Vanilla Club Podcast

About Vanilla Club Podcast

At Vanilla Club, our idea of 'Simple Wellness' is both timely and timeless. We pride ourselves on a "back to basics" approach to life, love, and wellbeing. Vanilla Club Podcast delves into how everyday people - often those closest to trauma - find ways to heal and improve their mental and physical wellbeing amid stress, complexity, and even desperation. Unlike mainstream wellness narratives that focus on optimising the lives of high achievers, we aim to share stories of resilience and resourcefulness from the "quiet achiever".

Publisher

Jason S.C. Fung

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 May 2025

Latest episode

3 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jul 2026

   27. Greg Girard: Hong Kong's Walled City - A Canadian Photojournalist's Testimony

   Due to the visual nature of this episode, we would recommend that you watch the accompanying video on our YouTube channel. Greg's work Before the Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1993, Greg Girard was doing something very few, nigh on zero, local Hong Kongers were doing. Greg, camera in hand, was documenting a place which to many immediate residents and neighbours was utterly ordinary. It was a jangly juxtaposition of overbuilt and underbuilt, a seedy, sensationalised tourist myth, also ...

2. 

   10 Jun 2026

   26. Sam Eng: On Indie Games and Skating Through Hell

   What does it take to build a work of art by yourself, on a macbook, in a Brooklyn rare oatmilks only coffee shop, with zero team, no water cooler, no corporate handbook, and no guarantee whatsoever it'll work? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Sam Eng, the rad indie game developer behind Skate Story - one of the most visually and emotionally striking games to come out in recent years. With an 85 on Metacritic and a perfect ten on Steam, Skate Story puts you in the sh...

3. 

   26 May 2026

   25. Expat Prep Returns: Why Americans Are Looking at Uruguay

   Expat Prep on Substack In this episode, we are joined by our first repeat guest (we dig him that much) on Vanilla Club Podcast, Expat Prep, where we explore what it means to reorient your life when bedrock assumptions fail. Expat Prep is an anonymous Substack writer from unnamed Midwestern City (I think he stole this from the Simpsons by the way), who writes with a wide-ranging knowledge of financial and tax matters (disclaimers of course apply!), wry humour full of pop-cultural references, a...

Who has been a guest on Vanilla Club Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Kathryn Robison
• Forrest Rain Oliveros
• Prof Stuart Khan
• Alex Noble
• Dr Alex Wodak

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

507

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

0