Lost & Found with Karmen Wiid

In this episode, we explore identity in the age of aesthetics, algorithms, personal branding, and late-stage capitalism.

From clean girl culture and curated online selves to Socrates, Marx, bell hooks, Kierkegaard, this is a conversation about who we become when we are constantly perceived. 

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

📹 Watch The Lost & Found video episodes on YouTube

📝 Read my blog on Substack

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

📸 Follow along on Instagram 

💌 For collabs email: karmen@krause.co.za

Bridgerton, Fifty Shades of Grey, the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights… oof are we getting into it.

On the surface, it looks like we’re living in a moment where female desire is more visible than ever.  But are we actually getting closer to understanding it… or have we just found new ways to package it?

In this episode, we take a journey through the strange, complicated history of female desire, from sirens and witches to corsets, hysteria diagnoses, and Hollywood censorship.

At the heart of it all is one question: What happens when women stop being the object of desire, and become the subject of it?

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

Read Substack post: The Feminisation of the Supernatural Grotesque: 

Read Substack post: On Writing What I Wasn’t Raised to

📹 Watch The Lost & Found video episodes on YouTube

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

📝 Read my blog 

📸 Follow along on Instagram 

💌 For collabs email: karmen@krause.co.za

A few weeks ago, I got on a boat with a stranger from the internet and somehow ended up living on a sailboat in one of the most remote parts of Indonesia. There were storms, there was a diabetic captain, a near-emergency evacuation, and a stretch of days where we were completely alone on the ocean with no fresh water and no working toilet.

Naturally, I wrote about it.

What started as a simple Substack post turned into a 10,000-word, three-part story that I couldn’t stop writing. And instead of trying to summarise it, I decided to do something different for this episode…

I’m reading it to you. Settle in, this one's a wild ride. 

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

Read my Substack

📹 Watch The Lost & Found video episodes on YouTube

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

🌴 Join my Thailand wellness retreat June 2026

📝 Read my blog 

📸 Follow along on Instagram 

💌 For collabs email: karmen@krause.co.za

Breakups are fucking brutal! There's no getting around that. But what makes them even worse is that we don't just lose another person, we are also left with the realisation that we might have abandoned ourselves in the process of trying to keep them.

And now they've left, and you have to learn to trust yourself again and reclaim your individual identity outside of an "us" dynamic.

This one is about coming home to yourself.

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

📹 Watch The Lost & Found video episodes on YouTube

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

🌴 Join my Thailand wellness retreat June 2026

📝 Read my blog 

📸 Follow along on Instagram 

💌 For collabs email: karmen@krause.co.za

Breakups are fucking brutal! There's no getting around that. But what makes them even worse is that we don't just lose another person, we are also left with the realisation that we might have abandoned ourselves in the process of trying to keep them.

And now they've left, and you have to learn to trust yourself again and reclaim your individual identity outside of an "us" dynamic.

This one is about coming home to yourself.

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✨ Let’s Stay Connected:

📹 Watch The Lost & Found video episodes on YouTube

📕 Buy my book — Untethered: A Beginner’s Guide To Solo Travel 

🌴 Join my Thailand wellness retreat June 2026

📝 Read my blog 

📸 Follow along on Instagram 

💌 For collabs email: karmen@krause.co.za