This is Saskia, and this is Note 2 Self — your weekly dose of everything that’s simply too long to text. Consider this your personal invitation into my inner circle, where I share my thoughts and quiet reflections that usually live inside my notes app. Each week I explore modern life through conversations about relationships, culture, mental health, identity, and the stories that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. Part personal journal, part cultural commentary, Note 2 Self is a space for honest reflection, thoughtful conversation, and the occasional pop culture deep dive.
Victoria’s Secret and Ask Me Anything: Wedding Planning
In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia returns from a wedding in Atlanta feeling more excited than ever for her own, but also increasingly aware of how much invisible work a bride can carry while everyone else gets to experience the celebration. It raises a bigger question about wedding planning: how do you create a day that feels like you and your partner without taking responsibility for every detail and everybody’s happiness?
First, Saskia unpacks her complicated response to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The nostalgia, nightgowns, performers and spectacular wings still pull her in, but the narrow body ideal and conversation around models returning to work shortly after giving birth make it difficult to separate the glamour from the system selling it. Has the show meaningfully evolved, or has it simply updated the casting and language around the same fantasy?
Then, Saskia answers wedding questions from Note 2 Self listeners. She shares where to begin when planning feels overwhelming, how she and Jeffrey chose a wedding over an elopement, what made them emotional about their venue and why the guest list has become one of the hardest decisions.
Because planning a wedding is not a test of how many people you can please. It is about returning to your partner, trusting the decisions you make together and creating a day that feels recognisably yours.
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15 Oct 2026
Verity, SNL, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is moving through a chaotic week with her face peeling off after a chemical peel, bridal fittings underway and a house-music festival she cannot stop watching… from her apartment.
Then Shane Gillis’s SNL monologue brings up a much bigger frustration: the tired idea that the way women dress and the way their bodies exist are available for male commentary. Saskia unpacks why a “joke” does not sit in a vacuum, and why women feeling hot, strong and fully themselves at the gym has nothing to do with men watching them.
Saskia then turns to the new film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity. The film’s battle between two competing truths becomes a way into certainty, stability and the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions. Saskia reflects on the story she has been telling herself about security, and whether the version protecting her might also be limiting her. Because feeling safe does not automatically make something true. Sometimes the story helping us live with our choices is also the one keeping us from seeing another path.
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8 Oct 2026
The Invite, Dom Dolla, and Three Lessons for Lasting Love
In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is thinking about the people and practices that keep us connected. After dancing with 35,000 people at Dom Dolla and turning a night out with her sister and cousins into a family bonding moment, she reflects on why time with family feels so different once the relationships we inherited become relationships we actively choose to maintain.
She then pivots into some heartwarming pop-culture picks before diving deep into Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, a painfully funny portrait of two couples whose public identities begin to crack over one increasingly chaotic dinner party. From a forgotten bottle of wine and an unexpected proposition to the film’s quiet final piano scene, Saskia explores what the story understands about resentment, attraction and the ordinary patterns that can slowly erode intimacy.
Finally, she shares three relationship lessons she and Jeffrey took from the film: if you stop communicating, you lose connection; attraction cannot carry a relationship that lacks emotional depth; and the need to be right can become the enemy of connection. Because love does not stay still. Like a plant, it keeps growing and changing, and it needs care, attention and curiosity about what it is becoming.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
7 ratings
Spotify
4.9 / 5
19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100
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Social presence
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YouTube
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Engagement
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