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by Coen Tan

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The WholeHearted Podcast is for the pragmatic dreamers, the responsible romantics and anyone who’s sick and tired of once being told “you’re too intense”, “you’re too much”, “you’re too ___ (anything).” If you’ve ever felt judged and rejected that you doubted yourself, dimmed your light so others won’t feel insecure. Or you’ve suppressed your dreams, numbed your passions or buried your talents. This Podcast is for you! Listen as Curious Traveller, Empath, and Storytelling Coach, Coen Tan speaks with amazing people who share their life stories filled with profound lessons. Get ready to open your heart to be inspired, uplifted and freed to live your life with passion and vigour and courage!

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July 10, 2026

Melissa Indot on Power, Identity, and Why Safety Lives in the Body

<p><strong>Why This Conversation Matters</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Most of us think safety is something we find: the right city, the right job, the right relationship. Melissa Indot spent the first half of her life testing that theory. Born in Malaysia, raised partly in the UK because of her father&#39;s job with Shell, then shipped off to boarding school at a young age, she built an entire identity around being a foreigner wherever she stood. In this episode of the Wholehearted Podcast, she and host Coen unpack what she learned instead: that safety isn&#39;t a place at all. It&#39;s a state of mind you can build, no matter where you are.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Who This Episode Is For</strong></p><p><br></p><p>This is for anyone who&#39;s ever felt like a misfit, whether that&#39;s because you grew up between two cultures, spent your childhood trying to earn approval, or you&#39;re currently juggling five different passions and being told to just pick one. It&#39;s also for anyone who freezes up trying to make the &quot;right&quot; decision, or who&#39;s never been able to explain the difference between a gut instinct and plain old fear.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>1.     There are three kinds of power, and only one of them actually works long-term</strong></p><p> </p><p>Melissa lays out a framework she&#39;s built her life around: power over (control, dictatorship-style), power within (self-awareness and personal agency), and power behind (a quieter kind of leadership that makes room for other people&#39;s truths without losing your own). She argues that power within is the one that actually holds up, because it comes from knowing yourself well enough that you don&#39;t need to dominate a room to feel secure in it. Power behind, she says, is what happens in conversations exactly like this one: two people holding different truths without either one collapsing.</p><p> </p><p><strong>2.  Instinct keeps you alive. Intuition tells you what to do with your life.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>One of the clearest distinctions in the episode: instinct is fear-based and built for survival in the moment. Intuition, as Melissa describes it, is something older and quieter, generational wisdom she believes lives in the body and gets accessed by going still enough to feel it rather than think your way to it. Melissa reframes a trap a lot of people get stuck: waiting for certainty before they&#39;ll act. Instead of hunting for the &quot;correct&quot; choice, she suggests committing to whatever you choose and making the most of it.</p><p> </p><p><strong>3.  Being multi-passionate isn&#39;t a flaw you need to fix</strong></p><p> </p><p>Both Coen and Melissa talk openly about being pulled in multiple directions at once, and the pressure to &quot;pick a lane&quot; that comes with that. Melissa shared about the unique perspectives that spending her life between the U.K. and Malaysia has given her. Coen shares how a random perfume-making class he took just for enjoyment taught him powerful lessons on storytelling, and recounts how a stray piece of wine knowledge that saved him in front of a client years after he&#39;d forgotten why he even knew it. Their shared point: knowledge doesn&#39;t have to be useful on paper to be worth having.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Connect with Melissa</strong></p><p> </p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissaindot/</p><p>Instagram: @melissaindot</p><p> </p><p>Subscribe now and share this episode with someone who needs to hear.</p><p> </p><p></p>

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April 17, 2026

Owning Your BS and Facing the Truth Within

<p>What happens when the life you’ve built on the outside lookssuccessful, but inside, you feel drained, restless, and disconnected from yourself?</p><p>In this episode of The Wholehearted Podcast, I sit down withCindy Tien for a deeply honest conversation about self-confrontation, identity, and the courage to tell yourself the truth. Cindy shares her journey from seeking validation through power, success, and external approval to recognizing the patterns, beliefs, and “BS” that were quietly shaping her life.</p><p>This conversation is a reminder that the real work is not aboutfixing everything at once. It is about having the courage to face what is really going on inside, your blind spots, your stories, and the parts of yourself you would rather avoid, and realizing that truth, when faced fully, begins to lose its power over you.</p><p><strong>In this episode, we explore:</strong>● Why facing yourself honestly is the first step toward realchange, not fixing or performing</p><p>● The hidden ways we create “BS” through our blind spots, belief systems, and the stories we tell ourselves</p><p>● How chasing validation, power, and approval can look successful on the outside but feel empty within</p><p>● The emotional roots of jealousy, insecurity, and the need to be seen, and how they shape our behavior</p><p>● What it costs to live misaligned, constantly performing aversion of yourself just to belong or survive</p><p>● How unprocessed pain can show up as addiction, self-sabotage, and disconnection from your own body</p><p>● The difference between numbing your truth and learning how to face it with honesty</p><p>● How taking ownership of your patterns removes their power and opens the door for real transformation</p><p>At the heart of this conversation is a simple but weighty truth.Transformation does not begin when everything is fixed. It begins the moment you choose to be honest with yourself. When you stop covering, justifying, or performing, you start to weaken the hold those patterns have and make room fora life that is grounded in what is real.</p><p><strong>Episode Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:01:08 – Introduction to Cindy Tien: EQ Maven and Executive Coach</p><p>00:02:04 – Wholehearted living and its barriers</p><p>00:07:20 – From invisibility to aggression as a way to feel seen</p><p>00:13:00 – How childhood trauma shapes behaviour</p><p>00:24:18 – When your dream job breaks you from the inside</p><p>00:30:16 – Developing emotional awareness through survival</p><p>00:34:00 – The tension between femininity and strength</p><p>00:36:02 – When coping turns into self-destruction</p><p>00:42:21 – Your body will haunt you back </p><p>00:44:20 – Inside: Owning up your own BS</p><p>00:52:05 – The moment you stop lying to yourself</p><p>00:56:20 – How unhealed wounds affect who we attract</p><p>01:02:03 – The support that kept Cindy grounded</p><p>01:03:00 – Quitting everything with no safety net</p><p>01:03:47 – Connect with Cindy Tien</p><p>01:04:20 – Closing thoughts on owning our story</p><p>Cindy Tien is an EQ Maven, Certified Speaking Professional,executive coach, and speaker. She helps leaders and teams uncover blind spots behind burnout, overwhelm, and behaviour patterns, while building emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-awareness.</p><p>Her work is shaped by over 20 years of corporate experience and a personal transformation journey that fuels her mission to help others face themselves truthfully and turn pain into purpose.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Connect with Cindy: </strong></p><p>● Website: <a href="https://www.cindytien.com/">https://www.cindytien.com/</a>  </p><p>● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/its_cindy_tien/</p><p>● YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cindy_tien</p><p>● LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindytien/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindytien/</a></p><p>● Book: <a href="https://a.co/d/062Z89QL">https://a.co/d/062Z89QL</a> </p><p>If this episode resonated with you, I invite you to reflect onone area of your life where effort has replaced alignment. What might shift if you chose wholehearted living instead?</p><p>For more conversations on leadership, identity, and living froma place of love, follow The Wholehearted Podcast and share this episode with someone who may be standing at a crossroads.</p><p> </p><p>Stay curious, stay brave, and stay WHOLEHEARTED!</p>

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March 20, 2026

Wholehearted Living: Why Love, Not Fear, Changes Everything

<p>What does wholehearted living really look like when it’s notpolished, performative, or driven by fear?</p><p> </p><p>In this episode of The Wholehearted Podcast, I sit down with Judy for a deeply reflective conversation about what it means to live from a place of love rather than lack. We explore alignment, truth, and the quiet courage it takes to stop performing roles that no longer fit who we are.</p><p> </p><p>This conversation challenged me in ways I didn’t expect. Itreminded me that wholehearted living isn’t about trying harder or becoming more confident on the surface. It’s about noticing where our actions are coming from and having the honesty to choose differently.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode, we explore:</strong></p><p>●  Why wholehearted living starts with recognizing whether our actions come from love or fear</p><p>● The hidden cost of performing leadership, confidence, and belonging</p><p>● How we lie to ourselves in subtle ways that keep us stuck onpaths that look successful but feel empty</p><p>● The difference between effortful confidence and confidence that comes from alignment</p><p>● Why so many of us miss “the train” not because it never arrived, but because we were waiting for permission</p><p>● How creativity fades as we grow older and what it takes toreclaim it</p><p>● What it truly means to choose wholehearted living even when it creates tension instead of harmony</p><p><br></p><p>This episode moves through leadership, identity, culture,belonging, creativity, and courage. There are no quick fixes here. Instead, it’s an invitation to inquiry. To pause, reflect, and notice where habit, fear, or expectation may be shaping our choices more than truth.</p><p><br></p><p>For me, the core message of this conversation is simple butpowerful. Wholehearted living is not about doing more or proving ourselves. It’s about telling ourselves the truth and allowing our lives to align with it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Episode Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:00:00 Love vs Lack and Real Confidence</p><p>00:00:45 Introduction to Judy Liu and Beyond Belonging</p><p>00:03:10 What Living Wholeheartedly Means</p><p>00:05:40 Fear and the Obstacles to Living Authentically</p><p>00:09:40 Why We Lie to Ourselves About Career and Success</p><p>00:15:00 The Myth of “Missing the Train” in Life</p><p>00:22:25 Growing Up Across Cultures and Feeling Like an Outlier</p><p>00:34:15 Confidence Through Alignment Instead of Effort</p><p>00:46:15 Success, Dopamine and the Hedonic Treadmill</p><p>00:58:35 Harmony vs Self Expression in Asian Culture</p><p>01:10:00 The Power of Inquiry and Self Awareness</p><p>01:12:20 Coen’s Key Takeaways from the Conversation</p><p>01:13:55 Episode Closing</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Guest</strong></p><p>Judy is the author of <a href="https://www.penguin.sg/book/beyond-belonging/">Beyond Belonging</a> and the founder of <a href="https://www.judyliucoaching.com/">The Outlier Mind</a>. Her work supports individuals and leaders in reconnecting with themselves, embracing their differences, and living with greater clarity and integrity.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect with Judy: </strong></p><p>● Website: <a href="https://www.judyliucoaching.com/">https://www.judyliucoaching.com</a> </p><p>● LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/judyliucoaching">https://www.linkedin.com/in/judyliucoaching</a> </p><p><br></p><p>If this episode resonated with you, I invite you to reflect on one area of your life where effort has replaced alignment. What might shift if you chose wholehearted living instead?</p><p><br></p><p>For more conversations on leadership, identity, and living froma place of love, follow The Wholehearted Podcast and share this episode with someone who may be standing at a crossroads.</p><p><br></p><p>Stay wholehearted!</p>

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What is Wholehearted Podcast?

The WholeHearted Podcast is for the pragmatic dreamers, the responsible romantics and anyone who’s sick and tired of once being told “you’re too intense”, “you’re too much”, “you’re too ___ (anything).”

If you’ve ever felt judged and rejected that you doubted yourself, dimmed your light so others won’t feel insecure. Or you’ve suppressed your dreams, numbed your passions or buried your talents.

This Podcast is for you!

Listen as Curious Traveller, Empath, and Storytelling Coach, Coen Tan speaks with amazing people who share their life stories filled with profound lessons. Get ready to open your heart to be inspired, uplifted and freed to live your life with passion and vigour and courage!

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates bi-weekly.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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