What is Life? With Martina & Tomash
What Is Life? is Martina talking about all the stuff we're supposed to keep quiet about — the messy emotions, the fuck-ups, the "am I the only one feeling this?" moments. Hi! I'm Martina. I feel like I've lived 330 lives in my 33 years of life, I've moved like 47 times in 6 different countries, I have a golden retriever named Buchta, and I co-built a multi-million dollar couples bracelets business with my boyfriend while simultaneously wondering if we were gonna break up every other week. Plot twist: I created this podcast to be MINE - my solo thing, my space. Episode 1 was just me, finally. Episode 2? Tomash, my boyfriend, crashes it. Every episode since he won't freaking leave! The guy who literally said "I don't do podcasts, do it alone“ is now here. Every. Single. Time. And the universe is laughing because I wanted this for YEARS — us, together, talking. But it only happened when I stopped white-knuckling the dream and let that shit go. That's LIFE: giving you exactly what you want the second you stop being a control freak about it. I started this because I couldn't stop asking "what is life?" after my third breakdown, second country, and approximately 86 moments of thinking "there's something fundamentally wrong with me." There wasn't. I was just a human being having a human experience, which apparently includes: moving to different country every few years, dating the wrong people for the right reasons, building a business while having daily meltdowns, and learning that nothing you plan actually happens the way you plan it. This podcast is chaos. Sometimes solo, sometimes Tomash interrupts with his completely different memory of the same event (we literally live in 2 different relationships, I swear), sometimes our golden retriever Buchta snores so loud you'll think your audio is broken. We record on balconies & streets in Vietnam, we disagree mid-episodes, we forget what we were talking about. I overshare like it's my job (it kind of is now). Don't expect Instagram highlight reel, no "5 steps to fix your life" - this is just two people figuring it out in real-time and saying it out loud. If you've ever felt too much, moved too fast, fucked up too hard, or wondered if everyone else got a manual you didn't — welcome home. Grab a coffee. Buckle up. It's messy… It’s LIFE!
Episodes
Martina knew it in theory for years — I am not my thoughts & I am not my emotions. But Vietnam is where it finally dropped from her head into her body. This is what it actually took to get there.
OK y'all, this episode is DIFFERENT. We're not in the middle of a road this time, we're sitting down by the lake with the background of mountains — a little tired and a little emotional — becaus...
What our move to Thailand taught us about control, surrender, and the strange peace that comes when you finally trust life to take you where you're meant to go.
OK so we recorded this one on a Monday morning.
5am dog walk. Ocean swim. Green tea. A few cigarettes (yes, I'm saying it — I'm not hiding anything 😂). Then we came home, put on matching outfits, and sat down in the middle of a road in Vietnam t...
What Happens When You Lose Everything You Attached Your Worth To: My Breaking Point
I Performed the Perfect Life for 34 Years. Nobody Knew It, Including Me! This episode is different. I recorded it solo without Tomash, no back and forth & no interrupting each other😂 Just me, alone with my phone on a random day when I felt like something needed to come out — and I just let it. And so this is my stor...
How Tomash stopped resisting life and finally felt free without changing a single thing outside of him
This is Episode 11 of What Is Life, and oh my god guys.
This one hit different.
We recorded this on a random street in Nha Trang, Vietnam. No plan. A security guard showed up at some point. We didn't care. Because what came out of Tomash in this episode is something he's been carrying for TEN YEARS and I don't think e...
For 6 years I kept hearing criticism from Tomash. No matter what he said, no matter how loving he was — my brain turned it into an attack. Turns out? It was never him.
This is Episode 10 of What Is Life, recorded somewhere on a beautiful road near Nha Trang, Vietnam — sweaty, freshly recovered from a bike crash, kidney pain AND slippery stairs — but we showed up anyway. 😂
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT:
✨ ...
Tomash said he wouldn't be on the next episode. 24 hours later, here we are.
In our last recording, he literally said "I won't be on the next one." Then I had a mental breakdown (one day before my period, perfect timing 😅). We both felt like maybe this podcast wasn't working. Maybe we should stop.
Then something shifted. And here we are. Recording. Together. The very next day.
This is Part 9 of our completely unfilter...
Okay, so... this episode?
This one almost didn't happen.
Actually, scratch that — it DID happen, but it was CHAOS.
We recorded for 80 minutes. I cried. Twice. We took 2 breaks. Tomash felt like he had no space. I felt judged. He said he's not recording the next one with me.
And honestly? I don't even know if he will.
But here's the thing: we posted it anyway.
Because THIS — the messy, raw, unfiltered, "oh my g...
This could be 4 different episodes tbh. We started recording with no plan and ended up talking for an hour about what I learned listening back to our podcast fights, why I thought I was a "bad person" my whole life, and how I bought a stuffed puppy to represent my inner critic. This is Part 7 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our balcony in Vietnam with Buchta snoring, the fridge humming, and ze...
We started recording about why relationship conflict is GOOD... then we literally had a conflict mid-episode. I cried in the bathroom for 35 seconds. We came back. We worked through it on mic. We proved our entire point in real time. The most meta episode ever. 😂
This is Part 5 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our garden in Vietnam with Buchta snoring and a woman learning to drive a motorbike o...
This is Part 4 of our completely unfiltered love story, our most chaotic & messy episode yet, recorded from our room in Vietnam (it's 42°C outside, we're melting in AC, send help).
If you missed the previous parts:
Part 1: Met in high school 2009, dated ONE WEEK, didn't speak for 12 YEARS
Part 2: Reconnected 2020, 9 days talking nonstop, Croatia trip, moved in after 3 weeks
Part 3: Found the product, la...
Welcome to the episode where we go from "let's find a product to sell" to accidentally creating a multi-million dollar business in 17 days. (Or was it 9? We can't agree. Classic us. 😂) This is Part 3 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our garden in Vietnam with our golden retriever Buchta making guest appearances (you'll hear her snoring, we promise).
QUICK RECAP:
Part 1: Met in high school 2...
This is Part 2 of our completely unfiltered love story, recorded from our balcony in Vietnam with our golden retriever Buchta snoring in the background (you'll hear it, we promise).
If you missed Part 1: We met in high school in 2009, dated for ONE WEEK in 2009 & 2010, didn't speak for 12 YEARS, and reconnected during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. We had our first "date" at a lake with a puppy between us, followed ...
Welcome to the episode where my boyfriend Tomash shows up after spending 6 years telling me "podcasting isn't my thing." Surprise! 😂
We're sitting on our balcony in Vietnam (with river views, motorbike sounds, and zero editing) telling you our ENTIRE love story from the beginning. This is part 1. Spoiler: it involves one week of dating in high school, 12 years of complete silence, Facebook blocking out of jealousy, ...
In this intro episode, I (Martina, 33, human design manifestor 3/5, professional overthinker) finally launch the podcast I've been overthinking for 6 years. Spoiler: my boyfriend was supposed to co-host, then he told me "this is clearly YOUR thing" two weeks ago, so here we are😅
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT:
✨ Why I spent 33 years thinking something was wrong with me
✨ Childhood stuff: being sent to psychiatry at ...
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