What is Life? With Martina

 What Is Life? is basically me 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. 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? 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 broken in 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 in Vietnam. We disagree mid-episode. We forget what we were talking about. I overshare like it's my job (it kind of is now). No Instagram highlight reel. No "5 steps to fix your life." 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.

• No. of episodes: 7
• Latest episode: 2026-06-23
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