express and articulate “why it is so easy to open up and make friends with other...
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Rounding off Series 2...and Series 3 coming soon
Hello, I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to “Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie”. I hope that the dialogues in Series 2 have given you different perspectives about “following your heart”. For me, when I listened back to each episode, I really love the excitement and passions radiating the...
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S2 Ep5: Gary Tyson on being a hustler in life
During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Gary Tyson, a British Army veteran turned chronic diving junkie. He called himself a hustler in life as he experiments different ways of making photos and videos. Land and underwater. And more importantly, finding ways to fund his love for travels and...
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S2 Ep4: Natasha Grabner learning life skills through fun
During the Surface Time today, I managed to Skype in with Natasha Grabner. She was my first junior scuba diver student. When I certified her, she just turned 10. 5 years on, she has had accumulated enough diving experiences than many adult divers in their life time. Like her father once described...
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S2 Ep3: Gary Stokes on Ocean CSI
During the Surface Time today, I caught up with Gary Stokes in Discovery Bay of Hong Kong. He is a veteran crew member of Sea Shepherd until they left Asia. He then founded OceansAsia to continue with the “intelligence-based” conservation work in the region. He and his team have been…
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S2 Ep2: Emma Dabbadie getting up close and personal with Microbiome
During the Surface Time today, I had the joy of catching up with a dear friend, Emma Dabbadie, who has been living in Cape Town, South Africa for some time, in pursuit of her marine science research and discoveries. When we spoke, she was fresh off the scientific schooner called Tara from an...
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S2 Ep1: Kay Burn Lim about being Inspector Gadget
During the Surface Time today, I caught up with Kay Burn Lim for some coffee while he was transiting through Singapore for a quick dip in Sipadan, Malaysia. We first met at an underwater photography competition in Timor Leste over 10 years ago. Back then he was a hobbyist photographer and clearly…
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Welcome to Series 2 - Following Your Heart
Hello. I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to Series 2 of "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie". Series 1 was a complete whirlwind. It started with me sharing the idea of creating this passion project with a few close friends who happen to be scuba divers. Somewhat half-heartedly at the time as…
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That's a wrap for Series 1...and we will be back in Autumn
It has been a bit of whirlwind ride to produce "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie". In this last episode of Series 1, Stephanie is sharing her answers to questions from her guests. We hope that you have enjoyed the dialogues in Series 1. In the meantime, we would like to leave you…
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Five Insight from Sharon Kwok
In this follow up episode, Sharon Kwok answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your...
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S1 Ep5: Sharon Kwok on Love Nature & Respect Life
I sat down with Sharon Kwok for a cuppa as she was fresh off the boat from Raja Ampat and en route back to Hong Kong. Sharon is an artist well-known in Hong Kong public broadcasting and cinematic fields. As a conservationist, she unapologetically leverages her connections with public and private...
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Five Insight from Magnus Akerblom-Wiker
In this follow up episode, Magnus answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your...
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S1 Ep4: Magnus Akerblom-Wiker on Creative Process
Magnus Akerblom-Wiker is passionate about creating and collecting memorable moments and convey these through his photography. At work, he leads a team of software engineers to develop solutions for many world problems. To him, the creative process that he has to go through as a software engineer…
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Five Insight from Margaret Murphy
In this follow up episode, Margaret answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your...
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S1 Ep3: Margaret Murphy on Plastic Pollution & Climate Emergency
Surface Time with my dear friend Margaret Murphy, who is a scientist, trained in zoology and toxicology and now works in the space of science policies in Washington DC, the epic centre of US politics. Although she claims to be a reluctant diver, her scientist-curiosity has always kept her...
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Five Insight from Nico de Rouge
In this follow up episode, Nico answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your…
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S1 Ep2: Nico de Rouge on Thinks Less about Convention
Nico de Rouge, a French photographer and PADI Instructor living in Shanghai, had recently published his work on major publications like The Economist. He first caught the travel bug at the impressionable age of 19 and has since lived and travelled across North and South America, Africa and South...
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Five Insight from Tony Wu
In this follow up episode, Tony answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your…
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S1 Ep1: Tony Wu on Poop of Wild Wide Whale
Tony Wu, an award-winning wildlife photographer with a long list of accolade, has shared with us what he got up to in Japan water while the rest of the world dealt with international travel restrictions. A remarkable gentleman who wears his heart on his sleeves and is motivated by his curiosity…
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Welcome to Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie
Hello, I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to my podcast “Surface Time” (aka “Confessions of a Diving Junkie”), where I chinwag with people who are like me scuba diver and chronic addict to being underwater. I think it is a universal sentiment amongst scuba divers. “Scuba diving” is the best social...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving.These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind are open. It can be cheeky, intimate, educational, healing and even spiritual. These are stories of people doing amazing things and living their life to the fullest. Whether you are a diver or not, I hope that these conversations will at least put a smile on you and even better, that they stimulate and inspire you one way or another.Thank you & enjoy the confessions.
HOSTED BY
Stephanie Luo
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Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving.These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind...
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