TakeThree Talks

Hi friends, hello from a cozy, rainy Quito! I've revisited my 2021 episode, finally feeling brave enough to connect with it. But before we dive in, let's catch up. Get ready for a wild, beautiful, and vulnerable ride.

🕯️🙌🏽💓🖐🏽hi-5 because we get to do his Earth thing together one more day 🖐🏽👏🏽🫶🏽🕯️

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Hey friends! It's Estefi. We wanted to take a moment to connect with all of you and dive into a heartfelt conversation. Let's catch up and do a meaningful retrospective of sorts, of lessons and learnings from our 8 years of being in a love/life relationship and also the 4 years of being a working couple.

In this episode, we've delved into a range of intriguing topics, from mental health to client seasons, our relationship with social media, reorganizing our service offerings, dreams and so much more. I hope you're all geared up to relish this episode, and we're genuinely grateful for the chance to be back here with you. Did you find yourself missing us? Because I sure missed all of you a ton!!

The topics we covered:

8TH YEAR ANNI: Love, Life Relationship

• couples therapy 49 sessions
• we paused couples therapy
• safe space!!
• reconsidering productivity
• reprioritizing our TODAY
• today not tomorrow
• mental health practices we’ve incorporated into our life/love
• codependence
• our home and setting roots and how that has impacted our lives
• culture, how being immersed in each other’s cultural bubbles has impacted our day-to-day relationship

4TH YEAR ANNI: Work Relationship

• quitting working for “content” — how do we approach sales content vs day to day real time content vs planned
• what has changed from our social media relationship in the last 4 years.
• reshaping our service offerings
• client season
• takethree studio vs. takethree uni shifting between
• clients vs in house projects
• mental health practices we’ve incorporated into work

The last time we introduced ourselves was in June 2021 so we decided to come to say hi and catch you all up to today, April 20, 2023.

In this episode we cover everything from burnout recovery, couples therapy, what we would say to our 2019 selves, what the hell happened in 2022 (?), breakthroughs, walking through hot fire stones, our road trips and travels, so much nostalgia... this is a must listen for all who want to get on the roller coaster, get messy with us and enjoy the ride.

It feels good to let you all in again, hugging you tight, thank you for being here.

Now tell me, when did you stumble upon this creative duo aka TakeThree? what year? where were you? do you remember? Oh yes and never forget thank you for listening to us!!

xoxo,

Estefi from TakeThree Talks podcast production, editing, and media crew 🦸🏽‍♀️

Hi friends! Este episodio con Andreina está tan interesante!!

Hablamos de estos 3 casos: 

1. Hermès vs MetaBirkins by Matthew Rothchild

2. Nike vs Lululemon

3. Demanda al Reggaeton: Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Karol G y más.

El episodio está perfecto para lxs curiosxs como nosotras y como sé que deley necesitan visuals para acompañar el chismecito de hoy entonces no se olviden de chequear los show notes, aquí les dejo los links. También, para el caso #3 de la demanda del Reggaeton hice un playlist con algunas de las canciones que están en la demanda y otras como referencias.

LINKS IMPORTANTES

A dream conversation with a wonderful friend, entrepreneur, and fellow artist, Ashlei Payne, founder of TracingThought Productions.

Ashlei was vulnerable, kind, lighthearted, honest and oh so very honest with me and that is all I could've asked for. Here're some of the questions we answered and of course, we went off on a few tangents. IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR AN UNEDITED CHAT, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU.

Hi friends! We *coincidentally* answered 23 questions within these 4 categories: Basic, Business/Career, Food/Travel, Relationship/Self! The questions were submitted via our Instagram DMs/Stories.

Bueno, nose ni como resumirles todo lo que hablamos pero les prometo que no se van a aburrir.

Este episodio fue grabado hace un año, en Octubre del 2021, escuchar a la Vale y a la Estefi del pasado fue increíble.

Nos conocimos literal en el podcast, pero ya habíamos tenido básicamente nuestros propios podcasts en DM en instagram para esto. Así que nos sentamos a conversar de la historia de Valen, mi historia con mi cuerpo, conectamos todo esto con la gordofobia, la inclusion, hablamos todo de CONS, crear una marca sustentable, todo, todo, en serio.

TakeThree’s Chief Barketing Officer’s story, a must-listen.

TakeThree’s Chief Barketing Officer’s story, a must-listen.

Hi Friends! There was no outline for this episode, I was having a debate with myself as I was getting dressed to go out Friday night and decided to stop and digest some thoughts that have been in my head for a while, I said things without thinking about them twice and decided to not edit a lot of this either.

So yes, this is a very vulnerable off-tangent rant on how I am feeling right now with "everything in my life is here because I manifested it", well yes and you also had the privilege of being there in that moment to be able to do the thing you did in order to get what you eventually got. Like "I manifested a social life because I put it out in the universe" is not the same as "I set aside time in my calendar to reach out to people who are in my "want to meet mind list" and I messaged them or responded to the message and created time for us to meet in order to build our relationship from acquaintance to friendship.

So that is the quick extra rant I wanted to leave in the description of this episode because I am not sure I got my point across that well on the episode jaja, so yes, these are my opinions and they will grow and change as I do the same, I am human, thank you for listening and here's the playlist I told you about in the episode.

I am constantly learning to trust life a little bit more, and the quotes I shared in the episode really shook me so I thought I NEEDED to share them. So yeah, I’m trying more than ever to trust life, to trust myself, to bet on myself, and to listen, to myself and my creative heart.

How do you start to create an inclusive brand? How do you manage your team? What does it mean to have a successful business? How do you create content for your business that is authentic and relatable? Why do you always have to have a niche? What if I don’t want to.

This is the last part of my conversation with Karo, the founder and creative behind Blot, an incredible brand pushing boundaries and fully made in Ecuador.

If you are in Ecuador don't miss out and make sure you get yourself a Blot or two so that you can start menstruating without shame and with peace of mind because you are taking care of the environment.

and remember, if you buy more you save more, so grab your friends, your sister, or your cousin and buy your Blots in combo:

lleva varios panties para usarlos durante todo tu ciclo y obtén un descuento por tu compra

compras 3-5 panties = -10%

compras 5-7 panties = -15%

compras más de 7 panties = -20%

*el iva se agrega después

From realizing she was not a quitter to launching a brand in the eye of the stigma, we chat everything from “natural vs pharma” to having fake pregnancies in high school as a school project.

My conversation with Karo is vulnerable, complex, curious and open minded, I hope we were able to create a safe space for you to start feeling more included in something that matters to us all, menstruation & entrepreneurship.

Another off-tangent vulnerable rant.

Remember: we are one DM away, take care of yourself.

Ready for a walk down memory lane? We went on multiple vulnerable off-tangents and shared a lot of chisme, some of our thoughts on Patreon, our recommendations for when everything goes "wrong" in your business... oh yeah and we shared some of the mistakes we made when launching our creative education and consulting memberships business, TakeThree Uni...

You wanted details we gave you details, so enough reading and go enjoy the episode and remember, always write your ideas down!

Hi friends! It's Estefi & Meijun your favorite duo, and we are here to tell you about our first baby, our business, our creative studio TakeThree. We responded to a few questions as well as we told you a few more details you may have not known about us and our business.

A few of links you may find useful:

My name is Estefi and I'm a podcast addict. I decided to create this new series, where once a month I'll share with you podcast episodes that remind me to be _____. This month I've picked Resilience as the theme, and I think and hope, these are 5 gems I am sharing with you today, will teach you so much about yourself, your strengths, weaknesses, it'll open you up to facing vulnerabilities and hopefully they will each teach you something new about how resilient we are as human beings.

Enjoy and if you liked this episode don't forget to share it with someone you love!

In this episode we discussed "On Purpose with Jay Shetty's 6 Strategic Steps to Discover your Passion & Transform It Into an Income" podcast episode, we recently listened to ir as homework from our TakeThree Uni membership group and all of us who did the homework feel like we learned so much about ourselves and who are we to our community.

Grab a notebook and a pencil and get ready to learn more about yourself.

I wanted all of you to get to know Meijun a tiny bit better! I want you to know why I think he is the man born with all the ice-breakers and I ask him 11 questions so we really get to know him. Of course, this episode is full of off-tangent conversations!

The questions:

1. Do you enjoy watching reality tv shows? If so, can you list your top 3.
2. Go to pickup line... #onlinedating
   2.5 Did you ever use a dating app?
3. What is the most difficult thing about living in Ecuador? / Qué es lo más difícil de vivir en Ecuador?
4. Would you rather city mountain or ocean?
5. Motto you live by and tell yourself
6. Chicken or rice?
   7.5 You would leave chicken for rice!!!
7. If you had to go on an island tomorrow what are your three items you’d take? and no, they can’t be people.
8. Who’s your celebrity crush?
9. What is something you admire about yourself?
10. Favorite memory of each place you've lived?
11. What is something you are working on this year, on yourself?
12. What is the most important lesson from this year?

A journal format episode where we go through and unpack a *little* bit of what my journey with creating an instagram account solely for my healing looked like. We read through my thoughts, unpack some of them, and overall look back at times of darkness, strength, hope, failure and success.

In this episode we talk about eating disorders and suicide, it's not an easy story to listen to but if there is one thing you get out of this is, you matter.

I've been going on a downwards spiral and felt like I needed to get some of these thoughts, doubts, questions off my chest. What is our relationship to social media like? Do we really understand our responsibility that comes with having a platform? Why do we find so much fulfillment from others consumption of our content? Are we part of the toxicity that exists on the internet? Have metrics taken over our sense of belonging? Why do we forget that the numbers on our devices are actually human beings? How can we stay true to who we are when we are always creating a strategic script of what we want to show and who we want to be seen as?

See, I told you, this is a very existential episode and one I invite you to be part of, I really want us, as creators, to question our intentions and maybe some of these questions will unearth some thoughts and doubts of your own.

Of course my co-host Meijun is here to join me in this adventure down the rabbit hole of my existential thoughts.

Welcome to a very raw, unfiltered and a whirlwind of a conversation.

We've been dating for 6 years now and so much has happened in our lives, 2 years ago we moved to Ecuador, started TWO businesses together and everything changed, really. During the pandemic we admitted to ourselves that we needed help, we needed to go to couples therapy if we wanted to be a better individuals who want to live life together.

We responded to 17 questions and spilled all the vulnerable tea we had.

This is a long episode but we think you'll enjoy it!

You know what’s better than listening to a podcast? Discussing it with your friends!

These are our notes on “What Makes Love Last by Brené Brown & Drs. John & Julie Gottman” on Unlocking Us Podcast.

In February 2019, we landed in Seattle for 12 days, with one objective: Figure out if we could make a life outside of New York.

And so begins our creative freelance life, one dream at a time, one goal at a time, one fall at a time. So just like how a baby starts, but this time we were giving birth to our dreams, together, hand in hand, and with our four-legged son, Guillermo.