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The Awake with Fahrani Pawaka Empel

Tell us about your relationship to low energy.

I used to deal with low energy differently than I do now, because I made a commitment to myself to experiment by doing a lot of physical work in terms of fitness. So, the last couple of years, I feel like I have strengthened my spiritual muscle, and then I have strengthened my immune system, my gut system, my inner work and this year, I wanted to expand it into the actual muscle of my body.

So I made the commitment to do crazy training, five times a week. And since that is happening I feel so much more energized just in general. I rarely feel low energy for an extended period of time. Of course you get this dip throughout the day but that’s mostly because I’m actually fatigued from the training but it’s not necessarily low energy. I think it really has a lot to do with how active you are in the physical body. And of course, if you work so much you’re also using your mental capacity and you don’t do as much physical movement.

So, yeah, in the past I was never this active. I like to do yoga, but not necessarily like this high level of intensity. And so from this year I really noticed a huge shift in my energy level. I have more endurance on jobs or projects that usually I would have crashed

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Today’s mama is a true multi-hyphenate. It’s actually kind of hard to describe Fahrani (Fa’) Empel in one concise sentence without feeling like you are leaving out more than half the story. So, we’ll give you a few sentences, and then let her elaborate. The designer and founder of Pawaka (attention-grabbing sunnies, of which Rihanna is a fan) can also fairly claim the labels of model, actress, environmental activist, and musician—although labels aren’t really her thing. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, her only formal education consisted of nine years at a Muslim school in her hometown. At the age of 16, she left her family for Hong Kong to pursue what would become a successful, decade-long modeling career. After Hong Hong, it was a few years in Tokyo, New York, and Bali, where she lived for four years in a treehouse she built herself in the jungle. (She didn’t get around to installing electricity until year two.) Today she is settled in Berlin, where she shares an art- and plant-filled apartment in the Kreuzberg District with her partner, the Danish photographer and director Viktor Sloth, and their one-year-old, Mata. Needless to say, Fa’ has a fascinating perspective on parenting, career evolution, and so much more. So, we’ll let her tell